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Black Hope Cemetary


You many have heard this story or indeed seen the film based on events that happened in 1980 when Ben and Jean Williams and their grand-daughter purchased their new home in Newport, Houston, Texas. The whole neighbourhood was beautiful and their home was brand new - their dream home.

However, almost straight away strange things began to happen in their new home. The family noticed a strange feeling within the house, a dark and gloomy atmosphere and other strange things happened like the toilet flushing by itself at odd times. The diswasher began doing washing cycles by itself. There seemed to be cold spots around the house and strange electrical problems which the family could not explain.. The problems mounted when their daughter became very ill and even poisonous snakes were found on the property. They encountered "freak" rain storms which left behind large numbers of huge worms, large ants invading the property which could not be killed by hot water!!

The family always had the feeling that they were being watched by something and they often heard footsteps in the hallways. It was said that Ben Williams had an episode where he saw two ghosts or forms who touched him with icy hands. He was then admitted to hospital after suffering an asthma attack.

Eventually the  rest of the neighbors got to talking and most reported similar things happening within their own homes such as tv's turning themselves on and off, children's toys working and moving without batteries and toilets flushing by themselves, seeing ghosts, but none of them had any way to explain the occurances. After a while a horrifying discovery was made by two workers who were digging a swimming pool  - two decomposed bodies were found buried in a neighbours back garden. It was then they learned the development of homes were infact built on top of an old black cemetary.


Facts began to slowly emerge. They were able to locate an elderly man named Jasper Norton who as a youth had worked as a gravedigger. Not only could he help identify whom the graves belonged to, but he also told them how they came to be there. The subdivision was built over the graves of an abandoned cemetery that had been called "Black Hope." Buried in pauper and often unmarked graves were the remains of at least 60 people most of whom had been former slaves.

Horrified by the incidents that now seemed to be intensifying, and disgusted at the thought of having even unwittingly desecrated a graveyard many of the residents left the area, some taking a huge financial loss and simply abandoning their homes. Jean Williams was convinced that the carved markings on the tree in her back yard were in actuality a makeshift grave marker. As the Developer continued to dispute that the area had been a cemetery, Jean attempted to prove her case by digging around the strangely marked tree. Her daughter Tina, age 30, tried to help but collapsed and died of a massive heart attack. Jean and Ben devastated by their loss, and convinced the property was at least partially to blame also fled the subdivision.

The William's neighbors sued the Developer and were awarded a large cash settlement by a jury, but the judge in the case set aside this decision and none of the residents of the Newport subdivision received any money in compensation for their losses.

Many of the former residents now have rebuilt their lives, and are no longer plagued with the problems they experienced while living unintentionally over the graves of the Black Hope Cemetery.


Unexplained Black Hope Curse

The Black Hope Horror

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If you get the channel - True Movies - the film is often showing there

called Grave Secrets:The Legacy of Hilltop Drive