Cemetery Orbs and Highway Lights Near Evergreen
Midway, AL
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
Free, public roadside cemetery
Access
Limited Access
Grass and unpaved paths
Equipment
Photos OK
Midway Baptist Church occupies a rural setting in Conecuh County, Alabama, near the community of Midway, roughly 15 miles north of Evergreen. The church maintains an active congregation.
The adjacent cemetery has been documented by genealogical researchers and contains markers for local families with roots in Conecuh and Monroe Counties. Burial records suggest the cemetery dates to at least the mid-nineteenth century, reflecting the settlement patterns of rural south Alabama communities during the antebellum and Reconstruction periods.
The landscape around the church is characteristic of the Conecuh County piney woods — flat to gently rolling terrain with pine stands and limited artificial lighting at night, conditions that contribute to the kind of atmospheric isolation common to rural Alabama church grounds.
Midway Baptist Church was organized on July 28, 1852, when the community of Midway was still a part of Barbour County and also known as Five Points. By April 1855 the congregation was referring to itself in its own records as the Baptist Church of Midway. The southwest corner of Feagin's field was selected as a building site in December 1852, and in February 1853 a frame structure with glass windows but no steeple was dedicated. A steeple and bell were added in 1859, gas lamps replaced candles in 1869, and the church was rebuilt with original materials in 1872. Renovations in 1902 and 1930 added stained glass windows, Sunday School rooms, restrooms, and a kitchen while retaining the original building materials and footprint. The congregation has been associated with the Salem Association of Barbour County and the Bullock Centennial Association.
Sources
The account attached to Midway Baptist Church's cemetery describes light anomalies of a specific pattern: globes of light that rise from within the cemetery and move across the road, sometimes following vehicles that pass by after dark.
This type of light phenomenon — variously described as 'ghost lights,' 'spook lights,' or will-o'-the-wisp — appears in folklore across rural Alabama, particularly in low-lying areas near pine barrens and near cemeteries. No specific historical figure or event has been identified as the origin of the Midway Baptist Church account. It circulates as unexplained folk observation.
The isolation of the site — low traffic volume, minimal ambient light from nearby structures, and the pine-heavy terrain — creates conditions where unusual light behavior, whether atmospheric or otherwise, would be highly visible and memorable to passing drivers.
The church and its cemetery sit along the rural highway. The lights phenomenon is reported at night and is described as orbs rising from the cemetery and crossing the road. The site is a working church property; respect the grounds.
Every HauntBound history is researched from documented sources. We clearly separate verified historical fact from paranormal folklore.
Sale City, GA
Shady Grove Cemetery is a small historic burial ground in Mitchell County, Georgia, located along a dirt road outside Sale City. Find a Grave records document approximately 131 memorials at the site.
Russell, IA
Stoneking Cemetery is a small family burial ground east of Williamson in Lucas County, Iowa, containing the graves of members of the Stoneking family. The cemetery is best known for the headstone of Joseph Stoneking, which carries a traditional memento mori epitaph common to American grave markers of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Rayne, LA
Hookman's Cemetery — formally the McClelland Cemetery — is a small rural burial ground on Ohlenforst Road in Acadia Parish west of Roberts Cove. Established in the early twentieth century as an informal plot for residents who could not afford church cemetery burial, the site contains seven marked graves with dates ranging from 1891 to 1934 and has been abandoned and overgrown for decades.