Dan's Run (Mt. Zion Cemetery)

Mt. Zion Cemetery lies in Monroe Township, Clark County, in southern Indiana, just off State Road 160 along Blue Lick Road near Henryville, with its older and newer sections divided by the road between Blue Lick Road and Interstate 65. It is an ordinary, active rural cemetery documented in Clark County genealogy collections.

The cemetery is publicly remembered, however, for its connection to a real homicide. On May 28, 1991, Danny Guthrie left his family to go fishing and did not return. According to the Indiana Supreme Court's later opinion in Sweeney v. State (704 N.E.2d 86, Ind. 1998), Charles Edward Sweeney Jr. was charged in the killing; a jury found him guilty of murder in November 1995, and he was sentenced to sixty years. The court record establishes the death as a gunshot homicide tied to the events of that day.

Local lore — circulated under the name 'Dan's Run' — holds that Guthrie's body lay undiscovered in a shallow grave for about a year before being found and reburied in Mt. Zion Cemetery, and that the original site can still be seen as an open depression at the edge of the woods. HauntBound notes that these geographic details come from folklore retellings rather than the court record, and that the surrounding land is private.

The case and the resulting ghost tradition have been examined by the Indiana folklore podcast Hoosier Myths and Legends, whose episode on the murder of Dan Guthrie distinguishes the documented crime from the legend. Because this is a recent, real homicide with a living connection to a family, HauntBound treats it with restraint and does not sensationalize the victim's death.