A wooded rural cemetery in Shiawassee County's farmland near New Lothrop, locally known for after-midnight reports of screams, strange lights, and a red-eyed figure said to run from the trees.
N. New Lothrop Road (between Juddville Rd and Cronk Rd), New Lothrop, MI 48460
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
Free rural public cemetery owned by Hazelton Township.
Access
Limited Access
Wooded rural setting near Misteguay and Rush creeks; uneven grass ground
Equipment
Photos OK
Cummin Cemetery sits along N. New Lothrop Road, between Juddville Road and Cronk Road, in Hazelton Township, Shiawassee County. The surrounding landscape is flat farmland broken by woodlots, with Misteguay Creek and Rush Creek nearby. Genealogical records catalog only a few dozen burials, and the cemetery is owned and maintained by the township.
The ground is known by an unusually large number of names — Cummin (sometimes spelled Cummings), Juddville Cemetery, New Lothrop Cemetery, and Lennon Cemetery — a reflection of the several small rural communities scattered across this corner of Shiawassee County. The Shadowlands index and regional outlets such as 99.1 WFMK index it under the Juddville name.
Unlike cemeteries tied to a specific documented tragedy, Cummin Cemetery has no single anchoring historical event in the available record. Its modern notoriety rests on the ghost stories that have accumulated around its isolated, wooded setting — the kind of after-dark folklore that attaches readily to a remote burial ground far from town lights.
Regional coverage by 99.1 WFMK and its sister station 97.5 NOW treats the location's reputation as unconfirmed anecdote from 'the curious few' rather than documented history, and no specific historical figures or victims are associated with the site.
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The reputation of Cummin Cemetery is built on a cluster of after-midnight ghost stories recounted by regional outlets including 99.1 WFMK and 97.5 NOW, and echoed by the original Shadowlands submission. By these accounts, late-night visitors report screaming and weird lights from the wooded edge of the cemetery, a human-shaped apparition with glowing red eyes that runs toward intruders while swinging its arms, photographs that come out showing clusters of orbs, and a persistent nighttime fog. Some describe car headlights that follow them down the road before suddenly disappearing.
One element of the local rumor — sightings of hooded, Klan-like figures in the trees — appears only as unconfirmed folklore with no historical documentation behind it. Regional reporting that has examined the legend explicitly notes there is no record supporting that claim, and it is included here only to accurately represent the stories told about the site, not to endorse or sensationalize them.
The regional outlets that have written about Cummin Cemetery treat all of these reports as unverified anecdotes from curious visitors rather than established fact. No named victims, documented deaths, or historical incidents underlie the lore — the cemetery's reputation rests on atmosphere and repetition rather than on any recorded event.
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Visit the small wooded cemetery on N. New Lothrop Road between Juddville and Cronk roads, set in Shiawassee County farmland near Misteguay and Rush creeks. Locally known by several names — Cummin, Juddville, New Lothrop, and Lennon — and the subject of many nighttime ghost reports.
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