Aerial survey · USDA NAIP · public domainA rural Chickasaw County burial ground with a strict no-after-dark policy
Van Vleet (near Houston), MS
Research updated May 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
Public cemetery during daylight. Posted as closed after dark; trespassers can be prosecuted.
Access
Limited Access
Dirt road and grassy cemetery in a valley between low hills
Equipment
Photos OK
Chickasaw County Rural Cemetery
Asbury Cemetery sits at the end of a dirt access road in a wooded valley near Van Vleet, a small community along Mississippi Highway 164 northwest of the Chickasaw County seat of Houston. The cemetery is documented in county genealogical records and the Chickasaw County cemetery census. It remains a working rural burial ground and is associated with the local Methodist circuit-rider heritage suggested by its name. No newspaper archive or historical-society document accessed during research connects the cemetery to a specific dramatic event; the site's reputation is folkloric.
Additional documentation comes from Find a Grave's Asbury Cemetery records (Van Vleet, Chickasaw County), which catalog 335 memorials and confirm the cemetery's late nineteenth- and twentieth-century burial range. Four Rivers Explorer has compiled local accounts of the cemetery's history and folklore, including references to a James Pelan, said to have been killed in 1863 and interred at the site.
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Local tradition holds that Asbury Cemetery generates a particular brand of unease unusual even for a rural Mississippi burial ground. Visitors have reported a low voice at the edge of hearing, a sudden simultaneous sense among a group that they are being watched from the wood line, and a strong impulse to return to vehicles and leave the valley.
The cemetery's location at the end of a narrow dirt road below the surrounding hills compounds the after-dark unease in ways geographers and folklorists would recognize: poor sight lines, no ambient light, no cell signal, and a single steep escape route. Multiple regional retellings include accounts of single-vehicle crashes on the access road as visitors left the area at speed.
The cemetery is now posted as closed after dark. The county has clear no-trespassing signage and enforces it. Visitors interested in the site should come during daylight, drive the access road at a sensible speed, treat the active burial ground with respect, and not attempt to legend-trip at night.
A small rural cemetery off Highway 164 near Van Vleet in Chickasaw County, set in a wooded valley. Visit during daylight only; the site is signed as closed after dark and the dirt access road is unforgiving at speed.
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