Near the first of October, GMPS did our
first outdoor investigation at Rebecca’s Grave in Moncton. It is a
well talked about spot in Moncton, almost everyone here who I tell
them what I do says “Oh! Did you ever hear of Rebecca’s Grave?
And have you been there?” The first time I did go down there was
just out of the blue, a few of us on the team were having a small
meeting when we decided, ah what the hell, let’s go down and check
it out. So we went down, and to me it looked like nothing out of the
ordinary, just a cement slab in the ground, with a little fence
around it. At this point I hadn’t heard all the stories surrounding
it, so it didn’t seem overly interesting.
For those of you who
don’t know the story, it is said back in.. 1876 I believe, A girl
named Rebecca Lutz was executed for being accused of being a witch.
Her mother, Jane Lutz, was also reportedly killed with her for such
accusations. It is said that they were buried in this spot together,
face down, so if they were in fact witches and woke up and tried to
dig themselves out, they would actually be digging themselves
downwards. It is also said when she was killed, Rebecca’s mother
put a curse out so those who killed her would suffer worse than she
did. People have reported seeing black cats sitting on the grave, and
others have reported seeing people in old dress walking along that
road. Along with a few other odd happenings. There is a spot on the
cement slab where you can tell there used to be marble headstones
there that are now broken off. We even had a person stop while we
were setting up to investigate and tell us “Be careful”. His
family owns the land and he said he’s had some strange things
happen that he wasn’t even comfortable telling us about.So to see if the stories are true, we gathered up our team and our equipment and headed out. We went early in the evening so we still had daylight to scope out the area before we began. And to record some footage while we still had daylight. We also went down the road a bit and checked out and old abandoned church, unfortunately we couldn’t get in because it was boarded up, but it killed some time. We then smudged ourselves with sage for a bit of protection. While we were still waiting for it to get dark, me and a couple others on the team headed back into town to get some gas and a snack, while the rest stayed behind to check out the path that heads to a field and some woods where the homestead used to be. When we came back they were already headed back towards the cars, saying they had already seen some strange stuff. Alvin, an investigator on our team, told us they were down by the field when he had heard a kind of swooshing sound, and when he looked, it looked like a person or something was standing there swinging their arms, and the trees were even moving like they were being forced. It was too far away for him to get a clear view though, so he just took a few shots with his camera. In the pictures you can see the comparison, one being nothing is there, and a second photo of the same spot shows something that wasn’t in the first picture in the woods.
Now that’s the story everyone wants
to believe, because it’s a lot more exciting than the more logical
story of Rebecca had gotten tuberculosis and perished, with her
mother following the same fate not long after. If you think about it
though, just in my opinion, that’s a great cover up story for
actually killing two women who were accused of being witches. We all
know witch executions have happened in history, but, around 1876 they
were long past the time when that was widely acceptable.
We then started investigating, Some of
us started on the grave itself, while others went down the path. I'm
not going to indulge fully on what happened that night, because we
are in the process of putting the footage together into a video you
can watch! It was a slightly eventful night, in the sense of many people
stopping or slowing down to check out what we were doing, and we were
fortunate enough to see Venus out that night in the sky, and even the
odd animal creeping around!
These two photos show the sage cleansing process we use before investigations, for protection purposes.
Me playing with some dowsing rods near the old church we went to go check out.
Setting up the cams for filming :)
Couple candid shots of the crew during the investigation.
This shot was the only weird picture we really couldn't explain during the investigation. There was barely any wind, no one was smoking, and this was not seen with our eyes.
So there's a little sneak peak into our Rebecca's Grave Investigation!! We are working on getting a video put together in the next little while, to show you a little further into one of our investigations. So keep an eye out! Video coming soon!!
Also you can check out our investigator Rebecca Belliveau's blog on her own experiences by clicking here
