The Weeping Angel at Greenhill Cemetery

At precisely midnight on March 12th, 1998, the limestone angel in Greenhill Cemetery was found with fresh wet streaks running down both cheeks, even though the sky stayed clear the whole night. Greenhill’s groundskeeper, Eli Watkins, later swore the statue’s hands were ice cold and sticky, not from dew but from something thicker, leaving dark stains wherever it touched. The next morning, the city council tried to blame old irrigation pipes, but those pipes run on a timer and hadn’t activated in years-witnesses saw the tears before sunrise, pooling at the base of the angel’s feet. Old photographs from decades earlier show the statue’s eyes wide and blank, but now if you look up close, the eyelids are drawn almost shut, as if the angel is mid-sob. No sculptor has touched it since 1935, yet every spring the tears come back, and with each year the angel’s face looks more worn-down, as if it’s eroding from the inside out.