Oak Hill Cemetery
Location & Map
Address Details
- Full Address
- Estherville, Iowa, United States
- City
- Estherville
- County
- Emmet County
- State / Province
- Iowa
- Country
- United States
- Coordinates
- 43.39846, -94.85271
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The Haunting
Oak Hill Cemetery in Estherville, Iowa is an active cemetery best known in ghost lore for a gravity-hill style story. The legend says cars seem to roll uphill near the cemetery because ghostly football players or children push them, though sources also identify the effect as an optical illusion.
IAGenWeb places Oak Hill Cemetery west of the Des Moines River in Estherville and lists it as established in 1889. Haunted accounts do not focus on a burial record, but on a hill or road phenomenon near the cemetery. The responsible framing is that the cemetery is real and historic, while the famous push story is local legend and likely visual misperception.
Reported activity: Retellings split between football players killed while pushing a stalled car and children killed in the road, both explaining why a vehicle seems to move on its own. The entry should avoid encouraging unsafe road tests and should remind readers to obey traffic and cemetery rules.
Activity Details
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What People Are Saying
Summary of visitor and community commentary
Retellings split between football players killed while pushing a stalled car and children killed in the road, both explaining why a vehicle seems to move on its own. The entry should avoid encouraging unsafe road tests and should remind readers to obey traffic and cemetery rules.