The Legend of Kay's Cross: The Spooky Stuff
The spooky tales surrounding Kay?s Cross are varied and many. During a full moon the cross gives off an eerie glow?and will burn anyone that touches it during this phase. A strange, spectral woman haunts the cross, chasing away visitors. Satanists perform Halloween-night sacrifices at its base. The face of a murdered woman appears in the cross on the anniversary of her death. Mysterious dog men guard the cross. It?s pretty wild stuff; I get spooked just typing it.
The most popular myth is that the cross was built as a monument to the landowner?s murdered wife or family. Most variations on this tale make the builder a polygamist. In one version it is he who murdered his wife, or seven wives, depending on the teller. In its most grizzly form, he also buries six of his wives around the cross and one standing upright in its base. Another legend is that he sealed only the heart of his wife in the cross. The center of the cross had been hollowed out over the years, evidence of curiosity seekers excavating for this gruesome trophy.
In these tellings, it is the wife or wives that haunt the cross and menace visitors. Another variation has the husband hanging himself near the cross in remorse for his dastardly deed. In another, the landowner isn?t the malefactor at all, but a victim of marauders that fell upon his family and killed them all. The veracity of these stories, as dramatically satisfying as they are, seems pretty suspect. No news stories can be unearthed concerning these murders, nor have any bodies ever turned up anywhere near the cross.
In a 1981 Lakeside Review story (one of the few written about Kay?s Cross), reporter Maggie Holmes relates a legend in which a series of malevolent spirits guards the cross. In this spooky tale, anyone who wants to visit Kay?s Cross must sneak past these spectres residing in the Kaysville cemetery, or the ghouls will make them pay. One gets the feeling that the teenage sources for this bizarre ritual were pulling Maggie?s leg. For one thing, though the cemetery was one route to Kay?s Cross, there were many other paths in which the graveyard could be avoided altogether.
Source: http://www.newwest.net/index.php/city/a ... /C104/L104
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