Showmen's Rest
Forest Park, Illinois, United States
Cemetery · local-legend
The Story
Within Woodlawn Cemetery, Showmen's Rest memorializes circus workers, including victims of the 1918 train wreck. Its best-known supernatural story concerns elephant calls supposedly heard after dark. HauntedPlaces.org presents those phantom animal sounds as local lore, not evidence that elephants are buried there. Concise original paraphrase of an attributed folklore source; historical details not independently established.
The Hauntings
Within Woodlawn Cemetery, Showmen's Rest memorializes circus workers, including victims of the 1918 train wreck. Its best-known supernatural story concerns elephant calls supposedly heard after dark. HauntedPlaces.org presents those phantom animal sounds as local lore, not evidence that elephants are buried there. Concise original paraphrase of an attributed folklore source; historical details not independently established.
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Sources & further reading.
- Showmen's Rest | HauntedPlaces.org (reports)
- Showmen's Rest | HauntedPlaces.org (visiting)
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