Emigrants from Salem, Massachusetts settled in LaSalle County, Illinois in the 1830s, bringing with them a dark past. They brought about conflicts with the Native Americans and a massacre, resulting in mass burials in the cemetery. The Moon family oversaw the plots. Local legend claims that farmers would be woken up at night by loud crashes and find tombstones knocked over. The story takes a dark turn with a series of murders.
Moon Creek Cemetery
The settlers of LaSalle County, Illinois, carried the shadows of their troubled history in Salem, Massachusetts, with them when they relocated in the 1830s.
