This Creepy Christmas Massacre Will Ruin Your Holiday!
#2 This is the place where the crime was done
On a snowy Christmas day in 1929, Charlie Lawson out of the blue hit and shot his wife to death and his six children before killing himself in the woods near the cabin. Oldest son Arthur survived only because he'd been sent on an errand that fateful afternoon.
No one will ever know the reason for Charlie's actions. Some say he was crazy; driven mad by a head injury he sustained while plowing the land on the farm. Stella Lawson who was the cousin of the Lawson children admitted overhearing her mother and other extended members of the Lawson family talking at the funeral about how Fannie had mentioned before her death that she had been troubled about the relationship between her husband, Charles, and their seventeen-year-old daughter, Marie who was pregnant and it was Charles's baby. While others claim that Charlie was a monster. Officials found letters near Charles that he had written to his parents. They also saw where the grass had been infringing in a circle going around a tree near Mr. Lawson's body. It is believed that he had been walking around the tree before taking his own life. The bodies of his family were found with their arms crossed over their chests and rocks underneath their heads.
#3 The killing attracted so much attention that an estimated 5,000 people attended the Lawson family funeral.
Soon after the murders, the cabin was turned into a tourist attraction. Many people reported feelings of foreboding, a suffocating sadness that surrounded and wash them.
The home was finally closed to the public, but people were still curious to see some paranormal activities. More than a few folks have reported seeing two small children playing in and around the Lawson home and later found that the children they were seeing were actually ghosts of the murdered kids. After a while, the floorboards of the cabin were supposedly used to build a bridge across the creek. When the construction of the bridge was complete, the stories of supernatural happenings began to burst forth. When driving across the bridge, mysterious fog will reportedly surround the car, and the vehicle unexplainably shuts off. As fog appears on the windows, small handprints begin to cover the windows and windshield. When the driver finally starts the car and early 1930's model car chases the car, driving erratically, through the winding roads of the county before disappearing into the night just as quickly as it appeared.
#4 They were all buried in a single large plot in the private Browder Family Cemetery just outside of Germantown.
Unbelievably, the tragedy of the Lawson family didn't end in 1929. In 1945, Arthur Lawson, the only child to survive the Christmas Day bloodshed, died at the age of 31 in a truck accident in Walnut Cove, quite near Germantown. He was buried in the same cemetery as the rest of his family, leaving behind four children of his own.
But the truth, which Charlie took to his grave, will never be known.
