The Wanskuck Pond on the east side of Providence is actually a man-made reservoir, fishable with a license, owned by the city. The surrounding Wanskuck Woods, less than four miles across at their widest point and surrounded on all sides by residential neighborhoods, are yet so dense that they are one of those few neighborhood wooded areas that have not become a make-out spot or homeless shelter. Still, enough fishermen have ventured off the trail to the pond that the Wanskuck Pond Cemetery has long since been a commonplace bit of local history - many no longer even consider there to be anything supernatural about it.
The cemetery lies just up top the face of the cliff at the northernmost tip of the pond. Within it, a small maze of gravel-paved sidewalks is meticulously kept, though not by the city, nor any private citizen who has stepped up to take claim. The majority of headstones have worn away to unreadability. Those whose names can still be read do not match any records of living or dead from the area.
No hauntings or other supernatural occurrences have been reported in or around the cemetery since at least 1974.
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