FINCH CEMETERY
Cemetery — Portland, Jay County, Indiana
Status: Status unknown · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/finch-cemetery-portland-indiana/

Cemetery associated with documented cultural history.

Finch Cemetery is a cemetery in Portland, Indiana. Cemetery associated with documented cultural history. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Cinderella. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 named or described presence — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.

The cemetery is the counted — the '13 up' that's the way's tally, the '11 back' that's the return's count. The 'Cinderella' is the girl — the 'Dau. of' that's the stone's truth, the 'not a boy' that's the legend's error. The 'Steed' is the pioneer's — the '1858' that's the birth's year, the '18 months' that's the life's length.
The 'green eyes' is the watched — the 'tree' that's the boy's perch, the 'staring' that's the gaze's form. The 'misspelled' is the carved — the 'Cinderlla' that's the engraver's slip, the 'family' that's the stones' kin. The cemetery is the kept — the 'Conservation Club' that's the land's owner, the 'shift' that's the stones' trick.
The file keeps the cemetery: the counted graves, the girled Cinderella, the watched eyes, and the kept family.
Finch Cemetery is the archive's Indiana file — the graveyard that can't keep count.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Finch Cemetery is the archive's Indiana file — the math that changes on the way back.
A cemetery keeps its count — the file's suggestion being that Finch's hold is the arithmetic: the '13/11' that's the stones' trick, the 'Cinderella' that's the name's charm, and the 'daughter' that's the truth's correction.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] folklore entity: Local stories describe a boy called Cinderella and grave counts changing from thirteen to eleven. The burial ground at Portland is exactly the setting the account needs — old graves, older grief, and a story that won't settle. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The report is preserved in sources like 'Stranger Things in Indiana'. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.
  source: Stranger Things in Indiana (https://visitindiana.in.gov/blog/post/stranger-things-indiana/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Stranger Things in Indiana — Visit Indiana
  https://visitindiana.in.gov/blog/post/stranger-things-indiana/

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