Tucked away behind Greenwood Cemetery in Muscatine, Iowa, a kneeling angel bathed in blue gentle has lengthy stirred the imaginations—and anxieties—of locals. Housed contained in the Hutting mausoleum, this statue, referred to as The Blue Angel, has impressed generations of eerie tales, handed from whispered campfire tales to viral social media posts.
The life-sized statue kneels solemnly, her proper arm as soon as outstretched with a rose delicately balanced in her palm. Behind her, a cobalt-blue stained glass window casts an otherworldly hue, giving the angel each her identify and her ghostly repute. Whereas the setting is serene, the tales surrounding her are something however.
Based on Muscatine folklore, anybody who noticed the rose fall from her hand on Halloween at midnight would quickly lose a beloved one. Within the Nineteen Nineties, an unknown vandal reportedly broke into the mausoleum and severed the statue's hand to cease the curse. The rose—and the hand—have by no means been changed.
At the moment, new tales proceed to flow into. Some declare that when you peer by way of the mausoleum window and see a tear on the angel's cheek, loss of life is close to. Others nonetheless see the angel as a guardian spirit who as soon as protected the cemetery from vandals. Whether or not a mournful guardian or an omen of misfortune, the Blue Angel nonetheless rests silently within the Hutting mausoleum—lacking her hand, however not her mystique.
