Some have said, "There's a tombstone that bleeds in a cemetery in Thurmont." But they cannot say exactly where the old graveyard is located or describe the stone.

The horrible story behind this rumor is that a stranger met with a terrible accident on a road nearby many years ago, was pronounced dead and buried as soon as possible because of the condition of the body. Later, people had reason to believe the man was not dead when they buried him; a splotch of blood appeared mysteriously on his simple marker. And fresh wet blood appeared on the anniversary of the day they had put the body in the ground.

Supposition was that the entombed man, if buried alive, must have bled to death trying to claw and scratch his way out of his hastily made pine box. One curious person chipped away at the dark brown blob and had a sample analyzed; it proved to be human blood as suspected. It if wasn't seeping from the corpse, whose blood was it? A careless grave keeper's, a prankster's? Was the whole story a hoax?

No one admits to knowing anything about the incident anymore. No one came looking for the stranger, no one remembers the particulars and no records were kept.

But, once upon a time, some have said, there was a tombstone that bled once a year in Thurmont.