There's a gravesite in Hanoverton surrounded by old rusty chains with a spooky story that, if you believe it, just might spell doom for an entire town.

At Grove Hill Cemetery in Hanoverton, you'll find a family plot that, depending on your point of view, is either built to keep all of us out or perhaps to keep something else in. Surrounded by rusted old chains and the occasional talisman, it is the final resting place of Christina Sloan.

"She was allegedly a witch," said Zach Moore from History, Haunts, and Legends Tours. "Her father, George Sloan, was a very prominent figure in Hanoverton's history. Allegedly, he paid two Irishmen to cause a scene in her place. Something went wrong, she died and they actually buried her up here."

As the legend goes, before she died Christina placed a curse on the entire town.

"She said that one day she would rise from her grave and take her vengeance out on everyone who was killing her that night, plus the town, everyone in the town," said paranormal historian Kimberly Mitchell.

There used to be a talisman in between every pillar around the gravesite, but only three remain; sort of a morbid countdown, if you believe the legend, for all of Hanoverton.

"Could be getting close to the zero hour for Hanoverton," said Mitchell.

Or maybe that hour already arrived long ago.

"I believe that if she was a witch and she did curse the town, the curse already happened in the early 1850s," said Moore.

He's referring to the decision against running the railroad through town and relying on the ill-fated canal instead. An interesting theory because Moore says one of the men who tried to convince the railroad company to build here was none other than George Sloan.

"If she did curse the town and she said that Hanoverton is basically going to dwindle away, then that railroad situation is probably what did it," said Moore.

That still doesn't explain the chains and the all-seeing eye around the gravesites, although maybe there's a less spooky explanation.

"There are a couple different directions you could go, and it's very possible that her father was a Mason and maybe high up in the ranks of the Masons and that's why it ended up that way with the all-seeing eye around there," said Mitchell. "Or it could have been something else."

And it's that something else that makes this a popular spot this time of year, trying to solve the mystery of Christina Sloan.

Moore says they believe they've captured pictures of her spirit at night in that cemetery.

His tour group is hosting one more ghost walk this season, on Halloween night at 7:15 pm, leaving from the Spread Eagle Tavern.