Eureka Springs Cemetery (Silent City)
Founded in 1889 by the local Independent Order of Odd Fellows, this 46.5-acre hillside cemetery, nicknamed the 'Silent City,' became the resting place for many of the health seekers who flooded Victorian Eureka Springs hoping the mineral waters would cure them. Disease victims, paupers, and the unclaimed lie here, many in unmarked graves. Ghost-tour accounts describe a woman in white and a small child glimpsed among the trees at dusk, whispering voices, recorded crying on audio, pale floating orbs near the ground, and a heavy, watched feeling some visitors say turns to nausea. One often-repeated story tells of a child seeing a woman in a gray dress beside a particular tombstone that others have also reported. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 8, 2018; the Eureka Springs Historical Museum runs 'Voices of the Silent City' living-history tours here.
📍 NW of jct. of County Road 205 & US Highway 62 E, Eureka Springs, AR 72632, Eureka Springs, AR · Get directions