DOUGLAS COUNTY — Across the road from Rose City Free Church Cemetery near Spruce Hill Township is a second, much smaller cemetery.

In that cemetery, surrounded by an iron fence, is one stone marking two graves: Halvard Olson and his wife, Ingeborg, buried in 1913 and 1909, respectively.

Local lore has it that the reason for the separation between the cemeteries is because the smaller one contains an actual witch's grave.

It doesn't, but that hasn't stopped people from leaving "gifts" at the grave in recent years.

Brittany Johnson, executive director of the Douglas County Historical Society, said the society gets at least a dozen calls about the grave during the fall, usually beginning in October.

"The most common incorrect story is that it's a suicide grave or a witch grave," Johnson

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