Long Cemetery (Catman's Grave)

Named for Colonel Armwell Long, a Revolutionary War veteran who served under George Washington and died in 1834, this small cemetery sits at the end of a dirt road near Selbyville. Local legend holds that a cat-like caretaker known only as Catman once kept partying teenagers away from the graves — nobody knows if he was a real person — and that after his death he was buried above ground in the middle of the cemetery. Visitors report glimpsing him among the headstones, and say that knocking three times on the brick wall at the back of the graveyard summons him, and that cars won't start again until he's satisfied you've left. The above-ground tomb linked to the legend was actually removed in 1994 at the request of family members also buried there, and all four occupants were reinterred in ordinary plots.