Rock-a-Bye, Baby: Weirdness in this Niles Mausoleum

The Beeson Mansion and its accompanying crypt are both said to have their own sets of paranormal occurrences.

First, the mansion.
It was built in 1847 by a whiskey distiller, and shortly after it was purchased by attorney Strother Beeson. Across the street from the mansion, Beeson had a mausoleum built to house the remains of his deceased mother. But over the years, the crypt would have other residents.

One person who experienced something odd wrote: “One night I heard loud crying and looked toward the house and saw a candle in one of the upstairs windows. It was as if the mother was standing there staring across the street.”

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...and across the street is the mausoleum. It is on a plot of land with a stone-fence surrounding it – no other graves are within this enclosure, which is definitely big enough to be a small cemetery. It wasn't too long afterward another family member joined mom in the crypt. Strother's grandson, one-year-old Job Withrow Beeson, passed away. Strother placed the baby’s body inside the crypt alongside grandma.

The baby’s mother, Hariet Beeson, was so grief-stricken, that she became mentally unhinged. Not accepting her baby’s death, she would go across the street and go into the crypt, treating the deceased infant as if he were still alive. Every night she changed his diapers, bathe him, somehow 'feed' him, and rock him to “sleep”. Before she would leave to go back to the mansion, she would make sure a lantern was lit so the baby would not be afraid of the dark.

If this wasn’t weird enough, it took an even more shocking turn. One night, after her nightly ritual of feeding and bathing, she settled down to rock the infant. But so much time hd passed, that by now the baby’s body was badly decomposed. As she rocked him, his eyes fell out of their sockets that sent her into such a severe state of shock & horror that she was admitted into an insane asylum. She ended up dying there at the young age of 28.

Harriet is also buried in the crypt, making a total of 12 family members.

To this day, female sobbing has been heard on both sides of the road, believed to be of Harriet grieving for her lost baby.....