Custom Search Avilla, Missouri Ghost Sightings Avilla PAGE 1   2   3     Legend of the Avilla Death Tree (TRUE STORY) During the Civil War, a Confederate Bushwacker was killed during fighting at the southern edge of Avilla, Missouri. When he was found months later half covered in fallen leaves and snow, his rotted skull had a large bullet hole and his body had deteriorated to a putrid skeleton. Instead of burial, the town citizen militia hung the head from a tree as a warning to other     enemies, near an old road leading past an apple orchard into Avilla. The gastly tree became know as the ''Death Tree'' and the skull hung for over a year from a tree limb for all to see. The tree is said to have stopped producing fruit and large numbers of black crows made it their constant perch. The skull and corpse mysteriously disappeared at the end of the war, and as far as anyone knows the body was never buried (no one knows what happened to the skeleton). (LEGEND) Since that time a restless, headless phantom has been seen by locals over the past   (continued on the next page...) More Avilla Area Ghost Sightings On The Next Page >> Submit a ghost sighting for Avilla, Missouri: Your Name: Write or Paste Input here: Upload picture:       Other haunted towns near Avilla, Missouri: Reeds, Missouri, 4 miles away Sarcoxie, Missouri, 7 miles away La Russell, Missouri, 8 miles away Golden City, Missouri, 11 miles away Wentworth, Missouri, 11 miles away Carthage, Missouri, 13 miles away Jasper, Missouri, 14 miles away Stark City, Missouri, 17 miles away Granby, Missouri, 18 miles away Lamar, Missouri, 19 miles away        The latest ghost sightings from around the world All haunted towns and cities in Missouri Psychic Predictions Lies about Avilla