Ghost
The bleeding gravestone
Iron or blood?
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Old headstone in churchyard
- Legend from
- Hinckley legend
- Tone
- Grim
The stone weeps blood each April.
The Leicester Mercury says Richard Smith, 20, heckled recruiting sergeant Simeon Stayne and was run through with a halberd; his gravestone is said to 'sweat blood' each April 12. A 1936 explanation blamed the iron in the stone. The council says he was murdered in the Market Place on 12 April 1727. CONFLICT: Regent Street (Mercury) vs Market Place (council).