According to people who live on the street, the urban legend started because an "herb doctor" lived on the property. Adding to the mystery, if you drive by you will see lots of strange objects in the yard. There are crosses, symbols, things that look like coffins. People who live there say the property is an old Masonic Lodge.
Mike Einspanjer is a ghost hunter and works for Memphis Paranormal Investigations. Einspanjer says he went to the site and met with the property owner. The ghost hunter says Voodoo Village is not haunted. Einspanjer says “We took a team down there because I had heard the legends. There are no goblins, no ghosts, demons or monsters. There is nothing but a bunch of people who are economically challenged.” Einspanjer says “I promise people listening to this, I would be the first to tell you if there was something there. I would have it on my website and be so proud, but there is nothing down there.”
Einspanjer says he talked to one lady who said “can you imagine what it is like being filmed everyday of the year. There are Loads of kids coming by to shout at you.”
The property owner told Eyewitness News every year he has to call the police dozens of times because of teens coming to the home and starting trouble.
My boyfriend grew up in Memphis. Two Christmases ago, Mike drove me out there at night, trying to freak me out. We parked at the church, which is on the main road, then walked to this place. He said there was wood crosses buried in the ground like trees. Was hard to make them out good with just a flashlight. But there was a huge bonfire burning in there that night, a ways from the fence. You could see the shadows of people moving around it. It creeped me out, voodoo or not. I will never go back there. Have there ever been confirmed killings and stuff there? I did find this:
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