West Branch State Park and the historic cemetery setting are real. The official Ohio park map verifies the current park address at 5570 Esworthy Road.
The witch narrative is documented as local folklore by multiple modern sources, including the Ohio Exploration Society and a 2018 Record-Courier article. The newspaper reported that a former area resident remembered the witch’s-grave story circulating locally more than twenty years earlier, while also presenting it as legend rather than established history.
The historical claim that a woman was killed by pressing is especially problematic. No name, court proceeding, contemporary newspaper report, death record or other primary documentation establishing such an execution at West Branch has been located in this research pass.
Glamenza Elliott should not be identified as the witch without evidence. Her grave’s incorporation into later storytelling does not establish that she practiced witchcraft, was accused of it, or died by pressing.
Because the cemetery is a genuine burial place and folklore sources describe past vandalism, this archive does not publish precise grave coordinates or directions designed to facilitate nighttime ghost hunting.
