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Avery After Dark

168: HAUNTING | The Black Hope Cemetery

Avery After Dark

Avery Ross

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime

4.8 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Tonight’s episode uncovers one of the most disturbing and tragic real-life hauntings in American history: the Black Hope Cemetery Haunting. Haunted house? No, this was an entire haunted neighborhood

In the 1980s, families buying brand-new homes in a quiet Texas subdivision believed they were moving into the perfect neighborhood… until they made a horrifying discovery beneath their backyards — the graves of Black Hope Cemetery.

What began as unease soon spiraled into a nightmare:
-Mysterious coffins hidden under freshly built homes
-Residents falling ill and passing away after disturbing the graves
-Unexplained footsteps, apparitions, and voices inside multiple homes
- Tragic deaths that locals believe were the result of a curse
-A chilling pattern linking every family who tried to dig — or move the bodies

For the homeowners, simply living on the property wasn’t safe. The haunting seemed intelligent… vengeful… and impossible to escape. This isn't a haunted house, this was an entire haunted neighborhood

If you enjoy true hauntings, cursed land, and real paranormal cases with devastating consequences, this is an episode you don’t want to watch alone.

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0:00.0

I want to start with a question.

0:16.5

Do you know what's beneath the ground that your house or apartment was built on?

0:22.8

Most people have no clue.

0:25.1

I have no idea.

0:26.4

They find a home they like in an area they desire and move in.

0:30.8

And it could be that it's just some dirt and rocks.

0:33.9

Or perhaps there's something more.

0:37.6

Something or someone buried underneath your home.

0:41.8

Back in the early 1980s, residents of the newly developed Newport subdivision

0:47.1

located just outside of Houston, Texas, started experiencing something otherworldly.

0:53.5

This is the haunting of Black Hope Cemetery.

0:56.9

Just outside of Houston, Texas is a neighborhood. The Newport subdivision, known for its upscale homes

1:04.2

and manicured lawns. In the early 1980s, Sam and Judith Haney settled into a home at the far western edge of the development.

1:14.1

Sam Haney described it as their dream house. He said when they bought the house in Newport, it was the

1:19.8

home they had always been looking for. And it was a place they intended to stay in for a long time,

1:25.9

possibly forever. And they were making a lot of plans to

1:29.0

make the house their own. One of these plans included putting in a swimming pool in their backyard.

1:35.5

They had plenty of space for it and had always wanted a pool. They thought it would be great for

1:39.6

family to come over. They were looking forward to hosting get-togethers. They had just laid out the plans and were

1:45.7

beginning construction on the pool. But there was a morbid secret about the Haney's perfect home,

1:51.5

one that soon turned their lives into a never-ending nightmare. Sam said it all began with a knock

1:58.0

at the door. One afternoon, a mysterious stranger showed up at the Haney's

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