page_title: Grancer Harrison
section_title: Vandalism
hierarchical_section_title: Grancer Harrison / Vandalism
caption_attribution_description: English: Patched Vandalism on the grave of Grancer Harrison.
context_page_description: William "Grancer" Harrison, aka The Dancing Ghost of Grancer Harrison, is the subject of several ghost stories about his alleged spirit seen dancing at his grave-site near Kinston, Alabama. The story was featured in the book 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey and is the subject of a song by country band Granville Automatic. Originally covered by a large wood-frame grave shelter, the tomb has been vandalized and rebuilt several times in the last 50 years, with the most recent vandalism at the cemetery in 2010. The tomb itself was last reconstructed in 2005.
context_section_description: Another tale concerning Harrison's grave claimed that Grancer had a large sum of gold buried with him and still others claimed that he buried gold near the old dance hall. Vandals solved the mystery of the gold in his tomb in 1964 when they blew it open with dynamite. There was no gold and they succeeded only in destroying the tomb and scattering Harrison's skeletal remains.
  The Harrison Cemetery along with Harrison's Grave was again vandalized on July 30, 2010. Approximately 50 headstones were overturned.
caption: Patched Vandalism in 2011.
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