DeathWatch: Don't Blink

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    Whovians.
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    Right.
    Being the best friend of two newly-minted Whovians, I am naturally inundated almost daily with stories from the various adventures of the Doctor; one of the beings I have heard so much about is the Weeping Angel. In Doctor Who, if you blink when you are looking at one of these stone angel statues (heads up for the uninitiated, the Statue of Liberty is one), they kind of kill you by sending you back in time to another period.
    So far, I haven't found any stories of that happening in the West State Street Cemetery of Athens, Ohio, but I was intrigued when I heard of the legend that surrounds the "Angel of the Unknown Soldiers," who stands over a grave in the cemetery weeping for the souls of the unnamed dead who are buried in that cemetary, which is said to be heavily haunted.
    No, I don't just mean its head is looking down and its eyes are downcast. I mean, according to legend, this thing actually weeps.
    Legend has it that the angel statue, which is surrounded by an iron fence to protect her, moves; people passing by say that they have seen her stone wings flutter. She got her more informal title, though, because most of the stories surrounding her come from people who have reportedly seen tears streaming down her face. Beneath her eyes, dark stains can actually be seen, but it has never been proven if those are actually tear stains or just marks from dirt and dust that has settled there over the years. 
    I would love to one day get out there and see this statue for myself (it's just one of the many strange goings-on in Ohio, often proclaimed by my father to be the weirdest state in the Union), and I would love to bring my two Whovian friends along--especially the one who is scared to death of the Weeping Angels and for whom I decided to write this post in the first place. (I hope you enjoy this when you read it, by the way.)
    Is she the guardian angel of the lost souls of the West State Street Cemetery? I mean, orbs are oftentimes seen around her, and the cemetery itself is loaded down with disembodied voices, apparitions, and unidentifiable sounds, so...maybe she could be. 
    Does she really move and weep? That's a question, readers, I hope to be able to give you an answer to someday--if I haven't been sent back in time, that is. 

    

Don't blink.