7 Horror Movies That Feature Indian Burial Grounds

This Stephen King classic is one of the scariest books ever written. The tale of a man driven mad by the loss of his son and the desperate attempt to resurrect him has haunted parents for an entire generation now. First as a book and then as a movie. The story surrounds a Mic Mac Indian burial bround in Maine where the ground went sour. The people and animals buried in that place come back ... But sometimes “dead is better.” Shiver.

This is the most well-known of the haunted house movies. And it is also a true story. According to the story, the Indians sent their crazy people to this land to die. The bad spirits there caused the first murders in the house and eventually led to the haunting of the new family who moved in.

Though this movie is well known for being the “Indian burial ground movie,” the irony is there never really was one. The house that features in the movie, the cursed home that drives the family insane and takes their youngest child, was built as part of a subdivision on top of a regular cemetery. No vengeance included. But the trope persisted anyway. And the truth is, either way, nothing should be built where the dead are resting.

This is another Stephen King classic that has been made into two movies. It tells the story of a hotel so haunted and sinister, anyone who stays too long goes completely mad. The hotel was built, on what else, an Indian burial ground in Colorado. And no one is safe from the anger that arises.

A movie about a number of people staying a motel who are slowly killed off, one by one, one of the main characters says about halfway through the film that maybe the murders are happening because the hotel was built on an Indian burial ground.

The main town in this movie and show, Sunnydale, was built intentionally on hallowed Indian ground. Hence, the supernatural occurrences.

This movie is an older one from the early 1980’s. It tells the story of archaeologists digging in an Indian burial site who are possessed by it.