History & local legend
Country singer and yodeler Elton Britt is buried in Broad Top City's Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery. Born in Arkansas, he ordered a guitar at ten and learned to yodel after hearing Jimmie Rodgers. His monument, following his death in 1972, carries song titles including 'Chime Bells.'
Local lore says the monument glows at night and a yodel can be heard across the burial ground. One investigating group reported hearing the sound during a visit. As they walked afterward, they also felt something keeping pace a step behind them.
Sources
- StrangeUSA, Broad Top Cemetery, investigator’s own account of the yodel, moving shadows and sensation of being followed
- Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Elton Britt, biography, burial and song-titled monument
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog, text carved on the Elton Britt monument at Broad Top
- Broad Top Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, geographic feature via Mapcarta
