In 2007, The New England Society of Paranormal Investigators did some research at the cemetery. If that does not give you the creeps, there are reports of paranormal activity taking place at the cemetery as well. The truly brave can pull the rickety wooden door of the crypt open and step inside to stand where the horrific acts took place. The crypt is in the left rear of the cemetery near an old fire road. The cemetery itself is very remote and eerie, located nearly a mile down a dirt road. Located in the rear of the Pine Grove Cemetery in Truro is the brick crypt where the grisly dismembering of the victims’ bodies took place. Though the ‘garden’ is now overgrown and barren of any connection to those gruesome murders, there is another spot which remains virtually unchanged to this day where curious visitors can go. The story of Tony Costa was captured in the book In His Garden by Leo Damore which was published in 1981. Peter the Apostle Cemetery in Provincetown.ĭuring the peak of the media attention surrounding the murders, famed author Kurt Vonnegut compared Costa to Charles Manson in his collection of essays entitled Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons.

He is buried in an unmarked grave next to his mother at St. Costa committed suicide by hanging in his cell on May 12, 1974. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on May 29, 1969. Costa was tried for the murder of three of the women though it is thought that he could be responsible for as many as seven or eight murders. The bodies all had their hearts removed, had human teeth marks on them, and there was evidence of necrophilia.Ĭosta was arrested when the murder sites of the three women was revealed to be his personal garden where he grew marijuana. On March 4, the bodies of three other women, Patricia Walsh, Mary Anne Wysocki, and Sydney Monzon were all found brutally mutilated in an area not far from the cemetery. The body of missing woman Susan Perry, Costa’s then-girlfriend was found mutilated on the grounds of Pine Grove Cemetery a highly secluded area off Old County Road on February 7. The town was Truro, the year was 1969, and the man was Antone Costa. However as scary as some of those films are there is nothing scarier than when the horror is actually real.Ĭape Cod is not exempt from having its own tale of terror in the pages of its not-so-distant history. There are numerous all-time classic scary movies which will be shown during the month of October having people clinging to their couches and hiding behind pillows. This is the time of year to scare and be scared.