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Allegheny County, Pennsylvania · Cemeteries

Taylor Cemetery

Fire in the Ground at Taylor Cemetery

A small rectangular burial plot beside a curved lane in the open fields along Elkhorn Road.

History & local legend

Taylor Cemetery is a small burial ground amid fields on Elkhorn Road in Forward Township, Allegheny County. A local story claims that flames sometimes rise from the earth there. The Pittsburgh Paranormal Society visited on March 30, 2007, to investigate.

The team highlighted colored marks in its photographs: a green streak near a tree, a red mark crossing another tree and a yellow streak visible in an enlargement. One ordinary light behind the yellow mark remained stationary. The investigators wondered whether similarly colored appearances could have inspired the fire story.

Sources

  1. Pittsburgh Paranormal Society, March 30, 2007 Taylor Cemetery field report and original photograph annotations
  2. U.S. Geological Survey, Taylor Cemetery, GNIS 1189300
  3. OpenStreetMap, named burial-ground enclosure with 480 Elkhorn Road address and federal feature number
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Visiting

Rural burial ground.

Image credit

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agriculture Imagery Program, 2022 · License