History & local legend
In an account posted on April 6, 2003, a visitor using the name pinkhorses6 described a nighttime trip to Hankey Church Cemetery with three friends. The writer stayed in the car, driving slowly beside the white picket fence to keep pace with the others as they walked among the graves.
Although the evening had been warm enough to drive with the windows open, the friends returned shivering. The driver said something resembling falling snow was visible in their flashlight beams. All four also heard heavy footsteps crunching through the leaves.
At one point, a woman in the group turned to speak to the friend she thought was walking beside her. That friend was actually about fifteen feet away with her boyfriend. The visitors also located the pale, tree-stump-shaped marker associated with the cemetery’s older ghost stories. Their entire visit lasted about fifteen minutes.
