History & local legend
Horn Cemetery near Marianna in Washington County is associated with a woman in white and a black cat. In the local story, she floats across a field and sits on the cemetery fence, with the cat beside her.
A visitor writing in December 2006 recalled a black cat running past the group's van and sudden pockets of cold air among the graves. The visitor also remembered the rusty fence enclosing the older section.
By November 2007, another telling called the woman Isabella. It said that repeating her name three times at midnight would summon her, after which she would call the cat.
Sources
- StrangeUSA, Marianna Cemetery, December 2006 firsthand cat account by mheadlee5, November 2007 Isabella tradition and 2009–10 site identifications
- Washington County PA GenWeb, West Bethlehem Township cemetery inventory and location card
- Horn Cemetery, mapped cemetery boundary and historical geographic feature reference
