History & local legend
Pigeon Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery lies on Church Road near Dunningsville in Washington County, beside a church building dating to 1829. Linda, René and Edgar visited the burial ground on a summer evening and later described their experience to the Mon Valley Ghost Research Society.
While Linda examined a gravestone, her companions returned to their truck for a camera flash. She heard what sounded like dry leaves moving around the graves, although the air was still and no fallen leaves were visible. Something brushed her hip. When she aimed her flashlight toward the sound beyond the stone, the rustling accelerated and she ran to the truck.
As the group compared experiences, René said she too had heard something rustling directly behind her while taking photographs alone among the graves.
Sources
- Mon Valley Ghost Research Society, Linda’s firsthand narrative with René and Edgar in the cemetery
- Washington County cemetery transcription, Pigeon Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, Church Road near Dunningsville
- Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of the City of Washington and Washington County, 1910, Pigeon Creek Presbyterian Church and the 1829 brick building
- OpenStreetMap, Pigeon Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery boundary
