History & local legend
The wooded ground behind Kulpmont Protestant Cemetery is known in local ghost stories as Sleepy Hollow. Its traditions include organ music at midnight and a curse attached to a concrete cross base. Three young men were said to have knocked the cross down and later died in a car crash.
Jess Kroh of the Eastern Pennsylvania Ghost Researchers visited twice and described finding headstones partly concealed by brush beneath an arch of trees. Farther along, the team found the concrete base associated with the story.
Kroh’s own experience was quieter than the legend. After passing a fallen tree across the path, the group heard unexpected noises and became unsettled. The sense of being watched continued until they left.
Sources
- Jess Kroh, Eastern Pennsylvania Ghost Researchers, Sleepy Hollow, in Jeff Belanger’s Encyclopedia of Haunted Places (2005), reproduced by Occult World
- Ghosts of Central Pennsylvania, Sleepy Hollow, account of the wooded burial ground near Den Mar Gardens
- Joseph J. Stutz Funeral Home, Audrey Caroline Berry service notice, Kulpmont Protestant Cemetery directions and coordinates
- Pennsylvania veterans’ burial register, Kulpmont Protestant Cemetery on SR 2034
