History & local legend
North Fork Dam, a reservoir in Somerset County near Johnstown, has a small cemetery in the woods nearby. In an account posted in October 2007, a visitor described walking there with her boyfriend, photographing headstones and hearing sounds they could not identify.
They were almost back to their car when they noticed a bottle on the ground. The woman was about to tell her boyfriend that they had at least enjoyed their walk when she heard something strike the bottle, although nobody else was with them. A separate visitor, writing in October 2010, described seeing a figure in a black cloak crouched on the path.
Sources
- StrangeUSA, North Fork Dam, Prettyblueeyes101, October 21, 2007, and a separate visitor on October 18, 2010
- Yoder Newsletter, April 2007, Beverly Andrews’s account of family visits and headstones at North Fork Dam Cemetery
- Gibson-Thomas Engineering, North Fork Dam across the North Fork of Bens Creek
- Mapcarta, North Fork Dam in Conemaugh Township
