History & local legend
Abington Presbyterian Church stands across Old York Road from its historic burial ground in Montgomery County. A local tradition says a ghostly child has been seen through the church windows. Some tellings explain the haunting by saying a cemetery was moved, but the congregation's history describes a different sequence: the original church stood within the burial ground, and the congregation moved across the road in 1793.
In a separate recollection posted in January 2016, a visitor named Rosemarie described attending a small meeting on a lower floor. She saw a tall plastic cup flip off a chair, turn once in the air and fall to the floor. She remembered no open windows or fans that might have moved it.
Sources
- The Shadowlands, Abington Presbyterian Church, the child seen at its windows
- Abington Presbyterian Church, congregation history, original meetinghouse in the cemetery and move across York Road in 1793
- Rosemarie’s January 2016 firsthand report from the church, in the reader comments
- OpenStreetMap, the church and its position on the west side of Old York Road
