History & local legend
On February 8, 2002, Janice Cercone and her husband Don accompanied the Raw Fear investigators to several cemeteries in Center Township, Beaver County. At Mount Carmel Cemetery, team member Marty repeatedly returned to a headstone bearing the name John Erwin.
The investigators said a face appeared within the stone. When they reached toward it, they felt a force pushing their hands back. Their expedition photographs identified the plot where they had gathered. The group also recalled heat near some graves and unusually cold patches elsewhere, describing these as additional sensations during the same evening's visit.
Sources
- Raw Fear, team’s account of the February 8, 2002 visit, hosts, headstone, and sensations
- Raw Fear, original expedition photo gallery identifying the Erwin plot and locations of cold spots
- OpenStreetMap, named cemetery boundary matched to federal geographical names identifier 1802815
- Beaver County PAGenWeb, military burial applications documenting the named cemetery near Aliquippa
