History & local legend
Grandview Cemetery's Unknown Plot contains the graves of 777 unidentified victims of the Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889. Rows of markers stand beneath the monument called Tranquility, dedicated in 1892 as the town continued recovering from the disaster.
In an account included in Haunted Pittsburgh, a ghost hunter visiting the plot saw a moving ball of light among the graves. She then heard what sounded like a little girl asking to be saved.
Sources
- Timothy Murray, Michelle Smith and Haydn Thomas, Haunted Pittsburgh, publisher-supplied book excerpt
- National Park Service, Grandview Cemetery and efforts to identify Johnstown Flood victims
- Johnstown Area Heritage Association, rebuilding after the flood and dedication of the Unknown Plot
- Visit Johnstown, Monument of Tranquility and 777 graves
- daveynin, geolocated photograph at the Unknown Plot
