History & local legend
Beulah Church Cemetery lies east of Brownstown in Armstrong County’s Kiskiminetas Township. Its ghost stories concern the former church, the burial ground and the sounds heard among its trees after dark.
A man identified as Phil, who grew up in Brownstown, told a Pennsylvania folklore collector that he remembered the night the church burned. He recalled hearing screams and seeing an intense blue light. At thirty-two, he said the memory still kept him away from the cemetery at night.
Other local accounts describe pale figures moving through the moonlit grass and unexplained noises coming from a pine among the graves.
Sources
- Ron Ieraci, Pennsylvania Haunts and History, preserved first-person contribution from Phil of nearby Brownstown and additional local traditions
- Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly, May 1983, pp. 201–203, transcribed grave inscriptions from the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, including the Ringer row
- Armstrong County PAGenWeb, Beulah Cemetery in Kiskiminetas Township
- USGS geographic feature 2775873, Beulah Church Cemetery in Armstrong County, coordinates via AnyPlaceAmerica
- Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, Cycle 2 six-inch orthoimagery