History & local legend
John Anderson Memorial Cemetery beside Service Church in Raccoon Township, Beaver County, began receiving burials in 1803. It took the name of the congregation's first pastor in 1902. Two visitor accounts posted in 2008 concerned photographs and camera behavior there.
In June, a writer using the name dymo99 described returning home with a friend and discovering an orange, serpent-like shape against the sky in a photograph. Neither remembered seeing it during the visit, though one friend had suddenly wanted to leave.
A separate visitor, writing in May, said fresh camera batteries ran down within twenty minutes during a trip with a sister-in-law, then showed a full charge after leaving the cemetery.
Sources
- StrangeUSA, Service Church cemetery, original visitor accounts from May 16 and June 18, 2008
- Beaver County, Pioneer Cemeteries, historian’s family link to one of the 1803 burials and the 1902 memorial name
- Multi-municipal plan, Raccoon Township section, Service United Church and cemetery beside Ambridge ReservoirUnavailable ·
