History & local legend
At the southern end of Lehighton Cemetery, a communal grave remembers the eleven people killed in the November 24, 1755 attack on the Moravian mission at Gnadenhuetten. The mission had been established beside the Lehigh River in 1746 among Mohican and Delaware converts. The dead were buried on the rise above the mission house, in the burial ground known as God's Acre.
A local tradition says figures can be seen walking around the grave in daylight as well as after dark. In 2009, a visitor described returning to photograph them.
Sources
- StrangeUSA, Lehighton Cemetery, apparition account and 2009 visitor’s photography claim
- The Shadowlands, Lehighton Cemetery, tradition of figures at the grave
- Lehighton Area Heritage Alliance, site of the communal grave near Fourth and Alum Streets
- Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Gnadenhuetten state historical marker