History & local legend
Crum Cemetery, a small wooded burial ground near Windber, contains generations of Crum and Oldham family graves. One local legend names Rebecca Crum as a woman accused of witchcraft whose spirit remained near her grave.
Rich Lehman visited with his wife and two daughters in September 2008, hoping to photograph something unusual. The pictures showed nothing unexpected, but he recalled feeling a tug on his trouser leg.
One daughter became queasy and told him that someone had whispered into her ear. Lehman shared the family’s experiences in February 2009 on a community page where neighbors were also exchanging stories about Rebecca and the cemetery.
Sources
- Rich Lehman, firsthand account dated February 15, 2009, and separate anonymous Rebecca Crum legend on the archived community page
- Daryl A. Reed and Hope Weigle, Crum/Oldham Cemetery field inventory, Somerset County PAGenWeb
- U.S. Geological Survey, Ogletown quadrangle, cemetery above the settlement labelled Crumb
- OpenStreetMap, named Crum Cemetery boundary
