History & local legend
Miller Farm Cemetery sits uphill from Oil Creek in Oil Creek State Park. Local stories describe a woman in a white dress moving among the graves, along with lights and headstones that appear to glow after dark. One version associates the woman with a death by hanging in a nearby tree.
The cemetery’s reputation found its way into a runner’s account of the 2016 Oil Creek 100. Writing as Pete, he described leaving the Miller Farm aid station at mile 53.6 and climbing past the burial ground. Knowing his next circuit would bring him through in darkness, he remembered the stories he had read and wondered how fatigue might affect his nerves.
