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Cambria County, Pennsylvania · Cemeteries

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

The Woman on the Lawn at Forest Lawn Memorial Park

State aerial of Forest Lawn’s rectangular sections, intersecting drives, circular plantings and wooded edge.
Aerial view

History & local legend

Forest Lawn Memorial Park on Frankstown Road outside Johnstown is associated with a woman said to walk among the graves in a white dress after dark. Its broad lawns and flat grave markers give the setting a different appearance from the older hillside cemeteries nearby.

A visitor writing in October 2007 remembered the statues and open grounds. Another commenter, whose family was buried there, recalled years of feeling uneasy at the cemetery but only learned of the woman-in-white story when it appeared online in 2009.

Sources

  1. StrangeUSA, Forest Lawn Cemetery, walk in white, October 2007 visitor and June 2009 family recollection
  2. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 1530 Frankstown Road, Cambria County
  3. Mapped Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Conemaugh Township
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Image credit

Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and NV5 Geospatial, Cycle 2 orthophotography, via Penn State PASDA · License