History & local legend
Madonna of Czestochowa Cemetery on South Scotland Lane serves the Polish parish community of New Castle. Established in 1922, it also became the setting for a Halloween legend about an unusual image on a headstone.
The version preserved in a northwestern Pennsylvania collection describes a man pictured with one white hand and one black hand. At midnight around Halloween, someone places a white sheet over his stone and knocks three times.
The expected apparition does not emerge from the covered picture. Instead, the man is said to appear behind the person facing the grave.
