St Patrick's Cemetery

Pennsylvania · United States · Cemetery

The account comes from an investigation at dusk in the summer of 2003. The urgency to leave arrives the moment you come through the gate.

This cemetery on Noblestown Road at Oakdale, Pennsylvania was visited at dusk in the summer of 2003, and the account is a first hand one.

Coming in, an overwhelming urgency to leave arrives immediately. Cold spots, and a persistent discomfort.

The graves run from the 1800s to recent burials, and the ground sits on a hill.

A cemetery that is still in use is a different proposition from an abandoned one. People come here to visit family, funerals are held, and the ground is maintained, which means anybody arriving at dusk to investigate is doing so in a place that belongs to the living as much as to the dead.

St Patrick's is a Catholic burial ground serving the Irish families who came to work in the mines and mills of this valley.

It is a burial ground and is closed after dark.

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St Patrick's Cemetery is in Pennsylvania, United States.