Moonshine Church and Cemetery, Indiantown Gap

Pennsylvania · United States · Execution site

Cars are said to cut out on the hill up Route 443 past the Pennsylvania churchyard, and the valley has its own headless horseman.

Moonshine Church stands on the left of Route 443 as you climb the hill at Green Point in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, with its cemetery on the right. The most consistently reported phenomenon here is mechanical: engines cutting out as drivers pass the graveyard. Those who stop deliberately, particularly around midnight and particularly at Halloween, describe the same thing, along with noises across the whole area that nobody can place.

The church has its own legend, and it is a strict one. A girl is said to have gone inside and recited the Lord's Prayer backwards, and to have been struck dead by lightning for it. Stories of that shape usually attach to a building that people were once warned away from.

Indiantown Gap also has a headless horseman said to ride the valley in search of a replacement head, which places the local tradition in the same family as the older European versions rather than the American one. A correction in March 2005 tidied up where the various parts of this had previously been listed.

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Moonshine Church and Cemetery, Indiantown Gap is in Pennsylvania, United States.