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Bibliography:
Akers, Donna Gayle. Legends, Stories and Ghostly Tales of Abingdon and Washington County, Virginia. Boone, NC: Laurel, 2005.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. -- Carl Sagan
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible. -- Stuart Chase
According to Donna Gayle Akers’s 2005 book Legends, Stories and Ghostly Tales of Abingdon and Washington County, Virginia, the Reverend Charles “Parson” Cummings built the original Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church in 1772. The log meeting house was moved to the graveyard behind the present church in 1981, and since then people have reported seeing some pretty strange things going on inside the gates at night. People who walk by the cabin on Russell Street swear they hear phantom footsteps behind them on the sidewalk and around the cabin, though no one else is there. They also report strange lights hovering in the cemetery.
