Miller's Church

It is known to the locals as Peace Chapel. I graduated in '92 from North Hagerstown High School. The hearse was driven by a local. He also had a grim reaper costume. The gig was probably picked up by his family as they were tired of people messing around their working farm. His grandson was a friend that graduated a year ahead of me. The Satanic graffiti was kids that would go to the abandoned church to smoke pot during the Satanic Panic in the 80's. I have been here over a hundred times and have seen no paranormal activity. Sorry guys. Just an urban legend here, that and rich history. If you go, please be more respectful than the ones before you.

October 2025

I was going through the comments and I'm not even sure how to respond after reading the comment from the person saying they seen the black hooded figure in the tree line and the lights .. I never talked about what happened to me til now but now I'm starting to think I'm not crazy... I seen that same figure... I took a picture of the tree lines after hearing movements and feeling like I was being watched and after I got home I went through the photos. Most I didn't see anything, until I was about to delete them and I scrolled over and seen plain as ever in the trees and dark black figure hunched over in a black robe the hood in the back was pointed and still to this day I can't even think about what I seen without being scared all over again . I haven't been back since... And never heard anyone saying they seen anything similar til now... The closest thing I can compare the black robe and the pointed hood to is the grim reaper style cloke.. the creepiest part was that whatever I seen that night in those trees had no face.. pitch black..

November 2024

We would go there in the 80s to do drugs, have sex, and listen to metal. We always would put Satanic graffiti inside. It could be very creepy.

September 2024

I have lived in this area for a pretty long time and had spent a few years doing urban exploration. It's certainly creepy but no woman was ever hanged and as for the satanic cult, it's just fluff for the story. If you genuinely want to see something, go to the house on the hill on South Potomac Street diagonally from the car dealership but DON'T GO IN THE BASEMENT! Someone dug a deep pit and the few last steps are gone so you'll fall down into it.

March 2024

Came down here one night with friends, drinking a little bit and exploring.. the three of us walked into the cemetery and were just talking looking at the graves and through the treeline it was like cops had spotlighted us to get out of there.. shining a huge bluish white light.. My two friends ducked down thinking it was the police and I was just dumbfounded standing there.. I guess just waiting on them to tell us to come out lol.. but no one was there except this lightt... We walked out of the graveyard and the light was gone and no one was there... Definitely felt like we were being watched.. I haven't been backk

June 2023

We used to smoke pot there in the parking lot in the late 1960's (I think the Church was operational then, one night we saw a guy in a suit leaving and locking up) and in the early 1970's, like around 1973?

The story about the girl hanging from a tree is an urban legend - never happened. Especially back then - that would have been breaking news - there were no murders in those days - a woman named Betty Jane Kennedy who was murdered in April of 1946 in Waynesboro and then there was another man found murdered on Paradise Church Road in like 1962 - he was from Waynesboro - and both of those stories were HUGE deals. Betty Jane Kennedy's murder is still unsolved.

In the 1960's the art teacher at North High - Mr. Kingsley - used to take his art classes there to the graveyard on field trips to do paper etchings of the grave stones. There was a weird story about one of the grave stones having a freaky message.

The overall feeling when we were partying was very freaky...I remember being there and being scared a few times.

September 2022

my friend and i drove past the church last night, as well as the tree where a girl was supposedly hung. there is a light shining on the tree, which was creepy enough already but then we both got MAJOR cold chills as we went by it. didn’t stay for long at all, didn’t even bother to get out of the car. mind you, i had the top down on my jeep and it was a mild temperature, but this chill was FREEZING.

September 2021

Something hit my car lots of fog seen a cat got chills can't find the church ??

September 2021

Went hole way 130 am noting happend but on the way back home something hit the car and it got very foggey then we seen some cows and a black white cat my left arm hurt qnd I got the chills church looked nice but other then that and getting to lost not scary kind of wanted to expoieze car brake down or the horse everyone is talking about

September 2021

Went with a friend recently and didn't expect much, we got there and I was interested in roaming the graveyard. I didn't see any apparitions but as I got deeper into the graveyard it became harder to breathe. My friend didn't go nearly as far as I did but she also said the longer we stayed the harder it was for her to breathe as well. Interesting but not as spooky as I expected

July 2021