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The Vanishing Corpse of Cubby's Swamp
Just outside the city of Scranton, near the borough of Moosic, stands Montage Mountain, a popular destination for skiing, snowboarding and other winter sports. At the foot of the mountain one can...
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Morbid Real Estate: December Edition
822 Suismon Street, Pittsburgh Much like a rage-fueled chainsaw murderer in a backwoods summer camp for teenagers, the holiday season is upon us. And what better gift can you give that special someone...
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Head Cut Completely in Two
Victim's grave in Indiana County.If you ask most people how they'd like to leave this world, most would say peacefully and painlessly. Exactly no one would say they'd choose to die like John Stewart,...
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The Horrific Death of Mary Sheeler
The building where Mary Sheeler met her tragic fate. Since the earliest days of Pennsylvania history, there have been congregations of fundamentalist Christians which refuse to permit the sick and...
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The Harveys Lake Murder Mystery of 1913
To say that 1913 was a busy year for law enforcement in Luzerne County is an understatement. Records show that twenty murders occurred in the county that year, with an astounding 47 murders taking...
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The Squibb Family Murders
Gravesite of "The Murdered Family" (photo by Harry Senft) Some of the bloodiest fighting during the Civil War took place on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, on a boulder-strewn hill known as...
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The Disturbing Demise of George Harman
What happens to old men who chase after teenage girls? Well, most of the time it doesn't end well. Such is the disturbing case of George W. Harman, a 66-year-old grocer from Columbia, Lancaster...
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The Corpse Under the Bed
Located about thirty miles northwest of Pittsburgh, the borough of Freedom in Beaver County clings to the banks of the Ohio River. It is the home of the Conway Yard, which, in 1956, became the largest...
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Morbid Real Estate: January Edition
423 Green St., Lancaster January is the time many of us set goals for ourselves. While some may resolve to lose five pounds or to be a nicer person, others have goals that are a bit more ambitious,...
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The Kiddie Bank Robbers of Columbia County
Did you know that, in 1932, a successful bank robbery was perpetrated by a 9-year-old boy and his 7-year-old sister? Surprisingly, it appears that the bank heist wasn't their only caper; the Dec. 12,...
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The Brush Mountain Mystery Grave
Bernard Lukehart and his dog Jack, Robert Leake, and an unidentified youth.Late on the Wednesday afternoon of August 3, 1927, Bernard Lukehart of Altoona, and his sister Catherine, were picking...
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A Murder at City Hall: The Story of George Marion
This is the improbable, but true, tale of how Glinda the Good Witch helped save the life of a washed-up actor sentenced to death for murdering his estranged wife inside the Wilkes-Barre City Hall....
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A Nesquehoning Nightmare: The Joan Stevens Tragedy
Joan Stevens Located in Carbon County, the borough of Nesquehoning sits just west of the scenic Lehigh Gorge and the tourist haven of Jim Thorpe. Like other coal mining communities in the region,...
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Baby Roasted as a Joke
The above article (which proves that fire, alcohol and babies don't mix) comes from the Jan. 30, 1885, edition of the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader.
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The Mysterious Case of Hannah Shingle
Shenkel Church Cemetery, where Hannah Shingle is buried. In the mid-19th century, an old farmhouse stood along a quaint country road in Chester County's North Coventry Township, about three miles from...
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Morbid Real Estate: March Edition
83 Elizabeth St., PittstonSpring is almost here, but while March brings on its breath the promise of new life, the following homes have been tainted one way or another by the grim stench of death....
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Italian Worker Beheaded
Historic Wanich's Covered Bridge, which crosses Little Fishing Creek just north of Buckhorn in Columbia County, presents a picture of peace and serenity, evoking a sense of old-time charm. But a...
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Ghost of strangled boy once haunted historic cabin in Jumonville
Jumonville's famous cross overlooks the scene of an 18th century murder Just east of Uniontown, in Fayette County, is Jumonville, famous for its 60-foot-tall cross which protrudes from the top of...
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Grandpa Bludgeons Easton Family With Axe
Elirio "Eli" MantoniSixty-year-old Elirio Mantoni of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, adored his family, especially his grandchildren, who lived across the Delaware River outside the Northampton County city...
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Head Severed in Galeton
The story below, from the June 6, 1912 edition of the the Potter Enterprise, describes the horrific death of 44-year-old Minta "Minnie" Ross, who was struck by a train in Galeton.
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The Mysteries of Sugar Notch Swamp
Anthony Kozlarek, believed to have been murdered by wife's lover The tiny borough of Sugar Notch in Luzerne County reached the height of its population in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when...
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The Shocking Autopsy of Morris Foster
The Blockley Insane Asylum in 1899.In the late 19th century a boarding house once stood on the corner of Eighteenth and Locust Streets in Philadelphia. Owned by Mrs. Seth B. Stitt, the boarding house...
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Morbid Real Estate: April Edition
153 Northampton St., Easton. Spring is a popular time to buy a house, but real estate is not something one should buy in haste, lest you end up with a property tainted by the ghosts of long-forgotten...
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