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The Sad Story of Lt. John Longstreth
John LongstrethAt the Sideling Hill Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Fulton County is a granite marker dedicated to the memory of a Revolutionary War soldier named John George Longstreth. Although...
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The Ghost of Dead Man's Curve
During the early 1900s, the stretch of track along the Lackawanna River, just north of the Jessup-Peckville station of the Delaware & Hudson Railway, was known as Dead Man's Curve, on account of...
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That time they filmed a movie in Mount Carmel
Just about everyone knows that the borough of Mount Carmel has a reputation for two things-- coal mining and smash-mouth football. But Mount Carmel also had a chance of becoming the motion picture...
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Man falls down dumbwaiter shaft
This unusual story appeared in the Reading Times, October 2, 1873. Not sure how a person can fall down a dumbwaiter, but something tells me alcohol might have been involved.
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Suicide of a German Fugitive
An old graveyard in Keating, PAOn the morning of Wednesday, July 19, 1882, the little village of Keating in Clinton County was the scene of a strange suicide. The previous evening, two men had driven...
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The Deadly Sermons of a Waynesboro Preacher
In 1917, a woman died in the rest room of a church while Rev. J.M. Frances was preaching a sermon. Strangely, the previous time Rev. Frances preached the same sermon, another member of his congregation...
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The German Colony Hidden in God's Country
Downtown Germania in its glory daysNow that October is nearing an end, most Oktoberfest celebrations have come and gone. Because of our long history of German immigration and Pennsylvania Dutch...
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Luella Cameron takes a trip to heaven
In 1913, a teenage girl was awakened by a Mennonite minister after ten days of unconsciousness. Luella Cameron, who had been rendered unconscious by an exploding firecracker, snapped out of her coma...
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A Visit from the Ghost of the Undead?
In August of 1903, the southeast section of Wilkes-Barre was mystified by the strange occurrences taking place at the home of Bruce Nagle-- occurrences so strange, in fact, that Bruce became convinced...
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William Bierly, the Man-Beast of Sugar Valley
The grave of William BierlyWhen a newspaper reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer traveled to the remote mountain wilderness of Clinton County in 1890 in search of a story, he discovered more than...
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The True History of the Lizzie Lincoln House
Ask any resident of Exeter Township, and they'll tell you the most famous haunted house in the area is the Lizzie Lincoln house-- an abandoned 19th century structure that beckons spook-seekers from...
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Marie Doro, Fatty Arbuckle and Duncannon's Mystery Suicide
Market Street in Duncannon, date unknownBuried in an unmarked grave in Duncannon, Perry County, are the remains of a mysterious woman whose name is unknown. Found in a boarding house in 1921 with a...
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Rose Sheeley and the Tragedies of Tumbling Run
Dating back to the 1830s, the reservoir at Tumbling Run, just outside of Pottsville, was constructed in order to supply water to the Schuylkill Canal. During its long and storied history, Tumbling Run...
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Heads and limbs scattered over the road
Seven men walking the railroad tracks north of Scranton were struck by a locomotive, and this newspaper report, from the April 4, 1884, edition of the York Daily, describes the scene in gory detail.
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Dynamite puts end to card game
This unusual story from the July 14, 1917 edition of the Pottsville Republican describes how one annoyed neighbor decided to put an end to an out-of-control card game in St. Clair.
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Albert Shinsky: The Man Who Killed the Witch of Ringtown Valley
The house in Ringtown Valley where Mrs. Mummey was killedOn St. Patrick's Day of 1934, a 23-year-old taxi driver named Albert Shinsky murdered a woman near Ringtown, Schuylkill County. But this was not...
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Unsolved Mystery: What Happened to Jefferson Walters?
Jefferson Walters, who murdered Anna Zinn in 1935.After Jefferson Walters callously murdered 15-year-old Anna Zinn in southern Fayette County in 1935, the killer disappeared into thin air. Nearly...
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Penrose County: The County That Wasn't
Sixty-seven counties comprise the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and that number has remained constant since August 13, 1878, when Lackawanna County gained its "independence" from Luzerne County....
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The Water Gap Mystery: Who Murdered Fred and Maude Demund?
Fred DemundOn June 22, 1922, the slain bodies of a newlywed couple were discovered on the floor of their bedroom in the Monroe County community of North Water Gap (present-day Minisink Hills). With all...
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An Uncanny Sequence of Deaths
When B.W. Satterlee died in 1915, it seemed to trigger a bizarre sequence of death which claimed the lives of his daughter, grand-daughter and best friend-- all within a period of 48 hours. The above...
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