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The Mystery of the Egg I Once Ate
I know most of you read this blog because, like myself, you have an interest in unsolved mysteries, gruesome murders, haunted places and historical oddities. But I thought I'd switch things up a bit...
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They Fell to Their Deaths: Part 2
Back in 2016 I posted an article, "They Fell to Their Deaths", in which I explored various Pennsylvania landmarks and the unfortunate folks who went to the Great Beyond by falling or jumping from...
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The Girty's Cave Mystery Corpse
If you were to ask history buffs around Perry County about the most famous mystery in this region, most of them would answer without hesitation that it was the 1879 discovery of a badly-decomposed...
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Marie Nolan: The Roadhouse Queen of Paxinos
Stretch of highway between Paxinos and Weigh scales where numerous roadhouses once stood The stretch of Route 61 between Shamokin and Sunbury has been an important route since the Colonial Era....
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Murdered by His Mother Inside Classroom
On February 14, 1928, seven-year-old Lawrence McCall went to school at the No. 5 Mine schoolhouse in Springfield Township, near the Mercer-Lawrence county line. It was Valentine's Day and the...
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Moosic Mystery: The Skeleton That Refused to Stay Buried
The Moosic Mountains of Lackawanna County are just a stone's throw away from the urban centers of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, yet they still contain dark, shadowy, seemingly impenetrable places steeped...
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The Drunken Fish of Bull Run
What happens when you pour 4,000 gallons of hard liquor into a small stream? The above clipping describes the scene after prohibition agents dumped a rather large quantity of booze into Bull Run, the...
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The Terrible Death of John Fowler
In 1898, 11-year-old John Fowler of Riverside, Northumberland County, met a gruesome death after falling from a tree and being impaled through the skull by the iron spike of a harrow, an implement...
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Ellis Rhinehart, the Tom Thumb of Pennsylvania
Very little has been written about Goldsboro native Ellis Rhinehart, though his life story would undoubtedly be one of the most fascinating biographical sketches of any Pennsylvania resident of the...
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Scared to Death by Wife's Ghost
Countless people have died in their sleep, with their deaths often being chalked up to heart failure or natural causes. But who can really say for sure what happened to these folks in the final...
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The Dark Secrets of the Ephrata Cloister
Located in Lancaster County, the historic Ephrata Cloister and its museum are visited by hundreds of tourists each year. Founded as a religious colony in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel, members of this...
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Gilbert E. Gable: From the City of Shamokin to the State of Jefferson
In the summer of 1929, in the sun-scorched Arizona canyons, a special ceremony was being held on the Navajo reservation about 75 miles north of Flagstaff. It was a historic moment; never before had a...
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Pennsylvania Oddities, Volume 3 now available in paperback!
If you enjoyed the first two volumes of Pennsylvania Oddities, I think you'll absolutely love Pennsylvania Oddities Volume 3, available now in paperback for only $17.95. Get your copy here!
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A Reynoldsville Murder-Suicide: The Chilling Crimes of Frank Chiffin
Located about seventy-five miles northeast of Pittsburgh, Reynoldsville is a small, quiet town which hasn't seen much excitement since the 1920s, when a handful of factories and silk mills attracted...
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The Pool Tribe of Bradford County and the Hanging of Bigler Johnson
Bradford County had never witnessed a hanging until the 20th century. In fact, only one of its citizens had ever been convicted of first-degree murder, after Thomas Galvin was sentenced to twelve...
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