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A Strange Robbery in Harrisburg
Did you hear the one about the robber who hypnotized a store clerk with mustard? Probably not, since this sort of thing doesn't happen every day. But apparently it did happen in January of 1907,...
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The Veiled Woman of Penn Park
In 1903, the residents of the city of York were terrorized by the appearance of a woman in a long black veil who strolled through Penn Park every night, imploring frightened passersby to lift her veil...
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The Ghosts of Gudgeonville
Gudgeonville Bridge before its destructionPerhaps the most famous haunted location in Erie County is the site of the old Gudgeonville Covered Bridge, which spanned Elk Creek for over a century near a...
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Bogeyman Kills Child
Indiana Gazette, Nov. 19, 1921.Sayre Evening Times, Nov. 19,1921Shippensburg Chronicle, June 2, 1921.
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The Murder of Moonshine Musick
Early in 1934, a moonshiner disappeared under mysterious circumstances from his home in Yostville in Lackawanna County. George Musick, a 55-year-old farmer with an unsavory reputation as a bootlegger...
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A 150-Year-Old Unsolved Mystery in Mercersburg
In 1909, an old recluse named David Cutschall died at the home of his son-in-law in a sparsely-populated spot in Franklin County known as "The Corner". On his deathbed, the 90-year-old hermit made a...
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Berks County's Windsor Castle
Recently, while driving though Berks County, the strange spell of warm weather we experienced after Christmas put me in the mood for exploring, and as I navigated the streets of the charming borough...
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William Yeager Cheats the Chair
Located in Cooper Township in Montour County, the village of Grovania sits af the halfway point between Danville and Bloomsburg on Route 11. To call Grovania a village is being rather generous; there...
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A Haunting in Mount Pleasant
The following story, which appeared in the Carbondale Daily News on August 26, 1913, describes a haunting at the Sauers home in Westmoreland County. According to the sister of Mrs. Sauers, the alleged...
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The Strange Confession of Leopold Rowe
In July of 1893, murder was the hot topic of conversation around Lebanon County. On the morning of July 6, in the tiny North Dakota town of Cando, just south of the Canadian border, a family with...
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The Curse of Capouse Avenue
On Friday, a 44-year-old Scranton man by the name of Paul Rowe made national headlines after police officers discovered that Rowe had been hiding a dead body beneath a tarp in his apartment at 851...
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The Schuylkill County Creek Named for a Witch-hunting Tory
A tributary of Deep Creek, Hans Yost Creek originates in the coal fields just south of the Schuylkill County Airport and joins with Deep Creek near the village of Weishample. While many locals I've...
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The Strittmatter Tunnel and the Ghost Train of Carrolltown
Were it not for the famous Lizzie Borden murder trial taking place five hundred miles away in Fall River, Massachusetts, the story of the phantom train of Cambria County might have become well-known...
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Defunct Funeral Parlors of Luzerne County
Former Grabowski Funeral Home in Nanticoke Prior to the 20th century, the embalming of corpses was minimally regulated. As a result, many "self-taught" undertakers and fly-by-night funeral directors...
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A Groaning Mass of Mangled Flesh
A groaning mass of mangled flesh? Why don't they write newspaper stories like that anymore? This poetic, yet ghastly, description of William Forman's death comes from the February 4, 1893 edition of...
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A Phantom Sleigh
Try as I might, I couldn't find any additional information about this strange story, featuring a ghost sleigh which appeared on a bridge spanning Conewago Creek between Littlestown and Hanover. The...
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The Tumbling Run Hex
Artist's depiction of the Tumbling Run "Hex Cat"In 1911, witchcraft hysteria spread across central Pennsylvania, with dozens of superstitious citizens swearing out complaints against men and women...
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