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Unsolved Murders: Dismembered Child Found in Colebrook Woods
A church in Colebrook, PAMurder, in any form, is always a revolting matter, but few things are as revolting as the murder of an innocent child. In the summer of 1896, a chilling murder took place in...
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The Headless Horseman of Lawrence County
From the November 26, 1885 edition of the Indiana Democrat:Smith Connor, Joseph Wolfe, Crawford Cunningham, George Ayres and John Stewart, all said to be reputable and reliable citizens of Chewton,...
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Michael Billie goes out with a bang
An unusual, yet effective, method of committing suicide. From the Sept. 24, 1927 edition of the Pittston Gazette:
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Donate today and help save the Millersburg Ferry
Pennsylvania is rich in historical gems, and the Millersburg Ferry is one fine example. Ferryboats have crossed the Susquehanna for hundreds of years, but wooden paddle boats have departed from...
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Mount Carmel's Night of Terror: The Strantz & Yorkavage Crime Spree of 1937
On the evening of April 9, 1937, two bandits with their guns blazing left a trail of carnage through the sooty streets of Mount Carmel and Shamokin. For one of the gunmen, the trail came to a bloody...
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Baby used as human pin cushion
The following bizarre story comes from the September 12, 1906 edition of the Tyrone Daily Herald
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The Lamb's Gap Murder Mystery: Unsolved 92 Years and Counting
The History of Pennsylvania's Most Perplexing Unsolved MysteryOne third of all murder cases go unsolved. This is true even today, with all of our advances in crime-solving technology and forensic...
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A Ghost in the Furnace
Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia. The plant was moved to Eddystone in 1928.The following unusual story comes from the August 26, 1902, edition of the Wilkes-Barre News, and gives a chilling...
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The Broad Mountain Mystery (Part 1 of 3)
The Pottsville barracks of Troop C of the Pennsylvania State Police, headquarters of the murder investigationSchuylkill County can claim dozens of unsolved murders, but it was the gruesome slaying of a...
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The Broad Mountain Mystery (Part 2 of 3)
Capt. Samuel Gearhart, who helmed the Broad Mountain investigationOn April 28, one local newspapers made a bold claim-- that the Broad Mountain victim was indeed Lillian Tyler. The Mount Carmel Daily...
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The Broad Mountain Mystery (Part 3 of 3)
When the charred remains of a young woman were found atop Broad Mountain in the spring of 1925, about three miles from Heckscherville, one of the largest police investigations in Pennsylvania history...
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The Tragic Fate of Homer Swaney
Downtown McKeesport as it appeared in Swaney's time.When Homer H. Swaney, former lawyer, president of the Pacific Steel Company and prominent citizen of McKeesport, lost his life in the sinking of the...
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Death of an Aviatrix
The mountains of Pennsylvania have been called an aviator's graveyard since the earliest days of flight. One of the great tragedies of Pennsylvania aviation history occurred in Perry County, in January...
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Body pounded into a jelly
Luke Fidler Colliery, Shamokin (date unknown)The following gives a rather graphic account of the death of a coal miner at the Luke Fidler colliery in Shamokin. From the Nov. 14, 1889 edition of the...
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This is why you shouldn't sleep on a railroad track
From the April 18, 1896 Harrisburg Daily Independent.
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The Loomis Street Affair: Haunting or Hoax?
In November of 1890, the Rolling Mill Hill section of Wilkes-Barre was thrust into the spotlight, thanks to a bizarre haunting which attracted crowds of hundreds to a plain wooden house on Loomis...
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The Secret of Sunbury's Buried Stone Slab
The following strange story appeared in the October 4, 1906 edition of the Tyrone Daily Herald, and describes the nightly hauntings by the ghost of Samuel Hayward, who appears to be looking for a...
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Skeleton of suicide victim found in Mahanoy City
Abandoned coal breaker near Mahanoy CityFrom the June 29, 1922 edition of the Harrisburg Telegraph:
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The Aeronaut's Fate: The Story of Wash Donaldson
Norwegian fishermen plying the icy waters in one of the narrow, rocky gorges of the remote island of Lofoten found human remains wedged among the rocks one mid-October day in 1901. There was no way to...
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A graveyard of stillborn children
You never quite know what you may dig up while building a new house, as this following newspaper story demonstrates. From the Lebanon Daily News on May 1, 1905:Workmen, while making excavations for a...
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