In
Pennsylvania
Abington - Abington Presbyterian Church-
There is a small child ghost is spotted, it is known that a graveyard
was removed to build the church in 1779 and they moved the graveyard
next to the church, people have seen the child in the windows at night
in the church and some people have seen it while praying at church.
Academia - Academia - Being right beside a cemetery, the old school for
girls is pretty creepy. Rumor was that the gardener killed some girls
and hid their bodies. It is said that if you go there at night, you
will be chased out by ghosts and your car will have trouble starting.
It is also said that when you are leaving you will see the gardeners
ghost sitting on the steps of the church by the cemetery. Reports of a
girl singing.
Academia - Juniata County
- Old girls' school, damaged by fire in 1800s,
eerie, eerie things happen here at night. Lights flicker, strange
sounds, presences felt, etc.
Academia - Old Girls'
School - Destroyed by fire in 1800s...Reports of
little girl crying and sobbing...reports of sickening feelings
felt...reports of a man dressed in black....reports of cars not
starting...reports of dogs with red demon eyes.
Allegheny - Culmerville -
Culmerville Hotel - This Spirit has said that
'he' is cold and forever in the confines of this building. I do not
know the Culmerville Hotel history: date built and original purpose. I
do know that there is one very 'needy' spirit in there.
Allegheny - North Park -
Old Mill Rd. - Gravity Hill - At the stop sign
closest to North Park Golf Course, you are on a hill going down...but
when you stop at the stop sign and put your car in neutral, you
actually go back up the hill instead of drifting down the hill! I
haven't heard of any reasons why this happens.
Allentown - Cedar Crest
College - the ghost of a girl that committed
suicide there haunts Butz Hall.
Allentown - Cedar Crest
College - Butz hall - many times
students claim there is a ghost they have named "Wanda." The story goes
that a girl supposedly hung herself in the stairway, although officials
at the college refuse to talk about what really might have happened.
Many students living in the dorm complain about being locked out of
their rooms, alarm clocks going off for no reason. objects being moved,
and hearing strange noises. It is said that if you see her, she has no
facial features.
Allentown - Constitution
Drive - Reports of an apparition of a man that
walks with 2 dogs that have red glowing eyes. Believed to be the owner
of the dogs, he was run over by a train losing a leg and bleeding to
death.
Allentown - Good Shepherd
Home - elevators open and close, and spirits
come by dressed in clothes of the person religion who has just recently
died, it is also said the Ghost of Mother Raker haunts the hallways,
because the place use to be an orphanage.
Allentown - Hamilton
Street - The ghost of a young woman walks down
this street late at night near the area where the old Hess's building
had been. It is said she was struck and killed by a car when she
attempted to cross the street during the 60's. She stands late at night
with a vacant look in her eyes.
Allentown - Hamilton
Street - Magic Tree - People have claimed to
have seen strange lights fly in the sky around the tree, and the entire
area has a sense that 'something' happened there. One student took a
picture of the tree and a face of an old man appeared in the image.
Allentown - King George
Inn - Believed to be haunted by a ghost named
Charlie, who likes to bother people working in the kitchen, drops
utensils and moves things around.
Allentown - King George
Inn - Several ghosts reportedly haunt this
place. A woman and young child can be seen in the basement, along with
a man wearing Revolutionary War type clothing. By an employee's
account, a ghost hunter asked to spend the night alone there once. In
the morning, the owner returned to find the ghost hunter's equipment,
but the ghost hunter was never seen afterwards.
Allentown - Magnolia's
Vineyard Restaurant - the ghost of a young woman
haunts this building.
Allentown - Mosser
Elementary School - there are complaints of a
shadow to walk up and down the stairwells mostly on the second floor
stairways! There are noises and screams that students here mostly on
the third floor! People say a girl jumped out of the third floor window
and haunts the school ever since! This activity mostly happens at night
Allenwood - ordinance/behind
the prison - long windy road, filled with old
cemeteries, where some inmates were buried. bunkers where inmates had
to stay. presences are felt, glimpse of light seen. Feelings of being
watched.
Altoona - Baker Mansion - This mansion is said to be haunted by the matriarch of
the family. There is a wedding dress in a glass case that is said to
move on it's own, especially around Halloween and full moons. Tours are
given and during the Halloween season, midnight tours. Some say they
have seen the woman that roams the house.
Altoona - horseshoe curve-
in the tunnel if you flash your lights three
times and shut everything off you can hear people laughing and shadows
of people walking beside your car.
Altoona - Lakemont park - At the completion of the roller coaster a Maintenance
worker was killed by a coaster car during a test run. To this day
people say they see him working on the track while they are riding the
roller coaster.
Altoona - Sinking valley
- Fort Roberdeau - Legend says a guard was
guarding the fort when an Indian attacked and killed him they also
found the body of a young boy and the boys dog. the fort is farther
down the road and off to the right. This is a reconstructed fort of the
original. Road to fort there are 2 fields on each side of the raod on
the right side of the road there are telephone poles sit at the 3rd
pole at dark and look straight ahead there a guard of the fort was
killed and he still patrols to this day. The guard is a black shadow.
Also you can hear a young child’s laughter and dog barking. The dog is
a white ball of fog that appears out of no where.
Altoona - Wapsononock
Mountain - Beulah Road - This legend is a cross
between the spectral hitchhiker stories you have heard before and the
sort of "Resurrection Mary" type tales familiar to the Chicago area.
the ghost of the white lady still walks at night. For historical
background there used to be a hotel at the top of the Wopsononock
Mountain that was a fairly common getaway for people in Altoona. The
Wopsononock hotel and famous lookout burned in the early part of the
20th century and was never rebuilt. In fact, at one time it was
serviced by a narrow gauge railroad know as the "Alley Popper" although
that has nothing to do with this tale. The road heading up to the Wopsy
Lookout (as it is known hereabouts) is now Juniata Gap road in Altoona.
This road is a treacherous one bearing a curve known as the "Devil's
Elbow" which has been the scene of many accidents. Apparently in the
early part of the century a couple was married and was heading to the
hotel at the lookout for their honeymoon. I know nothing of the father
chasing them which is related to the Ebensburg tale you have given. The
legend goes that they were both from Altoona and were heading up the
road leading to the hotel when the carriage went over the edge rounding
the Devil's Elbow. Both were apparently killed but the body of the
husband was never recovered. Since then travelers on this road have
encountered the specter of a woman in white, sometimes seen to be
carrying a candle, who apparently is looking for something. Variations
on the tale have her waylaying young men and looking them over to see
if they are her husband, or hitching rides with young men headed for
the top of the mountain and then disappearing near the Devil's Elbow.
Apparently this spirit has also been seen on the road leading up the
mountain where the lookout can be accessed from the other direction,
Buckhorn Mountain, and she is also known as the "White Lady of the
Buckhorn" as well as the "White Lady of Wopsononock". The site of the
old hotel now is littered with television and radio towers and is still
a sort of "lover's lane" spot for a lot of folks. Apparently some of
the technicians at the towers have reported seeing her, but the most
recent account (late 1990's) involved a man who offered her a ride. She
apparently got into the car and he could not see her in the rear view
mirror but could see her when he turned around. She said nothing to him
and disappeared at the Devil's Elbow. Much like Resurrection Mary, it
is a difficult tale to dispute since it has occurred so often to so
many people over such a long stretch of time. Although the historical
details are sketchy! No one knows who she was or when the accident
actually took place. If you ever get a chance to get to this area take
a trip on either road and you may get a chance to run into her.
Ambridge - Good Samaritan
Catholic School - This school is now abandoned.
back a few years back reports of red eyes seen in the cafeteria and one
time a face was seen in the girls bathroom.
Amity Hall - Amity Hall
Hotel - This hotel has been standing since the
1800’s. There where a few horrifying events that took place here. 2
children where killed in the attic area where the blood stain can still
be seen. An unexplained explosion killed many that haunt the place. A
ghost of a woman that was beaten to death by her husband stands at the
top of the second floor stairs, and is reported to not like men. - NO TRESPASSING
Banning - Alliance Furnace
- This was one of the last remaining iron
furnaces in the Eastern United States. Legend has it that an old
settler, who had gambled away all of his money, came home one night and
could not feed his dogs. He took them off on a wild chase in which he
lead them to the iron furnace. He then burned them alive. On a clear
fall night, one can hear the squealing of dogs by the furnace.
Barton Brook - Benson home
- There are several hauntings at this location.
They all circulate around an old home from the 1800's in the mountains
of northern Pennsylvania. One ghost is of someone who has ethnic
features, somewhat of a servant looking, perhaps a black servant, not
sure. This is a torso / head apparition. The living residents of a
house heard a party going on downstairs. Wishing to investigate, they
head down stairs. This house had a sealed up staircase (It had its own
room). When they got to the door, they could hear people talking and
smell coffee. As they opened the door, the smell and sound disappeared.
It reappeared when they returned to their beds.
Bartonsville - International
eatery - In the early 90's the site of a female
apparition was sighted walking into the kitchen. The desk was also said
to contain a spirit which opened and closed drawers. The building is
now Dale's coffee bar
Beaver - Brighton Township
- Mudlick Hollow - It is said that in the 1800s
tragedy struck when a young newlywed couple was riding their horse
drawn buggy through the hollow on their way home after the wedding. A
small animal is said to have darted out of the woods, spooking the
horses and causing the buggy to roll off the road and into the creek.
The bride died from a broken neck and the groom was pinned under a
horse (who had become lame) and slowly died next to his new bride. It
is said by many locals that on very dark nights a fog creeps up onto
the road (which is more of a dirt lane) and you can hear a horse drawn
buggy fast approaching behind you, but before it comes upon you there
is a crash, a scream, then all is silent and the fog vanishes.
Beaverdale - Heathers Pool
Hall - not to long ago a girl was raped and
murdered on the steps of the pool hall because of drugs and if you walk
up those steps you will get a cold chill and you will walk away high.
Beaver Falls - Summer Cut
Bridge - Legend has it that a woman's car went
off this bridge on a rainy night and she died. Late at night on a rainy
night if you go down on the train tracks where her car landed and stand
there in the darkness, you can see her walking down the train tracks in
a white dress.
Bedford - Bedford Springs
Hotel - on taking photographs of this historic
site, various forms of ghostly images appear throughout the hotel.
Bedford - Jean Bonnet Inn - Reports of cold spots, strange lights, anomalies
showing up on film, and apparitions.
Bedford - John Bonnett
Tavern - The first floor was originally a French
outpost in the 1740's.By 1758,General Forbes had used it as an
impromptu HQ during his expedition to take Ft. Duquesne. It was there
that he supposedly had a French spy hanged. During the early 1760's it
became a tavern with a second story added. This was then used as a
frontier courtroom where several people were hanged. These restless
spirits are responsible for a multitude of supernatural activities at
the inn.
Beech Creek - Furst Corner
Restaurant - Back in the late 1800s, early
1900s, the owner of the restaurant, Mr. Furst died in a fire in his
barn, while trying to save his animals. Mr. Furst enjoyed smoking
cigars and staff at the restaurant say that when most of the customers
are gone you can smell cigar smoke, or chairs will move on their own.
People who stay in the Furst Corner Bed & Breakfast also say you
can smell smoke, and hear someone walking up and down the halls when no
one is. One of the waitresses has even said once she had locked the
door, and had gone over and it was unlocked.
Benango County - Pittsville
- When you are camping there, you can here
voices in your pillow and you can here girls and babies screaming or
crying all around you and no one will be around your campsite. You can
also see and hear things getting thrown and things disappear until you
leave. Sometimes when you are trying to sleep you will hear or see
things moving (shadows) and also sometimes hear them getting into your
cars. If you definitely want stuff to happen the spirits don't like
when you move the rocks around or build dam's or chop their wood. You
can also see a few chimney's around 30 ft high and u can also climb
them and sometimes find oar hundreds of years old.
Bensalem - Grouden Manor -
this is Ben Franklin’s cousins house. Story goes
that he tested his kite here a few times. Sightings have been seen of
Ben flying his kite. Also in the woods is a trench from a war. If you
go back in the trench late at night you can hear battle noises.
Bensalem - Strayer College
- formerly Eastern State School and Hospital - Rumored to be haunted due to unfair treatment and
killing of patients. If you go into patients rooms the doors will slam
shut and trap you in. When you walk down the halls you can sometimes
see a figure fallowing you of a man. Mysterious 4th floor said to be
life threatening and extremely haunted. If you go into the morgue its
very cold and feels like theres a fan on you with no windows in site.
Bensalem - Target
Neshaminy - The electronics stockroom is rumored
to be haunted by an old indian burial ground beneath its floor.
Employees have seen boxes move on their own, felt freezing cold air,
and disturbing presences when left alone inside the room overnight.
Bentleyville - Bentworth
Elementary Center - When the school was being
built two years ago a roofer fell off the roof and died. Some students
have reported seeing a strange man walking along the roof. The night
janitors have reported hearing someone walking on the second floor and
the roof.
Berks - Reading - Health
South Rehabilitation Hospital - Used to be the
Reading Rehabilitation Hospital. People reported many happenings,
noises, lights turning of etc.
Bernville - Penn Valley
Hotel - Unexplainable sounds have been heard
inside the Penn valley. Built around 1854 the log-framed building has
served as a country inn and roadhouse, and was used as a stage coach
stop in the last century. Very unsettling sounds can be heard inside.
Footsteps from the floor above, but there is no floor above. Pots and
pans rattling, muffled sounds of children playing and rooms lights
turning off and on in front of your eyes. The whir of the cash register
and the drawer opening and the ring of a bell. Dirty dishes placed in
the sink when just minutes before all the dishes were cleaned and put
away.
Bethlehem - Holy Infancy
School- Girl was putting up disco ball in
auditorium and somehow the rope got wrapped around her neck and she
choked to death. And now her ghost is seen by some kids at school. So
this is why people think our school is haunted. Also, a kid drowned
when our school had a swimming pool.
Bethlehem - Lehigh
University - the library is haunted by an
elderly man.
Bethlehem - Moravian
College - The college is very old, dating back
to the 1700's. The school has a lot of history behind it. It was a
seminary for girls in the 1800's, and supposedly served as a hospital.
There is suppose to be a nurse, that is a spirit of a nurse wandering
the halls, also one of the janitors was in the basement one night and
saw a man, a wounded man walking aimlessly. He was wearing a bandage on
his head and arm. Also strange lights have been seen there.
Bethlehem - Moravian
College - Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority House - The story goes that when this house was an estate, the
maidservant, Alicia, got pregnant from the owner of the house. When he
discovered her pregnancy, he threw her down the stairs (which no longer
exist, although remnants can be seen in an upstairs closet) running
from the attic to the kitchen. Alicia still haunts the house to this
day. Noises have been heard throughout the house, the attic light,
where Alicia lived, mysteriously goes on and off. The attic is
just storage currently. Bedroom lights go on and off unexpectedly.
Pictures of men are often turned around or covered. One sister had a
male friend visit overnight. During the night, she was awoken by the
bed shaking only to see him fast asleep. She also felt cold air in her
ear and no one was there nor any window. Possibly unrelated to Alicia,
one fish tank would leak in every room except when placed in the middle
living room. A few years ago, several boys tried to spend the night in
the attic at 2am they ran out screaming and never explained what
terrified them. They refused to return to the house.
Bethlehem - Moravian
College - Comenius Hall - At night you
can see a light going back and forth across the top floor of this hall.
It is said to be the ghost of the gentleman the hall is named after.March 2007 Additional information: Every Year,
Moravian College celebrates Halloween with haunted houses and parties.
One year, a haunted tour was given, with real and fake stories told
along the route. As the tour was given, a friend was instructed to go
ahead and turn off the basement lights for a walk through Comenius
Hall. This was to give a more spooky affect. Three times he tried the
lights and all three times, he watched the switch turn back on. After
that, he abandoned the task and went back to the group. As the group
descended to walk through the basement, one of the members of the group
hesitated. He was blind and his guide dog was leading him. According to
the man, the dog was signaling danger and trying to stop him from
venturing into the basement. There was no visible danger, yet the dog
was very reluctant and tried diligently to stop them from going to the
basement. After the tour, the man explained that his dog never did that
before and was unsure what such a reaction was caused by. No one on the
tour noticed anything suspicious in the basement.
Bethlehem - Moravian
College - Music Building - Once known as
the single sisters house - The spirit of a revolutionary war nurse
haunts these grounds. Students have felt cold spots, seen her figure,
and felt as if being watched. Doors also open and close of their own
accord, and footsteps have been heard when no mortal has made them.
Bethlehem - Moravian
College - Rau Dormitory- In the '60's 3
people hung themselves on the basement floor also known as the pit. It
is haunted by these three ghosts. This floor is closed off at all times
except Halloween when they open it for the big haunted house.
Bethlehem - Moravian
College - Wilhelm Dormitory- At night
weird noises that are a mixture of banging and scratching coming from
the walls. The walls are cement so It could not have been coming from
the next room.
Bethlehem - The Sun Inn - now a restored museum and restaurant. Built prior to
the Revolution and visited by many luminaries of that era. The
Moravianshad built tunnels to use in case of hostile Indian attacks.
The existence of these tunnels has been substantiated by several
witnesses. One of the entrances is in the cellar of the inn. According
to legend, Brother Albrecht hid some treasure and wine in a secret
room. His ghost guards the treasure. Cold spots and feeling a presence
have been reported.
Birdsboro - Covatta's
Restaurant - This restaurant used to be a
private residence that was built in the 1700's. There are 3 floors in
the building, but tourists are only allowed on the first two. Employees
of the restaurant have reported everything being moved around when they
come to work in the morning. On the second floor, if you stand by the
steps to the third floor, you can hear whistling. There are even
documented photos of the ghosts.
Bloomsburg - Bloomsburg
University - Haas Center for the Arts - Ghost
of an old ballet dancer who performed in Bloomsburg. His name is "Ned"
Bloomsburg - Bloomsburg
University - Delta Phi Epsilon House - There
have been reports of a woman who haunts this house. She has tapped
people on the shoulder, and pushed people down stairs. She also moves
objects around and you can hear her at night.
Bloomsburg - The Irondale
Inn - A bed and breakfast on the site of an old
plantation is said to have three ghosts haunting, one case in which and
old woman has gone around the halls closing doors behind the guests, A
large heating vent leading into the basement is believed to be the
"home" to these specters. The current occupants discovered soon after
moving there some of these events. One weekend after coming home from a
trip the lid to the hot tub was removed and the kitchen door was
mysteriously open with nothing missing from inside.
Bloomsberg - Old Turkey
Hill Inn - In the early 80's, my family rented
this beautiful old home. We were told that the owners mother died in
the upstair room right off the stairs. You can still smell her perfume
and hear her walking at night. In the guest house, the front enclosed
porch, the rocking chair would rock and the room was airtight. The
attic door would never stay close, so my father would wedge a knife in
the top of the door. Every monday morning, the knife would be neatly
placed on the step inside the door. Us boys were way too short to reach
it.
Blue Bell - Weichert
Office - There has been sitings of a woman
roming the last floor of this previous home made into a realistate
office, there has also been noises and open doors seen but no one has
been hurt.
Blue Mountain - Bake Oven
Knob - Located on the Kittatinny Ridge at the
border between Lehigh and Carbon county, Bake Oven Knob is a rocky
outcrop on the mountain. According to many sources there are odd
occurrences in the forest. Noises and whispers are a common thing, and
are rumored to be the spirit of a hiker who fell off the rocks. At some
points people have even reported the forest getting extremely dark even
just a few feet in while it is still light out.
Boiling Springs - Boling
Springs Lake - Ghost can be seen at night
walking around the lake. One is very common. She is called the night
walker. she will walk around the lake and sit on a bench. It looks like
she is waiting for someone to come and see her.
Boswell - North Star High
School - October 2007 Submission Removed
Braddock - J. Edgar
Thompson Steel Works - This site (across the
river from Kennywood Park) is haunted by the ghosts of British soldiers
who were killed by the French & Indians during General Braddock's
Campaign of 1755.George Washington observed many of the unfortunate
wretches when he organized the retreat of the survivors.
Bradford County - Barclay
Cemetery - This submission has been removed at
the request of the owner. This is private property and violators will
be prosecuted!
Brandy Camp - Gravity Hill
- There is a hill where you put your car in
neutral at the bottom of the hill, and if you shut your car off u can
hear horse galloping and your car starts to move up hill and you can
hear horse hooves against the pavement.
Bristol - Behind the
Grundy Memorial Library in the Delaware River - The
ghost is reported to be the ex-king of Spain looking for his long lost
girl that is missing. People have seen this ghost on a rowboat with a
lantern in his hand calling out to his long lost girl. In 1960 before
the Grundy Memorial Library was built. There was a house, which lived a
women who said that she has been seeing a strange figure on a rowboat
row by here house calling out to some strange name.
Bristol - King's Inn - Chairs and silverware move themselves, as well as
lamps and doors slamming. Pictures fly off the wall and the apparition
of a man has been spotted there.
Bristol - St.
James Episcopal Cemetery - There are many
ghosts that haunt this place including a ghost of a witch. There is a
chair that sits right next to the tombstone of Merritt P. Wright called
the Witch's Chair. Legend has it that if you sit in the chair at
midnight in the month of October, you will feel the hands of a witch
encircling you.
Broad Top - Broad
Top Cemetery - Statue at Mockingbird
Hill, said to "yodel" and glow at night. Sights of a small dog called
"Binks" roams the woods.
Bryn Mawr - Bryn
Mawr College - A student, Lillian, haunts
Merion Hall. She went here in the beginning of this century. She
believed she had leprosy, although the doctors could find nothing wrong
with her. To cure herself, she took a bath in kerosene, and knocked a
lantern in to the bathtub. She is said to have run screaming in flames
down the hall.
Buckingham - Gravity
Hill- If you stop your car and put it in
neutral on a certain spot on the road, rumor has it that the soldiers
of a war were carrying something up the hill, and when you are in
neutral your car moves backward up the hill.
Bucks County - Black Bass Hotel- In
Lumberville, on the river, many haunts in this old hotel including a
woman in white who walks the halls and has been seen in a guestroom
with a pearl-handled revolver in her lap. Also, Old Hans, an original
innkeeper who was stabbed to death in tavern brawl by immigrant canal
workers. The pool of blood on the tavern floor has been known to appear
on several occasions.
Bucks County - Bucks County Community College - located 15 miles Southeast of Newton - a ghost of a
woman has been reported to haunt Tyler Hall on the campus. The ghost is
believed to be the ghost of the former administrator Stella Tyler.
Bucks County - Dark Hallow Road - The
remains of a physically abusive school teacher were found in the school
house a hundred years after his death. The entire road is haunted.
Mysterious lights have been reported flickering and moving around.
Bucks County - Warminster - Warminster Volunteer Ambulance Corps - Sounds of doors opening when there is no one around to
open the doors. Moans coming from the ambulance bays. Faces of people
in the back of the ambulances. Lights hooked up to light sensors going
on when there is no one in the room to turn them on.
BUckingham - Hansell
Road - Located 2 blocks from Holicong
Road - An old man is seen walking up and down the road and a glowing
light comes out of the woods hovers over the road then disappears back
into the woods.
Buckingham - Holicong
road - It's a long narrow winding road
with lots of hills and bridges. that is in total darkness. You pass
many big houses before you reach a field. There are two huge rocks
there. Witches haunt the road and when you try to go back up the hill
to leave your car feels like its being pulled backwards down the hill.
there is lots of fog and strange noises.
Bushkill - Pocono
Indian Museum - A ghost named Eli has
been known to close doors. move objects, and communicate by using
objects in this museum.
Butler County - The Black Cross - Rumor
has it that in the late 1800's a horrible flu epidemic went through the
area of Butler/Kittanning. At the time, there were a bunch of immigrant
workers here who all contracted this flu and died. Instead of being
buried in individual graves, these immigrants were thrown into a mass
grave pit that had been dug out in the woods. An enormous black cross
was erected on top. At night, it is told that you can hear unearthly
howling at this spot; also a strong wind and mist are reported.
Butler County - McConnell's Mill State Park - The old Mill turned state park is home to many
spirits who still roam the hills and Slippery Rock Creek. When the mill
was operational a man who worked there always walked the same path to
work. He carried his lunch in a box and a lantern. Rumor is the man
died because of a malfunction in the equipment. Some nights if you park
your car right above the mill the man can be seen walking down the hill
to mill. He goes into the mill a light seems to be on and screams are
heard coming from the mill. There is also the spirit of a caretaker
that lived on the property from the early 1930's until his death around
1960. Times he can be seen chasing people away from the land he loved
and took care of. Legend has it that a girl died in auto accident on
the covered bridge that crosses Slippery Rock Creek beside the mill.
Stories say she can be summoned by parking your car in the middle of
the bridge turning off the engine and lights and honking your horn 3
times. She is supposed to appear in your rear view mirror. Natural
human reaction is to turn around and look but she's never there and
disappears from the mirror. Many people have lost their lives in the
treacherous Slippery Rock Creek, which is more of a river in the
surrounding area. Numerous adventurous young people have drown in
waters. Several people have perished climbing the park's huge rock
formations. There is no doubt it one of the most haunted areas in
Butler, Pennsylvania.
Butler County - Moraine State Park - Burton Road -"Snyder Cemetery" Red eyes will chase you out. Also, something else
could chase you out. It is Conrad Snyder who is haunting his family's
resting place.
Butler County - Moraine State Park - Snyder Cemetery - A green glowing light come from a small gravestone,
white flashes of light, weird fog reported.
Butler County - Summit Township elementary school woods - At night, voices of little children playing can be
heard when out where the old railroad tracks used to be in the woods.
Also, the old train conductor lantern moves up and down the tracks, but
disappears when approached. In the early dawn, a train whistle can be
heard, with no active railroads in the area. - March 2008 additional information: At There are many
trains that still run in the area and anyone that knows the area, also
knows the trains still run in East Butler and in Butler itself. As far
as the lights, it is well known and also documented in the local
newspaper the "Butler Eagle" about the "phantom train" in the area. It
seems that some locals have fun and set up train lights and whistles
near the cross roads and turn them on as cars and people pass by to see
who will stop or look out for the train. There are no tracks anymore
and it is pretty humorous for those involved.
Cambridge Springs - The Riverside Inn - Guests
have reported ghosts crawling into bed with them, music heard coming
from the ballroom along with, ghostly apparitions dancing. Doors
opening and closing can be heard at various times of the day even when
no one is there.
Camp Hill - Camp
Hill High School - In the lower level of
Camp Hill High School there is a small metal door that is about 3 feet
off the ground. Although all of the school has been redone this
part was left alone. The door is usually locked, although some
have been able to get inside. The floor is still just dirt and
there are mounds the span the small space. A small children's
cemetery used to be where the school is now. It is said that when the
school was built they did not was to disturb the bodies. People
have reported seeing small girls running down the hall way, reports of
foot steps down the halls and the sounds of small girl's voices can be
heard.
Camp Hill - The
Computer Learning Network - is a
technical school. The president was killed several years back and at
nights the lights flicker along with doors becoming unlocked.
Ironically no one has ever stole anything.
Camp Hill - Sounds
The Iron Kettle - Sounds has been said to
be haunted for years by a bride and also possibly by another figure, a
man. When you walk into the establishment, some people are said to have
felt a presence in the room and many times feel"heaviness" in their
head which sometimes turns into a different sort of headache. Sometimes
the presence felt is a sort of sadness, "heavy-hearted." There were two
pictures taken by my family that have shown orbs in them.
Canonsburg - Subway
- The Canonsburg Subway was said to have
been built on an old nursing home. The employees there have experienced
a ghost whispering their names in their ears, swinging of the doors
even though they are the only person in the store, and even report
seeing a shadowy figure in the security camera again when no one is
present in the store. They have dubbed the ghost "Fred".
Canton - 7
Steps - an old railroad tunnel with 7
large steps leading up to the top. It is said that a boy was riding
through on his bike and was hit by the train and now still haunts the
tunnel. Some nights he will appear, but there are always sounds of
train whistles, footsteps, and little kid laughing.
Carbon County - old Carbon County Prison - Jim Thorpe - The old Carbon County Prison was last used in 1995.
There have been numerous reports of unexplained phenomena at the prison
in recent years. The most famous ghost story associated with the prison
is the hand print left in a cell by a man wrongfully accused of being a
member of the Molly Maguires. The Molly Maguires were a group of
disgruntled miners in the 1870's who used violence as a means to bring
about change in the corrupt mining industry. Several men were accused,
arrested, and eventually hanged at the prison for being Molly Maguires.
On the eve of his execution, a man who proclaimed his innocence ran his
hand along the dirty floor of his cell and made an impression of his
hand on the wall, claiming the impression would always remain as proof
of his innocence. The next day, he was hung and the hand print was
washed away. Three days later, the print reappeared. As legend has it,
the wall has been repeatedly washed and painted, but the hand print
always returns. The wall was supposedly even ripped down and
re-plastered, but the hand print returned yet again. The prison is now
opened to tourist, but the cell with the hand print is off limits.
Visitors can still view the print through the cell door, though.
Carlisle - Carlisle
Barracks - Ashburn Hall Guest House - Very haunted place. Haunted by Charlie, a confederate
soldier who is a young boy, an Native American lady and the basement
which was a morgue at one time.
Carlisle - Carlisle
Barracks - Bandstand - On Summer
nights you can still her the Carlisle Indian School's band play.
Carlisle - Carlisle
Barracks - Coren apartments -
Lucy Pretty Eagle's home at one time and a ghost who wants revenge
against Jeb Stuart.
Carlisle - Carlisle
Barracks - Flower Road houses - A
lady in a green dress walks in and out of the houses on this road.
Also, may be the same lady in the LVCC.
Carlisle - Carlisle
Barracks - Hessian Museum - Known
to house Hessian prisoners. Any info on the things that happen there
please email Haunted
Places
Carlisle - Carlisle
Barracks - Letort View Community Center - At least three ghosts hunt this place. Most likely
many more. From Jim Thorpe, A lady in a ball gown, a farmer and Native
Americans from the Carlisle Indian School. The basement is so haunted
they call it purgatory.
Carlisle - Carlisle
Barracks - Old gym - Many
hauntings from and little Native American boy to Jim Thorpe and a
basketball team.
Carlisle - Carlisle
Barracks - Washington Hall guest house - You may be awaken in the middle of the night hearing
the cries of babies.
Carlisle - old
Carlisle Indian school - A young Indian
girl named Lucy Pretty Eagle. After her death at the school, reports of
things moving and possibly sightings of her. When the told her father,
he said that she had died the year before and came back. So it is
possible that she wasn't dead when she was buried in the school
cemetery. There could be other hauntings there; she is just the best
known. You can still visit the cemetery and se her grave as well as
many, many, others.
Carlisle - North
Dickinson Elementary School - In the
girls bathroom it is reported by female students that they see a girl
in the mirror behind them.
Carnegie - Old
Lonsinger House - Reports of hearing an
organ playing and seeing an apparition of a "Blue Lady." Many claim
that she would knock on their door in the middle of the night saying
that something was very wrong in the house though nothing was ever
found out of the ordinary.
Cecil - Peters
Township - Montour Trail "HELL" - Reports
of unexplained lights that don’t shine. A short figure that has green
eyes and a white hand on its left side. A little girl in a white dress
that follows people. Strange noises, feeling of being followed. Outside
one tunnel always rocks falling from the road, even thought the road is
paved. There was supposedly a train wreck in the late 1800’s or early
1900’s where the trail is now located.
Centerhall - Egg
Hill - Egg Hill is an old church where a
reverend murdered the congregation after a sermon one night!! All of
them are buried outside the church!! On a full moon sightings of people
killed have been seen there are still blood stains on the floor of the
and a picture of an anarchy drawn on the floor!! - WARNING - There is no trespassing
here. explorers have had a gun pulled on them and others claim that a
man tries to make the visitors follow him away from the group.
Chartiers Valley - Old
Kane Hospital - many different hauntings
including large white figure that roams the property, shadow figures
that dart in and out of hallways, phantom screams when nobody is around
and also shuffling of feet and voices can be heard.
Chester - Widener
University - Delta Phi Epsilon sorority - Residents of the house have said that they see and
feel a presence of a woman in the top floor (3rd). They say she's
friendly. She's turns on and off things and moves stuff around. There
are other sightings at Widener University also, it was originally
Pennsylvania Military College (PMC) many have said that they've seen a
young soldier walking around in the traditional gray uniforms (not the
type worn by the large contingency of ROTC cadets at the school now)
but then quickly disappears.
Clearfield - Clearfield
Middle school - In auditorium there are
reports by night crews that the old music teacher smokes vanilla pipe
tobacco and plays the piano.
Clifford - Clifford
Hotel - It is said there are over 30
spirits haunting this place. There are voices heard in the main lobby
of men, women, and children that were brutally murdered by a man who
went insane in the hotel. Upstairs there is a very hostile man who
doesn’t like anyone to go on that floor and will do anything to keep
everyone off that floor. There have been sightings on certain nights
that the hotel will be fully light up and there will be music coming
from it. It is watched by the police heavily and there is NO
TRESPASSING!!!!!!
Coatsville - Hibernia
park Mansion - It is said that a boy and
girl got murdered by the owner of the house in the cellar so it's said
that sometimes if you go down there you can hear the girl scream and he
boy whisper.
Colwyn - Anne's
Rock - Haunted by a Indian Princess who
was killed during an electrical storm. Her body was never found, but
there are burnt outlines of a person on the side of the rock. When you
go into the park passed the rock, you smell herbs and feel a chocking
sensation on your neck; as well as icy cold hands, scratches and
rashes, and even bruises. Town people state that the story goes that
Princess Anne's father refused to let her marry an English man and her
ghost is very angry at who ever trespasses into the woods.
Conneaut - Conneaut
Lake Hotel - During a fire in the early
1900's, a young bride named Elizabeth was killed while trying to escape
from room 321 on the third floor. Her ghost has been seen walking down
a narrow hallway on that same floor. Ironically enough, the fire escape
is located at the end of the hall. Elizabeth seems to be a likable
spirit though. She has been known to help employees by moving things
around in various rooms. People have also reported seeing ghostly
figures dancing in the ballroom, which is located on the first floor.
Their origin is unknown.
Conneaut Lake - Hotel Conneaut - A hotel
in an amusement park. It caught on fire and a young bride named
Elizabeth was killed. they say that she is still seen in the hotel.
Corry - Tamarax
swamp - At night you can hear the voices
of children & children's hand prints on your vehicle if you just
drive out there.
Coulterville - 13 bends - Reports an
apparition of a fire that happened at an orphanage in the 1800’s.
seeing a burning building, hearing children screaming, bells clanging,
and horses.
Covington - Fall
Brook Cemetery - It is heard that there
are screams, and some people have seen little girls walking around. It
is believed that in the 1800s little girls died of the bubonic plague.
Most of the graves are coming out of the ground.
Cranberry - Knob
Hill Barn - The present barn is a
replacement, the original one having burnt down during a punk rock show
in the early 1990s. Police have responded to many calls from nearby
residents claiming to hear a loud party going on at the site, some even
seeing cars parked all around the barn. Every time the police arrive,
though, the barn is empty and silent.
Cranberry - Pinehurst
Subdivision - The original owners claimed
that there were at least twelve Indian burial mounds on this site that
were later plowed under for farming. Workers clearing the land
unearthed bones dating back to 200 BC. Pinehurst residents have
reported countless unexplained phenomena.
Cranberry - Venago
Trail Golf Club - The golf course is
built atop the former Venango Trail, a Native American 'highway’.
Indians in period dress supposedly emerge from the forest to cross the
fairway before disappearing into thin air.
Crescent Township - Railroad on McGovern Blvd. - The railroad on McGovern blvd. Is now haunted by a
young mans spirit, in 2004 this young man was playing the game called
"chicken" with some of his buddies near the tracks and stood right in
front of the tracks as a train was fast coming down the tracks, of
course the train could not stop but the boy did move out of the way, he
did not move far enough though, and unfortunately the train hit him.
Cressson - Lemon
House - This National Historic site at
the summit of the Allegheny Portage Railroad was once a tavern and
inn. It is documented that people have died in the house.
National Park Service employees have reported strange noises of
banging, and of windows and doors shutting at night. Foggy nights
are the most active times.
Cumberland - Newville
- spook hollow - Back in the early 1900's
a man was cheating on his wife. He was doing this in a cabin
somewhere back in the woods in the hollow. Well one day his wife
found out and went back with a gun and shot both of them. And it
is still said you can hear the screams of them getting killed some
nights.
Cumberland County - Shippensburg - Dykeman's Pond - There is a rumor that if you go to the house by the
ponds and say "I Got Your Baby,. Mary three times a Woman will come
flying out of the house chasing you and will be crying,
"Please...Please...give me my Baby" and if you refuse she will try to
Kill you... oh yeah if anyone goes there not to be funny but stay away
from the ducks, THEY WILL BITE YOU!
Curwensville - Curwensville High School Auditorium - During late night theatre practices, many have seen
the reflection of an old man in pictures and windows when nobody else
was there. His shadow is often seen in the lighting box. He is said to
be the ghost of one of the men that were working on it when it was
being built, he fell off the scaffolding onto the hard cement floor and
it killed him instantly, not only does he show up in mirrors but he
messes with the lights, and moves the curtains around on the stage. He
sometimes says things to people in there as well but it always comes
from above the person’s head like he was floating above them. One can
never make out what he is saying, its mostly gibberish. Underneath the
stage are the caves for like changing during a performances, which is
where he looms most of the time, his presence can be felt very easily.
Darktown - "THE
ALAMO" - Reports of trolls, Hellhounds,
human forms, accompanied with unexplained noises and sights.
Davidsville - Conamugh
Twp High School -The lighting box in the
auditorium is haunted by the spirit of an Indian Chief who is said to
be buried under the school in the catacombs. The ghost has been sighted
on special nights such as home football games (turns the lights on in
the box and the auditorium), opening night of the musical (will undo
all light settings and pull out plugs), and on the night of graduation
(people have reported seeing an Indian figure on the balcony in front
of the box).
Delaware - Media
- Williamson trade school - George dorm - is an old recovery dorm for soldiers who went to the
school to recover, late at night you can hear footsteps and a feeling
of being watched.
Delaware - Media
- Williamson trade school - Longstreth Dorm - there is a hand print on the window, when wiped off it
reappears.
Delaware - Media
- Williamson trade school - the main - is building where the founder Isaiah is buried under
the steps, late at night an eerie feeling can be felt and your body
casts 4 shadows in each direction
Delaware County - Springfield (near Drexel Hill) - Indian Rock Park - The story goes back to the 1980's, when a girl
overdosed on heroine in the woods of Indian Rock Park. Supposedly her
and her friends would drink and do drugs in the woods and one night she
had too much to drink and overdosed on heroine. When the teenagers
drank in the woods they would bring a lantern with them so they could
see and camp out. Well, it turns out the girl died, and if you go into
the Indian Rock woods at night sometimes you can sight a girl walking
slowly through the woods holding a lantern. Some sightings of this have
been reported.
Delmont - McCorys
farm - this site will defiantly make the
hair stand up on your neck. This house is a two story wooden farm
house, but the weird thing is their is two of them. Completely
identical, this house is supposedly to be haunted by John Mc Cory. Back
in 1984 he was sent to an insane asylum, because he killed his two
children and hung his wife in the back yard. After he was released, he
built a replica of the house and hung himself on the back porch.
Feelings of being watched and not being alone are reported.
Dormonth - Library
is said to be haunted by a librarian who worked there years ago. The
story is also in a book called Pittsburgh Ghosts. Also, just to let you
know, I am a native Pittsburgher and the story that you have posted
about the Green Man is not accurate. Story has it that he was an
electrician who was working on a power line during a bad storm and was
struck by lighting. It is said that he did not die due to his injuries
but that the heat from the lightning bolt melted his facial features
and he appeared to have a green glow about himself. He is a well-known
urban legend in the Pittsburgh area.
Douglassville - Cavettos Brinton Lodge -
Sightings of apparitions as well as ghostly sounds. - January 2004 addition: a former worker in the kitchen,
claims that one night he ran down to the cellar to get ice out of the
freezer, and as he was bent over he felt someone put their hand on his
shoulder, he turned around to see who it was and there wasn't anyone
there. He never ran so fast upstairs in his life. Also he saw with his
own eyes a pregnant woman who worked there, was on the second floor
collecting dirty dishes on a tray and proceeded to use the main steps
to come downstairs. As she did so she tripped and the tray went flying
to the bottom of the stairs and the dishes broke into a million pieces
but many witnesses say the she did not fall. Something caught her in
mid air and set her back down on the steps. there is also the story of
the hat that keeps reappearing on the fireplace mantel, even though
every night it gets locked in a closet when employees come in the next
day its back out on the mantel.
Douglassville - Yellow House Hotel - It's
said that a woman killed herself in the middle room of the Yellow House
Hotel inn and restaurant. People have spotted her in the middle window,
people that stay in the room claim to have seen the woman.
Downingtown - Twin
Tunnels - Creek Rd off of Boot Rd in
D-Town. Two tunnels connected by a sliver of open space with a wire
connecting them. Stories say that a man hung himself from the wire. At
the entrance (going towards boot rd.) spray painting of a suitcase with
an arm sticking out pointing down. Writing by painting says "help me".
it was pointing at a suitcase on the ground filled with a females
dismembered body parts. She was said to have been killed by a
motorcycle gang from the area in the early nineties.
Doylestown - Delaware
Valley College - The dorms are haunted by
a ghost that hung himself, (dorm is the original, from the 1890's) and
can be heard walking down hallway, from personal experience ghost has
took and object in room and placed it in the middle of the room
standing up in the morning.
Doylestown - Fonthill
Mansion - the ghost of a housekeeper
still making her rounds has been seen
Doylestown - Neshaminy
Manor Center - Almshouse Rd. and Rt. 611.
The complex was used as the Bucks County Almshouse from 1810 to 1966.
Several of the old buildings are still standing. People are said to
have seen apparitions in and around the old buildings on the complex.
Drexel Hill - Archbishop
Prendergast High School - Originally the
old Drexel Estate and then later before the school an orphanage- there
are 2 tales here. The 1st is the story of an orphan that was murdered
by another. On the second floor of the school there are still 2 halls
left with the original bedrooms- still not converted to classrooms. The
halls are on the same floor as the chapel. Students have claimed to see
furniture move in those rooms. There is 1 old rocking horse in
particular that will ALWAYS MOVE ON ITS OWN when the room is occupied
for too long. Because of the hostile vibe felt in that room, people
believe that is the spirit of the murdering orphan, who also died there
due to a "freak" accident. There are also reports of students seeing
two children late at night, running, fighting, and screaming through
those halls. The 2nd story is the tale of a nun who taught at the
orphanage. She hung herself in the bell tower and haunts it to this
day. Many times the bell will ring unexpectedly and late at night a
light will go on and off. Unlike the modern light that is suppose to be
up there (which seems to always mysteriously short out), it looks like
a candle. Students who have tried to get up there have been spooked
severely. The school has had the bell tower sealed off for years. Some
students have reported coming back from school dances and looking up to
see the nun looking at them from the bell tower.
Drexel Hill - Garretford
Elementary School - Now, next to the
school there is a WAWA. Many, many years ago, long before the school
was ever built, the grounds were a holding house for prisoners. Many of
the prisoners were mistreated and murdered by the guards. Their bodies
were buried on the plot, unmarked, and later the school was built over
their graves. Many times late at night you can see them walking the
grounds. They are very restless and some quite hostile. One summer,
after the night of a full moon, the following morning all the birds and
squirrels in the surrounding trees were found mysteriously dead all
over the school grounds. Drexel Hill in general is a HUGE paranormal
area with rich history.
DuBois - DuBois
Central Catholic (Old Building, now part of DRMC West) - One of the old Headmasters likes to shut out lights
and mess with the doors. And a little kid runs up and down the
hallways. Theirs also another ghost that no one knows who it is, but it
looks out the cafeteria windows.
Dubois - Dubois
Regional Medical Center- What used to be
the old convent is the transcription department for DRMC in the back of
the Home Health department. When employee's work at night up there by
themselves the prayer bell will ring, and when someone else comes in it
will stop. There are also times when radios in other offices will turn
on by themselves. Sometimes if you put your feet on the back of the
desk you feel something pushing on your foot. No matter what time of
day it is you can feel them there, but they don’t act until someone is
there by themselves during the night. There is a very old cemetery
right behind the hospital, in disrepair.
DuBois - DuBois
Regional Medical Center - Transcription Department - What used to be the old convent is the transcription
department for DRMC in the back of the Home Health department. When
employee's work at night up there by themselves the prayer bell will
ring, and when someone else comes in it will stop. There are also times
when radios in other offices will turn on by themselves. Sometimes if
you put your feet on the back of the desk you feel something pushing on
your foot. No matter what time of day it is you can feel them there,
but they don’t act until someone is there by themselves during the
night.
DuBois - Luthersburg
Field - A female student at the Dubois
Area High school was raped and murdered in the woods beside the field.
IF you drive into the field and turn off your car but not your
headlights you can see the girl run across the field.
Duncannon - Watts
Township - Amity Hall Hotel - Amity Hall
- There was a young woman found stabbed
to death laying on the front porch on a couch. The legend has it that
there was a family that lived in it and the husband went crazy and
killed his wife, then his kids, then himself in the upstairs
hallways/rooms of the hotel. IN the days of the PA Canal system, canal
travelers used to stay there, then in the civil war days it was used as
a hospital. - IF planning to visit this
place – try to get permission - it says no trespassing When
you get permission bring plenty of
batteries, because they drain quickly. In the corner of the L-shaped
building, very small bluish lights have been. The creepier place on the
outside is a door at the end of a hall which is locked shut. The worst
room in the house is upstairs, the trophy room. This room is filled
with a giant feeling of "GET OUT OF HERE". The glass and mirrors are
all broken. Very faint white figure of what appears to be a woman in
the attic window facing the parking lot can be seen. white flashes of
light in the attic windows facing the road have been seen. Faint glows
fading in and out of the windows, as well as small but somewhat bright
points of light coming from the corner of the L-shape. Frightening
black figures, not the shape of a dog, but about the size of a dog,
linger in the parking lot. (I believe they are called imps) A
particularly vengeful spirit has sat outside of cars in which males are
present. It’s believed it is the wife whom the husband beat to death
and left on the front porch. It is also said that you can experience
reenactments of the murder right in front of you.
Dunmore - Elmherst
Blvd. - it is a real long, desolate, and
windy road that go for about 3 miles to a small circle. You are
supposed to stop there turn your lights off and drive around the circle
3 times and face the way you came in. You then wait there until a large
truck, which comes out of no where, starts chasing you. WARNING: DO NOT
GET VERY SCARED THE TRUCK NEVER GETS YOU SO DONT GO FAST. PEOPLE HAVE
CRASHED AND DIED BECAUSE OF THAT. ALSO DO NOT WAIT TO SEE WHAT AND WHO
IT IS. JUST LEAVE! Once u start to leave the lights seem to disappear
and you never see any thing behind you.
Dushore - Sayman
Road - Witnesses that travel this road
and have seen hanging bodies on the side of the road when you flash
your light on them they disappear also there were said to be sacrifices
in these woods and you can hear unexplained noises throughout the woods
East Brady - Brady's
Bend Cemetery - Past sightings of fog /
smoke near large pine trees. Strange noises heard in night. Blue haze
said too follow visitors in the night.
East Stroudsburg - The Dansbury Depot - An
individual has been seen and heard walking around this converted 1864
railroad station.
East Stroudsburg - East Stroudsburg University - Hemlock Hall
- The second floor and a room are reportedly
haunted by a girl. The girl has been to come in only when one roommate
is there and the other is at a class.
Easton - Easton
Library - haunted by several ghosts. The
library was built on a cemetery.
Easton - Papa
Johns - The toilet flushes and no one is
in the bathroom. The back door always opens. The oven is on in the
morning but the managers made sure they were off the night before. A
worker had his girlfriend hired and when she started working there she
cheated on him with a couple workers the boyfriend found out and lost
it and then he killed himself in the bathroom
Easton - State
Theatre - The ghost of and old man "Fred"
has been seen walking in the balcony and across the stage.
Eckley - stone
couch on side of road - story be
told....sit on the couch once and you get a scratch....sit on it again
and you bleed...sit on it the third and final time you die. bad luck
comes to those that sit on this stone couch.
Edinboro - Center
for the Performing Arts - The PAC is
supposedly haunted by a ghost those in the theatre department have
named Dorothy, after a theatre professor rumored to have died in her
home not far from campus. Reported events include foot steps on
the back stairs and on the track running around the stage area as well
as fluctuations in the sound system volume (which seemed to cease after
someone hung a rosary on the volume knob). During a few sold out
performances, actors on stage reported seeing a vague face that seemed
to move from chair to chair as if looking for an empty seat.
These sightings appeared to stop after casts started setting a chair
with a program on it along the track facing the stage.
Edinboro - Evergreen
- Written about in Edinboro University
newspaper in early 1990's. The tavern is over 100 years old, and has
always been a way station for travelers. It is said to be haunted by a
former employee from the 18th or 19th century. He likes to move the bed
and other objects in one of the upstairs bedrooms. Other hauntings are
said to be present, but of unknown origin. Tavern is now closed, but
you can feel a presence as you drive by.
Edinboro - Lawrence
Towers - On the 5th floor of Lawrence
Towers A, it is rumored that a college student (music major) who lived
in room 517 hung herself. It is said she was depressed. Rumor has it
that the floor was closed down for a few years being "renovated." You
can hear a soft voice singing some nights. You may also feel a strong
presence when walking through the halls at night - almost as if you
want to run back into your room.
Edinboro - Reeder
Hall - The basement of Reeder Hall (which
currently houses the university's administration and President as well
as the Honor's Dorm) is haunted. Reeder Hall was closed for
several years during which time séances were held in the
basement and a witch's coven set up meetings there. If you sit in
the basement at night, the temperature drops and there is a cold breeze
even though the windows and doors are closed. You get a very
uneasy feeling there and the lights have been known to go out for no
reason at all.
Elimsport - The
Bunkers - Near Allentown prison there is
a set of bunkers for the storage of artillery during the wars over the
1900's. It's said that late at night strange events have happened in
these bunkers. I've been there and seen some quite unusual things
myself.
Elizabeth - 13
Bends - It is said that there was an
orphanage in the 1900's, and one day it burned down and all the
children died. They can be heard crying for help and their hands seen
reaching for visitors. Ghostly cars are known to chase you around the
13 bends.
Elizabeth - Central
VFC - in 1955 a firefighter was killed in
the line of duty and now haunts the fire co if you are at the end of
the fire hall and a call comes in you can see machinery running to the
fire truck with a fire coat draped over his shoulder, lights will be on
and no one will be there if you stop to turn them off no sooner do you
leave the building the lights are on.
Elizabeth - St.
Michael's Church - In the early 1980's
the diocese of Pittsburgh ordered the church padlocked at 3:00 AM
without any warning to the parishioners. The only explanation the
diocese would give is that the floor of the 125 year old church was too
weak and in danger of collapse. Since that time strange changes to the
church have taken place. While the rest of the colored panes of glass
in the windows have retained their color the faces of the saints have
turned black. Inside the church the walls have peeled and cracked, the
pews are filthy with bird droppings and dead birds, yet the area around
the altar and the altar itself, which is draped a 100 year old altar
cloth from Ireland, is in pristine condition. As if it were ready for
Sunday mass. There is a statue of Saint Michael the Archangel above the
main entrance to the church posed with lance and shield. Over the years
the statue's shield looks as if it is battle worn and covered with
dried blood.
Elizabethtown - Chiques road - A man
burnt his baby, wife and himself in an upstairs room. the house still
stands. the living room window grows a crack, but if you walk away and
come back the window is not cracked anymore. you can hear screaming,
and crying. the front door is supposed to be bolted shut, but it will
swing open. and the blinds in the window where they were burned open
and close.
Elizabethtown - Purple light bridge - There
is a bridge near turnpike road and it is said to have been haunted by a
young boy who was killed by a train one night. Real late at night you
can hear a train coming and see a purple light. It is said to be his
spirit.
Elliotsburg - West
Perry High School - It is reported that
one summer a janitor mysteriously died while preparing the school for
the next school year. While he was washing the window, the glass broke
and he fell though died. This supposedly happened in room 118 of the
school. Sometimes when it is real quit you can hear the squeaking of
the window being cleaned then hear glass break and the sound of a man
screaming. The janitor can also sometimes be seen in room 118 and
wandering the halls.
Elton - Becky's
Grave - Supposedly a young lass, Becky by
name, was labeled as a witch because she befriended an Indian in the
early 1800's, as he taught her the ways of herbs and incantations in
place of medicine not readily available at this time and place. It has
been noted that your car may have trouble starting should you park in
the lane leading to the old family cemetery. Also, it has been noted
that on full moon nights, a shadowy figure has been seen rising from
the gravesite of a WWII soldier while a west wind blows.
Elverson - Marks
Mansion - Several orbs of light and doors
closing with no one around. Noises often heard from the basement.
Believed that 3 farmers died in a silo collapse in the early 1930's. No
Trespassing
Emmsworth - Dixmont
Mental Institution - Used for mentally
challenged patients in the 1800's and was taken over in a rebellion by
the patients. Since, apparitions can be seen wandering the grounds,
lights flicker, unexplained noises, doors slamming, cold spots add to
the already eerie feeling.- December 2003
Update: There is a house where a security guard lives near the site. He
will give you permission to walk around up there but only in daylight
hours. During the night you it will be considered trespassing. - April 2007 Update - This was tore down to make room
for a new Wal-Mart.
- March 2008 Update: the Wal-Mart that
was proposed was scrapped because of a landslide. Dixmont was taken
down and the grounds were cleared. When smoothing out the land, over
one million tons of the hillside fell on to PA-65. Nobody died in the
slide.
Enola - Summerdale
- Summerdale Fire Station - Its said that
a long time member who died years back still haunts the station. You
can sometimes feel a strange feeling of being watched when you walk
into the station. Also was said that at nighttime , the live-in members
would hear strange noises and the bunkroom door would fly open with no
one near it
Ephrata - Mountain
Springs Hotel - built somewhere around
1850 as a hydropathic retreat because of the medicinal qualities of the
pure springs from the mountain. It later became the Ephrata Hospital,
The hospital closed there when the new hospital was built in 1949. It
was a famous resort where people came from all over the country. When
the hospital closed, the grounds and buildings were purchased by a
group of spiritualists who renamed it "Camp Silver Belle," after an
Indian spirit guide. This hotel was open only in the summers during
this period before it closed for good. If you are not to scared to go
inside, you will feel cold breezes, see shadows and hear sounds. - February 2007 update: The Mountain Springs Hotel was
torn down in 2004 to make way for the Hampton Inn & Suites at
Mountain Springs and an Applebee's restaurant. The mansion remains and
has been turned into office space.
Erie - Axe
Murder Hallow - The Legend says that A
man chopped up his entire family with an axe because of his suspicions
of his wife and a farm hand. A few years later a car with a young
couple in it got stuck in the mud. The boy went for help and told his
girlfriend to stay in the car. A while later the girl heard someone
outside the car saying, "Get out." She stepped out in the pouring rain
and saw her boyfriend hanging by his ankles with his throat slit. She
tried to run for help, but a figure with an axe in his hand grabbed
her.
Erie - Erie
Cemetery - The Erie cemetery is said to
be haunted. There are a few locations that are definitely eerie. The
first one is a mausoleum. It's blackened, like it was burned. There's
no name on it, but you can tell that there used to be one. It also has
a lot of vampire like designs on it. The other area is called the
Witches Circle. It is a group of tombstones that are in the shape of a
circle. Some of them are burnt black. Legend has it that Satan came to
get his loyal followers. The burns are supposed to be from the fires of
Hell. It has been tried repeatedly to get the scorch marks off of the
tombstones, but it doesn't ever come off. I've inspected these stones
myself and tried to read what they said on them. One had some pretty
weird stuff on it. You get chills and hear walking behind you while at
this cemetery. When you turn around, though, no one is there. Witnesses
have seen a big black dog there and when they looked again, it wasn't
there.
Erie - Gannon
University - Frat House - Years
ago at this frat house there was a Halloween costume party the
fraternity was hosting. Everybody was dressed up in a costume. During
the party, what appeared to be a person, was looming around quietly
dressed in a dark cowboy-like outfit with a big brim black hat. One of
the people at the party noticed the figure and followed it to a room
upstairs. Then the figure turned around and looked at the person and
disappeared. Later on during the party, noises such as walking,
banging, and windows opening and closing began to be heard from the
upstairs of the house. Some of the people at the party went upstairs to
see what was happening. When they got up there, the figure was seen
again and this time it spoke. It yelled at them to GET OUT! Then it
vanished and everybody left the house. To this day, it is not known if
the figure still haunts the house.
Erie - Old
Main Tower at Mercyhurst College - This
structure used to be a convent in the earlier part of the twentieth
century. A woman that had been told that her lover was killed in WW2
joined the convent back in its day. A few years later, the lost lover
returned, but the nun had already given her heart to God. She went
crazy and was locked in the tower where she committed suicide. The ring
that her lover gave her was placed at the base of a Virgin Mary statue.
For the last fifty years, anyone who had touched the ring died within
five years. The ring was eventually locked away, but appears every so
often. People have also claimed to see the nun's spirit roam the halls.
Erie - McDowell
High School - Lights turn on and off on
the east side of the building. Doors slam by themselves. Presence felt
throughout the building.
Erie - Penn
State Behrens - In the 1970's a student
by the name of Henry, the last name has been lost over the years, lived
on the 3rd floor in the West wing of Niagara Hall. Henry horribly died
after freezing to death on a cold winter night. It is said that he
tried to get the heater to work and the door was jammed, no one heard
his screams as he frantically tried to escape the room. The next
morning his roommate found his body clung to the heater, hoping it
would turn on. Some who stay in this haunted room have said that some
nights you can hear Henry shaking the heater and the door in attempts
to escape his frigid death.
Erie - St.
Peter Cathedral Center - The one part of
the building is over 100 years old. Faint voices can be heard on the
4th floor. Banging throughout the building. Sometimes shadows can be
seen. Lights turn off and on by themselves after leaving a room. Doors
open and close by themselves at times.
Erie - Watson-Curtze
Mansion - The body of Gen. Anthony Wayne
was boiled here in order to remove the skin from the bone so part of
him could be buried in Philadelphia. The cauldron in which he was
boiled is stored in the kitchen of the house and is known to bang and
rattle at night. Also the apparition of a young girl is also seen on
the second floor. The mansion is now a museum.
Exchange - Katie's
Church - Katie's Church was named after
Katie Vandine, the story goes that her Finance', a soldier was en route
home to marry her when she received word that he was killed, distraught
over this she hung herself in the tree, in her wedding dress at the
church. Her headstone runs opposite of all the others. Reports of
seeing her walking the road between her house and the church as well as
seeing her at the church.
Exton - The
Ship Inn -This inn is believed to be
haunted by a ghost from the eighteenth century. The structure was built
in the 1700's. The origin of the ghost is unknown.
Farmington - Braddock's
Run Bridge - This bridge was one of many
that was built during the Braddock Expedition to take Ft. Duquesne in
1755.It is said that the ghost of one of General Braddock's Grenadiers
will accompany anyone traveling over the bridge until they are safely
across.
Farmington - Fort
Necessity National Battlefield - Phantom
musket fire and the scalp-haloo of Indians at night where George
Washington's first defeat took place in 1754.
Fawn Township - Lojack's Tunnel - If you
go through the tunnel late at night, your supposed to see a little girl
that was hit by a semi truck walking in the tunnel, also sometimes you
will see headlights of a semi turn on behind you
Fawngove - Citizens
Vol. Fire Co. - Reports of a walking trail
that has scary noises, strange feelings of being watched and creatures
seen.
Fayetteville - pond bank - back in the
early 1900's a young woman decided for a unknown reason to take her
life and her baby’s life in the pond. THE white lady comes back looking
for her baby at night. there are stories of her riding on the back of
cars and trucks late at night. In 2002 a unknown guy was coming home
late at night. He went by pond bank and the white lady stepped in front
of the car causing him to have an accident. When the cops arrived the
guy told them about the white lady. Most cops didn’t believe him, But
one did, the same happened to him 9 years before.
Flourtown - Black
Horse Inn - Sitting along Bethlehem Pike
in Flourtown is an old building called the Black Horse Inn. The
building was built 30 years before the formation of our country.
General George Washington used it as a rest stop for his men on their
way to Valley Forge. When you go inside the building the temperature is
like walking into a freezer, even when it was 90 degrees outside.
Witnesses have heard footsteps behind them and up on the second floor.
In the main bar room there were voices from nowhere and they report it
felt as though people surrounded them. On the second floor and the
attic it is deserted of any furniture except one room where there is
this old bed spring, a 1920's era toilet and a shower head. a picture
was taken in there and it came out with a 12 year old girl in 1930's
era clothing sitting on the bed looking at the floor. And a picture of
the door and picked up a man standing in the doorway. Other pictures
show countless orbs.
Flourtown - The
Tracks - A train used to run through
Flourtown until the 60's or 70's. After the train stopped running the
tracks remained until 1987 when they were removed and all that remains
is a long dirt path that runs behind Penn Oak Rd. Residents in the area
sometimes hear the sound of a train as if it were still running and
have seen a man walking along the tracks and then disappear. They have
also seen a small boy around the Basketball net on Penn Oak, As well as
underneath the 309 bridge. The boy is about five yrs. old with thick
black hair and 50's era clothes.
Ford City - Rueben's
Grave - Reports of a ghost that often
appears as a white stallion with flaming, red eyes.
Frackville - Frackville
Elemantry School - People are seen
walking in the halls but there are no people just shadows. and things
move without people moving them.and there is blood found in the artroom
Franconia - Bell
House (Rising Sun Inn) - The building was
built in the 1700's and is on historic Allentown Rd, which was the only
major rd from Bethlehem steel to Philadelphia. The liberty bell was
housed in the inn. There was a caretaker killed at the inn. All I know
is that her name was Mary and today she regularly haunts the
restaurant, the town's people call her "Scary Mary"
Freedom - Vicary
Mansion - The Vicary Mansion is said to
be haunted by the Captain Vicary. Tours are open on special days to
celebrate the landmark. And people have seen chandeliers swinging back
and forth and turning off and on. And you can hear voices. They even
found a shoe that looks like it's from the 1800's. It was found near a
secret room...there also you can feel a presence.
Freemansburg - Willowgroove Hotel -This
old hotel dates back to the Civil War. The origin is unknown, but the
spirit of a little girl haunts the place. She appears to have suffered
from burns. The little girl's ghost has been seen in several of the
rooms and roaming the halls. She has even been reported to pull on the
pant legs of males.
Galeton - Potter
County Railroad - Mysterious lights have
been sited behind the Ox Yoke, strange inhuman, non-animal sounds can
be heard.
Gettysburg - An
open field near Devil's Den - Witnesses
reported being in the middle of a battle, reliving it.
Gettysburg - Cashtown
Inn - a civil war soldier has been seen
here.
Gettysburg - Cemetery
Hill - On chilly summer nights, you can
see at times a blue column of light. And sometimes you can feel that
someone is watching you, and you can here people crying for help.
Gettysburg - Civil
War Wax Museum - There is several
exhibits that had orbs in photos.
Gettysburg - Eisenhower
- Foot prints on the top of the girls
bathroom, noises in the bottom floor girls bathroom and moving things
Gettysburg - Eisenhower
Elementary School - In the 1st floor
girls bathroom about 15 girls seen a mans boots feet prints on the high
ceiling. If you turn off the lights on the bottom floor bathroom you
will see little green lights. In the hallway going down the stairs
there is this big picture of president Eisenhower, and when you go down
the eyes follow you.
Gettysburg - Farnsworth
House Inn - Considered by many to be one
of the MOST haunted houses in America! The first house in Gettysburg to
be investigated by renowned psychic Carol Kirkpatrick, as well as Ghost
Hunters International, a crew from Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Southern
California. The crews from "Sightings" (Sci-fi Channel), "Unsolved
Mysteries", and The History Channel have done filming here. Mary, a
spirit from the Civil War era walks the corridors of the Inn at night.
There is also a civilian man carrying a child wrapped in a quilt. You
can hear him sobbing in an upstairs room. A midwife is seen watching
over a young woman in labor. Three Confederate sharpshooters remain at
their posts in the garret of the house. A soldier carries a wounded
comrade into the cellar of the house. His voice is heard singing to
comfort his dying friend, who dies in the catacombs of the cellar. Cold
spots have been detected. "Balls of white energy" were photographed as
white "auras" of energy throughout the house. Guests report many
strange happenings on their stays here!
Gettysburg - Gettysburg
College - Brua Hall - The theater
on campus, Brua Hall, is said to be haunted by a civil war era man. He
frequently visits the theater at night and has been seen backstage and
on the catwalk of the theater. He likes to play practical jokes and
move props and costumes around. The man has a favorite seat in the
house and sometimes he has been seen watching the students practice for
an upcoming show. This seat is left empty for every performance - in
case he wants to come and watch!
Gettysburg - Gettysburg
College - Glatfelter Hall - The
bell tower on Glatfelter Hall is haunted by the spirit of a girl that
committed suicide by jumping from the tower. Male faculty members and
students have seen her at the top of the tower late at night. The story
is that her lover was supposed to jump with her, but after she jumped
he changed his mind. So, late at night she tries to lure the men
walking by up to the top, hoping they will jump to their death and join
her.
Gettysburg - Gettysburg
College - Pennsylvania Hall - The
Administrative offices on the campus are housed in a large, white
building (Penn Hall) that was a hospital during the civil war. Several
faculty members and students have seen a very graphic and horrible
civil war hospital scene when the elevator in the building mysteriously
goes out of control and takes the passengers to the basement. When the
doors open, they are faced with the ghostly scene instead of the usual
storage facility that is in the basement. The cupola on top of the
building is also said to be haunted. Several students and faculty
walking across campus late at night have seen a civil war soldier
standing guard on top of the cupola. In several instances the soldier
will spot the person and take aim with his rifle.
Gettysburg - Gettysburg
College - Stevens Hall - Haunted
by the "The Blue Boy." About a hundred years ago, a young boy who was
being abused at home sought refuge amongst the college women who lived
here. One cold, snowy night, the headmistress came up to check on the
girls so they hurriedly hid the boy outside on their window ledge. The
headmistress took her time talking to the young women, but finally she
went back to her room. The girls rushed to the window ledge only to
find the boy was not there anymore! They went down & outside to see
if he had fell, but there was no boy. To this day, sightings of a young
boy, blue in the face as if frozen, are common among Stevens Hall
residents.
Gettysburg - Gettysburg
College - Sigma Nu Fraternity House - This house was previously owned by the only doctor in
the county through the depression era. He died in the house. There have
been numerous incidents of lights going on and off, with nobody visable
at the switches. Large, very heavy oak doors have slammed open and
shut, followed by lights completely dimming out. The lights have dimmed
out in the bedroom where the doctor died, while the lights in the
hallway have stayed lit, and they're both on the same circuit. Sounds
of things being thrown around in the basement in the dark, but the
noise stops when the lights are turned on, and nothing is out of place.
Once during a storm over a break, one of two people in the house heard
the front door slam open, they went downstairs, closed the door, only
to turn around and see wet footsteps on the carpet. Noises of walking
upstairs were then heard. The person raced upstairs to find more wet
footprints. The person chased the noised and footprints through the
house. As the person chased the noised through the only hallway on the
3rd floor, when the other person was studying in the hallway, the
studying person said that nobody had passed by, yet they both then
heard the noises going down the stairs. They then heard the front door
slam open again, and the footprints had exited the house. Another
person was closing one of the heavy doors late one night when in mid
swing, the door suddenly stopped dead, as if it had hit a solid
obstacle. There was no obstruction, and the door could not have caught
on anything. They swung the door again, and it then swung freely.
gettysburg - Gettysburg
College - Theta Chi Fraternity House - The story goes that a previous owner had hung
themselves in the basement. The rumor is that if you see the ghost of
the person hanging, something bad will happen to you or a member of
your family. - There are stories of
people seeing the ghost, and the next day relatives were killed in a
car accident – this has not been proven true.
Gettysburg - Gettysburg
National Military Park - many ghosts of
civil war soldiers have been seen here including entire battles being
observed by witnesses. A ghost of Gen. William Barksdale's dog has also
been seen the dog died trying to get message to another general.
Gettysburg - Jennie
Wade House - The only civilian killed in
the battle of Gettysburg, Jennie Wade, is known to haunt this house.
Visitors have felt her prescience and her father's presence still
mourning the loss of his daughter and on occasion the chain in the
basement will be moved by some unseen hand.
Gettysburg - Little
Round Top The smell of pipe tobacco has
been reported.
Gettysburg - Ridgewood
- Small wooded housing development behind
Oak Hill, the site of the first days battle where the peace light now
stands. Residents report seeing a tall man in a tuxedo gazing.
Unidentified blue lights in secluded wooded areas near houses. Unseen
entity heard sprinting on train tracks towards night-walkers - has been
known to throw rocks.
Gettysburg - "Red
House" - This large, civil war era house
is always occupied by female students living off-campus, who attend
Gettysburg College. There is a small grave in the backyard of the house
and it belonged to a young woman who was living there during the civil
war. She is said to move around the house at night, moving objects
around, breaking plates, glasses, etc. The smell of her perfume, lilac,
can be smelled at night when she is walking about the house.
Gettysburg - The
Pub - The ladies room and area in and
around the kitchen is visited by a woman who according to employees,
was murdered and left on the spot while the building was being rebuilt
several years ago. Employees say that she opens and closes doors
and turns on and off lights.
Gettysburg - Triangular
Field - Located above the Devil's Den,
Confederate sharpshooters have been sighted on the rocks down at the
bottom of the field, at the end of the woods, prepared to shoot. They
have also been heard resounding their famous "rebel yells" and have
been known to actually cause "impressions" in the grass, coming towards
visitors in the field. Union cannon can be heard as well as screaming
and moaning of wounded/dying soldiers all throughout the field. Union
soldiers have been sighted at the left of the gate-entrance of the
field and have been known to approach visitors. Incidentally, many
visitors have experienced their photographic equipment does NOT
function in the Triangular Field ~ no matter how new or
state-of-the-art their equipment may be! Distant drums have been
reportedly heard by many, many visitors here.
Gettysburg - The
Wheatfield - One of the bloodiest battle
scenes during the war was the Wheatfield. On occasion you can still
hear the war being fought. Sounds of fire crackling, and tin cups
clinking can be heard, also the sound of a phantom horse can be heard
approaching you.
Girard - Gudgeonville
Bridge - About forty years ago a little
girl fell off the cliff next to the bridge and her ghost are now seen
there. The man named Gudgen, which the place was named after,
supposedly beat his mule to death because it refused to cross the
bridge, you can hear the hooves and bays on certain nights. Other odd
apparitions and presences have also been felt there, such as if look to
the right of the bridge up on the top of the cliff, An apparition
appears in a dress and really pale. She then falls off the cliff and
vanishes into air.
Glen Mills - The
Grist Mill - There is a barn in the Grist
Mill park where a stable boy worked. The stable boy fell in love with
the land owner and the father killed the boy for being with his
daughter. You can here him crying for her.
Glenmoore - Upattinas
School - this alternative school used to
be a home for wayward boys in the 1960's. There have been sightings of
a pair of legs, and a man wearing a pink shirt and khakis in the stone
hallway of the lower school. Basketballs roll across the gym by
themselves. There was a person killed in the shower in the bathroom and
a student went in there and her nose started bleeding. As soon as she
left, it stopped. In the Photography Darkroom, strange things have
happened. Like markers fly through the air and doors open and close,
radio stations always change to the same country station, and the water
overflows in the sink and floods the floor. Last year, a student fell
asleep in the lounge, and the gates were locked at the end of school.
He was locked in the upstairs of the gym building overnight with no
cell phone to call anyone. He figured he’d be fine and he’d just
continue sleeping in the lounge, but he couldn’t stand it because he
kept hearing footsteps walking up and down the hallway. When kids
arrived at school the next day, they saw the student asleep at the
bottom of the steps right behind the gate. He said that’s the only
place that he couldn’t hear the footsteps.
Gordon - Gordon
Mountain - On top of the Gordon Mountain.
A woman was murdered and left to die here many years ago. The man who
killed her had a distinguishing scar on his face. When you drive up
there at night, your car stalls. She walks to the car and checks all
the windows for the man. She returns to her rock afterward and
continues to brush her hair as she is doing when you first get there.
The car will then start. - February 2004
Update: This was discussed in the local newspaper about a decade ago
that this was fiction (although the burned body in the paper from the
actual murder was very real). Also, the mountain itself has been
developed (and lost some height) for a new exit off I-81 as the
submitter discovered traveling there three years ago to their
amazement. A very lengthy drive in the "middle of nowhere" added to the
mysteriousness of the story. There was (is?) a lake on the mountain and
the story claimed the woman would walk on the lake.
Granville - Malta
Home - it is said that back in the 1880's
a maintenance worker killed all of the residents on the fourth floor
and hid the bodies in the attic. now it is said that you can hear the
residents roaming the grounds around the surrounding village of
Granville moaning and searching for families that once lived in the
surrounding homes.
Greene - Carmichaels -
Greene Academy of the Arts - Building was built in 1790'2 a brick addition was
added in 1800's, third week end in September is the annual Covered
Bridge Festival, persons who have spend the night in the Academy as
security guards have spoken of footsteps on second floor, a cemetery
was located behind the building, when renovation began the headstones
were moved to Laurel Point Cemetery about 300 yards to the rear of the
building, security people and neighbors still speak of seeing shadow
type human figure leaving the Academy grounds at night and moving
toward the cemetery as thought they are now confused about where their
graves are really located.
Greene - Rices
Landing - Train Tunnel - Legend and locals claim on a rainy night a young boy
in the 1800's was driving his horse and buggy over railroad tracks to
take a short cut when the train came and collided with the buggy, the
boy's head was severed and his body found a piece of stove pipe which
it placed where his head would be, now on rainy nights after dark if
you walk the tracks and call "Stove Pipe" three times his ghost will
appear to you.
Greene - West
Greene School Office - Office is a
separate house from school, there are strange banging noises and
bizarre animal like creatures that appear, also doors swing open on
own.
Greensburg - County
Courthouse Square Bldg. - The Courthouse
Square office building is built on the site of the old county jail,
which was in use from the early 1900's to the 1960's. In the early
1900's the building was the location of several executions by hanging.
In 1984, 911 dispatchers in what was then the 911 dispatch center saw
the transparent image of the lower part of a man hanging on a video
security monitor. The camera was pointing toward the hallway in the
upper parking level, leading from the magistrate's office toward the
delivery garage area. When they went to the area to investigate the
image on the security monitor, they saw nothing; however, they felt
coldness in the area, and were seen to pass through the image on the
camera as they checked the area. Later research in the historical
society revealed that the hangings were conducted on the second floor
on the prison building, which would locate it in the area now known as
upper parking in the new building, in that part of the office building
near the intersection of Pittsburgh St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
Greensburg - Greensburg
Salem High School - A ghost has been
seen walking around in the wrestling room in the basement. Many
wrestlers say that he comes up and wrestles them during practice. He
has been seen hitting on Ashley Chapel.
Greensburg - Livermore
cemetery - Reports of an apparition.
Greensburg - Seton
Hill College - Olde Main - Maura Hall - Graveyard
- Many sighting have taken place over the years,
weird noises, walking, doors shutting, singing, the chapel organ
playing, and sighting of a priest walking across the main parking lot
at night. They have also have reports of a little boy playing with a
ball in the graveyard.
Greensburg - Seton
Hill University - Brownlee Residence Hall- It's been reported that a mysterious purple light
that seems to come out of nowhere appears in the corner of a dorm room
on the first floor. Also, it's been reported that the shadow of girl
who had hung herself many years ago in her room can be seen on the wall
across from the room that it supposedly happened.
Greenock - Old
Dravo Cemetery - Old miner people walk
around the grounds at night down by the Yough Bike Trail.
Greenville - Thiel
College - Roth Hall - Many people
have seen a ghost haunting Roth Hall. The origin of the ghost is
unknown.
Grove City - Grove
City College - The Lilly Room - Locked
off room in bottom of girls dorms and cafeteria. Rumored that a young
girl hung herself in the closet of the room. The room was closed off 15
yrs later opened up again and the smell of lilies the same smell of the
girls perfume lingered. The room was sealed off again. Sightings of the
girl at night on lower floors of dorms. Pounding can be felt sometimes
on the floors of the rooms above the lily room. Also crying heard from
inside the sealed room.
Grove City - Grove
City College - Mary Anderson Pew - In
the lower levels exists a locked room. Within this room lived a girl
who was taken by a demon spirit and persuaded to commit suicide. After
her death an exorcism was attempted on the room. However, the demon
presence was too powerful to be subdued. The only way the exorcist
could keep the demon at bay was to confine it to the room and not allow
a new vessel to gain entrance. However, it is now said that if you
watch at night you can see the girl walking the hallways. You can feel
a presence scratching on the wall, and you can hear noises coming from
within the locked room.
Grove City - PEW
Fine arts center - During the 1970's a
student fell from the cat walks of the theatre and died due to fall
related injuries. The death was covered up as much as possible. The
female student began haunting the costume shop of the old theatre and
is rumored to have moved to the new auditorium when it was built, in
one of the costumes. Numerous sightings of her have been reported and
various strange and unexplainable occurrences have happened that are
attributed to her. There have been several attempts to exorcise the
building, all of which have failed. The students, particularly the ones
in the theatre attribute much of what goes wrong to Gwendolyn and live
in almost a constant state of fear of the ghost.
Guffy - Guffy
Cemetery - Statue of ST. Francis comes to
life at night, patrolling the grounds for graves that have been
desecrated. He holds a dove in his hand that he releases; it circles
the cemetery seeking out those graves, which have been disturbed. Said
to torment grave robbers.
Harmarville - 13
bends - There was an orphanage that
burned down with all the kids still in it, and when you go up the hill
all the bump you go over are the buried children. When you go up the
hill there are 13 bends, when you come down there are only 12. If you
stop half way up the hill, turn your car off, put baby powder on the
windows, then turn your car back on after a few minutes there will be
little hand prints all over your windows. Sometimes at night you can
hear screaming children
Harmarville - Campbells
Run Road - Orphanage - During some nights
you can see small white lights, fly around in this area. The blink in a
rapid pattern of three to four blinks, then a short pause.
Harmarville - Campbells
Run Road - The Trail - Three miners
died. If you walk a trail near the road, during the day, they will walk
past (appearing very real) and acknowledge you. They disappear after
they pass you.
Harmarville - Campbells
Run Road - The Woods - Three hunters
died. You will see large orbs floating through the woods. Also appear
as an apparition with out feet.
Harmony - Harmony
Inn - A man named Louie was killed
outside on the front steps of the Harmony Inn and is haunting the inn
to try to spread his idea of linking the past present and future.
December 2006 Additional Information - As
stated by many of the employees, there is also the figure of a woman
that has been seen on many occasions, generally in the area of entrance
way between the bar and dining room.
Harrisburg - Harrisburg
State Hospital - Harrisburg State
Hospital was an insane asylum for over 150 years. It admitted its first
patient in 1851 as The Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital. It is
located on the outskirts of city limits of Harrisburg on a 200 acre
plot, most of which falls within Susquehanna Township lines. There is
an entrance on Cameron St. across from the Farm Show complex and
another one off of Elmerton Ave. A hiking and biking trail called the
Capital Area Green Belt leads into another entrance in the Edgemont
area of the city. It closed its doors as an asylum in 2006, but the
grounds and buildings are still in use today as offices for several
state agencies such as the PA Office of Mental Health. There are now
over 50 buildings on the grounds, although a large portion of the land
is still Woodland. Many different noises from screams to footsteps are
heard and many different visuals ranging from shadows to full-bodied
apparitions are witnessed. The morgue, although very tiny, is 2 stories
tall and the basement leads into the tunnels. There are large
blood-like stains on the floor and all the exam tables are still there.
There is also poltergeist activity reported in the various buildings.
Be warned, it may be illegal to be on the property at night and there
are some security guards. The morgue, stables, and some of the tunnel
entrances are secluded enough to probably not be noticed if entered at
night, and since that area is right by the Green Belt, one could enter
the property from that entrance and have the car readily available, but
it is probably best to try and get permission. It is DEFINITELY illegal
to actually be in the tunnels or the morgue, as well as any other
buildings that are boarded up or locked.
Harrisburg - IHS
Nursing Home - The nursing home is said
to be built over an old Indian Cemetery. The one left hallway in the
nursing home's main floor is the only place that seems to be haunted.
Items in rooms being thrown everywhere, noises coming from places. Once
a nurse walked into a patients room and left, and a few minutes later
came back in, and the patient she was treating said "where did that
Indian boy go that was following you?". Also, one time a patient in a
room seemed to be being suffocated, and her other roommate rang the
call bell and the nurses came in and she suddenly stopped being
suffocated. The patient said she saw a character like the "grim reaper"
over her strangling her. The next day, bruises appeared on her neck in
the shape on hands. Presences are felt in this hospital. Lights going
on and off, pretty much the whole place is haunted.
Harrisburg - Harrisburg
Mall – Boscov’s - former Bass Pro Shops
& former J C Penny's - When it was an
empty store that was formerly J.C. penny's at the Harrisburg east mall.
Night security guards were known to see the images of a person on the
stores roof and the image of a human looking from the glass doors. Many
times during security checks inside the building, you would hear noises
and get the feeling that you were being followed and watched, as if you
were being "breathed" on also feelings of dread are common. During one
occurrence in the summer, two of the security guards hit a cold spot
inside the store and no air conditioning was on. Alarms would go off
for no reason, lights would be turned on and off that were on motion
sensors. It was also reported to by a local detective and confirmed by
a former employee that a person killed himself in the store and another
person died of natural causes inside the store. The detective the
information came from bought the gun the person used to kill himself
from the family. - March 2008 update: no
reports have been made since it turned into Boscov’s.
Harrison City - Bushy Run Battlefield - The
ghost of a Scottish Highland soldier who was killed in the battle can
be seen roaming the woodline from Edge Hill.
Hastings - Seldom
Seen Valley Coal Mine - In the early
1900's Three out of work miners from the small Mining town of Hastings
head about a widow who had a large amount of jewelry and money and
thought it to be an easy score. The made there way to the widows house
and made way with the money after one of the robbers was shot in the
arm by the widows oldest son. They made there way to what was at the
time Miller Run Mining Company No.1 the hit the loot in a non-operating
part of the mine and returned to Hastings. They were picked up in a
police dragnet three days later after getting drunk and bragging about
what they did. Not enough evidence was ever brought up to convict them
when they were released they made there way back to the mine to recover
the loot and make a get away. While they were digging they caused a
large cave in that flooded nearly all of Miller Run the other side of
the mountain was opened up into Chest Creek Mining Company where it
meets with the old Miller Run min shaft. Fire Bosses and Pumpers
working late at night would report digging and screaming noises coming
from back Old Miller Run and still to this day if the mine is quite
enough you can still hear the bone quenching noises of the 3 robbers
desperately trying to get there money. The money and the bodies where
never recovered due to the mine becoming flooded. Chest Creek Mining
Co. is now Seldom Seen Mining co. is it for touring only and they are
give from Memorial day till Labor day during the Halloween Season there
is a haunted mine Conducted
Hazleton - Bishop
Hafey High School - There's been stories
of hearing screams and strange noises coming from the library windows
of the school at night. People say there was a girl who committed
suicide at that location `outside the library in the mid/late 1970's,
and must still linger around there.
Hazleton - The
ghost of Broad St - There are stories of
a man known as Pete who roams the grounds of the shopping center in
Hazleton. Its said that as a young man, Peter worked at a local hoagie
store where he was in a horrific accident when a meat slicer. Pete has
been seen in what looks to be a green uniform worn in the hoagie store.
Pete is said to be a very, tall ghost. Check it out for yourself
Hazleton - Green
Street - After a basketball game a kid
fell down 4 flights of stairs in the old Holy Trinity School and now is
haunting the Holy Trinity School that is there now.
Hazleton - Key
Theatre, Broad Street - Three ghosts are
dressed n early 1900 attire. One man haunts the projector room.
Sometimes you may see the projector turn on itself. Or hear old music
playing, and before you can reach the door, its gone. The second ghost
seems to like the concession stand. The last ghost is the most
frequently seen in the ticket booth.
Hazleton - Ridgewood
dirt road - in between the dirt road
there is an old construction site and there are little workhouses,
trucks, cranes, etc. The gates are locked and closed 24/7 because no
one has been there in at least 30 to 35 years. Believed to be haunted
by a man that died of shock when he lost his hand in an explosives
accident.
Hazleton - West
Hazleton Middle/Elementary School-
Reports of a man walking around the halls at night and in the early
morning. Decks moving by themselves. Things missing after lunch. Doors
opening and closing. in the early 1950's before West Hazleton middle
school was there that area was a massive resting place for loved ones
it is said that in the 1980's when West Hazleton was built they moved
the bodies of some 2,500 people to the our lady of grace grave yard in
this process it is said that some people were Quote- "Not Recovered"
Said Some Hazleton Area People. It Is Said That On May 7th of every
year in side the school after dark you can hear the cry's and moan's of
the people who were not recovered. Although According The Hazleton
Police Dept. Quote- "All of the Bodies Were Moved To Our lady of grace.
All of them"
Hazleton - Wyoming
and Green Streets - In the little shop on
the corner of Wyoming and Green Streets, next to I believe Cousins Bar,
there is said to have been various sightings of people walking through
the storefront, in the kitchen, and in the basement. There was
supposedly a mass murder in the building back in the late 1930's. While
nobody has actually physically encountered any of them, they are said
to be very temperamental and violent.
Henryville - Henryville
House Route 191 North - It is an old
hotel that is currently out of business. It has at least nine spirits
currently residing there. As far as we know there is a small child,
three grown males and five grown females. They usually do not cause
problems unless they are provoked. It is also believed that there is an
old Native American burial ground on the property.
Hermitage - Hogback
Road - It is said that the area was and
is still used by the KKK. There is a bridge,it is said people were
killed under this bridge. If you put your keys on the bridge for 5
mins,Your car will not start. The road is very bad tho. Its is really
hilly and also has no winter maintance. Be alarmed we recentaly
walkedup a hill with what looks like a path on it. It is said a the top
is the meeting ground. We were walking up the path when i turned the
light on the camera on, there in the woods we then seen a white figure.
We did not stick around long enough to investigate it. - October 2004 correction: The family that died under
the bridge were early setlers in the area from the late 1700's (when
the county began to be settled) and some have reported the mother
frantically looking for her childen in the underbrush. You can hear the
rustling of the bushes and a plaintive call in the distance. Some have
reported that she carries a glowing taper or lantern.
Hershey - Hershey
Park - The Park at night can be a very
scary place. The carousel turns on by itself in the middle of the night
and is a mysterious maintenance worker who works on the Commet roller
coaster. He was a victim of a freak accident at the roller coaster. It
is also said that the ghost of Hershey himself roams the park to keep
an eye on things.
Hershey - Holiday
Inn - A girl was seen in one of the rooms
during the night, walking around. where she turned and walked into the
wall and vanished.
Hershey - Hotel
Hershey - Sightings of Mr. Hershey and
doors opening and closing. The sound of foot steps in the old wine
cellar. Strange noises and sounds.
Hollsopple - Fire
Hall - A volunteer fireman was killed in
the basement of the fire hall but no one can quite figure out how he
died. Other firemen have complained of hearing doors aspen and close
with no one inside, fire gear being misplaced. It is believed that the
phantom of the dead fireman haunts the fire hall.
Homer City - In
this area there is an old logging road. There is a man who had lived
there with his family a long time ago. He had gone crazy and killed his
family, mother, daughter, son and grandfather. Then killing himself.
The bodies of all are buried on the hill in a little cemetery, and the
house was burned to the ground. But when you try walking up this hill
at night he will come out of a green light and start running after you.
Hollsopple - Old
Hershberger Road - Back a long time ago,
it is said that a schoolhouse was located in here where students would
go to learn. One boy named Henry, who was very young, fell in a
boiler and was burnt to death. He now haunts the road.
Strange noises were heard like creaks and loud bangs. Also, a man
was murdered back in the woods of Hollsopple.
Horsham - Keith
House - County Line Road - In the 1700's a
young woman was decapitated by a British solider in the revolutionary
war. Ever since the tragedy you can see her walking around her house at
midnight searching for her lost head. - December
2005 Correction/Additional Information: is the former home of a
colonial Pennsylvania governor. Also known as Graeme Park.
Immaculata - Immaculata
College - It is rumored that a nun back
in the early 1900's broke her vows and became pregnant. She was found
out, and instead of being thrown out she jumped from the 4th floor
balcony of the rotunda. Since her death, there is a large distinctive
series of cracks on the glass floor of the Rotunda. Despite the efforts
of the convent community to replace these cracked tiles, the new tiles
always become shattered in the exact manner as the previous ones.
Students who live on the hall on either side of the rotunda say that at
night they can hear a woman crying, footstep following them when they
are alone, and cold spots, the eerie cold feelings - They are not evil
feelings, but feelings of remorse and regret. One student also stated
that one night she was studying in one of the study rooms that is right
off the rotunda and she thought she saw a nun in an old fashioned habit
walking past the door way.
Independence - John T. Anderson Cemetery - Off Service Creek Road there is a very old church and
cemetery located along the banks of the Ambridge Reservoir. Service
Creek Church was built in the 1700's and the adjoining cemetery is just
as old. There are remains of Revolutionary War soldiers, Civil War
soldiers and more recent graves. It is still being used. The church and
cemetery look like something out of a postcard, but beware. There is an
eerie feeling here and total absolute silence. Sometimes, there is an
indefinable smell in the air. Behind the church property is the road
that runs along the reservoir. - BE
ADVISED...it is ILLEGAL to go over the guardrails and down to the
reservoir. YOU WILL BE ARRESTED!!! - There
are strange faces in the mists and unexplainable violent thunderstorms
that suddenly stop once you reach the end of the road. Strange sounds
like whispers can be heard late at night. This is a popular lovers'
lane area. Violent lightning strikes sometimes hit the banks even when
the weather is clear. There are voices here and strange movements and
lights, and it is ALWAYS foggy. Reports of strange animals have also
been recorded. This was once Indian land. Back in the cemetery, there
have been numerous dead animals seen and always a feeling of being
watched. When you stand at one of the Civil War graves, you can
actually get a sense of how this soldier died and "see" him lying in
his coffin. The spirits attempt to communicate with the living. The
main road into the cemetery is a pine-tree lined twisting scenic road
that leads right into the church parking lot.At night, however, this
road is misty and mysterious lights can be seen shimmering in the fog.
- PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL...the church and
cemetery are still in use.
Independence - Old bridge - Along a
road in Independence Twp. in Beaver county, there runs a creek, which
is spanned by a dilapidated iron bridge. A century and a half ago, a
couple riding in a carriage were killed when their horses spooked and
the carriage fell into the creek from the then wooden bridge. The
course of the road has been changed, but one is still able to see the
figure of the woman running beside the creek on some nights.
Independence - Quaker Cemetery- This
place is said to be haunted by all forms of ghosts there have been
sightings of multi colored lights ranging in color. Some sightings
include that of a man chasing a woman with a axe and then just
vanishing. When you are at this place a eerie atmosphere is felt. An
almost evil presence can be felt in the air when approaching the old
cemetery.
Indiana - Allen
Bridge - the ghost of a lady in white.
Indiana - IUP
Campus - Waller Hall Building - Ghost
of a little girl, "Sarah", who drowned in the pool before it was taken
out and the building made the theatre department. She's often
seen sitting in the grid above the main stage during productions
watching the show or playing in a corner. Also a "bad presence"
of an older gentleman often causing things to move or doors to bang,
especially in the studio theatre or props loft in the basement of the
building.
Jennersville - Red Rose Inn - A murder
suspect was hung in front of the Inn and now roams the area.
Johnstown - A
coal miner from the early 1900's walks the base of the Inclined Plane
hillside. Several years ago a boy reported seeing a coal miner with
early 1900's gear on walking the hiking trail at the base of the
Inclined Plane. In 1902 a mine explosion killed 115 miners in this same
area.
Johnstown - Bishop
McCort High School - It is said that if
you go into former teacher’s room and turn out the lights and say "good
morning Deac" 3 times then he appears on the chalkboard and grants you
3 wishes. Good luck to all.
Johnstown - Brown's
Cemetery - This secluded cemetery has
been host to many strange sightings and occurrences. People have
reported seeing an elderly couple walking around the trees by the pond.
Strange noises and lights in the woods have also been observed. An
isolated wind has been felt blowing around the old headstones, while
the air is calm around the pond and surrounding area.
Johnstown - Croyleton
Stables - It's Somerset Pike, horse farm.
A caretaker was killed in the late 1800's. He was kicked in the head by
a horse and shortly thereafter died. He still inhabits the barn and
lower field. On summer nights you can hear horses neighing and then a
scream. You can also see him wandering around occasionally.
Johnstown - Chandler
School - The school was shut down around
1990-91.It is said to be haunted by a janitor that was doing one of his
many jobs and a board fell from the ceiling and killed him. It is also
said to be haunted by a little boy who had an asthma attack during
lunch one day. Lights still turn on and off and there is no
electricity. December 2006 Additional
Information: There always had stories of the janitor that haunted the
halls. There was an old wall-piano that was supposed to be sent to the
local High School. One day, it was sitting on a landing. The next day,
it was in shambles at the bottom of the stairs. Chandler has since been
reopened. It is an apartment building for elderly folks.
Johnstown - Conemaugh
Valley High School- When the school was
built, it was built on an old cemetery. Several bodies were moved to
accommodate the building. Several stories persist such as lights
turning off and on by themselves. Custodial workers report strange
noises like whistling and humming when no one else is in the building.
Several students participating in extracurricular activities have
reported seeing strange apparitions which seemingly just vanish or walk
through walls. During school hours, doors will slam shut by themselves
and lockers will fly open. Apparitions have also been reported in the
football field and student parking lots.
Johnstown - Crum
Cemetery - Said to be haunted if you turn
your car off on the second bridge of the path that leads to it you wont
be able to start it again there is an image of a carriage that rides
through at night.
Johnstown - Forest
Lawn Cemetery - An apparition of a woman
in a white dress has been reported to be seen walking through the
cemetery at night.
Johnstown - Former
Abood, Russel, Pappas & Rozich Law Office. - Many reports of occurrences happened at the law
office, such as doors slamming by themselves, alarms going of from the
inside when only one person was in the building, and areas of "fog".
There ahve been a few people who have witnessed a young lady dressed in
blue. The restaurant that was there after the law office relocated
because of these hauntings also reported radios shutting off by
themselves. The building is on its 107th year.
Johnstown - Greater
Johnstown High School - A janitor was
killed in the auditorium of Johnstown High School because he fell from
the balcony. Some students have seen the janitor or someone walking
around. Doors shut, seats creak and no one is in the room. Under the
stage are rooms. When you go under, you can hear someone on the steps
and doors slam.
Johnstown - Ideal
Market - people that work here have
reported putting things some where in the store and it disappearing and
reappearing somewhere else. This has happened on quite a few occasions.
Johnstown - Laura
wood Nursing Home - Reports of ghostly
apparitions have been seen roaming this hall and therapy room at the
end of the hall way. Someone pounding on windows have been reported
through out the facility.
Johnstown - Lower
Yoder TWN. - In the forest across from D
St. & Norton RD. Children & Adults hear voices, whistling, and
unexplainable noises. And sometimes see glows in the night which people
call orbs. Local people sometimes walk through the forest and follow
paths and come out just terrified but like something wants them to go
back. Some people think its workers from the old coal mines or just
spirits wondering.
Johnstown - North
Fork Dam - There have been many sightings
of ghosts behind the dam where the graveyard is. People have been hung
and shot in this deep, wooded area. Always makes your hair stand on end
when you're around.
Johnstown - University
of Pittsburgh - American Indian spirits
are seen in areas adjacent to soccer fields. Rumor has it that prior to
building of the school there was an Indian Burial Mound, similar to
others in that vicinity.
Johnstown - University
of Pittsburgh - Briar 2 - On the
bottom floor in the far rooms there was repeating occurrences of a
ghost. Printers would start printing pictures of girls in the house,
faucets would mysteriously turn on, and one girl heard a man talking
while she was sleeping when there was nobody around. Strange white
circles are said to have showed up in pictures as well.
Johnstown - University
of Pittsburgh - Laurel Hall & Oak Hall, Oak Hall and Laurel Halls as well as the woods
surrounding the campus all have had strange happenings. Oak and Laurel
were supposedly built on an Indian burial ground; the stretch between
the two scares some people so much that they will not walk it at night;
drums have been heard around here. Laurel was exercised in 1986 after a
knife flew across the room and stuck in the a door by itself. In the
woods there is a small cemetery and a ghost of a small girl has been
seen walking around its vicinity.
Johnstown - University
of Pittsburgh - The Living and Learning Center, Woodland
Townhouse, and Briar Lodge - All
five of these buildings on campus have had repots of apparitions, and
strange sounds.
Johnstown - University
Of Pittsburgh - Oak Hall - Drums
can be heard off in the distance as well as chanting. Whispers calling
out the name Allison and Abby can sometimes be heard.
Kane - Chestnut
Street School - a janitor was killed in
the basement by a student in the 1950-1960 some times the elevator goes
by it self and you have to use a key to run it it is warm every were
except were he was killed in the basement.
Kane - Clay
Street School - Usually around 2:00am
when people walk by the old school from the 1800s, they see children
watching from windows on the top floor.
Kane - The
Kane Manor has a recurring bloodstain from a painter who fell to his
death in the 20's.
Kelayres - Old
School - An old Public School that has
been shut down and turned into a machine shop. At times you can see
lights that turn on by themselves, smell strange odors, see strange
figures, and at night it is always colder than any other spot in town.
Kersey - Earlyville
Cemetery - At 9:30 in the morning a
purple and red haze can sometimes be seen towards the wooded area at
the end of the cemetery. Singing is usually heard, sounding like a
little boy. The Cemetery dates back to the early 1900's when the town
was called Centerville.
Koppel - Foxwood
Road - When traveling down the road at
approx midnight, sometimes you can see the imagine of the "headless
horseman" run across the road in front of you. He is harmless. Legend
has is that he was a civil war soldier who was the enemy. He was caught
and decapitated. - February 2004
Correction: The legend the submitter has heard about this road concerns
a little girl and 2 hounds roaming the road at around midnight near an
old early 1800's cemetery that is there.
Kutztown - Kutztown
Historical Society building - Which was a
former Kutztown school building is said to be haunted by a young woman
who several people have claimed to see in one of it's windows.
Kutztown - Kutztown
State College - The college's central
administration building, Old Main, is haunted by the spirit of Mary
Snyder. Who died of a heart failure on the 5th floor. Her spirit still
haunts this building today.
La Plume - Keystone
College - Art Center - an Indian
girl has been reported wandering about. Many have seen her and have
interacted with her. She seems to enjoys the ceramics room the most.
La Plume - Keystone
College - Moffat Hall - Keystone
College in itself is entirely haunted. Built in the 1800s, it has been
said that the school grounds lay over an Indian burial ground; thus
making some very unhappy metaphysical presences. Moffat Hall was the
first residence hall built on campus. Though there are quite a few
known stories of many different people dying (suicide mostly), there is
no real known explanation for the ghost that haunts the girls bathroom
in suite 2A. Walking into the bathroom late at night you can hear a
girl crying, an apparition of the girl has been spotted.
La Plume - Keystone
College - Ward Hall - Reports of
lights turn on and off in the hallway and one time desks were lined up
down the center of the hallway. Strange thing is, the doors at the ends
of the hallway are bolted shut allowing no one inside. - November 2005 Update: A ghost hunter recently visited
Keystone College. A student took initiative to show taped video footage
of the basement of Ward Hall. In the video, a light at the end of the
hall turned on mysteriously and a black blob-like entity wandered
across the end of the hall. The recording equipment was left overnight.
No one was there to witness the event live.
Lancaster - Franklin
& Marshall College - Apparently in
the late 1970's a female freshman committed suicide in her room on the
third floor of South Ben Franklin dormitory because she could not
handle the college's intense workload. Since that time, whenever winter
finals grow near, there are reports of screams in the night, sightings
of a ghostly figure wandering the halls with a physics book, and even
the appearance of blood on the floor of her former room.
Lancaster - Fulton
Opera House - Reports of screams heard.
Lancaster - Lancaster
County Prison - The section of the prison
(the castle section) this section is the original Lancaster county
prison from the 1800's 1900's where the prisoners served life sentences
and were chained to the wall. The old cells and chains are still there
and are very creepy. Reports of whistling and whispering.
Lancaster - Maple
Springs Rd - Residents have seen a tall
figure standing at the end of their beds.
Lancaster - Mondale
Bridge - There are various versions of a
little Amish girl being killed in the Mondale Road bridge. The
'thing to do' is pull into the bridge, and stop in the middle.
Turn off your car, turn off your lights. Various versions of the
story describe in some way her apparition climbing over your car, or
walking through your car. A few people that tried this have had
hand prints over their car that they didn't notice until they saw their
car in daylight.
Lancaster - Narvon
– Welsh Mountain - reports of feeling
watched, doors slamming, hearing voices and screams.
Lancaster - Silver
Springs - Cars seem to run into people
and then suddenly disappear. But people say they never saw a driver.
Lancaster - the
villages of Lancaster green apartments - At
the Lancaster Green Apartments, building K,2 young women were murdered.
To this day no one knows who or what killed them. Some say that it was
just a tree branch falling on the roof. When their mother found them,
their faces were ashen, eyes blood red, faces twisted with terror.
Every year on the day they were found dead, screams can be heard,
echoing down the halls. There are also sounds of struggling, but then
there is quiet. Then all of a sudden, you see a flash of light in the
halls, and then the power goes out. That happens about every two years
for a few weeks on and off. I pity you if you live in that building. Be
careful.
Lancaster - Willow
Valley Retirement Homes - Said to be
known at night that in a kitchen located at one of the Manors that a
white ghostly figure walks through the doors of the kitchen, it is
known to be a figure of a chef.
Lancaster County - Four seasons Hotel - Its
closed down now, and watched heavily by police. Voices have come from
within the boarded up windows of this three story hotel. I've
personally seen bricks fly out of glass windows, and then come back the
next day with friends and the window isn't broken anymore. I've never
been inside of this place yet, but have heard other stories about it
other than what I've seen with my own eyes.
Lansdown - Today
Inc - Seeing shadows move across the
windows when you are standing outside. The building was built in the
1700's. The profile of a little boy is seen also.
Langhorne - Neshamity
Jr. High - A janitor who has been thought
to worship Satan and committed suicide in 1978. Some students and
faculty claim to see his spirit roaming the halls.
Langhorne - Woods
services (off Bellvue Dr.) - Now a
residential treatment facility for kids with behavioral problems the
land was originally owned by a woman named Molly Woods. (the whole
facility was named after her). Molly Woods was a patriot and allowed
her property to be used as a makeshift hospice and cemetery for fallen
Revolutionary soldiers because it was so near the battles in Trenton.
Which is a scant 10 minute drive from Langhorne. There are many
accounts of apparitions...Molly's original manor is used as the
business epicenter but there are many esteemed, pragmatic and intrepid
colleagues that refuse to go into that house after dark and state
(without fanfare) that it is point-blank haunted.
Latrobe - St.
Vincent's Monastery and College - Tales
of a spectral monk have been in circulation and documented since the
1800s. Footsteps on the steps of the basilica's bell tower. Shadows and
sightings of a monk that was killed in the mill persist to this
day...security frequently has to shut off the lights in the building
even though no one is there. The ghost of Father Boniface (the founding
priest of St. Vincent) is said to come with such frequency that it's a
freshman initiation rite. Father Boniface presumably rises from his
grave on the day of his death (early December), walks to the basilica
to hear mass, then comes back and disappears. Stories also abound of a
monk who wanders the area between St. Vincent's and the nearby St.
Xavier, which was a nearby convent. His cowl covers his face, and even
when one tries to see who it is, one cannot see a face.
Lebanon - Inn
422 - The inn was originally built by Mr.
Coleman for his daughter. She was said to have killed herself in the
house because her father would not allow her to marry her true love
because he was not of the upper call. Her ghost has been seen in the
inn as well as other strange occurrences. The full story and history of
Inn422 can be found here http://www.inn422.com/history.html
Lebanon County - Indiantown
Gap - Hotel Road - In the current state
game lands just North West of Indiantown Gap, by Hawk Watch Mnt. Used
to be the site of a summer hotel for the rich in the early
1800's. Through its years it didn't make much money, the owners
closed down the hotel for it to later be bought and remade into a
boyscout camp. The hotel suffered a horrifying fire and the
majority of the residents inside of it burned to death. Just up
the hill from the hotel is an old abandoned railroad bed. Along
this railroad bed, from the 1600's to late 1800's early 1900's, sat a
multitude of mine towns. One such mine town, about 3 miles from
the hotel, was named Raush Gap. It had a population of about
1,000 people. This mine town house a family who's only job was to
switch the tracks for the trains. The man in the house fell ill
and died, and during a time of morning his wife forgot to switch the
tracks. This lead to a horrific train accident killing upwards of
250 people. When the wreck was all cleaned up and the bodies
buried in a, yet undiscovered because its hidden in the woods behind
the current standing cemetery, mass grave. The towns people
turned on the woman for not doing her job and were on their way to
lynch the woman. To their dismay they did not find her, at least
not alive, the woman had thrown herself in front of a moving train
killing her instantly. To this day the part of the tracks where
the wreck happened you get a heavy feeling of pain on your chest, it is
hard to breath, it is always about 20 - 30 degrees cooler than anywhere
else. You can hear the train whistle, and it is stated that you
will see a figure of a woman holding a lantern, the lady with the
lantern, roaming the tracks, seemingly looking for the train she once
lost. And if she sees you she will rush towards you and if she
passes through you, you will die in a car accident that will look like
you were hit by a train.
Lebanon County - Indiantown Gap - Green Point - Moonshine church &
Cemetery - Driving up the hill(Rt.443) to
the church at night(church on the left/cemetery on the right) IF you
dare to stop(especially at Halloween) around midnight chances your car
will shut offWeird noises can be heard around the whole area. Among
various paranormal phenomena, the most commonly reported is that of car
engines cutting out when being driven past the cemetery. Also it's said
that a girl went into the church and said The Lord's Prayer backwards
and was struck dead by lightening. Also in and around the same
area(Indiantown Gap),it's said that The "Headless Horseman" rides
through the valley looking for a new head. - March 2005 Correction: Earlier submitted that you see
blue eyes in the trees at the end of the cemetery, supposedly the
"Blue-Eyed Six" were hung there for murdering a man. The cemetery at
this church is said to be haunted by the Blue-Eyed Six, a gang that
murdered a local man and whose members were all subsequently hung in
the cemetery as punishment(a play has been written about this event and
was possibly copyrighted). This information is NOT TRUE. The Blue Eyed
Six were never related in any way to the church or it's cemetery.
Although all these things occured within this area more or less. They
never were hung in the cemetery or buried there, nor is it believed
they would have any reason to haunt this place as they have no worldy
connections. The Blue eyed six were all caught and tried in the Lebanon
County Court House, hung in thecourtyard of the Lebanon County prison
except Josiah Hummel who died in Prison, and all were buried seperatly
on their individual homesteads. Many in the area where brought up to
believe the Moonshine Church and the entire wooded area of Indiantown
Gap was haunted by what is known as THE RED DEVIL! The submitter of the
correction is also submitting a personal experience and will be posted
when we get a link.
Leet Township - Wolf's Woods' - Rumors
of a few murders are spread. Strange noises like growling and people
are heard, but nothing can be seen
Lehigh - Allentown
- Manorcare Health Services - the ghost
of a small boy has been seen in the kitchen. the boy was about 8 or 9
years old, had brown hair and was wearing modern clothing. Each time
they encountered this boy he appeared whole to them, just like a normal
human being. there wasn't anything else about the boy's appearance that
was odd or out of the ordinary. when workers encountered the boy, he
would look directly at them then run from them and attempt to hide
elsewhere in the kitchen. When they would try to find the boy he was
nowhere to be found. Because this activity only happened on the later
shifts (2nd&3rd) it would have been all but impossible for anyone,
especially a child, to get into any of the buildings without being
noticed.
Lehighton - Lehighton
Cemetery - it is said that the victims of
the Gnaden Huetten Massacre can be seen day or night wandering around
the tomb where they are buried and memorialized. There is an old marker
with a flat slab from 1755 that marks the occasion
Lehighton - Railroad
Trestle - Local residents say an
apparition of a young woman can be found walking along the trestle in
white, and then disappears halfway across it as if heading to
Packerton.
Letterkenny - Gravedigger
Church - If you cross over the chain
blocking the old driveway, you will start to here footsteps all around
the boarded up church. If you decide to venture into the grave yard,
don’t bother to close the old cast iron gate; an invisible force will
shut it for you. Then when you turn to go back down the old driveway,
you will notice the chain you just crossed swinging like a jump-rope,
even on the stillest of days.
Lewisberry -Three
kids were killed in a car accident at the end of Pleasant View Rd. If
you go to the stop sign and put your car in neutral the ghost will push
your car backwards up the hill. If you place baby powder on the front
of your car you will see their handprints. This really happens.
Lewistown - Burnham
- Caves in the woods - There were two men
shot to death and hidden in one cave a long time ago and they are
supposed to haunt it, the `ther one is on the other side of town and is
said to be haunted by a boy who was hit by a car riding his bike and
was hid in there.
Lewistown - Green
Gables - formerly listed as The Gables - The ghosts of two small children (a boy and a girl -
allegedly siblings) who supposedly died in fire years ago also haunt
the entire building. These two playful spirits especially enjoy the
company of the current owner’s youngest child. Observers have witnessed
evidence of these two ghosts when the younger child throws a ball and
the ball stops in mid-air and return to her. These two spirits have
shared their names with the owner’s youngest child and she will address
them by name. They will often bring "others" along with them when they
come to play. If the owner’s children are not there, these two spirits
seem to be unhappy and are more likely to allow others to see them or
evidence of them. The owner claims that these presences bring "charm"
to his establishment and he welcomes everyone to come and take the
chance they might have a spooky encounter! If that fails, at least
you’ll get a fabulous meal, as the food is top notch!
Lewistown - Green
Gables - 1st Floor - There are
ghost in the kitchen that like to move furniture and other things
around. There are several entities that take up residence in this
facility. The bottom floor houses a kitchen, bar, restaurant, and motel
office. There is the ghost of a woman who haunts the downstairs,
specifically the kitchen and seems to be most comfortable in the
walk-in cooler. Upon entering the cooler, she'll whisper, "Turn off the
lights." She has also been known to disrupt items in the kitchen.
Lewistown - Green
Gables - 2nd Floor - Another
continuous sighting involves an older black man who appears to be
dressed in clothing from the late 1800s. He haunts the second floor and
seems to stay near the front stairway. He is often heard screaming at
the current owner’s dog to "shut up" and is generally unpleasant most
of the time. The owner’s reside on the third floor and when they first
moved in, were unaware of these presences and called the police on
several occasions to someone wondering around in their building.
Lewistown - Junction
Fire Department - It is said that a man
hung himself in the Engine room of the fire company and you can see him
there and hear him gasping for breath before he disappears. The meeting
room has had things move for no reason at all. You can hear kids
running around the lounge when it is quiet.
Lewistown - Sand
Ridge Road(Ferguson Valley) - When at the
old Jewish Cemetery on the ridge, moans and screams can be heard when
German is spoken, or even not! Visitors seem to hear the pain and agony
of those resting eternally there.
Limerick - Limerick
Power Generating Plant - When the plant
was being constructed in the late 70's and early 80's, one of the
workers was killed when he fell over 100 feet down an open elevator
shaft in the unit 2 reactor part of the building. To this day there
have been sightings of the ghost on the elevation from which he had
fallen from as well as many "cool" spots in a building which is
anything but cool.
Linesville - Knickerbocker
Hotel - Apparitions, feelings of being
watched, & strange voices have been heard.
Linwood - The
Wawa - Late at night all the workers on
night shift would be going on about their business when chip bags would
fly off the shelves and the sandwiches would make themselves. My friend
once got hit in the eye with a pickle during these frenzies. It flew so
hard in the air it gave her black eyes for weeks. It is said that it
was built back in the 1800's, the owner of wawa was so depressed that
there wasn't any business that he killed himself. He ran his arms threw
the meat slicers and then bled to death. Every now and then a costumer
will find a finger in their lunch meat.
Little Boston - It's a hill that consists of 13 turns on the way up.
At the top there was an Orphanage, but it burnt down many years ago,
all the children died. If you go up there at sunset you can hear the
sound of the children screaming, crying, and burning.
Livermore - Satan’s
Seat - Reports of a phantom house, that
disappears. From legend and research the place was a town in the
1800's. There was a witch living amongst the people and they burned her
alive, as she died she placed a curse of flood on the place and death
on the people. On the anniversary of her death there was indeed a great
flood, burying the entire town and people in it alive. if you park your
car near the gates at night, a train going across the only way out,
blocking you in for an hours worth of demon faces in your windows,
howling screeching sounds, corpses trying to get at you, and the like.
(Remember, in actuality the corpses are still underwater in the town,
never recovered). You can actually walk thru this place (beware, there
are wild dog packs throughout) and good luck not getting lost. If the
waters low enough, you can see the tops of chimneys and houses during
the day. Pay close attention to what you hear; sounds even in the
daytime are unexplainable and for added fun, try the cemetery off to
the left for gravesites of those who died before the flood. Not
recommended for ANY child, the place is dangerous. And don't drive thru
there, you will get fined at least $500.For more information check out
the Westmoreland Historical Association, and look up Livermore. It's
all there in black and white. And yes, the "Livermore Cemetery" sign is
the original that was used in the black and white version of Night of
the Living Dead.
Liverpool - Hanging
Tree - There is a rumor that in the 1800s
a man was hung at this tree, he proclaimed that he was innocent and
nobody believed him, so they hung him and to this day people say that
if you go to the tree at midnight that you can hear peoples laughing,
crying ,and you can hear the man yelling. When you go there people say
that you should stay in your car, you hear noises and one time kids
said that they heard and felt something jump onto their hood but they
didn't see anything. They said that their headlights went out somehow
and they had trouble starting their car.
Lock Haven - Assante's
Hotel - October 2004 update: Has been
torn down and is now a parkinglot -
Believed to haunted by first owner of the hotel Sal Assante,
apparitions seen.
Lock Haven - Lock
Haven University - Russell Hall -
a girl hung herself from the bell tower, it is a ghost named Mary.
Lock Haven - Lock
Haven University - Sloan Hall- The
university arts building, is haunted--by three ghosts: one a woman
draped in white, very calming (seen mostly in the main stage theatre
area), the second a feeling of a curious child (but nothing
seen--generally in the studio theatre on the third floor) and lastly a
black, fast moving blur of a spirit, very menacing.
Lock Haven - The
McGhee Elementary School - A school
custodian died very suddenly of a violent heart attack in the school's
multipurpose room during the 1996-97 school year. His presence is still
seen and felt by many teachers as well as some of the students
throughout the school.
Lower Burrell - Clemintines Restaurant - The
graveyard appears to be haunted. Many sightings seen by locals. The
school house lights flash on and off. Red Candels are there around the
Halloween holiday. THe tire swing moves without the win. The
apparitions of Jim Jones and Clemons fighting have been seen...Chady
Fitz.
Madison Township - 393 Ants Hill Road -
used to be former Pa. Gov. John Frederic Hartranft House. Believed to
be haunted by his daughters; whispering and talking softly, giggles of
a little girl, & moving about in house has been heard.
Malvern - General
Warren Inn - A man walks around the bar
blowing on all of the ladies’ necks. Also, the TV mysteriously turns
upside down. It is said soldiers have been seen here too. (Was also on
Unsolved Mysteries) Many other ghosts here, very haunted.
Manheim - Manheim
Central High School - An electrician was
putting the lighting up for the stage in the Auditorium when he slipped
and fell to his death. Many students in stage crew still see a ghostly
figure falling on certain nights.
Manor - Norwin
Elks - The Norwin Elks used to be the old
Fletcher's place. He made jellies and such assortments as that. When it
closed down is when all the hauntings were noticed. . . There are 3
distinct hauntings. The first haunting is in the Old Fletcher Barn
(Which became the Terror Barn). One of the groundskeepers apparently
had nowhere to go when Fletcher's was shutdown, so he thought he'd make
a statement to the world by hanging himself in the barn facing the
window on the second floor. Working there I noticed the scariest things
imaginable would happen. For one thing (and they had this on tape one
night while we were making a commercial for the terror barn) the radio
(which was located at the other side of the barn in the "Michael
Meyer's Room") was changing stations rapid ply and shutting off and
turning on while we are all meeting in the wizard room (on the other
side of the barn, nowhere near Michael Meyers).The second thing, if you
lay on the torture rack and look up you can see a man who walks the
rafters above. The other thing has to do withhe sound of cowboy boots
following you as you walk around. The last thing is above all the
scariest, a piercing scream while we were closing one night. The second
haunting of the Norwin Elks is located in the bar/dining area.
Apparently in the attic there is a specter who you cannot make out, but
she/he is there and watches you. Some say that it is a little girl and
others say it's a little boy. The third haunting is in the basement of
the Norwin Elks. If you walk down there you can hear a dog barking for
hours on end, but the Norwin Elks don't have any dogs. And sometimes
you see a maintenance man down there who tells you that the pipes of
the furnace need a cleaning, and when you ask them what's wrong he
vanishes. There are other reports of a man in the bar who never leaves
and when you finally force him outside he vanishes after he leaves the
door. But no one can say for certain what happened to any of these
ghosts. The only ghost that we know for sure is the Fletcher's
Groundskeeper in the terror barn who hung himself.
Mansfield - Internet
Café - A man named Ed died here
last year while playing EverQuest. You can see him sitting at the very
same computer playing EverQuest every now and then. The cafe has lost a
lot of business due to this.
Mansfield - Mansfield
University - Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity House - For years brothers of the fraternity have heard
unexplained noises and footsteps throughout the entire house. The
apparition of a man appeared in the attack, then vanished. Some
students have reported being held face first in their pillow by
invisible forces or have felt something sit at the bottom of their bed.
The house use to be part of the underground railroad and has had
several individuals die within in its doors. People hanging, children
playing, choking feelings at night, and many documented past events of
people coming to their untimely death haunt this house.
Mansfield - Mansfield
University - North HallA young
woman named Sarah supposedly haunts North Hall. She is believed to have
died after falling from the six-story atrium. Piano music can be heard
from the sixth floor, and the imprint of her body has been seen where
she landed on the ground.
Marianna - The
Marianna Cemetery - haunted by the ghost
of a woman and a black cat...The woman floats through the field that
and joins the cemetery and then into the cemetery and sits on the fence
with the cat...
Mars - Mars
Railroad Station - At the turn of the
20th Century, when the station was still fairly new, a small cat
lingered in the rooms where its owner worked. It was somewhat of a
mascot for the station over the next couple of years. One day, it
mysteriously disappeared. When the station was moved in August of 2000,
workers found a preserved body of a dead cat in the foundation. After
the station was moved, members of the Mars Historical Society began
experiencing strange happenings in the old structure. Cat sounds can be
heard. What is even more disturbing is that during the restoration
work, members discovered paw prints of a cat in the sawdust of a newly
cut board. Some members have even reported seeing a small cat wondering
around in the rooms. The members have nicknamed the ghost cat,
"Chessie". It was named after the now retired Chessie System. It is
said that Chessie's spirit emerges out of the ground where the station
used to be. It runs across the CSX tracks and enters the station where
it now sits. Many believe that Chessie searches unsuccessfully for it’s
lovable master who is now long gone.
Marshals Creek - Indian Museum - This
museum is haunted by the mysterious figure of a woman who descends the
stairway in the main hall.
Mason Town - The
Old Prison - It has said to be haunted,
it is not used for a prison no more it is used as a haunted house.
Strange cold air has been felt.
McCandless - McCandless
Town Hall - Built on farm land. Where it
is rumored a young child fell down a well in the early 1900's. Late at
night police officers and dispatchers have reported hearing sounds of
footsteps in the stairwells, whispering voices, creaking sounds like
doors being opened, and lights going on and off on their own. People
have reporting seeing the face of a young child staring from a second
floor window late at night. The building is kept locked.
McElhattan - River
Road RR Tracks - When a vehicle is parked
on the railroad tracks and put in neutral and shut off, the car will be
pushed off the tracks. It is said that many years ago (date unknown) a
school bus full of children was hit by a train and all children were
killed in the accident. to this day the ghost train still travels on
these tracks on the same date that the accident occurred. Several
people encountered this incident and they also used baby powder or
flour on the back of the vehicle and after the vehicle was pushed off
the tracks they visibly saw small child size had prints on the vehicle
rear in the powder.
Mckeesport - UPMC
Hospital - Voices have been heard, bad
vibes felt, and there have been sightings of spirits on the Mansfield
rooftop, Painter building, and the Kelly building by the maintenance
dept.
McVeytown - Mifflin
County - Reports of floating lights in
the cemetery.
Meadville - Academy
Theatre - There have been sightings of
ghost that died in many reasons. They have been known to roam the
theatre.
Meadville - Allegheny
College - Brooks Hall - One of
the rooms on the third floor in the all female dorm is supposedly
haunted. First of all, Pennsylvania does not allow sorority houses on
campus because of an outdated law to do with houses of ill repute. So
sorority sisters were housed in the all female dormitory, Brooks Hall.
The Greeks on campus had a ritual for pinning a girl that involved the
pinner to walk down Main St. with his brothers behind him with torches.
They would walk down Brooks Walk, a very long, red-brick lane that led
right to the front of Brooks Hall. The pinner would climb the building
to the front terrace where the pinnee would be waiting with her
sorority sisters to be pinned. Well one such time the fraternity
brother was climbing up the front of the building and fell to his
death. The sister, terribly distraught, went to her room and in a fit
of hysteria jumped out of the window, killing herself. Her spirit
supposedly haunts her old room and furniture has been moved around,
pictures fall from the walls, the window opens and the current tenants
all are driven to request a housing reassignment.
Meadville - Days
Inn - The building is quite old and is a
two building hotel. One building is the main building which contains
the kitchen and lobby and lounge as well as two floors of guest
rooms. The other building is laundry and two floors of rooms as
well as a floor of apartments. In the main building there have
been instances of apparitions in the kitchen and also on the second
floor when walking down the hallway if you look in the big window at
the end you can sometimes see someone behind you and when you turn
around no one is there, but when you turn back towards the window they
are there again. Also, one particular instance was in the kitchen
were a radio was playing and when the security guard turned it off and
walked away it came back on.....then he turned it off again and it came
back on when he turned it off again and heard the radio playing he went
back but the radio was not on and it was playing music. Also, the
other building contains several spirits that have been seen and when
you walk through the doors of the building you instantly sense a
presence...you can often hear doors open and close, lights turn on and
off on their own, and footsteps behind you. Also, when you walk
through the halls you can hear loud thumps on the door beside you and
the room will be vacant.
Meadville - John
Browns Tannery - It is said to be haunted
and soldiers are buried in and around the tannery in shallow graves.
Mechanicsburg - soilders and sailors park - in the back part of the park towards the football
feild theres a stone type memorial detacated to a young man. There has
been some weird sightings of an apperition of the young man by the
woods, his neck is bent to the side posibly because of the injury that
he got by falling from the steel jungle gym. thats how he died. The
park officals have torn down jungle gym since other kids have been
injured by falling from it.
Media - Heilbron
Mansion - This mansion sits on the corner
of Painters Crossing and Rose Tree Road. It is Haunted by 3 different
ghosts, 1 is a little girl that haunts the upstairs, one is her mother
whose presence can be felt in the Library, the grand staircase, and
upstairs hallway, and the third is a slave that was hung in a tree
outside who haunts the driveway and front porch. There is a book
written about the house called "Night Stalks the Mansion" the book is
out of print though, so it is hard to find copies of it.
Media/Middletown Township - Rose Tree Road - There
is a book in the non-fiction section of the local library called "Night
Stalks the Mansion". The Mansion still exists.
Mercer - West
Middlesex - Hogback Road - Road is one of
those roads that has winter snow removal on half, and none on the
other. The latter is a winding stretch of half gravel half pavement
that's no fun to drive on no matter what time of year. Down in a gully
on this "bad" stretch, there is an old wooden bridge that crosses
Hogback Run. It has been said that, years ago, a group of Satan
worshippers sacrificed a young woman. To this day, numerous witnesses
have heard screaming coming from the gully, and their headlights have
turned off when the car is parked on the bridge at night. Others have
said to feel "cold" spells on warm nights. - October 2004 correction: There were several
established Indian campsites located in the hills and upon bright
nights of a full moon in October and November (the Hunter's Moon, if
you stand quietly on the road, you will feel their spirits pass you and
see glowing orbs in the hollows of the hills. Some have reported seeing
the ghost of a young warrior standing by a tree at the crest of the
hill.
Middletown - Alfred's
Victorian - The ghost of an old woman
has been seen & heard. There is a rocking chair that rocks on it's
own. You can hear it. An employee of the restaurant once said, while in
the kitchen, she witnessed things flying off shelves.
Middletown - devils
bridge - a little boy was hit by a train
right under the bridge. it's on the back roads of Royalton and
Middletown and is said that if you go back there and tap 3 times on the
bridge you can hear 3 loud taps back. BE ADVISED THAT THE FARMERS THAT
LIVE THERE WILL CHASE YOU OUT. I WAS CHASED OUT WITH A SHOTGUN. BE
CAREFUL.
Middletown - Linvilla
Orchards - October 2007 Has been removed
Middletown - Londonderry
Fire Company - There is a former fire
fighter who was killed in an accident on his way to a fire call. He was
hit head on by our tanker. Late at night when your walking to the
bathroom you can hear his footsteps behind you and you can feel him
there. Minor occurrences of lights/TV being turned on and off. In the
windows of the double doors that lead from the lounge to the bay you
can see Sam's face in them. He will follow you around the bay (where
the trucks are kept). There was an instance where Sam knocked the old
fire helmets off the wall while one of the firefighters was sleeping on
the couch. Another current instance was the papers tacked to the wall
blew around as though someone was walking past at a fast pace. One
experience was having the doorknob on the double doors (from lounge to
bay) jiggle and the witness was the only person in the entire firehouse
at the time.
Middletown - old
cemetery - its said that if u walk around
the brick wall that surrounds the graveyard 3 times you will get pushed
off the third time around. you will hear weird noises. and feel like
you are not alone.
Middletown - Penn
State Harrisburg - The new Penn State
Harrisburg housing complex is built on an old sewage site. Allegedly,
the smell of raw sewage haunts several apartments in the newly built
housing complex and mysterious "garbage men" are seen out of the corner
of many peoples' eyes.
Middletown / Lima - Fair Acres Geriatric Center - This county home was established in Media,
Pennsylvania in 1807, where it remained until 1857. It then moved to
its present location in Lima on the 210-acre Abraham Pennell Farm on
Middletown Road. The farm was called "Fair Acres", and as a county
facility it retained this name. During the early years in Lima, the
County facility often cared for entire families as well as individuals
in a self-contained environment. A part of this facility was the
operation of a farm used for the production of food items for people
within the facility. The farming operation was discontinued in 1967
when the facility underwent a transition from a partially residential
community to a health care facility and directed its emphasis to
elderly residents of Delaware County who required medical and nursing
care. With this change, "farm" was dropped from the name, and in 1978
the institution became the Fair Acres Geriatric Center. The Center now
consists of eighteen buildings located on a 210-acre tract in Lima,
Pennsylvania. Five of these are resident buildings, containing both
skilled and intermediate care nursing units with total accommodations
for over 900 residents. One building in particular, Building 4,
now has many separate offices and a main hallway shared by each
office. This building was originally a big, single room that held
hundreds of hospital beds in rows in the late 1800's. An elderly woman
with long gray, straight hair and wearing a hospital gown has been seen
walking in the hallways. She has been seen by about 5 different
people in different years. This woman will disappear through doors and
walls when spoken to and does not speak. Strange knocks and
doorknobs turning have been heard when no one is there.
Milfard - Malibu
dude ranch - This historic ranch is known
for sightings of a small girl who has even spoken, and old man
wandering endlessly throughout the ranch. Sightings have been seen by
guests and staff.
Milford - Tom
Quick Inn - Over a century old, the
Victorian Tom Quick Inn, one of the historical hotels in Milford, has
undoubtedly acquired at least a few spirits over the years. Employees
have reported hearing things, amongst others. Beds that have been made
neatly were found to look like someone laid in them One of the rooms
especially is known to be haunted. Guests have complained that their
bed moved, and the employees have heard their names called out, only to
discover no one.
Millersville - Long Lane Bridge - The
story goes that a man lived across from the old bridge and one day he
just snapped and hung his family from the bridge rafters. Reports
of apparitions appearing on photos, voices being heard, and a feeling
of being watched.
Millvale - Old
Tyme Pizza Place - formerly The Evergreen
Hotel - This is a really old hotel, which
went from hotel to a bar, to a strip joint. When it was a bar it was a
great place to go, but the stories of cupboard doors slamming, dishes
being thrown out of the cupboards, cold spots upstairs, lights going on
and off, have been going on for years. Visitors have been locked in the
bathroom and others have been locked in the basement. - June 2008 Update:the Hotel Evergreens burned down last
week. It is thought to be arson as there were no utilities hooked up.
The hotel is totally destroyed.
Millvale - St.
Nicholas Roman Catholic Church - This
church is said to be haunted by a former priest. Witnesses have seen
him tending the altar and church.
Millville - Iola
Hotel - bar stools turning on their own,
faces with Victorian style collars seen in mirrors, shadows with long
black dresses seen rounding corners
Millville - Katie's
Church - unexplained sightings can hear
people saying your name in dead silence when sitting in your vehicle
with the keys lying on the set beside your, your radio will start
playing, your headlights blink, wipers come on, and horn blows
Milton - Hotel
Milton - Strange noises and figures have
been seen, I have seen and heard them, doors slam shut, lights flicker
in the early hours of the morning, rooms become chillingly cold, you
also when you enter the building get the feeling you are being
followed, even though no one is around.
Milton - Milton
Public Library - A former worker reports
weird things would happen periodically. Mostly though, you would get
the feeling that someone was walking behind you or watching over your
shoulder. Also, some parts of the library will be really warm, but when
you go into an older section, you will be freezing cold. Also, computer
problems happened where they wouldn't work one minute, but the next
time you try it, it does. The strangest experience they had was when
they were in the basement where they forgot their sweater and no one
else was there, because it was after hours. They where down in the
basement and they heard footsteps up above me where the juvenile and
some of the adult books are. When they went back upstairs, they checked
everywhere just to make sure that the boss hadn't come in for something
that she for got or something like that, but no one was there. They are
still a little weary of being in the library at night now when no one
else is there. They talked to the boss and coworkers about this and
they said that they have felt something like what was described also,
and told the submitter that supposedly one of the old librarians that
worked there a long time ago died fairly young in age and still checks
on things.
Monroe County - Buck Hill Inn - There
are many places where there is paranormal activity. The basement men's
room, Rm.62 where a lady killed herself just before here marriage. - February 2004 Update: A submitter just wanted to send
in an update that this place was severely damaged (don't know if it'll
be demolished or not) by three arsonists during the summer of 2003. The
following are links to newspapers articles about the arson/arsonists: http://www.poconorecord.com/2003/topstory/tjd37017.htm
http://www.poconorecord.com/2003/topstory/tjd36817.htm
http://www.poconorecord.com/2003/topstory/tp070803.htm
http://www.poconorecord.com/2003/topstory/tdo83891.htm
The following is a link to the TVToMe website about the Buck Hill Inn.
“Granted, most of this information was probably taken from MTV (who
themselves aren't among the most... well, trustworthy news
establishments), but I hope you're able to look it over and give the
Buck Hill Inn a little more than a one-liner on your website”The link:
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-9319/epid-137695
Monroe County - Effort
- Effort junk yard - 20 years ago a group
of teenagers were partying in their car when it caught fire. Local
towns people say they have seen, what appeared to be a young male
walking around the junkyard (which is now a tree farm) with a missing
arm.
Monroeville - Pitcairn
- Frick House - Apparitions of Mrs Frick
and you see the funeral of her children in the parlor, kids playing in
the children's play house, and people in the vehicles as well.
Monroeville - Pitcairn
- Restland Cemetery - The dead walk at
night in the Restland cemetery. Supposedly, a monument of a girl named
Rosie whom is buried in the cemetery will stroll the grounds of the
cemetery at night. She is known to the locals as Walkin' Rosie. if you
shine a flashlight on Walk Rosie when you see a woman walk towards you.
Monroeville - Pitcairn
- Trails - You could hear the branches
breaking and there were stones being thrown.
Montandon - Rishel
Bridge - It is one of the oldest covered
bridges in the US (built in 1820). There was a murder there where a guy
killed a lot of children. When you go at night, you put baby powder all
over your car and drive to the center of the bridge and wait 10 minutes
with no lights on. During the 10 minutes you can see shadows in the
dark, which isn't suppose to happen. When the 10 minutes are up, you
leave and go to a lighted place and you are able to see fingerprints on
your car from the murdered children
Montgomery County - Lorimer Park - Many
apparitions have been seen here, especially in the winter months. There
is stone pyramid set deep in the woods that is said to glow red on
certain nights. There was once a mansions set on the property that
burned down in the late 1800s and every now and then you can hear
screams coming from the part of the park and smell an intense smoke.
Montgomery County - Pottstown - The Hill School Chapel - The chapel was built in late 1800's as a gift from the
alumni of the elite boarding school. The Chapel is built in a very dark
Romanesque style. One of the first headmasters of the school, John
Meigs supposedly suffered from severe depression and hung himselffrom a
light in the chapel. Unable to be buried on sacred ground because of
the cause of death the school's greatest headmaster is buried right
outside the side doors of the chapel. Students who have snuck into the
chapel late at night have reported to see the very same light which
Meigs hung himself from sway back and forth. Also in the back of the
chapel the stairway to the bell tower is littered with signatures of
past alter boys and students. Noises such as screaming, bells ringing
and Latin being spoken can sometimes be heard coming from the
stairwell.
Montgomery county - Worcester - Old Baptist Road Murder House - Reports of orbs, mysterious blue lights, and "Ghost
Dogs," surround an abandoned house where an alleged
multiple-murder/suicide took place. (A man is supposed to have killed
his whole family, a la Amityville Horror.) House is located on Old
Baptist Road.
Montrose - The
Montrose House - The site of the Inn has
a long history. The original Inn was used as the first jail, as a
funeral home before there was a funeral home in town and as a school
room. The original building burned to the ground in the mid 1920's.
When the new building was about 90 percent completed it burned to the
ground again. The building that stands on the site now, was completed
around 1926. Upstairs in the Inn there is a little boy that roams the
hall and plays trick at all times of the day and night. He seems to
like room #5 the most. More than one guest reported someone knocking on
the door and no one being there when the door was opened. One guest in
particular complained in the morning about the child that was staying
in the Inn. He had upset here during the night with knocking on the
door several times during the evening and giggling. There were no other
guest in the Inn that night. The shade would be taken off the window
and placed neatly on the pillow. The window was about 7 feet away from
the bed. The time on the clock would be changed. The arm that was set
the night before would not go off ( the alarm clock was changed in that
room more than once due to the complaints concerning the alarm not
going off). Room doors would open then slowly close. The child was
reported as seen only once. He was crouched down with his face toward
the corner with his hands over his eyes and he was giggling as though
he was playing hide and seek. Downstairs in the Inn is a man that has
been seen on many occasions and felt many more. This man was seen
walking past the front office into the coat closet on one occasion. He
seemed so real that the customer in the dinning room thought that he
was about to steal a coat. The customer kept his eye on the closet
until he realized that no one was coming back out so he leaned back in
his chair where he could see into the closet and realized that no one
was there. Employees reported him walking out toward the tavern area
when the dinning and tavern area were closed and all the doors were
locked. Customers have felt him walk behind them as they are checking
out. The back dinning room has had objects thrown across the room (this
usually happens during the equinoxes)
Moon Township - country club - The
old banker who lived in this mansion, now haunts the residence which
now stands as a country club. Random lights turn on and off, and you
can still smell his cigar smoke on the top floor of the house. Also
reports of seeing a dark figure walking around at night. Voices can be
heard late at night.
Morgantown - Old
Village Inn - This restaurant/hotel is
only used as a restaurant. Dates back to the early 1800's. Sightings of
a person looking out the 2nd floor window onto Main St. even though no
one is ever on the 2nd floor.
Mount Holly Springs - There is a man in Civil War uniform with long red hair
that wanders here, Children & Adults alike have seen him. There are
also very cold spots through out this place.
Mount Pleasant - The Village Restaurant - This
restaurant, located on west Main St., is said to be haunted. Many
strange noises are heard, footsteps are heard and an old woman was seen
sitting on the steps in the basement. The restaurant was once a funeral
home.
Mount Pocono - Kmart - 2 overnight
employees, each in a different part of the store, saw the ghostly image
of a woman in a long flowing white dress. On one occasion, she even
called out the name of David {one of the employees}, repeating the name
twice in a haunting manner. On other occasions, feminine products were
knocked off the shelves when no one was around. Magnetic signs fell
from the ceiling, previously folded clothing was found in disarray,
among other strange happenings.
Mount Pocono - Memory Town - at memory
town there are these little hotels. people have reported seeing an
older lady wearing a gray dress and she is very pale. They call her the
lady in gray. Others have reported her sitting in a chair sewing gloves
or scarves. Others have heard voices coming from the hallways near
there rooms. They say that they see little kids playing outside on the
swing set, but there’s usually never a swing set there. Other people
have reported missing items like jewelry and clothes. They say that
they feel ice-cold breath on there neck when there’s nobody there and
they say that they feel sitting on there beds, but There the only ones
in the room.
Muhlenburg - Muhlenburg
High School - A boy coming out of gym
class was said to have collapsed and died from a heart problem. Now
students and teachers that are in the building at night have said to
have seen him in the hallways.
Munhall - Woodland
School - There was a man that was burn to
death in the basement and you can see him in the school looking out the
windows and walking around the school some times you can see smoke come
out the stack too. November 2003
addition: not only in and around Woodlawn is there the ghost of the
janitor and smiley face man there is a little girl that you can see
sometimes at night in and around and she hums and sings a tune similar
to ring around the rosy and wears a little white dress and has been
seen by very many people in and around Woodlawn school the times she
was seen in the school there was a group of people in the school after
it was closed(for several years) and they went in and they heard the
tune and the doors started to slam and then they got out of there and
the girl is reportedly seen in and around the school very frequently
Murrysville - Olive
Cemetery - Located on Logan's Ferry Rd.
and is said to be haunted by Logan himself.
Murrysville - Wendy's
Restaurant- Lamps have been seen
swinging and abruptly stopping at night. Voices are heard. A man's
apparition has been spotted. Doors slam and cold spots are felt. (Built
on tcp of old mines which many people have died in)
Natrona Hts. - Brackenridge-Heights Country Club - Footsteps are often heard in the attic when no one is
up there, doors will open and close by them selves, lights mysteriously
come on when they were only turned off moments before. A dishwasher
also reported he had heard a man clearing his throat in the basement
when he had been the only one there.
New Ashatola - Krum Cemetery - In the
woods near New Ashatola is a small, civil war era cemetery. Near it is
an abandoned mansion nicknamed 'The Dead Zone'. Reports of cult
activity abound. Headless people and dogs have been sighted here as
well as bloodied (live) rabbits, and strange owls. The house is said to
be where a man went crazy and killed his wife and daughter, and later
himself.
New Bloomfield - Carson Long Military Institute - There have been stories told by the students there
that things in their rooms have been moved. One of the students claims
to have seen his trunk being moved across the floor. There has also
been sightings of two red circles resembling eyes being seen in the
Chapel. And a year ago one of the instructors heard laughing coming
from "The Maples" when no one was in there.
New Castle - Chippewa
Burial Mounds- The old Indian burial
grounds were disturbed when modernization began. Because of that, there
have been reports of people seeing Indians walking the are where the
old burial grounds used to be, always at night and usually on a full
moon. They have seen at least four different warriors, two woman, and a
young child.
New Castle - Coverts
Crossing - in the early 1940's there was
a girl that was on her way home from her high school prom and ended up
driving off the side of the bridge on a stormy night. It is said that
at midnight every night, you can drive to the middle of the bridge and
turn off your lights and see her walking towards you in a white dress.
There is a report that a girl died here in a car accident. - WARNING This is very unsafe. NEVER drive
at night with your headlights off, this could result in your death or
someone else’s. NO ghost is worth that. - They
reconstructed the bridge because for the previous three years there
have been activities going on down there from cults. The cult burned
the bridge down once a year until they decided to rebuild it.
New Castle - Harmony
Short Line - On October 30th 1904 at
11:50 PM, there was a railroad conductor hit and killed while he was
attempting to catch a stowaway that jumped out of a freight car into
the brush. The conductor fell onto the tracks and was beheaded by the
train. And now in late October you can sometimes see the ghost
conductor holding a lantern walking down the old abandon tracks looking
for stowaways.
New Castle - Hillsville
Road - A ghost train can be seen on foggy
nights off of Hillsville Road in New Castle. Also, there are ghost
lights seen under a bridge that runs over the Mahoning River.
New Castle - Madonna
Cemetery - A tombstone lies here with a
picture of a man who has, one white hand and one Black Hand on it.
Legend states that if you put a white sheet over the top of the
headstone on All Hollow's Eve (October 30), at midnight and knock 3
times, the man will appear behind you.
New Castle - Shenango
Township - The old Whitemen Homestead is
haunted by several ghost. There is a spirit of a civil soldier that
walks across the dining room causing the lights in the room to flicker
and go out.
New Hope - Inn
at Phillips Mill - a ghost has been seen
on the stairs and in a rocking chair.
New Hope - Logan
Inn - numerous ghosts haunt this place
including a glowing light in room 6. But it seems the entire place is
haunted. In the late 1800's a couple and their little girl were staying
at the inn and while playing near the canal that sits behind the inn,
said girl accidentally fell in the water and drowned. According to
previous owners records, the ghost of the little girl returns every now
and again in search of her parents. Some report seeing an apparition,
others hear footsteps running in the halls.
New Hope - Odette's
Restaurant South River Rd - Some of the
staff here at Odette's have seen a figure of a women that was supposed
to have worked at the restaurant before it was named Odette's possible
it was during the time it was the River House Restaurant the women was
to have been murdered there, but we can't seem to find any accounts of
a murder. Some the wait staff have not only seen figures but have also
felt cold spots, their name called, and a scent of a strong perfume.
New Hope - Steven
Buck Auditorium - Behind the curtain
strange sounds, braking mirrors, and shadowy movements.
New Hope - Pickett
House - Joseph Pickett has been seen in
and around his former home.
New Hope - The
Van Sant Bridge - The covered bridge is
haunted by the ghost of a woman who killed her child inside the bridge.
Also, the figure of a man can be seen hanging from the inside beams.
But most many see orbs or mist.
New Milford - Old
Mill Village - The ghost of a man, who is
believed to be a past caretaker of the living history museum, has been
seen by a few of the volunteers at the village. He is seen walking the
grounds and has even been know to help clean up the grounds after an
18th century reenactment. Paper from the cartridges of black powder
used in the guns was lying on the ground after the event and he helped
gather and deposit all the papers in a pile for the volunteer who was
cleaning up. He is a helpful ghost to the village.
New Oxford - Chestnut
Hall Bed and Breakfast - Guests have
heard voices, moving furniture and organ playing late at night or in
the early morning hours. One guest has even seen the full figure of a
young girl from the mid 1800s standing in her room. Once the guest
acknowledged the spirit girl, she turned around and walked through the
closed door into the hallway. The owners have not only heard all these
things as well but have also been touched, bumped into and had their
shirttails and pants legs tugged. Objects have been hidden, and even
taken only to be put back in plain view days or weeks later. It is said
that there are six spirits there. Five of them are previous family and
one is that of a neighbor girl named Alice. There is nothing spooky
about the bed and breakfast, to the contrary, the house is very
peaceful and friendly.
New Wilmington - Westminster College - Hillside Girls
Dormitory - Witnesses report strange
occurrences such as opening and closing of doors, not to mention
locking of doors, the turning on and off of lights, things being
knocked over and put back up in front of the witnesses eyes, music
being played from peoples computers when they are not even at their
desk, and strange typing noises from everyone's computers. Rumor is a
girl named Betsy long before the college was built in the 1800's. It
was a Mansion long before Westminster College existed. Rumored to have
been murdered.
Newberry - STEP
building - Orbs, the uneasy feeling of
being watched, objects being moved, mop buckets, small children’s hand
prints on freshly cleaned glass, large shadows figures weird flashes of
bluish purple light footsteps on floors about you when no one else is
in the building
Newel - Quaker
Cemetery - Many people claim to have seen
and heard ghosts here.
Newtown - George
School - a ghost of a Hessian soldier in
the basement of the Tate house haunts the basement since he was buried
in the basement of the school.
Newtown Square - Dog Kennel Road - supposedly
a girl died on a bridge on that road and if you go there at night
around 12:00am you are supposed to be able to see the girl sitting on
the side of the bridge that she died on.
Nockamixion - Haycock
- Top Rock Trail Road - Pa Rt.313 north
(south from Quakertown, north from Doyelstown) turn right onto Rt.563
follow for a few miles then turn left onto Top Rock Trail. This turn is
easy to miss! The road winds up this twisting hill through the
countryside. Up on about the second bend, a pull off is on the side of
the road that leads to a trail into the woods (some people was logging
up in here). Following the trail up to the top of the hill reveals an
amazing rock formation that has been used by Indians and supposedly a
few cults that centered around animal torture. The Indian presence is
documented and a historical fact, the cults are just here say. A
feeling of disorientation is felt. At night "glowing" eyes/orbs of
light can be seen in the woods. Also, you can hear the whelping of
animals within the woods. There is definitely something here, and it
will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. There is a
gigantic "table top" rock that is to the left of the main formation,
underneath of this is a few small crawl through that give an
overwhelming feeling of despair.
Norristown - Norristown
State Hospital - There are tunnels
underground that connect to the buildings in the Norristown State
Hospital. It is said that there are ghost in them of the deceased
inmates of the hospital. Sometimes they escape and run around down
there.
Norristown - The
Pathway School - In the Valley Forge
residential building, there have been reports of a ghost named Ethan
being seen and heard. One student claims that Ethan once grabbed her
ankle.
North East - Main
St. -upstairs bedroom the sound of
trumpets playing in the night and downstairs dinning room where nobody
goes near.
Northampton - Raubsville
- Hexankopf Rock - The ghost of a
headless hunter, ghosts of witches, strange lights & sounds have
all been reported there.
The Old Haggerty Mansion - Here there are reports of hearing a phone ringing in
an upstairs bedroom that is somehow locked although their is no
door-handle. Also, you can hear a woman crying in the same room.
Supposedly, the ghost of the crying woman is a former owner of the
house, her husband and her children were out running an errand and she
had decided to stay home, the phone ringing was the police calling to
tell her that her family had died in an accident.
Oakdale - Noblestown
Road - St. Patrick's Cemetery - my
investigation took place at dusk in the summer of 2003. when entering
this cemetery an immediate overwhelming urgency to leave feeling comes
upon you. Cold spots, and feeling extremely uncomfortable. This
cemetery has graves that date back in the 1800's to recent. It sits on
a hill with the back end of it encased by woods. the further into the
cemetery we would go the more uncomfortable it became. In some areas
you may feel very short of breath or a heaviness in your chest. A local
group of investigators claim they got EVPs with a child playing
“peek-a-boo” and evil growling noises.
Ohioville - Kelly
Road - Kelly Road, better known to the
locals as Mystery Mile, has been fraught with strange occurrences for
decades. Docile animals would become violent and chase people away.
Tempers flare. The forest seems to come alive at night, with a variety
of noises and spirits reported. Rumors abound as to the grigin of these
events, but no one knows for sure. All that is known is that after you
pass the one mile mark of Kelly Road, the strange phenomena stop, with
no explanation. A popular theory is that the land is cursed by Native
Americans who lost their homes when the 'white man' invaded.
Oil City - Oil
Creek State Park - In the park there is a
cemetary. On that road you can sometimes see a woman in a white dress
who is sad to have hung herself in the woods. Other ghost have been
spotted but people don't know who they are.
Oliphant Furnace - Powder Mill - A woman is
heard screaming then landing with a thump over a rock.
Palmerton - Rusty
Nail - An old bar called the Rusty Nail
was said to have had the old owner hung in the doorway, when the other
employees came in the morning he was hanging there with a knife in his
back, it is said if you look at the old leather covered cabinet behind
the bar you can clearly see the mans face, also doors slam sightings
have been seen by many patrons in the old country bar.
Paradise - Pocono
gardens lodge - A man was killed by a
drowning in the outside pool of Pocono gardens and now he haunts the
pool area and the lower rooms. Strange moving of statues have occurred
in the pool area.
Patton -
Bakers Crossroads - it is known that
outside going towards Bakers Crossroads there has been an experience of
a ghostly vision which seems to be that of a young girl known to have
died in a car crash near the red barn on that road. Late at night is
when she makes her presence known to people passing by.
Patton - Cambria
Heights High School Auditorium - The
story is said that a boy who had the lead in West Side Story got sick
opening night and died. He still haunts the auditorium, but only helps
people if they are not standing in the right place or if they fall. He
likes to make noises by dropping things from the spotlight room.
Pavia - Cox's
Monument- The legend goes that two
children one was 5 and was one 7 went to take there dad lunch in the
woods during winter when he was hunting. They got lost and fell asleep
and froze to death. Then a guy had a dream about the little kids and
where they were and they went and searched and they were there. Now
they spirits walk among the woods.
Penninsula - Mutaine
Town - A small area on the outskirts of
the small town is reportedly haunted in many places. Among some of it's
famous sights are Crybaby Bridge, the ghost train, the haunted
cemetery, a haunted church, The Edge of the World, and the haunted
slaughterhouse.
Perry - Livermore
- city underwater, many ghostly people
have been seen here, cemetery where ghosts have been seen, has the
grave a Mike Myers a serial killer in the 1800's. Weird noises and
things have been spotted.
Perry County - Pandemonium - a state
trooper stated she goes up there all the time for reports of goings on
but there is nothing there. It is a public place in Perry County,
PA it is called Pandemonium there is a very old cemetery there it
is called Pioneer Cemetery. This was a small community from whose
main resources were the tannery and farming there is not much left but
foundation of the old tannery and the cemetery.
Perryopolis - Quaker
church - there is a small one room church
that is in the middle of a cemetery and one of them has writing on it
describing how a young women died and it is said that if you read it
you will die the same death she did.
Philadelphia - James Martin School - This
used to be a hospital and nursing school.. and at times you could see
bloody hands and people in the mirrors. In the blocked off attic
section you can look in the window from the outside and SEE a face.
There are a few stories behind it. 1. The boys were cutting school and
got stuck in the attic. 2. A mental patient went crazy and through
himself out the window. 3. Mental patients went up into the attic and
slit each others wrist. They ARE all possible reasons BUT there is
something there AND THEY are all the reason for the man or woman in the
window.
Philadelphia - Baleroy - a number of
ghosts have been seen here including Thomas Jefferson.
Philadelphia - Bright Hope Baptist Church - Sounds of unsettlement have been heard behind the
church after everyone leaves the building.
Philadelphia - Byberry Mental Hospital - Said
to be haunted by the different patients that were mistreated in there.
It was shut down for good in 1990 for poor living conditions and
mistreatment of patients. People have gone into the catacombs only to
run out crying. Its located by the Roller skate palace. Reports of
screams bellowing from the basements. - June
2008 Update: It was sold to a contractor who demolished all buildings
and is now building office complex and retirement homes.
Philadelphia - Eastern State Penitentiary - Eastern State is haunted by hundreds of prisoners that
have been executed, beaten to death, or committed suicide. The most
famous sighting is of a prisoner that killed 27 people in an attempted
prison break. Reports of feelings of someone there, and dread, strange
sounds and shadows or apparitions.
Philadelphia - Fairless Hills - Bolton Mansion grounds - . While sledding in the winter, a witness reports a
few times they had looked up at the top floor window, and saw what was
clearly a Revolutionary Soldier looking out, and the area itself has
the overall feeling of unrest and even dread. They also remember quite
vividly when they went on a tour of the mansion, that there were
significant temperature changes, for example, when you first walk in,
it’s a nice 72 degrees, but at various places it seemed like the temp
dropped suddenly and you just get a feeling like something very wrong
went on there.
Philadelphia - Fairless Hills - Bolton Mansion grounds - the ghost of a woman searching the grounds have been
seen as well as the ghost of a little girl.
Philadelphia - Fort Mifflin - Three
ghosts are here. A women in the ruins of the commanders house, she is
called the screaming woman. Another one of a Civil war soldier,
confederate in the casemates and another soldier without a face sewing
in the casemates.
Philadelphia - Friends Hospital - Built
in 1813 this building was the original patient quarters and home to the
superintendent and his wife. It was said the female seen wandering in
the halls bore a resemblance to a former hospital superintendent's
wife. Also reports of hearing doors open and close when no one was
around. Several third shift employees have heard a woman laughing on
the first floor in the middle of the night. But could never find
out where it was coming from. A security guard was making his
rounds at night on the third floor when someone grabbed his
shoulder. He turned around and there wasn't anyone there.
The sources that experienced these events aren't the types to make
things up.
Philadelphia - General Wayne Inn - This
inn is home to more than 17 ghosts including Hessians, a ghost wanting
his wives picture, a old owner, and a ghost singing.
Philadelphia - The Institute of Pennsylvania - Reports of the elevator opening with a loud noise and
voices, and foot steps came from the elevator.
Philadelphia - Jeans Hospital - A few
years ago Jeans Hospital was having financial difficulties and there
were rumors that it would be bought out. It is said that Anna-May Jeans
(founder of the hospital) began appearing to various members of the
staff to show her disapproval of a buy-out.
Philadelphia - Orleans 8 Movie Theater - A
little girl seems to be haunting the projection booth. Sometimes, late
at night, you can hear the little girl giggling and asking to come play
with her. - June 2008 Update: Has been
torn down.
Philadelphia - Palmer Cemetery - A
witness visiting a grave of a relative reports bring flowers to the
grave. Upon feeling a strange feeling turned around to see if there was
someone there, only to find no one. Turning back around to the grave,
the flowers had vanished. Also, in this cemetery a teenage boy hung his
self by the entrance and sometimes at night one of the streetlights
come on and you can see him hanging from the branch that was cut down.
When you walk past the cemetery you can see shadows running around and
tons of orbs flying around. At times you can see a big white person
holding a baby and staring out of the fence.
Philadelphia - St. Dominic’s Catholic School - there is said to be a ghostly presence in the
graveyard.
Philadelphia - Saint Maria Goretti High School for Girls - Cold hands felt, a ghost roams the halls throughout
the schools and that the statue in front of the school cries once a
year.
Philadelphia - Saint Mary's Annex at Saint Joseph's University -In this converted convent, located on the fringes of
the Saint Joseph's campus, many ghostly nuns have been seen walking the
halls. People have also claimed to hear laughter, footsteps, and odd
bumps in the night.
Philadelphia - The Civil War Library and Museum - Was feature on unsolved mysteries--net work tv. On the
second floor, in the Lincoln Room, the spirits of soldiers have been
seen playing cards.
Philadelphia - The old Penn Rynn Manor - Used
to be the Biddle estate(as in Bailey, Banks and Biddle) It is right on
the Delaware river. The story is that the original owners had a son
that fell in love with one of the maids. This was looked down upon by
the parents. The young lovers went down to the river and drowned
themselves. The sightings have been of a lady on a white horse and a
young man that would walk the path from the house to the water.
Philadelphia - The Walnut St. Theater - reorts
of an apparition of a liitle girl from the earl 1900s & hearing
voices..
Philadelphia - Philadelphia University (Textiles)- When the university was a small Catholic school for
girls, a nun supposedly hung her self in the top room of the mansion,
after finding out she was impregnated by the father...Today, the attic
is locked but people still see lights on or the figure of the nun
standing up there...the old classrooms are now an all girls dormitory
that has had countless incidences from noises to white fuzzy glowing
balls appearing in pictures taken...when nothing was there...supposedly
you can still see the nun if you sit on the hill in front of the
mansion...she is said to walk there at sunrise.
Philadelphia - Roxborough - Leverington Cemetery - a very haunted site in Philadelphia, apparitions have
been seen frequently
Philadelphia - Somerton - St. Andrews Church - Original Chapel - Next door to the newer church building is the older
chapel, a white building now used mainly as an annex. Locals have
reported seeing hazy white figures in and around the grounds, and have
reported strange noises coming from the woods behind the buildings.
Philadelphia - University of the Sciences - Osol Hall
- was originally a Psychiatric Institute. Legend
goes, that a girl who was admitted there, went crazy because of
mistreatment, and ended up killing herself on the 6th floor. Several
years later, the Institute became a dormitory/apartment- like suites
for students at USP. Several residents have heard strange noises, seen
bathroom doors propped open after insuring they were closed shut while
toilet seats would be put down if a resident was sure he left it up.
Many resident's have gotten strange sensations and weird feelings.
Philadelphia - Wissahickon Canoe Club - Originally
a mill in the 1600's, this creek-side building is said to have many
ghosts. The presence of a young woman, the miller's reclusive
daughter, can be felt in an upstairs bedroom, with the protective
presence of many dogs she owned around the bed area where they would
sleep. A mirror in that room mysteriously never collects
dust. Poltergeist activity has been reported with kitchen
appliances suddenly switching on or off, and lights flickering.
Philipsburg - Hillcrest
- A little girl has been heard crying in
the woods between US 322 and Hillcrest Drive. At the same time, it
sounds like something is wrestling in the leaves, but there is nothing
there.
Phoenixville - Death Hill - Dayton St – top of the hill - just over the hill there is a grave yard and it is
said that the ghost come out of their graves in the middle of the night
and switch spots with their buddies , also if you stand there and watch
them they come and get you and put you in a grave...so be careful.
Phoenixville - Historical Seven Stars Inn - There are several spirits that have been sited on the
grounds. The spirit of a young boy has been seen in an upstairs dinning
room (formerly a guest room of the inn). The spirit of a middle age man
has been seen on several occasions, always looking down the second
floor stair well. He is believed to be a former owner who in his old
age had fallen to his death in this stair well while supervising the
cleaning ladies. The most prominent spirit is that of a woman who had
hung her self in the third floor attic.
Pine Grove - Old
Mountain Rd - Three babies were killed by
the bridge. At night you can hear the babies crying for there mother.
Place is called Three babes in the woods.
Pine Grove - Old
State Road - There is to be a house that
is haunted there that a old guy was hung there by construction workers
when they went to redo the house. The rope the used is to be still
there in the attic. It is said that there is a piano in the house that
at times start to play on its own as you walk by the house. It is said
that a lady that used to live there was possessed by the ghost of the
old man .- June 2008 Update: The house
has been torn down.
Pine Grove - Pine
Grove Furnace - Go all the way back Old
Shippensburg Rd (across from road to furnace). The Appalachian
Trail is back here not to far from the parking area. There have been
several occurrences involving loud noises from above, sort of like a
helicopter, loud enough that you can't hear the person next to you
talk. There is also a patch of thick pine trees off the trail not
too far from the parking area. Inside there are 2 large stones 75%
buried in the ground across from a headstone type object. This
whole area is open and is about 10' by 10'. If you carry a
propane lantern or flashlight into the opening it will go out and
lighters will not light. You can still hear the gas from the lantern
but it will not light until you leave the opening. You can always
hear various strange noises coming from the woods as soon as the sun
goes down.
Pitcairn - Beyond
the Creek - If you walk back through the
woods far enough, you come to an old bridge that connects you over a
high fall to a creek. If you walk back that way and almost under the
bridge you can see the "old man". The old man is thought to be the
spirit of a child molester who used the woods for his crimes but when
caught committed suicide. As you are walking throughout the high grass
trails, he will turn from a trail ahead of you, and walk in your
direction, he always bumps your arm as he passes you through the woods
with his head down. If you attempt to chase back down the trail and
find him again he will never be anywhere in the woods.
Pitcairn - Fairview
Cemetery - Old, unmaintenced cemetery,
said to be haunted by the elderly, always foggy for some reason.
Pitcairn - Johnson's
Shadow Man - The woods to the northwest
of Pitcairn Pa surround an old roadway known as Johnsons Road. Since
the road has been closed, there has been many killings on the road.
Over 5 bodies have been found on the road in 20 years. The woods are
deep and thick, and it is said that voices, walking, and talking can be
heard at night. A shadow like figure has been reported many times as
being seen near the old reservoir, and the entrance at the Pitcairn
side of the overgrown road. Pitcairn police advise not to travel the
road, or go into the woods.
Pitcairn - The
Main Path - The main path you take to get
into the trails is connected still to the old path that people used to
use to get back inot the wooden area, when walking out of the woods,
and back to the city, you will hear the sound of footsteps constantly
following you about 10 paces behind you. It doesn't matter how many
times you stCp and look, as you walk you will be followed.
Pitcairn - The
Sand Castles - The sand castle is the
term for what is left of the old railroad buildings still located
within these trails. It has been reported that at night, when the wind
starts to pick up you can hear voices through the trees around you.
Pitcairn - The
Trails - Located behind the old baseball
fields in Pitcairn there is a large stretch of woods where there are
many trails. This entire area is haunted by railroad workers of the
late 1800's who died in various accidents in service to the railroad.
Pittsburgh - Allegheny
General Hospital South Tower - Oldest
part of the hospital. Noises and people talking are heard, and some
have seen things.
Pittsburgh - Baldwin
- South Hills Bowl - White misty
apparition. - March 2008 Update: The
bowling alley is now closed.
Pittsburgh - Blue
Mist Road - On this road at night a
bluish mist forms over the road. There is also a cemetery on this
street. Two headstones touch every full moon. And when the full moon is
over, they don't touch anymore.
Pittsburgh - Byers
Hall, CCAC North Campus - Old mansion, turned administration building. Story has it the Byers family went out to a dinner
party, left the baby home with the nanny. The nanny went to check up on
the baby and she found the baby dead in her crib. The nanny was so
distraught, she hung herself. The parents came home later that night
and found the nanny hanging over the staircase and the ghost of their
dead baby looking at her. The second floor is closed off, however there
is a window you can look up into and some say that you can still see
the nanny hanging there with the baby looking at her.
Pittsburgh - Carnegie
Library - This library was built over a
old cemetery and believed at night spirits haunt it.
Pittsburgh - Carlow
College - Room 947 - Late at
night, students have reported seeing misty apparitions. They also hear
scratching noises on the walls. Lights have also be said to turn on by
themsleves.
Pittsburgh - Cathedral
of Learning - Unknown spirits haunt this
building. This is mainly on the top floor of it.
Pittsburgh - Chatham
College - In the basement of the Mellon
building is a pool and bowling alley. It is known mostly to lifeguards
that work at the pool. Andrew Mellon haunts the bowling alley, it is
usually very cold in the room. One gets a very creepy feeling. If you
don't want to experience anything don't bowl! At times the pins will
resent themselves as if taunting you to keep playing.
Pittsburgh - Civic
Arena - The neighborhood that was
demolished to build the arena is said to come alive at night. The whole
dome suddenly filling with the sounds of people, streetcars and car
horns. Mario Lemieux, star player for the Pgh Penguins has said he’s
seen shadowy guys in 1920s clothes mulling about in the halls.
Pittsburgh - Dixmont
- This asylum will soon be turned into a
Wal-Mart. Strange noises can be heard there. Be careful, they have
video cameras and the police will arrest you.
Pittsburgh - Dixmont
Mental Hospital - Lots of ghosts of
formal mental patients who died there.
Pittsburgh - Duquesne
University - St. Ann's Living Learning Center - Room 409
- A boy walks into the room and throws things
around the room.
Pittsburgh - Frick
mansion - is haunted by Sarah Frick.
Pittsburgh - Fort
Pitt Museum(Point State Park) - The
Battle of Grant's Hill was fought at this location during the French
& Indian War in 1758.Security Guards have seen people on the
monitors that were not there. Objects have disappeared from the museum.
Strange sounds have been heard from empty parts of the museum. A
re-enactor was murdered there during the early 1970's.
Pittsburgh - hell's
tunnel - Apparitions of a noose that
swings, hear a father calling for his son.
Pittsburgh - ICM
School Of Business and Medical Careers - A
woman use to work at ICM for 20 yrs ever since it opened, well no one
liked her and she was going for a supervisor job but the administrators
at that time threatened her to not take the position cause one of the
ones that worked there wanted her husband as the Supervisor. Well, one
day they all went up to her office at night and her door was shut, when
they walked in she had a heart attack and died in the school. Ever
since then she haunts the school at night a ghost apparition of a woman
has been seen there roaming the halls at night.
Pittsburgh - John
Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center - This
building, in the Stripped District of Pittsburgh, was once site of the
Chautauqua Lake Ice Co, which exploded due to fire on February 9, 1898.
The building has since been renovated and now houses the John Heinz
History Center. Several staff members, including night security guards,
have witnessed strange sights and sounds there. Most activity seems to
center around the 5th floor (used as storage/archives) and the loading
dock area. Spirits have been known to occupy and interact with the
exhibits there. The History Center is open to the public 7 days a week
from 10AM to 5PM (holidays excluded).
Pittsburgh - Kaufman's
Department Store- The 10th floor is
haunted by the disembodied footsteps of what is believed to be one of
Major Grant's Highlanders who was killed in the battle where the hill
once stood during the French & Indian War.
Pittsburgh - Kennywood
Park - This isn't so much a report of a
haunting as it is the clearing up of a false report. The report of the
Steel Phantom ghost is completely inaccurate and just not possible as
the Steel Phantom was built in the early 1990's, whereas Kennywood was
built in 1898. This makes the stories time line false. I have
personally never seen a news story involving any death with the
building of the Steel Phantom.
Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh
Job Corps Center/Leech Farm Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanitarium - formerly known as the Pittsburgh City Tuberculosis
Sanatorium, 1915. The State got it in 1957. In 1974, It became a State
Mental Hospital under the Department of Public Welfare and closed in
1982. While it was a TB hospital and sanitarium, over 2,000 deaths have
been reported in numerous obituaries, the dept of public welfare closed
the hospital because of out-dated medical practices where many died
during operations. there were also reports of severe abuse to patients
and multiple suicides.
Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh
Job Corps Center/Leech Farm Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanitarium - ALPHA-OMEGA
WING - small child with a red ball in a
standard hospital gown "asks for her mother" if you did not respond she
would bounce the ball against your door for several nights. mist in the
showers, you could usually hear water being turned on and off slightly
numerous whispers crying screaming and sadistic laughing.
Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh
Job Corps Center/Leech Farm Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanitarium - LEECH
FAMILY FARM HOUSE - Outside, court yards, walkways, and recreational
areas - Reports of shadow like figures
that seem to vanish or walk straight through walls and the ghosts of
several former patients.
Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh
Job Corps Center/Leech Farm Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanitarium - LEECH
FAMILY FARM HOUSE - Also known as the home
of the former head of administration of the Pittsburgh
Sanitarium - Reports of seeing the
HOA on his front porch and in the window, the windows however have
since been boarded. And violent flashing lights from the seams of the
open wood panels. The former HOA's family got TB and died, and he died
of influenza shortly after.
- false rumor – The former HOA killed his
family and then himself.
Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh
Job Corps Center/Leech Farm Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanitarium - THIRD
FLOOR - A man standing in the window
with his hands against the window. Shadows moving rapidly from
window to window (like they are going through the walls). A man
jumping from the roof's smoke stack. And a figure in the bathroom of
the third floor with black bumps on the visible portions of his
body(black bumps are a visual sign of tuberculosis)
Pittsburgh - Livermore
Cemetery - Believed to be haunted by
towns people who where killed in a flood. Apparitions of buildings have
been reported. Cars that park nearby are said to have things missing
after being parked there (license plates, antennas, hubcaps)
Pittsburgh - Mercy
Hospital - a ghost of a caring nun
haunts the 6th floor of the old building.(use to be Devine Mercy
Hospital) the 6th floor was the OB department until the late 60s when
it closed. Her name is believed to be Sister Mary Loretta. She is
always looking out for staff and others. And she has been said to have
been many times my patients at night who tell other staff members that
a nun was in there room and brought them a blanket or a water pitcher.
There are no nuns at mercy providence who care for patients anymore.
Pittsburgh - Mifflin
Elementary School - but there has been 3
sightings of a green floating man in the music room. Also, during
extra-curricular activities, a floating face has been seen. Strange
lights, noises, and glowing have also been seen.
Pittsburgh - National
Aviary - Civil War soldiers walk the
halls at night.
Pittsburgh - North
shore/Northside - Allegheny Center, Building #7 - It has a documented high turnover for students living
there, which some say is due to a "bad vibe" the building gives off. It
had several incidents of strange phenomenon ranging from cold spots,
knocking/rapping, poltergeist like activity, and even visual sightings.
The energy's also seem to not be concentrated in just one place, and
move freely around the building. Wide majorities of people have
reported experiences while living there. A student radio show around
Halloween did a segment about the building, and it had several call-ins
about strange occurrences at "Agony #7" (a student nickname given to
the building). Many skeptics blame the activity on student recreational
drug use, pranks, and people blowing easily explained occurrences out
of proportion. But many skeptics have become believers.
Pittsburgh - North
Side Childcare, North Ave - This used to
be a supermarket in the 80's and a woman was shot in the face with a
shotgun while shopping. Children have seen a headless woman walking
inside the building
Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh
Playhouse - unknown spirits haunted this
building.
Pittsburgh - Plum
- Hankey Church Cemetery - Rumors are to
be believed that if the gates on the front entrance of the cemetery are
closed that the spirits are kept in. If there opened then this means
that the spirits are wondering
Pittsburgh - Point
Park College - Lawrence Hall - A
student at living in Lawrence Hall on the 10th floor was said to be
smoking a cigarette in her room and fell asleep with the cigarette left
lit by her side. The room caught on fire trapping her in her room and
killing her. Workers at the college cleaned and repainted the room. A
new student moved in and 2 weeks the walls turned chard as if nobody
ever painted them. Every year the walls are repainted and they
continuously turn chard again. The room is no longer used.
Pittsburgh - Point
State Park - For years, city police and
the homeless have reported an array of night specters down here ranging
from shapeless mists, coonskin frontiersmen, Indians and even George
Washington.
Pittsburgh - "Old
Main" Administration Building- Duquesne University - The Basement of "old Main" is said to be haunted by
slaves, as it was a part of the Underground Railroad. Employees have
been said to hear voices and moans. Lights go on and off and doors slam
by themselves. Many unexplained happenings
Pittsburgh - Our
Lady of the Sacred Heart High School - A
nun that lived in the convent there many years ago had died and her
ghost is said to walk the hall of the third floor of the main school
building after school hours. Most of the people who have claimed to
have seen her are ones who stay after for extracurricular activities.
She has no face so she is known as the faceless nun. When she is seen,
she is walking down the hall with her head bowed down and her hands
folded as if she is praying. Every year, incoming freshmen within their
first two weeks of classes are told the story of the faceless nun. Some
don't believe it, yet a lot of students, past and present, as well as
teachers, have claimed to see her.
Pittsburgh - Rolling
Hills Country Club - The basement of the
club is the original basement of an old farmhouse in which a man hung
himself. The ghost was exorcised years ago, but there have still been
sightings of the small man and many strange noises.
Pittsburgh - Sarah
Heinz House Boys and Girls Club - This
place is said to be haunted by 2 ghosts. On of which is Sarah Heinz who
is what this building is named after, staff members said to have heard
footsteps and saw flickering lights...and every so often they would
hear very fait voices during the night. The other ghost is f a boy who
died while playing basket ball in the gym, he was up on the balcony
above the gym and was looking over into the gym and he accidentally
fell, members and staff claimed to still hear a basketball bouncing
even though there is nobody in the gym.
Pittsburgh - Shields
House - Captain Shields haunts his former
home.
Pittsburgh - Three
Rivers Stadium - - December 2005
Correction/Additional Information: No longer exists - after Heinz Field
and PNC Park were built. - December 2005
Correction/Additional Information: No longer exists, but a replica has
been built among the office buildings. Famous
sport stadium home of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Supposed victim and fan
was set on fire and hung and is said to haunt any road team that
ventures into Pittsburgh. - September
2005 Update: has been torn down & made into a new parking lot for
for the new Heinz Stadium.
Pittsburgh - University
Pittsburgh - 201 Bruce Hall - a dorm on
the University Pittsburgh Campus is also supposed to be haunted. - November 2003 update: the story on the sight said
that room 201 was haunted..it was actually found that the 12th floor of
bruce hall was haunted..it was the former sight of the schenley
hotel..and story has it that the wife and mistress of the owner
committed suicide on the 12th floor. the 12th floor is no longer used
for housing purposes and is simply office space. Odd happenings have
been reported. At times the elevator in Bruce Hall will take you to the
12th floor no matter what floor # you press..sometimes it wont let you
go back down for a few minutes.
Pittsburgh - Washington’s
Landing (Herr’s Island) - George
Washington almost drowned in the icy Allegheny river here. His spirit
haunts the eastern end of the island, sometimes on horseback.
Pittsburgh - William
Penn Hotel - The unused 22nd and 23rd
floor are haunted. Was a female dormitory for a while early in the
century. There was a murder in there. Night watchman report, gusts of
cold wind, (windows not open), feeling the presents of people watching
and unusual sounds of laughter and feet shuffling.
Pittston - Suscon
Road - Road where woman and child were
killed on their way to a hospital. Said to be haunted by the mother. 18
Streetlights are on this road, however there are constantly 11 out, but
never the same 11.
Plum - Hanky
Church Road - There is a cemetery on
Hanky Church Road that is haunted. Visitors of this cemetery have
reported dozens of strange events. Feelings of weightlessness,
numbness, possessions, headstones and trees that glow, and cloud-like
apparitions are just a few. There is also a gravestone shaped like a
tree trunk that is believed to be the center of activity.
Portvue - McKeesport
- Spotlight lounge - Many spirits haunt
the spotlight lounge in Portvue. There are so many spirits and unusual
things that happen. There are a lot of mirrors behind the bar and up on
a stage. There are many spirits that can be seen if you look into the
mirrors. It is hard to describe them they are there dancing and
partying as if they were not dead. You can sit at the bar and here
someone walk down the steps open the door walk towards the bathrooms
but no one entered. Many ghosts haunt this place. Most of them ones who
frequented the place when they where alive.
Potter's Mills - Eutaw House - It has
been rumored that the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe still exists at the
Eutaw house restaurant. This is a historic inn/restaurant in Central Pa
with a history of hauntings. While researching ghost stories of PA for
an article, my mother and I went to talk to them about this "haunting".
Shortly after we left, the horse bells on the dining area door began to
ring and several people reported feeling "unusually uncomfortable and
watched" when they went upstairs to the restrooms.
Pottsville - Pottsville
Cemetery - Candlelight is often seen
floating the day before a body is to be buried.
Raccoon - Mount
Zion Cemetery - Strange fogs/mists and
orbs have been reported.
Radnor - Cabrini
College - Used to be an estate owned by
John Dorrance, and his daughter. It is said that his daughter fell in
love with Xavier, who was the stable boy. (Xavier Hall is the name of
one of the dormitories there.) The Dorrances were quite wealthy, and
John did not permit his daughter to see Xavier any longer. Xavier hung
himself in Grace Hall, which used to be a stable. Mr. Dorrance's
beloved daughter threw herself over the balcony in the mansion. She is
often seen wearing a blue or white dress, and has long blonde hair. On
the night of the first snowfall she can be found in front of Woodcrest,
looking for her child that she killed. Mr. Dorrance can be seen walking
on one of the driveways. He wears a top hat and a long black cape.
Students driving on this driveway have seen him as a solid person who
seems to appear from nowhere in front of the car. Whomever is driving
hits, and runs him over. (The impact has been felt by the passengers
and driver) When the driver gets out to see who they hit and to survey
the damage to the car, there is no one behind the car, no damage to the
car, but there are footprints in the snow along the driveway.
Radnor - Radnor
hotel - Formally the St. David's Inn, the
Radnor Hotel has had some very disturbing hauntings. One in particular
is suite 309, where a ghost appears in the ceiling above the master bed
and then proceeds down the wall to the door and then vanishes into the
hallway. Some guests have even seen her presence in the hallway in the
wee early morning hours. And still others have heard noises coming from
the room when the room is vacant.
Reading - Albright
College - Smith Hall - There was
a girl that killed herself on the 1st floor in Smith Hall. Students
have heard footsteps in the hall but no one was there. Someone used
dowsing rods (to detect spiritual activity) on the 1st floor and they
crossed in front of the girl's room, which she killed herself in.
Reading - Albright
College - Selwyn Hall - The third
floor of Selwyn Hall, an ex-sorority house (but now it serves as a
variety of things-health clinic, admissions, facilities, etc.), is said
to be home to the ghost of a girl who committed suicide there. The
details of the exact circumstances surrounding her death aren't very
well known, as the involved sororities keep it as hushed as possible.
But the rumor of the motivation behind the suicide was the girl being
rejected from the sororities and therefore taking her life.
Reading - Central
Catholic High School - People have heard
chains rattle & have seen the locks on the lockers spin by
themselves. The power often goes out for unknown reasons. Electric
companies have come and have no idea why the power is/was out. Also the
family of Mr. Luden was killed too. The wife and daughter in the
basement (also known as the dungeon to the students) and Mrs. Luden was
killed on the 2nd or third floor. The son hanged himself on the wooden
stairs. Also the chains people hear are from another son, who was
chained in the attic. One final thing is that some nights you can hear
Mr. Luden's piano playing. The piano isn't in the room anymore but the
sound still occurs there.
Reading - Emily's
Pub - Ghost of a former resident of this
old house now turned restaurant. She is a teenager named Emily who is
seen in the wine cellar and the 2nd floor banquet
Reading - Pendora
Park - In the past 30 years, 4 people
have jumped or fallen off of the Viaduct, the bride over Pendora. There
have been reports of screaming and crying, and visions of people
falling/jumping.
Reading - St.
Ignatius Loyola School - About 3 years
ago around exam week, a young man stayed after school to study. When he
was done studying he waited outside for his ride, but his mom never
came. The phones were out and he was all-alone. The next day the police
found his body in the library. It was mangled and gross. They never
said how exactly he died. They say if your there the phone will ring,
and no one will be there, things being written on walls, and people
even have heard and seen him running away. If you feel a cold spot,
remember this school doesn't have air conditioning! Some people say if
you say his name in the dark you will see glowing eyes. His name was
Jerry.
Reading - St.
Mary's Catholic School - The Bathrooms in
the lower hall of the school seem to be haunted. The door bangs in the
Boys bathroom and a bloody handprint appears on the wall. You can hear
a moan and it sometimes will give chase.
Reading - The
Majestic Theater - People have seen the
vision of an old woman walking across the balcony.
Reading - Vito's
Pizza - The Pizza Shop of Vito's is said
to be haunted by an unknown spirit.
Reading - Whit-Mar
Inn - On the Pottsville Pike north of
Reading. The ghosts of an old woman and an Indian have been spotted
peering from the windows. The old lady's ghost would slam doors shut,
turn the lights off and on, along with the air conditioner at times.
Murry also claims that he has seen the ghostly figure of an Indian in
the back of the building. - February 2004
additional info: the "Whit-Mar Inn" (also known as Poor Richard's
Tavern and the Apple Inn). This was raised several years ago and is the
home to a Wawa (convenience chain).
Ridgway - Oakmont
Cemetery - At 3:00 a.m. the spirits walk
the graveyard. And some of the are not rested yet.
Ringtown - Ringtown
Elementary School - The 4th, 5th, and 6th
grade doors open. Things get thrown by invisible hands and reports of
red glowing eyes in the basement.
Roaring Spring - Paper Mill - there once
was a house across from the papaer mill and a pastor lived there. the
pastor was a devil worshiper (my grandmother broke into the house from
a suspision and went upstairs and there was vails full of potions with
a witchcraft book) some times in the middle of the summer (it could be
98 degreese outside and up in the attic where the vails and witchcraft
book was) there was ice cycles hanging off the cieling. the pastor was
also a foster parent and and one day out of no where the one girl he
was taking care of went missing (later on after the pastor died
somebody found a females hip bone in the back yard) next door to the
house a bitbole will appear in the garden (ever since then nothing will
grow in the garden) then it will mysteriously dissaper. a missionnary
came to the town of roaring spring back in the 1960's and as he was
entering the town he said he could go no farther cause the town was
feeled with evil spirits (and before you know it he was outta there and
never came back) till this day there have been mysterious hauntings
that no one an explain.
Roaring Spring - Paper Mill - Bridge - By
the Paper Mill there is a bridge which is haunted by at least 3 ghost.
One is the ghost of a man who had hung himself. If you drive through
the bridge and park in the middle facing the side farthest from the
mill you will see his ghost. The ghost tends to walk back and fourth.
Sometimes he will do no more than step out and back. Aslo you should
hear the voice of a man talking. Occasionally the ghost will walk up to
the car and even hit it. Very large, bright, white orbs can also be
seen. The other two ghost are those of a couple who were hit by a
train. They tend to linger around the top of the bridge-walking
together-holding hands.
Root Hollow -
Margaret Hollow Road - Several people
have seen the spirit of a young woman who was murdered and thrown under
the bridge at the beginning of the road in a burlap sack. She is seen
sitting on the bridge looking down in shame, shaking her head.
Rosemont -
Rosemont College - Reports of apparitions
and slamming of doors throughout the night.
Sandy Lake - The
furnaces - The furnaces used to be an old
steel mill that burnt over 50 yrs. ago. Many of accidents happened
taking many lives, so it is said to be haunted by the workers who died
there. If you visit the furnaces during the winter you can see foot
prints, shadows, and things leaping from tree to tree, over 100 yard
distance. As you go down the hill it gets much colder, until you get
directly into the furnaces, and then you feel it get warmer. Many of
nights the restless spirits will chase you out and give you a real
fright.
Saxonburg - Clinton
Elementary - Some people who have gone to
Clinton claim of seeing weird ghostly white figures, moans, and groans
throughout the building. Now it is closed & another guy owns it to
keep extra food for his restaurant and he claims to have seen weird
figures of a girl and boy inside the 3rd grade classroom hugging.
Saylorsburg - route
209 - In the 1800s when the hotel was
open a boy when to stay at the hotel it was the third floor. The next
morning he had never checked out. So they went up to the third floor.
he had died to this day you can hear and see this boy.
Sayre - Pelachik
House - The ghost of a murdered constable
still patrols the Pelachik house. This was a house of ill repute in the
early 1900's.
Scranton - West
Mountain Sanitarium - A long while back
the Tuberculosis patients were sent there to live and be treated.
During a massive fire hundreds of patients died and are believed to
haunt the place.
Scenery Hill - The Century Inn - This
is the oldest inn along Route 40. In the restaurant of this bed and
breakfast, there is a very cold room. The innkeeper said she had seen
someone at the door nearby, the cold is not caused by a draft, and she
has trouble keeping that door locked. Directly down the hill from that
room, mysterious footprints leading away from the inn wall have
appeared in the snow.
Schuylkill Haven - Rest Haven Nursing Home - Old Building
- In the apartments are separate from the
women’s building on the second floor. A former worker reports they
would feel like an ice cold feeling, Goosebumps, as well as an uneasy
feeling when they would enter this area.
Scottdale - Scottdale
Armory - Old General lurks around the
drill floor. Lockers would open and shut, lights would flicker. Locked
doors would unlock and open. Security alarms would go off when nothing
was caught on camera. Built in the 1800's. Abandoned
Scranton - Washburn
Street Cemetery - June 2008 Removed.
Selinsgrove - Digestion
Campus Theatre - Susquehanna University - Reports
of Charlie the ghost walking along the catwalks, appearing in the
audience,
Selinsgrove - Susquehanna
University - Blough-Weiss library- In the
basement of this library many student workers have felt a presence and
seen an apparition while working late at night. The room the students
are working in becomes cold after the sighting of the apparition.
Unsure of whom the apparition may be but student research is in
progress.
Shamokin - Old
D.E Jones Building - In The Old D.E Jones
Building Several People Claim to have heard in the basement sounds of
footsteps walking through water, electricity failure (all the lights in
the basemebt blew out each 1 day apart) signs on the wall (two Diamonds
stacked on top of each other) and then one day the top Diamond
Disappeared, Orbs found in several pictures and in one picture a face
can be found.
Shanksville - Somerset
County - Crash Site of United Flight 93 -
**WARNING - APPROACHING THE CRASH SITE IS NOT ADVISED. GUARDS WILL MAKE
YOU TURN AROUND AND GO HOME IMMEDIATELY. GENERALLY, TRESPASSING IS
ADVISED AGAINST. BE RESPECTFUL. ** -
Night security guards at the crash sight have reported unexplainable
things throughout their night watch there, including what sounds like a
large group of people walking and talking. Almost every night, the door
to their security trailer was knocked on. They would open the door to
find no one there. Recent photos taken at a small memorial set up there
revealed SEVERAL orbs. One of the guards heard a man's voice in the cab
of his truck ask, "So What now?" This was reported on by Johnstown,
PA's news station WJAC.
Shawnee on the Delaware- Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort- There have been sightings of a woman walking pass the
lobby into the Dogwood Dining Room. Late at night in the bar you can
hear whispering, then screams. In the ladies bathroom, one of the doors
will be close but no one is in there and the toilet flushes. It is
rumored that this lady was murdered in one of the rooms by the lobby
and her spirit still haunts the place.
Shillington - behind
the health south rehab center - Reports
of noises and images of a little boy in the restroom.
Shillington - Shillington
Social Quarters - Bartenders, Trustees
and Patrons have reported hearing and seeing things. A trustee was in
the second floor office with the door open and was the only one in the
building with all the doors locked. As he was doing paper work he heard
a man’s voice behind him saying "help me". A bartender was done for the
night with the doors locked and he being the only one in was just
getting finished cleaning the bar. As he was done he threw the cleaning
rag in the middle of the bar turned to hang the cleaning bottle and as
he turned to switch off the TV he heard a noise behind him, as he
turned to look, the bar rag was laying in the middle of the floor and
the cleaning bottle was swinging back and forth. Also, apparently the
ghost likes to play in the women’s bathroom by locking the doors and
turning the water on. Reportedly, a man of age had died of a heart
attack at this establishment.
Shillington - VanS'sandwich
shop - A former employee reported seeing
a teenage girl hanging and gutted at the top of the staircase. The
basement is now closed off.
Sinking Valley - Tyrone Township - Fort Roberdeau - When you get to the road into Fort Roberdeau you go
through a corn field which is where the fort once stood. The fort was
moved from that location and rebuilt about 1/4 of a mile down the same
road which apparently disturbed the ground. The original location of
the fort is where the hauntings take place. A dark figure supposedly a
guard to the entrance of the fort can be seen walking back and forth
near one of the old wooden power line poles. On the left side of the
corn field is where two orbs can be seen, light and dark. These orbs
are supposed to be children running in the field. Other experienced
include eerie feelings, unusual fog activity, and occasionally, odd
noises. The road is public, the actual fort is a Historic Site,
admission during the day.
Simpson - The
Industrial Smokestacks - The place is
closed and deserted now, but when the factory was opened, one worker
killed another worker who was in a wheelchair in the basement of this
place. When you are in there at night you can hear things moving around
and for some reason there is a wheelchair at the bottom of the stairway
to the basement, and it seems to be in a different place every time you
look away and turn back.
Slateford - Slateford
Bridge - Story goes that when 2,500 foot
long cement bridge (now supporting defunct rail lines) was being built
in 1911 by black laborers, one of the men from a pouring crew fell in,
pouring could not be halted, and he was literally buried alive. Today
the spirit of the unidentified man is heard and sometimes seen around
the old bridge. People who walk across it both during the day and at
night get feelings that they are being followed by someone.
Slippery rock - Deadmans Bridge - If you
go back St. Johns road in Slippery Rock and stop on the bridge where a
husband and wife were killed in a tragic wagon accident you shall see
car headlights coming at you and hear a car but the car disappears and
you hear screams coming at you closer and closer and.
Slippery Rock - Miller Auditorium - This
Theater was named after Emma Guffey Miller, who is believed to be the
ghost that haunts the place. There is often strange banging or pounding
noises heard and when people go to see what the noise is, no one is
there. The lights also flicker and go out during rehearsals. The
students started the tradition of hiding "Baby" somewhere on the stage
during performances to keep Emma from sabotaging the show. Baby started
out as a whole baby doll, but has degenerated to a charred mutilated
head. It is rumored that if Baby is not present, the show will be a
disaster.
Slippery Rock - North Hall - Emma Guffey
Miller, the ghost of Miller Auditorium, was also said to have haunted
North Hall at night. She has been seen by some crossing the sidewalks
over to the hall, and watching over people in their rooms as they
sleep. Many people have also unexplainably had their doors Open in the
middle of the night, despite them being locked. It is thought to be
good luck if she watches over you.
Slippery rock - Road behind Old Stone House - is on a road out behind the famous "Old Stone House"
There is a story about a woman getting hit by a train and thrown into
the nearby creek, drowning. It has been fabled that if you go out there
in the dark, that she will appear looking for a ride. . A light has
been seen on the straightaway. This is a pretty secluded section of
wooded country road.
Smithton (Van Meter) - Darr Mine - The Darr
Mine was the site of a one of the worst Mining disasters in the United
States, on Dec. 19, 1907, that killed 239 Miners. Male voices have been
heard at night and it sounds as if they are arguing although it's all
gibberish (most of the dead were of eastern European origin, could they
be bickering in Hungarian or some other Slavic language that witnesses
are not familiar with?). Photographs taken at the sight often have
smoky images swirling about when developed. One witness unaware that
this sight was even haunted, had a an invisible entity breath the words
"Oh God!" directly into his ear very loudly, while he was collecting
firewood for a riverside campfire. This site is located right alongside
of the Youghigheny Bike Trail a few hundred yards south of the mining
village of Van Meter.
Somerset - Windber
- Mine 40 - Weird noises like dogs
barking and no dogs are around. When walking through the actual
buildings you can hear someone following you through the buildings even
though no one is around, and at times you hear someone whispering the
name of your friends. The Ghost of the Night Miner is supposedly
haunting the railroad tracks around night. Very creepy in the day, and
eerie at night!!!
Sonestown - Hoot
Rd/Main St. - The sound of a man's
footsteps in the attic of this early Victorian period house (built
circa 1836) has been reported by many of it's past residents, along
with mysterious voices. The home has been said to have been renovated
around 1880, and again around 1930. It is rumored, but not confirmed,
that this was the home of a Civil War soldier who was killed in battle
and returns to his home looking for his family. This same soldier has
also been seen at night guarding the Sonestown Covered Bridge.
South Park - Green
Man's Legend & Green Man's Tunnel - There
is a legend of a man who was walking one of the deserted roads in South
Park and he was struck by lightening. He died and is said to still walk
the deserted country roads. This tunnel can be seen from the road and
is no longer in use. Years ago, an electrician was working on the
tunnel lights when he became electrocuted and died. He now haunts the
tunnel and surrounding area. It is said to have a green glow. - March 2008 Update/additional information: The
disfigured face guy was Ray Robinson, who is the true "Green Man", not
some ghost. He lived near Koppel, Pennsylvania and died in 1985. Ray
had his face melted off by a ungrounded railroad bridge in 1917 (his
skin turned light green in places after the accident). The ghost in
South Park might glow green, but it should NOT be associated with the
true "Green Man".
Spring City - Pennhurst
Mental Hospital - This mental hospital
was shut down due to patient abuse. The medical buildings are probably
where most of the worst stuff happened there.
Spring City - Pennhurst
State Hospital Complex- parts of which
have now been converted into a Veterans State Hospital by former
Governor Ridge. No matter where you go in these buildings you can hear
people talking and moving around, even though you are quiet. You can
feel the energy of many people surrounding you, although none of it is
negative. Nature sounds are not to be heard, although woods surround
Pennhurst. The grounds are protected by Military Police and the have
camp set up in the middle of the layout. - No Trespassing.- March 2008 Update – A visitor who lives in the area
wanted to add that she hears gun shots and screams all the time.
St. Benedict - The Foxburg Inn - In the
dining area, the first booth to your right has a table cloth. The table
is supposedly haunted and the table cloth has been seen just flying off
of the table, with no one sitting there, knocking off even the ash
tray.
St. David's - Eastern
College - There have been several
sightings of figures dressed in black that seem to disappear. Please
include my email - for if anyone else has seen any unusual events at
this college they could email them to me.
St. David's - Eastern
University - Doane Residence Hall - (which used to be part of the servants quarters back
when the University was an estate) is haunted by a girl who hung
herself on the second floor in one of the dorm rooms. Reports are, if
you place a chair in the room and shut out the lights and close the
door, the chair will fall over and you can hear a female gasping for
air.
St. David’s - Eastern
University - Eastern University - Diane Hall - a girl hung herself in Diane Hall's 3rd floor
bathroom, and the girls on the floor have seen rope appear in the
stalls, and have had experiences during which someone sees only feet
hanging below the stall doors.
St. David’s - Eastern
University - Walton Hall - A girl
hung herself is Walton Hall's 4th floor in the 1970's. Its still
completely closed up to this day. There are Occasionally lights and
notice from up there.
St. Mary’s - Fourth
Street - Back in the early years of the
town, a railroad track used to sit where now a creek runs. The train
one night hit the conductor’s house which sat next to the tracks and
destroyed everything, including the family. The house, which was
rebuilt, burned to the ground, and the house across the street also
burned years later. If walking at night on this street, you may hear
the train coming, or the sounds of the conductor’s family. The feeling
of being watched walking past the creek has also been noted.
St. Mary’s - St.
Mary’s Catholic Cemetery - In the
cemetery there is a grave known to locals as "Cooney's Grave". It is an
actual tombstone of a Priest in the early 20th century who was rumored
to have killed the woman who was impregnated by him. Weird things
happen to the stone, especially during strong moonlit' nights. It is
said that you can see a "glistening liquid" on the stone (rumored to be
blood) and other ghostly phenomenon.
St. Peter's - Harmonyville
Farm Bed & Breakfast - "Person" seen
standing outside of shower in "Summer Kitchen" cottage. Painting of
woman in cottage was glaring and frowning at beginning of visit, and
when visitors (friends of mine) left a day early, she appeared to then
be smirking. At one point, one of the visitors couldn't get the door to
the Summer Kitchen open to get out, and just as she was about to give
up, it clicked and opened. They constantly felt as though the walls
were closing in, and did not realize that both of them were
experiencing the same things until they talked in the car on their way
out of there. General overall "creepy, claustrophobic" feeling about
the place.
St. Peter's - St.
Peter's Inn - While alone you will here
the baby cry, or while upstairs on 2nd floor you'll here the creaking
and sounds of the ghost that hung herself years ago.
St. Peters Village - St. Peterson Inn - every
once in a while you can see the ghost of a sick old hunch backed man
walk through the hallways of this. He is even seen some times walking
down the street
Stanley - Clearfield
County - Railroad Tracks - At least two
persons have seen a white train traveling the railroad tracks and
disappearing. One witness late in the evening saw the train clearly
enough to notice its unusual color and that boxcar doors were open in
violation of regulations. But when he came to the crossing, the train
was gone! The village was once a well-known stop along the railroad
route.
State College - Pennsalvania State University - Central
Pattee Library - Odd feelings of a presence
and being watched felt by students on top floor of central Pattee
(Murder of librarian years ago?) - January
2004 update/ correction - the #1 ranked haunted place at Penn State,
Pattee Library was the site of a murder in 1969. A girl named Betsy (a
student employee) was found dead on the first basement level. As spooky
as that is, though, most of the ghostly events that happen in the
Library aren't related to her at all. Workers and Students report that
there have been strange screams echoing up from the basement levels,
transparent girls thumbing through books, disembodied glowing red eyes,
book carts being moved without anyone present, and all sorts of other
phenomena.
State College - Pennsylvania State University - Keller Dorm
- This dorm was the site of a student's suicide
years ago. He hanged himself in a stairwell. Perhaps related to that,
and perhaps not, there are a couple of rooms (rumors are that they're
near his old room, but then again others say that's not so) that have
had some freaky things happen. In the early 1990s, this acted up the
most. A student was repeatedly locked out of this room, and one night
ran out screaming because the bed was occupied by someone who wasn't
there. When he came back with the Residential Assistant, the door was
locked and they both heard the whole room being trashed by poltergeist
activity.
State College - Pennsalvania State University - Schwab
Auditorium - is supposedly haunted by a few
separate ghosts. One of them may be Charles Schwab. The other may be
President Atherton who was president of the school and is buried beside
the building. There has also been a soldier seen. An article about this
was written in the last alumni newsletter. - January 2004 update/ correction - The second most
famous haunted place on campus, Schwab Auditorium is supposedly haunted
by the ghost of President Atherton, the first president of the
university. His grave is right behind the building, with a memorial and
a bench where his widow is supposed to have sat for days on end after
his death. When plays and other performances are held, the performers
sometimes tell stories of footsteps, outlines of a man, things being
moved, and so forth.
State College - Pennsylvania State University - Old Botany
- Closely related to Schwab Auditorium's
stories, Old Botany may be haunted by the president's wife. She is
occasionally seen, sitting near a window on the second floor, rocking
and knitting. Also, Old Botany is one of the oldest remaining buildings
on campus, and there have been many stories of noises and sightings
here. It's not really used these days, except for some offices. It's
mostly a historical site.
State College - Pennsylvania State University - Pollock
Laptop Library (a study library on the east side of campus) - has someone wandering around in it. One day late this
summer, a worker there slowly became aware of someone grumbling behind
them. They where there only ones there.
State College - Pennsylvania State University - The
basement of one of the dorms - holds the
stuffed remains of Penn State's first mascot, Old Coaly the mule. His
ghost is Said to be heard braying down there some nights.
State College - The Lemont House - In the
small town of Lemont (in state college), there are many large Victorian
houses. At the first intersection, under the street there is a tunnel
used by the under ground rail road and it connects to several houses.
In the Lemont house (the tunnel begins here) there is said to be the
ghost of a woman, who supposedly either died or killed herself when her
husband died. The house was a present for her wedding and she was so
heart broken she refused to live there. Her father built her another
house down the street. There are many secret passageways etc.
Stateline - Stateline
United Methodist Parsonage House - People
who live in this house have unexplainable illness, Doors lock, black
images and all kinds of sound have been heard. Bothers woman mostly.
Strasburg - The
Goodrich House - Reports of being choked,
not being alone, hearing voices and seeing apparitions.Strasburg
Experience
Strasburg - Main
Street - Carriage said to contain the
soldiers returning home on leave during the Civil War is sometimes seen
traveling through town.
Sugar Valley - The entire area - There
are numerous hot spots in the whole of the valley from haunted houses,
to a demon in the woods who has been felt by many and seen from the
corner of the eye. A very menacing spirit he is. He resides in Loganton
on top of a hill with a limestone face, in the woods. Never try to
visit him alone.
Sugar Valley - Hollobaugh Road - There
is a menacing presence near the small church and cemetery there, but
not in it. The presence was not seen, while the visitors were unable to
record it, it sucked the battery dry on the video camara.
Sugar Valley - The Sugar Valley Elementary School - always had spiritual activity in the gym/stage area.
Although nothing bad had ever happened there, we always knew something
was there. It manifested itself by knocking over chairs, and equipment.
Banging and clanging. It was never seen, only heard and felt.
Sullivan - Moultry
County Court House - Strange lights, the
sound of footsteps after hours, and the sounds of a man pleading for
his life.
Summit Hill - Summit
Hill Cemeteries - All year-round, but
mainly in the Fall and Winter, a headless specter can be seen crossing
the cemetery lots , holding a red lantern. This has been going on for
generations.
Swiftwater - Indian
Falls - large light above the falls,
sounds. Indians were thrown off the falls.
Swiftwater - Mount
Airy Lodge - Room 7664 at the now closed
hotel was rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a woman who was killed
by her husband in one of the honeymoon rooms. Also, it is said that the
previous owner, Emil Wagner (who committed suicide about 4 years ago)
could be heard in the dining room of the hotel early in the morning.
Also before the closing of the hotel last October, there were abnormal
occurrences in the hotel. - January 2007
Update: It was completely leveled in 2005, only the golf course
remains. They are currently building another hotel with the hope of
turning it into a casino once the licenses are issued.
Swiftwater - Swiftwater
Inn - One of the most feared in its
evolution, people from other states have heard of this paranormal
place. Unsolved mysteries did a program on this evil place and it blew
the doors off camera crew. - March 2008
Update: It was completely leveled.
Swissvale - LG
Graphics - A ghost of a man frequents
this place, we are unsure as to his identity and why he's there, but
he's known to open and close doors. The sound of footsteps in the
basement from the first floor and the sound of a stack of papers
falling on the second floor but when you go upstairs, nothing has been
touched.
Tamaqua - Elks
Lodge - This is a rather well known
haunting in the Tamaqua area.... apparitions will appear, objects move,
disembodied voices, all the classic haunting activity.
Tamarack Swamp - Used to be a small town but sank in the swamp.
Apparitions & sounds of former residents through the entire area.
Tannersville - Tannersville Inn - It is
said that a man in his late 30's early 40's was hit by a car and left
to die. This happened right behind the inn. Today he haunts a bedroom
on the top floor. People said they have seen him laying on the bed and
sitting on the couch. They used to have the doorway and windows
boarded-up.
Tilden Township - Five Locks. - A heavy
mist appears across the canal and starts to form in the shape of a
young woman, This can be seen on a Midnight drive only when the moon is
full, On a semi warm night.
Tobyhanna - Route
611 - Back in the 70s a man was walking
home from a bar on a foggy night. Just before the railroad overpass he
was hit by one of my mothers friends. Now on late foggy nights you can
see him walking around the overpass.
Torrance - The
Old Torrance State Mental Hospital - The
grounds of this old hospital are believed to be haunted. People have
claimed to see former residents roaming the grounds and buildings.
Elevators have even been known to open at will along with slamming
doors. - !!!WARNING!!!! The elevators are
no longer there and also, only one door, which is lodged shut with a
board. - Loud noises heard when walking
through. Things happening to cars. i.e. windshield wipers being turned
upside down. An overall cold and bad feeling about the place. The
basement has an eerie feel to it, very cold in the room with the
furnace. If you dare you can try to walk around the second floor (which
there is no elevator to only a stair case that is missing many steps)
the floor is very thin in the second floor so be careful not to fall
through and get hurt) - Update: There is
a story of a little girl who'd been born by a woman residing in the
hospital. One day, the girl came to visit her mother and it was
reported that she had been murdered by security officers, or something
of the like. This was said to have happened in the mortuary of the
building. Her ghost is said to run the halls near the mortuary,
giggling and laughing, as if she were playing a hide and seek game,
also said to be looking for her mother. Another story is that an
upstairs room is haunted by an old woman who resided in a room at the
end of the hall. This room was the only "private" room, with door, and
the only with a balcony entrance. If you enter this room, it’s said
that you can hear her rocking in her chair.
Trumbauresville - Trum Tavern - This place
is mention in the book called Ghosts of Bucks County. Located off of
Quakertown. Ask locals for directions. When your there ask for a menu
the history of the Trum tavern is on the back of the menu. Before it
was a bar, the Trum Tavern used to be a Court House in the 1700's it
has a lot of history to it, back then when people were found guilty
they were scolded with boiling water, tortured, or even worse, hung!
The tavern has a colonial look on the outside. The Ghost of the
original owner Jacob, haunts the second floor, the feeling of someone
behind you, stuff moving around, unearthly sounds. The place was caught
on fire back sometime in April 2002, the first floor was toasted out,
due to some kind of explosion. but eight months later it was open
again, and now it looks mostly the same.
Tyrone - Baughmans
Cemetery - It is a cemetery that goes
around in a circle up in the middle of nowhere. If you go up there on
full moon nights you can see the outline of people hanging in the
trees. If you go up there on any night the wind is not blowing on the
way up but as soon as you get there the wind starts blowing. Or
sometimes you might get chased out of the cemetery by a light misty
figure or a white horse.
Tyrone - Janesville
Pike - The story behind this, Is that a
woman died in a car wreck on her wedding night, And the woman is still
searching the area for her husband. There's an area a few miles up
Janesville pike where the guard rails end, there’s a small yellow sign,
And a small area where you can pull off the road.. Your supposed to
drive up to this area, Get out of your vehicle, Light a match and while
the wind blows the match out you say her name, Sylvia.. Drive back down
the mountain and do this three times and after the third match blows
out, She is supposed to appear wearing a white wedding dress.
Tyrone - railroad
tracks - There have been many sightings
of an old women searching for her family. Her family was pushed on the
railroad tracks just as an on coming train swept by and there bodies
were never found. The old lady hung her self in a house not to far from
he tracks. In a road called Fowler Hollow a mile or so back, the body
was taken to a morgue and the blood stains were covered up by new
boards and the blood still can be smelled on certain nights. - October 2004 Correction: The house near the railroad
tracks is on a road called Hannah Lane. It's a big abandoned green
house. The house is in pretty bad condition. It's an original log cabin
and where the front door is, the front porch is caved in. No
trespassing! The police will be called.
Tullytown -
Bordentown Road - "Midnight Mary" has
been seen gliding or walking along Manor Lake on Bordentown Road. She
has been seen gliding across the road or walking on the water .
Sometimes she is also seen hitchhiking in a dripping wet prom gown. She
is a ghost of a young girl who died coming back from the prom when the
car which she was riding in when of the road and into Manor Lake. The
girl's body was never found.
Uniondale - Lewis
Lake - A long time ago, a young Native
American and her white lover were in a fight, and, in a jealous rage,
her boyfriend murdered her. At the dam, there is a fallen tree in the
woods that overlooks the falls, and if you are out there late at night,
you will see her sitting on the log, crying. Her boyfriend suddenly
rushes her, and shoves her off, before they both vanish into thin air.
On many nights, this happens on a continuous loop.
Uniontown - Allen's
Farm - Allen's farm has an annual
"Allen's Haunted Hayrides". Every year they take people through and at
the very end everyone goes through a barn. The barn is very old, like a
few hundred years. The barn stands on top of the hill at the farm.
Apparently the barn has been haunted for centuries. There have been
numerous sightings. They have had a radio station from Pittsburgh stay
overnight there and they have had experiences. One year all of the
people that work at the haunted hayride left the barn completely
claiming that something had happened. Til this very day the owner Rick
Allen will claim that his old barn is very much indeed haunted.
Uniontown - Fayette
County Courthouse -People used to be
hanged in Fayette County on the clock tower of the courthouse. It is
said that the last person who hanged there proclaimed to be innocent.
Right before his sentence, he swore that none of the four clocks in the
tower would ever be the same time again in order to justify his
innocence. To this day, no matter how many times the four clocks are
synchronized, they are still different times by at least five to ten
minutes.
Upper Black Eddy - The Indian Rock Inn - There
are many things that happen here. Now a Bed and Breakfast w/Bar &
Restaurant (great food!) - you should try staying the night and see if
you witness anything! Before it became the bed & breakfast it is
now, it was a place for actors from a former nearby haunted hay ride
-property for that has since sold and is being semi-developed. The true
original history of the building is not really known. Given it's age
& remote location, you can only imagine what could have gone on in
a bar/inn like that in it's heyday. Faucets turn themselves off and on.
Shadows and apparitions have been seen. Strange knockings have been
heard. And doorknobs shake for no apparent reason.
Upper Darby - Saint
Alice - the auditorium used to be where
they held the coffins for funerals. the auditorium used to be a chapel,
a student claimed to hear music playing at night and a silhouette of a
person standing in front of the top floor window. the convent and
rectory are also known to be haunted. a man hung himself in the convent
and the music teacher died in the convent also. people say they hear
the piano that she used to play when she was a live. the principal at
the school said she heard someone calling her name when no one was
around, the secretary tried to make a phone call but it said someone
was using the the phone line, she went to check to see who was using
the phone. she found out no one was using it. the girls' bathroom in
the gym toilets flushes at times. the house near the rectory was the
first house built by two brothers.
Upper Darby - Upper
Darby High School - There is a spirit
haunting the Performing Arts Center Theatre which is said to be of a
young boy who hanged himself because he was tormented by evil spirits
which live in the attic of the theatre. Actors and theatre technicians
there have witnessed a hanging body in the shadows and have encountered
many strange things like moving boxes and hearing noises. Lamps in
storage tend to smash for no reason.
Valley Forge - Valley Forge National Park - Several different occurrences have been known to
happen at this is the famous war site. Spirits of dead soldiers are
most often seen standing on "earthwork" or setting off canons. Late at
night phantom musket shots can be heard echoing throughout the entire
park.
Vandergrift - Cosino
theater - Moving things in windows of
balcony. The lights were out. Whistling noises. This building is under
construction so there may have been a death.
Villanova - Villanova
University - Alumni Hall - Aside
from the abnormal creaks in the floors and walls when no one is nearby,
at least four known students have complained about waking up in the
middle of the night and being 'held' by some force. The students could
not move their arms or legs for a period of roughly 5 minutes when,
abruptly it stopped and everyone was free to move again. It was a Civil
War hospital in the 1860's. Three counselors and a teenage camper all
claim to have heard a woman's voice call their respective names at
around between 3:15 and 3:30 AM. Many of the instances happened when
there was no one there. Counselors have been threatened of be fired if
they tell any of the students. In addition footsteps can be heard at
all times of the night when there is no one in the vicinity.
Villanova - Villanova
University - St. Mary’s Hall - St.
Mary's Hall used to be a convent. Rumors of a nun that hung herself.
Today St. Mary's is believed to be haunted by both students and night
shift custodial workers. One nighttime janitor claimed to have heard a
radio blaring from behind a closed door, and upon entering the vacant
room, the music stopped and the janitor discovered the radio was
unplugged! Several janitors also have reported hearing what sounds like
water splashing from someone swimming in the St. Mary's pool at all
hours of the night. However, upon entering the poolroom, no one is
present, and the water in the pool is still. This has happened on more
than one occasion. As well as hearing a piano being played in the music
room, and no one is there. security guards have also claimed to have
heard banging on the walls and doors coming from the kitchen in St.
Mary's Hall. The odd thing about all of these occurrences is that they
took place during the university's "off-season", when students have
left the campus for the semester and the dorms are unoccupied.
Volant - Covered
Bridge Road - Young Amish girl seen at
night. The legend is said her and her family was in a buggy accident
and she was thrown into the Neshanach Creek and drowned. She walks
around at night looking for her family. This happened somewhere around
the 1800's
Walnutport - The
Canal - the lady in white, is said to be
a woman in her late 50s that can be seen walking along the canal and
has been seen floating on the water. Usually seen by the lock tenders
home.
Warminster - Craven
Hall - A young man dressed in 1700's
clothing has been seen through the windows of the first floor. He also
bangs on windows late at night as if trying to escape. It is believed
that the body of the young soldier is buried on the grounds of Craven
Hall.
Warminster - Hartsville
– Bucks - Hartsville Inn - The site is a
very old building from around the civil war era. There are tunnels from
the underground railroad where travelers would pass through. They are
said to be sightings of ghosts. It then was a restaurant/hotel and then
closed in the late 90's. Became a haunted house for Halloween, now
closed. Lights have also been reported flickering.- December Update: The house is still there, but they
are building a bunch of office buildings all around it. The submitter
to the update is not sure about the maids house next store, you cant
see it from the road. They would no longer advise going to the house
now because it looks to be in bas shape, some work being done to it.
Also with all the construction going on it may not be safe.
Warminster - Longstreth
Elementary - people see the lights
flicker at night and people have felt cold spots in the girls bathroom
there and people see "get away" signs on some of the chalk boards.
Warminster - Mike's
York Street Bar & Grill (formerly the Warminster Inn) - In 1791 a woman named Penelope was raped and murdered
and if you're alone in the attic at 12:00 midnight, the lights will go
out and her ghost will circle the building.
Warren - Reality
- Former Jefferson Tea House - A ghost is said to roam the third floor.
Warren - Warren
Area Student Union - The student union,
which was formally an armory, is said to be haunted by a man killed in
the shooting range when his gun backfired and a pile of ammunition
exploded. There have been several sightings of the spirit in the
basement, which is where the shooting range was.
Warren - Warren
Historical Building - Sometimes at night
if you are standing on the sidewalk in front of the building and look
up in the right hand window on the top floor you can see a shadow of a
lady or a lady in a white blouse (or maybe the curtain) looking
outside. - Warren
County Historical Society is located in the
STRUTHERS-WETMORE-SCHIMMELFENG HOUSE which was constructed between 1870
& 1873 as a wedding gift from Thomas Struthers to his daughter Anna
Eliza upon her marriage to George Wetmore. It now houses the Society's
offices, library, archives, period exhibit rooms and featured displays.
The Historical Society Library is located on the main floor and is open
to the public.
Warrendale - Brush
Creek Inn - This old hotel is plagued
with spirits. Bottles in the bar will unexpectedly shatter or hurl
across the room. Beds upstairs will flip over with nobody in the room.
Windows open and close by themselves.
Warrendale - Northgate
Drive - This once main road is haunted by
a phantom muscle car that cracked up drag racing here.
Warrington - Mara
Bella's - many stories to tell of a
woman dressed in white. Other stories are of dishes falling while no
one is around, and the smoke alarms going off and the ventilation
system kept sending out dust only in the historic room, which had the
original walls and floors from the 1700s.
Washington - near
Marrianna - old cemetary /church on hill - It
said the girl was buried in the field somewhere.It said you can see the
woman in a white dress.One weekend me and about 15 friends drove out to
the cemetary/field.It had an eerie feeling but we didnt see anything.
Washington - Washington
and Jefferson College President's House - The President's house on W&J campus is haunted by
the ghost of a confederate officer. The original family that owned the
house were southern sympathizers during the civil war and took in a
wonder confederate officer. He hid out in the house for a while before
he was captured and hung. The ghost walks the upstairs hallway pacing
between the top of the stairs and the front window looking for Union
soldiers. Activity increased when the current president took office, it
is said the ghost is angry because the president is from Boston. April 2007 Additional information - The new President
said the place is indeed haunted, and that it would turn the radio on
sometimes really loud or start the fire places up. She told of how
she'll be with the only other person in the house and you can hear the
footsteps pacing. Also if you go to the third floor on a hot summer day
(they do not have air conditioning up there unless thier son is staying
over) its really cold.
Washington County - Bentleyville - the spring - Strange sounds like organ music coming from the
graveyard.
Waterford - Eagle
Hotel - Numerous occasions of hearing
footsteps, items being moved while no one is there, floor mats turned
upside down. People have heard their names called when no one is
there and the sound of a baby crying. You sometimes catch a wave
of cold air as if the ghost is walking past you.
Waymart - Smith
Rd. - The more known name of the road is
Gravity Hill. The story goes...there used to be railroad tracks at the
bottom of the road and there was a school bus filled with children and
their bus stalled on the railroad tracks and all the kids died. If you
go to this road and put power on your bumper and you put your car in
neutral the kids push you back UP THE HILL. After stopping at the top
you can get out of your car and see the handprints of little kids on
your bumper.
Waynesboro - Renfrew
Park - Reports that there has been people
seeing the two ghosts of the Renfrew sisters ghosts with bloody heads
that were looking for their scalps. They were killed washing clothes at
the creek and two Indians had come up to get their scalps. The two were
buried in the old cemetery of Waynesboro and had unmarked graves. The
Renfrew's house is still standing today and along with both with their
barn and garden.
Waynesboro - Sheffield
Manor Park - A little girl hung herself
from the swing set there about 25 years ago. She killed herself because
she was tired of the other little girls and boys picking on her and
constantly talking behind her back. It's said to this day if you go to
the park and sit on the swings and say anything bad about another
person, you will be chased away from the park, hear footsteps in the
woods behind that park, and hear a little girl sobbing.
Waynesburg - Waynesburg
College - The cemetery behind Burns Hall
is said to be haunted by many spirits. As many Burns Hall students say,
outside voices are heard followed by strong gusts of wind and
sometimes, even flashing lights are seen out in the distance of the
cemetery late at night.
Weatherly - Mrs.
C. M. Scwab School - A gift to the town
in the early 20th century from Charles Schwab, in honor of his wife.
This stately building served as a school until the 1980s. Several
private owners have let the beautiful building fall into
disrepair. Touring the building as a possible buyer, photographs
were taken of the interior, of ornate moldings, ceilings, etc. There
are orbs of all sizes on most photos. Most of the orbs are
concentrated on the stage area. Fabulous building needs repair.
Weatherly - Weatherly
cemetery - Haunted by evil souls who were
buried on unblessed ground. Records of devil worshiping and cannibalism
take place under the fog, on the cemetery grounds at dusk. - November 2005 update: Additional stories are a legend
of an Indian who appears only as two red eyes peering out at you from
the woods surrounding the cemetery. A local resident reports of a bat
who flew in her driver's side window and out the passenger side window
while driving the cemetery road as she passed the cemetery. Another
report from a substitute teacher and a friend of hers who captured
actual photographs of the paranormal from this site and was instructed
by a physic to burn these photographs. The ghosts apparently do not
wish to be photographed. The dates on the markers date hundreds of
years back. There are two cemeteries in Weatherly, but this is the
oldest, located on a dark, heavily wooded and curvy back road between
the RD#2 road and Buck Mtn.
Wernersville - meat locker - it is said
that a man chopped up 5 bodies in a meat locker and it still remains
standing. if you go in you supposedly hear noises and see *ghostly
figures* of the 5 people killed. You are allowed to go in and look.
Also there is a abandon mental institution that is said to be haunted,
at the bottom of the hill. People have heard noises, and have seen
figures of the mental patients.
West Brownsville - Nemacolin Castle - A
maid that fell down the stairs of the castle tower is said to still
haunt the castle. There are also several other reported sightings. They
have extensive documentation and photos of orbs and such and will share
them with you if you ask them.
West Chester - Chester County Historical Society - Part of this building was built on an old graveyard.
It was also a site on the Underground Railroad. Many visitors to and
employees of the Historical Society museum have reported hauntings.
Some people speculate that the hauntings are from runaway slaves who
were murdered on the Underground Railroad. I have a photo of the
building and part of the old graveyard if you need it.
West Chester - Ground Round restaurant - Employees
report that a young girl choked and died years ago when the building
was under different ownership. There are reports of moving objects and
lights being turned on and off.
West Chester - Spring City - Pennhurst State Hospital and School - It is said that on nights of the full moon you can
hear the voices of those that where inmates of Pennhurst howl madly at
the moon.
West Chester - West Chester University - Ramsey Hall -
is haunted by Dorothy Ramsey. Phillips Hall is
haunted by several ghosts who like to perform on stage.
West Chester - West Chester University - Hollinger Field
House - Haunted by the Ghost of Drutz. Back
in the early 20's, there was a student who hung himself on the fourth
floor stairwell on homecoming weekend, and is said to appear each year
at homecoming, and if encountered he will CRUSH his victims
West Sunbury - McKinney Hollow - In
between the elementary school and a house if you stand in the right
spot the wind blows an opposite way and you can here children singing
Row Row Your Boat.
Westfield - Prichard
Hollow Road - Moaning, crying, and
semi-quiet screaming can be heard on the Plant's parking lot and nearby
houses yard. Things looking like 3-Dimensional shadows, (Nicknamed
"Shades"), have been seen running through the parking lot, down the
road, and hiding behind trees. Eerie feelings of being watched, somehow
sensing a dog nearby, and even low growls can be heard day or night.
Only seems to happen around 11:00 pm on cool nights.
Westmoreland - Elizabeth Township - Sticktown - Sticktown is a rumored ghost town. There was an old
Slag mill & a cemetery. Rumored Large amounts of paranormal
activity also of people coming up missing in this area and reappearing
weeks later not remembering their experiences there. The area is not
easily accessible as it is gated off from the top of the hill. There is
a large antenna at the top of the hill with lights on it. It is a great
marker for the sight. It can also be accessed from the walking trails
below. - WARNING There are
rumored to be packs of wild dogs, please use caution.
Westmoreland - Leger
Road - Old Bush Creek Cemetery - There is
a great deal of history to this site. It is haunted by spirits of
Choctaw Indians who were attacked by English settlers many years ago.
You can see shadows of things, negative entities, as well as the sound
of footsteps in the grass.
Westmoreland - Norvelt - Norvelt Coke Ovens - Noises of rocks being thrown into the creek late at
night. No sign of animals. Figures were seen slowly walking deep in the
woods, wearing miners equipment.
Westmoreland - Sutersville /Shaner - The Church - Located in Sewickley Township, PA off Mars Hill Road.
This is a location of a very old church that was burned down. There are
many rumors that the church was used in the occult and that people and
animals where killed there. The hillside which is now over grown is a
cemetery and the ground is real soft there so watch your step if you
enter this area. The church is not really accessible by vehicle you
have to walk up the hill. When you get to the top of the hill you will
see the steps the foundation and the alter of the church that is all
that remains. Paranormal activity is very high in this location and
there are many other haunts in this area.
White Hall - Katie's
Church - Strange noises, floating orbs,
and unknown sources of light are often present in the cemetery behind
the church. Also, blood is rumored to flow out of the boarded up
windows at times.
White Haven - White
Haven hospital (behind Powerhouse Restaurant on Rt. 80) - Ghost mist have been reported.
White Oak - Coulterville
Road - At the bottom of Coulterville
Road, when you must make a 90-degree right turn, is where strange
activity has occurred. If you turn up Eighth Street and made a left at
the top of that street and continue down to the end, there is an old
church and a small cemetery. You can hear footsteps and children and
see figures out of your rear-view mirror.
Whitemarsh Township - Cedar Grove Park - in
the woods you can hear screams and see figures walking around at night.
(possible death in the barn house)
Wilkens Township - Edgewood Gulf course - 2
boys saw three ghostly white dogs on a trail behind the golf course
that disappeared. One set of tracks lead into a tree and vanished.
Another lead to a ditch and the dog was nowhere to be found. And the
last ones went straight and then disappeared.
Wilkes-Barre - Old Cemetery - A section
of Wilkes-Barre is plains. there is only a few cemeteries in plains. on
William street there is cemeteries on both side. on the side by wooded
area there is an old cemetery with few headstones said to be haunted by
unpleasant ghosts. VIOLENT!
Wilkes Barre - Pine Run Road - when you
drive on pine run road/nicknamed Babyroad. you can see a woman dressed
in 1940's attire is seen walking across the street and when your lights
hit her she disappears.
Wilkes Barre - Wilkes Barre Cemetery -
Haunted by several Ghosts...One is an elderly man who appears to be
looking for something. Another is something that is obviously very
angry but hasn't any recognizable human features.
Williams township - Easton - Black Horse Inn - In 1927 a mobster was shot to death in the hall by the
restrooms he got up to use the phone. He fell down the stairs to the
basement; he hit his head on the wall. He died in a pool of blood at
the bottom of the stairs. Johnny is what people nowadays call him. He
turns clocks back, hides things, is even known to touch you. A fire
started in the attic quite a few years ago. They never found out how it
started. It is also one of the oldest buildings around.
Williams Township - Hexankopf Rock - Glowing
lights, eerie sounds, and apparitions.
Williamsport - Allison's Grave - in
south side near Duboistown on Mosquito Valley Road. Woman who was
killed in plane crash who was decapitated is often seen, her head was
never found.
Wilson - Sun
Rayz Tanning Salon - This used to be a
house where a family lived upstairs and one downstairs. Upon
investigation into the history of the house it was discovered that the
family upstairs had a daughter whom was very ill and died a very
painful death at home in the attic. The attic still has remnants of a
mattress and curtains on the windows. Employees of the tanning salon
have reported strange occurrences. One employee placed a vacuum in a
closet that opened inwards, and when she went to get the vacuum it was
blocking the door. It was as if the ghost of the little girl were
playing a prank on her. Also, the door that leads to the poor, to which
no one has the key was found open. Late at night employees have
reported hearing the girl laugh and also eerie feelings of being
watched. Finally, during construction of the house to make it a tanning
salon, several tools went missing, and one morning the crew came in to
find the toilet in the new bathroom smashed. There was no evidence of a
forced entry and only one person had the key. This is a great place to
go to at night if you have the right connections!
Wilsonville - Dammach
State Mental Institution - If you drive
by at night and look in the first window on the third floor you will
see a man standing there peering out, even thought the building is no
longer inhabited. You can smell rotten bandages as you drive by so
strong that you will have to close the windows.
Windber - Windber
High School - If you turn out the lights
in the girls bathroom by the gym sometimes the white figure will come
out from the wall.
Winburne - Coalward
Street - There was a train wreck many
years back and a Lady and her baby were killed. People have seen her
holding her baby walking back and fourth the tracks while searching for
her husband.
Winterstown - Ramier's
Hollow - Weird paranormal events linked
back to the Death of Ramier. The book "Hex" is based upon this legend.
Creepy things happen there and most people avoid going there do to
things such as your car suddenly stalling, wild dogs, and other bizarre
things.
Winterstown - York
county - Reymeyer's Hollow - In 1928
three men beat, Nelson Reymeyer, to death, and then tried to burn his
body. They thought he had hexed one of them. They wanted to get a book
from him to undo the hex. But, Nelson wouldn't give it to them.
Womelsdorf - The
Stouch Tavern - One of the oldest
continually operating taverns in the state built in 1785. The owners
have had encounters with ringing Christmas bells in the storage area,
strewn paper napkins, where there are no paper napkins ever used in the
place. Faucets turning off and on, footsteps on the roof, in the attic
and across the floor of the tavern itself. Previous owners have named
the ghost George.
Wrightsville - Accomac Inn - In side
the in many of worker have seen strange things such as hearing soft
music and a woman’s voice late at night, after cleaning the dining room
then coming back in to fid dishes, chairs and tables moved around,
doors opening and closing by themselves, and objects like plates and
glasses being moved around.In the late 1800's the Colye family lived in
the house where the Accomac is now. It is along the Susquhanna River.
Johnny Colye, lived there with his Father (a Farmer, and a talented
ferry navigator on the river) and his mother. His father hired a
young women to assist his mother with various jobs. Johnny became quite
smitten with her, and had asked her to be with him. She did not,
however feel the same way about Johnny as he did for her. Enraged
Johnny Killed her in the Barn, about 50 yards from the house. He was
arrested and hung for his crime. His gravesite is about 100 yards from
the house, tombstone still marks it, and it is readable. His epitaph
reads "Weap not mother, for I am not dead, but merely sleeping." In an
odd twist, in the barn caught fire in the 1950's and was burnt to the
ground. It was never rebuild. exactly one year later, the original
house burnt to the ground, it was re-built, exactly like the original.
There is now a parking lot where the barn was, but if you walk about a
100 yards to the left of the inn, you will find the tombstone and the
grave of Johnny Coyle. The girl’s name was possibly Molly) And Johnny,
is quite the prankster, breaking dishes, slamming doors, ext. One of
the Employees of the Accomac, said that She once saw two sprits in a
upstairs storage room, one of a man and woman, both seemed younger
(20s).
Wrightsville - Eastern York High School -
Students at the school claim to see shadowy figures and doors slamming
on their own. There were also reports of seeing orbs and other strange
lights. Also earlier this year a student found ectoplasm on a gym
locker. Their have been other stories about the school that date back
to after the civil war. There have also been lots of horrible acts
there from the students and teachers.
Wyomissing - Penn
State Berks - There was a suicide each
year for the first seven years that the school had dorms. The school is
located directly across from the Tulepehocken Bridge haunting you have
listed in your site and is directly next to Reading which is said to be
the most demonic place on the east coast and for awhile held the
country's highest suicide rating. Students, including myself, have
heard footsteps and unusual behavior such as, doors slamming, feelings
of uneasiness and sightings of a male student who committed suicide on
the campus.
Wyomissing - Tulpehocken
Covered Bridge - Legend states that a
mother threw her children off this bridge many years ago. People have
reported hearing the sound of children's voices and unusual cold spots.
Yellow House - Red Men's Lodge - Many
strange occurrences in unit to the right side of building. The feeling
of a ghostly hand pushing from behind you. Spirit lights in the
upstairs hallway at night. Bathroom door slamming shut on several
occasions. Crackling sounds, at night, from the top of the stairs. A
specter dressed in a strange costume with a feathered hat appeared from
a small closet in the middle bedroom, danced across the room, bowed and
then disappeared through another, closed, door.
York - Camp
Security - This was a prison camp during
the Revolutionary war, here British soldiers were kept. There is a
trail that goes back into the woods, when walking back there you get an
eerie feeling. Accounts have said that ghost have been spotted along
this trail at night. Walking through this place you can still find
bullet shells laying around. part of the old camp is private property
now, the other part is a regular recreational park.March 2008 Update – up until the 1870s muskets did not
use brass shells, but paper cartridges with black powder or just black
powder with a ball. So brass shells would have nothing to do with the
Revolutionary War.
York - Lewisberry/Goldsboro
- Kunkle Mansion - There is a deserted
house on the outskirts of Lewisberry/Goldsboro. It cannot be seen from
the road, but is off Pine Road near the old bridge. It is quite a hike
through the woods to get to it. It actually isn't a mansion, but an old
farmhouse. It is supposed to be the site of a large massacre and
suicide, where the mother of a very large family couldn't stand being
isolated with the children, while her husband was a busy farmer. She
snapped and killed all her children with an ax and knife, then killed
her husband, and went to the attic and hung herself. After going
unnoticed by the locals, they were found. It is now vacant, where
parties are held, and satanic rituals were reported. The hike through
the woods is eerie, and a presence can be felt. The house is still
standing, and the woman can be seen sometimes in the windows, and her
sobbing can be heard. A presence was felt in the basement, and a live
tree, not dead or decaying fell while someone stood nearby.
York - Newberry
- Industrial Solvents and Chemical Company - Located on Stevens Rd., right next to I-83, ISCC used
to be a functioning chemical recycling plant. It was closed awhile
back, we're not sure exactly when. Since then local kids have trashed
the inside of the place, but every time we go there strange things
happen. Dusty gloves have moved without disturbing the dust. Garage
doors have closed and locked with no sound. We have heard people
screaming although no one was around. Once you walk into this place,
you get the feeling that someone is behind you, but no one is there.
The people that worked there left in a hurry because all kinds of
things were left behind, from pay stubs to doctors excuses and time
cards, to boxes of blank checks. Something bad happened there, and
there are definitely still people there. - October
2003 update: there is some sort of constuction going on at the site.
most of the buildings have been torn down. the main building still
stands but the walls are gone.
York - Eastern
High School - A student here experienced
many hauntings working after school hours for theatre. In the catwalk
above the auditorium you can feel a unpleasant presence pacing back and
forth, noises, and the feeling of being trapped, along with noises in
the side rooms off the stage. you can hear locker doors slam behind you
as you walk the halls like someone is chasing you and slamming them
shut.
York - Rehmeyer's
Hollow- It is said that the farmhouse
restored from the partially burnt structure from the 1900's is haunted.
Witnesses and former residents have claimed to hear strange noises in
the hallow, and sounds and bloody handprints in the house. Current
residents do not allow people on the land or in the house.
York - The
Seven Gates of Hell - It is a separate
private road off of Toad Road. Years ago there was a mental hospital
located near Toad road. It is now a deserted building. Hundreds of
mental patients are said to have escaped from there and killed in the
woods surrounding it. If you travel back to Toad Road, you go through
seven gates known to locals as "The Seven Gates of Hell." No one has
ever been through the fifth gate. Everyone who makes it to the gates
hears noises and sees weird things moving in the woods. - November 2005 Update: It was so popular among local
teenagers that just recently, the old hospital and the gates were torn
down. One gate stands, the first gate, which is highly visible off of
Trout Run Rd. The area is private property, and there are many new no
trespassing signs up. Forestry agents are reportedly tearing down trees
back there to stop people from coming to experience the "freakiness".March 2008 Update – A resident reports investigating
the site extensively states this submission is totally false, there was
never an insane asylum there, the metal gate is there, but it belonged
to a mansion or house. The insane asylum was NOT recently torn down as
it was never there.
York - Toad
Road - The house on Toad road is another
house where years ago a mother, father, and baby lived there in a farm
house in the middle of a field and the mother killed her baby in the
basement one night and then went upstairs to the living room and hung
herself from the rafters and the house was vacated and left that way
and is currently still standing. Some have reported seeing the noose
still swinging from the ceiling and a basement light on. On certain
nights. - August, 2004 update. The
farmhouse in the middle of the field where the mother hung herself has
been torn down by whoever owns the land. The barn behind the building
which did stand for a time after the house was torn down has also
suffered the same fate. The only structure left standing on the field
is an old outhouse looking building. This is on toad road in York
County. Get permission before exploring this area.
York - York
College - Strange occurrences have been
reported in Campbell Hall. the suites and rooms are, as well as an
aggressive presence in the kitchen. March
2008 Update – A former student in the late 1990s, reports a math
professor shot himself in his office in the annex between Campbell Hall
and the Business/Comp. Science building. The student states he did not
know the professor, but knew students that attended his classes,
everyone interviewed who had him said he was kind of a "Beautiful Mind"
type. He smoked heavily and although he left no suicide note of which
they are aware, it's assumed that he found out he had incurable lung
cancer. His office was vacant for about two semesters, then they gave
the office to a new professor. As to any hauntings tied directly to
this are unknown.
York - Abandoned
York Prison/George St. - A very tall old
brick building. People have said that as you reach the second floor
where the first cellblock is located 2 or 3 ghosts follow you as you
progress up the stairs. You can also look down at the cells and see a
red glow as though from a cigarette. Many people are said to have
committed suicide and have been murdered in this prison. - June 2008 Update: you are no longer able to enter the
building. The door in the back, which was the way to enter the
building, has been sealed with cinderblocks.
York Haven - Kunkle's
Mansion - The story behind it is there
was a rich doctor and his family living there long ago, and a jealous
murder murdered him and his wife in the bathtub, and both their kids on
the swing set out back. Rumor has it that when you walk up to the
mansion, you are supposed to feel the murderer follow you until you set
foot on the mansion, then you're safe. To physically get to the
mansion, you must park along a creek and walk about 25 minutes through
the woods and 2 open fields. The house sits in the middle of the woods,
is 3 stories high and totally ransacked. -
December Update: Kunkel's Mansion is off limits now, not that it ever
wasn't. But there are now signs posted at the fields stating that they
are patrolled. We have recieved conflicting reports on this haunted
place. Around the area, adifferent submitter reports it is a gaming
area. regardless, it may be best to stay away. entering a building with
out permission is tresspassing, even when it seems it does not belong
to anyone.
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