

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.
Brookville - Litch
Mansion - In the mid 1840's the Litch
family, a prominent Timber/Lumber family, built a mansion on a high
hill overlooking North Fork Creek. At the same time they built a
smaller summer home on the property, approximately 1/4 mile away
through the woods. This summer home has been vacant for
years. Locals in the area have often reported unnatural sounds
and unseasonably cold conditions near this building. It has been
reported that there is a small patch of ground in the back yard of this
home where snow will not accumulate no matter what the outside
temperature.
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 -