Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Philadelphia Region 1
The Many Spirits of the General Wayne Inn 5
Eerie Bolton Mansion 13
Grumblethorpe 17
The Specters of Baleroy Mansion 20
Eastern State Penitentiary 26
Waiting for the Last Curtain Call 30
The Haunted Library 32
Rain Boy 33
Gettysburg 39
The Ghost of General Washington 43
The Soldier at Devil's Den 43
Spirits at the Slaughter Pen 44
Phenomena at the Triangular Field 45
Gettysburg's Child Ghosts 46
Open Portal at Little Round Top 49
The Haunting of Gettysburg College 51
Roughed Up by a Gettysburg Ghost 54
Penn State 57
Old Coaly, the Ghostly Mule 61
The Spirits of Schwab Auditorium 61
The Spirit in the Stacks 63
Phantoms at Wiestling Hall 64
The Ghost Buck 67
The Lady in White 67
Frankenberger Tavern 70
Altoona and Central Pennsylvania 73
Phantom in the Railroaders Museum 77
The Noisy Ghosts of the Red Arrow Wreck 80
Haunted Mishler Theater 82
Strange Goings-On at Baker Mansion 85
Sideling Hill's Spooky CCC Camp 92
Northern Pennsylvania 95
The Ax Hollow Murders 99
Specters at John Brown's Tannery 100
Edgar Allan Poe and the Eutaw House 101
Clinton County's Headless Frenchman 105
The Bones of "Mad Anthony" Wayne 106
The Last Frontiersman 108
The Fiddling Ghost of Ole Bull 111
Spirits of Lake Erie 114
The Hand from Beyond the Grave 117
Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania 123
Joe Magarac, Man of Steel 127
Trotter's Curse 129
The Phantom Monk 131
Haunted by History 131
The Lost Town of Livermore 133
The Strange Disappearance of Oliver Lerch 135
The Mold Man 137
Recommended Reading 141
Acknowledgments 145
About the Authors 146
