The Big Book of Pennsylvania Ghost Stories

The Big Book of Pennsylvania Ghost Stories

The Big Book of Pennsylvania Ghost Stories

The Big Book of Pennsylvania Ghost Stories

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Overview

A treasury of 125 ghost stories from the Keystone State makes up this huge volume by haunting experts Mark Nesbitt and Patti A. Wilson. Each region of Pennsylvania is represented by an assortment of eerie tales, including tragic specters of Gettysburg, Pittsburgh's legendary Green Man, Revolutionary spirits in Philadelphia, Foreboding Ax Hollow near Erie, mysterious mountain tales of the Scotia Barrens, Captain Phillips's murdered rangers, and the Lost Children of the Alleghenies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780811740173
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Publication date: 07/28/2008
Series: Big Book of Ghost Stories
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Mark Nesbitt is the author of the popular Ghosts of Gettysburg, a six-volume series that received the National Paranormal Award in 2004. Formerly a National Park Service ranger and then a battlefield guide, he has lived in Gettysburg since 1971. In 1994, he created The Ghosts of Gettysburg Candlelight Walking Tours.

Patty A. Wilson writes about the paranormal and Pennsylvania folklore and is the author of The Pennsylvania Ghost Guide, Where Dead Men Walk, Boos and Brews, and Haunted West Virginia. She lives with her family in central Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania

Baleroy Mansion's Specters 3

Ben Franklin's Active Spirit 7

Betsy Ross Is Still Sewing 9

Brinton Lodge 10

Carpenters' Hall 14

City Tavern Haunts 16

Dick Clark and the Ghost at WFIL 18

Eastern State Penitentiary 19

The Easton Public Library 23

Eerie Bolton Mansion 25

The Ghost of the State Theatre 29

The Ghosts of the Downingtown Tunnels 31

The Ghosts of the General Wayne Inn 32

Growden Manor 38

Haunted New Hope 39

Hawk Mountain Hauntings 43

The Inn Philadelphia 45

Joseph Bonaparte and Sarah Keene 49

The King George Inn 50

Little Girl Lost 52

Lizzie Lincoln's House 54

Lucy's Last Ride 56

Magnolia's Vineyard Restaurant 57

Midnight Mary 59

The Moshulu 61

Old Prissy of the Blue Ball Inn 63

Pennsylvania's First Ghostly Tale 65

The Spectral Fires of Valley Forge 68

The Tate House Hessian 69

The Ticking Tombstone 72

The USS Forrestal 73

The Weeping Mother of Laurel Hill 76

William Penn Walks 77

Central Pennsylvania

Accomac Inn 81

Alfred's Victorian Restaurant 83

Baker Mansion Haunts 84

The Bloody Sisters of Renfrew Park 88

Captain Jack's Ghost 90

Captain Phillips's Rangers 92

Carlisle Barracks 95

Charming Forge 99

Crossroads Mansion 100

Eutaw House 103

The Fulton Opera House 106

The Ghost Hounds of Cornwall Furnace 110

The Ghost of Scotia Barrens 111

The Ghostly Hand of Truth 113

The Ghostly Screams of Chickie's Rock 116

The Haunting of Egg Hill 120

The Lost Children of the Alleghenies 121

Moonshine Church and the Blue-Eyed Six 125

Penn State's Spooks and Specters 128

Rehmeyer's Hollow 131

Reuben Rock 134

The Seven Gates of Hell 137

The Spirits of the Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum 139

The White Lady of Woposnonock Station 143

The White Woman of Buckhorn Mountain 145

Wiestling Hall 148

The Wreck of the Red Arrow 150

Gettysburg

Brotherhood Forever 155

Brua Hall 159

The Cashtown Inn 163

The Cavalryman Finally Rests 169

The Cemetery Lodge 171

Codori House 177

A Confederate in the Basement 182

The Culp Farm 184

The Eisenhower Farm 188

The General in Command at Gettysburg 191

The Ghost House 192

A Ghost Moves In 198

The Ghostly Children of Gettysburg 203

Ghosts on Broadway 206

The Ghosts Go to College 210

The Ghosts Go to Court 213

The Ghosts of East High Street 215

The Haunted Clock 218

Herr Tavern 220

Hospital Woods 227

In the Devil's Den 231

Iverson's Pits 232

James McCleary 235

Jennie Wade 237

Lincoln's Ghost 241

Oak Ridge 244

The Other Spangler Farm 249

The Ouija Board 250

The Party Ghost 254

The Party Ghost II 256

The Phantom Battalion 257

Pickett's Charge 262

Portal on Little Round Top 266

Sachs Covered Bridge 267

The Spangler Farm 271

The Tireless Surgeons of Old Dorm 274

Was it General Reynolds? 277

The Woman in White of Spangler's Spring 280

Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania

Bushy Run Battlefield Ghosts 287

Congelier's Hall 289

Evelyn Nesbit's Restless Spirit 292

The Ghost Buck 297

The Ghostly Priest 297

The Green Man 300

Haunted Beula 303

The Haunted Courthouse 305

Jean Bonnet Tavern 307

Joe Magarac, Pittsburgh's Man of Steel 311

The Lady in White 313

Lovely Livermore 316

Mudlick Hollow 318

Nemacolin Castle 319

Pittsburgh Playhouse 323

Saint Vincent's Walking Priest 326

Senator John Heinz History Center 327

Summer Cut Bridge 329

Northern Pennsylvania

Anthony Wayne, Pennsylvania's Most Prolific Ghost 333

Ax Hollow Murders 337

Der Ewich Yaeger 339

The Fiddling Phantom of Ole Bull 340

Gudgeonville Bridge 343

The Hitchhiker of Moosic Mountain 344

Tshowasz Mnya! 345

Bibliography 349

Acknowledgments 355

About the Authors 357

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