Constable Hugh Gillette, Keewaydin Cemetery, Keewaydin Turning onto the grounds of Keewaydin Cemetery, I was immediately greeted with the large obelisk marking the resting place of a young murder victim whose body was discovered a short distance from this location, on the Centre County side of the Susquehanna’s West Branch. While Clara Price is buried … Continue reading In the Line of Duty: Hugh Gillette
What secrets remain hidden in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania? Note: Most of the newspaper articles from the time of Tammy Johnson's death spell her name as Tamme. This is the spelling I will be using in this article. In the years of doing research, those living on the fringe of society are ones whose … Continue reading Unsolved: The Murders of Constance Griggs and Tamme Johnson
Public Opinion (Chambersburg, Pa), Nov. 5, 1970 The late 1960s and early 1970s saw a world in conflict with the military actions in Vietnam. Sadly, in late 1970, world events would overshadow the disappearance of two young women from Queensborough Community College in New York. When their bodies were discovered a week later in the … Continue reading Unsolved: Who Killed Mary Ellen Lenihan and June P. Eberlin?
Police Chief Wilson Lewars, Hamburg It had been a while since I last stepped foot on the sacred grounds of St. Johns Cemetery in Hamburg. The last time I was detoured on the back streets of town due to a construction project involving Old Route 22. Unfortunately, this trip fared no better - a broken … Continue reading In the Line of Duty: Wilson Lewars
Janesville Pike is just one of Pennsylvania's haunted stretches of highway I’ve always been fascinated by the phantom, or vanishing, hitchhiker phenomenon. Usually categorized as urban legend rather than ghost lore, the phantom hitchhiker is a common ghost story shared across America. Over the years, I’ve shared some legends and lore which fall into the … Continue reading Pennsylvania’s Phantom Hitchhikers
Who knows what strangeness hides within the borders of Pennsylvania? “In the late 1980s, I had an odd experience which you might find interesting,” Tabitha emailed. In her email Tabitha continued to share an odd experience in 1988. That summer saw Tabitha and her sister staying with her grandparents in Hanover. “It was a typical … Continue reading Strangeness in Southcentral Pennsylvania
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