Tag: Pennsylvania
85-year-old Woman Kept Prisoner in Cellar for 2 Years
In 1922, an 85-year-old woman was discovered in the cellar of a house. Located in a miner’s town, the cellar was dark, cold, and damp….
Strange Light Over Sunbury PA 1916
That Zeppelin Story Source: Harrisburg Telegraph. May 02, 1916, Page 8. Sunbury people the other night saw “a strange light in the sky” and straightway…
Pennsylvania Woman Crushed to Jelly By Train
It is not so much that a woman was crushed by a train in 1871, but the headline of the article that detailed the gruesome…
Graffiti Highway in Centralia Pennsylvania 2018
Graffiti Highway in Central, Pennsylvania is actually an old, abandoned section of Route 61. About a mile long, people come here from all over the…
5 Strange Accounts of Spell Casting
How would you react if you thought someone cast a spell on you? Hopefully not the way any of the following people reacted. Casting spells,…
Gruesome Things That Happened on the Delaware River Long Ago
Gruesome things have happened along, inside, and over the Delaware River. Plenty of bodies were fishes out of the waters and it was a common…
8 Things You Did Not Know About the Lackawanna River’s Past
Lackawanna was my third grade, extra credit spelling word, but little did my teacher know that the Lackawanna River had quite a history. River on…
American Archaeologist Harriet A. Boyd-Hawes
Gournia, a Minoan palace complex, was discovered by the American archaeologist Harriet A. Boyd-Hawes. Notable Women Harriet A. Boyd, the American Archaeologist Who Unearthed Gournia…
Slate Dam Station Pennsylvania Train Accident in 1874
Trains were once the main way to move goods and people across the country. While we still use trains for transporting goods, train accidents are…
How to Squander $2,000,000 And Die Poor
A cautionary tale of a young man who inherited a fortune and blew through it all in just a few short years. How to Squander…
