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Cambria County
22 places. A county full of stories.
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Explore this county on the map →Bishop McCort Catholic High School
Bishop McCort Catholic High School in Johnstown began as Johnstown Catholic High School in 1922, with an initial class of 128 students. One of its…
Clair J. Urich Auditorium
Cambria Heights High School's Clair J. Urich Auditorium opened its recorded performance history with West Side Story in 1971. A theater legend…
Cochran Auditorium
Cochran Auditorium is the theater retained and renovated when Greater Johnstown opened its new high school in 2003. Its student ghost story centers…
Conemaugh Valley Junior/Senior High School
Conemaugh Valley Junior/Senior High School near Johnstown has stories passed from custodians to pupils. In a June 2010 account, a student said…
Inns & businesses · Aerial viewCresson Lake Playhouse
Cresson Lake Playhouse, outside Loretto in Cambria County, occupies an old barn converted into a theater in the 1970s. An account submitted to the…
D Street at Norton Road
The woods across from D Street and Norton Road in Lower Yoder Township have a local reputation for voices, whistling and lights after dark. Both…
OutdoorsElmhurst
Elmhurst, the Thaw family’s Tudor-style summer house near Cresson, acquired a vanishing-hitchhiker story before Al and Linda Lewis discussed it with…
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Forest Lawn Memorial Park on Frankstown Road outside Johnstown is associated with a woman said to walk among the graves in a white dress after dark.…
Former Chandler Elementary School
The former Chandler School on Garfield Street in Johnstown's West End had a ghost tradition involving its janitor and lights appearing in the empty…
Former Foxburg Inn
The former Foxburg Inn on Theatre Road in St. Benedict, Cambria County, had a ghost story attached to a particular dining-room booth. Accounts…
Outdoors · AI illustrationFormer Seldom Seen Tourist Coal Mine
Seldom Seen’s buried-treasure legend concerns three unemployed miners from Hastings who robbed a widow. Her eldest son shot one of them in the arm,…
OutdoorsJohnstown Inclined Plane
The Johnstown Inclined Plane climbs Yoder Hill beside the former Rolling Mill Mine, which supplied coal to the city’s furnaces. On July 10, 1902, an…
Culture & landmarksJohnstown Masonic Temple
Johnstown’s Masonic Temple at 130 Valley Pike grew out of the city’s expanding fraternal community. The Temple Association approved a new building in…
Inns & businessesLemon House
Samuel and Jean Lemon opened the Lemon House in 1834 beside the Allegheny Portage Railroad. Travelers stopped there while their boats and freight…
Lyle Street at Adams Avenue
Brown Cemetery near Lyle Street in Jackson Township is associated with a nearby pond and a cluster of local ghost stories. People described lights…
OutdoorsMorley’s Dog Plaza
Morley's Dog is one of Johnstown's most recognizable figures, but the famous animal was a cast-iron lawn ornament. James Morley bought it in 1870 and…
Oak Hall and nearby Laurel Hall
At the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, stories about Oak Hall include whispered names—Allison and Abby—and the sound of distant drums and…
Bridges & railwaysPennsylvania Railroad Stone Bridge
Johnstown’s Pennsylvania Railroad Stone Bridge withstood the flood unleashed by the South Fork Dam’s failure on May 31, 1889. Its strength created…
Richland Road near Wopsy Mountain
A derelict house on Richland Road near Wopsy Mountain was known to some local teenagers as the White Lady’s house. Around 1986, three friends entered…
CemeteriesSnavely Cemetery
Snavely Cemetery in Cambria County is associated with “Becky,” a woman said in local legend to have been hanged as a witch. Stories include teenagers…
OutdoorsThe Belsano Train Robbery
On October 11, 1924, a Cambria and Indiana Railroad train was carrying $33,054 in payroll money to the Ebensburg Coal Company’s miners at Colver.…
CemeteriesUnknown Plot
Grandview Cemetery's Unknown Plot contains the graves of 777 unidentified victims of the Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889. Rows of markers stand…