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SchoolsAlumni Hall
Alumni Hall is one of Villanova University’s oldest buildings. Its east wing dates to 1848, and the college used it as its main center before it…
OutdoorsBrandywine Creek at Chadds Ford
Brandywine Creek at Chadds Ford was a key crossing during the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777. George Washington positioned American…
Inns & businessesBrandywine Prime at the former Chadds Ford Inn
The stone building now known as Brandywine Prime was previously the Chadds Ford Inn, a restaurant with a collection of stories about its upstairs…
Building 4
Building 4 at Fair Acres in Lima has a ghost story tied to its earlier use as a hospital ward. The county home moved to the former Pennell farm in…
Cobbs Creek in Colwyn
Anne’s Rock is a local landmark beside Cobbs Creek in Colwyn. The story told about it concerns a young woman named Anne and the lover she met beside…
Historic homesCollen Brook Farm
Collen Brook Farm in Upper Darby has an unusual interior feature: a small attic window looks into a bedroom below. During a Delaware Ghost Hunters…
Bridges & railways · AI illustrationDog Kennel Road near Paxon Hollow Road
A family drive along Dog Kennel Road near Media became a personal ghost story for writer Jack Mc. He had been telling his children about the road’s…
SchoolsEast 14th and Potter streets
Widener University's Manor House and the nearby Castle, at East 14th and Potter streets in Chester, have distinct sorority-house traditions. At the…
Former Archbishop Prendergast High School
In October 2002, students rehearsing Les Misérables at Archbishop Prendergast High School explored rooms above the school’s small black-box theater.…
Inns & businessesFormer Crier in the Country site
Before it closed in 2007, the Crier in the Country was a restaurant in an old house in Chester Heights. Its long front porch became the setting of an…
Former Saint Alice Parish School
The former Saint Alice Parish School at Hampden Road and Sansom Street in Upper Darby is associated with an apparition in an upper auditorium window.…
Garrettford Elementary School
Former pupils of Garrettford Elementary School in Drexel Hill shared several unusual memories in accounts posted in 2008 and 2009. One recalled a…
SchoolsHaverford College
During his first year at Haverford College in 1982–1983, John Whitney Pettit lived in Woodside Cottage, then also called Margaret Gest House. He and…
Historic homesHistoric Heilbron estate area
Heilbron Mansion stood near Painter Road and West Rose Tree Road in Middletown Township, Delaware County. Before the old mansion burned in 1987, its…
Historic homes · Aerial viewHistoric Parastudy house
For decades, Parastudy held psychic fairs, classes and discussions at a yellow Victorian house on Valleybrook Road in Chester Heights. The property…
Indian Rock Park
Indian Rock Park in Springfield, Delaware County, has a story about a girl walking through the woods with a lantern. In the older version, teenagers…
Lansdowne Avenue and Providence Road
Two late-1990s driving encounters added to the ghost stories around Lansdowne Avenue. In September 1998, a paranormal investigator saw a woman near…
OutdoorsLinvilla Orchards
Linvilla Orchards in Middletown Township, Delaware County, is the setting of a roadside story about an apple thief. The legend describes a man who…
OutdoorsLower Swedish Cabin
The Lower Swedish Cabin stands beside Darby Creek in Drexel Hill, a log building that served as a home long before becoming a historic site. Families…
OutdoorsMouth of Crum Creek on the Delaware River
Margaret Mattson was a Swedish immigrant living with her husband near the mouth of Crum Creek on the Delaware River. In the winter of 1683–84,…
OutdoorsNewlin Grist Mill
Newlin Grist Mill in Glen Mills is the landmark for a story about a stable boy and the mill owner’s daughter. Both versions of the legend begin with…
Pennsylvania Institute of Technology
The Pennsylvania Institute of Technology’s Moylan campus occupies a former Notre Dame school for girls. Its tower and former library are associated…
Princeton Avenue
Princeton Avenue in Ridley Township is a short street of small Tudor cottages built in 1911 as a summer and artists’ colony. Their steep roofs and…
CemeteriesRowan Hall
Rowan Hall, formerly the Main Building at Williamson's trade school near Media, is associated with a late-night shadow tradition. Someone standing…
Inns & businessesSquare Tavern
Square Tavern stands at the old crossroads of Goshen and Newtown Street roads in Newtown Square. John West, father of the painter Benjamin West, once…
The Radnor Hotel
Room 309 at the Radnor Hotel in St. Davids has a particularly unsettling local legend: a woman is said to appear on the ceiling above the bed. A…
Thornbury Farm
Thornbury Farm in Chester County connects its ghost stories with the Revolutionary War landscape around the Battle of Brandywine. The Spackman…
Tinicum Island Road along Philadelphia International Airport
Tinicum Island Road, beside Philadelphia International Airport, is the setting of the White Lady of Essington. Drivers describe a woman in a white…
Inns & businessesUpper Darby Performing Arts Center
The attic above Upper Darby High School’s Performing Arts Center has its own backstage character: Pete the Ghost. Former students connected him with…
SchoolsWoodcrest Mansion
Woodcrest Mansion stands on the former Cabrini College estate in Radnor. Campus ghost stories involve several different buildings there, so the…