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Cemeteries · AI illustrationAugusta Harriet Bitner monument
In Lancaster Cemetery, Augusta Harriet Bitner’s memorial depicts a woman holding lilies and extending her other hand. Local stories give the statue a…
Inns & businessesBube’s Brewery and Central Hotel
Bube’s Brewery occupies a nineteenth-century brewery and hotel complex on North Market Street in Mount Joy. The brewery building dates to 1859; Alois…
CemeteriesChickies Rock
Chickies Rock, a cliff above the Susquehanna River near Columbia in Lancaster County, is the best-known setting for the Albatwitch legend. The…
Inns & businessesFormer Mountain Springs Hotel
Camp Silver Belle operated at the former Mountain Springs Hotel in Ephrata, where medium Ethel Post-Parrish established a spiritualist retreat in…
SchoolsFranklin & Marshall College
Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster has several building-specific ghost traditions. One centers on Diagnothian Hall, constructed in 1856 and…
Inns & businessesFulton Theatre
Lancaster’s Fulton Theatre preserves several ghost stories of its own, including one about an unexpected member of the audience. During a…
Gonder family plot near the circular drive
Annie K. Gonder’s grave stands beside the circular drive in Strasburg Cemetery, near the tree at its center. She died in 1918, three years after her…
Historic homes · Historical imageGonder Mansion
Railroad businessman Benjamin Gonder built his mansion on West Main Street in Strasburg in 1905. The ghost story centers on his sister, Annie, who…
Historic homesHistoric Rock Ford
Historic Rock Ford in Lancaster was the home of Edward Hand, an Irish-born physician who became an officer in the Continental Army and George…
Bridges & railwaysHunsecker’s Mill Covered Bridge
Hunsecker’s Mill Covered Bridge spans the Conestoga River in Lancaster County, about a mile downstream from Pinetown Covered Bridge. A drowned girl’s…
Inns & businessesJohn Funk’s historic tavern
John Funk's late-eighteenth-century brick tavern stands near the square on East Main Street in Strasburg. Its later shopfront became the setting of a…
Keystone Corridor over West High Street near Turnpike Road
The railroad bridge over West High Street near Turnpike Road in Elizabethtown is associated with the Purple Light Bridge legend. The crossing dates…
Inns & businessesLititz Springs Inn
Lititz Springs Inn, formerly the General Sutter Inn, has a tradition of ghostly children moving through its rooms and corridors. A daytime manager…
OutdoorsMain Street
Main Street in Adamstown, Lancaster County, is associated with a small black dog said to follow pedestrians for a few blocks before vanishing. The…
Manheim Central High School
Manheim Central High School on Adele Avenue has two versions of a ghost story about an electrician. In the auditorium version, the man fell while…
North Chiques Road
Two accounts posted in 2010 describe motorcycles encountered while leaving an old farmhouse on North Chiques Road in Lancaster County. In the first,…
OutdoorsPresident James Buchanan’s Wheatland
Wheatland, James Buchanan’s Lancaster home, was the setting for an unusual experience recounted by medium Rob Gutro after an October 2011 visit. The…
Bridges & railwaysRailroad House Inn
The Railroad House Inn in Marietta has hosted generations of travelers beside the Susquehanna River. Guitarist Ted Drozdowski recalled an unusual…
CemeteriesSaint James Episcopal Churchyard
During an October 2011 visit to Lancaster, author and medium Rob Gutro joined a tour that passed through the churchyard of Saint James Episcopal…
Shock Graveyard (Hans Graf Cemetery)
Shock Graveyard, also called Hans Graf Cemetery, is a small family burial ground near Rowenna in Lancaster County. A stone wall without a gate…
OutdoorsThe Woman on the Stairs at 10 Market Square
A contributor named Kimberly described two contrasting presences at 10 Market Square in Manheim in an account published by Ghosts of America around…
OutdoorsWest Main Street
West Main Street in Strasburg has a story about a horse-drawn wagon carrying soldiers through town long after their journey should have ended. Some…