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Culture & landmarksAbington Presbyterian Church
Abington Presbyterian Church stands across Old York Road from its historic burial ground in Montgomery County. A local tradition says a ghostly child…
Cemeteries · Historical imageAlumni Chapel
John Meigs, the Hill School's headmaster, died in 1911 and was buried beneath the cloister floor at Alumni Chapel in Pottstown. His family had…
Inns & businessesBlack Horse Inn
The Black Horse Inn in Flourtown was the setting for an October 2009 investigation by the Philadelphia Area Paranormal Society. Ed Zwicker, then…
Inns & businesses · Historical imageBroad Axe Tavern
Broad Axe Tavern stood at Butler and Skippack pikes near Ambler, where drivers sometimes reported seeing a woman named Rachel in a third-floor…
Schools · Historical imageBryn Mawr College
Merion Hall is Bryn Mawr College’s oldest residence hall, designed by Addison Hutton and completed in 1885, the year the college opened. Its ghost…
Cedar Grove Park
Cedar Grove Park in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, contains an old farmhouse and barn. The farmhouse became home to the Whitemarsh Art…
DCP Theatre
DCP Theatre on Ridge Road near Telford grew from the Dutch Country Players, founded by fifteen friends in 1952. The company made its home in a…
Evansburg Inn
The Evansburg Inn is an early nineteenth-century fieldstone inn on Germantown Pike in Montgomery County. Travelers once stopped here along the road…
CemeteriesForest Hills Cemetery
At Forest Hills Cemetery in Huntingdon Valley, paranormal investigator Kenny Biddle and members of his research group reported repeatedly seeing a…
Culture & landmarksFormer Barnes Foundation gallery
The Barnes Foundation’s original gallery in Merion was designed by architect Paul Cret as a place for art education. Classes began in 1925, and…
Culture & landmarks · Aerial viewFormer East Cheltenham Free Library
From 1957 to 1978, East Cheltenham Free Library occupied the old James Houldin house at Central Avenue and Old Soldiers Road in Montgomery County.…
Inns & businesses · AI illustrationFormer Fruitville Hotel
The former Fruitville Hotel stood on Swamp Pike in Montgomery County, with a Schwenksville postal address. A woman who had operated it later posted a…
Inns & businesses · AI illustrationFormer General Lafayette Inn
Investigators from Delaware County Paranormal Research visited the General Lafayette Inn on Germantown Pike in Lafayette Hill, where an…
Inns & businessesFormer General Wayne Inn
The former General Wayne Inn in Merion developed a long-running reputation for a soldier’s ghost while it was a tavern and restaurant. Researcher…
Historic homesGraeme Park
Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson lived at Graeme Park in Horsham during the eighteenth century. After the Revolution, she struggled to recover the…
SchoolsGrey Towers Castle
Grey Towers Castle, on Arcadia University’s campus in Glenside, was the home of the Harrison family. Its elaborate rooms have become the setting for…
CemeteriesHarriton historical marker
Harriton’s family burial ground in Bryn Mawr is the setting for a legend about an enslaved woman called Tuggy. The Harrison family held enslaved…
CemeteriesHistoric Montgomery Cemetery
George Hare, a Norristown clairvoyant, is buried beside his wife Margaret in section R of Historic Montgomery Cemetery. In an advertisement published…
Inns & businessesJarrettown Hotel
An October 2001 paranormal visit to the Jarrettown Inn in Montgomery County produced a story that continued after one investigator went home. The…
OutdoorsLimerick Clean Energy Center
Limerick Generating Station in Montgomery County has a ghost story attached to Unit 2. According to the account, a construction worker fell down an…
OutdoorsLorimer Park
Lorimer Park in Abington, Montgomery County, has a legend about a stone pyramid glowing red on certain nights. A group who visited in February 2009…
SchoolsLouise Bush-Brown Formal Perennial Garden
Temple University's Ambler campus hosted a ghost investigation led by Chip Coffey and Patti Starr on October 23, 2007. After visiting the old…
InstitutionsNorristown State Hospital
One of the stories attached to Norristown State Hospital describes a young woman skipping across an entrance to the grounds on a clear night. A…
Outdoors · AI illustrationObelisk
In 1738, nine-year-old Susanna Reimer began seeing a man near her family’s farm in what is now Obelisk, Montgomery County. Her seventeen-year-old…
Old Baptist Road at Germantown Pike
Old Baptist Road runs into Evansburg State Park past houses that were boarded up after becoming state property. One abandoned house acquired the name…
Historic homesPennypacker Mills Mansion
On March 24, 2007, three members of Delaware Ghost Hunters investigated the Pennypacker Mills mansion in Montgomery County. Soon after a tour ended,…
Rising Sun Inn
The Rising Sun Inn near Telford is associated with a woman staff nicknamed Scary Mary. Employees reported sudden appearances in the lobby, while…
Historic homes · Historical imageSelma Mansion
Selma Mansion is an eighteenth-century house in Norristown, built in 1794. Its ghost stories often involve sounds and smells associated with the…
Skippack Pike at Penllyn–Blue Bell Pike
The intersection of Skippack Pike and Penllyn–Blue Bell Pike in Montgomery County has a story about a young mother and child appearing in the road…
The Phantom Train Behind Penn Oak Road
The old Reading Railroad Plymouth Branch ran behind Penn Oak Road in Flourtown, between residential backyards and the country club. After the rails…
OutdoorsValley Forge
Valley Forge was the Continental Army's winter encampment in 1777–1778. A much later patriotic story places George Washington there with a…
Schools · Aerial viewWalton Hall
Walton Hall at Eastern University was originally the Walton family’s mansion on the Walmarthon estate. In 1961 a fire marshal closed its fourth…
Historic homesWilliam J. Buck House
William J. Buck preserved a story he heard as a boy about a white bird visiting a sickroom window. A woman was keeping watch over an elderly patient…