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Schuylkill County
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SchoolsCiletti Memorial Library
Ciletti Memorial Library at Penn State Schuylkill opened in 1994, but its ghost story reaches back to the previous home of the books. The library had…
Former Angel Rose Bed and Breakfast
Bob and Diane Karpulk encountered unexplained smells and troublesome appliances while running the Angel Rose Bed and Breakfast on West Market Street…
OutdoorsFormer Canal Street
In August 1912, boys walking near Schuylkill Haven’s old canal boatyards reported encountering a white figure that beckoned them closer. An August 29…
InstitutionsFormer Rest Haven 1912 building
The old Rest Haven nursing-home building near Schuylkill Haven had already been partly closed and used for storage when a worker went there to…
Bridges & railways · Historical imageFormer WPAM-AM radio station
The former WPAM radio station on Lawton’s Hill in Pottsville accumulated ghost stories among the people who worked there. In a 2010 account, a former…
Historic homesFrank D. Yuengling Mansion
The Frank D. Yuengling Mansion is a historic property on Mahantongo Street in Pottsville, associated with the city’s brewing family and later used by…
Nativity BVM High School
Nativity BVM High School stands on Lawton’s Hill in Pottsville, where it opened in 1955. One of its best-known campus stories concerns a visiting…
OutdoorsOld Mountain Road
In April 1925, an unidentified woman's burned body was discovered on Broad Mountain near Gordon in Schuylkill County. By summer, people were…
Cemeteries · AI illustrationPeddlars Grave
Jost Folhaber was a traveling peddler whose murder became one of the best-known stories of Locust Mountain near Mahanoy City. The local history says…
OutdoorsSharp Mountain south of the Henry Clay Monument
Sharp Mountain south of Pottsville’s Henry Clay Monument is the setting for a tragic lovers’ legend recorded by Ella Zerbey Elliott in Old Schuylkill…
OutdoorsSwatara Creek near the former village of Swatara
A buried-treasure legend places a restless figure beside Swatara Creek near the former village of Swatara in Schuylkill County. Ella Zerbey Elliott…
OutdoorsTamaqua Elks Lodge No. 592
The Tamaqua Elks Lodge at 201 West Broad Street was built in 1906. A fire-insurance map from two years later shows a busy three-story building, with…
Bridges & railwaysTamaqua Railroad Station
Tamaqua's railroad station is associated with stories about the bodies of men executed during the Molly Maguire cases in June 1877. In the local…
OutdoorsTumbling Run
Tumbling Run’s lower reservoir near Pottsville became the focus of a giant-snake story in July 1879. Laborer Patrick Guilfoil said he had found an…
OutdoorsWiggans Patch
Before dawn on December 10, 1875, masked men attacked the O’Donnell family’s home at Wiggans Patch, a coal settlement near Mahanoy City. The raid…