History & local legend
At Hulmeville’s Old Mill Flea Market, owner Kathy Loeffler told reporter Carol Robidoux about strangers who seemed to disappear inside the building. Her account was published as part of the mill’s collection of ghost stories, including a figure nicknamed Jake the Fake.
Loeffler was climbing the stairs when she passed a large man with curly gray hair. They acknowledged one another, and she continued before wondering how he had entered. When she turned back, he was gone. She thought that this visitor might have arrived with items brought to the market from an estate.
Another figure described at the mill looked different: a dark-haired man in denim work clothes, seen by customers and associated with the name Jake the Fake.
Sources
- Carol Robidoux, Bucks County Courier Times, My Three Ghosts, interview with owner Kathy Loeffler
- Hulmeville Historical Society, archive identifying Fricke’s Mill at the Trenton Road crossing
- Mill Pictures, John Hulme Grist Mill, Milford Mills and Fricke rope factory, later the Old Mill Flea Mart
- Bucks County visitors bureau, Olde Mill Flea Market listing naming Kathy Loeffler
