History & local legend
Gring’s Mill beside Tulpehocken Creek in Berks County has a legend about a woman called Mary and two troubled marriages. The story is associated with David Gring’s 1811 mill, now part of the county recreation area.
In the tale, Mary discovered that her first husband had been unfaithful. She threw a necklace he had given her at a mirror, and a fragment of broken glass cut her arm. She went to the creek to wash the blood away. A later episode concerns her second husband, who pursued her with a knife. Mary fled into the mill and climbed to the third floor, where the floor gave way and she fell to her death.
A contributor named Amy Kay passed the story to Pennsylvania Haunts & History alongside her own account of seeing a figure on a path at Gring’s Mill and feeling cold spots there.
