History & local legend
Riegelsville’s fire company occupies a building on Delaware Road that previously served as a church and school. Its firefighters have reported footsteps crossing the metal grates in the engine room and truck hatches opening without explanation. Company chaplain Jeff Wargo also told writer Anthony Rando that the late firefighter Howie Pursell, who died in 1991, had been seen in the kitchen.
Rando joined Wargo and paranormal investigators at the station on October 25, 2011, after the firefighters finished their drills. Near midnight, he heard a sound resembling a woman’s moan. Later, while watching a camera positioned at the bottom of the stairs, he saw a group walk past it. After they disappeared from view, the image began rocking.
