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Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania · Outdoors

Norwin Elks Lodge 2313

The Radio in the Norwin Elks’ Terror Barn

The lodge complex and outbuildings occupy a clearing off Sandy Hill Road in Manor Borough.

History & local legend

Norwin Elks Lodge 2313 in Manor Borough, Westmoreland County, hosted a Halloween attraction called the Terror Barn. A worker recalled filming a commercial there when a radio began changing stations and repeatedly turning on and off. The crew was gathered in the wizard room; the radio was elsewhere, in a room themed around Michael Myers.

Other attraction accounts described bootsteps following workers and a scream heard during closing. The lodge itself had a separate basement story: an apparent maintenance man stopped people to say the furnace pipes needed cleaning, then disappeared when asked what was wrong.

Sources

  1. The Shadowlands, Manor, Norwin Elks, firsthand Terror Barn worker’s account and the lodge basement tale
  2. Norwin Elks Lodge 2313, lodge history and its 22-acre grounds in Manor Borough
  3. Norwin Elks Lodge 2313, operator’s meeting address on Elk Lane
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Visiting

Fraternal lodge grounds.

Image credit

Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and NV5 Geospatial, via Penn State PASDA · License