History & local legend
Cresson Lake Playhouse, outside Loretto in Cambria County, occupies an old barn converted into a theater in the 1970s. An account submitted to the online collection Obiwan’s Ghosts describes a visit by a man named Joe and a friend, who heard something moving upstairs while they were exploring the basement.
The noise sounded like a heavy object being dragged. When they went up to investigate, they found a trunk and a fresh track through the dust. They pushed the trunk back into place, returned downstairs and heard the scraping begin again.
On their second inspection, the trunk had moved once more. Their own footprints were visible around it, but there were no others. When they heard a third round of scraping from below, they decided to leave.
