History & local legend
The former WPAM radio station on Lawton’s Hill in Pottsville accumulated ghost stories among the people who worked there. In a 2010 account, a former employee named Joseph passed along staff reports of a control-room turntable spinning by itself, shadows seeming to chase one another down a hallway, and children standing outside the newsroom window with their backs to the building.
Another former operator, Nathan Armstrong, added a different perspective in 2015. Armstrong said he ran the station from 2011 through 2014 and spent enough time there to use one room as a bedroom. He knew the building’s nighttime sounds well—and had traced some of them to chipmunks.
According to Armstrong, the animals climbed the broadcast tower, crossed a wire and entered through a hole near the roof. His explanation addressed the rustling and animal noises overhead.
