History & local legend
Bracken Dip lies along the Ghost Town Trail west of Nanty Glo, near the old Bracken coal workings and the South Branch of Blacklick Creek. Its local legend concerns a woman in white searching for the lover who killed her.
Travel writer Cheri Sicard recorded the story of the woman wandering through this former mining district. Another telling places her inside a couple’s car. She appears beside the travelers, smiles at the woman and frightens the man.
Sources
- Cheri Sicard, Fabulous Travel, account of the Bracken Dip white lady
- Pennsylvania Haunts & History, Bracken Dip couple-in-the-car variant
- Blacklick Creek Watershed Association, BCSB-040, station coordinates and identification of the Bracken Dip refuse piles
- Indiana County Parks, Ghost Town Trail map from Dilltown to Nanty Glo, including Bracken
