History & local legend
Hogback Road crosses Hogback Run in Hermitage, where several related stories place a woman near the bridge and surrounding woods. One version describes a mother searching for her children, announced by a moving light, rustling leaves and cries from the hollow.
Another concerns a young woman beneath the bridge. Filmmaker Al Cooley recalled receiving three accounts from people in different parts of Pennsylvania while assembling stories for a 1998 film. They described a scream, a green light in the woods and a car that would not start.
Cooley returned to the material in his Ghosts in the Valley podcast in August 2019.
Sources
- Northwestern Pennsylvania Hauntings, archived regional collection, separate Hermitage and West Middlesex oral variants on Hogback Road
- Al Cooley, Ghosts in the Valley, Hermitage Pennsylvania, August 27, 2019, his recollection of collecting three accounts for a 1998 film
- Mercer County Regional Planning Commission, bridge inventory, No. 2323, coordinates, creek and 2007 replacement
