History & local legend
The Tamaqua Elks Lodge at 201 West Broad Street was built in 1906. A fire-insurance map from two years later shows a busy three-story building, with a theater in the basement, club rooms on the second floor and the lodge on the third.
Diane and Kieran Pryor visited in March 2004 with the Tamaqua Paranormal Research Society. During the investigation, they left a recorder alone in one of the rooms. On playback, they heard what sounded to them like two words: “Love you.”
Their photographs also showed spots of light in several areas, including one much brighter than the others. The Pryors later included the visit in the case reports of their own group, Paranormal Investigators of the Poconos.
Sources
- Paranormal Investigators of the Poconos, investigators’ archived report of their March 2004 visit
- Paranormal Investigators of the Poconos, Diane and Kieran Pryor’s team history
- Borough of Tamaqua, Historic District Resource Inventory, 201 West Broad, photo ID KA006002, built 1906
- Library of Congress, July 1908 fire insurance survey depicting the Elks Building, sheet 4
- Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, lodge 592 location
- OpenStreetMap, named Elks Lodge address point
