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Haunted Pennsylvania : ghosts and strange phenomena of the Keystone State / Mark Nesbitt and Patty A. Wilson ; illustrations by Heather Adel Wiggins.
Van Pelt Library BF1472.U6 N486 2006
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nesbitt, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghosts--Pennsylvania.
- Ghosts.
- Monsters--Pennsylvania.
- Monsters.
- Haunted places--Pennsylvania.
- Haunted places.
- Pennsylvania.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 133 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, 2006.
- Summary:
- An entertaining collection of stories, including the Civil War ghosts of Gettysburg, the spirits at John Brown's tannery, Ole Bull the fiddling ghost of Potter County, the haunted Eastern State Penitentiary, the mysterious indelible hand, and many more.
- Contents:
- Philadelphia
- The many spirits of the General Wayne Inn
- Eerie Bolton Mansion
- The specters of Baleroy Mansion
- Eastern State Penitentiary
- Waiting for the last curtain call/Easton Theater
- The haunted library
- Rain boy
- Gettysburg
- The ghost of General Washington
- The soldier at Devil's Den
- Spirits at the slaughter pen
- Phenomena at the Triangular Field
- Gettysburg's child ghosts
- Open portal at little round top
- The haunting of Gettysburg College
- Roughed up by a ghost at Gettysburg
- Penn State
- Old coaly, the ghostly mule
- The spirits of Schwab Auditorium
- The spook in the stacks
- Phantoms at Wiestling Hall
- The ghost buck
- The lady in white
- Altoona and Central Pennsylvania
- Phantom railroaders (museum)
- The wreck of the red arrow and the noisy ghosts of the horseshoe curve
- Who haunts the Mishler Theater
- Strange goings-on at Baker Mansion
- Northern Pennsylvania
- Ax hollow
- Specters of John Brown's Tannery
- Edgar Allan Poe and the Eutaw House
- Clinton County's headless frenchman
- The bones of "Mad Anthony" Wayne
- The last frontiersman
- Sideling Hill's Spooky C.C.C. Camp
- The fiddling ghost of Ole Bull
- Spirits of Lake Erie
- Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania
- Joe Magarac, man of steel
- Trotter's curse
- The phantom monk
- Haunted by history
- The hand from beyond the grave
- Lost town of Livermore
- The strange disappearance of Oliver Lerch.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-131).
- ISBN:
- 9780811732987
- 0811732983
- OCLC:
- 65301994
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