Nightmarks in Pennsylvania
14 nightmarks documented
Washington Square — the ghost of Leah the Quaker in Philadelphia
2,000 bodies lie beneath this genteel Philadelphia square — Leah the Quaker still kneels among the trees, mourning the dead buried in unmarked graves.
Physick Mansion — the ghost bride of Philadelphia's Society Hill
The unhappy wife of the Father of American Surgery appears in her wedding dress, wringing her hands in the halls of this 1786 Philadelphia mansion.
Dixmont State Hospital — Pittsburgh's abandoned asylum of tormented souls
Over 3,000 patients crammed into facilities for 900 — the tormented souls of Dixmont State Hospital lingered long after its 1984 closure.
Leverington Cemetery — the phantom procession of Roxborough, Philadelphia
A phantom funeral procession carries a coffin through Philadelphia's oldest burial ground — translucent mourners in black walk with unnervingly deliberate steps.
Bishop White House — ghostly servants in historic Philadelphia
Bishop White's housekeeper still dusts the parlor 200 years later — servants in 18th-century dress continue their routines, unaware of the tourists watching.
St. Peter's Episcopal Church — the cemetery ghost of Philadelphia
A man in a tricorn hat walks among colonial graves at Philadelphia's St. Peter's Church — he has visited the same headstones since the 18th century.
General Wayne Inn — the Revolutionary War spirits of Merion, Pennsylvania
A Hessian soldier guards the fireplace and glasses fly from shelves at this 1704 inn — Washington and Franklin once ate where poltergeists now throw chairs.
Elkins Park poltergeist — the Osceola Avenue disturbances near Philadelphia
Multiple families on one Philadelphia-area street report the same thing — plates launch from tables, furniture slides, and shadow figures lurk in basements.
Mary Capp Green Hall — Lebanon Valley College's resident ghost
Shadowy figures stand in doorways and belongings rearrange themselves in this Lebanon Valley College dorm — its ghost is a beloved campus legend.
Alpha Sigma Phi house — Slippery Rock University's haunted fraternity
A spectral figure watches students sleep in this Slippery Rock fraternity house — residents hear furniture dragging overhead in undisturbed rooms.
Bolton Mansion — the residual haunting of Levittown, Pennsylvania
The same Quaker footsteps walk the same path at the same time every day — this 1680s mansion replays 300 years of daily life like a ghostly recording.
Eastern State Penitentiary — 'the most haunted prison in America,' Philadelphia
Philadelphia's 1829 Eastern State Penitentiary — birthplace of solitary confinement and home to Al Capone's haunting — ranks among America's most haunted sites.
Close encounter with luminous object at Presque Isle State Park, Erie, Pennsylvania (1966)
A luminous object descended onto a Lake Erie beach — multiple witnesses, physical traces, and a dark figure in the trees.
Bright object observed over rural Union, Pennsylvania (1966)
A bright unknown over rural Pennsylvania — the sustained 1966 wave reached into the state's quiet interior.