Paranormal Sightings in Pennsylvania
34 nightmarks documented
34 paranormal sightings in Pennsylvania
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.
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.
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.
The Kecksburg Acorn — bell-shaped object recovered from the Pennsylvania woods (1965)
A brilliant fireball dropped a bronze acorn-shaped object into the Pennsylvania woods on Dec 9, 1965 — recovered by military under armed guard while the Air Force denied finding anything.
Bright object observed over Pleasantview, Pennsylvania (1964)
A bright unknown in rural Pennsylvania — one month after Socorro focused the nation's attention on the skies.
Bright object with color changes observed near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania (1958)
A color-shifting object over the Pocono Mountains — its spectral transitions matched no known aircraft or natural phenomenon.
Bright object observed over Juniata in the Appalachian mountains, Pennsylvania (1956)
A bright unknown in the Appalachian mountains — Pennsylvania's Juniata River country offered dark skies and no explanations.
Unidentified object observed by military personnel over Pennsylvania (1954)
A military-reported unknown over Pennsylvania — along the critical corridor connecting New York and Washington.
Object observed over Olmsted AFB logistics center near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1952)
An unknown over a major Air Force supply depot in the Susquehanna Valley — the logistics backbone of northeastern defense.
Bright object observed over Allentown in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania (1952)
A bright unknown over the Lehigh Valley's steel country — Pennsylvania's industrial heartland joined the 1952 wave.
Bright object observed over Neffsville near Lancaster in Pennsylvania Dutch country (1952)
A bright unknown over Pennsylvania Dutch country — the most traditional corner of America saw something utterly modern.
Bright object observed over Altoona in the Pennsylvania mountains (1952)
A bright unknown over the Allegheny Mountains at Horseshoe Curve — the peak week of 1952 reached Pennsylvania's railroad heartland.
Second Blue Book unknown over Pottstown, Pennsylvania — peak wave week (1952)
Pottstown's second unknown in a month — the Philadelphia corridor kept producing cases during the wave's most intense week.
Bright object over Elkins Park on the first night of the Washington radar events (1952)
An unknown near Philadelphia on the first night of the Washington radar events — 130 miles north, the sky was just as strange.
Bright object observed over Pennsylvania Dutch country at Kutztown (1952)
A bright unknown over Pennsylvania Dutch farmland — the 1952 wave reached even the quietest, most traditional corners of America.
Two silvery objects in high-speed flight observed over Pottstown, Pennsylvania (1952)
Two silvery metallic objects streaked over the Philadelphia corridor as the historic July 1952 wave was days from erupting.
Object observed near Olmsted AFB at Middletown, Pennsylvania (1952)
Olmsted AFB's first of two 1952 unknowns — logistics depots kept seeing things their aircraft experts couldn't name.
Bright object observed over Pittsburgh's steel country, Pennsylvania (1952)
A bright unknown over America's steel capital — where the furnaces that forged the Cold War's weapons glowed beneath an unexplained sky.
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.
Little Round Top — phantom soldiers of Gettysburg's bloodiest hilltop
Chamberlain's bayonet charge saved the Union here in 1863 — phantom soldiers still fight among the rocks on foggy mornings at Gettysburg's bloodiest hill.
Devil's Den — phantom soldiers among Gettysburg's massive boulders
A Confederate ghost in a ragged uniform approaches tourists and points toward the Slaughter Pen — Devil's Den replays its 1863 carnage for those who visit.
Triangular Field — the electromagnetic dead zone at Gettysburg
Cameras die, batteries drain, and compasses spin in this small Gettysburg field — the 1863 carnage created an electromagnetic dead zone that persists today.
The Slaughter Pen — the ghost girl in white at Gettysburg
A little girl in white reaches out her hand among the blood-soaked boulders of the Slaughter Pen — no one knows who she is or why she haunts this killing ground.
Stevens Hall at Gettysburg College — Civil War hospital ghosts
Confederate wounded died in these classrooms in 1863 — now students hear their screams from the basement and see soldiers standing at the windows.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.