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Northeast — Anecdotal filings

Anecdotal reports in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania keeps 24 anecdotal files — secondhand accounts and casually repeated reports, the friend-of-a-friend shelf. The archive holds them because the stories circulate and somebody should keep count; each is filed as reported, no stronger.

24 dossiers0 counties covered96% open to visitorsRehmeyer’s Hollow — deepest file

Also filed anecdotal:Arizona58 Hawaii55 Virginia34 Michigan31 Louisiana29 Texas26 Georgia24 California23

Other Pennsylvania shelves:local folklore34 documented legends22 media-reported hauntings10 investigation claims8 reported experiences3 internet rumors3

Historic House Site

Rehmeyer’s Hollow

York, Pennsylvania

Site of the 1928 "hex murder" of folk healer Nelson Rehmeyer.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Devil’s Den

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Boulder-strewn slaughter pen at the base of Little Round Top.

3 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

Fort Mifflin

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Mütter Museum

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The 1858 medical museum of "disturbing specimens."

3 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Eastern State Penitentiary

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

World’s first true penitentiary, designed for solitary penitence; now a museum and haunted attraction.

2 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Farnsworth House Inn

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Inn research record.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Historic House Museum

Jennie Wade House

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Home of the battle’s only civilian fatality—killed while baking bread.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Sachs Covered Bridge

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Covered bridge crossed by the Confederate retreat—three hanged men in its lore.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Kelly Road ("Mystery Mile")

Ohioville, Pennsylvania

The Beaver County mile where "everything" is said to happen.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Gettysburg College — Pennsylvania Hall

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

The Civil War hospital dorm where the dead still "work."

2 claims · 1 legend→

Wheatland

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Buchanan’s Lancaster estate—the only president from Pennsylvania.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Braddock’s Grave

Farmington, Pennsylvania

The general buried in the road—so the wagons would hide his grave.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Johnstown Flood site

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

May 31, 1889—the dam that killed 2,209.

2 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Gettysburg investigation area

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

Former Institution

Pennhurst State School and Hospital

Spring City, Pennsylvania

Institution for the disabled whose 1968 exposé helped end warehousing; now a haunted attraction.

Three Mile Island

Middletown, Pennsylvania

March 28, 1979—the partial meltdown that stopped a reactor.

Dobbin House Tavern

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg’s oldest building—schoolmaster’s house, field hospital, freedman’s stop.

Eisenhower National Historic Site

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Ike’s farm next to the battlefield—the Cold War president’s retreat.

Daniel Boone Homestead

Birdsboro, Pennsylvania

The 1730 birthplace of the frontier’s legend—before Kentucky.

Fallingwater

Mill Run, Pennsylvania

Wright’s 1935 masterpiece over the waterfall—the house that floats.

Friendship Hill

Point Marion, Pennsylvania

Gallatin’s frontier estate—the treasury secretary’s wilderness house.

Kinzua Bridge

Mount Jewett, Pennsylvania

The skywalk that was the world’s highest—until the 2003 tornado.

Cook Forest

Cooksburg, Pennsylvania

The "Black Forest"—Pennsylvania’s ancient white pine.

Pine Creek Gorge

Wellsboro, Pennsylvania

The "Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania"—47 miles of green wall.

Full Pennsylvania record → state index· Every anecdotal filing → evidence shelf

Record last amended October 2, 2026 · shelves recounted with the archive