Northeast — open filings

Open to visit in Pennsylvania

96 dossiers in Pennsylvania carry the open to the public filing — the legend is on record and the door, per the last source, is open. Access is a filing, not a guarantee: hours, tickets and seasonality live with the venue. Everything else in the archive stays documented but admired from the legal distance.

96 open dossiers18 counties coveredRehmeyer’s Hollow — deepest file

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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→

Chestnut Ridge

Greensburg, Pennsylvania

The PA ridge where Bigfoot, UFOs and the "Chestnut Ridge lights" converge.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Washington Crossing

Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania

Christmas night 1776—the Delaware crossing that saved the Revolution.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Fort Necessity

Farmington, Pennsylvania

July 3, 1754—Washington’s only surrender, in the Great Meadows.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Hanna’s Town

Greensburg, Pennsylvania

The first county seat west of the Alleghenies—burned 1782.

2 claims · 2 legends→

SS United States

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The 1952 liner—the fastest ship ever, rusting at the pier.

2 claims · 2 legends→

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→

Gettysburg Battlefield

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

July 1-3, 1863—the three days that decided the war, and America’s most haunted field.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Little Round Top

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

The hill that saved the Union—Chamberlain’s charge, July 2, 1863.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Valley Forge

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

The winter that made an army—1777-78, and the ghosts that stayed.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Wheatland

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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

2 claims · 1 legend→

Fulton Theatre

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

The 1852 opera house on the old jail site—where the dead watch the show.

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→

Flight 93 National Memorial

Shanksville, Pennsylvania

September 11, 2001—the field where the passengers fought back.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Johnstown Flood site

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

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

2 claims · 1 legend→

South Fork Dam ruins

St. Michael, Pennsylvania

The dam the club let rot—the break that drowned Johnstown.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Gobbler’s Knob

Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

The stump where Phil sees his shadow—Groundhog Day’s ground zero.

2 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Gettysburg investigation area

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

Three Mile Island

Middletown, Pennsylvania

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

Sayre Mansion

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Mansion research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Black Bass Hotel

Lumberville, Pennsylvania

Hotel research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Selma Mansion

Norristown, Pennsylvania

Mansion research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Historic Mansion

Baker Mansion

Altoona, Pennsylvania

Ironmaster’s Greek Revival mansion with a bride-to-be legend.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Cashtown Inn

Cashtown, Pennsylvania

1797 inn that quartered Confederate officers before Gettysburg.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Pennsylvania Hospital

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

America’s first hospital—Franklin’s 1751 institution with a locked library ghost.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Laurel Hill Cemetery

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1836 rural cemetery on the Schuylkill—sculpture, war dead and folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Ephrata Cloister

Ephrata, Pennsylvania

The 1732 celibate community whose strict rule bred ghost legends.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Squonk country (hemlock forests)

Lock Haven, Pennsylvania

The weeping woodland creature that dissolves into tears when cornered.

1 claim · 1 legend→

USS Olympia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The 1895 cruiser—Dewey’s flagship at Manila Bay.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Brandywine Battlefield

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

September 11, 1777—the largest battle of the Revolution, lost.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Hopewell Furnace

Elverson, Pennsylvania

The iron plantation that ran for a century—the furnace’s memory.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Jumonville Glen

Farmington, Pennsylvania

May 28, 1754—the ambush that started a world war.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Fort Ligonier

Ligonier, Pennsylvania

The 1758 fort that held the Forbes Road—the war’s western hinge.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Bushy Run Battlefield

Jeannette, Pennsylvania

August 1763—the battle that broke Pontiac’s siege.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Horseshoe Curve

Altoona, Pennsylvania

The 1854 curve that climbed the Alleghenies—and saw the wrecks.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Ricketts Glen

Red Rock, Pennsylvania

Twenty-two waterfalls on the Falls Trail—and the lake’s cold memory.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Ufo Observation Site

Kecksburg UFO incident site

Kecksburg, Pennsylvania

Wooded site of the December 9, 1965 fireball and "acorn" recovery legend.

Industrial Site

Carrie Blast Furnaces

Swissvale / Rankin, Pennsylvania

Industrial site research record.

Dobbin House Tavern

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

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

Seven Gates of Hell (Toad Road)

York, Pennsylvania

The York woods legend—seven gates, an asylum fire and a road that isn’t there.

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Record last amended October 2, 2026