McEntire
McEntire is a ghost town in Ralston vicinity, Pennsylvania. Ghost town research record. It sits in the archive under ghost towns. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Abandoned now: the structure does the storytelling. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.
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Is McEntire haunted?
No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.
The record — long form
McEntire sat high on the mountain east of Ralston in Lycoming County — a coal-patch settlement founded in 1870 that lived fast even by Pennsylvania standards. It boomed through the late 1800s as a mining community, then was hit by the triple subtraction that the PA Wilds account records plainly: the coal played out, a diphtheria epidemic moved through, and fire took much of what remained.
The town did not linger into a picturesque ruin. What survives is mainly its dead — a badly overgrown cemetery reachable only by bushwhacking — and the outline of a place that existed for perhaps two or three decades. The file notes the standard limits: coordinates and current visitor conditions are unverified, and no haunting claim is implied by the listing.
Why it is in the archive
McEntire is the kind of entry that earns its place by completeness of disappearance. Pennsylvania's northern tier is full of coal and lumber camps that left suburbs or shrunken boroughs; McEntire left trees. The cemetery is essentially the town's whole surviving document — a graveyard keeping the name of a place the forest took back.
Filed as heritage, it stands as the short version of the state's extractive century: coal found, coal cut, town built, town gone — measured here in one generation.
Documented history
Coal settlement founded in 1870; depletion, disease and fire preceded abandonment. A ghost town's file is unusual: the emptiness itself is documented, and this entry is part of that record. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Explore the historic ruins of the Pennsylvania Wilds' documents the entry. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.
Verified historyPennsylvania Wilds
Sources on file
- 01Explore the historic ruins of the Pennsylvania WildsPennsylvania Wilds · tourism · A3
Field notes & open questions
Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.