Pennsylvania Legends & Lore: Ghosts of the Commonwealth 

Loved this. I'm from Pennsylvania,but at age twelve,my family moved to Florida That was 1969,and I still miss the lush, beautiful countryside,and mountains. And since my mom died,the wonderful cooking❤

My grandmother told me the true story about the accident in Wopsy. It was not the 60's but much, much earlier. She knew the couple well and you really had to dig the story out of her. At that time many people began hearing about the "White Lady". She died 2 yrs ago but often it seemed to upset her so we stopped asking. There is another on the other side of the same mountain where a young man, a hitchhiker, appears and accept rides only to disappear after talking about the end of the world and how the world needed to find peace. Many older police officers will tell you about the many times they have answered calls for both. These aren't just stories, these were tragedies.

I'm in Northumberland County. I've encountered the lady in white in broad daylight on the train tracks after fishing about a 1/4 mile from my house. My friend seen her too and she disappeared in front of our eyes! Other than seeing the shadow man during my teens this was the most scared I've been. Another time we were fishing at night we heard what sounded like a woman being murdered due to loud screams. But then something hurled a huge rock in the center of the creek. We were outta there so fast we left everything till the morning.

This is hands down One of the Best Documentaries I have seen I really enjoyed watching This ❤

I love that you covered pow wowing. My great, great, great grandmother was a pow wow doctor in Adams county.

Funny how the boy hunter was alone at his stand, and was never seen again--and yet there's a detailed account of how he chased the deer! Oh legends, gotta love em.

The best doc. I've seen on here in ages. Thanks for posting. Interesting and thought provoking. I especially like the documentation of the Civil War soldier. I would have liked to have seen newspaper articles of the missing boy. This is lovely. Just so relaxing without computer graphics and loud intrusive music. Great narrator too.

Do another episode! This was really high quality and extremely entertaining! I’ve watched it twice already haha.

This is an absolutely wonderful video. It's a very rare type of storytelling not found much anymore in these days of special effects getting more attention than the actual story. The cherry on top is the fact that I am from Pennsylvania - these stories happened in my backyard. Great work! Masterpiece!

This documentary was amazing! I hope you make others like it about PA lore and legends!

I'm from Altoona, Pa and the last urban legend is ours. The story varies has to what happened to the lady and her husband and what year it happened. Just like the guy said in the video, the version I heard was that they were married and heading down the mountain in a horse and buggy and something spooked the horse at a bend in the road called Devil's elbow. They crash and obviously both die, I heard one version that the wife tried to find help and died on the side of the road. There's two mountains that this legend belongs to so even the location can switch, supposedly my dad and a few relatives of ours went to the location of the crash and they say a white mist formed near them and float towards them slowly. Needless to say they ran off of the mountain as fast as they could, at least that's what he told me.

So many stories,so many people who lived their lives with dreams and Joy's and sorrows. Let us remember to try and make peace with those we know before we quit the earth to meet our CREATOR. Great narrator and awesome retellings!

Good stories and pleasant storyteller. Thanks for the diversion.

Interesting documentary. Thanks for the share!

I love vanishing hitchhiker stories the most.

Great show! I´m a brazilian, from north of the country! Here in my town - Belém do Pará - we have the Woman in the Taxi!! She asks for rides in taxis, because its his birhtday, and his parents always give to her a ride as a gift! The taxi drives her all around the city, and finally, upon arrival later at the girls home, she tells the guy to collect the money ride on the next day! The guy accepts, and the next morning goes to the girl´s house, only to discover: the girl has passed away many years ago, and yes, when she was still living, his parents give her, at his birthday, a taxi ride around the city as a gift! This is a version of this tale... Some versions says than the taxi driver goes mad, or the girl leaves the taxi at the frontgate of a cemetery, only to dissapear in front of the now histerical driver! Aniway, theres a catch: In our most prominent cemetery, there is a tomb of a girl, and there is a picture of that girl there, where you can see that he has a car brooch attached to his shirt. Her name was Josephina Conte. Of Italian origin, he received a car ride from his father whenever he celebrated his birthday. All of this, however, ended when she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. And so, she started to live confined, coming to die some time later. Hence the legend of the Woman in the Taxi! I saw the tomb and the photo! I dont know if anothers vanishing hitchhikers legends around the world had some kind of link to documented real people. Anyone knows?

The deer hunting story just what I need before going hunting before daylight in the morning

2021 And I have to say thank you, great stories brilliantly told.

Need more of these. Theyre awesome love em.

I really like the narrator

The little boy is a sad story,especially if you think about kids who disappear to this day. But for a kid to be wandering forever,you've got to wonder...

They should make more of these very interesting stuff

My godfather shot a peibal I'm not sure how to spell it but it's basically a deer that looks like a painted pony brown white and tan fur... He's had a lot of horrible luck for years since then and he used to be a really skilled Hunter. Crazy!

The very first story! i grew up in Spring Mills. Never heard that legend. very much enjoyed this.

Could be much longer. My grandfathers farmhouse was built in 1700s, my aunts and uncles have so many stories of seeing things. They were in chester county PA. When he died his second wife sold it all but they renovated the farmhouse due to its antiquity and cant demolish. Anyone that moves in doesn't stay long, its always up for sale. I wonder why that would be?

The belief about not shooting white or albino deer exists in Europe also.Francis Ferdinand, a keen hunter,was warned not to shoot one , but did anyway. Several weeks later he was killed by a terrorist triggering WW I .

Thanks mate what a excellent and creepy show great stories

Thank you for the great stories.

I grew up 20 miles south of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania near the town of Canonsburg, there's a road Burnside road I've seen a woman in white cross that road

That was really very amazing!

I loved this video awesome anymore stories!

Man, I would like to have an encounter of the lost hunter on shade mountain, that would be awesome!!

This is fantastic. I'm in Central PA and I really enjoyed watching this.

Loved the legends!!

Great video; wonderfully spoken! I caught an actual spirit on my camera near Lewisburg,, PA...which I believe could have been the spirit of my deceased husband. I've wanted to share it with someone but have no idea who would be interested in seeing it. The spirit is in full form and was taken in the woods on someone's camp....!

I have lived in Pennsylvania for over thirty years. It can be a very strange place. BTW Pennsylvania "Dutch" is actually a mispronunciation of Dusche or German.

Im from Delaware county and just about every building over 150 yrs old is haunted the library at the top of the street was like 250 yrs old back in the 90s. And whenever I travel especially out west it strikes me how (relatively) new all buildings and structures are

You should look into Conemaugh Township High School. It's very haunted and supposed to have been built on an Indian burial ground. That's how they came to be the Township Indians!

When I was a kid I lived in a small half double on the one side there was an old man that lived there he was always outside spitting tobacco out and he took pride in his yard I remember him out there with a ruler cutting grass with scissors anyway fast forward 15 years I lived a few blocks away and I met a girl and she asked me to come to her house to hang out with her and her brothers well I did and we pull up and here they lived in my old neighbors house his name was Joe so I go in and her moms boyfriends daughter was there and she started talking about a guy she sees she said he prays on his knees at the top of the steps near a cross hanging above the door and that he comes downstairs and walks into the kitchen and she said she had spoken with him and I was like what's his name and she says Joe and I was like wow that's my old neighbor I never told her his name before I just mentioned I lived next door when I was a kid so we started watching a movie with all the lights off and all of a sudden we heard a noise and I turned my head and seen a pair of ghostly looking legs walking down the steps we all ran out and I looked in the window and sure enough he was walking into the kitchen we hung out outside for a while and finally went back in and there was no sign of him I couldn't believe my eyes looking back I wish I woulda stayed in there because I'm sure he was completely harmless he seemed like a nice guy.

Love this! There's also one in Stow or Bolton MA & it's also in a similar setting.😊

absolutely loved it 🤠🤠

Very well done! Would love to see more...where are the sunsequent episodes?

Excellent

So cool

Good stuff

Is this a series I'd love to watch the other episodes if so

There was a woman in white near Spangler's Spring in Gettysburg, PA.

I love PBS

The death watch seems to be like a wake. The body was shown in the home and the family stayed up all night. Mourners would come at all hours visit with the family and eat.

More! More! More!

Nice music 👍

This video is great just like sitting around the fire listen to .y dad telling some of the old storeys

In shrewsbury pa the story of reyhmyers hollow is real along with the toad rd but that has the 7 gates of hell near hellam which they changed the spelling to hallam just recently and gettsyburg battle field has lots of spirits wandering the fields too so i am sure valley forge does of the revolutionary war too

More, please.

Pennsylvania is my home

Awesome Dodge convertible, what year and model?

I grew up in Pennsylvania. Our lady in black was more tragic. She was much earlier too. Pow wow medicine is stuff my grandmother taught me.

Where I used to live, there was a white deer. one night, a cop hit it and killed it. It's now been taxidermied and resides at its namesake park, "White Deer Park"

Awesome, and I just moved here

I'm from Kittanning, so a lot of this stuff is like backyard territory for me. lol.. Kinda makes wanna get out an explore.

excellent film

24:23 The one that I heard about the vanishing hitchhiker is the one that gets cab drivers to get into fatal car wrecks or drive off a cliff.

Harmony Pa. 20 south of Pittsburgh

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Im in McKeesport and ours is called dead mans hollow

Could someone please tell if at 1:34, is that in Pleasant Gap, PA?? I remember that being a Harley dealership.

I feel bad for the squonk. Leave it for our state to have an emo cryptid.

We are in Pennsylvania that's since the 1600s

GOT ANY WV STORIES? NEW SUBSCRIBER.. GOOD JOB!!

I grew up in Johnstown and was flooded 3 times.

My grandma on dad's side and great grandpa on mom's side pow wowed. Grandma told stories of 7th book of Moses....

I'm from Burgettstown Pa we had Ruby

Simon Helberg's 'Wolowitz' is in there ! From big bang theory .

Very cool.

I go up and down the Buckhorn a few times a year and it definitely could cause your demise.

Oral traditions kept my ancestors alive for thousands of years, living in harmony with their environment. I think if is folly to underestimate the power of the oral tradition. Not only do oral traditions tranmit knowledge, but they serve to strengthen social cohesion and respect for the elder generations, as they are the source of knowledge. I am happy that paradigms in academia are shifting and other ways of knowing besides Eurocentric ones are being appreciated. I enjoyed your video :)

You need to do NC and SC lore

That shoemaker. Lol

Hahn Drive in Hendersonville is VERY haunted.

I never heard of pow wow regarding the Pennsylvania Dutch.

What about the Smurl haunting?

Doesn't even add the opera house fire

White Lady of Wopsy Mtn story is diff than what I heard.

Chicago has a story similar to the last pne.

Ah

Nothing about 13 bends road or walking Rosie huh .

I know

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What about Midnight Mary on Van Sciver lake, in Tullytown? The ghost on the lake seen by truckers @ night?

Why

I made it to 1:48. Way too much intro. Too much effort. Just let your story....let the listener do the rest.

If the lady was dead and her fiance was dead why couldn't they find each other.?? And how did she , & her baby die? 💀☠️💀💀

I never understood commonwealth. My family's been a part of the state for six generations but it sound so.......british

France

I want a real ghost like I've seen before.. It's not romantic it's fucking terrifying!! When you see one you piss your pants

Yes I’m pagan and know a lot of Christians still use our ways and remedies

Too much time spent advertising

This whole story is making me angry. It's not true.........!!!

Ugh, I hate it. We have tons of ghost sightings and stories in Schuylkill County and this video skunked us with a story of hooligans, a nervous Nellie, and no ghost. You should have checked with the Historical Society before you made this.

not GREAT..but at least its not SPEAK EASY..that is horrible.