This video by the Discovery Channel, gives a good overview of the siutation in Centralia, PA, the town that's been on fire underground for over 40 years.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Haunted Inn in Stottsville
The same article that mentioned the bodies buried on the Cult House property also talked briefly about an earlier murder, that of another thief named Gary Crouch. Apparently, Mr. Crouch upset someone connected to the Johnston gang back in 1977 and ended up planted near the Stottsville Inn in western Chester County. Since the Stottsville Inn already has its share of ghost stories, he may not have been noticed.
Sitting along the Strasburg Road in Pomeroy, the Inn enjoys a fine reputation as a country restaurant and it doesn't appear to have been harmed any for having a few ghosts. As the story goes, a young woman named Josephine was murdered in her room by her husband Horace, who then killed himself. Near the front entrance there is a picture frame on a wall with a reproduction of Horace's suicide note which reads cryptically, "I love, love, love you. You are the dream of my life. Come with me to the shoe store and I will make love to you. Love, Horace."
Below that is a post-script in which Horace revealed his rather unorthodox form of suicide. It read: "P.S., I can't live without you so I will commit suicide in the barn. I will bite a cow's leg and he will kick me in the head and kill me. For without you, life is nothing."
Sitting along the Strasburg Road in Pomeroy, the Inn enjoys a fine reputation as a country restaurant and it doesn't appear to have been harmed any for having a few ghosts. As the story goes, a young woman named Josephine was murdered in her room by her husband Horace, who then killed himself. Near the front entrance there is a picture frame on a wall with a reproduction of Horace's suicide note which reads cryptically, "I love, love, love you. You are the dream of my life. Come with me to the shoe store and I will make love to you. Love, Horace."
Below that is a post-script in which Horace revealed his rather unorthodox form of suicide. It read: "P.S., I can't live without you so I will commit suicide in the barn. I will bite a cow's leg and he will kick me in the head and kill me. For without you, life is nothing."
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Just Plain Weird
STEWARTSTOWN, Pa. (AP) - February 5, 2007 - A Ronald McDonald statue taken from a family's York County home last month was found beheaded in a wooded area over the weekend.
The statue owned by the Grieger family disappeared January 15th.
On Thursday, Joy Grieger found its severed head returned to her family's Stewartstown property, complete with X's drawn over its eyes. Police say the rest of the 300-pound statue turned up in Hopewell Township on Saturday.
Grieger used to work at a McDonald's, and her family adopted the statue decades ago.
Police say the family did not know anything about its whereabouts until its cement head showed up on their lawn last week. The Griegers say they plan to offer a 500 dollar reward for information leading police to the culprits.
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I'm not which is weirder - the idea of collecting a Ronald McDonald statue or decapitating one... Come to think of it, my father-in-law lives in Stewartstown....
The statue owned by the Grieger family disappeared January 15th.
On Thursday, Joy Grieger found its severed head returned to her family's Stewartstown property, complete with X's drawn over its eyes. Police say the rest of the 300-pound statue turned up in Hopewell Township on Saturday.
Grieger used to work at a McDonald's, and her family adopted the statue decades ago.
Police say the family did not know anything about its whereabouts until its cement head showed up on their lawn last week. The Griegers say they plan to offer a 500 dollar reward for information leading police to the culprits.
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I'm not which is weirder - the idea of collecting a Ronald McDonald statue or decapitating one... Come to think of it, my father-in-law lives in Stewartstown....
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