Pennsylvania Legends & Lore: Ghosts of the Commonwealth

[@BonnieCassler-dx6sd]

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❤

[@sabrinadunson6903]

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

[@icare4you123]

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.

[@Jin-xf3un]

^^^

[@terrymauk1130]

I'm from altoona n my mom told me as a boy she has seen the white lady of the buck horn twice

[@brianbarcus5853]

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!

[@mikeroessm5325]

You are so right.

[@feelfreetoremainsilent2937]

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.

[@betsybarnicle8016]

I've gone to the top of Wopsy to see the White Lady.

[@annainspain5176]

The story of the Vanishing Hitchhiker was first published in the 19th century, l believe Victor Hugo told it first of a small child begging someone to take her home in their carriage. When they get to the house, she's not in the carriage.

[@paranormalparatrooper.7413]

Thanks for your little story. 👍🏻 🇦🇺✝️🙏🏻✝️🇦🇺

[@MissRailfan]

The hitchhiker one I never heard of and I lived near altoona

[@shelbynamels7948]

Red Sovine - Phantom 309, if you want the full, tear-jerk experience.

[@morganphoebe5033]

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

[@LoriannSmithsanpell]

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

[@wpsuvideo]

Thanks Loriann, It was a blast to produce it

[@LoriannSmithsanpell]

@wpsu I learned so much, and after watching the documentary, the area of York County is a place I absolutely want to explore. Your documentary showed me that so much had happened there!

[@myassizitchy]

@@wpsuvideo hey are yall gonna make more of these. This would be a channel gold mine if u could put out a small series or something. I love it

[@inconnu4961]

@@LoriannSmithsanpell Which is rather ironic! because when i lived in Dauphin Co, nothing much ever seemed to happen in York! LOL

[@MrsCraigJrPhiladelphia]

I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING.

[@fruithippie]

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

[@myassizitchy]

I pow wow now brown cow

[@Hauntedechos84]

That was really cool

[@lorenheard2561]

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!

[@jamesrobiscoe1174]

Good stories and pleasant storyteller. Thanks for the diversion.

[@johndenzel1434]

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.

[@devilghostface8798]

Never stop for a woman in white or offer to pick one up. Ever

[@jessealexander9074]

Scary stuff

[@samanthab1923]

What RR tracks?

[@Kevin_Janessa_JoJo]

Very good stories, fishing is the best also

[@annainspain5176]

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.

[@jessicacanfield5408]

I have heard of stories in my family where they didn't know part of the story and my dad and aunt and uncles wpuld say and he probably did.......

[@shelbynamels7948]

No telling either what happened to the dad who had to explain to the wife how he lost their son. I'm sure he got an earful, and she made sure never to let him forget it.

[@npaujbais]

Interesting documentary. Thanks for the share!

[@johanna5688]

I love vanishing hitchhiker stories the most.

[@Iyasha2008]

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.

[@Hauntedechos84]

Very interesting I would love to check that out

[@Iyasha2008]

@@Hauntedechos84 If you do go be careful. I was on one of the supposed roads once on my way to go fishing and it is a sharp turn and if I remember correctly there's only a small spot to park.

[@Hauntedechos84]

@@Iyasha2008 thank you for the warning

[@shelbynamels7948]

traffic accidents, they happen, or so I heard. Hope at least the horse was alright.

[@T.T.LovesAmbience]

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

[@inconnu4961]

So you have probably heard about the haunted state hospital? My buddy's mom was a nurse on 3rd shift there many years ago. She was former military, so not easy to spook. But she had some weird experiences there. She didnt speak often about them, because she was afraid for her reputation, but you could tell some things 'unsettled' her!

[@justinellis6807]

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

[@jaytay8637]

Don't kill those innocent creatures, don't kill them.

[@paulmadigan5603]

Thanks mate what a excellent and creepy show great stories

[@jbrobertson6052]

Thank you for the great stories.

[@centuriontwofivezeroone2794]

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

[@marcotuma1]

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?

[@Hauntedechos84]

They should make more of these very interesting stuff

[@marionweigel3542]

That was really very amazing!

[@apocyldoomer]

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

[@phyllissnook]

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....!

[@joleneslusser2979]

Phyllis Snook that would be an interesting see :) I’d love to see it if you have Facebook look me up Jolene ElizabethAnn Slusser.

[@Hauntedechos84]

I would love to see that

[@Hauntedechos84]

Let me know if you would still like to share

[@andraclark9993]

😄😄😄

[@lorenheard2561]

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...

[@Wa3ypx]

I see what you did there. Wander and Wonder. A little play on words. You have to WONDER where he WANDERED. Youre slick.

[@wandaingram4776]

Loved the legends!!

[@michelehopper449]

I loved this video awesome anymore stories!

[@justinellis6807]

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!

[@jaytay8637]

Hunters beware.

[@dmiller8425]

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

[@StevesAutoNtrucks]

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

[@sapphirerain70]

That’s really cool, I’m in Elizabeth. I would love to know more!

[@southernguy4663]

@@sapphirerain70 me too

[@gardensofthegods]

@@sapphirerain70 my best friend from college lives there in E town .

[@devilghostface8798]

Never stop to pick her up

[@jessealexander9074]

I love PBS

[@tonithomas393]

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

[@nugsymalone1247]

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?

[@TheBelegur]

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.

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

Yes, it's one of those misunderstandings that became part of the culture. I speak both Dutch and German, and it's certainly German. I always presumed Dutch was a mispronunciation of Deutsch .

[@Wa3ypx]

Awww youre dutch

[@inconnu4961]

@@spiritualanarchist8162 Its a very obscure dialect of German.

[@zhisu2665]

I really like the narrator

[@jessicamcmasters170]

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!

[@Bansheel]

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

[@vilazoroland9044]

absolutely loved it 🤠🤠

[@MyOver50]

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

[@georgejennings3599]

Pennsylvania is my home

[@maureeneshleman1104]

Where about s are you. I’m in pa

[@firstnamelastname564]

Awesome, and I just moved here

[@georgetreepwood1119]

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 .

[@Hauntedechos84]

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.

[@Kevin_Janessa_JoJo]

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

[@twenteetoo]

Excellent

[@ValerieDee123]

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.

[@dougyeager6812]

More! More! More!

[@marianrobinson4082]

More, please.

[@Hauntedechos84]

Good stuff

[@rumpleforeskin5064]

Awesome

[@lindadenneypu6315]

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

[@apocyldoomer]

Awesome Dodge convertible, what year and model?

[@thorkveld]

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

[@inconnu4961]

You live in 'Night of the Walking Dead' territory! Wasnt that filmed near you?

[@thorkveld]

@@inconnu4961 Yes it was! Silence of the Lambs too! The house where a lot of the Buffalo Bill scenes were filmed is ironically a mortuary now.

[@Wa3ypx]

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.

[@Neku628]

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.

[@myassizitchy]

Damn never heard that one

[@412VIBE]

Im in McKeesport and ours is called dead mans hollow

[@NativeHoney608]

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 :)

[@inconnu4961]

But we KNOW people have a propensity to lie or exaggerate. What would prevent someone from telling the tradition in a false way?

[@ianvictory8469]

So cool

[@ezzellchic]

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"

[@ripmomcovid4678]

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

[@warchild1386]

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

[@inconnu4961]

This is Pennsylvania public tv! Why would they have stories about West Virginia? LOL

[@Wa3ypx]

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

[@natedog1619]

Reminds me of the intersection you are referring to, but can’t confirm. I drive through the area often

[@Wa3ypx]

@@natedog1619 I enlarged the picture, there is an old route sign with only a 2 digit number. I thought that was 322 through that area.

[@natedog1619]

@@Wa3ypx that’s not 322, it would be 64 maybe

[@Wa3ypx]

@@natedog1619 It was blurry and I thought it said 44. Youre probably correct

[@natedog1619]

@@Wa3ypx it’s 144, you were closer than I was! Have a good one dude

[@MattrixNY]

excellent film

[@beverlykennedy126]

Loved this beautifully made film. Nice story telling. I love ghost stories .

[@MR-ki8ud]

Nice music 👍

[@kimberlypotts516]

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

[@mrpaindoe5058]

Kimberly b 546

[@fredneff7443]

We had 2 witches in our family. 1 black, my grandmother was a white witch. She taught me many healthy things I use 2day .Don't hardly ever get sick .I believe

[@maloriepowers5796]

I grew up in Johnstown and was flooded 3 times.

[@inconnu4961]

I think GOD is trying to tell us something about old Johnstown! Never heard any good things about the place!

[@traceyhallman8913]

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

[@remopiccioni9456]

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

[@kathymanolis7177]

Very cool.

[@richardarcher8586]

Harmony Pa. 20 south of Pittsburgh

[@richardarcher8586]

Harmony Pa. Harmony Inn. Come eat and drink if your lucky you could see feel or hear a ghost. . Like I did

[@garycarpenter2980]

You need to do NC and SC lore

[@inconnu4961]

Nope! This is Pennsylvania Public television! They only do stories related to Pennsylvania!

[@babygirl5299]

We are in Pennsylvania that's since the 1600s

[@elwolf8536]

That's as old as my house

[@gardensofthegods]

Same here my mother's people came to Philadelphia with William Penn in the 1680s .

[@inconnu4961]

Only Philly! The rest of PA isnt that old!

[@davidfletcher6703]

I'm from and live in Smithfield, Fayette County PA, I'm wondering if there's any legends from my part of the state, I've never been made aware of any in my 44 years of life

[@kimberlyortman7862]

❤❤❤

[@saraa4873]

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

[@davidshanholtz1666]

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

[@deannamaggio7165]

I live in Lawrence County and the lore of the White Deer has always been told to me.. Seeing one is a stunning site, but, neve, ever shoot a albino...

[@billbrown8988]

I'm from Burgettstown Pa we had Ruby

[@jhonsticky7114]

I swear to God I saw both, big foot and an alligator in a Pennsylvania pond.

[@carolglass9405]

Hahn Drive in Hendersonville is VERY haunted.

[@emilymalden3310]

I never heard of pow wow regarding the Pennsylvania Dutch.

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

What about the Smurl haunting?

[@traceybenna4150]

That happened in the 1980s .l think this is old legends . I think l read that book . There is also the The Demon Of Brownsville Road .

[@codygreyeyes1610]

That shoemaker. Lol

[@MissRailfan]

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

[@tugglemiles2991]

Chicago has a story similar to the last pne.

[@infinitylemon345]

Ah

[@torithompson158]

I know

[@devilghostface8798]

Nothing about 13 bends road or walking Rosie huh .

[@apocyldoomer]

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

[@notofworld2513]

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

[@inconnu4961]

OK Karen!

[@b.h.2819]

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

[@angeldougan9334]

possibly due to uncertainty she felt of not knowing his fate. Since she seems to have died prior to learning of his death, it sounds like she wanders with their child looking either for him directly or for someone who knew of his final fate

[@babygirl5299]

💋

[@davidraymond771lesh5]

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

[@shawntipton7398]

Why?, they are just people who have died and have chosen to remain for whatever reason, they are as they were in life, good or bad

[@gardensofthegods]

I've seen some ghosts and other things and i prefer not to . I'm grateful i haven't really seen anything recently ... hope it stays that way

[@darrenmorgan870]

Why

[@yacinebelaidi367]

France

[@tomjones2348]

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

[@annainspain5176]

Your loss.

[@sgr1888]

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

[@bladenrexroth2555]

Commonwealth is just a Fancy word for communism.

[@shawntipton7398]

Well yes, Hence the original 13 colonies of America, the whole of that ancient part of America is full of small rural colonial style towns and settlements, just outside of Washington there are many small traditional towns that look like something out of the 17th and 18th centuries, I am from the UK but love so much New England and the wider colonal coast and area of America, stunningly beautiful. The majority of people who live in the upper East Coast are descendants of the colonial settlers.

[@Imawhiteboard]

Lol well the British is who first colonized america.. queen of England sent Christopher Columbus

[@gardensofthegods]

@@Imawhiteboard Queen of England did not send Christopher Columbus that was the queen of Spain Isabella ... but the earliest Settlers of the Northeast for the English and the Swedish , The Dutch .

[@traceybenna4150]

@@bladenrexroth2555 ,communism is what the progressive left is trying to push .Vote red November.

[@joanneeaton9297]

Too much time spent advertising