In August of 1963, three miners were stuck 330 feet below the ground when the Sheppton mine caved in. Two of the miners stuck together and waited two weeks for rescue, initially eating tree bark and sucking water out of the bark for survival. Within a week, holes...
Who is Beth Doe? This question has remained unanswered since December of 1976, when a woman’s body, cut up and stuffed into 3 suitcases, was tossed from a bridge along Route 80 near White Haven. There was no identification on her. There were no leads. Nobody ever reported...
Pine Ridge Pet Cemetery is the oldest in the US that’s run by an animal welfare group. We originally came here because we read about a few celebrities’ pets being interred here, but it’s an impressive place so we stayed a while. Some sections are especially old and...
The term “coal baron” exists for a reason. In 1959, the owners of Knox Mine got greedy and had workers dig within 5-6 feet of the Susquehanna’s river bed; 30 feet is the normal stopping distance. The river broke through the thin rock layer and immediately began to...
Stockton Mine was like any other anthracite mine in northeastern PA until one early morning in 1869, when some of the ground above the mine suddenly collapsed. A few homes were swallowed up, and nobody inside had time to escape. The rift kept growing, and the buildings that...
In the summer of 1832, Philip Duffy, a railroad contractor, hired 57 Irish immigrants on the docks of Philadelphia. They were to fill in a ravine near present-day Malvern so rails for a new track could be laid. They began their task, but only 6 weeks later all...
I often looked at maps and wondered why there was a town named Jim Thorpe and just who the guy was. Now that I live only about 20 minutes away from the town, I decided to find out. Turns out Jim Thorpe was a very prominent athlete in...
Found along Walnut Avenue in Conyngham is a small, seemingly overlooked Revolution-era monument. Near this site on September 11, 1780, Captain Daniel Klader and his men were ambushed and slaughtered by a group of Tories and Seneca. Chief Roland Montour was also among the mob. That Montour name...
