Pennsylvania Oddities Volume 4

by Marlin Bressi Scores of criminals have paid for their crimes in Pennsylvania's electric chair, but have you ever wondered about the secret life of the man who pulls the switch? Was witchcraft responsible for the death of a Schuylkill County farmer in 1911? What dark secrets lurk behind the walls of the Ephrata Cloister? Was little Mary Newlin buried alive by her stepfather? Did the appearance of a phantom locomotive foretell a Cambria County railroading disaster? From Erie to Philadelphia, and all points in between, the Keystone State is every bit as mysterious as it is historic. In Pennsylvania Oddities, Vol. 4, author Marlin Bressi explores 22 more true tales of the mysterious and macabre. CONTENTS:  The Haunted House of Wetmore (McKean County)  The Kensington Killer (Philadelphia County)  The Strange Case of Jeremiah Miller (Cumberland County)  Horrors of the Hillside Home (Lackawanna County)  The Beaver County Axe Murders of 1939 (Beaver County)  The Ghosts of Gudgeonville (Erie County)  The Tumbling Run Hex (Schuylkill County)  Tower City Fugitive: The Hunt for George Wessner (Schuylkill County)  The Strange Confession of Leopold Rowe (Lebanon County)  Grandpa on the Gallows (Lebanon County)  The Murder of Agnes Cooper Wright (Dauphin County)  The Unsinkable Corpse of Jonas Snyder (Carbon County)  Cyriacus Spangenberg: The Murderous Minister (Somerset County)  Dark Secrets of the Ephrata Cloister (Lancaster County)  Portrait of an Executioner (Centre County)  The Black Phantom of the Scotia Barrens (Centre County)  The Tragic History of Deadman Corners (Forest County)  The Veiled Lady of Penn Park (York County)  Buried Alive: The Horrible Death of Mary Newlin (Chester County)  The Disappearing Skeleton (Columbia County)  The Ghost Train of Carrolltown (Cambria County)  The Poisoner of Gray’s Alley (Allegheny County)    Page Count: 148 Trim Size: 6 x 9 Publish Date: June 15, 2025 Imprint: Sunbury Press Genre: History History / US History / Mid-Atlantic TRUE CRIME / Historical