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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · Other
The student newspaper preserves two campus legends: Pennsylvania Hall's elevator supposedly opens onto a wartime hospital scene, while Stevens Hall's Blue Boy peers through windows. In the latter story, students hide a child on a freezing window ledge and later find him gone. The newspaper explicitly treats his fate as legend.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · Hotel
The hotel's ghost lore follows a nurse, usually called Rachel, searching for wounded soldiers and allegedly opening drawers in guest rooms. A second woman is said to dance in the ballroom. Civil War News repeats these traditions with the nurse named Rebecca, showing that the figure's name varies across tellings.
Horsham, Pennsylvania · Historic house
Graeme Park staff relate stories of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson on the stairs, inexplicable floral scent in her bedroom and motion alarms that refuse to set until someone bids her goodnight. Another account describes Christmas greenery displaced from her favorite windowsill. The operator presents these as staff experiences and longstanding house lore.
Bainbridge, Pennsylvania · Historic house
Bearfort Paranormal reports unlocated voices and names heard during an investigation, with particularly unsettling experiences in the attic and summer kitchen. The mansion's lore includes a little girl and an older man. A skeptical investigator separately records the operator's advertised footsteps and shadows while questioning the interpretation of its paranormal evidence.
New Castle, Pennsylvania · Hospital
Hill View's operator describes Mary Virginia's room as a favorite encounter location. Visitors leave necklaces, dolls and storybooks for the former resident; staff attribute a gently swinging necklace to her presence. The account presents her as a friendly spirit who responds to visitors and to a familiar Christmas story.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania · Hotel
The hotel's own account centers on Room 932, where a couple said a man at the foot of their bed challenged their presence and disappeared when the light came on. Other guests reportedly saw fleeting mirror images, flashing lamps and papers moving. The operator collects these stories as encounters with friendly spirits.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania · Historic house
Rock Ford's staff share experiences collected while supervising paranormal teams and working in the mansion. Its after-dark interpretation follows longstanding stories of the Hand family's rooms, unexplained sounds and shadows that seem to shift in dark corners. The operator explicitly offers this as the mansion's haunted tradition.
Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania · Hotel
A ghost bride called Elizabeth, a child on a tricycle and a menacing basement butcher populate Hotel Conneaut's lore. A visiting writer recounts phantom voices and doors moving during a hosted investigation, but also notes the television team's failure to substantiate the alleged butcher or fatal events behind the stories.
Scranton, Pennsylvania · Theater
The Pennsylvania Paranormal Association records reports of pictures falling despite secure fittings, doors opening or closing and visitors feeling touched inside the museum. Its 2018 team described a small object moving during a session and motion lights failing together before recovering. The museum also stages séances, which are separate entertainment events.
Bedford, Pennsylvania · Hotel
The tavern publishes visitors' accounts of conversations heard upstairs after the staff had gone home and eyeglasses found across a guest room after an unexplained nighttime noise. Its folklore page also reproduces Patti Wilson's collected encounters, making the haunting part of the inn's own storytelling.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · Historic house
The house where Jennie Wade died during the Gettysburg battle is associated with ghostly soldiers and lingering presences of the town’s wartime dead.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania · Historic house
A wedding guest's firsthand account describes a latched door closing without explanation and a music box beginning to play as relatives gathered by the stairs. An employee reportedly said the box required winding. The witness presents these incidents as his own paranormal experience during a 2019 family wedding at the mansion.
New Hope, Pennsylvania · Hotel
The inn associates Room 6 with Emily, an elusive presence announced by lavender, disturbed pillows and figures glimpsed in mirrors. Footsteps and doors opening unaided feature in guests' stories too. The operator acknowledges that competing versions identify Emily differently and that none establishes her identity conclusively.
Altoona, Pennsylvania · Theater
Isaac Mishler reportedly still watches his theater from its catwalk and leaves the smell of cigar smoke behind. Penn State's cultural-history article recounts a child's friendship with a strangely dressed man and staff sightings near the former office. It also notes that Ghost Hunters did not substantiate a haunting during its investigation.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Other
Moshulu staff reportedly hear disembodied laughter and murmurs. Its Lantern Ghost earns its name from lamps found burning again after employees say they extinguished them.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Other
Visit Pittsburgh links reputed soldier spirits at the aviary to the former Western Penitentiary that occupied the site.
Brownsville, Pennsylvania · Historic house
Iron City Paranormal's castle lore includes Elizabeth in a white dress, a curly-haired child called Mary and Jacob Bowman appearing near the library before disappearing. Accounts place another girl in the nursery, where laughter is heard without a visible child. These named identities belong to the site's ghost tradition.
Bedford, Pennsylvania · Other
A visitor's account describes a hunched woman wearing a vivid red shawl walking into the woods without audible footsteps, then vanishing. A separate reenactor recalls a woman in colonial clothes disappearing near the inn during a World War II event. Both recollections appear in a public Pennsylvania travel-site discussion.
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania · Prison
Cell 17 holds the jail's enduring handprint legend: a condemned man pressed his dirty hand to the wall, declaring it would remain as evidence of his innocence. The museum says cleaning and repainting have not removed it, while acknowledging disagreement over whether the man was Alexander Campbell or Thomas Fisher.
Bedford, Pennsylvania · Hotel
Omni's own haunted-hotels article describes supposed soldiers and children appearing in guests' photographs. Its most unusual employee story concerns an unseen office worker: a ghost allegedly sits in a reservations cubicle and noisily types on a computer keyboard, continuing work long after an ordinary shift would end.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Hotel
Pittsburgh Ghosts describes guests disturbed by unseen nighttime presences and ties some stories to a traveling salesman. One particularly unusual legend imagines a phantom panda connected to former guest Ruth Harkness. A separate travel account reports airline crews feeling watched and recounts the hotel's strange sounds and apparitions.
Spring City, Pennsylvania · Other
Ghost Research Society investigators describe shadow forms in Pennhurst's tunnels and children's voices in Mayflower Hall's playroom. Their guide recalled a forceful unseen voice in the Philadelphia tunnels. Other reports concern moved furniture and closing doors. These are paranormal accounts about a former institution, distinct from the site's staged Halloween attraction.
Altoona, Pennsylvania · Other
A railroad worker's apparition reportedly walks the museum's halls. Syfy's Ghost Hunters recap records that claim as the reason for investigating the museum alongside Mishler Theatre, while stating that the visit did not establish either place as haunted. The hall-walking worker remains part of the museum's paranormal reputation.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · Road or bridge
Near the Gettysburg battlefield, Sachs Covered Bridge is associated with phantom soldiers, mysterious lights and the sound of horses crossing when no one is there.