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[possum]

"Anyone have a haunted house around York, PA? Something well documented. Let us know."


Any ideas as to why they are looking for a haunted house? Video shoot?

Film here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Gates_of_Hell

This post has been edited by possum: Jun 5 2012, 3:17 pm

[OutToDry]

..............so

Haunted Houses? Black Kowalczyk

York?

WTF?

[+AllOverMe+]

Damn! I thought for 2 seconds that Haunted House was the new album title

[SecretInsomnia]

Damn! I thought for 2 seconds that Haunted House was the new album title

Ha me too.
Would sound a lill too much like grey/great houses tho!

[FishOutaWater]

This site has a description of haunted sites in Berks County. The pdf in the link attached to this site has some interesting stuff:

Berks County Haunted Sites

Also, I had always heard a story about a mother killing herself and her children in a canal at Gring's Mill in Berks County. I always thought that was just a fictional story that someone told me as a kid, but I just Googled it and it turns out it was true! This story always scared me as a kid:

Canal Story

Q: What's the story behind the woman who killed herself and her three children near Gring's Mill in the 1800s?

Louisa Bissinger walked calmly down the Union Canal towpath, filling a basket with rocks as her three dutiful children followed along.

Near a lock in the canal, Louisa gathered up the children and threw them and herself into the water. The rocks weighed her down, and she and the children drowned.

It was a hot Sunday afternoon in 1875, and the family of Phillip Bissinger was wiped from the face of the earth in a murder-suicide that stunned Reading.

Apparently upset over her husband's infidelity, Louisa decided to end her life and those of her children Mollie, Lillie and Philip. It was premeditated and calculated.

Louisa and the kids had taken a trolley from Reading to the last stop near Gring's Mill and walked along the towpath for 2 miles.

The children likely thought they were going for a picnic, and some reports suggest they helped their mother fill the basket that aided in their deaths.

Recently, reader William Hartung wrote to the Reading Eagle to learn more about the Bissinger murders, knowing that the popular Gring's Mill recreation area, owned by Berks County, has a grisly tale associated with it.

Indeed, several people have reported seeing ghosts near the site of the murder-suicide, said Charles J. Adams III, an Exeter Township author who has written extensively about ghosts of Berks County.

Witnesses describe seeing three children, wearing homemade clothes, simply disappear as they walk along the towpath, Adams said.

Thousands of hikers and cyclists on the trail at Gring's Mill pass the murder site, many unaware of the gruesome tale. It's an unassuming spot, just a gap in the brush, that looks like much of the former canal bed.

But the incident was front page news at the time, with the Reading Eagle running a detailed description of Louisa's death, the inquiry into the murders and the motive behind them. It also was revealed that Louisa was expecting the couple's fourth child when she drowned.

Phillip Bissinger, who eventually became president of the Reading Brewing Co., was among the city's upper echelon, and the funeral of his wife and three children drew tens of thousands of mourners, Adams said.

"He was the most powerful man in Reading," Adams said. "Phil Bissinger was untouchable."

But Bissinger had to address accusations that his infidelity caused the murder-suicide. He wrote a letter to the Reading Eagle, printed on the front page, that blamed his wife for listening to the baseless rumors of his extramarital flings.

That didn't sit well with Louisa's family. Days later, her brother, Fred Eben, also wrote to the Eagle, chastising Bissinger for his public appeal and branding him as "the murderer of my sister and your four children."

"I am willing that the people amongst who we live shall judge between us," Eben wrote.

The debate did nothing to erase the fact that a mother ended three young lives and her own on a pleasant summer afternoon in Berks County.