So there has been many a story going around about mysterious goings on in the old Coal Mines of W Pa.
The Chickasaw mine which I have reported on and I hear
The Maple Creek Mine in particular is said to have had a possible Shape Shifter that lurked around the river coal handling docks which scared workers who would not work by themselves is often talked about as well as strange noises heard in the mine shafts itself.
I have heard from several miners who worked the mine. anything to it? Well nothing in print I can find just oral legends.
So it was not that strange when I was contacted about a case which supposedly happened in 1930s somewhere in W. Pa coal mine
The story goes miners where working a shaft when they broke into a room underground when setting up a new shaft to be cut and a beast appeared and killed the majority of the workers.
The couple who made it out where never the same and kept mentioning the word KAHOO
Possibly the entity that attacked them. Supposedly you could see the city of Pittsburgh steel mill glow from entrance of the mine which was sealed up after the incident and area became known as Kahoo Hollow
One reference to this hollow is Nolo Road in Indiana County near Hellwood which I hope to explore at some point and get to bottom of the story as once again I can find nothing in print.
Maybe it was a story made up to scare kids and keep them out of the numerous abandoned coal mines
which there have been several incidents over the decades of kids going in and getting lost.
Well this story of a beast and coal mines keeps getting more interesting and I will update you on anything I find out .
