A man so Evil he was not allowed to be buried in local Cemetery . The legend of Wellsvile Ohio Silver Crypt

 In Wellsville Ohio when you travel to the Spring Hill Cemetery you will find one crypt the Silver Crypt  which is down in the woods from the Rest of the Cemetery legend says it was the tomb of the most wicked man in Wellsville a Dr Silver who was a Warlock and as punishment him and his entire family where deemed unsuitable to be buried in the public cemetery to be forever shamed. 

http://www.questteam.net/quest/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=407

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttJIg6MBGBw

 

 

Now is there any truth to it?  nothing I can find to say why he was considered so evil seems more myth than truth. . Appears the crypt was part of the cemetery and forgotten when road to it was rerouted. 

Which is more plausible than the tales about it .

Just what did i photograph ? UFO

 It was a beautiful day this past February 25,2021 when i noticed on my way home the moon starting to come out around 5 PM so I took a picture of it along Allegheny River Blvd. In Penn hills Pa.  to share on FB .

When one of my friends messaged me saying what is the dark object you captured in photo.

Dark object? did not see it when i took the photo yet there it is a dark triangular object.

Many think its a UFO 

Its not a spec of dirt and far enough away from high tension power line to not be a coronal arc of some type so what the hell is it ? Secret Government craft? maybe .

I submitted it to MUFON  who said its a thumb print on lens . Really MUFON your full of shit took it on a cell phone and double checked and went back next day shot exact time and conditions  and was not there.

I was going to join MUFON but not if your going to play stupid and insult me . No wonder you are losing members .

Bruderhof a Small Religous Community in Fayette County Pa. you never heard of but should.

When  I was a kid in 60s and our family would take road trips on the weekend we would sometimes ride up thru Ohio Pyle State Park and on the way there was a very unique store which sold wooden toys .
The people who ran it where dressed similar to Mennonites and they where known as the Bruderhof
A very quiet and Peaceful Religious sect .  

https://www.bruderhof.com/en/where-we-are/united-states/spring-valley

 

While the store is no more the community has grown into the Spring Valley Community  which took over they old Gorly Hotel and lake in 1957 and drained the lake in 1965 . The old hotel was torn down in 2006. 

https://www.facebook.com/stuff.thatsgone/posts/gorleys-hotel-and-lake-and-the-summit-inn-were-fayette-countys-original-mountain/2720956921358614/

 

If you ever get the chance you should visit and explore this unique religion and life style. 

which helps to run the local ambulance service

Tracking down a Mysterious case of Coal Miners being killed by a beast.

 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 .

Air Signal Pittsburgh a Mysterious Early Paging service heard on multi band radios around the region in 60s in Pittsburgh Region

Back in AM radio days of 60s as the new FM  band was making its way to the top  it was all the rage to have one of the new multi-band Radios which had AM, FM ,VHF, TV  and some times MB Military Band or W Short Wave  and when you tuned down into the VHF band to hear Pittsburgh Police  you would hear a short twist down dial this repeating message 

This is Air Signal Pittsburgh there are no messages at this time. 

But then you might hear a message like This air signal Pittsburgh  Dr. Johnson you have a message 

So what was going on ?

Well it was one of the first Pager services in the country that was run by a lady I meet during a exhibition at now demolished Central Medical Center Hospital.in Pittsburgh's Hill District.

From what I gather the system worked by some one trying to contact a subscriber who  would call a special number  and leave a message with Air Signal Operator , who then recorded the message which was continuously broadcast over the designated VHF band . The Dr. or CEO who had the receiver  would then turn it on between calls and breaks and listen to see if he had a message he would then call special number to retrieve from the operator.  

Since the system was such an early use of airwaves I do not know if a tone signal was sent out like more modern pagers to let you know you have a message which is why it kept repeating.

 

I have searched for and have found no information on this business and will try old business directorys but i have asked numerous people about it and no one remembers it but they do remember hearing the signal but no info on company. 

The now Demolished G.A. R home where Civil War Veterans Widows lived and where still alive well into late 1990s

 Yes hard to believe a Civil War Veterans where still alive well into 19190s at the G.A.R Home in Swissvale  on Wood Stock Ave.which stands for the Grand Army of the Republic

But it true in fact the last official widow receiving a pension check passed in 2013

The building always has a mystique about no signage except in front and very little you can find on line  and now that it has been demolished it will soon be forgotten altogether

https://www.post-gazette.com/local/east/2018/02/01/Swissvale-s-historic-Ladies-GAR-home-to-be-demolished/stories/201802010014

 

Built in 1890 to house widows of the war veterans the home was expanded over the years to 53 rooms and eventually some time in 80s started excepting regular civilians  not GAR affiliated it sat facing the river and getting to it was not easy the way streets intersected to it. 

 But your saying to yourself wait a minute how could widows still be alaive that long ? Well in days past  older civil war vets would marry much younger women  as was common in those days a young man would establish himself and then seek a young bride and of course there where some vets who married younger women who where well into their senior years so yes its was possible to ave widows living that long. 

There are still Spanish war vets widows receiving  benefits .

 Its very strange not much was written about or can be found on the old GAR home which gives it all that more mystery since it stayed out of the news.

 

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Mysterious Miniature Train that's sat abandoned along PA 18 in Burgettstown Pa. for Decades . Where did it go to and what did it serve?

 If you travel down US 22 toward the state line with WV and get off at exit for Burgettstown as you head into town  an as you leave town short piece down the highway on the right hand side of PA 18 you will see a rusted and rotting away miniature train set consisting of a couple old Plymouth Switchers on a short piece of track that have been sitting there for many years.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Locomotive_Works

Locals say the tracks they sit on went all the way into town at one time but that's not true the whole story is very different .  They where narrow gauge and very small compared to a regular railroad engine  and  typically used to serve steel mills and quarry's possibly even coal mines  and the area looks like it was at one time stripped of coal and has a history of  coal  mines in the area some of which there are no trace when they  came back and strip mined the area.  .

Of course the bigger question why where they just abandoned there 

Most where sold to other industrial users or  put on display .There is one at a gas station in Tarrentum Pa  Picture Below  belonged to Allegheny Ludlum Steel now AK Steel  and one at Mars Pa. Train Station Museum but many more where scrapped for their metal value .

 Here is a surplus navy  one which was little bigger that  Carnegie Mellon  University used to haul coal cars to its boiler plant  which has since been converted to gas. 

But for now if you want to see something unique they are still sitting there .

 Well seems I have gotten a different answer. They belonged to a gentleman who had a used industrial

Equipment Business  many years ago on this site on both sides of road and these where left behind in the field which was full of junk for what ever reason after business closed and was cleaned up. One of the engines belonged to Wheeling Steel at one time so they never ran thru Burgettstown or local mines etc . as some locals claim . Yes there where tracks in town but those where full size railine tracks .

Which makes sense these are narrow gauge rail trains not designed to run on regular gauge tracks.

So mystery partly solved maybe they could not get clear ownership  to scrap them or they left them as a curiosity piece either way still neat to see.