A Horific and forgotten Accicdent in Waltersburg Pa which helped to expose the Ford Pinto Exploding Gas Tank Scandal

 In the 1970s Ford motor  company produced the Ford Pinto Compact Hatch Back  Car  It was a great starter car or one for work  except for a hidden flaw 

which in 1973 caused several horrific accidents that saw the occupants of the vehicles burned to death when the cars where hit from behind and gas tanks exploded .

https://www.autosafety.org/ford-pinto-fuel-tank/

 

It got so bad that people started putting signs on their vehicles rear windows saying stay back and flammable saw many riding with our parents on road trips  . My Cousin owned a light green  one and got rid of it as soon as all the bad press came out

 

One such accident in early 70's  now long forgotten which brought the tragedy to life was witnessed by a friend of mine Ken Holzer 

He was a delivery driver for a seafood distributor  at time of wreck and witnessed 2 young lady's be struck from behind  by a pickup their car exploding and then being pushed into the wooded section off of Pa 51  south  also known as Pittsburgh Street in a sleepy little town of Waltersburg.

Just past the  old wooden  historic post office  and 4 way intersection

There was nothing Ken or anyone else could do  that day who witnessed it  and Ken had nightmares about it for years  after and this accident  helped to bring to light the travesty of a scandal  that Ford knew they had a problem and decided to ignore it and pay claims silently instead.  I remember seeing the Newscast the evening of the wreck the reporter was almost in tears . There was also a big write up in Post Gazette but I have not as yet been able to find it.

A large white wooden cross stood in the wooded section of the road for many years marking where the Young Lady s Car landed and eventually fell down and was removed and gravel added into the spot and leveled.

Pa.51 has a very long and deadly legacy over it entire route over 500 plus people have perished over  the decades  from the Ohio line in Beaver County to the end of its lanes in Uniontown in Fayette County. Just last week 3 people died in 2 separate accidents  where excessive speed was involved and vehicle exploded  and they where burned to death. one lady driver was estimated to be going over 120 miles an hour when she hit a steel traffic light post. 

and a young couple died in a fire feed wreck near Allen's Haunted Hayride after smashing into a Water Tanker Truck  at very high speeds you can see the scorched road in picture below.

In both wrecks there would have been NO Fire and Explosion had they been driving at legal speed limits .

With the fact Ford knew there where problems and did nothing the public's eyes where opened to this horrible tragedy and finally the Pintos where recalled around 1978

 

 

AM Radio Waves and the Paranormal Activity they seem to enhance is there anything really to it?

 I have been an investigator of the Unknown and Paranormal for over 45 years and a Contract AM / FM Broadcast Engineer for over 20

While most of the time I can rule out if something is being caused by paranormal activity which is 99% of the time there is that 1 % I can not rule out and that is where the real investigating begins. What is causing it. 

Well now when  I combine the 2 fields of my work Broadcast  Engineer and Paranormal  Investigator that's where things started getting strange to point I started lecturing on it. As you can see below at the recent Creature Fest V in Uniontown Pa. where i am showing all the current radio-wave activity in the theater with a  RF Spectrum Analyzer

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While researching Radio wave patterns for FCC license for AM based Radio stations after one of the stations I contract with was being over run by another station at night because they had failed to lower power or  shut down at dusk as required by FCC I noticed a very strange correlation between where day and night patterns go to. and cross and

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

There also seems to be more Big Foot and UFO activity around these AM transmitter sites as well. 

So I was wondering is there a connection ?  there appears to be one 

Though some may scoff at the idea if you spend time with Broadcast Engineers, Tower Climbers etc. in private they all have strange encounter stories at there transmitter sites often off road and in isolated areas. 

So whats going on?

Well there is  the theory that UFO's and Big Foot  regenerate themselves and draw power from the AM transmitter sites. 

 

This is because partly how they are designed . Where standard FM Towers  the antennas are up near the top  where RF radiates and come in many different styles

FM Antenna

AM antennas however  are considered HOT RF Towers the entire tower is hot with RF and used as an antenna. When a tower is turned on any one attempting to climb them can be severely burned from the RF or even killed to point of being vaporized when you touch a Clear Channel stations tower like KDKA 1020 AM  which are at 50,000 watts  that's 30 amps of RF power going into the tower.

In fact AM antenna towers never touch the ground the tower structures sit on Large  Insulators  

and the towers free float this is why they have all the guy wires FM do not have. There are even 3 and 4 leg AM Antennas which also sit on Insulators  and are fully RF hot like in the example below for WOR AM

 

As you can see in the above photo there is also a grid of wires that go out underground  from tower as far as tower is tall in the shape of a bicycle tire rim. 

If your thinking there is a treasure of Copper to steal your right but majority of stations including all of mine have coated there copper to render it useless to a thief and remember TRESPASSING AND CAUSING DAMAGE AT A BROADCAST FACILITY IS A FEDERAL CRIME 

So in theory a Big Foot walking thru  or  UFO craft landing in the field  could receive energy the stations are transmitting. 

Which many believe that Big Foot is Interdemensional  why other argue its flesh and blood

But where you find big foot you often find UFO reports. 

One such hot Spot is  the Chestnut Ridge are of  Pa. in Westmoreland County 

Where several Big Foot -UFO groups exist  and Films and documentary have been made  and don't forget Kecksburg and its famous UFO incident is just a few miles away

So while looking at day and night patterns in particular WCNS 1480 AM in Latrobe  which is a Wildcard stations because it unlike most AM stations goes Up in Power at Night instead of down in power like most stations due so they do not interfere with each other when the Ionosphere and Stratosphere go together forming the night sky wave.

During the day the 4 tower facility  has only tower 1# active at 500 watts  and at night all 4 towers comes on and power is locked north south at 1000 watts 

and goes directly up the chestnut ridge. 

 

to left is daytime coverage 

and above is night time coverage going up along the ridge.

Anyone who has investigated the ridge can tell you it is much more active at night .

Coincidence?

Well to make things interesting WCNS was off the air for a month and half  after a snake crawled into the transmitter and damaged it and took it off the air this summer .

When I checked with Stan Gordan and others there seemed to be a less amount of activity on the ridge 

again Coincidence ? 

Well then consider this a friend Shane Ronzio of Creature Fest V  combined all the day and night patterns onto a map for me and some very interesting results happened 

Every where there is a cross or X of lines is a known paranormal Hot Spot again Coincidence? 

Go onto Radio Locator .com download the grids of power levels  get the reports from Stan Gordon and others and decide for yourself.

Is there really something going on ?  or not .

Other have also suggested to look at Ley Line patterns and see if the coordinate as well.  

Either way Keep it Spooky.

A Horrific War Time Tragedy in Beaver County Pa lost to History

 While our men where fighting overseas during WWII  and saw horrific conditions and tragedy the same was true for those on the Home Front . So many where killed and mangled either at work and even just simply on there way to and from work this is one such tragedy which took place like many others around Christmas time on December 23rd 1942.

Men and women on their way to and from a shift at the Aliquippa J&L Steel Works and small stores which lined its streets they worked would never make it home that day .

Because that day the Ohio River Coach Bus they are riding to Pittsburgh will be involved in a massive landslide which would take 22 of their lives  buried under 200 tons of rocks and  60 ton boulder aprox. 1/2 mile  from the Ambridge -Aliquippa Bridge on Constitution Boulevard  also known as Pa route 51. 

which fell off a 600 foot cliff. 

Now this section of road has always been a hazard ever since i was a kid it would have to be closed and rocks cleared and in 90s was totally rebuilt after a major slide

Below is a full accounting of the story from the Little  Beaver County Historical Society Face Book Page

Huge Boulders Drop From Hillside On Constitution Boulevard Near Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge

ALIQUIPPA, Dec. 23 - A mangled mass of painted steel lying along the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad tracks and a mass of massive rocks, mud and shale which completely blocks Constitution Blvd., is mute evidence today of one of Beaver County's most tragic calamities.

Twenty-two persons were killed and four injured when a road side cliff collapsed over an Ohio River Motor Coach Company bus enroute from Aliquippa to Pittsburgh at 5:10 p.m. yesterday on the boulevard about one-half a mile from the Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge and directly across from Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation's coke ovens.

CLIFF WEAKENED

The towering 600 foot cliff had been weakened by recent weather conditions. As the bus passed along the highway at its base, 200 tons of rock and dirt, including one boulder weighing approximately 60 tons, smashed down on the bus which was loaded with home-going steel workers and Christmas shoppers.

Except for a bit of the rear of the bus, the machine was at the bottom of a 10 to 12 foot heap of rubble. Volunteers with shovels were joined by police and air raid wardens, finally, by a mobile railroad crane. Because the bus was smashed almost flat, the rubble had to be entirely removed before all the bodies could be extricated.

The bus was turned around and pushed off the road by the avalanche and it and the rocks on top of it hung precariously over the 30 foot bank above the railroad tracks making the digging operations more difficult.

THROWS ON BRAKES

At the time of the rock avalanche, Earl Baeuerlein, driving The Daily Citizen car, enroute to Aliquippa to deliver papers, saw it start and hurriedly threw on the brakes. The car stopped at the edge of the rocks. He, with Raymond McNees and Robert Rosensteel, who were in the car, were the first at the scene of the accident on the Ambridge side.

They witnessed the escape of Joseph Manko, Pittsburgh, from the wreckage, who crawled out through a window of the rear end of the bus with the aid of several motorists from cars which were behind the ill fated vehicle, and saw seven men lift a boulder from the near railroad track. McNees and Rosensteel drove the car to Ambridge notifying the Ambridge police of the accident.

Baeuerlein remained to render all assistance possible and to aid in directing traffic until the arrival of the police.

Ambridge and Aliquippa firemen, police, J. & L. workers and volunteers worked heroically until long after midnight in the precarious task of removing and extricating the injured and the bodies of the dead from the wreckage. BODY REMOVED

The driver, Dymtro Karapan, Fair Oaks, was thrown partially through the door and his body was one of the first removed. It was crushed and mangled, police said. He is married and has a three year old daughter. According to reports he was working on his day off as a favor for one of the other operators.

Ben Watkins, Pittsburgh, the sixth person to be removed died in the office of Dr. H. M. Hemming, Ambridge, where he had been removed in J. J. O'Donnell's ambulance. His leg had been severed and his forehead was crushed. Rescuers had to climb a ladder to the bus to get him out and carry another ladder to the boulevard. He was semi-conscious and kept repeating, "Let me up; let me up; I want to get up."

WAS WELL KNOWN

Clyde (Doc) White, Glenfleld, one of the victims was well known throughout the valley for his promotions in sports. For the past three years he has been employed in the sports department of the Pittsburgh Mercantile Company but during the holiday season has been working in the toy department.

The survivors all escaped through the rear window. They were in addition to Manko, Helen Phillips, 22, Aliquippa; John McCarthy, Monaca.

TERRIFIC CRASH

Manko described the experiences of those inside the bus as follows:

"It was a terrific crash. It sounded just like somebody hit a wash tub with a sledge hammer. I was knocked out. When I came to, I saw light coming in a broken window (the rear window). I crawled out and somebody took me to a doctor."

He was taken to the Aliquippa police station by a fellow J. and L. worker where he was given first aid and sent home.

Manko and his friend, James Burger, who also worked in the metallurgic department, were riding together in the rear seat as was their custom. Burger died in Rochester General Hospital at 8 p.m. last night.

LEGS FRACTURED

Miss Helen Phillips, an employee of the P.M. store, suffered fractures of both legs. Her condition is reported as "fair" by Rochester Hospital attaches today.

The condition of John McCarthy, Monaca, also in the hospital, was said to be "fair".

Robert Espey, South Heights, was injured while assisting in the removing of bodies from the wreckage last night and is in the Sewickley Valley Hospital with a fractured skull. Espey has a wooden leg and is employed at an Aliquippa service station.

Miss Martha L. Gearing, who was killed, was a traveling supervisor for the Federal Housing Authority in New York City but resides at her home in Pittsburgh due to the serious illness of her mother. She leaves two brothers in Army service and a sister.

HEADS CRUSHED

The stories told by the men who were engaged on the rescue work were blood curdling. Bodies were severed and heads were crushed beyond recognition. The roof was caved in to the tops of the seats over all but the last two rows.

A mobile railroad crane operated for many hours and lifted the crushed roof in order to remove the last eight bodies.

Jones and Laughlin Corporation had a large section of its fence cut and removed so that the bodies could be carried to the emergency hospital.

ROAD OPENED

The old road, discarded when the present boulevard was built, was opened in order to relieve the congestion which existed following the accident and before the police arrived to regulate the traffic.

The Red Cross carried on canteen service until 2:30 a.m. today. They served coffee and sandwiches to the workers. The Aliquippa side was taken care of by Jean Dowdell, field secretary; Robert Stout, chapter chairman; and two girls. On the Ambridge side Mrs. George Kelley was in charge, assisted by Mrs. Charles Sachs, Mrs. Harry Greenberger, Mrs. Charles E. Meinard and Mrs. Peter Milheim.

From The Ambridge Daily Citizen, December 23, 1942

Is the old AMC Carmike 6 Theatre in Uniontown Mall Haunted ?

 This past weekend we had a great time at Creature Fest V    Scary Movies , Cos Play vendors a DJ and some great speakers including myself and everyone had a good time.

 But there seems to be some other guests who had a fun time as well

Several people attending including my self saw while setting up mysterious shadows appear and disappear in the theaters

Then we had 2 mysterious hot spots show up on thermal camera  up stairs in projection area  and feeling you where not alone .

a couple people who attended also said they felt a presence in the theaters as well. 

Is there anything to it who knows . but hopefully mall owners will be open to allowing a public ghost hunt some day. 

In mean time its private property and respect it as such

A strange short divided highway which sits in middle of a Pittsburgh neighborhood which goes no where

 This secluded section of Pittsburgh known as Fairywood sits on far western edge of Pittsburgh  next to Crafton and Thornburg .

It has several large warehouses  in one section and a strange section of divided highway less than a mile long which runs on its edge. Which runs along Chartiers Creek. 

 

So what was this highway built for and what was its purpose?

Its called The Industrial Highway it was started in 1972 and was suppose to connect from The West End Bridge to the nearby Thornburg Bridge  and eventually I -79 but the project was abandoned in 1974

It would have been a great relief to those who are forced  to take I -376 also known as Parkway West 

due to constant traffic back ups and wrecks But Penn Dot and City of Pittsburgh shut it down and abandoned it.  

So it sits and deteriorates with occasional motorist who checks it out or those who want to race on it.

Just one of many proposed and then abandoned projects in the City of Pittsburgh and total waste of Taxpayers Money.

The Pig Lady of Cannelton one of the strangest tales of Western Pa. in Beaver County

 One of the more stranger tales you will hear around Western Pa. is that of the Beaver County Pig Lady  who they hold an Annual Fair for  at The New Galiliee Community Event Center this year on October 8th  2022 

The Pig lady of Cannelton starts in the little unincorporated town of Cannelton which is with in Darlington Township   which was settled in 1795 and which was at one time a busy railroad hub.

Early days saw coal mining  for Cannol Coal which is how the town got its name and eventually the town became  a Farming Town.

It was on one of these farms where the story begins  a young lady named Barbara Davidson  daughter of Samuel and Cora McCaskey She was married to a Nathan Davidson a Revolutionary War Soldier who supposedly  disappeared under mysterious circumstances to this day unsolved ,  yet others say he had just died a young man   . These events what ever happened  would cause Barbara to go home to stay with her parents not having the means to support herself .

That's where things get very weird .

In the fall  1795 her parents took a trip to Pittsburgh to obtain what they needed to  run the farm leaving her in charge of the farm and its duty's .

When here parents returned a few days later Barbra was no where to be found she had Vanished. 

A massive search was launched and nothing found.

Of  Course all kinds of wild speculation from running off to get married to here husband mysteriously showing back up and abducting her  but still nothing. 

But then a very bad smell developed in the Mc Caskey home and after lifting floor boards trying to find the source the headless body of Barbara was found but her head was never located. 

Plus here killer never identified.

So ends the story but not so.

A few years later im early 1800s  a scary apparition of a headless women nearly kills a man after his horses and carriage encountered it and horses took off in a fit along Cannelton road . and then boys playing on a bridge near the area in the 50's one evening encounter the apparition except this time the headless woman had a pigs skull for a head. 

example of pig lady

So this is where she got her name especially after neighbors near the cemetery where Barbra is buried saw the same apparition supposedly . 

Yet another man who was camping in the woods nearby said he had a frightful encounter with the apparition without the pig head but it spoke to him saying  "Tell  them Raynoe "? 

Who apparently was a Native American who lived in the area with a bad reputation  but did he even exist?

Well the legend lives on and we may well hear about an encounter in the future . But the case to this day including here husbands disappearance is unsolved

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/163211630356972/posts/the-pig-lady-is-a-true-unresolved-murder-that-occurred-here-in-western-pa-more-t/606936715984459/

 

https://www.timesonline.com/story/news/local/2018/10/25/headless-ghost-haunts-former-homestead/9450851007/

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opvI_lR3KQM

 

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