The Squonk a most unusual creature that said to live in the Hemlock Forrest's of NW Pa.

 OK so I have heard of Squonk Opera  but have you heard of the Squonk Creature that roams Pa northern forests ?

They even have a festival for it.

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Squonk

So what the hell is it. 

Described as a 4 legged creature with ill fitted warted skin and first reported by early Loggers working

the northern Hemlock forests

Its said to be able to dissolve and disappear  when cornered .

What it is and why it would hang out in such Forrest is unknown but the legend like that of the Jack a Lope which run around in Pa Forrest goes back a hundred years and more .

So is there any truth to it who knows but its just one of the many legendary cryptids which call Pa home 

 
 

Is a popular W. Pa. Haunted Paranormal Attraction infested by a well known Demon . It appears so.

 I for one was raised but no longer practice  Roman  Catholic  theology  so im very well acquainted with  the Devil,Satan  and Demons 

That's why I will never step back into one particular place even if it is exorcised and cleansed  by Priests .

I believe the entity to be aware of is known as Zo Zo  who was summoned by previous dismissed  managers to gin up the paranormal activity in the place after violating rules specifically banning use of any kind of deviation in the rules of the buildings.

A rather nasty entity who is a dangerous trickster .who is summoned thru a Ouija Board

Read this info on Zo Zo and see if you agree because if you have been there then you now what i am talking about. 

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Zozo

The more I read about  and research him the more I am convinced he is there.

He is known to imitate  young children who claim they are scared or being mistreated by others  

Known to throw people down steps or otherwise injure 

Known to imitate visitors voices

Cause emotional stress to those you explore  etc etc etc. 

I am not saying don't go there. Feel free to do so but if you do go . Take all precautions  you would to make sure there are no attachments.

Now demonologists may disagree with me but more and more of them are coming around to the same conclusion. 

As with any paranormal attraction you should spiritually protect yourself .

 

The Legend of Walking Rosie in Monroevilles Rest Land Cemetery

 I myself find  a cemetery a peaceful resting place that should always be revered . But there are always those who have to check them out for paranormal activity because of hauntings.

One such cemetery by me in Monroeville  Pa. Rest land Cemetery along Patton Extension Road  is supposedly haunted by a  Spirit known as Walking Rosie.

 http://hauntedhouses.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-cemetery/

 Now I have been by it many times and stopped in a couple times . But never seen anything yet others claim on foggy nights and early mornings  to see the Lady in white. also soldiers and young children. and where talking more than a handful so there maybe something to it. 

Of course there was a horrifying discovery of a young girls remains who was murdered  Beth Lynn  Barr  in woods nearby 

https://whokilledbethbarr.wordpress.com/tag/walkin-rosie/

 A mystery to this day who killed her. one suspect is long dead his name was Edward Edwards a notorious Serial Killer 

But as the story goes if you go up to Rosies grave after dark and shine a light her apparition will appear.

well no one has produced a picture and this seems to be more legend than truth but who knows others claim they have seen many apparitions around the cemetery .

So this is one of those storys you will have to check out and conclude for yourself.

Stay Spooky my Friends

 

 

A Strange Fate of a Coal Mine with a history of Accidents and Explosions leads to worst Coal Mine Disaster in Pa history during Christmas Time

 Many Infamous Coal Mine disasters seemed to always happen around Christmas Time when gas in mines would build to explosive levels and the Port Royal 2#  Mine portal in Rostraver Pa was no exception  

In  June 1901  an explosion would trap 4 miners  luckily its was an off shift and mine was not full of workers but as rescuers with open flame lamps went into rescue them  they to would encounter an explosion  as well and the same would happen the next day as another team of rescuers went in the next day. 3 explosions in 3 days .

It would take 3 months to recover all those killed and in the end 16 rescuers and 4 miners died one never to be recovered. The body of John Prebble  still in the mine to this day. 

 

The Pittsburgh Coal Company would permanently close the mine in October of 1901 and open what was thought to be a much safer mine  The Darr Mine  further up river but the worst disaster in coal mine history would happen In Pa on December 19  1907  just days before worst coal mine disaster in US the Monogah Mine Explosion. 

1907 Would be the deadliest year in coal mining taking over 1000 men and boys  lives in multiple states

To this day the total number of those killed and still trapped in the mines is not known because often miners took sons and relatives into mines to work and they where not accounted for.  

https://archive.triblive.com/news/youghiogheny-river-trail-is-a-pathway-to-history/

  Today all that is left of Port Royal is this marker and a few foundations of what was the town of Port Royal.  which can be accessed from great allegehny passage bike trail.

Flowers and Ghosts . The Haunted Flower Shop location in Etna

 In the 90s I did sub contracted telephone installation work for Avaya  Business Partner Phone Systems and one of the places I put a new updated system was  Micheal Blahas Flower Shop in Etna its a neat old building built in 1800s .

Thou Blahas has been in business for over 100 years it moved into its new location on Bridge street in 1991  after moving from a previous location up the street on Butler Street 

The buildings owner Mr .Kevin Burke was dead serious when he told the new owner Dave Kornely who kept the Blaha name  for the flower shop that it was haunted . 

Yes while I was there I got to meet the mischievous  Peter who messed with me trying to get the new phones working  but I did not hear or see him. I had all kind of problems I normally did not have setting up the phone system.

So who is Peter ? well according to the story the whole front and back buildings where a one time hotel and bordello  then a bar and restaurant

. When it was a bordello in 1920's a  worker there had an illegitimate son named Peter 

who perished in a fire in the attic of the back building. 

Now is there any truth to the story I don't know I have not had time to track it down .

But many claim Peter has done all kind of mischievous things around there. but after a spiritual cleansing of the building his presence has not been felt. 

So was Peter messing with me or was it just bad wiring etc. I guess we will never know. But a grizzly Murder Occurred right by there when a man was shot and killed very brutally in 70s.  whose murder has never been solved.

 and about 3 blocks away on main St. in Sharpsburg an apartment building I worked  in is said to be haunted by a well loved maintenance man who was brutally murdered and found in basement hall

A secret hidden apartment with 5 ft high ceilings .

 I have a realty customer who buys old apartment buildings and fixes them up and makes them habitable.

Recently he purchased a  a very rundown building in the South Hills of Pittsburgh in a very prominent community .

Needless to say the local Code Enforcement where ecstatic he was going to clean up this property.

But unknown to them and my customer was a  small secret apartment with just 5 ft ceilings you access off a boiler room stairway. 

At 6 ft tall I had to crouch down to even fit in the rooms which where very small . The apartment had Cable TV  and internet  a small kitchen stall for a toilet and separate stall for a tiny shower  but the person occupying it had already moved out .

You never would have suspected this apartment was there in the Boiler / laundry room  because you had to go up a set of metal steps which looked like it was the back door for one of the 9 apartments.

Neeedless to say it can no longer be used as an apartment it has been cleaned out and turned into storage for maintnance men. 

The mysstery thou was why was it even built and who lived there. 

We found out it was rented aparently for free or big discount by a elderly  widow .

The Big Question is How did it get built and no one knew? 

There is no way Fire prevention would have allowed it . Only one door out past a boiler room and bedroom was behind kitchen no way to escape if stove caught fire. 

Like Fire Inpsector said . This would have ben a classic case of a fire entrapping some one and they being found days later because no one knew to search for her .

 What ever the story the old owner has split town for florida and he is not talking .