A Strange Half Finished office Building along Lincoln Highway in Jeanette

 If you spend any amount of time going up and down the Lincoln Highway also known as US 30 there is a strange unfinished office building as you pass thru the outskirts of Jeanette Pa. across from what was Monsour Medical Center  which is now an empty lot.

now demolished Monsour Medical hospital

It has been sitting like that since at least late 1980s  its just a block and steel shell with windows not even all doors installed. So whats the story ? 

Well back in the 1958 4 brothers  all   Physicians  William ,Roy ,Robert and Howard  opened up 

The modern Monsour Medical Center.

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

But the hospital seemed to always be burdened  with debt. Partially to do with the brothers disagreeing on how to run the hospital and who exactly was in change and constantly being dogged by regulators for not meeting regulations   .

One day the brother filed for bankruptcy and up and closed hospital leaving everything behind causing a hazmat problem  and improper disposal of patients records. 

The office building across the street was to be an expansion of the hospital featuring Doctors Offices and such  . but between not being able to pay bills and internal arguments it to was abandoned and at this point the property is still mired in muck of who owns what. 

So it will just sit like it has since at least the 80s.

 

Why would a Public Lake and Dam in Ohio have a sign Warning Keep Away Periodic Posionous Gas ?

 I was recently traveling thru Ohio after stopping to see a friend when I decided to travel the Ohio Byway Route Its a great weekend drive past Farm and field when I came across a sign for Clendenning Dam So I had to check it out  .

But its one of the strangest designs for Man Made  Lakes and Dams I have ever seen to make it even more intriguing where signs warning about Poisonous  Gas ? keep out  So whats the Story

Well this lake built by and maintained by  The Army Corp of Engineers in 1933 out of an old Quarry  to help control flooding in the area  has a most unusual Spillway set up.

https://kayakingacrossohio.blogspot.com/2015/10/clendening-lake-wisteria-wisteria-and.html

First to even get to see the lake and dam you go by the Spillways  exiting point where you see the signs  then have to wind around the mountain they cut thru to make the spillway tunnel  ,

 

Which is where the problem begins instead  this spillway was drilled thru hard rock and since this is Coal Mining area the local coal seams will occasionally leak out  Sulfide into the lake which when it combines with lake water produces Hydrogen Sulfide    which had a very strong rotten egg smell and is very hazardous.. and concentrates around the spillway area

The lake itself which is undeveloped and beautiful  had no such smell when I stopped to look around and take  pictures  but with this years drought there is a warning to Kayakers and Fisherman about strong plume developing. 

https://www.ohiogamefishing.com/threads/clendening-spillway-warning.121573/

 

If you go to visit the lake Cell Service is very limited and there is a small picnic area with playground with Restrooms and Two 1.1 mile trails to hike 

 

3 more Paranormal Events

 

Tony Lavorgne new book

 Well Tony is at it again this time he does a deep dive on UFO's  with case study's from all over Pa.

 

 

New Book from Fred Saluga

 Yes Fred Saluga the God Father of Big Foot Research  has been busy this past year and has been for a good reason he has released his First Book  "Paranormal Gateway"

Fred goes deep into many subjects about the paranormal that have occurred in West Virginia

and its a good read

for info on purchasing the book contact him at  me@paranormal1949@aol.com

 

more upcoming Paranormal Events

 

The Mysterious Bride Mural along Penn Ave.

 As you travel down Penn Ave in the E. Liberty section of Pittsburgh you will see a beautiful full size Veil of Mystery  Mural on the side of a home.

Once threatened by a fire which broke out in row homes attached to the Mural home .

It is an enduring mystery.

 

 

 Is this a bride running away from a possible marriage or is it a bride running to tell her parents she is getting married  or has already eloped or did she forget something on way to the ceremony

https://archive.triblive.com/news/penn-avenue-veil-of-mystery-to-regain-vibrancy/

Unfortunately we will never know.

Painted in 1995 by Artist Judy Penzer  she tragically lost her life soon after  being a passenger  

on the doomed Flight 800 which exploded mid air. 

Luckily thou dedicated volunteers have managed to save the mural and keep its vibrant colors. 

So if your in East Liberty check it out

 

Did Abraham Lincoln Secretly Visit Beaver county?

 Recently a photo has emerged on the Internet after much hard work by Historians in beaver County Pa.   that shows a possible image of Abraham Lincoln aboard a canal Boat The Jack Boyle which ran thru Beaver

County and into Ohio. 

Along the Sandy and Beaver Canal it ran 136 miles and eventually linked to the Erie Canal.

While several members of Lincolns Washington Staff  appear to be identified in the Picture 

They have not been able to verify it is Lincoln in the picture . But it is highly possible it could be because he was known to travel  incognito and quietly so Confederate Operatives could not assassinate or kidnap him.

 

https://www.bcpahistory.org/beavercounty/BeaverCountyTopical/notablepeople/LincolnsSecretVisittoBC/LincolnsSecretVisittoBC.html

 

 

We know he was in the are a couple times including visiting Pittsburgh and staying over nite at the long Gone Monongahela House Hotel. the bedroom furniture where he stayed was lost for many years and is now on display at the Heinz History Center. 

What better way to sneak into an area than canal boat.

So as historians dig we may well have the truth some day.