Let’s finish our Skooky Things 3 of 2022 on Hawk Mountain. The beautiful location deep in the woods, deep in the heart of Eastern PA.. One of Hawk Mountain’s most famous heirlooms is Schaumboch’s.. A tavern where the lonely and faint of heart met.. the travelers of early America and early Pennsylvania stopped for a cold one… And vanished. Never to be seen again..
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SKOOKY THINGS 3, EPISODE 3: THE LITTLE BIGFOOT
Albatwitch is a 4-foot legendary creature.. and it becomes the topic of Skooky Things 3, episode 3: The little bigfoot.
Continue readingSKOOKY THINGS SEASON 3 EPISODE 2: IF TROTTERHEADS COULD WALK
Trotterheads appear to be a Freddy Kreuger of Dutch beliefs, with the power emanating from their ability to ruin your dreamscape..
If only they could walk.
Continue readingSKOOKY THINGS SEASON 3 EPISODE 1: SQUONK TALK
The squonk may just be old Pennsylvania Dutch folklore.. but maybe, just maybe, the squonk represents all of us in the end.
Our skin just aging and wilting and us crying during cold nights in the dark woods of autumn..
Continue readingSkooky Things Season 2, Episode: And you thought politics was bad today!? Welcome to the Kelayres Massacre
The eve of election day, November 5, 1934, a political feud in the coal mining town erupted into violence. Five died, and dozens were injured in an event that would forever become known as the “Kelayres Massacre.”
Continue readingSKOOKY THINGS SEASON 1, EPISODE : MURDER IN SCHUYLKILL HAVEN
David Wellington Reed was a 13-year-old boy in the seventh grade at Schuylkill Haven Area Middle School.. Born January 17, 1972, Reed assumed national; attention when he murdered in 1985.. His death was one of milk cartons of the 80s.. his crime was solved decades later.
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