Pennsylvania Oddities vol 1

Researcher and author Marlin Bressi has compiled a panoply of unsolved mysteries and unusual happenings throughout the history of the Keystone State. From unsolved mysteries, headless corpses, missing persons, to ghosts and missing treasure, Bressi's compilation is sure to entertain:

CONTENTS:  

PART I: UNSOLVED MYSTERIES

1. The Lamb's Gap Murder Mystery2. Berks County's Missing Skeleton3. Who Buried the Babies in the Church Cellar?4. A Cat's Funeral and a Philadelphia Mystery5. Allison Hill's House of Mystery6. The Broad Mountain Mystery7. The Kulpmont Mob Murders of 19398. The True Story of Shamokin's Famous Missing Head9. The Mystery of the Murder Marsh 

PART II: STRANGE PLACES AND PEOPLE

10. The Cripple's Curse and the Kings of Pittsburgh11. The Aeronaut's Fate: The Story of Wash Donaldson12. Witchcraft in Stony Creek Valley13. The Strange Connection Between Bucknell University and the RMS Titanic14. The Tragic Fate of Homer Swaney15. Simeon Pfoutz: Lord of the Manor16. The Headless Horseman of Lawrence County17. Mount Carmel's Mysterious Suicide Cell18. A Tragedy in Ghost Hollow19. The Loomis Street Affair: Haunting or Hoax?20. The Ticking Tombstone21. A Ghost in the Furnace

PART III: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

22. Dynamite and Diphtheria: The Strange Trial of Lloyd Wintersteen23. The Hanging of Charles Chase24. The Lutz Axe Murder25. The Ghost of Adam Volkovitch26. Mount Carmel's Night of Terror: The Strantz & Yorkavage Crime Spree of 193727. The Murder of Daisy Smith

PART IV: ODDS AND ENDS

(A collection of interesting newspaper clippings) 

Page Count: 172

Trim Size: 6 x 9

Publish Date: December 26, 2018

Imprint: Sunbury Press

Genre: History

History / US History / Mid-Atlantic

TRUE CRIME / Historical