Pennsylvania Oddities Volume 1
Marlin Bressi
Non-Fiction
by Marlin Bressi 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...
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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 Mystery
2. Berks County's Missing Skeleton
3. Who Buried the Babies in the Church Cellar?
4. A Cat's Funeral and a Philadelphia Mystery
5. Allison Hill's House of Mystery
6. The Broad Mountain Mystery
7. The Kulpmont Mob Murders of 1939
8. The True Story of Shamokin's Famous Missing Head
9. The Mystery of the Murder Marsh
PART II: STRANGE PLACES AND PEOPLE
10. The Cripple's Curse and the Kings of Pittsburgh
11. The Aeronaut's Fate: The Story of Wash Donaldson
12. Witchcraft in Stony Creek Valley
13. The Strange Connection Between Bucknell University and the RMS Titanic
14. The Tragic Fate of Homer Swaney
15. Simeon Pfoutz: Lord of the Manor
16. The Headless Horseman of Lawrence County
17. Mount Carmel's Mysterious Suicide Cell
18. A Tragedy in Ghost Hollow
19. The Loomis Street Affair: Haunting or Hoax?
20. The Ticking Tombstone
21. A Ghost in the Furnace
PART III: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
22. Dynamite and Diphtheria: The Strange Trial of Lloyd Wintersteen
23. The Hanging of Charles Chase
24. The Lutz Axe Murder
25. The Ghost of Adam Volkovitch
26. Mount Carmel's Night of Terror: The Strantz & Yorkavage Crime Spree of 1937
27. 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
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