Author: Marlin Bressi
Categories: Local/Historical
Condition: New
Book Type: Trade Paperback
 
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
The Lamb's Gap Murder Mystery
Berks County's Missing Skeleton
Who Buried the Babies in the Church Cellar?
A Cat's Funeral and a Philadelphia Mystery
Allison Hill's House of Mystery
The Broad Mountain Mystery
The Kulpmont Mob Murders of 1939
The True Story of Shamokin's Famous Missing Head
The Mystery of the Murder Marsh 
PART II: STRANGE PLACES AND PEOPLE
The Cripple's Curse and the Kings of Pittsburgh
The Aeronaut's Fate: The Story of Wash Donaldson
Witchcraft in Stony Creek Valley
The Strange Connection Between Bucknell University and the RMS Titanic
The Tragic Fate of Homer Swaney
Simeon Pfoutz: Lord of the Manor
The Headless Horseman of Lawrence County
Mount Carmel's Mysterious Suicide Cell
A Tragedy in Ghost Hollow
The Loomis Street Affair: Haunting or Hoax?
The Ticking Tombstone
A Ghost in the Furnace
PART III: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Dynamite and Diphtheria: The Strange Trial of Lloyd Wintersteen
The Hanging of Charles Chase
The Lutz Axe Murder
The Ghost of Adam Volkovitch
Mount Carmel's Night of Terror: The Strantz and Yorkavage Crime Spree of 1937
The Murder of Daisy Smith
PART IV: ODDS AND ENDS
(A collection of interesting newspaper clippings)