In April of 1935, thousands of people descended on a quiet Lancaster County crossroads known as…
Tag: Tales of the Macabre
The 1874 Reed Run Nitroglycerin Disaster
On December 23, 1874, Philip Cramer and his sons James and John set out into the…
William Campbell: The Dying Man Who Carved His Own Tombstone
More than 250 years ago, a trapper named William Campbell realized he was going to die.…
The Petrified Corpse of Fulton Township
In the final days of 1884, a Lancaster County farmer digging a drainage ditch stumbled upon…
Tales of the Macabre: Lancaster Woman Becomes Pillar of Fire
🔥 Woman becomes pillar of fire. 🔥 That was the unforgettable headline splashed across Lancaster’s newspapers…
On this Day in History: Lancaster hangs the same man…twice!
The 5th Amendment to the Constitution says you can’t be tried twice for the same crime.…
Hang’em High! The macabre history of public hangings in Lancaster
Almost as soon as people started living in Pennsylvania, we started executing them. Lancaster's first hanging…