When I was a kid, my dad's family owned some land near Fredericksville in Berks County. (About two miles SW.) One adjoining property contained an old delapidated house that had belonged to a "pow wow" doctor (faith healer) There were crosses and all manor of odd inscriptions carved into the bark of the surrounding trees. That was back around 1959. I have no idea how long it had been since the "doctor" was there, but I sure saw the stuff on the trees.
In Northern Lebanon County, there was the "blue eyed six" group that killed a guy and were all hung. In York County there was "Rehmeyer's Hollow" and the Hex Trial. In Berks County there was the story of the gal that supposedly killed her baby, the governor issued a pardon and her brother rode from Hbg to Reading, but got there shortly after she was hung. In Eastern Berks county there was some story about "die Blau Licht" (the blue light) that killed people. (Some older folks got a little wierd when K-Mart started the "blue light" thing.)
There is a legend about an evil box that was supposed to be thrown in the Schuykill River near Reading and the guy peeked inside and something dreadful happened to him.
Some where up on SGL 211, there was allegedly a village that was massacred by Indians in the early 1700's. The Hochstetter massacre near Strausstown in Berks County around 1755. Girty's Notch along the Susq, North of Harrisburg where River Pirates killed settlers coming down river from Williamsport. The story of the gold mine on SGL 211. There was supposedly a working gold mine in So York County in the mid 1700's. The story of the treasure/bank robbery loot buried along cuffs run in York County. The hermit/constable that lived in a cave between Hummelstown and Hershey back around 1900. The cave was said to be in the quarry that was filled in to make the 422-322 cloverleaf. There's a story of a hermit that lived near Conrad's in SE York County who would go down into a cave near the current Girl Scout camp for weeks at a time, some said he could come up on the other side of the SUSq river before the Safe Harbor dam was put in. I saw a newspaper clipping from the mid 1930's of a hunter that found a woman's arm down near Castle Finn in York County, a no woman was known to be missing. No one ever figured out who lost the arm. Back around 1964 or 1965, a deputy WCo in Lebanon county found a dead woman who has never been identified.
