Local Haunts

If you ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost – and you want to try some paranormal investigation – here’s a list of supposed haunted locations in our area, aggregated from The Shadowlands.

Be sure to get permission before you decide to get all Scooby Do at any of these locations.

Abington

: There is a small child ghost seen there. It is known that a graveyard was removed to build the church in 1779 and they moved the graveyard next to the church. People have seen the child in the windows at night in the church and some people have seen it while praying at church.

Blue Bell

Weichert Office: There has been sightings of a woman roaming the last floor of this previous home made into a real estate office. There has also been noises and open doors seen but no one has been hurt.

Buckingham

Gravity Hill: If you stop your car and put it in neutral on a certain spot on the road, rumor has it that the soldiers of a war were carrying something up the hill, and when you are in neutral, your car moves backward up the hill.

Bucks County

Dark Hallow Road: The remains of a physically-abusive school teacher were found in the schoolhouse 100 years after his death. The entire road is haunted. Mysterious lights have been reported flickering and moving around.

Doylestown

The dorms are haunted by a ghost that hung himself, (dorm is the original from the 1890s) and can be heard walking down hallway. The ghost has taken an object in the room and placed it in the middle of the room.

Flourtown

The Tracks: A train used to run through Flourtown until the 1960s or 1970s. After the train stopped running, the tracks remained until 1987 when they were removed; all that remains is a long dirt path that runs behind Penn Oak Road. Residents in the area sometimes hear the sound of a train as if it were still running, and they have seen a man walking along the tracks and then disappear. They have also seen a small boy around the basketball net on Penn Oak Road, as well as underneath the Route 309 bridge. The boy is about five years old with thick black hair and 50s-era clothes.

Franconia

Bell House (Rising Sun Inn): The building was built in the 1700s and it is on historic Allentown Road, which was the only major road from Bethlehem to Philadelphia. The Liberty Bell was housed in the inn. There was a caretaker killed at the inn, supposedly named Mary and she regularly haunts the restaurant. The townspeople call her "Scary Mary."

Horsham

: In the 1700s, a young woman was decapitated by a British solider in the Revolutionary War. Ever since the tragedy, you can see her walking around her house at midnight searching for her lost head.

Worcester

Old Baptist Road Murder House: Reports of orbs, mysterious blue lights, and "ghost dogs" surround an abandoned house where an alleged multiple-murder/suicide took place. (A man is supposed to have killed his whole family, a la "Amityville Horror.") House is located on Old Baptist Road.

Norristown

Norristown State Hospital: There are tunnels underground that connect to the buildings in the Norristown State Hospital. It is said that there are ghosts in them of the deceased inmates of the hospital. Sometimes they escape and run around down there.

: In the Valley Forge residential building, there have been reports of a ghost named Ethan being seen and heard. One student claims that Ethan once grabbed her ankle.

Phoenixville

Death Hill - Dayton Street, top of the hill: Just over the hill, there is a graveyard and it is said that the ghosts come out of their graves in the middle of the night and switch spots with their buddies. Also, if you stand there and watch them, they come and get you and put you in a grave ... so be careful.

: There are several spirits that have been seen on the grounds. The spirit of a young boy has been seen in an upstairs dining room (formerly a guest room of the inn). The spirit of a middle-aged man has been seen on several occasions, always looking down the second floor stairwell. He is believed to be a former owner who in his old age had fallen to his death in this stairwell while supervising the cleaning ladies. The most prominent spirit is that of a woman who had hung herself in the third-floor attic.

New Hope/Solebury Township

The Van Sant Bridge: The covered bridge, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is haunted by the ghost of a woman who killed her child inside the bridge. Also, the figure of a man can be seen hanging from the inside beams. However, many see orbs or mist.