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A new analysis of when Americans eat dinner shows that people in Pennsylvania eat the earliest, with an average dinner time of 5:37 p.m.
When the hell are y'all eating dinner (supper)?
Around 5:00 PM
Around 5:30 PM
Around 6:00 PM
Around 6:30 PM
Around 7:00 PM
Around 7:30 PM
8- damn- o'clock
A TIME NOT LISTED HERE
HANDSOME!!!
A road leading to the small town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, where an underground fire has been burning since 1962
Another Cryptid, the Squonk! This Pennsylvania cryptid is reportedly so ugly that it cries constantly and turns into a puddle of tears when caught
Some flower shops decided to use arrangements from canceled events to decorate Rittenhouse Square. It was nice to get out and see them and pretend everything was back to normal for a bit.
pennsylvania is where legends come from
where i’ve been
Hi everyone who somehow still follows me (thank you i love you all even the porn bots). Since the summer an immediate family member has been dealing with and recovering from cancer ( it’s no one’s business who or what kind) and I’ve been helping to take care of them while also dealing with my own declining mental health, adjusting to a new job and new meds. I’ve been neglecting the things that bring me joy. Now that this person has fully recovered and is in remission ( yeehaw) i am going to start getting back i to the things i enjoy, like ghosts and funky crime stuff. I am starting to feel more like myself than ever before and i gotta start acting the part. That is all, thanks again
I know i went off the grid a few days after making this post. Stuff happens and i spoke too soon. Expect more updates soonish. But everyone is healthy again. For good this time, probably
Happy (almost) Fastnacht Day!
Thank you thank you!! You as well
Hey! Im a philly native that has travelled all over PA for surveying work. I just want to drop by and tell you how much i love this blog. I also wanted to tell you about the Lausanne ghost town that are up north in the woods near Jim Thorpe, PA. They’re ruins from an old mining village that’s been abandoned since the early 1800s. You don’t have to make a post about them if you don’t want to but i figured this would be right up your alley. 👍
Ohh spooky! I love ghost towns. And thank you so much!
Lehigh Millennium Folk Arch and Art Enclave
Down a gravel path past Look Out Drive in Bethlehem, PA, sits a hidden world of wonders. Officially known as Stolfo Sculpture Garden, the Millennium Folk Arch and Art Enclave is the result of a 1999 Lehigh University religious studies class in outsider art. Taught by Professor Norman Giradot, with assistance from artist Mr. Imagination and the Banana Factory, this class of students created this park of wild sculptures out of concrete and found objects, taking inspiration from mysticism and their own personal expression. This eight session class wasn’t technically an art class, and the students weren’t artists by their own definition, but what they created is possibly the most creativity-driven sculpture garden in Pennsylvania.
The Millennium Folk Arch has pieces of Professor Girodot’s front porch, the Throne of Regeneration’s faces jut out from the armrests, and the Olmec Head’s eyes glisten in the sunlight. Today, many of the pieces are decaying and have been overgrown with branches and wild grass, but this only adds to the whimsy and wonder of this not-so-secret garden. I strongly urge you to visit.
Who Was Harriet Cole? - The Unknown Life of the World’s First Dissected Nervous System
The story is told as follows:
Harriet Cole was a member of the custodial staff at Hahnemann Medical College (Drexel University), Philadelphia in the late 19th century. When she died of tuberculosis in 1888, she donated her body to Dr. Rufus Weaver to be used for anatomical study. For the period of 5 months after her death, Dr. Weaver worked meticulously to carefully extract every nerve from Harriet’s corpse, and arrange them to be studied. Save for the filaments on intercostal nerves from between the ribs, he succeeded. Dr. Weaver effectively achieved the first full dissection of the human nervous system, winning several awards at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Dr. Weaver’s accomplishment is still extremely impressive today, as it is one of only four full nervous system dissections in the world.
But who was this woman who now sits greeting students entering the medical school?
The most common facts of the story are these: Harriet Cole was African-American, she died of tuberculosis, and she was 35 at her time of death. As for the rest, it’s up for debate. Back then, it was common for medical schools to receive cadavers from prisons, poor houses, and asylums. Body donation was almost unheard of. If Harriet’s body was used with her permission, there’s no written record of it, and it was likely so she wouldn’t have had to burden her family with funeral costs. There is a death certificate for a Harriet Cole in 1888, and it states that this woman died of tuberculosis at age 35, was African-American, and lived very close to Hahnemann. It also lists her place of burial as Hahnemann Medical College.
I am not saying that the common story told about how Harriet Cole’s body fell into the hands of Dr. Weaver is a complete myth, but understanding the time period of the supposed donation should lead us all to question just how much of this process was Harriet’s choice.
Onto the dissection itself, it was achieved through a time-consuming step-by-step process. Dr. Weaver started from the top, chipping away at the skull, separating and spreading the dura mater and cranial nerves and pinning them to a blackboard. Dr. Weaver then worked his way down, wrapping each nerve in moist gauze, and then later covering them in lead paint for preservation. The final result was titled simply “Harriet,” a full human body shown only in nerves, including the eyes, mounted on a blackboard to be used in medical study.
While we can remember Dr. Weaver for his great accomplishment, let us also take a moment to think of Harriet, who, although she has contributed to the rapid advancement of medical science in the 19th-20th centuries, we as a society know very little about.
Abandoned Missile Batteries Scattered Across PA
During the Cold War, the United States lived under the constant fear that the Soviet Union could bomb the country at any moment. Although the Civil War was the last to be fought on American soil, the attack on Pearl Harbor was still fresh in the minds of the American public. Because of WWII, Americans had more confidence that ever in the military to defend them against foreign attacks.
This is why everyone was perfectly fine with 256 missile launch sites being established in suburbs across America. These Nike Missile Batteries, which remained in operation until 1974, were first proposed in 1945 as Project Nike, named after the Greek goddess of victory. Bell Laboratories created the first missile, the Nike Ajax, in 1953 as a line-of-site anti-aircraft rocket. The Ajax were followed over the years the Nike Hercules and Nike Zeus.
In Pennsylvania, 24 missile sites were established in the suburbs surrounding Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in the 1950s and 1960s. The sites were given a letter designation, PH for Philadelphia and PI for Pittsburgh, and a number relating to how close each site was to the major city it was supposed to be commanding. The first of these sites were established in 1955, and the last were decommissioned in 1974. Many of the sites were decommissioned in the 1960s due to Nike Ajax technology being surpassed by both new American and Soviet technology. Those that weren’t decommissioned were upgraded to fit Nike Hercules, and many are still under army ownership, being used for other military activities.
The missiles at the bases were stored in underground magazines and launched with hydraulic elevator systems, but could be seen above ground during test drills.
All of these Nike Missile Bases still exist in some capacity. Though the missiles are gone, the land and structures have found new uses over the years. Some are still military sites, some are owned by private owners, and some are operated by townships. The land sometimes gets reused as a nature area, such as the PH-97/99 launch site in Warrington, PA becoming Lower Nike Park, and the control site now being Twin Oaks Summer Camp.
The PH-49 control site in Mantua Township, New Jersey (still technically a PA site because of its proximity to Philadelphia) is now Bethel Church and Glouchester County Christian School.
The PH-07 launch site in Richboro, PA, is now the Northampton Township Recreation Center. There are bating cages on top of the missile magazines. Whatever works, right?
Other Nike Missile Batteries buildings are finding new uses or being overtaken by nature. There’s probably one near you!
where i've been
Hi everyone who somehow still follows me (thank you i love you all even the porn bots). Since the summer an immediate family member has been dealing with and recovering from cancer ( it's no one's business who or what kind) and I've been helping to take care of them while also dealing with my own declining mental health, adjusting to a new job and new meds. I've been neglecting the things that bring me joy. Now that this person has fully recovered and is in remission ( yeehaw) i am going to start getting back i to the things i enjoy, like ghosts and funky crime stuff. I am starting to feel more like myself than ever before and i gotta start acting the part. That is all, thanks again
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Have you ever heard anything about spook lane in the Boyertown area?? Also, I’ve been to dreamland park and seen apparitions!! It’s super spooky and you have to be careful to visit it now since ppl will call the cops for trespassing but if you can visit it the deteriorating buildings are suuuper interesting!!
I do have a few posts about the boyertown area. I tag by county so your best bet is to search that way. As far as I know, there’s no clear history or consistent paranormal record of Spook Lane, and it seems a few people can’t agree on where it is. I’m 99% sure it’s just an unsupported urban legend. Also, I don’t encourage going to Dreamland Park. They do patrol it fairly regularly because of how well-known it is, and getting caught is fun for no one. Be careful everyone.
Hi! The Carbon County Jail is northeast PA that is apparently very haunted is for sale. Some Irish coal miners were hung there in the 1800s— thought it’d be of interest!
Oh fam I already got a pretty major post about the jail and about the human rights tragedy that was the Molly Maguire executions.
Hello, My ancestry traces back to revolutionary times on my maternal grandmothers side. She was a 'Spotz' which I believed was changed from Spatz. I'm wondering if the family traces back to the Spatz Family Massacre in Sept of 1757. I would like to know what sources you used for the story. Thank yoU!
I used the Reading Eagle and a few of those local paranormal books that I had. I very much doubt you are related to the family from the massacre, but a good place to start would be to look up you relatives through census records available on Ancestry. Most libraries offer access to Ancestry.com for free. From there, use your local library, or the libraries near your Spatz relatives to do a comprehensive genealogical search. It may take while, but libraries can do pretty much anything, trust me.
