Marlin Bressi

Pennsylvania Oddities Marlin Bressi

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 MysteryBerks County's Missing SkeletonWho Buried the Babies in the Church Cellar?A Cat's Funeral and a Philadelphia MysteryAllison Hill's House of MysteryThe Broad Mountain MysteryThe Kulpmont Mob Murders of 1939The True Story of Shamokin's Famous Missing HeadThe Mystery of the Murder Marsh

PART II: STRANGE PLACES AND PEOPLE

The Cripple's Curse and the Kings of PittsburghThe Aeronaut's Fate: The Story of Wash DonaldsonWitchcraft in Stony Creek ValleyThe Strange Connection Between Bucknell University and the RMS TitanicThe Tragic Fate of Homer SwaneySimeon Pfoutz: Lord of the ManorThe Headless Horseman of Lawrence CountyMount Carmel's Mysterious Suicide CellA Tragedy in Ghost HollowThe Loomis Street Affair: Haunting or Hoax?The Ticking TombstoneA Ghost in the Furnace

PART III: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Dynamite and Diphtheria: The Strange Trial of Lloyd WintersteenThe Hanging of Charles ChaseThe Lutz Axe MurderThe Ghost of Adam VolkovitchMount Carmel's Night of Terror: The Strantz and Yorkavage Crime Spree of 1937The Murder of Daisy Smith

PART IV: ODDS AND ENDS

(A collection of interesting newspaper clippings)