The Devils' Hole

"Ever wonder about albino cannibals or spectral grandmas? Well join us as we explore Ghost Mountain in Pennsylvania! Its got it all from haunted mine shafts to evil root cellars. As always stay safe out there and a special shout out to you listeners. Yes you, keep being wonderful."

Presented by: Cristina
Category: Ghost

Ghost Mountain, or Haycock Mountain by it's proper name, is a mountain in Pennsylvania which is the center of numerous legends.

The most famous of these are the Alibino Cannibals that are said to dwell there. Various accounts of their origin from escaped circus performers to failed scientific experiments to even aliens. What is agreed upon is that inhabitants live on the mountain in concrete, windowless homes. While they are reported to be barely human, running around on all fours and communicated with each other like animals, they still remain human enough to cause problems for anyone passing through. They are said to setup roadblocks and will shoot rock salt at any care on their territory. Travelers on foot are in even more danger. They are said to be cannibals after all.

One account claims they're not humans at all. An anonymous author wrote in a letter that as a young teen a Catholic priest had used him and his friends, who claimed to have telepathic abilities, to locate the tunnels in the mountain. The inhabitants of the mountain were really "big eyed" aliens, similar to the Greys. The author also talked about a group with in Catholic Church that was trying to oust them.

Another account talks of actual ghosts. On the base of the mountain, a woman claimed, there was a wine cellar. She and all of her friends had each gone in their and each came out with a different story of what they had scene. However, they all seemed to agree that a shadow person lived there.

Other ghosts include a translucent little old lady who can be seen knitting through a window in a house across the street from the wine cellar and a ghost of a man who hung himself in a covered bridge. If you stop your car and turn it off and on three times, it won't stop. If you turn of your engine and honk your horn three times before turning on your lights, you can see the body of the hanged man. It's similarity to a Texan legend and yet another involving of a covered bridge in Pennsylvania was noted.

The mountain is also said to have once held a lake known as the Devil's Hole. It was said to be bottomless and a portal to hell if you sank. A flood ultimately destroyed the hole in 1956. There is no proof this lake ever existed.

Takeaway: If it's old, people will up stories about it.

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