A Dozen of the Most Popular Pennsylvania Ghosts

6. THE HAND ON THE WALL. Tom Fischer was convicted with 20 other men, alleged members of the Molly Maquires, and condemned to die for the 1878 murder of Anthracite mine boss, Morgan Powell. Another convicted member of the group told the sheriff Fischer was innocent, the governor was even told, but Fischer was executed anyway. But before that happened, he placed his hand on the wall of his cell of the Jim Thorpe Jail and said, "My mark will stay here as long as the jail remains." And it still is there at the Old Jail Museum in Jim Thorpe, despite repeated paintings and plasterings.

7. CORNWALL FURNACE. The howling of hounds can still be heard near Lebanon. Between 1740 and 1742, Peter Grubb built a great iron furnace dubbed the Cornwall Furnace and around 1750, Grubb was bragging about his hunting hounds. His friends took him up on an invitation to see them do their thing...but they failed badly. After much drinking, the enraged Grubb tossed each dog into the fire in the Furnace. They continued to haunt him until Grubb's death...and remain today near the site of the Furnace in Lebanon County.

8. LONDON TRACT CHURCH AND CEMETERY. In the 18th Century, a fat and reportedly ugly baby named Fithian Minuit was taken into the tent of a surveying team named Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon or Mason-Dixon Line fame, as they were inspecting a unique item called a watch. Fithian was drawn to the ticking, and promptly ate the watch. It continued ticking as the baby grew into adulthood and became one of the world's leading watchmakers. Minuit died at the age of 60, the watch was still ticking, and some say ticking can even be heard by Minuit's tombstone. The church and cemetery are located along White Clay Creek on Route 896 in southern Chester County.

9. CEDAR GROVE MANSION. In Philadelphia's Harrowgate section, the Cedar Grove Mansion built in 1746 was dismantled in 1926 and moved, stone by stone, to the 41st Street and Parkside Avenue entrance to Fairmont Park, to escape industrial development in its old neighborhood. With it went the ghost of the woman the mansion's was built for, widow Elizabeth Coates Preschall, tagged along and is occasionally seen peering from the fan-shaped window on the third floor.