Burial Ground Occurrence

From: Tom Urbanik ()
Story type: Ghost
Location: Snow Shoe, Pennsylvania
Source: Form Submission

This story was told to me by my friend, Steve McClusick, about a year after the actual occurrence. He and his friend Kevin Moore were reluctant to relate the incident for fear of ostracism.

In Snow Shoe, Pennsylvania there is a road that takes you from the mountaintop to the valley below. This road had to be rerouted in the 1960s in order to construct Interstate 80. Much of the road was left as it was except for a 1/4 mile stretch where the interstate was dynamited through.

This was a strange area: an abandoned, grown-over strip of pavement blocked off from society by a small white metal fence, and surrounded on two sides my wooded areas. The strip of pavement came to a dead end with a chainlink fence and then, just beyond the fence, about a 100 foot drop to the interstate below. This was also the place that townspeople used to bring their garbage to.

Folklore has it that this was also the site of an indian burial ground, and that human bones had been found in the wooded area that surrounded the road.

On the evening of the occurrence, my two friends, Kevin and Steve, had opened up the gate and drove Steve's 1979 Pinto to the end of the blacktop. There they fired up a joint. The effects of the weed had taken hold on the two and they sat there for a moment listening to music. It was then that they noticed that something strange was happening to the car, it began moving. Not drifting forward or backward, but moving sideways toward the embankment that led to the wooded area. The two, terrified, stepped on the gas and jetted forward out of the area. Things happened on the mountain road in that area, things that alone could be considered normal occurrences, but jointly begin forming an eerie pattern.

Aside from the occurrence mentioned above, the following things happened between 1972 and 1991: * A school bus (whose driver was my aunt) loaded with children swerves to miss an oncoming coal truck and careens down the clifflike mountain into a tree, injuring many. Miraculously no fatalities. *

A friends brother does a 180 on the bridge over I-80, noone is injured. * Another bus flips over, injuring many. No fatalities. * A friend, driving his father's truck, runs out of control into a tree. He survives, but kills himself for fear of his father. six months later, his father kills himself. * Me and two friends (one being Steve) hit ice and end up in a ditch--we are not able to get out and I walk to town by myself for help at 3 a.m. The ditch that the truck is in is approximately 300 feet from the location of the above-mentioned occurrence.

These incidents are only ones that I am aware of--I believe if one were to investigate, many more would come out of the woodwork.