Every state has their own creepy stories, but Pennsylvania has come of the creepiest. I may be partial because I live here, but there is so many to choose from it was hard to narrow down. So together I came up with the five creepiest stories, and urban legends, that I have heard of from many friends.
1. Boy in a Box
In Philadelphia, an unidentified, boy's body was found in a box. This boy was naked, battered, and a blunt force trauma wound. He was between ages 3-7, and he died from the trauma.
2. Seven Gates of Hell
In York there is two creepy legends about these gates. The first says that there were a fire that broke out at an isolated asylum, and the living escaped patients were trapped in these seven gates. The second is that a doctor built the seven gates along the property. Both legends state that only the first gate is visible during the day, but he other six appear at night. Stories say that nobody has ever made it past gate five, and that gate seven is the gate to hell.
3. The Downingtown Gates of Hell
After shooting his entire family, a father hung those corpses on the red iron gates along the front of the property. The house has been demolished after many years of Satanic cults taking use of this abandoned property. Rumor has it that if you walk around the property that you get chased away by hell house.
4. Downingtown Twin Tunnels
A man was fishing in the creek that flows through one of the tunnels when he came upon a suitcase dumped down there. The suitcase contained only a woman's torso. The identities of both the victim, and murderer, are unknown til this day. Not many people know about this story because it happened during the trial of OJ Simpson.
5. Heilbron Manor
This house has a dark history. All seven members of the first family to live in the house perished in a fire. The home was rebuilt, and it was used as a station on the underground railroad. During that time the daughter of the family living in the house was lured outside by one of the passing slaves. He lured her outside by telling her that her pony was sick, raped, killed, and then dumped in a creek. The other passing by slaves lynched him in a tree outside the house for what he did. The mother then hung herself on the third floor, and can still be heard walking up there. The lynched slave can still be heard walking up the driveway. One rumor says that if you drive around the curve in front of the house the ghost of the little girl can be seen sitting in the back seat of the car.
