Ghost stories and dark folklore collected by George Korson in the Coal Region | 1938

Gangway at Kohinoor Colliery coal mine at Shenandoah, PA Jake Wynn Public Historian

Folklorist George Korson roamed Pennsylvania’s Coal Region in the 1920s and 1930s, capturing stories born of mysterious knockings, spirits of miners killed in disasters, and minds disturbed after fatal accidents. From Avondale’s haunted chambers to a peddler’s wailing rock and the unrecovered dead of the Woodward Colliery - these tales reveal miners’ fears and folklore. Read the full story.