Episode 144: Birds of Prey (ad-free)
Added 2020-06-08 07:00:02 +0000 UTCFolklore is often about danger and how we, as a community, might avoid it. But real life sometimes becomes a mirror of those fears, and leaves us wondering why no one saw it coming.
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Further Reading
- “After 40 Years' Burrowing, Mole Man of Hackney is Ordered to Stop,” The Guardian, August 2006, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/aug/08/communities.uknews.
- Maurice Broun, Hawks Aloft: The Story of Hawk Mountain (Stackpole Books, 1949).
- “Schambacher’s Tavern: A Real Ghost Story,” Hagenbuch, October 20, 2015.
- John E. Hower, “Nature-lovers find sanctuary in mountains,” The Daily News (Lebanon, Pennsylvania), October 1, 1989.
- Gerald Jr. Huesken, “Matthias Schambacher,” Find A Grave, October 25, 2010.
- Ralph Kreamer, “Tavern at Hawk Mountain Had a Grisly Proprietor,” The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania), June 23, 1957.
- Matt Lake, Weird Pennsylvania: Your Travel Guide to Pennsylvania's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co, 2005).
- Mark Nesbit and Patty Wilson, Cursed in Pennsylvania: Stories of the Damned in the Keystone State (Globe Pequot: Guilford, 2016).
- Amy Oakes, “Tavern Owner’s Legend Still Haunts Hawk Mountain,” The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania), March 16 1997.
- “Frightful Snakes on Blue Mountains,” Reading Times (Reading, Pennsylvania), August 17, 1877.
- “Perpetual Motion Machines: Working Against Physical Laws,” Live Science, August 2016, https://www.livescience.com/55944-perpetual-motion-machines.html.
- Steven Struzinsky, “The Tavern in Colonial America,” The Gettysburg Historical Journal: Vol. 1 , Article 7, 2002.
Comments
So, I live about an hour away from Hawk Mountain (in Bethlehem) and my family is also Pennsylvania Deustch (originally from Lehighton, Pa). Hawk Mountain is a beautiful place but I’ve heard so many stories about the area and at times, it is an eerie place. I was super excited to hear some folklore from my neck of the woods...no pun intended! Love your telling.
Meghan
2020-09-08 20:58:11 +0000 UTC
