Lost Grave of the Alleghenies
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- A man who decided to make the worst decision of his life and end it on his own along the side of a quiet road, far enough to get the job done but close enough to be found.
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Most interesting! Thank you
My pleasure!
Wow! Thanks for this. I have lived in Cresson most of my life and never heard this information. Over the years, anyone I asked either didn’t know the story or told me something that they “heard” about whose grave is there. Many years ago, I was visiting the Lemon House, and I asked the park ranger if he knew anything about that grave. What he told me was that the man buried there was a transient worker, and he died while working on the road. Finally, I know!
And thanks to the young man who cared enough to replace the marker.
I love your vids. Keep up the fantastic work!
It is a great feeling to know the story and know the truth. Sad that the range felt to give bad information as opposed to just saying, "I don't know". Which is a common theme with many (not all) park rangers and local historians.
As a child in the 1970’s I remember seeing the white cross on the side of the road. My father told me it was the grave of an unidentified man who had hung himself in a nearby tree. I recently asked him where exactly that grave was located and after searching, I stumbled upon this video. He said it’s been a mystery since he was a young boy. Glad this poor soul’s resting place is being taken care of.
Wow so interesting Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Love this video, u got a new sub and a fan.
Welcome aboard!
I’ve probably driven past that thousands of times and never noticed it was there! I’ll have to see if I can find it next time I go to Duncansville.
Report back the "feeling" you get if you see it, especially because now you know its story.
The echo showing up on radar is from the wind farm. The white blades reflect the radiation back to the radar and it shows up as precipitation.
THAT MAKES PERFECT SENSE!!! Now I need to see if the other turbines do that along the ridge, especially where there are small water pockets.
Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks! Will do!
Hey I see you found it. Very informative as always. Keep up the great work on rediscovering and telling the story of past history.
Got together with a local "photog" who has been walking the Inclines a LOT for the past few months... he begged me to come out, so I caved :D He actually got me in contact with Joel, the caretaker, and it turned into a much more compassionate episode.
Very nice. I work for the National Park Service. Maybe I will see you on a trail sometime.
Wow..awesome video scott..
Thanks!
Love it! Have you ever dine anything on the Lost Children of the Alleghenies? As a child, my dad spent several attempts Sunday afternoons searching for it. Then one day, we found it. It is another tribute to another era.
You are ahead of me! It is coming g up next. You are so fascinating!😊
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Pretty cool. I heard of the Fountain Inn but never knew where it was.
I am still not 100% on the first location. Me and a viewer have made multiple trips and rescanned the images just to see if we can pinpoint it.
Local lore I grew up with in Portage was that he was a straggler from the Revolutionary War. Boy was that wrong!
Have you ever thought doing a video on The Kittanning Trail that ran through this area, above Horseshoe Curve? I can help you with that one as far as history goes. Once again, l9ve your channel!
It is on my list. If you watch my much earlier videos, I do a lot about the old trail starting down at Burnt Cabins and working our way up... touching on the river/creek/ridge/mountain/road/benches/parks/et.al. with the name of "Jack". The idea was to actually do the story on him and the ghost lights. Unfortunately, health got in the way. I need to figure out how to flush out that story with less hiking into the ridges of the mountains.
I have traveled that road my entire life, 50 years, and didn’t know that was there.
But what I have noticed is “that spot” on the Doppler radar. It has intrigued me for years. Now I’m even more interested in that location!
Good find Scott I’ll have to check that out sometime. There are quite a few places similar to this that I know of in my area.
PM or email to me... maybe we can add another to this list.
@@ODDySEEy what’s your email?
I enjoy your videos and dedication to bringing us all on these adventures of local history! I'm glad I stumbled upon this one. I pass this area alot and my grandfather always told me stories of it, but never really knew much more. He always said the gentleman who passed here was a soldier who returned home and found his wife with another. How true that was I never knew, but he was a knowledgeable man so I took everything he told me to heart. Look forward to more videos!
I will be posting a speculation into the community page. There are some really odd things that don't exactly add up with all the information I put into this video. Keep an eye out for that post.
I have an interest in the old wopsy railroad I was trying to find out the route that the trains took from Altoona to wopsi
If ya do a little digging, you can find the complete rail line on multiple sites as well as many of the PA RR groups on Facebook. Because of the request for non-disclosure of the location that I filmed by the property owners, I cannot just give it to you. Sorry.
My pap showed us that site when we were young. I was always intrigued by it every time I drive by there I always look at it. Great story Scott. I want to know more about the fountain inn.
You wanting to know more about that site is why I go to all of these sites. Feed the questions some good answers :) Fountain Inn is on the list, but it will depend on if I can find the foundation marks to have it pin pointed.
Thank you Scott for information on that site. I have been by there more times than I can count and was first by there as memory serves, when I was very young [about 7 or 8 or so] when my parents and I were on our way to Altoona, when they commented on it as we passed by. They said only "hey look, there is an unmarked grave" as we continued on by, but never really knew anything more about it until now. Thank you ! I miss my Pa. home !
I am always blown away about how BIG the stories are regarding many of these sites... there are many though, that have little to nothing to offer and everyone is all excited about them.
Ik it's alot of work to make these segments and you put so much time in your research I love the channel! Keep up the good work!
Thanks a ton! It really does take a lot of time. I originally thought it would be a cake walk to just go out, take pictures, make speculation and have a 10 minute video made in 20 minutes... but no, I had to take the hard way and do the 20 hours of research before the explores. BUT... it makes for great history recordings.
@@ODDySEEy yes it sure dose
Oh my God I vi passed this every day for years! I knew about the unknown grave but I thought it was from the rev war period give or take. U should look into the "gypsy war " from that mountain. People were treated at the lilly hospital. Happened round 1900 ish. Maybe 1911, Neat story
Adding Gypsy War to the list
Great Job Scott!!! I think I know exactly where that is. I believe that your daughter and you visited the bridge/arch up the mountain from there. Getting close to The Lemon House. Keep up the Great work!!!
Lemon House was on the list... but the more interesting Fountain Inn has pushed it down a bit. What is more interesting is that they would have been in direct competition too.
Pretty sure the original sign said unknown soldier. I haven’t stopped by but noticed the new sign there used to be a military grave marker there.
The original sign said the same exact thing as the current sign. The only difference is that it was in the shape of a Route Sign (a shield) and white. There was also a white cross, which is what the flags were attached to on memorial day.
"This type of history will be lost forever". What a horrible thought. Thank you Scott, and thank you Joel, for helping keep this history alive. If we all do whatever we can, all deeds large or small, become great advances toward the goal of preserving our past.
I think, originally, things like the History channel were on the right path... then it became about the money... and well, Drama, Blood, Death, and more Drama pays better than Truth and Facts. So I am on the Truth and Facts path.
Alpha NJ is off old 22 in NJ I 78.....22as far as I know ends in Cincinnati OH
Makes sense. It is a US Route and not a State Route.
Fascinating story. Kess Racks? Could the writer have possibly meant McKees Rocks, an area just north of Pittsburgh, entirely possible if the handwriting was poor or written by someone who's first language was not English. A quick search of Google Maps reveals there does exist an Alpha NJ, just over the state line from Easton, PA. Maybe this gentleman was foreign, especially with the names written inside his wallet, maybe a search on ancenstry.com could lead somewhere? It's really nice that someone takes the time to tend this man's grave. RIP.
I did a lot of digging in those directions and even talked to the Genealogy peeps... this is still an open investigation.
This reminds me of the sad story of the cox children
I had to redo the Cox children story 4-5 times because I could not control my emotions. th-cam.com/video/QCm9pw7q288/w-d-xo.html
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This reminds me of the tombstone next to the road just past poe valley state park. My father told me when I was a child, that allegedly the man had a tree fall on him. He was able to free himself from the predicament, and the stone marks where he succumbed after dragging himself back to the road. It reads "Harry E Kern died here, December 1, 1926. Member of the Catawissa Rod and Gun Club, Catawissa, PA.
That is an interesting, but sad, story. When I went to PSU we had a fellow student walking along the sidewalk of campus when a tree branch fell and took her away. It is always a hard blow with those completely randomized deaths caused by freak accidents.
Investigate the murder of Clara Price outside the town Karthaus, Pa.
Just added to the list. Won't be real soon, but I will get to it. What a great story (just read it).
What they did to the Native people was just out right wrong ! That principal must of been a vile evil of a man.
I am not sure the motive of that man, yet. But, what I can say is all that you think was wrongly done to the Natives was equally done by the Natives (initially). There are always two sides to stories. Many of my researched stories dig deep into the fact that the Natives initially were hostile and vile people when it came to local farmer settlers. Even when I talk with modern Chiefs of today, they say to me that "all man have sins against all man" and that only the person who remembers what we did can make a world where we no longer see a different race.
I have a pretty good idea exactly where the Fountain Inn was located, please reach out to me on Facebook.