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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 1092425" data-attributes="member: 4144">Hey, has this guy been seen at all since Wetzel saw him in '58?  Interesting aside, recounted in Loren Coleman's MYSTERIOUS AMERICA: in Minnesota in November of 1958 (same bat-time) *another* guy named Charles Wetzel met an erratic kangaroo.Hey...not in Springfield, but De*something*...DeQuincy?  There was that mysterious roadkill thing that looked for all the world like a baboon in like '96.  Ever hear anything about that?Anyway, I've got several around here.  This one can be confirmed through several books, newspaper accounts, etc.  In the 1920s...1926, methinks, a guy was killed in York County (some others on this board will probably know this as well), a guy named Nelson Rehmeyer.  Rehmeyer was supposedly a hexerei, or witch.  Several other local people became convinced that Rehmeyer had laid a curse on them.  A local "wise woman" told them to beat up Rehmeyer and destroy his copy of his witch-book.  So they did, but took it one step further...Rehmeyer was (as I've heard this story from my grandma and my great-aunts and stuff, who grew up in the area) beaten to death, tarred and feathered, and scalped.  Then his house was burned.  AFAIK, the guilty guys went to jail or were hung.  That much is fact.  Supposedly, the area surrounding Rehmeyer's old home is haunted, I've heard vague rumors of cattle mutilation.There's definitely been many reports of Bigfoot in southern York County and northern Maryland.  Also, Columbia (my hometown) wasn't exempt from the 1973 UFO sighting flaps.There is (was, rather, it was burned down by arson about 7 years back) an old decrepit mansion by the river that looked for all the world like the house in Salem's Lot.  Anyhow, it was a nursing home for a long time, but previous to that was built in the early 1800s by a German immigrant as a stopping point for canal workers.  Rumor has it that many of the guests vanished in the night.We also have local legends of the albatwitches, which are variously described as little monkeys or, more commonly, gnomes.  They were like little goblins, doing mischievous things around the house, and were fond of stealing apples and taking clothes off of washlines which they wore around.  Still some sightings supposedly, a co-worker swears up and down they saw a little guy in a tree down near the river (where the albatwitches hung out).Chickies Rock, a large hill/cliff north of town, supposedly has two haunts.  One is a weird apparition - a mummy that lurches around, with two knives stuck in its head.  The other is Robert Herr, a highwayman who stashed his money at Chickies.  Supposedly it's still there, and Herr is still guarding it, though he's been dead over 100 years.The Circle Creek Campground is supposedly haunted by a headless guy, who's supposed to be an early settler who set traps for Indians and was a victim of his own trap.We also have a gravestone, a large carving of an angel, in Mount Bethel Cemetery (across the street from my house!) that supposedly animates in the moonlight.  Never seen that.And finally, one I can vouch for -  a guy was supposedly riding home from a tavern one night in the 1700s, drunk, and fell off his horse hitting his head on a rock and dying instantly.  At night, you can hear the hoofbeats of his horse in the road, and then an abrupt scream.  There's two versions of this story, or rather two placements.  One is on Lancaster Avenue, and the other is actually outside of town, near Ironville.  That's the one I'm more inclined to believe, as my ex lived right along the road he supposedly died on.  And at night, I'll vouch that you do hear what sounds like the clop-clop of hooves on the road.</blockquote>

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