Phillip's Rangers

Gorr · Post by **Gorr** » Monday Sep 15, 2008

Since we are on the subject of Gravity Hill and the Lost Children of the Alleghenies, I will throw another one at you. Down by Saxon Pa there a stone marker where a small battle took place during the Revolutionary War between Colonists against Senaca Indians with two British agents. Here I am also related to two of the people that died there. Over the years people have asked me about this before and I tell them that is a old bedtime story that I have heard countless time. The story also has made the National Geographic back in the early 90's. Every once in a while it alos makes a local paper.

http://www.motherbedford.com/Phillips.htm

http://www.pa-roots.com/~bedford/histor ... llips.html

http://www.visitpa.com/visitpa/details.pa?id=69817

http://www.altoonalibrary.org/books/ind ... ve0005.htm

http://members.tripod.com/~khuish/gedcom/fam00352.htm

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Monday Sep 15, 2008

Very cool, but creepy place. It's dark and overgrown, last I was there, and would be a good make-out spot, if it didn't give you such a piss-shiver. You can look at the area, and easily imagine an injun behind every tree... you just know how it all went down, simply by the topography. Very interesting place, go during daylight.--->JMS

Staceman · Post by **Staceman** » Monday Sep 15, 2008

I was there last summer, and thought that it looked rather well-maintained.

http://www.paghosthunters.org/phillipsm ... story1.htm

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Tuesday Sep 16, 2008

Getting close to Hallows Eve, might be a ghost tour in the works. My wife likes to go to creepy places like these fore-mentioned, to take pictures and get all scared. I frankly don't believe in ghosts, but if it horns her up, I'll "witness" some stuff...LOL!!

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Tuesday Sep 16, 2008

Staceman wrote:I was there last summer, and thought that it looked rather well-maintained.

http://www.paghosthunters.org/phillipsm ... story1.htm

Actually, that's cool. I hope someone does keep it maintained, it's a pretty awesome place. I haven't been there in many years, and it was overgrown with weeds and grapevines, very dark and foreboding, like a movie set. It must have been a popular "parking" spot, I seem to remember lots of used "gummies" strewn all over the place. There also used to be a family that lived nearby that had a whole bunch of daughters around my age at the time. That was fun, too.

------>JMS

Trucula · Post by **Trucula** » Tuesday Sep 16, 2008

A good book to check out is Wierd Pa. Has a ton of short reading articals on such stuff. A hard book to put down. {"Gettysburg, Altoona's white witch, Pittsburgh green man, ect"}

And a good site is www.eeriepa.com (tho was being updated last I checked)

Post by **Ron** » Tuesday Sep 16, 2008

Trucula wrote:A good book to check out is Wierd Pa. Has a ton of short reading articals on such stuff. A hard book to put down. {"Gettysburg, Altoona's white witch, Pittsburgh green man, ect"}

And a good site is www.eeriepa.com (tho was being updated last I checked)

Yeah, I have that book. Haven't read it in a log time. Isn't there a chapter about a (literally) little town in PA that is solely inhabited by "little people"?

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Tuesday Sep 16, 2008

A friend of mine told me about that place. Isn't it around Lancaster or something?

Trucula · Post by **Trucula** » Tuesday Sep 16, 2008

Ron wrote:
Trucula wrote:A good book to check out is Wierd Pa. Has a ton of short reading articals on such stuff. A hard book to put down. {"Gettysburg, Altoona's white witch, Pittsburgh green man, ect"}

And a good site is www.eeriepa.com (tho was being updated last I checked)
Yeah, I have that book. Haven't read it in a log time. Isn't there a chapter about a (literally) little town in PA that is solely inhabited by "little people"?

Yeah, I remember that. Has all small homes and they don't like visitors...(Guess no room to sit down...LOL)

PanzerFaust · Post by **PanzerFaust** » Tuesday Sep 16, 2008

I know that spot well... I agree it's in Immaculate condition...

When I worked for the state Huntingdon Co was part of my territory...

That spot for some reason was the ONLY place I could get a cell signal worth shit down that valley, so I used to stop there 2-3x a day to check in with the office....

That road up to the site has 4-5 turn off's which are peoples driveways/backyards.... During the Fall when the leaves are off the trees you realize there are roughly 10-12 houses that are 20-30 yards away from that spot... I'm sure any headlights seen there at night would bring the Gestapo Gun happy Saxton PD coming...... hehe...and only 2 words would be deterrant for me "Huntingdon Jail"

Peace, Tood

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Wednesday Sep 17, 2008

You mean the Capt. Phillips site, Tood? If so, good, I'm serious, the place just oozes with history. When you look at the terrain, you can easily imagine how the entire ambush went down, though I understand it didn't happen right there where the monument is. Maybe now it'd be a good place to take a kid, tell 'em what happened, and just let their imagination run with it... not many places like that left. I like the U.S. Hotel for that reason. You can just barely hear the ghosts of the past, whispering in the corners. (Okay, that's just tha weird room flutter they get from the rounded ceiling, but still.)
Speaking of the hotel, Mama Corn rehearsed at the Lorelei cottage out in the East Loop on Monday. The past owners of the Lorelei also owned the U.S. Hotel, and it has much of the furniture, and a lot of the vibe of the Hotel, except it's out in the middle of nowhere. Lots of folks on this page probably know it from the days when they had the Solstice Gatherings there, also known as the Freak Jams. There's a cave onsite, the Frankstown Branch, and the old cottage/mansion has high ceilings, hand-plastered walls, and vibe you could scoop up with a shovel. We're currently working on recording there, whether it be a single song, or an entire album. The dining room has a big wooden table that works like an upside-down ceiling cloud in a studio, and the room makes my dobro sound like it's six feet long, just huge. Sorry, though, it wouldn't work well for a rock record... when you load the room with anything louder than Bruce's acoustic guitar, it gets muddy really fast.
Anybody else know of sweet places to soak up vibe?------->JMS

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Wednesday Sep 17, 2008

I have the Weird Pa Book. It's pretty cool. I wanna visit that town with the mine on fire below it.

metalchurch · Post by **metalchurch** » Wednesday Sep 17, 2008

DirtySanchez wrote:I have the Weird Pa Book. It's pretty cool. I wanna visit that town with the mine on fire below it.

Me too, I think that would be really cool to see. I'd be down in a gutter trying to fire up my joint with the hot ashes.

Trucula · Post by **Trucula** » Wednesday Sep 17, 2008

DirtySanchez wrote:I have the Weird Pa Book. It's pretty cool. I wanna visit that town with the mine on fire below it.

Years ago I use to work above there and had to go the detour around the town. Spooky on a cold morning,its fog like. I remember smoke just comng out of cracks in the ground, and around homes and backyards. The town is mostly gone now, they were relocated.

MeYatch · Post by **MeYatch** » Wednesday Sep 17, 2008

PanzerFaust wrote: When I worked for the state Huntingdon Co was part of my territory...

Its in Bedford County. The line is probably about a mile away.

Post by **Ron** » Wednesday Sep 17, 2008

MeYatch wrote:
PanzerFaust wrote: When I worked for the state Huntingdon Co was part of my territory...
Its in Bedford County. The line is probably about a mile away.

Out of his jurisdiction once again, haha.

PanzerFaust · Post by **PanzerFaust** » Wednesday Sep 17, 2008

Ron wrote:
MeYatch wrote:
PanzerFaust wrote: When I worked for the state Huntingdon Co was part of my territory...
Its in Bedford County. The line is probably about a mile away.
Out of his jurisdiction once again, haha.

So call me a liar for 5,280 feet..........

Maybe that's why I "used" to work for the state? hehe.....