Originally Posted by
Hatchet_1697
Yellow Springs Campsite PA, AT mile 1173.3 NOBO
Apparently this site is haunted...
During a section hike an old-timer from Indiantown Gap told us during the French and Indian War (1700’s) militia stumbled on a Susquehannock family and slaughtered them in retaliation for earlier attacks on a settlement. A brave returning from a hunt found his wife, sister, father, and 3 children lying dead in pools of their own blood.
In his grief and rage he tracked the militia to the site we now call the Yellow Springs campsite.
That night, after the group had fallen asleep, the brave snuck into camp and slit the throats of eight sleeping militiamen before a ninth woke, yelled, and was killed by a tomahawk blow to the head. A tenth man awoke and fought back but was knocked unconscious. As the brave was scalping the dead and dying men who had murdered his family, the unconscious man came to and shot the Indian brave dead — depriving him of his revenge.
The man lived to tell the tale. ...and to this day, the grieving spirit of the brave, still seeking his revenge, haunts the site we now call Yellow Springs.
We didn’t see a ghost there, and survived the night, but that’s one hell of a story to think about during the night...
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