The spooky season is the perfect time to revisit some of the most mysterious and dark legends and myths of Pennsylvania.

Kalena Thomhave highlights several of them, including some of the lore surrounding the residents of the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd for The Keystone.

Laurel Hill is the final resting place of many famous Philadelphians and historical greats, but it is also associated with many of history’s darker stories as well.

In one of the graves marked by a statue of woman holding two infants looking out over the Schuylkill River lies Helena Schaaff Saunders.

According to legend, she died with her children in a boating accident on the river, but what actually happened was that she gave birth to a stillborn child and then died in labor during the birth of her second child, who also died.

Laurel Hill hosts many tours, especially this time of year, to share the haunting and spooky stories of some of the cemetery’s residents.

Other Pennsylvania popular legends include the Biddle Brothers prison break in Pittsburgh, the hanging of the Molly Maguires in Jim Thorpe and the shipwrecks of Lake Erie.

Read more about Pennsylvania’s most haunting stories, including those at Laurel Hill Cemetery in The Keystone.

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