Spellbinding Stories of Scranton

Scranton is the sixth-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Scranton is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River valley, and the largest of the former anthracite coal mining communities. Present-day Scranton and its surrounding area had been long inhabited by the native Lenape tribe. With a past that dates back to the early 1600s, Pennsylvania teems with historic sites known for paranormal activity and unexplained happenings. The eerie Early American Room in the Cathedral of Learning, the educational tower that looms over the University of Pittsburgh, is known for mysterious activity, including shifting furniture and objects, cold spots, and randomly flaring candles. Natives of Scranton for centuries were passing on stories of their belief system and with new experiences they kept on weaving new ones. Here is an attempt to share the cultural assets of those stories with the world to let people from other part of globe know the identity of Scranton through these stories.