“According to a lot of foreign miners, the wraith of Frank Broderick, an Austro-Hungarian, haunts Luke Fidler shaft, and some of them refuse to work in or near the part of the mine in which he lost his life...”
A Shamokin newspaper reported this ghost story in 1900, and it captures the dread that followed miners down into Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal mines.
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