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Pennsylvania · PennsylvaniaIn the final days of 1884, a Lancaster County farmer digging a drainage ditch stumbled upon something far stranger than buried rock or root—he uncovered what was described in the local paper as a petrified human body, perfectly preserved beneath the soggy ground.
The corpse, leathery and intact, bore signs of violence. Whispers of an unsolved disappearance from fifty years earlier—a drover who vanished along the route from Rising Sun to Wakefiel…Read Article
1884 Discovery of “Petrified” Body in Fulton Township, PA

Pennsylvania · PennsylvaniaA Beast in the River: The 1885 Black Sea Dog Encounter of Bainbridge.
In the spring of 1885, something strange stirred the waters near Bainbridge in Conoy Township. Witnesses along the Susquehanna River reported a mysterious black creature thrashing in the channel between the town and Haldeman Island. Described as massive, dog-like, and disturbingly fast, the beast surfaced for several days before vanishing, never to be seen again.
Some blamed …Read Article