Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County
Rest Haven is the county nursing home for Schuylkill. One of its' buildings dates back to 1912, and features a mob of spooks.  The first is a minister in a long black frock who's been spotting walking behind people at the home.  Another is a little girl that paces the halls and then disappears.  There's also the devil boy, as he's known.  He's a mischievous imp-like creature.  Many of the people who live and work there have reported seeing a black shrouded figure floating through the halls and speaking to those who are marked to die,  and it's said that whenever someone in the building dies, all the doors slam shut at that moment.  The county is considering selling the old building.  We wonder if they've told the buyers that they may be getting a little more than they bargained for?  Strange USA 
(BUILDING IS BEING TORN DOWN DUE TO FIRE)

Schulykill Haven, Schuylkill County
Starting out in Pottsville in 1934, PSS moved to Schuylkill Haven in 1967, taking over a former county poor farm. Some of the indigent and insane remain (and we're not talkin' the guys at the Friday night kegger, either!):

• Cilleti Library: This is the newest building, put up in 1994 after a $1M capital campaign.  But while the bricks may be fresh, the books are old.  Some of the tomes were once housed in the former morgue (the basement of the Classroom Building, which was a library before it became a computer center) and it seems as if a few of the ghosts in the morgue  moved with them. On the second floor of the library, in the far back on the right is a little study room. If you sit in the study room while its empty you can hear voices talking about the general state of the asylum. Ah, the good ol' days!
  
• The Classroom Building: it was built in 1913 as a dorm for the mentally disturbed and debtors living at the old County farm.  The attic of the classroom building is the home of a ghost of a little girl. The asylum has no record of her, but many people who venture into the attic have reported seeing her apparition. The basement was once the morgue; now it's a computer lab (and it's hard to tell the difference!) Late at night, ghostly figures will walk through the room and spook anyone working late on a project.
• Nittany II Apartments: Built in 1987, the rooms are still being cared for by a veteran presence.  A ghost identified as one of the original caretakers of the asylum walks around the dorms, keeping an eye on everything  and everyone.
  
• Storage Barns: A couple of converted barns are used to store student beds and dorm stuff.  The areas are known for their "Ghost Lights" that float through the buildings at night - and the caretaker that haunts Nittany II has been spotted on the grounds, too.

Take a quick tour of Penn State Schuylkill.

 (Pottsville, Schuylkill County) The legend says that a young woman was murdered on Peach Mountain. If you visit the spot of the crime at midnight and shut off your car, her ghost will appear

Mahanoy City, Schulykill County
The Peddler's Grave is a landmark recalling a brutal murder committed there on August 11, 1797, the first recorded killing in the county.  It's the final resting place for Jost Folhaber, a local traveling peddler killed by a robber, Benjamin Bailey, who was later captured and hung. The peddler was buried under the tree where he met his untimely end. The grass withered and never grew again,and the snow which fell to a great depth all around the spot would melt at once as it fell about the tree. Passer-bys saw strange sights, and one young man, reported that he had seen the peddler, whom he had known well in life, running around the tree pursued by a man with an axe, reliving the crime. So dreaded was the spot that no one ventured to pass the grave if they could avoid it, and there were rumors of moans and cries in that vicinity, heard near and wide. Now it's a popular tourista spot; go figure.  The story was taken verbatim from Old Schuylkill Tales, written by Ella Zerbey Elliott in 1906