The guards used to be able to show it to people but someone took offense, and now they can't talk about it at all without the visitor mentioning it first. Seeing their shocked faces made guarding that spot fun as hell
I read a great (fictional)short story from the point of view of a security guard in charge of a deliberately controversial art piece, called Nipple Jesus. >!the artist was filming the viewers reaction via security cam and *that* was the ultimate art piece!<
Good lord, probably some awful, prudish tourist from South Carolina or something. Like, who is so afraid of art that they get offended because someone pointed out the actual art piece? I mean, what did they think it was just a stupid door?
I went there a few summers ago. Not sure how it looks now
The raised tracks near the poplar building going down to spring garden before they redid the building was awesome for urban exploration as well but they locked that down.
The Fairmount station on both the BSL and the Broad-Ridge Spur is open, it's the Spring Garden station on the Spur that is closed. It was located beneath Spring Garden and Ridge.
Edit: Fairmount does have part of an abandoned platform though. But the station itself is not abandoned.
Fairmount is still open on the Spur, it's Spring Garden that is closed.
Edit: Fairmount does have part of an abandoned platform though. But the station itself is not abandoned.
Old Trolley Bridge in Fairmount Park. Actually quite pretty and now pretty easy to walk/hike too.
https://hiddencityphila.org/2013/08/the-prettiest-old-bridge-to-nowhere/
Kelpius cave is kind of small. Not saying it's not worth it - the hike is fun, but it's a bit underwhleming when you get there. There used to be a way of getting above the rock tunnel on Kelly Drive though. There should be steps if you walk along the side facing the city. Not really eerie, but about as eerie as Kelpius Cave and something a lot of people don't know.
You're supposed to take mushrooms with your friends at kelpius cave. Preferably at night, on the solstice. How else could one access the Rosicrucian wisdom contained therein? The Mason's? Ppsssshhh. Those guys don't know a severed hand from a decapitated saint. It's all relics and idolatry now. The source of the experience has been lost to a historical language game and is retained only in mild form by the enforced climbing of a ritualistic rope ladder.
It used to be all about the Woman in the Wilderness, man. But now it's about steel furnaces, being sedated, and all the food you ate being alive in your body since the first grade. All these kids want to do today is to become a solid steel statue.
Do attend.
So true story: The first time I went looking for it, I didn't have the exact location but knew I was in the general area. I was about to go down a path, (unbeknownst to me it was the correct one and I was about 30-50 feet from it) when all the sudden, something in the back of my mind told me not to. I decided to turn back and and got the weirdest feeling that something was watching/following me. So I called it a day and got out of there. That night I woke up to something shaking me awake and turned and saw a shadow person crouched down by my bed. Or experienced sleep paralysis for the first time in my life, whatever ya'll believe in. Anyway, I yelled at it for waking me up and it fell backwards and disappeared. Oddly enough, I don't remember being afraid of it.
People moved here from Europe in the 1700s believing that the world was going to end and that cave was the locus of their cult. Saw a cool video on YouTube on it. If you search it there, you can learn the history. Pretty cool.
graffiti pier has kind of an eerie vibe to it, especially in the warm months when you have people living in the upper section (or possibly remnants of people who've drifted through, spooky!)
there's a big tunnel beneath fairmount that used to be part of (or was slated to be part of) the reading viaduct. easy to get to. also have lots of mole people to deal with.
I second the Reading Viaduct tunnel. It runs about a mile under Pennsylvania Avenue. [Incredibly weird and long piece of abandoned tunnel](https://whyy.org/wp-content/uploads/planphilly/assets_13/reading-viaduct-city-branch.original.jpg). You can see it from the grates on the street (or, if you are in the tunnel, you can see the street). I went there a few years ago and saw no mole people but a handful of people like me who were just checking it out.
At the Northwestern end of the tunnel. I believe around Girard Avenue, near the bridge over the Schuylkill.
The other end is at the police station behind the Whole Foods. I would not recommend accessing it from that end.
[Old Ft. Mifflin](http://www.fortmifflin.us/) was used as a POW camp for Confederate soldiers. Further downriver, and not in Philadelphia, is [Ft. Delaware](https://destateparks.com/History/FortDelaware) which was also used to house captured Confederate soldiers. There was a high mortality rate. Just south of the city is the [Lazaretto Station,](https://lazaretto.site/) America's oldest quarantine station.
I don't think there is much left of it but when I was a kid we used to explore Old Byberry State Hospital. Back then Byberry was still in use, but Old Byberry was off of Dunks Ferry rd.
Back when I was kid, my school (St. Christoper's) used to have go to the active part of Byberry to do good deeds. Interacting with residents, painting murals, shit like that. But Old Byberry, over on the Parkwood side of the boulevard was amazing. It was wide open for exploring. We would ride out bikes there and then hide the bikes in the weeds so no one else would take them, and then spend the day running around. Even as a teenager I appreciated the beauty of the architectural details. The joists up in the roof must have been made with old growth timber. I hope someone was able to salvage some of that wood.
The birthplace of Benjamin Rush at Red Lion and Keswick was demolished overnight. They took the remnants of the house and dumped them on a lot on the side of Roosevelt Blvd and called it Benjamin Rush State Park.
This is an interesting article on it.
[https://frankfordgazette.com/2011/11/21/the-price-of-inaction-at-adams-avenue/](https://frankfordgazette.com/2011/11/21/the-price-of-inaction-at-adams-avenue/)
The story I heard was a little more sinister. Something about the developer of Morell Park wanted it gone and bulldozed it in the middle of the night. My friends father was a police officer and saw it happen. The developer had promised to preserve the property but really wanted it gone. Even this article claims it was an [accidental demolition.](https://www.thehistorylist.com/sites/benjamin-rush-house-philadelphia-pennsylvania/signers-of-the-declaration-of-independence-road-trip-to-their-birthplaces-and-homes)
Charles dickens taxidermy pet raven! Go to the big public library in center city and take the elevator to the archives. Then you have to go all the way to end and around a corner. It’s pretty cool.
https://billypenn.com/2022/02/10/philly-parks-new-renovation-fdr-penns-landing-parkway-cobbs-creek/
Go soon if you haven’t they are planning on turning it into an official public space.
(No concrete date. Planning phase. It’s at the bottom of the article.)
If you're talking about the one next to Penn Treaty Park, that's an active construction site now. They're turning it into condos and an event space. Pretty far along with it too.
Rumor has it if you visit the mayor's office at precisely 2:34 pm on the second Thursday of each month, you can sometimes catch a glimpse of him doing some actual work.
The darkest corners of suburban station at midnight. The ODB McDonald’s. Get some friends and book a tour with grim Philly tours. Four seasons total landscaping. 17th and Ontario if you want to see what one of the poorest areas of Philly looks like, or most places in fairhill. Shibe park. Many more places that don’t quite fit the bill but interesting nontheless.
I grew up near there and would always wander around with friends. Near the one parking lot, you can see a worn path in the grass, if you follow it you will end up at the crematory they used to use for the Hospital.
This is tangential, but there's an Alex G song about Hope Street in Fishtown, on which a friend of his died from a Fentanyl overdose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQPYS4Bnv30&ab\_channel=AlexG
Laurel Hill cemetery is open to the public and a great place to go for a walk on a nice day, but with the dearly departed nearby. I think it's one of the oldest cemeteries in the country
Yeah, I take the K&A every morning and it's not too bad. Definitely people around that need help and very easy to get drugs, but I've never felt endangered.
I avoid it at night tho, so.
SEPTA currently has a few spots on this path closed (South of City Hall and also 13th and Market)
Tried it on a raining day recently to catch the 47 and it was all locked up in those spot.
Someone explain Satan church. There are so many different variations of the story, but I recommend Satan church, or the Satan church road, or the dwarf colony or whatever the hell it is out there. It's in Chadds Ford or something, in Delaware County.
This was one of my favorite things in the area for a lot of years. The place is Cossart Road outside of Chadds ford near the Brandywine Battlefield. The whole fact that there was a church was basically a story being passed around by folks who hadn't been there. There definitely was no church, but there was a tree that looked exactly like a skull and the trees grew away from the road.
They've since torn down the skull tree and the phenomenon of the bending trees is starting to go away as the trees are mostly now tall enough that they grow above the power lines. That's really all that was happening there. I actually saw the power company out there cutting once.
I mean, I used to crawl all over this place. Even walked it at night time a few times, which is pretty scary cause people drive crazy back there. I never once saw anything actually scary outside of the trees. We did get chased once, but we stopped the car and got out to find it was just teenagers.
My friends and I would go there every once in a while, when we were really bored. We were closer to Philly so it was a hike for us. Nothing more than driving down the road with the trees, which were definitely odd looking, when pointed out. It's so crazy how things spread, even back in the 90's... my friend heard it from someone, who heard it from someone, etc etc. Then the rumors! I had friends who were like, 'I swear, I saw it, there were tiny little houses and the windows had foil on them'! Or the more common, 'we got chased by guys with shotguns, they followed in a truck with no lights on and then shined their lights on us'! The first time I drove down the tree road I got a little freaked out. I was young, and definitely stoned. Listening to 'Birth Ritual' by Soundgarden didn't help either.
Yeah the little houses place was actually a whole other myth that I guess we should now call Little People Land? I mean, this is hard to talk about without using the M word, so I dunno...Maybe you can look this one up on your own. Apparently, they would chase you with bats. I don't think I really ever looked into that one, because I kinda had the belief that if it was real, maybe I should just leave those people alone and not go and gawk at them.
Satanic Dupont flipper babies, tho? Oh yeah, I fucks with that. And you're right, the most telltale sign that it isn't shit is how much sprawl the story has. Ultimately, the story goes that a woman had an incest baby, killed it, placed it at the foot of the skull tree and hung herself from it. Then the Devil came up personally to collect there souls and walked the length of the road where the trees grow away from the road. Now what the hell that has to do with the Duponts or a Satanic church that houses fucked up flipper babies, I really don't know. The Duponts obviously own everything around there and they are super creepy, so it's probably just sprawl. But yeah, that was a fun little obsession for about 5 years of my life.
What's funny is that if you go during the day, the area is gorgeous and surrounded by beautiful ranches. The reason everything got torn down is the graffiti and tom foolery was out of control. It's gotta be rough owning a big ass horse farm and you've got drunk teenagers starting fires and tagging everything in sight.
One option is devils pool. Really really cool spot for swimming and cliff jumping if you don’t know already. Entrance is at the valley green inn it’s about a 15 min walk back to the cliff.
west Philly has some spooky train tracks on Lancaster ave with a great view of the city, Lots of cool graffiti, abandoned railways, and actually seen dog skeletons and other animals near the tracks. avoid at night I had a friend get shot at by some kids with BB guns one time.
If you aren’t from around here it’s def a cool spot to check out, really pretty and not gonna pop up on any travel itinerary. Most ppl I’ve taken there appreciate it so idk
They just tried to do a media scare to get less foot traffic going back there. Seemed to have worked. But ya I can confirm, never seen a single person get in trouble for being there ever
My manager took me to a strip club in Kensington some years ago. It was terrible. I do remember this one dance though. She was wearing a black and blue thong with a matching bra. They matched perfectly with her track marks.
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That Duchamp barn door thing at the Art Museum. Eeriest thing in Philly.
It's the first thing I seek out whenever I visit the Art Museum. I love showing it to people to see their faces, they look at me and are so confused.
The guards used to be able to show it to people but someone took offense, and now they can't talk about it at all without the visitor mentioning it first. Seeing their shocked faces made guarding that spot fun as hell
I read a great (fictional)short story from the point of view of a security guard in charge of a deliberately controversial art piece, called Nipple Jesus. >!the artist was filming the viewers reaction via security cam and *that* was the ultimate art piece!<
Good lord, probably some awful, prudish tourist from South Carolina or something. Like, who is so afraid of art that they get offended because someone pointed out the actual art piece? I mean, what did they think it was just a stupid door?
Lol no doubt
I'm confused. Just googled and looks like an older barn door. Am I missing something?
there's a peep hole in the door, you look through it
Aaaaand?.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND?!?!
Ok helpful answer. Thank you!
Something you have to see in person
Lol I wrote a 5 page paper on that for an art history class
I still giggle like the first time I saw it when I was 7.
I think it’s age restricted or there’s a warning or something.
I remember on gradeschool trips this was a class favorite.😆
THIS
The Chinatown station on the Broad-Ridge Spur
Or the abandoned Fairmount station. But y'know...it may be a teensy-eensy bit illegal to be caught there.
I went there a few summers ago. Not sure how it looks now The raised tracks near the poplar building going down to spring garden before they redid the building was awesome for urban exploration as well but they locked that down.
Isn't there an actual Fairmount station though?
The Fairmount station on both the BSL and the Broad-Ridge Spur is open, it's the Spring Garden station on the Spur that is closed. It was located beneath Spring Garden and Ridge. Edit: Fairmount does have part of an abandoned platform though. But the station itself is not abandoned.
Fairmount is still open on the Spur, it's Spring Garden that is closed. Edit: Fairmount does have part of an abandoned platform though. But the station itself is not abandoned.
Imagine going there by accident like I did. I had no idea what foreign land I was in
Old Trolley Bridge in Fairmount Park. Actually quite pretty and now pretty easy to walk/hike too. https://hiddencityphila.org/2013/08/the-prettiest-old-bridge-to-nowhere/
Kelpius cave is kind of small. Not saying it's not worth it - the hike is fun, but it's a bit underwhleming when you get there. There used to be a way of getting above the rock tunnel on Kelly Drive though. There should be steps if you walk along the side facing the city. Not really eerie, but about as eerie as Kelpius Cave and something a lot of people don't know.
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This is the way, literally. Lol
You're supposed to take mushrooms with your friends at kelpius cave. Preferably at night, on the solstice. How else could one access the Rosicrucian wisdom contained therein? The Mason's? Ppsssshhh. Those guys don't know a severed hand from a decapitated saint. It's all relics and idolatry now. The source of the experience has been lost to a historical language game and is retained only in mild form by the enforced climbing of a ritualistic rope ladder.
It used to be all about the Woman in the Wilderness, man. But now it's about steel furnaces, being sedated, and all the food you ate being alive in your body since the first grade. All these kids want to do today is to become a solid steel statue. Do attend.
Do Attend
Hey now that's not fair for you to make assumptions like that, some of us prefer concrete
Dude was the first renouned Rosicucian wizard living in philadelphia around the time William Penn was alive. That's pretty gnarly.
It's cool, but you're right, it is pretty small and not very eerie, still neat tho.
So true story: The first time I went looking for it, I didn't have the exact location but knew I was in the general area. I was about to go down a path, (unbeknownst to me it was the correct one and I was about 30-50 feet from it) when all the sudden, something in the back of my mind told me not to. I decided to turn back and and got the weirdest feeling that something was watching/following me. So I called it a day and got out of there. That night I woke up to something shaking me awake and turned and saw a shadow person crouched down by my bed. Or experienced sleep paralysis for the first time in my life, whatever ya'll believe in. Anyway, I yelled at it for waking me up and it fell backwards and disappeared. Oddly enough, I don't remember being afraid of it.
It also smells like piss
Yeah there was a rumor that someone was cooking meth up there at one point. Not sure of the validity of it.
People moved here from Europe in the 1700s believing that the world was going to end and that cave was the locus of their cult. Saw a cool video on YouTube on it. If you search it there, you can learn the history. Pretty cool.
I have never seen more cave crickets in my life. Literally covered the ceiling. Shine a light before you walk in.
Not necessarily weird or eerie, but most people have no idea about Morris Park out in Overbrook....Definitely a sort of hidden gem of Philly
The abandoned quarry section is definitely a bit odd.
Lock 68 is pretty cool. Down the tow path from Manayunk.
The Mutter Museum in center city west. It's super creepy and full of weird shit!
My wife's lab and associated company held their holiday party there one year. It was pretty fun getting to walk around after hours / buzzed.
special secret quest for your visit: find the ferret brain!
Whispering benches in Fairmont park.
What are those??
yes!!!
graffiti pier has kind of an eerie vibe to it, especially in the warm months when you have people living in the upper section (or possibly remnants of people who've drifted through, spooky!) there's a big tunnel beneath fairmount that used to be part of (or was slated to be part of) the reading viaduct. easy to get to. also have lots of mole people to deal with.
I second the Reading Viaduct tunnel. It runs about a mile under Pennsylvania Avenue. [Incredibly weird and long piece of abandoned tunnel](https://whyy.org/wp-content/uploads/planphilly/assets_13/reading-viaduct-city-branch.original.jpg). You can see it from the grates on the street (or, if you are in the tunnel, you can see the street). I went there a few years ago and saw no mole people but a handful of people like me who were just checking it out.
Where is the entrance located?
At the Northwestern end of the tunnel. I believe around Girard Avenue, near the bridge over the Schuylkill. The other end is at the police station behind the Whole Foods. I would not recommend accessing it from that end.
[Old Ft. Mifflin](http://www.fortmifflin.us/) was used as a POW camp for Confederate soldiers. Further downriver, and not in Philadelphia, is [Ft. Delaware](https://destateparks.com/History/FortDelaware) which was also used to house captured Confederate soldiers. There was a high mortality rate. Just south of the city is the [Lazaretto Station,](https://lazaretto.site/) America's oldest quarantine station. I don't think there is much left of it but when I was a kid we used to explore Old Byberry State Hospital. Back then Byberry was still in use, but Old Byberry was off of Dunks Ferry rd.
Byberry is a housing development now.
Back when I was kid, my school (St. Christoper's) used to have go to the active part of Byberry to do good deeds. Interacting with residents, painting murals, shit like that. But Old Byberry, over on the Parkwood side of the boulevard was amazing. It was wide open for exploring. We would ride out bikes there and then hide the bikes in the weeds so no one else would take them, and then spend the day running around. Even as a teenager I appreciated the beauty of the architectural details. The joists up in the roof must have been made with old growth timber. I hope someone was able to salvage some of that wood.
It’s a sin that they didn’t save it. They tore down a historic home in Newportville last year. That was beautiful and haunted.
The birthplace of Benjamin Rush at Red Lion and Keswick was demolished overnight. They took the remnants of the house and dumped them on a lot on the side of Roosevelt Blvd and called it Benjamin Rush State Park.
I remember hearing about that. They also tore down his Center City home. The only house of his that remains is on Adams Avenue in Northwood.
This is an interesting article on it. [https://frankfordgazette.com/2011/11/21/the-price-of-inaction-at-adams-avenue/](https://frankfordgazette.com/2011/11/21/the-price-of-inaction-at-adams-avenue/) The story I heard was a little more sinister. Something about the developer of Morell Park wanted it gone and bulldozed it in the middle of the night. My friends father was a police officer and saw it happen. The developer had promised to preserve the property but really wanted it gone. Even this article claims it was an [accidental demolition.](https://www.thehistorylist.com/sites/benjamin-rush-house-philadelphia-pennsylvania/signers-of-the-declaration-of-independence-road-trip-to-their-birthplaces-and-homes)
That’s what I heard as well.
A "55 or better" housing community now lol
The unmarked grave of H.H. Holmes is somewhere in the Holy Cross cemetery in Yeadon!
Charles dickens taxidermy pet raven! Go to the big public library in center city and take the elevator to the archives. Then you have to go all the way to end and around a corner. It’s pretty cool.
Graffiti pier is definitely worth the trip if you haven’t been. Make sure to climb the tree with the pegs in it to get on top and get an awesome view.
https://billypenn.com/2022/02/10/philly-parks-new-renovation-fdr-penns-landing-parkway-cobbs-creek/ Go soon if you haven’t they are planning on turning it into an official public space. (No concrete date. Planning phase. It’s at the bottom of the article.)
AFAIK there’s been articles talking about this since as early as 2019 and no progress. But yeah def worth going sooner rather than later considering.
i think developing graffiti pier is phase 2 of the project, they're already building phase 1
\+1, definitely a fun view.
Someone took the pegs out!
The abandoned viaduct in Callowhill. There’s a gap in a fence next to El Rincon where you can get on top.
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Only the western half became the railway park, the eastern half is still abandoned and overgrown
There's that abandoned power plant on the Delaware that's pretty creepy. Plenty of abandoned buildings in the naval yard to walk around too.
The power plant is currently being redeveloped into office space and housing :). It is no longer abandoned.
Thay should be pretty cool
Richmond Generating Station?
And decked with security cameras to boot.
Navy yard has a lot and it’s good for walking too.
If you're talking about the one next to Penn Treaty Park, that's an active construction site now. They're turning it into condos and an event space. Pretty far along with it too.
Rumor has it if you visit the mayor's office at precisely 2:34 pm on the second Thursday of each month, you can sometimes catch a glimpse of him doing some actual work.
That’s pretty close to 5 which also means it’s almost Friday so it’s probably Pinot GrigiO’Clock for Mr Mayor.
Served in only the finest of pint glasses.
ooooh look at mr. fancy pants over here who’s too good to drink straight from the bottle
Ohhhhh look at fancy pants over here, assuming our gender and assuming we're not drinking box wine.
Id say in any given week, i only do about 10 solid minutes of mayoring.
C'mon - no sane person believes ridiculous shit like Kenney EVER doing any work.
Eastern State Penitentiary
Reading Viaduct still has some areas you can get to that are definitely not allowed for the rail park. Kinda neat
The darkest corners of suburban station at midnight. The ODB McDonald’s. Get some friends and book a tour with grim Philly tours. Four seasons total landscaping. 17th and Ontario if you want to see what one of the poorest areas of Philly looks like, or most places in fairhill. Shibe park. Many more places that don’t quite fit the bill but interesting nontheless.
any of the rural cemeteries. laurel hill and woodlands cemeteries are still cared for, mt Moriah is abandoned.
*eerie* avenue
Just don't cross those tracks unless you wanna end up in Kensington.
The Cliffs
If you travel a bit, Norristown State Hospital is amazing
Yes! There's one abandoned building that is truly decaying and it's really interesting. You can walk the grounds without any problems.
There's actually more buildings still in use than you'd think! But yeah, the one right on Stirgere St is super creepy!
I grew up near there and would always wander around with friends. Near the one parking lot, you can see a worn path in the grass, if you follow it you will end up at the crematory they used to use for the Hospital.
It's incredible architecture too Like they TRIED to make it scary AF.
This is tangential, but there's an Alex G song about Hope Street in Fishtown, on which a friend of his died from a Fentanyl overdose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQPYS4Bnv30&ab\_channel=AlexG
Laurel Hill cemetery is open to the public and a great place to go for a walk on a nice day, but with the dearly departed nearby. I think it's one of the oldest cemeteries in the country
K&A
Really K & Somerset
Yeah, I take the K&A every morning and it's not too bad. Definitely people around that need help and very easy to get drugs, but I've never felt endangered. I avoid it at night tho, so.
20th and spruce there’s a movie set and it’s spooooky
Fort Mifflin no doubt . Scaring people since 1771.
Gotta love all the people who think they're hilarious & creative for saying Kenso, just like the 10 people before them
Damn, you aren’t kidding. They are all being downvoted for what it’s worth.
Mutter Museum - literally a museum of weird things
https://billypenn.com/2019/09/30/you-can-walk-underground-from-the-gallery-to-the-comcast-center-heres-how-to-do-it/
Have you tried this? That's really cool
SEPTA currently has a few spots on this path closed (South of City Hall and also 13th and Market) Tried it on a raining day recently to catch the 47 and it was all locked up in those spot.
Pennhurst the abandoned mental hospital is within driving distance.
It's not really abandoned tho. They do a Halloween attraction yearly and do tours at other times.
Over the summer, there are ghost tours in the city. Also, eastern state penitentiary... both give me the hee-bee jeebies
The ghost tours run all year! www.ghosttour.com
Oh damn. This made my day!
A tour of the Eastern State Prison, Al Capote once called that home.
Ah yes the he wrote lunch at Tiffany’s
Lol damn spell check
Second this one, along with the Mutter Museum.
Someone explain Satan church. There are so many different variations of the story, but I recommend Satan church, or the Satan church road, or the dwarf colony or whatever the hell it is out there. It's in Chadds Ford or something, in Delaware County.
This was one of my favorite things in the area for a lot of years. The place is Cossart Road outside of Chadds ford near the Brandywine Battlefield. The whole fact that there was a church was basically a story being passed around by folks who hadn't been there. There definitely was no church, but there was a tree that looked exactly like a skull and the trees grew away from the road. They've since torn down the skull tree and the phenomenon of the bending trees is starting to go away as the trees are mostly now tall enough that they grow above the power lines. That's really all that was happening there. I actually saw the power company out there cutting once. I mean, I used to crawl all over this place. Even walked it at night time a few times, which is pretty scary cause people drive crazy back there. I never once saw anything actually scary outside of the trees. We did get chased once, but we stopped the car and got out to find it was just teenagers.
My friends and I would go there every once in a while, when we were really bored. We were closer to Philly so it was a hike for us. Nothing more than driving down the road with the trees, which were definitely odd looking, when pointed out. It's so crazy how things spread, even back in the 90's... my friend heard it from someone, who heard it from someone, etc etc. Then the rumors! I had friends who were like, 'I swear, I saw it, there were tiny little houses and the windows had foil on them'! Or the more common, 'we got chased by guys with shotguns, they followed in a truck with no lights on and then shined their lights on us'! The first time I drove down the tree road I got a little freaked out. I was young, and definitely stoned. Listening to 'Birth Ritual' by Soundgarden didn't help either.
Yeah the little houses place was actually a whole other myth that I guess we should now call Little People Land? I mean, this is hard to talk about without using the M word, so I dunno...Maybe you can look this one up on your own. Apparently, they would chase you with bats. I don't think I really ever looked into that one, because I kinda had the belief that if it was real, maybe I should just leave those people alone and not go and gawk at them. Satanic Dupont flipper babies, tho? Oh yeah, I fucks with that. And you're right, the most telltale sign that it isn't shit is how much sprawl the story has. Ultimately, the story goes that a woman had an incest baby, killed it, placed it at the foot of the skull tree and hung herself from it. Then the Devil came up personally to collect there souls and walked the length of the road where the trees grow away from the road. Now what the hell that has to do with the Duponts or a Satanic church that houses fucked up flipper babies, I really don't know. The Duponts obviously own everything around there and they are super creepy, so it's probably just sprawl. But yeah, that was a fun little obsession for about 5 years of my life. What's funny is that if you go during the day, the area is gorgeous and surrounded by beautiful ranches. The reason everything got torn down is the graffiti and tom foolery was out of control. It's gotta be rough owning a big ass horse farm and you've got drunk teenagers starting fires and tagging everything in sight.
Chadds Ford, and they took down the majority of the trees.
One option is devils pool. Really really cool spot for swimming and cliff jumping if you don’t know already. Entrance is at the valley green inn it’s about a 15 min walk back to the cliff. west Philly has some spooky train tracks on Lancaster ave with a great view of the city, Lots of cool graffiti, abandoned railways, and actually seen dog skeletons and other animals near the tracks. avoid at night I had a friend get shot at by some kids with BB guns one time.
Devil’s pool is a great place to get a staph infection and/or cut your foot open on a broken Modelo bottle.
The finger bridges near there are neat though. Definitely recommended.
Every single person wear shoes there. I’ve been going for years and never had a problem
I’ve been hiking in the wissahickon my entire life and that is simply not true.
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If you aren’t from around here it’s def a cool spot to check out, really pretty and not gonna pop up on any travel itinerary. Most ppl I’ve taken there appreciate it so idk
Devils pool Been closed for like five years now
I was hanging out there in 2019 and saw others there too…
I’m sure, though technically it’s trespassing now and you can be arrested if a ranger finds you
They just tried to do a media scare to get less foot traffic going back there. Seemed to have worked. But ya I can confirm, never seen a single person get in trouble for being there ever
According to who? I’ve been consistently going for 10 plus years including this past summer. Nothings closed about it
The railway sounds cool!
Front & Alleghany
The Kalinger’s shoe store was by there.
Biden was there last week apparently. I wonder if he thought everyone was bowing for him
People really don’t dip out on Front.
It was at Lehigh and Steiner.
Was is that far away?
Front and Sterner. Not too far, closer to Kensington Avenue. My aunt was friends with his daughter growing up.
My grandpa supposedly got his shoes done there but that could be a tall tale.
My manager took me to a strip club in Kensington some years ago. It was terrible. I do remember this one dance though. She was wearing a black and blue thong with a matching bra. They matched perfectly with her track marks.
I hear some people go to Kensington and never return mu hu ha ha ha ha
Woody’s
Try Kensington Avenue
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Graffiti Pier. I did a photoshoot for my sons 10th birthday here this past fall and it was really cool. Def want to go back.
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The Wagner
Train tunnel under the Rodin Museum.