'Haunted Tales Along The Mon': Author Shares River's Spooky Stories
MONONGAHELA (KDKA) -- She has led Halloween ghost tours through her city on the banks of he Mon for 19 years. Now, the stories she tells are in the pages of a book.
"A lot of the old, old buildings just lend themselves to, like, something had to go on in there, many, many years ago. And it's still going on in some of them by the way."
Weekends in October, Susan Bowers leads ghost tours through her hometown of Monongahela.
"This is my favorite house in town," she says. "It's the David Longwell house. He was a riverboat captain. It was built in 1872. He has been seen upstairs, looking out the back window. He used to dock his ship, the Hawk, and it was real close to the river here."
The captain's story is told in her new book "Haunted Tales Along the Mon," stories shared by Monongahela residents.
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"Once somebody told me one, it was like the domino effect. Everybody else wanted to tell me them. What's neat now is that we have people on the tour who want to tell me more about stories that happened in the house that maybe their grandparents lived in, the house that I'm telling about. And people are always willing now. They want to tell you," she said.
In the Edward G. Acheson house, a tour member's photograph reveals a creature in the window.
"We used to come up through the woods to play up here, and there was definitely witches here, there was a witch buried under here, and we'd scare ourselves and chase each other," she says.
She later discovered the witch's broom was actually a torch. But that hasn't dimmed the mysteries of Monongahela.
