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Pennsylvania Oddities

Pennsylvania Oddities

Written by: Marlin Bressi
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Author and "historian of the macabre" Marlin Bressi explores true crime, unsolved mysteries, haunted places, and strange history from around the Keystone State. Based on the Pennsylvania Oddities blog and book series by Sunbury Press. New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month (Note: There will be no new episodes in August; new episodes will return September 1). Be sure to visit the Pennsylvania Oddities blog for hundreds of astonishing true stories from every corner of the spookiest state in America!Marlin Bressi World
Episodes
  • The Haunting of the Sammet Farm

    The Haunting of the Sammet Farm
    Oct 15 2026

    Over a century ago, a ghastly crime was committed on a Lancaster County farm situated along Lititz Run, about midway between Zook's Mill and Rothsville Mill, in the shadows of Owl Hill. The brutal deaths of Richard Sammet and Kate Nagle Hornberger so rippled the peaceful countryside that countless locals insisted that the farm on which the tragedy occurred was haunted.
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    13 mins
  • The Missing Head of Ernest Gouker

    The Missing Head of Ernest Gouker
    Oct 2 2026

    On the morning of December 9, 1929, a fire devoured a log home four miles south of Gettysburg. The inferno raged with such ferocity that by the time neighbors noticed the smoke, all they could do was watch in helpless horror.

    When they finally sifted through the cinders and ash, what they uncovered was a baffling mystery-- two charred bodies, one without a head.

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    12 mins
  • The Urdanivia Tragedy

    The Urdanivia Tragedy
    Sep 15 2026

    Recently, the nation turned its attention to Massachusetts and the trial of Lindsay Clancy, leading to serious discussion about mental health and the consequences of a mother's heinous actions.

    However, in the spring of 1960, one mother from Pennsylvania left a nation asking the very same questions when she went on trial for taking the lives of her five children. This is the astonishing true story of Ruth Mae Urdanivia and her even more astonishing fate.
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    20 mins
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