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Home Loan Pa

Home Loan Pa

Andrew Carnegie offered to donate $50,000 for a new library building in Easton if the townspeople would supply the land, which they agreed to. The best site was the old graveyard that sat upon a hilltop and was in ruins, overgrown and needed to be cleared before the foundation could be laid. The townspeople tried to locate families whose relatives’ graves were in the cemetery for reburial. While most of the relatives were located, some bodies were left unclaimed and were interred in a common vault underneath the back exit to the parking lot. There is a slight recess above the vault that people can feel.

Historical Facts and a Story Book about Easton Library

A touted as “true” ghost book exists that has a story about the library. While entertaining and accounts of the hauntings are supported by others’ interviews with witnesses, there is a mass grave containing unclaimed bodies and two people are interred on library grounds, Mammy Morgan and William Parsons, most of the story is fiction presented as fact. The authors, one of whom is pictured on library property in the book, wrote people didn’t know the site was a graveyard until workers unearthed skulls, bones and rotted coffins! This paved the way for more grotesque fiction. One of the coauthors admitted they fictionalized this because it made the story more interesting and scarier. Déjà vu Amityville: Scamityville!