ALtERED NIGHtMARES isn't the only haunted place in the area.

Carbon County has a ghoulish history, all within driving distance of the Haunted Factory.

 

Weissport/Lehighton Train Trestle
(Lehighton, Carbon County) Behind Our Building in the Back Yard!
Local residents say an apparition of a young woman can be found walking along the trestle in white and then disappears halfway across it.

 

Lehighton Cemetery
(Lehighton, Carbon County, Pennsylvania) (Miles Away: 0.75)
It is said that the victims of the Gnaden Huetten Massacre can be seen day or night wandering around the tomb where they are buried and memorialized. There is an old marker with a flat slab for 1755 that marks the occasion.

 

Leighton Borough Complex
(Lehighton, Carbon County, Pennsylvania) (Miles Away: 0.84)
The complex was built over the site of an old schoolhouse that had been in operation from 1867-1997, and as to be expected, most of its spooks are kids. There are touchings, a sense of being watched - so bad at the North Stairwell that the help won't use those steps - the sound of a bouncing basketball in an empty gym, and falling books. Shadow figures have been spotted in the gym, and the Coal Region Ghost Hunters caught their voices on tape, asking "Who's that?", "Who's that girl?", and "What are they doing?" Sounds like proof enough to us.

 

Old Jail Museum Jim Thorpe
(Carbon County, Pennsylvania) (Miles Away from Altered Nightmares: 4.75)
The Old Jail was last used in 1995. There have been numerous reports of unexplained phenomena at the prison in recent years. The most famous ghost story associated with the prison is the hand print left in a cell by a man wrongfully accused of being a member of the Molly Maguires. The Molly Maguires were a group of disgruntled miners in the 1870`s who used violence as a means to bring about change in the corrupt mining industry. Several men were accused, arrested, and eventually hanged at the prison for being Molly Maguires. On the eve of his execution, a man who proclaimed his innocence ran his hand along the dirty floor of his cell and made an impression of his hand on the wall, claiming the impression would always remain as proof of his innocence. The next day, he was hung and the hand print was washed away. Three days later, the print reappeared. As legend has it, the wall has been repeatedly washed and painted, but the hand print always returns. The wall was supposedly even ripped down and replastered, but the hand print returned yet again. The prison is now opened to tourist, but the cell with the hand print is off limits. Visitors can still view the print through the cell door, though.

 

Jim Thorpe Inn
(Carbon County, Pennsylvania) Miles from Altered Nightmares: 4.62
A faceless lady in Victorian attire has disappeared into closed doors. Room 211 has a problem with the TV going on and off by itself. Men are especially targeted, items disappear then reappear in different spots. One man left his boots by the door, as he does every night. He awoke to find them in the hallway outside. Towels are found shoved in the toilet. Cigar and cigarette smoke is smelled when no one is around, and the noises of laughing children are heard when there are no children around.

 

Blue Mountain
(Carbon County/Lehigh County Border, Pennsylvania) (Miles Away: Appox.10)
Bake Oven Knob located on the Kittatinny Ridge at the border of Lehigh and Carbon County, is a rock outcropping on the mountain. According to many sources there are odd occurrences in the forest. Noises and whispers are a common thing and are rumored to be the spirit of a hiker who fell off the rocks. At some point people have even reported the forest getting extremely dark even just inside while it is still light out.

 

Palmerton
(Carbon County, Pennsylvania) (Miles from Altered Nightmares: 7.40)
An old bar called the Rusty Nail reportedly had the old owner hanging in the door way, when the other employees came in the morning. He was said to be hanging there with a knife in his back. It is also said, if you look at the old leather covered cabinet behind the bar you can clearly see the man’s face. Sightings and door sleamming have also been witnessed by patrons over the years, in this old country bar.

 

Tamaqua Elks Lodge
(Carbon County, Pennsylvania) (miles from Altered Nightmares: 17.43 Miles)
This is a rather well known haunting in the Tamaqua area.... apparitions will appear, objects move, disembodied voices, all the classic haunting activity.