Mystery Mile

Pennsylvania · United States · Road

Docile animals turn violent and chase people off. Tempers flare. At night the woods fill with noise.

Kelly Road at Ohioville, Pennsylvania is known locally as Mystery Mile and has had a reputation for decades.

The reports are unlike most in this collection because they are about behaviour rather than apparitions. Animals that are ordinarily docile turn violent and chase people away. Tempers flare among the people who go there.

At night the woods come alive with noise, and a variety of figures are described.

A place that is said to change how people and animals behave, rather than showing them something, is a distinct and much rarer category.

It is also the kind of claim that feeds itself. A group who arrive expecting to argue will argue.

Beaver County sits in the old industrial corridor along the Ohio River, and the woods here have been logged, mined and left alone in turn.

The road is public and residential in places.

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Where is Mystery Mile located?

Mystery Mile is in Pennsylvania, United States.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.