Results tagged “schuylkill”

This week we're going to venture over to the oldest botanic garden in North America, Bartram's Gardens. Okay, you might say, that's not a park, it's a garden. But I'll argue that it is a park, in that it's property that is being preserved for the public to enjoy. For instance, the oldest gingko tree in North America resides in Bartram's Gardens, as do a large number of native plants. It's more a park in the National Park sense than in the city square sense.

More Beastly Legends!

Looking through hundreds of cases of strange monsters, eerie phantoms, bizarre flying objects and other anomalous phenomena, you'd be amazed at just how many of these incidents have simply been born from hysteria, exaggeration or twisted truth. This is not to say that a lot of hauntings, peculiar beast sightings and the like are hoaxes or easily explainabale, as they aren't, but this next case proves just how potent mere legend can be despite being bereft of any evidence...