Pennsylvania's Unexplained Mysteries by Tony Urban

Author:Tony Urban
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Packanack Publishing

MOUNTAIN MYSTERY

By Rev. Ron “Liomsa” Latevola

Snake Spring

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May, 2015 was a long month of waiting as it marked my 62nd birthday and retirement. My wife and I had agreed to relocate out of the city of Altoona, PA. Our desire was for a quiet, peaceful, climate-friendly locale somewhere, anywhere in the country.

We researched at length and could not find paradise as it seems every location has its positives and negatives. However, we explored an internet ad that provided more pluses than negatives and it was just 45 miles away.

Snake Spring, PA provided such a spot. It is a modest, private area in a valley between Tussey Mountain to the East and Evitts Mountain to the West, next to a cornfield, yet five minutes from retail necessities and medical providers. A 14 mile trip in either direction will take you to further amenities. Snake Spring Township, covering 26 square miles, was settled in 1763, has a population of 552 and is home to 550 households.

We moved in that July and all was great. Quiet, private, secluded, but, convenient to all of life's necessities. Time flew by for the remainder of that summer. Fall quickly arrived. The corn was harvested leaving an open field. The mountainside trees changed their colors brilliantly that fall before drifting to the mountain ground below, becoming bedding for the deer.

Being new to country life, all the sights and sounds were jaw-dropping and eye-opening. The camera was kept busy. One fall photo session resulted in two pictures taken to highlight the pockets of fog on the mountain. Upon downloading the pics to the desktop computer, I sat back to view and decide if any were worthy of posting on social media.

After visually scanning through them, I narrowed them down by deleting repeats and poor quality photos. Then, something caught my eye.

I enlarged the photo multiple times. What I saw, or thought I saw, was still there. I called my wife over to the computer to confirm my eyes weren’t playing tricks on me.

She saw the same thing as I did. In one photo, there was a large column to the left of the fog and the right of the utility trail. It has definitive edges, not cloudy or foggy. I was certain there wasn't a physical structure, there but I got up and walked outside anyway. I strolled toward the mountain through the stubs of corn stalks in the field. I viewed the mountainside and nope, not one structure of any kind was anywhere near the vicinity of the column in the photo. A mystery indeed. A portal perhaps?

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