PLP History

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Ghost Stories Request!!!  

Campers at Pocono Lake have always spent evenings sitting around a campfire in the woods telling stories. In the early years of PLP, kids slept on the top of Camelback Mountain or at campsites around the Preserve and told stories. Clint Morrison recalled a campout at Wolf Springs in 1929 where after some scary stories George Falconer snuck around in the woods throwing rocks to scare the kids. For many decades, the Overnight Hike has been a common venue for recounting frightful, fantastic legends and tales. Folklore anthropologists call them campfire stories, and they've been an integral rite of passage for the Preserve. When I was on the Overnight Hike in the 1970s, I was told stories about Tunk Ants, the Icehouse Monster, Poachers and the Davy Run Brothers. In the 1990s there was the one about Silver Faces, another about Bocephus. More recent generations have heard stories about the preacher at Kate's Hole. 

The History Committee is now trying to collect them. It is very easy. Please record a story on your phone (using Voice Memos or another app) and then Dropbox it to us. You can speak for thirty seconds or three minutes or thirteen minutes—tell whatever you can remember. You can do this in your camp or around a fire in the woods, alone or with friends. 

To share your story, do these three simple things on your phone:

1. Record yourself or someone else telling the story, audio only ideally.

2. From your phone, click on this link:  https://www.dropbox.com/request/XDduKpXywAZLXrm0p7G9

3. Follow the instructions to upload your story.