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Visit Chickie's Rock on the Susquehanna River between Columbia and Marietta, Pennsylvania day or night and be prepared for a supernatural smorgasbord of phenomena. This 200-foot-high chuck of quartzite teems with ghosts, mysterious creatures, shadow people and phantom voices.

Chickie's was originally spelled "Chiques," from the Susquehannock name "Chiquesalunga," which means "place of the crayfish." It looms over a bend in the Susquehanna, the star attraction in a 422-acre regional park. Breathtaking views can be seen up and down the river.

White settlers moved in on Native Americans in the 1700s and 1800s and set up iron furnaces. The village of Chickies at the base of the rock thrived until the furnaces were shut down in the early 1900s. Today the crumbling ruins of houses and taverns are covered with vegetation.

Crybaby Bridge is a haunted location often frequented by area teens looking for a spooky thrill later at night. As the story goes, a local girl had an unwanted baby, and, in despair, she walked to the bridge and threw the infant to its death. At night, you can still hear the unfortunate baby wailing miserably, its spirit unable to find rest because of its terrible demise. The haunted bridge is located in Columbus, Georgia. But wait! It's also in New Hope, Pennsylvania. And there are no less than 24 haunted locations known as Crybaby Bridge in the state of Ohio!

In some of the stories connected with the haunted bridge, the mother did not throw the infant to its death below, but instead was walking along with her child and fell to her own death with the baby still in her arms. A few of the hauntings get more elaborate than merely involving claims of ghostly wailing. Some suggest that if baby powder is sprinkled along the bridge, the footprints of a small child will show up. Other visitors of so-called Crybaby Bridges claim to have discovered the prints of tiny hands on the hoods or sides of their cars once they have driven away.

If you've seen the recently released Indiana Jones movie, then you'll recall the story's focus: the crystal skull that seems only to bring Indy and friends lots of trouble. Believe it or not, the crystal skulls at the center of the movie's plot are based on real objects. In case you haven't seen the film (and you should because it's bunches of fun), I won't go into the movie's version of the crystal skull stories. Once you've seen the movie, you can judge for yourself how closely (or not) it follows the real-life legends.

Here's what we know about the real crystal skulls. Today there are plenty of crystal skulls all over the world. Some or big, some are small and they all vary in design. However, there are only a few life-sized crystal skulls that are claimed to date back to the time of the Mayans and the Aztecs. There are several in private hands as well as one in the Smithsonian and another in the British Museum. The legend behind the awe-inspiring life-sized skulls claims that the objects possess psychic abilities and healing properties.

Did St. Joseph mysteriously appear in Santa Fe, New Mexico more than 100 years ago in answers to prayer? According to legend, the disguised father of Jesus built a miraculous spiral staircase in Loretto Chapel, which attracts people the world over. Modern skeptics, however, are less than impressed.

Loretto Chapel was built for Loretto Academy, a women's school founded in 1852 by the Sisters of Loretto. The story goes that upon completion of the chapel in 1878, the nuns had no way to access the choir loft that was 22 feet off the floor. It seemed that an inelegant ladder was the only solution. The nuns prayed a novena for a solution.

On the ninth and last day of the novena, a stranger appeared. All he had was a donkey and a box of tools. He said he was looking for work. The nuns asked him to build a staircase. He brought wood, soaked it in water, and constructed a double-helix wooden staircase using only wooden pegs. He said very little, asked for nothing but food and water — and when he was done, he disappeared without taking any pay.