Turkeyfoot Pool

In the mid 1900’s, there existed a community pool in the small town of Turkeyfoot. It was accessible to many people from the area. Towards the end of October one year, the pool was drained early. Not knowing this, a teenager living in the area went for a midnight swim. He dove in and broke his neck. He lay paralyzed all night until he was found the next morning by the pool’s owner. By this time, he was dead. The pool was closed for the following year and reopened the next. The pool business ran smoothly until mid October. A tree sprouted from the very spot where the boy had died two years before, simply overnight. The owner called a specialist and had the tree cut down and the hole in the pool repaired. He had the pool ready to open the next day. However, when he went to open it again, the tree had grown up through the same exact spot. Frightened beyond belief, the owner packed up and moved out of Turkeyfoot. The small community followed the owner and overnight the town of Turkeyfoot became a ghost town.

Anytime one ventures to the corner of Turkeyfoot Road and Sevin Road in Sewickley Heights, PA, the young man replays his tragic story. He is forced to relive his accident for all eternity, and in the right moonlight, at the right time of year (mid October), anyone brave enough to visit the small town of Turkeyfoot may witness the death of a teenager over, and over, and over. And sometimes, on rare occasion, may grab hold of those brave souls and pull them down into the now nonexistent pool with him forever.