Eckley Miners’ Village (Weatherly, Pennsylvania)

JuteCat recommends this site: “A few years ago I visited Eckley’s miner town, in Eckley, PA. I found the whole place to be rather creepy as some of the buildings are falling apart, and there is all this gigantic machinery looming in the distance. Unfortunately the tour was rather disappointing, being that they didn’t really bring up anything morbid. So I took over and bit and explained a little too loudly to my best friend, that places like these used to have people hauling black pushcarts at the end of the day filled with that day’s dead. It was a miner wife’s worst nightmare to have them knock at her door. The tour guide looked rather annoyed (nyahaha). Another strange thing is the restored doctor’s office, an old church, and the fact that some people were doing a dig over there. Although some people still live there, the place still has a creepy feeling to it. The gift shop was pretty neat, and they had a regular museum as well.  Oh yes, another lil morbid note. My great uncle worked at the mine in Eckley, he later died of black lung.”