Hex Hollow

Rehmeyer's Hollow, also known as Hex Hollow, is located in Central Pennsylvania (York County) near the Maryland border. The area was brought to national attention by a murder that occurred there in 1928. The name of the hollow was later changed to Spring Valley County Park. John H. Blymire, a pow-wow doctor—or Pennsylvania Dutch witch -- had, for years, been suffering from illness and bad luck. When another pow-wow doctor, Nellie Noll (the River Witch of Marietta), told him he had come under the hex of witch doctor Nelson D. Rehmeyer, Blymire decided to retaliate by breaking into Rehmeyer's home in search of a book of spells. Noll also informed Blymire that burning the book or burying a lock of Rehmeyer's hair would remove the Hex. Upon arrival to his farm house in North Hopewell Township, they encountered Rehmeyer himself. Blymire and his two young accomplices (John Curry and Wilbert Hess) murdered Rehmeyer, and then mutilated and burned his body. The murder took place exactly one minute past midnight on November 28, 1928. They were unsuccessful in locating his copy of Long Lost Friend; however, Blymire felt the hex lifted when Rehmeyer died. In the trial that followed, the country was shocked to learn of the existence of 20th-century witchcraft, especially in quiet York County, Pennsylvania. Rehmeyer's house where he was murdered still stands on Rehmeyer's Hollow Road. Many locals believe it to be haunted. Teenagers can usually be found down in the hollow seeking evidence of ghosts.. evidence many have claimed to find in the form of shadowy figures, cold spots, EVP recordings, and more. One of the house's most notorious acts is the apparent ability to return stones thrown at it.  To this day, the house contains much of the original furniture from the day of Rehmeyer's murder, including his sofa. Perhaps the most eerie thing in the building is a section of the floor in the kitchen that is made of glass, which shows charred floorboards underneath, the remnants of the attempt to burn Rehmeyer's body. Rehmeyer's "Long Lost Friend" went on to become one of the most revered books of Pennsylvania Dutch Witchcraft, and continues to serve as a basis for magic practitioners in the area.