The top left photo shows some of the members of Nancy Coplin's club, Laurel Highlands Paranormal Society and an old farm house that we investigated while visiting with club members in Johnstown, PA.

The terrible Johnstown 1889 Flood occurred on May 31 when the poorly repaired dam at South Fork gave way when a one in ten thousand year rain that dropped more than an inch an hour for over eleven hours. The water overflowed the dam and cascaded toward Johnstown, fourteen miles away. Town folks were use to warnings about the dam and disregarded this final and fatal warning. The rushing flood waters reached the town forty-three minutes later destroying the town and killing some 2, 200 residents. Water reached as high as 30 feet in some places. Only 777 unknown bodies were found out of some 930 people reported missing. It was in the Grandview Cemetery amid the stone markers for the Unknown Victims that I recorded EVP that said, "My House is Flooded!" There may still be almost two hundred missing souls never recovered from this flood. The Old Stone Bridge was where the flood waters, clogged with houses, animals, bodies and trees formed a whirlpool that was soon ignited and became a living hell. Sharon picked up a flood victim call for help. Johnstown has had some twenty floods over the years with the three major floods of 1889, 1936 and 1977. It is not if another flood will happen, but when . . .

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