By Mike Evans
The Hatfield Township Nature Area is located
on Cowpath Rd in Hatfield, PA across from Snyder Square. The nature area is 28 acres of open and
wooded land along the West Branch Neshaminy Creek. With the opening of Bethlehem Pike, European
settlers of mostly of Mennonite, Quaker, and Welsh farmers settled in Hatfield
as early as the 1700's.
Local Ghost Stories about the Hatfield Township Nature Area
Locals often tell stories of strange
encounters in the Hatfield Township Nature Area, especially after dark. Some people will not even go on the trails
at night. I recall the story of a
little girl who lived near the nature area before it became local
parkland. She died young from an unknown
illness and now how her apparition wanders the woods looking for someone to
play with. People often tell stories
about hearing laughter in the Western part of the park. A friend of mine has also heard a phantom dog
barking. People who lived in homes
bordering the park and the Neshaminy Creek tell stories of hearing a multitude
of chattering voices along the creek.
Another woman, alone in the park aside from the friend next to her,
heard a man saying, "Get out, get out!" in the Eastern portion of the
park, North of the creek.
My Paranormal Experience at the Hatfield Township Nature Area
I decided to check out these stories for
myself. Armed only with a camera and a
voice recorder. I headed out on the trails after night fall. The fist few times nothing much happen. I came home with a few boring pictures of
trees. About the third or fourth time
going to the Hatfield Township Nature Area, I started getting pictures of a red
mist. I had no source of red light on me
nor were there any external source of red light. The red mist appeared in my pictures during
several different trips to the park at different times of day. But always in the Eastern area of the
Hatfield Township Nature Area, North of the creek. I have also have gotten a class A E.V.P (
most easily understood by anyone who may listen to it) saying that this is my
field stay away. The red mist pictures
and the E.V.P. came from the same area of the woods as where the woman heard a
man saying, "Get out."
One night, I took a group of fellow ghost
hunters out to the trails and for the first time, we heard the dog
barking. We would have just have written
it off as a local dog barking in some nearby backyard, but this bark did not
come from some dog off in the distance.
The barking was coming from the immediate vicinity. The dog was just a few feet away from us,
however, there was no physical dog to be found.
The trails of the Hatfield Township Nature
Area are a beautiful wooded walk and a great place to find a ghost.
*Please note that
this is a public park and local park rules apply.
