Pococabana in Minisink Hills, PA

The Pococabana was a gigantic resort that existed from the 1950's to 1970's. Most of it burned to the ground in 1973. Some of the out building survived and are now apartments. I took this photo of one of the surviving buildings. It's kind of sad to see these photos side by side. I wil definitely be posting more about the Pococabana in the future. You can see the remaining buildings on both sides of Route 209 about 1/4 mile before Buttermilk Falls Road.

Schmidling house on Hillside Drive in Minisink Hills, PA

This house has sat empty since 1994. It's right across the street from my apartment and I can see it from my window. When I asked my landlord about the house he told me that the woman wanted her family to keep the house as it is after she died because she's going to come back and live in it when she is reincarnated. I was told that the family lives out of state. Someone busted the back door to get in and the doorway to get in is boarded up. I looked in a broken window and took some photos. I wish I could've walked in. About six months ago I had a dream that I was inside the house and the woman who lived there was standing in a doorway. She showed me how she could now appear as an old woman or a young woman or whatever age she wanted. I am still trying to find out the name of the family that lived there. I heard that all of Hillside Drive was once farmland and the medicine containers to treat mange on animals makes it obvious that there were once animals kept on the property.
Update: I just found out that Inez Zimmerman Schmidling lived in the house. She was 84 years old when she died in Mercy Hospital in Wiles-Barre, PA on October 23, 1996. I was told by one of my neighbors that her son was taking care of the house and that the house has extensive water damage and there is black mold everywhere. My neighbor told me that there is a very nice staircase in the house that when you walk up "it doesn't even feel like you're walking up." My neighbor is also the second person to tell me that Inez's bedroom is the only room in the house that does not have black mold. This is probably just because the water damage in this bedroom is not as extensive as it is in the rest of the house but...maybe there's a spookier explanation!
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Schmitt's Mountain Resort (now Pierce's Landing)

Schmitt's Mountains Resort existed from as early as 1948 (that's the oldest newspaper ad I found) until the late 1970's. During the 1980's it became a rundown apartment rental complex. It was purchased in the fall of 1994, renamed Pierce's Landing and received a much-needed makeover. These photos are of carvings in a tree behind Pierce's Landing along Gap View Drive. I spotted these carvings a few days ago during my evening walk. I had to  negotiate a very steep slope to get the photos and I'm glad I took the risk. I'm positive that the carvings were made by adolescent guests of Schmitt's who snuck away from their parents in the evening. The other photos are postcards of Schmitt's that I found on the internet. I stuck in a current photo of the pool just for the heck of it.