John Bloski's Deathbed Curse

Podcast: Southern Ghost Stories · Southern Ghost Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-10-19

In August 1897, an engineer discovered a dying man named John Bloski beside a Pennsylvania railroad track who used his final breaths to name his killer and utter a chilling prophecy: "You have to follow me soon." What followed was a desperate cross-state manhunt, a bitter self-defense claim, and an execution in the Wilkes-Barre jail yard. But the story didn't end on the gallows—shortly after the trapdoor dropped, midnight screams from a death-row cell convinced terrified inmates that the condemned man had kept his dark appointment. In this episode of Southern Ghost Stories, Allen Sircy explores a brutal coal-country homicide, a f...