Rehmeyer's Hollow
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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.
[edit] The Murder of Nelson Rehmeyer
John H. Blymyer, a pow-wow doctor -- or Pennsylvania Dutch witch -- had, for years, been suffering from illness and bad luck. When another pow-wow doctor told him he had come under the hex of witch doctor Nelson D. Rehmeyer, Blymyer decided to retaliate by breaking into Rehmeyer's home in search of a book of spells. Instead he encountered Rehmeyer himself.
Blymyer and two of his accomplices murdered, mutilated, and then burned Rehmeyer's body. The murder took place exactly one minute past midnight on November 28, 1928. In the trial that followed, the country was shocked to learn of the existence of 20th-century witchcraft.
