Bethlehem Pennsylvania Christmas Spirits and Haunted History

Episode 62: Slice of the Paranormal traveled to Christmas City USA, better known as Bethlehem Pennsylvania, to chase the lingering breath of Christmas Past. We wandered through shadows of ghostly carolers, stepped into a haunted bookstore that creaks like it remembers every visitor, and traced the footprints of Count Zinzendorf and the Moravians who shaped this place long before streetlights and shop windows. As you sit in the glow of your Christmas tree or holiday tree with a glass of egg nog warming your spirit, spare a thought for the town that claims the first documented Christmas tree in America. Bethlehem holds its history close, and those old stories drift through the streets like voices carried on winter air. We invite you to join us in walking these timeless paths, then settle in with a cocktail at the Sun Inn. Listen closely. The long gone may still be singing their hymns, steady as a memory that refuses to fade.

Sources: Bethlehem Ghosts: Historical Hauntings In & Around Pennsylvania's Christmas City by Katherine Ramsland & Dana DeVito 2007

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Zinzendorf?wprov=sfti1#Declining_years

Ghosthunting Pennsylvania by Rosemary Ellen Guiley 2009

Haunted Lehigh Valley by Kenneth Biddle 2010

Ghostly Tales of Pennsylvania by Jessica Freeburg and Natalie Fowler 2024

Fifty Pennsylvania's Most Haunted Sites by Sherri Granato Haunted Objects of Pennsylvania by Ed Kelemen 2021

https://www.pennlive.com/life/2022/12/the-ghosts-of-christmas-city-the-spirits-of-bethlehem-pa.html?outputType=amp

Sites: Moravian University- https://www.moravian.edu Moravian Book Store- https://www.moravianbookshop.com Tavern at the Sun Inn- https://www.suninnbethlehem.org/tavern Bethlehem Christmas Shoppe and Hand Cut Crystal- https://bethlehemchristmasshoppe.com Historic Hotel Bethlehem- https://www.hotelbethlehem.com/utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=business_listing Gods Acre- Moravian Cemetery, Bethlehem, PA 18018