The hanging tree

Pennsylvania · USA · Execution site

He said he was innocent and nobody believed him. Go to the tree at midnight and you hear laughing, crying, and a man shouting.

The story at Liverpool, Pennsylvania is that in the 1800s a man was hanged from this tree. He said he was innocent. Nobody believed him.

Go there at midnight and you hear laughing, crying, and the man yelling.

The laughing is the part that stays with people, and it is the part that makes the story what it is. It is not his. It belongs to whoever was watching.

Public executions in this period were exactly that: public. Crowds came, brought food, and treated it as an occasion, and the accounts of them in nineteenth century American newspapers are full of noise and disorder.

A man protesting his innocence to a crowd that was enjoying itself is the whole content of this entry, and it appears in this collection twice, in two states.

The tree stands on rural land.

FAQ

Hvor ligger The hanging tree?

The hanging tree ligger i Pennsylvania, USA.