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True crime can be strangely fascinating.

This true crime is odd, macab, and haunted. I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows. Welcome

to fantastimal crime. Is it possible that some kind of great evil could whisper in the ear of a man

and compel him to kill.

That is what Matthias Schaumbacher claimed. The German Schaumbacher had immigrated to America

and eventually opened an inn with his wife in 1851. The couple would use the cover of their

inn to murder people and do away with their bodies.

Those murders left behind ghosts, and Schaumbacher may have even gotten a final strike from God

when lightning hit his tombstone as he was lowered into the ground.

The natural and the supernatural seemed to occupy the same place here.

The Blue Ridge Mountains are gorgeous

with their tree-covered peaks and blue-green hue. I've driven the Blue Ridge Parkway and

spent time in the crown jewel of the range, Asheville. The entire range is just amazing with

many peaks, all identified with individual names.

One of these peaks is Hawk Mountain, which rises to 1,521 feet.

Many take advantage of several of the hiking trails that traverse the 2,600-acre Hawk Mountain Sanctuary,

located on Kittatinny Ridge. The sanctuary provides a refuge for birds of prey. That sanctuary was founded

by a woman named Rosalie Edge, who bought the mountain in 1934 to stop the killing of hundreds of

hawks and eagles in annual shoots sponsored by the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The mountain had been

known as North Mountain,

and she was the one who changed it to Hawk Mountain. Some hikers perceive an ominous feeling

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