Jaratt Dill

Mysteries Along the Manada

History EN ↓ 5 episodes

There’s a small part of me that still misses the restaurant business — not the long hours, but the stories shared after dark. Mysteries Along the Manada is where history’s past and the paranormal meet, told by a humble bartender with a passion for haunted tales, forgotten crimes, and the echoes that linger through time. Pull up a chair and the spirits are waiting.

Author

Jaratt Dill

Episodes

The Hill Hershey Chose 08.11.2025 1:01:23

Long before it gleamed with chandeliers and marble, the hill that crowns Hershey, Pennsylvania, was just a patch of quiet countryside — a place for Sunday picnics, reservoir ponds, and the occasional whisper of strange fortune. But when Milton S. Hershey fixed his eyes on that ridge in the midst of the Great Depression, he didn’t just see a view — he saw a legacy. The Hill Hershey Chose unearths t...

Cost of Liberties: Forgotten Graveyard 03.11.2025 49:16

Tucked behind the hotels, gas stations, and the glitter of the casino at the foothills of Blue Mountain lies a piece of East Hanover’s soul — forgotten by time but not by history. This isn’t just a graveyard… it’s the story of a congregation that helped lay the foundations of East Hanover Township, where faith and frontier met in equal measure. Within these weathered walls rest Scots-Irish settler...

Elegance to Ash 31.10.2025 44:44

Hidden beyond the ridgelines of Dauphin and Lebanon Counties lies the ghost of a valley once full of promise — Stony Valley. A place where fortune, fire, and folly collided. Long before the forests reclaimed it, this stretch of wilderness thrummed with ambition — iron furnaces, timber barons, and dreamers betting their lives on the riches buried beneath the soil. In the late 1800s, it wasn’t just...

Inheritance by Murder 29.10.2025 35:13

In 1878, six desperate men in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, conspired to kill an aging neighbor for a handful of insurance payouts. What followed became one of the most chilling and influential murder cases in American history—the story of The Blue-Eyed Six. Join host Jaratt Dill as Mysteries Along the Manada uncovers the haunting legacy of greed, deception, and death that still echoes through the...

Confederates by the Casino 27.10.2025 45:34

Beneath the hum of traffic and the glow of a Pennsylvania casino lies a mystery that predates it by more than a century and a half. Three Confederate soldiers rest in quiet obscurity on the outskirts of Grantville—buried in Northern soil, hundreds of miles from home, their story unmarked and nearly forgotten. In this premiere episode of Mysteries Along the Manada, host Jaratt Dill peels back the l...