Tradition connects this stone-lined chamber in the Wissahickon to Johannes Kelpius and his seventeenth-century community of mystics, who believed the end of the world was imminent. Historians debate whether the structure was actually Kelpius's cave or a later springhouse, but visitors can reach it on foot from the public park trails.
Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.
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Source: Atlas Obscura