A man in York County, Pennsylvania killed another man in 1928 because he thought the victim had put a curse on him. Nelson Rehmeyer was 60 years old when he died in his home in a place called Rehmeyer’s Hollow. Someone beat him up badly, tied him with rope, poured coal oil on him, and tried to burn his body. Police arrested three people for killing him, but the reason behind the murder was really strange.
John Blymire was 34 years old and nothing seemed to go right in his life. A local historian named Jamie Noerpel said that “John Blymire kind of struggled with life, he never really had a spouse, he never held a stable job, and he didn’t have a lot of friends.” Blymire started to think someone had put a hex on him, which is like a magical curse. He went to see a woman called Nellie Noll who people knew as the River Witch of Marietta. She told him that Nelson Rehmeyer was the one who cursed him.
