When Phil appears on Gobbler’s Knob Sunday to predict if we’ll have an early spring, he’ll leave behind a dark secret buried in his burrow.

According to lore, just as there's one Easter Bunny and Santa Claus, there is only one Punxsutawney Phil. The Groundhog Club attributes his longevity to the elixir of life, which he drinks every ...

Phil is allegedly 139 years old and has lived in Punxsutawney since the first Grover Cleveland administration. He gets his longevity by drinking a secret elixir of life each summer. Sadly ...

PUNXSUTAWNEY ... year.The club’s lore is that Phil is the same woodchuck who has been issuing weather forecasts for the past century, thanks to an “elixir of life” that keeps him immortal.

Punxsutawney Phil ... The club’s lore is that Phil is the same woodchuck who has been issuing weather forecasts for the past century, thanks to an “elixir of life” that keeps him immortal.