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InstitutionsAllegheny General Hospital
Allegheny General Hospital's South Tower opened in 1936 and remains a prominent part of Pittsburgh's North Side skyline. The hospital's older ghost…
Culture & landmarksAllegheny-Kiski Valley Heritage Museum
The Allegheny-Kiski Valley Heritage Museum occupies Tarentum’s former American Legion hall, built in 1931. After World War II, Pittsburgh Plate Glass…
Culture & landmarksAndrew Bayne Memorial Library
Andrew Bayne Memorial Library in Bellevue occupies the former home of Amanda Bayne Balph and her husband, architect James Madison Balph. They moved…
Culture & landmarksAndrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall
On January 7, 2012, four paranormal research groups investigated the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie borough after closing…
Brackenridge Heights Golf Course
At Brackenridge Heights Golf Course in Harrison, local lore connects a boy’s ghost with the pond beside the fourth hole. In the story, he fell…
Bright Cemetery
Bright Cemetery in Oakmont preserves the name of Civil War soldier Adam Bright on his parents’ headstone, although his body is buried in Georgia.…
Brush Creek Inn
Brush Creek Inn in Warrendale was a family-operated gathering place whose history has been traced to 1886. Its ghost stories concern both the…
SchoolsByers Hall
Byers Hall on Pittsburgh's Ridge Avenue was originally the Byers-Lyons House, a mansion occupied by iron manufacturer Alexander Byers's family and…
Camp Deer Creek
Camp Deer Creek in Indiana Township occupies land once farmed by a man remembered as Farmer Giesy. His log house stands above the horse field, and…
Campbell’s Run Road
A trail off Campbell's Run Road in the Harmarville area has a story about three miners. In daylight, walkers supposedly meet three ordinary-looking…
Historic homesCarnegie Library of Homestead
Despite its name, Carnegie Library of Homestead stands in neighboring Munhall. Serving the Steel Valley since 1898, the building combines a public…
Culture & landmarksCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh
The Main branch of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh occupies the Carnegie complex on Forbes Avenue in Oakland. Andrew Carnegie dedicated the…
CemeteriesCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh
The Lawrenceville branch of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Library was built in 1898 on part of the former Washington Burial Ground. During construction,…
Culture & landmarksCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh
The Carnegie Library on Grandview Avenue has served Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington neighborhood since 1900. Its location near the Monongahela Incline…
Central Station and McKenery Memorial Social Hall
Central Station on Scenery Drive in Elizabeth Township is associated with a firefighter remembered as still answering calls. In the firehouse story,…
SchoolsChatham University
Mellon Hall at Chatham University in Pittsburgh appears repeatedly in ghost stories told by former students. For the university’s 150th anniversary…
Inns & businessesChurch Brew Works
Church Brew Works occupies the former St. John the Baptist Catholic Church on Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood. The church’s…
Historic homesClayton
Clayton was the Pittsburgh home of industrialist Henry Clay Frick and his wife, Adelaide. They bought the Point Breeze property in 1882, moved into…
Outdoors · AI illustrationConstitution Boulevard and North Street
In March 1981, a report of a small creature drew people with flashlights to a sewer opening near Constitution Boulevard and North Street, at the…
Bridges & railwaysCorvette Tunnel
Larry Kress described a brief encounter at Corvette Tunnel in South Park one April evening in 1994. He returned with his girlfriend, Peach, and her…
Bridges & railways · AI illustrationCurry Hollow Road at the Union Railroad embankment
Curry Hollow Road passes through an old railroad tunnel in Allegheny County. Its nickname, the Bleeding Tunnel, comes from a story about reddish…
Dawson Road tunnel under the Bessemer railroad grade
Dawson Road passes through a long concrete tunnel beneath the Bessemer railroad embankment near Culmerville in West Deer Township. Locals have called…
OutdoorsDead Man’s Hollow Conservation Area
Dead Man’s Hollow lies beside the Youghiogheny River near McKeesport. The woods now surround remains of a former industrial landscape, including the…
Culture & landmarksDepreciation Lands Museum
The Depreciation Lands Museum in Hampton Township includes the former Pine Creek Covenanter Church. Its best-known ghost is called the Deacon, a…
SchoolsDormont Public Library
Dormont Public Library on West Liberty Avenue has a gentle haunting tradition about a librarian who remained close to the place she loved. In one…
CemeteriesDravo Cemetery
Dravo Cemetery lies beside the Great Allegheny Passage at a bend in the Youghiogheny River. Cyclists now travel the former railroad corridor, but…
Bridges & railwaysDuquesne Incline upper station
For people living in Pittsburgh’s Duquesne Heights, the incline offered an easier trip up the hillside than the long wooden stairway. A local story…
SchoolsDuquesne University
Duquesne University’s Pittsburgh campus has several separate ghost traditions. Archivist Tom White described them to student reporter Emma Polen in…
E.N. Miller Antique Mall
The E.N. Miller Antique Mall in Verona occupies a building that had been in the Miller family since 1909. In a 2012 Tribune-Review report, owner…
SchoolsEarly American Nationality Room
The Early American Nationality Room in the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning includes a concealed upper bedroom with a four-poster…
BattlefieldsEdgar Thomson Steel Works
Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock occupies an industrial landscape near the scene of the Battle of the Monongahela. On July 9, 1755, French…
Eighth Street at Tourman Street
Coulter’s version of the Thirteen Bends legend associates a road and cemetery with children from a former boys’ orphanage. Stories describe footsteps…
Evergreen Community Park
Indian Spring in Ross Township’s Evergreen Community Park has a legend about two lovers rescued by its water. Historian John Schalcosky recounted the…
Historic homesFormer 1129 Ridge Avenue
The house once standing at 1129 Ridge Avenue on Pittsburgh’s North Side became famous in ghost literature as the Congelier house. A 1979 account…
InstitutionsFormer Allegheny County Jail
A 1907 newspaper story described an unusual disturbance on murderers’ row at the old Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh. Prisoners said that between…
SchoolsFormer C. Howard Marcy State Hospital
The former C. Howard Marcy State Hospital grounds on Highland Drive became the Pittsburgh Job Corps campus. Accounts from a hospital worker and a…
Former Café Victoria in the Torrance house
Café Victoria occupied the former Torrance family house on Western Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Allegheny West neighborhood. Francis Torrance built the…
OutdoorsFormer Chronicle-Telegraph office block
On July 23, 1892, Alexander Berkman entered Henry Clay Frick’s office in Pittsburgh’s Chronicle-Telegraph building and attacked him during the…
OutdoorsFormer Civic Arena footprint
Pittsburgh’s Civic Arena replaced part of the Lower Hill District, where homes, businesses and streets had supported a busy neighborhood. In oral…
Former Culmerville Hotel and Zottola’s Pub
The former Culmerville Hotel in West Deer Township later housed Zottola's Pub. Christine Fortino described an unusual connection with the place in an…
InstitutionsFormer Dixmont State Hospital grounds above Ohio River Boulevard
After Dixmont State Hospital’s buildings were demolished, plans called for a Walmart on the hillside above Ohio River Boulevard in Kilbuck Township.…
Former Evergreen Hotel
The Evergreen Hotel stood near Babcock Boulevard and Evergreen Road in Ross Township. Matthew Cridge opened it in 1874, serving people who came out…
Inns & businesses · AI illustrationFormer Hays mansion and Larry’s Roadhouse
Larry’s Roadhouse occupied the former Hays mansion in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood. Built in the 1850s for Jacob and Mary Smith Hays, the…
Bridges & railwaysFormer Homestead Post Office and police station
Homestead’s former police station occupied the old post office at Ninth Avenue and Amity Street. By 2008, officers and borough employees were sharing…
Outdoors · Aerial viewFormer Hundred Acre Pool
The former Hundred Acre Pool, also known as Sully’s Pool, lies within South Park’s landscape of summer recreation. Clarence Hopson remembered…
Former ICM School of Business and Medical Careers
The former ICM School of Business and Medical Careers stood near Wood Street and Fort Pitt Boulevard in downtown Pittsburgh. Its ghost story…
Former John J. Kane Hospital site
The former John J. Kane Hospital in Scott Township had stories of a large white figure moving across its grounds. Inside the abandoned hospital,…
OutdoorsFormer Jones & Laughlin No. 2 Open Hearth
Workers at Jones & Laughlin’s No. 2 Open Hearth on Pittsburgh’s South Side told new hires a story about Jim Grabowski, a man supposedly killed in the…
OutdoorsFormer Kaufmann’s department store
The former Kaufmann's department store in downtown Pittsburgh has a ghost story tied to the city's eighteenth-century military history. The reported…
InstitutionsFormer Mercy Providence Hospital
The former Mercy Providence Hospital on Pittsburgh's North Side had a story about a nun continuing her nighttime rounds on the sixth floor. Patients…
Inns & businesses · AI illustrationFormer Michael Blaha Flowers
A flower shop on Bridge Street in Etna has long been associated with Peter, a presence staff describe as a mischievous little boy. David Kornely, who…
Historic homes · Historical imageFormer Monongahela House
Abraham Lincoln spent the night of February 14, 1861, at Pittsburgh’s Monongahela House while traveling to Washington for his inauguration. The hotel…
OutdoorsFormer Monument Hill
Monument Hill on Pittsburgh's North Side took its name from the memorial to Allegheny County's Civil War dead dedicated there in 1871. Parts of that…
Former Papa J’s Centro
Papa J’s Centro occupied 212 Boulevard of the Allies in downtown Pittsburgh, a building once associated with Mary “Mazie” Cavanaugh’s boardinghouse…
Bridges & railwaysFormer Pennsylvania Railroad Peters Creek Branch tunnel
The Green Man legend is attached to an old railroad tunnel near Piney Fork Road in South Park Township. Built in 1924 for the Pennsylvania Railroad’s…
Inns & businessesFormer Pittsburgh Playhouse site
The former Pittsburgh Playhouse on Craft Avenue in Oakland had a collection of ghost stories long before its demolition in 2019. Two of them were…
Inns & businessesFormer Rex Theater
The Rex Theater on East Carson Street in Pittsburgh opened as a vaudeville theater in 1905 and later became a music venue. Steel Town Paranormal…
Former Shiloh Inn
The former Shiloh Inn on Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington had a woman-in-white tradition that local storytellers associated with Kate Soffel, remembered…
Outdoors · AI illustrationFormer Spotlight Lounge
The former Spotlight Lounge on Washington Boulevard in Port Vue had stories of patrons continuing their evening after the room had emptied. People at…
InstitutionsFormer St. Francis Hospital site
In November 1963, pianist Liberace became gravely ill while performing near Pittsburgh. He had cleaned his stage costumes with solvent in an…
Former Szechuan Gourmet
At the former Szechuan Gourmet on Bellefonte Street in Pittsburgh's Shadyside neighborhood, diner Kathi Iannamico reported repeatedly seeing an older…
OutdoorsFormer Union Collieries Renton mine shaft
Renton No. 3 mine in Plum was the scene of a fatal explosion on July 19, 1920. The ventilation fan had been stopped for weekend repairs. After it…
Bridges & railways · Aerial viewFormer Valley Hotel site
The Valley Hotel stood beside the railway on New England Road in Jefferson Hills. A 1971 fire had removed its third floor, a fact central to one of…
Former Woodlawn Junior High School
The former Woodlawn Junior High School stood at the eastern end of Woodlawn Avenue in Munhall. After it closed, a local story described a girl in a…
BattlefieldsFort Fayette historical marker
Sergeant John Trotter was executed at Pittsburgh's Fort Fayette on November 11, 1792, after deserting with two other soldiers. He was captured,…
BattlefieldsFort Pitt Site
Fort Pitt Site lies within Point State Park in downtown Pittsburgh, at the forks of the Ohio River. The museum occupies the former fort’s Monongahela…
Forward Township Volunteer Fire Company
Volunteers at Forward Township Volunteer Fire Company on Roberts Hollow Road reported occasionally hearing a child's voice over a two-way radio. They…
Frances Warde Hall and the Carlow University residence complex
Frances Warde Hall at Carlow University is associated with a dormitory figure known as the Nurse. In a December 2022 community discussion, a…
Outdoors · Historical imageGate 2
Joe Magarac is Pittsburgh’s larger-than-life steelworker, commemorated by the figure bending a beam at Gate 2 of the Edgar Thomson works. Mill…
Historic homesHartwood Acres Mansion
Mary Flinn Lawrence and her husband, John, had Hartwood Acres Mansion built in 1929, along with stables for their horses. Mary continued living there…
Historic homesHistoric Sarah Heinz House
Sarah Heinz House grew from a youth club founded by Howard Heinz on Pittsburgh's North Side. The club's ghost traditions concern both his mother…
Historical Molnar’s Marina boat ramp
Sue Molnar invited the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society to investigate her home beside Molnar's Marina on the Monongahela after nearly thirty years…
CemeteriesHomewood Cemetery
Artist Kira Ryter grew up beside Pittsburgh's Homewood Cemetery and visited it with a friend as a child. They often stopped to greet a girl buried…
Irwin Road at Irwin Run
Blue Mist Road is the local name for the wooded stretch of Irwin Road near North Park in Allegheny County. Among its legends is a pair of leaning…
Jacob Witzel House
The Jacob Witzel House is an early-nineteenth-century home on Evergreen Road in Ross Township. During the Sokolowski family’s time there, Peter…
Outdoors · Historical imageJones & Laughlin’s former north-bank furnace district
Slag Pile Annie is a steel-mill legend associated with Jones & Laughlin’s former Hazelwood furnaces. In the version collected by Pittsburgh…
Historic homesJoseph F. Weis Jr. United States Courthouse
Judge Gerald Joseph Weber served on Pittsburgh’s federal court from 1964 until his death in 1989. A courthouse legend places him back at work after…
OutdoorsKDKA-TV studios
KDKA-TV's ghost tradition identifies Julian Drob, the station's former director of production facilities, as an employee still attending to…
Kenney Avenue at Short Street
The wooded route above Pitcairn toward Monroeville is associated with a figure known as Johnson's Shadow Man. In a July 2008 recollection, a former…
SchoolsLawrence Hall
Lawrence Hall, Point Park University's downtown Pittsburgh residence hall, was formerly the Sherwyn Hotel. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael…
Lower junction of McKinney and Kummer roads
North Park’s Gravity Hill is at the lower of the two junctions between McKinney and Kummer roads, on the hillside above Marshall Lake. Visitors…
McCandless Town Hall
McCandless Town Hall on Grubbs Road opened in 1960 and also housed police offices. Stories collected by 2004 described unusual experiences reported…
SchoolsMifflin School
Mifflin School opened in Pittsburgh's Lincoln Place neighborhood in 1932. Its auditorium was designed with a separate entrance so the community could…
Bridges & railwaysMonongahela River at the Glenwood Bridge
Pittsburgh’s missing “ghost bomber” was a B-25 Mitchell that ditched in the Monongahela River on January 31, 1956. Running out of fuel, pilot Major…
OutdoorsMonongahela River off downtown Pittsburgh
An island once occupied part of the Monongahela River beside downtown Pittsburgh, near the Point. Today boats pass over that reach, but early views…
Institutions · Historical imageNational Aviary
Pittsburgh's National Aviary occupies ground once used by Western Penitentiary. In August 1863, the prison held more than a hundred Confederate…
Historic homesNevin row
Radio news anchor Lisa Alexander heard stories about earlier tenants after moving into an apartment on North Lincoln Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Allegheny…
Inns & businessesNew Hazlett Theater
The New Hazlett Theater on Pittsburgh’s North Side was the Pittsburgh Public Theater’s home for twenty-five seasons. Among the company’s backstage…
Historic homesNewington (David Shields House)
Newington, also known as the David Shields House, was home to generations of the Shields family in Edgeworth. David and Eliza Shields built its first…
InstitutionsOld Allegheny County Jail
The old Allegheny County Jail on Ross Street in Pittsburgh is known both for reported unexplained voices and for a very real escape. In January 1902,…
Inns & businessesOmni William Penn Hotel
The Omni William Penn opened in downtown Pittsburgh in 1916. Among the former guests associated with its ghost stories is Ruth Harkness, the writer…
Culture & landmarks · AI illustrationOriginal Saint Michael the Archangel Church site
The original Saint Michael the Archangel Church stood at Fifth and Bayard streets in Elizabeth. After the building closed, local stories described…
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School and Felician Sisters convent
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School shares a hilltop complex near Coraopolis with the Felician Sisters' convent. In the three-story red-brick…
Page Street at Manhattan Street
Debbie Doucette described an unexplained scent in her Page Street row house during Pittsburgh’s 2003 Manchester Haunted Tales tour. Around eleven one…
Park View Three
Park View Three, the apartment tower at 7 Allegheny Center on Pittsburgh's North Side, once housed Art Institute students. Residents gave it the…
OutdoorsPoint State Park Fountain
Pittsburgh’s Point became the focus of a modern spiritual tradition connecting its rivers with Maya cosmology. Writer Vikki Hanchin saw a resemblance…
Propel Homestead K–8
Propel's first Homestead school opened in a former hospital basement in 2003, then moved to East Tenth Avenue. By 2008, a cafeteria worker at the…
Cemeteries · AI illustrationRestland Memorial Park
At Restland Memorial Park in Monroeville, a local legend describes a young woman called Walkin’ Rosie. Some accounts place her among the graves after…
Resurrection Catholic Cemetery
A black memorial at Resurrection Catholic Cemetery became a Pittsburgh schoolyard legend associated with Devil's Night. Children said repeating the…
Outdoors · AI illustrationS.W. Randall Toyes and Giftes
The third floor of S.W. Randall’s Smithfield Street toy shop in Pittsburgh housed its doll department. During the fall it opened to shoppers; in…
Sacred Heart and Calvary cemeteries along New York Avenue
Sacred Heart and Calvary cemeteries lie beside one another along New York Avenue in Port Vue. A story collected by The Daily News in October 2000…
Historic homesSenator John Heinz History Center
The Senator John Heinz History Center occupies a former ice warehouse in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. The building’s history includes a devastating…
Schools · Aerial viewSite of Broughton School
Broughton School on Schang Road in South Park Township opened in 1929 and closed in 2000. After the classrooms emptied, stories circulated about…
Culture & landmarksSt. Nicholas Croatian Church
St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in Millvale is known for the murals painted by Croatian American artist Maxo Vanka. Father Albert Zagar…
CemeteriesSt. Patrick Cemetery
St. Patrick Cemetery occupies a wooded hillside off Chestnut Street near Oakdale in Allegheny County. A visitor writing about a summer 2003 trip…
Swallow Hill Road at Greentree Road and Hope Hollow Road
Frank lived with his family on Swallow Hill Road in Scott Township from 1977 to 1979. In an account published by Ghostvillage on July 31, 2003, he…
Taylor Cemetery
Taylor Cemetery is a small burial ground amid fields on Elkhorn Road in Forward Township, Allegheny County. A local story claims that flames…
The Lady and the Terrier on Sheffield Street
Martin Fuess and David Fleischman’s Sheffield Street house in Pittsburgh’s Manchester neighborhood featured on a 2003 Haunted Tales tour. They had…
OutdoorsThree Rivers Stadium baseball information panel
Roberto Clemente reached 3,000 career hits at Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Stadium on September 30, 1972, with a double against New York Mets pitcher…
Historic homesTroy Hill Firehouse
Pittsburgh’s Troy Hill Firehouse formerly housed Engine Company 39. Stories from the firefighters’ years there describe a building with several kinds…
Union Railroad over Thompson Run Road
Hell’s Tunnel is the Union Railroad crossing over Thompson Run Road in Wilkins Township. Stories about it describe a swinging rope at one end of the…
UPMC McKeesport
UPMC McKeesport is a hospital complex on Fifth Avenue in McKeesport. Its ghost stories were attributed to maintenance workers, whose rounds took them…
Bridges & railwaysWabash Bridge
Pittsburgh's Wabash Bridge once carried a railroad across the Monongahela River. Its reputation for misfortune began during construction, when a…
OutdoorsWarner Centre
A former film worker at Pittsburgh’s Warner Theatre remembered the projection booth as the domain of Whitey, a projectionist said to have died there.…
OutdoorsWashington’s Landing Park
Herr’s Island in Pittsburgh, now called Washington’s Landing, has a tradition of George Washington appearing at its eastern end, sometimes on…
OutdoorsWatson Street in Uptown
In the late 1920s, an Irish family living on Watson Street in Pittsburgh’s Uptown had three daughters sharing a bed. A family story, later told to…
SchoolsWean Hall
Architect’s Leap was the student nickname for an open stairwell in the southeast corner of Carnegie Mellon’s Wean Hall, near the former architecture…
Historic homesWestinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building
Westinghouse Castle in Wilmerding served as the office building for the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. Its clock and commanding position made it a…