History & local legend
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 there who had been close to their own age. In a 2019 essay, Ryter described those visits alongside a more frightening childhood memory: pacing noises from the attic above her bedroom at home.
A separate cemetery account attributed to the Greater Pittsburgh Paranormal Society described mist, balls of light and one investigator feeling an unseen touch.
Sources
- Kira Ryter, My Childhood Cemetery, F Newsmagazine, April 2019, firsthand account of visiting the girl’s grave and hearing pacing in her home beside Homewood Cemetery
- Pennsylvania Haunts & History, regional oral-history entry for Homewood Cemetery, specifically attributing mist, orbs and a touch to Greater Pittsburgh Paranormal Society
- Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, original cemetery site and history tour starting at its Dallas Avenue gate
- The Frick Pittsburgh, Memory and Mourning: A Frick History of Homewood Cemetery, grounds and 1878 founding
