History & local legend
Before WMBA moved to Merchant Street in 1987, the radio station broadcast from a converted house on Fourteenth Street in Ambridge. A story recorded by James C. Reynolds in 1986 placed a young Harmonist woman's ghost in its cellar.
The woman was called Melinda. According to the legend, she became pregnant despite the community's rule of celibacy. After losing her baby, she buried the child inside a cellar wall with a pair of her gloves. Local resident Jason Philips said he had seen Melinda and tried to investigate the supposed burial.
Philips reported that when he began working at the wall, a powerful windlike force dislodged the window screens and blocked the cellar stairs. He stopped digging.
