History & local legend
St. Patrick Cemetery occupies a wooded hillside off Chestnut Street near Oakdale in Allegheny County. A visitor writing about a summer 2003 trip described patches of cold air and increasing difficulty breathing while walking toward the trees at dusk.
The visitor also repeated a story about an unnamed team's recording of a child playing peekaboo and a separate growling sound. Those recordings helped give the cemetery its local reputation.
CPSI Paranormal subsequently investigated the site and reported nearby sources of ordinary sound: a backyard swing set along the upper boundary and dogs audible on its recordings. The team's own visit produced no unexplained recording.
Sources
- Spirits of the Mist, Pennsylvania index, summer 2003 Oakdale visitor’s first-person account and the earlier child and growling recording story
- CPSI Paranormal, own St. Patrick’s Cemetery field report and location photographs
- Catholic Parish Cemeteries Association, St. Patrick Cemetery, Chestnut Street off Noblestown Road
- Allegheny County GIS, cemetery boundary 838, St Patrick Cemetery, North Fayette Township
- Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection statewide parcel mapping, parish-owned lot 0491A00029000000
