History & local legend
Broughton School on Schang Road in South Park Township opened in 1929 and closed in 2000. After the classrooms emptied, stories circulated about children’s voices and shadowy figures moving between rooms. One investigation became the focus of an account Scott Delledonne gave Pittsburgh Magazine in 2011.
Delledonne, a cofounder of Pittsburgh Paranormal Research, said his team was standing together inside the school with four walkie-talkies when all four began clicking on and off. The clicking gave way to static. After roughly four minutes, the investigators heard what sounded like a little girl giggling and saying hello through the radios.
The school building was later demolished.
Sources
- Pittsburgh Magazine, Ghost Hunting Experts Pick the Three Scariest Local Haunts, interview with Scott Delledonne
- WTAE Pittsburgh, South Park School Goes Bump in the Night, 2011
- Public school district records, South Park school directory with former Broughton addressUnavailable ·
- South Park Township, June 2013 hearing on the former school footprint
- USDA 2010 aerial, former school on Schang Road
