History & local legend
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 headstones said to belong to lovers whose separation continues after death.
The stones supposedly draw closer under a full moon. Some versions say they will eventually meet in a kiss; others give that moment a much darker consequence, claiming the world will end when the stones touch.
In an account posted in October 2010, a walker using the name Tony76 recalled setting out with his wife after dark to find the stones. They approached from the North Park side but never located them. Instead, they heard sounds resembling sticks snapping or stones striking together, followed by what sounded like children laughing in the woods.
Sources
- Ron Ieraci, Blue Myst Road, April 2008, with Tony76’s October 2010 account of walking in from North Park
- Steel City History, Blue Mist Road, leaning lovers’ gravestones, full-moon kiss and end-of-world variants
- Allegheny Land Trust, Irwin Run, official trail map and north access coordinates
- MyHikes, Blue Mist Road Trail, first-person account, photographs and route
- Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, Cycle 2 aerial of Irwin Run
