History & local legend
Debbie Doucette described an unexplained scent in her Page Street row house during Pittsburgh’s 2003 Manchester Haunted Tales tour. Around eleven one night, she felt a chill in the upstairs television room, followed by a distinctive men’s cologne.
A longtime neighbor suggested a former resident: a tailor who had lived in the house in the early twentieth century. Doucette considered another possibility, a monk who had owned the property and laid tiles in the foyer, including a mosaic of Saint Nicholas.
The house contained another reminder of that earlier life. Doucette found a small black rosary hanging from a cellar post and left it undisturbed.
