History & local legend
The Pine Street apparition is an elderly woman said to appear at a window in Philadelphia’s Society Hill neighborhood. In the version told by Spirits of ’76 guides, passersby in the late nineteenth century heard groans or shrieks from a house between Fifth and Sixth Streets and saw a lined face at the glass.
Another version places her one block farther west, between Sixth and Seventh. There she is remembered as a woman irritated by young people, who continues to glare and wave her cane from the window after her death.
