History & local legend
The former Shiloh Inn on Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington had a woman-in-white tradition that local storytellers associated with Kate Soffel, remembered for her involvement in the Biddle brothers’ prison escape. One of the inn’s most detailed accounts came from employee Nicole Livolsi.
Nicole told writer Diane Hines that she had been finishing a shift in the first-floor dining room when a cool draft passed. In the mirror above the rear fireplace, she saw a woman in a long white dress walking by. She also reported seeing the figure in windows facing Shiloh Street.
Her husband, bartender Kevin Livolsi, described unexplained footsteps on the stairs. When Hines asked about ghosts one evening, conversation at the bar stopped. Kevin admitted that he had never gone upstairs to find out who was making the sound.
