History & local legend
The former C. Howard Marcy State Hospital grounds on Highland Drive became the Pittsburgh Job Corps campus. Accounts from a hospital worker and a later student describe different nighttime experiences at the same institutional site, years apart.
The worker, writing in 2011, recalled hearing water gush and splash around three in the morning in unoccupied rooms behind locked doors. On the second floor, breathing seemed to come from another locked room. The worker also assisted with a foot clinic held in the old operating room, where the surgical table and overhead light remained. Objects reportedly shifted between visits even when the worker held the only key.
A Job Corps student who lived there from 2005 to 2007 described a recurring sensation in Chisholm Hall. Whenever the roommate was away, the student felt someone climb the ladder to the upper bunk and lie down.
Sources
- Former Marcy hospital worker, recollection published April 2011
- Pittsburgh Job Corps student, recalling 2005–07 residency in Chisholm Hall
- 1983 Federal Register, Department of Labor determination on reusing Marcy as a Job Corps center
- Pittsburgh Job Corps official center leaflet and campus addressUnavailable ·
- Job Corps campus map reference
- Pittsburgh City Photographer, Leech Farm before construction
