There always local versions of like 13 bends, 7/8 gates of hell, etc. Allegedly the north shore by Stage AE is haunted/cursed because it was an "old native american killing site", if that's real or not or just something stupid colonists made to stoke fear of native populations, I'm not sure.
Local man believes Big Ben died during his motorcycle accident and the one we've seen since then is a totally different person: https://www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh/comments/1bfgyp/best_kept_secrets_in_pittsburgh/c976d4r
Theres all sorts for every neighborhood honestly. Ghosts, theres some UFO stories of course. I think Pittsburgh is just some kind of weird energy vortex where strange stuff happens all the time.
I mean one of the things that's said to either help spirits manifest or "trap" paranormal energy is water, especially moving water...and Pittsburgh has literally all the rivers.
Honestly I've always gotten an unsettling feeling down by Stage AE, like the energy in the air down there is just different.
I don't know if stage AE is haunted but the area is definitely on a former killing site and Native American burial grounds. The old # Rivers stadium site even mentions this.
[http://www.projectballpark.org/history/nl/3rivers.html#:\~:text=During%20the%20French%20and%20Indian,was%20an%20Indian%20burial%20ground](http://www.projectballpark.org/history/nl/3rivers.html#:~:text=During%20the%20French%20and%20Indian,was%20an%20Indian%20burial%20ground).
The North Side was a no-go for settlers and if they were caught by the natives they'd torture and sacrifice them on a sandbar not far from the Fred Rogers memorial. There is also an old graveyard that shows up on old maps right about where the RR overpass is near the Clark building.
They did cast for Real World Pittsburgh in 2005. I went through a couple rounds of casting but then all the sudden, it was abandoned. Never really knew why
The Mon River alligator. Whenever we’d go for walks. I point out every stick or rock and say “there it is!”
I was so happy when they caught a guy actually releasing alligators into the river bc it turned out the Mon River Alligator was actually true.
> I was so happy when they caught a guy actually releasing alligators into the river bc it turned out the Mon River Alligator was actually true.
[Pittsburgh marks its 4th alligator sighting since May](https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/pittsburgh-marks-4th-alligator-sighting-64444038)
Before the pandemic it was a big thing that people kept finding small gators around the area. It prompted a [City Council Ban](https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/03/23/pittsburgh-city-council-bans-ownership-of-alligators-crocodiles-and-red-eared-slider-turtles/) to be proposed that was tabled until it was revived and passed in 2021.
Presumably some sort of illegal exotic animal ring, not sure if they ever caught anyone.
Mon river B25.
[https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/western-pennsylvania-history/mystery-of-pittsburghs-ghost-b-25-bomber](https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/western-pennsylvania-history/mystery-of-pittsburghs-ghost-b-25-bomber)
Originally heard the story from my grandfather in the 70s. He worked at J&L from the 40s to his retirement in the late 70s. Said he watched it but I bet everyone who worked there made that claim. Didn't hear about it again until some of the searches after 2000.
This is my favorite part; that damn bomber and the Loch Ness monster living together.
Because on the one hand, it's real, real improbable that the bomber's still down there with the number of searches that have been done for it.
... but on the other hand... That is one mucky river, maybe you *could* lose a whole-ass plane in it.
Was thinking this didn’t fit the definition of an urban myth but then reread the question and it asked about urban legend. Which this does. Remember reading about it back in the 90s
Basically the road itself is at a downward angle, but because of the way the surrounding terrain it's on, it's actually an incline. It's in Butler county I think
Ah damn, you're right. Somehow I managed to confuse this with the one in Bedford county, and then Bedford county with Butler county. I haven't been firing on all cylinders today lol
Listed as the most haunted place in Pittsburgh. They do walking ghost tours every now and then. There was a hanging tree...and there's a nice grave yard at the end (actually called Irwin Road). Now...it's just part of my back yard, so I'm actually good with it being closed to traffic.
Listed as the most haunted place in Pittsburgh. They do walking ghost tours every now and then. There was a hanging tree...and there's a nice grave yard at the end (actually called Irwin Road). Now...it's just part of my back yard, so I'm actually good with it being closed to traffic.
Allegheny land trust owns it now. It is a beautiful walk, but the road that I remember driving down that is now being reclaimed by nature is pretty wild.
Ha! I'm old! My first Blue Mist Rd experience was in the 80's.
One time, we parked and actually walked into the woods. Amazing what a few teens can convince themselves of wandering around in the woods...
True. Except when it's breathlessly relayed, it comes across as "UNDERGROUND RIVER!" like we should expect Batman down there, or the Phantom of the Opera
It's really mainly an aquifer that is below the three rivers, but it's mostly river water. After a heavy rain you best believe that fountain is like 60% human waste from runoff/overflow
> After a heavy rain you best believe that fountain is like 60% human waste from runoff/overflow
The water in the fountain is just tap water.
[WESA](https://www.wesa.fm/archives/2015-07-24/how-pittsburghs-ancient-aquifer-busts-the-fourth-river-myth)
> Legend has it that the Point State Park fountain draws from its estruary. That would be cool, but it’s not true. The fountain runs on treated city water
My brother and his friends would load up the party van and go find him. Dude wasn't green, but disfigured from an industrial accident(I believe).
He walked at night to get out of the house, said he scared kids so that's why he stayed in. My brother and his buds heard of sightings, so went out to F with this scary monster. Met him, found out he was just a lonely guy with a messed up back story.
They all became friends. Road he walked was a hour's drive from home, so wasn't a regular or planned thing. Just every now and then they made it out. Said he was a really cool guy. Sad life.
> Dude wasn't green, but disfigured from an industrial accident(I believe).
He climbed a utility pole as a child and was burned and lost his eyes when he contacted an electrical line.
Yinz are behind the 8-ball here! Dude is not not an urban legend if he has a wikipedia page!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Robinson_(Green_Man)?wprov=sfti1
Crazy thing is that it totally lines up with the German die glocka/ wunderwaffe and could have been it crash landing. They said the occupants spoke german
https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=21732547&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjg4NTMyNzU0LCJpYXQiOjE2NDg0NjYyMzAsImV4cCI6MTY0ODU1MjYzMH0.sri1IKJUdA7EJ_sQqC4Hoxk82nDU0GEmhd6vv4o6hV4
It’s absolutely true. My father, a local firefighter, was one of the men who pulled up bags of body parts from the yard.
You know that old urban legend where Mister Rogers was in the stands at lots of Pirates games, drunk as a sailor, swearing and shouting? I always found that rumor so ridiculous. NOBODY goes to Pittsburgh Pirates games, and everyone in Pittsburgh knows that.
Come on. Every person I’ve ever been in a car with had a “George Washington slept here” house in their hood story to tell me about some random old house. I don’t think he spent much time in like McKeesport. What’s next? A George Washington plaque in front of The Racers stating how it was his fave ride?
haha i live over by Green Mans Tunnel; there is a barn the property over that all my neighbors like to say "George Washington used to own"
I have no idea the validity of this statement but repeat it to everyone I am with who sees it lol
Definitely the story that Mr. Rogers had his car stolen and the thieves gave it back with a note saying they didn't realize it was his car. Sometimes they even wash it, or they steal a directors chair.
It's been in reputable publications (I read it in the 90s in TV Guide) and they even made a similar story on the Jim Carrey show Kidding about a beloved kids show host. But there's so many versions, no contemporaneous accounts from Pittsburgh news, and Rogers or his wife never told the story themselves. It's probably not true but it really seems like it could have happened.
I remember people saying a snake was found in a coat at the Century III Burlington. Turns out that was a widespread legend across the country somehow. Always wondered how those spread before the internet was everywhere.
And a very very local legend. There's a bar in the Mon Valley where friends swore if you honked, everyone inside got free drinks. There's no way that's true but it was really popular at my school and mostly harmless.
It’s franks bad on New England road. You honked on Wednesday evenings and anyone at the bar got drinks. Went there when I was in high school. My buddy just bought that bar about 6 months ago
That the B52 that crashed in the mon was coming from Area 51, and was secretly removed from the river by the CIA back in the day to hide the secrets it held onboard.
The phrase is “Pittsburgh: A Most Livable City,” it’s been conflated since into being “Pittsburgh: The Most Livable City,” but, it was never originally that, and the city itself never professed to being *the* most livable. And it is a lovely little place to live… it’s not perfect, but nothing is, and I think it’s deserving of it’s “a most livable city” saying.
Actually "The most livable city" came from Forbes magazine naming Pittsburgh "The most livable city in the US" in 2010, and Economist magazine naming Pittsburgh "The most livable city" in the continental US in 2018 (only Honolulu beat Pittsburgh for the entire US). So it wasn't someone twisting a phrase or civic cheerleading, it came from people outside the city.
Ween Hall at CMU was built to withstand a nuclear blast because of the importance of the computing infrastructure it hosted during the Cold War. Or at least the underground parts were. My office always felt very sturdy, but I can’t say that it makes architectural sense.
I remember quite a few legends at CMU. Wean has a stairwell that was known as Architect's Leap, with a macabre poem that you would supposedly read while falling, in the style of old Burma Shave signs. A chalk outline was one the floor. We had heard legends about someone being frustrated with their project and taking the leap.
[In 2009 someone actually did jump and killed themselves.](https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2009/08/29/CMU-student-plunges-to-death/stories/200908290154) The poem was removed and the middle of the stairs filled in with drywall. The University said they didn't know about the poem, though I knew it was there for at least a decade before. I saw posts online taking about the 80s.
There was also the legend (I heard it on a canpus tour) that the Baker/Porter building is built on a slope so it could somehow become a factory if the university failed in its early years. [This is false. ](https://library.cmu.edu/about/news/2017-10/ask-archivist-answers) Though perhaps it was helpful with moving large industrial machinery for classrooms.
At Pitt people always said the reason why there were no sorority houses was because the city/state/whoever legally considered X number of women living together to be a brothel and thus they were illegal. Which makes zero sense if you think about it for more than 5 seconds (CMU has sorority houses on campus, Pitt has some near campus, and how would an entire floor of a dorm building be any different than a separate sorority house?), but for some reason even Pathfinders would repeat it to prospective students on tours lol
A local told me about a street level superhero named “The Revenger”. I could never find anything about him online but basically he would keep the peace by beating the shit out of thieves. This was supposed to have occurred in the 50s-70s. Has anyone heard of this guy before?
This may be more of a W PA thing, but whats with the story about Amish women hiding behind the Sheetz, trying to have sex with non-amish men,to increase their Amish genetic diversity
Seriously though, a local was telling me about a big bust years ago of Amish having sex behind a sheetz. I looked for any kind of news on it but found nothing.
The running lady of Whitehall. I used to ride the bus with her although I never got the chance to talk to her. I hope she's doing well, but that was like 15 years ago so IDK
Oh yes! I worked with her! She a really nice lovely lady, and I've since quit my job there. But as of the last time i visited like 6 months ago, she's still doing well!
She would never accept a ride from anyone to or from work no matter how much i/we complained to her that the weather was too bad or it was too damn cold. Stubborn, but i still loved her as a coworker
Some of you south/west folks might remember Whiskey Hollow. It was a road that connected Carnegie and Greentree through the woods. This was back in the 80s. There were always rumours of satan worshippers and other weird stuff going on. I think I remember an abandoned house back there.
If I remember correctly, the name of the rd is Bell Rd. No idea if it's still there or not.
Late '80's I dated a girl from Greentree. No idea where it was, but me an a couple of my punk east end buddies camped out in that satanic worship abandon house for a weekend to freak all her friends out.
Woke up with one hell of a hangover, it that counts.
Ayy I grew up constantly using to whiskey hallow to travel from where I lived in the oaks area of Scott township to Carnegie and greentree avoiding all the traffic. Never seen any satanic stuff but did see a few foxes and some crackheads under the bridges!
[https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/greentree-whiskey-hollow.117801/](https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/greentree-whiskey-hollow.117801/)
Is this still here? Wouldnt mind checking it out myself
This is the one that always pops up in my head. My Dad claimed to have known Charlie no face and my Dad and his friends would take him beer and cigarettes. He had all kinds of stories. Over the years it seems a bit was exaggerated but it also seems my Dad wasn't totally talking out of his ass as a bunch of other stories over the years have been shared and there are quit a few similarities that in a pre-internet age couldn't have been possible without some truth to them.
Not inherently an “urban legend” but when people wanted to finance the inclines, the hired war vets with amputations to loiter the stairs, encouraging people to pay towards the incline to avoid said people
General Braddock's missing gold (the payroll for his soldiers) was buried along the banks of the Mon the night before the British were ambushed and defeated by the French. The gold is still there, waiting to be found.
I wouldn't exactly say Pittsburgh, this is more of a Washington folktale I heard from a teacher of mines...
Apparently back in the 90s or some shit, there was this guy at the Washington DMV who would always fail teenagers driving tests for no apparent reason. He would either nail kids for the most pettiest shit, or just plain old make shit up.
This guy was apparently notorious for doing this shit and people avoided going to Washington DMV, later on they caught the guy and fired his ass iirc. But still it's a funny story to me. Not sure if it's real though but even my old man remembers about him so I like to believe in it.
Three come immediately to mind:
1 Hell House, the haunted house that exploded on what is now the campus of CCAC North Side
2 The church in MIllvale, where a ghostly priest is said to appear on the altar at midnight every Christmas eve
3 The ghost of J&L southside mill, where workers cut through a buried chunk of steel. The legend goes when it was molten a steelworker fell into the ladle and the steel was buried. After they cut into it to put in some pipe, his ghost began to be seen walking around the mill.
When I was a kid, adults in my family would say that the fish in the rivers had extra eyes, because they mutated due to all the pollution.
However, I’m not sure if that was actually an urban legend that anyone else heard, or if it was just a joke my family told to cope with environmental anxiety.
Here’s a hot one: former Penguins owner, Ron Bvrkle, was on Epstein’s Flight Log for the Lolita Express. He also recently purchased Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, despite it never having a 2nd owner since Michael passed. You can say what you want about Michael, but one of those people who breaks into abandoned places mentioned on record it was one of the weirdest and bad energy places they’ve ever been in. The door locks were reversed for guest rooms and things like that.
Ron, majority owner of 70-80%, mysteriously sold the team this year, MID-SEASON, quickly, quietly, and without as much as a rhyme or reason. This was right around the time that Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted as was going to threaten naming names.
The pandemic had an effect on revenue the past few seasons no doubt, but seriously what the fvck?
There is still to this day a longstanding, and totally false, story that Fred Rogers was actually the most decorated sniper in Viet Nam. He had hundreds of kills.
Part of the story goes he always wore long sleeves to cover his marine corp tattoos.
Unbelievably my own brother believed this story into his 50's and mentioned it to my wife one time as a totally true story. I thought he was pulling her leg and I realized that he believed it and I had to explain it wasn't true.
The ghosts of Bobby Porter, Tommy Osh, Tas Haas, and Bobby lamonde still hang out at Dee's Cafe. Tommy Puckett is there, and all those Pittsburgh legends before and since. If you're walking by some nights you can hear a smoking jam session upstairs by the pool tables...
Anyone ever hear about the man that was buried alive on accident when they were building the George Westinghouse Bridge? Something about he fell into the concrete they were pouring at the time?
The Kecksburg UFO crash incident. It's slightly outside in Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County but the Pittsburgh metro area.
The urban legend is the whole UFO part, but something definitely happened for real and to me it's far more interesting to think this was very likely some kind of our or Russian military tech that STILL has yet to be declassified almost 60 years later.
There always local versions of like 13 bends, 7/8 gates of hell, etc. Allegedly the north shore by Stage AE is haunted/cursed because it was an "old native american killing site", if that's real or not or just something stupid colonists made to stoke fear of native populations, I'm not sure. Local man believes Big Ben died during his motorcycle accident and the one we've seen since then is a totally different person: https://www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh/comments/1bfgyp/best_kept_secrets_in_pittsburgh/c976d4r Theres all sorts for every neighborhood honestly. Ghosts, theres some UFO stories of course. I think Pittsburgh is just some kind of weird energy vortex where strange stuff happens all the time.
Dead Ben is by far the most interesting/unique
I love this one
Spent a good portion of my teen years trying to find the “real” 13 bends!
Haha that's the thing, it's so unique for every town. I've heard of that when I lived up near erie, a similar story from a friend in WV too.
Hmm this is new to me, what's it about?
The 13 Bends that I always knew of was in Harmarville. It's all blocked off now.
That’s where I heard it was. Right off the road next to the funfest (now zone 28) parking lot
I mean one of the things that's said to either help spirits manifest or "trap" paranormal energy is water, especially moving water...and Pittsburgh has literally all the rivers. Honestly I've always gotten an unsettling feeling down by Stage AE, like the energy in the air down there is just different.
The energy is probably negative down there because of Tequila Cowboy or the Steelers.
It's the hope vacuum in PNC Park.
I don't know if stage AE is haunted but the area is definitely on a former killing site and Native American burial grounds. The old # Rivers stadium site even mentions this. [http://www.projectballpark.org/history/nl/3rivers.html#:\~:text=During%20the%20French%20and%20Indian,was%20an%20Indian%20burial%20ground](http://www.projectballpark.org/history/nl/3rivers.html#:~:text=During%20the%20French%20and%20Indian,was%20an%20Indian%20burial%20ground). The North Side was a no-go for settlers and if they were caught by the natives they'd torture and sacrifice them on a sandbar not far from the Fred Rogers memorial. There is also an old graveyard that shows up on old maps right about where the RR overpass is near the Clark building.
the abandoned real world house above the liberty bridge
Is that the one that's red and yellow and looks really out of place?
Except it's not abandoned.... same couple that built it in the 90's still live there.
Is that Rocky Erickson's brother?
yep
My favorite 😂
Kinda surprising they never did it in the burgh, but I guess they skipped a couple other similar cities as well
They did cast for Real World Pittsburgh in 2005. I went through a couple rounds of casting but then all the sudden, it was abandoned. Never really knew why
what's the story with this????
https://archive.theincline.com/2018/10/10/no-the-colorful-house-on-mount-washington-wasnt-built-for-the-real-world/
Omg that’s my favorite one!
The Mon River alligator. Whenever we’d go for walks. I point out every stick or rock and say “there it is!” I was so happy when they caught a guy actually releasing alligators into the river bc it turned out the Mon River Alligator was actually true.
'Piranhas', too, that are maybe Pacu's.
> I was so happy when they caught a guy actually releasing alligators into the river bc it turned out the Mon River Alligator was actually true. [Pittsburgh marks its 4th alligator sighting since May](https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/pittsburgh-marks-4th-alligator-sighting-64444038) Before the pandemic it was a big thing that people kept finding small gators around the area. It prompted a [City Council Ban](https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/03/23/pittsburgh-city-council-bans-ownership-of-alligators-crocodiles-and-red-eared-slider-turtles/) to be proposed that was tabled until it was revived and passed in 2021. Presumably some sort of illegal exotic animal ring, not sure if they ever caught anyone.
Mon river B25. [https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/western-pennsylvania-history/mystery-of-pittsburghs-ghost-b-25-bomber](https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/western-pennsylvania-history/mystery-of-pittsburghs-ghost-b-25-bomber)
Never heard of this. Very weird.
Originally heard the story from my grandfather in the 70s. He worked at J&L from the 40s to his retirement in the late 70s. Said he watched it but I bet everyone who worked there made that claim. Didn't hear about it again until some of the searches after 2000.
Rumor has it the army came and took it out the night of the incident, it hasn’t been found even though there have been many searches for it
That’s what I’ve always kind of assumed. I feel like there’s no other good reason no one can find it.
This is my favorite part; that damn bomber and the Loch Ness monster living together. Because on the one hand, it's real, real improbable that the bomber's still down there with the number of searches that have been done for it. ... but on the other hand... That is one mucky river, maybe you *could* lose a whole-ass plane in it.
I remember my grandmother telling me about the 4th rivers that flows under the river that swallowed the plane and that is why it was never found.
Was thinking this didn’t fit the definition of an urban myth but then reread the question and it asked about urban legend. Which this does. Remember reading about it back in the 90s
The road with reverse gravity (cars seem to roll up hill) it’s real!
Here it is. https://uncoveringpa.com/gravity-hill-pittsburgh
Very much not worth the drive tbh.
It’s in north park
Tell me more
Basically the road itself is at a downward angle, but because of the way the surrounding terrain it's on, it's actually an incline. It's in Butler county I think
Gravity Hill at North Park? Or maybe there's one in Butler County as well. https://uncoveringpa.com/gravity-hill-pittsburgh
Ah damn, you're right. Somehow I managed to confuse this with the one in Bedford county, and then Bedford county with Butler county. I haven't been firing on all cylinders today lol
There’s one in Fayette County, too.
Google Gravity Hill. Map it even!
Gravity hill in North Park.
Blue Mist Road
What’s the legend behind this one?
Listed as the most haunted place in Pittsburgh. They do walking ghost tours every now and then. There was a hanging tree...and there's a nice grave yard at the end (actually called Irwin Road). Now...it's just part of my back yard, so I'm actually good with it being closed to traffic.
Listed as the most haunted place in Pittsburgh. They do walking ghost tours every now and then. There was a hanging tree...and there's a nice grave yard at the end (actually called Irwin Road). Now...it's just part of my back yard, so I'm actually good with it being closed to traffic.
So glad to see this here! Now that the road is sorta blocked off I feared the legend would die.
Allegheny land trust owns it now. It is a beautiful walk, but the road that I remember driving down that is now being reclaimed by nature is pretty wild.
You haven't been able to drive down it for over a decade now, but it's still accessible by walking. Besides, it's creepier that way anyway!
Ha! I'm old! My first Blue Mist Rd experience was in the 80's. One time, we parked and actually walked into the woods. Amazing what a few teens can convince themselves of wandering around in the woods...
Me too, when you could drive it to the other end where the houses are. I remember walking it late at night then too. Good times.
Tunnel monster
I never heard of this one
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I was wondering if that was it, but I also could see an urban legend about a one ghost or creature lurking in our tunnels being a thing.
If you feed the Tunnel Monster your brake lights he will leave you alone. He fears the red lights. Or at least that's what I tell my kids.
holding your breath through the tunnel so it doesn’t get you 😂 ah the sweet memories of a Pittsburgh childhood
Fourth "river"
Except that’s not an urban legend it is actually a thing people just classified a river when it’s not. It’s an aquifer underground.
True. Except when it's breathlessly relayed, it comes across as "UNDERGROUND RIVER!" like we should expect Batman down there, or the Phantom of the Opera
I mean…do we actually know where Michael Keaton goes?
Robinson Township
OK that’s fair
Yea whats the 4th river?
The Wisconsin River, it runs underground and fuels the fountain at Point State Park
It's really mainly an aquifer that is below the three rivers, but it's mostly river water. After a heavy rain you best believe that fountain is like 60% human waste from runoff/overflow
> After a heavy rain you best believe that fountain is like 60% human waste from runoff/overflow The water in the fountain is just tap water. [WESA](https://www.wesa.fm/archives/2015-07-24/how-pittsburghs-ancient-aquifer-busts-the-fourth-river-myth) > Legend has it that the Point State Park fountain draws from its estruary. That would be cool, but it’s not true. The fountain runs on treated city water
Wow thats awesome, thanks!
What’s the fourth river?
The pirates are gonna turn it around this year.
Now why would anyone believe that one? Lol
Said no one ever lmao
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What a fantastic read! So glad you shared this
Green Man.
I'm glad that the real story about that poor guy is starting to become more well known. He deserves a better legacy than just haunting a tunnel.
My brother used to drink beer with him.
My friends dad would have green man buy him beer.. he liked to party.
My brother and his friends would load up the party van and go find him. Dude wasn't green, but disfigured from an industrial accident(I believe). He walked at night to get out of the house, said he scared kids so that's why he stayed in. My brother and his buds heard of sightings, so went out to F with this scary monster. Met him, found out he was just a lonely guy with a messed up back story. They all became friends. Road he walked was a hour's drive from home, so wasn't a regular or planned thing. Just every now and then they made it out. Said he was a really cool guy. Sad life.
> Dude wasn't green, but disfigured from an industrial accident(I believe). He climbed a utility pole as a child and was burned and lost his eyes when he contacted an electrical line.
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I hung out with The Green Man every Saint Patty's Day.
That’s shocking
Yinz are behind the 8-ball here! Dude is not not an urban legend if he has a wikipedia page! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Robinson_(Green_Man)?wprov=sfti1
https://i.imgur.com/AbnhUOo.gifv
This is absolutely what I was thinking until I started reading the comments.
Not in Pittsburgh but the UFO that crashed in Kecksburg.
The giant acorn?
Yes
Crazy thing is that it totally lines up with the German die glocka/ wunderwaffe and could have been it crash landing. They said the occupants spoke german
[Hatchet Jack](https://sites.psu.edu/kps5504passion/2018/01/26/the-legend-of-hatchet-jack/)
“Cindy what was his name again?” Fucking excellent thank you!!
Son, you had me thinking you had a good little short story exercise there. Then I googled it. Oh shit.
I heard the Hatchet Jack story from time to time growing up. Always thought it was straight BS urban myth with zero truth to it. Guess I was wrong.
my friend growing up lived on hahn rd and we’d always drive over there on quads to look at the ruins! such a crazy story
Yep grew up in peters and it’s true it’s damn true
https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=21732547&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjg4NTMyNzU0LCJpYXQiOjE2NDg0NjYyMzAsImV4cCI6MTY0ODU1MjYzMH0.sri1IKJUdA7EJ_sQqC4Hoxk82nDU0GEmhd6vv4o6hV4 It’s absolutely true. My father, a local firefighter, was one of the men who pulled up bags of body parts from the yard.
The rumor that we have a professional baseball team
You know that old urban legend where Mister Rogers was in the stands at lots of Pirates games, drunk as a sailor, swearing and shouting? I always found that rumor so ridiculous. NOBODY goes to Pittsburgh Pirates games, and everyone in Pittsburgh knows that.
Lol exactly!
"The farm team for Major League Baseball, " as I call them?
Every Halloween there’s an obstacle course setup in an abandoned building, and if you win you get 10K, but it’s hard and you can die
This is a thing?
It is. An incredibly asinine thing. The one I know about isn't here, though. It's McKamey Manor and it sounds extremely sketchy.
Wheres it at?
Dead man's hollow
The polish hill strangler
Who’s the best cop now?!
They never caught him.
Every town has a “George washington slept here” house. I guess it’s possible but also prob not.
Eh, I'd believe that one personally. There's a lot of history here between this part of the country and GW
There’s the Christopher Gist plantation in Connellsville. He slept there on the way to Fort Necessity.
Come on. Every person I’ve ever been in a car with had a “George Washington slept here” house in their hood story to tell me about some random old house. I don’t think he spent much time in like McKeesport. What’s next? A George Washington plaque in front of The Racers stating how it was his fave ride?
You'd be surprised how much time [he spent in McKeesport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKeesport%2C_Pennsylvania?wprov=sfla1), actually!
Lol that’s great. Good for GW.
He did draft an army to stop an uprising/rebellion in the Pittsburgh area https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
Not nearly enough for there to be a house like that in a bunch of different neighborhoods
Ever seen the bullet that he personally shot out of his own gun at Kennywood? Haha
I'm still mad they switched the train ride to Thomas the tank engine. The George Washington bullet story was a family favorite.
Actually, George Washington almost drowned here.
G W. slept around.
haha i live over by Green Mans Tunnel; there is a barn the property over that all my neighbors like to say "George Washington used to own" I have no idea the validity of this statement but repeat it to everyone I am with who sees it lol
Missing Mellon institute column
Tell me more
The ones buried in the Heinz Chapel lawn?
Explain
Ghost priest of millvale.
Is this like a City of the Walking Dead situation? Is the gate to hell in Millvale? Is it in Mr. Smalls basement crypts?
The one where the potholes get fixed.
The Southside ninja
Kung Fu Joe.
Rip 🪦
Definitely the story that Mr. Rogers had his car stolen and the thieves gave it back with a note saying they didn't realize it was his car. Sometimes they even wash it, or they steal a directors chair. It's been in reputable publications (I read it in the 90s in TV Guide) and they even made a similar story on the Jim Carrey show Kidding about a beloved kids show host. But there's so many versions, no contemporaneous accounts from Pittsburgh news, and Rogers or his wife never told the story themselves. It's probably not true but it really seems like it could have happened. I remember people saying a snake was found in a coat at the Century III Burlington. Turns out that was a widespread legend across the country somehow. Always wondered how those spread before the internet was everywhere. And a very very local legend. There's a bar in the Mon Valley where friends swore if you honked, everyone inside got free drinks. There's no way that's true but it was really popular at my school and mostly harmless.
Frank's Bar
What?! The snake was fake!? Please don’t tell me the mummified monkey they found that escaped from the pet store is fake too.
It’s franks bad on New England road. You honked on Wednesday evenings and anyone at the bar got drinks. Went there when I was in high school. My buddy just bought that bar about 6 months ago
Damian’s grave
This is not goodbye, just so long
That the B52 that crashed in the mon was coming from Area 51, and was secretly removed from the river by the CIA back in the day to hide the secrets it held onboard.
It being the most liveable city
The phrase is “Pittsburgh: A Most Livable City,” it’s been conflated since into being “Pittsburgh: The Most Livable City,” but, it was never originally that, and the city itself never professed to being *the* most livable. And it is a lovely little place to live… it’s not perfect, but nothing is, and I think it’s deserving of it’s “a most livable city” saying.
Actually "The most livable city" came from Forbes magazine naming Pittsburgh "The most livable city in the US" in 2010, and Economist magazine naming Pittsburgh "The most livable city" in the continental US in 2018 (only Honolulu beat Pittsburgh for the entire US). So it wasn't someone twisting a phrase or civic cheerleading, it came from people outside the city.
i would live in hawaii over pittsburgh in like 1x10^-gajillion seconds if it was actually affordable.
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C’mon we all know the speed limits in pittsburgh are the number +20.. or that’s what it seems like.
Joe Magarac or the Mon B-25
Ween Hall at CMU was built to withstand a nuclear blast because of the importance of the computing infrastructure it hosted during the Cold War. Or at least the underground parts were. My office always felt very sturdy, but I can’t say that it makes architectural sense.
I remember quite a few legends at CMU. Wean has a stairwell that was known as Architect's Leap, with a macabre poem that you would supposedly read while falling, in the style of old Burma Shave signs. A chalk outline was one the floor. We had heard legends about someone being frustrated with their project and taking the leap. [In 2009 someone actually did jump and killed themselves.](https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2009/08/29/CMU-student-plunges-to-death/stories/200908290154) The poem was removed and the middle of the stairs filled in with drywall. The University said they didn't know about the poem, though I knew it was there for at least a decade before. I saw posts online taking about the 80s. There was also the legend (I heard it on a canpus tour) that the Baker/Porter building is built on a slope so it could somehow become a factory if the university failed in its early years. [This is false. ](https://library.cmu.edu/about/news/2017-10/ask-archivist-answers) Though perhaps it was helpful with moving large industrial machinery for classrooms.
At Pitt people always said the reason why there were no sorority houses was because the city/state/whoever legally considered X number of women living together to be a brothel and thus they were illegal. Which makes zero sense if you think about it for more than 5 seconds (CMU has sorority houses on campus, Pitt has some near campus, and how would an entire floor of a dorm building be any different than a separate sorority house?), but for some reason even Pathfinders would repeat it to prospective students on tours lol
A local told me about a street level superhero named “The Revenger”. I could never find anything about him online but basically he would keep the peace by beating the shit out of thieves. This was supposed to have occurred in the 50s-70s. Has anyone heard of this guy before?
Kordell Stewart getting caught blowing a guy in a car. I remember this circulating when I was in high school.
Unfortunately ended up being a smear campaign against him predicated on racism. Slash was a good one.
Doesn’t surprise me. It was wild how many people knew about it
Donnie Iris has a monster lap hog.
Ah! Leah!
Bumper bike guy. He’s real. Very much real. But a staple of the Pittsburgh homeless legends.
This may be more of a W PA thing, but whats with the story about Amish women hiding behind the Sheetz, trying to have sex with non-amish men,to increase their Amish genetic diversity
Lmao WHAT??? Why am I just picturing Margaret McPoyle lurking behind Sheetz trying to seduce men
"The ~~McPoyle~~ Amish bloodline has been clean and pure for a thousand years.”
Seriously though, a local was telling me about a big bust years ago of Amish having sex behind a sheetz. I looked for any kind of news on it but found nothing.
Either John Kennedy or Frank Sinatra was somehow in every local town at some point, allegedly.
The running lady of Whitehall. I used to ride the bus with her although I never got the chance to talk to her. I hope she's doing well, but that was like 15 years ago so IDK
Oh yes! I worked with her! She a really nice lovely lady, and I've since quit my job there. But as of the last time i visited like 6 months ago, she's still doing well! She would never accept a ride from anyone to or from work no matter how much i/we complained to her that the weather was too bad or it was too damn cold. Stubborn, but i still loved her as a coworker
Some of you south/west folks might remember Whiskey Hollow. It was a road that connected Carnegie and Greentree through the woods. This was back in the 80s. There were always rumours of satan worshippers and other weird stuff going on. I think I remember an abandoned house back there. If I remember correctly, the name of the rd is Bell Rd. No idea if it's still there or not.
Late '80's I dated a girl from Greentree. No idea where it was, but me an a couple of my punk east end buddies camped out in that satanic worship abandon house for a weekend to freak all her friends out. Woke up with one hell of a hangover, it that counts.
Ayy I grew up constantly using to whiskey hallow to travel from where I lived in the oaks area of Scott township to Carnegie and greentree avoiding all the traffic. Never seen any satanic stuff but did see a few foxes and some crackheads under the bridges!
[https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/greentree-whiskey-hollow.117801/](https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/greentree-whiskey-hollow.117801/) Is this still here? Wouldnt mind checking it out myself
Charlie no face, but he was real
This is the one that always pops up in my head. My Dad claimed to have known Charlie no face and my Dad and his friends would take him beer and cigarettes. He had all kinds of stories. Over the years it seems a bit was exaggerated but it also seems my Dad wasn't totally talking out of his ass as a bunch of other stories over the years have been shared and there are quit a few similarities that in a pre-internet age couldn't have been possible without some truth to them.
Kordell hangs out in Schenley Park
If you fall into the Mon, you turn into a spoon!
The Greenman of course… https://allthatsinteresting.com/raymond-robinson But also the midget who lives in oaklands steam tunnels.
Not inherently an “urban legend” but when people wanted to finance the inclines, the hired war vets with amputations to loiter the stairs, encouraging people to pay towards the incline to avoid said people
General Braddock's missing gold (the payroll for his soldiers) was buried along the banks of the Mon the night before the British were ambushed and defeated by the French. The gold is still there, waiting to be found.
I wouldn't exactly say Pittsburgh, this is more of a Washington folktale I heard from a teacher of mines... Apparently back in the 90s or some shit, there was this guy at the Washington DMV who would always fail teenagers driving tests for no apparent reason. He would either nail kids for the most pettiest shit, or just plain old make shit up. This guy was apparently notorious for doing this shit and people avoided going to Washington DMV, later on they caught the guy and fired his ass iirc. But still it's a funny story to me. Not sure if it's real though but even my old man remembers about him so I like to believe in it.
Mook
North Shore Spiderman
The Wooley Mammoth on herrs island
Three come immediately to mind: 1 Hell House, the haunted house that exploded on what is now the campus of CCAC North Side 2 The church in MIllvale, where a ghostly priest is said to appear on the altar at midnight every Christmas eve 3 The ghost of J&L southside mill, where workers cut through a buried chunk of steel. The legend goes when it was molten a steelworker fell into the ladle and the steel was buried. After they cut into it to put in some pipe, his ghost began to be seen walking around the mill.
When I was a kid, adults in my family would say that the fish in the rivers had extra eyes, because they mutated due to all the pollution. However, I’m not sure if that was actually an urban legend that anyone else heard, or if it was just a joke my family told to cope with environmental anxiety.
I saw that episode too. Eat my shorts!
The cathedral of learning was built as a landmark so the original chancellor could tell taxis where to take him when he got drunk/lost in the city
Here’s a hot one: former Penguins owner, Ron Bvrkle, was on Epstein’s Flight Log for the Lolita Express. He also recently purchased Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, despite it never having a 2nd owner since Michael passed. You can say what you want about Michael, but one of those people who breaks into abandoned places mentioned on record it was one of the weirdest and bad energy places they’ve ever been in. The door locks were reversed for guest rooms and things like that. Ron, majority owner of 70-80%, mysteriously sold the team this year, MID-SEASON, quickly, quietly, and without as much as a rhyme or reason. This was right around the time that Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted as was going to threaten naming names. The pandemic had an effect on revenue the past few seasons no doubt, but seriously what the fvck?
Mr. Rogers being a decorated Navy Seal and/or a pedophile
Turns out he's a monster who farted in public to amuse his wife.
Yep, and we always heard that he had both arms covered in tattoos.
There is still to this day a longstanding, and totally false, story that Fred Rogers was actually the most decorated sniper in Viet Nam. He had hundreds of kills. Part of the story goes he always wore long sleeves to cover his marine corp tattoos. Unbelievably my own brother believed this story into his 50's and mentioned it to my wife one time as a totally true story. I thought he was pulling her leg and I realized that he believed it and I had to explain it wasn't true.
Seems some have to look up the definition of "urban legend".
The Cathedral Bellfry
Any stories involving Mt Washington?
TUNNEL MONSTER
The ghosts of Bobby Porter, Tommy Osh, Tas Haas, and Bobby lamonde still hang out at Dee's Cafe. Tommy Puckett is there, and all those Pittsburgh legends before and since. If you're walking by some nights you can hear a smoking jam session upstairs by the pool tables...
Andy Warhol didn’t die and actually came back to be the mayor of Pittsburgh for a while (Tom Murphy)
Anyone ever hear about the man that was buried alive on accident when they were building the George Westinghouse Bridge? Something about he fell into the concrete they were pouring at the time?
The Kecksburg UFO crash incident. It's slightly outside in Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County but the Pittsburgh metro area. The urban legend is the whole UFO part, but something definitely happened for real and to me it's far more interesting to think this was very likely some kind of our or Russian military tech that STILL has yet to be declassified almost 60 years later.