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| The tour starts here: Posvar Hall |
Order: Go here. Ordering is done on-line. Price: $15. You will not receive a physical ticket. Just give your name to our Ghost Guide when you arrive. YOU CAN ORDER ON-LINE RIGHT UP UNTIL THE TOUR STARTS.
About the Tour: Welcome to what might just be the most haunted neighborhood in Pittsburgh!
When we started to collect the classic ghost stories of Pittsburgh, we fully expected to find that the North Side is Pittsburgh's "most haunted" neighborhood. After all, that's the conclusion others have reached. We, and they, were wrong.
Downtown and Oakland are neck and neck for the honor of "most haunted" neighborhood. That finding shouldn't have surprised us because we've learned that if you want to find ghosts, paradoxically, you've got to go where there's a lot of vitality. Arguably, nowhere in Western Pennsylvania is there more vitality than Oakland. So we decided to bring our ghost tour to the heart of the beast, where we can mingle at the sites that harbor a thousand dark and foreboding secrets about Pittsburgh's macabre past.
About the Tour: Welcome to what might just be the most haunted neighborhood in Pittsburgh!When we started to collect the classic ghost stories of Pittsburgh, we fully expected to find that the North Side is Pittsburgh's "most haunted" neighborhood. After all, that's the conclusion others have reached. We, and they, were wrong.
Downtown and Oakland are neck and neck for the honor of "most haunted" neighborhood. That finding shouldn't have surprised us because we've learned that if you want to find ghosts, paradoxically, you've got to go where there's a lot of vitality. Arguably, nowhere in Western Pennsylvania is there more vitality than Oakland. So we decided to bring our ghost tour to the heart of the beast, where we can mingle at the sites that harbor a thousand dark and foreboding secrets about Pittsburgh's macabre past.
You'll hear names like Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie, Roberto Clemente, Stephen Foster, Andy Warshol, Fred Rogers and Mary Schenley.
We'll even show you where scenes from Silence of the Lambs and The Mothman were filmed.
On our tours, you will not encounter actors donning "period" costumes and trying out silly English accents that fade in and out as the evening wears on; nor will actors wearing goofy make-up jump out of the bushes to scare you; and door knobs most assuredly never transform into the face of Jacob Marley. We have no desire to give your heart a jolt; we much prefer to give your spine a tingle. This is the real deal: we tell good old-fashioned ghost stories, creepy tales--yarns that will get under your skin and leave you feeling a tad uneasy before you shut out the light to go to sleep. Our stories are too good to embellish with cheap theatrics. 
So journey with us back to the Gilded Age of ragtime and of robber barons, of boastful mansions bathed in gaslight, and of a "Millionaire's Row" that was the most exclusive address in America. A writer named James Parton once called Pittsburgh "hell with the lid off." We let our guests decide how accurate that is. But we can assert this without fear of contradiction: our city's character was forged in vicious labor strife and in pig iron furnaces so hot that men and women sometimes forgot their fear of hell. Any town that's experienced the turbulence ours has seen simply can't escape its ghosts, and Pittsburgh is teeming with them.
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| What scary movie, inspired by true events in West Virginia, filmed a scene here, on the grounds of the Cathedral of Learning? |
