The Ghost Walking Tour through historic, haunted South Side

Halloween: 7:00 and 8:30 pm

Sat: 11/7 and 11/14: 7:30 pm

Starting from the Carson Street Deli.

1507 East Carson Street. 412-381-5335

Tickets: 15$ purchased at the Carson Street Deli

The tour runs approximately one hour and fifteen minutes.

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A UNIQUE WALKING TOUR THROUGH HISTORIC, AND HAUNTED, SOUTH SIDE, the "workshop of the world," on the picturesque streets between Carson and the Mon. Pittsburgh has been famously called "hell with the lid off." We let our guests decide how accurate that is, but it is beyond dispute that 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 has lived through the turbulence and the tumult we've experienced simply can’t escape its ghosts. If you’re looking for ghost stories, paradoxically, you usually have to go where there’s a high level of vitality, and in Pittsburgh, there's no more vibrant -- or haunted -- neighborhood than South Side. Amidst the unique concentration of mid-Victorian architecture, we have uncovered an unusually high concentration of ghost stories.

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ON THE TOUR, you will hear the supernatural stories about the City Theater, Gypsy Cafe, Lava Lounge, and the Carson Street Deli. We've collected blood-curdling tales of the unexplained about private homes along the way (although we make a point not to intrude on anyone's privacy). And we can't forget the mills: steel is imprinted on our town's DNA, so it's understandable that the ghosts of the mills provide for some Pittsburgh's creepiest tales -- from the strange apparition of Slag Pile Annie to the downright ghastly apparition of Jim Grabowski. The walk provides a one-of-a-kind panorama of the Bluff, so we regale our guests with the amazing ghost tales of Duquesne University and Mercy Hospital. Journey with us back to the Gilded Age of robber barons and of boastful mansions and relive the terrifying story that can't be left out of any Pittsburgh ghost tour, the tale about "the most haunted house in America," 1129 Ridge Avenue in old Allegheny West (alas, there is no walking tour at that location because it's just an empty lot now).

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OUR PRINCIPAL GHOST GUIDE is the undisputed Godfather of Pittsburgh tour guides, historian and raconteur Woody Cunningham -- read about him here.

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