We are the archivists of Pittsburgh's nightmares, the trustees of its greatest ghost stories and of all things that go bump in the night in Western Pennsylvania. Our region is a veritable treasure trove of the unexplained and the macabre, but few people tell Pittsburgh's great ghost stories nowadays because there are so few venues for it. We created Haunted Pittsburgh to fill that void. Our interest in Pittsburgh's supernatural, sometimes grisly, sometimes ghastly, past led to years of research to compile the greatest Pittsburgh ghost yarns stretching from the French and Indian War all the way through present day.
Pittsburgh has been famously called "hell with the lid off." We let our guests decide how accurate that is, but it's 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.
Journey with us back to the Gilded Age of ragtime and of robber barons, of boastful mansions and of a "Millionaire's Row" that was the most exclusive address in America. Relive the terrifying stories of two Allegheny West homes where unspeakable horrors occurred. One of them was widely regarded as the "most haunted house in America," and for good reason -- alas, it is no more: it was destroyed in the famous Equitable Gas explosion of 1927. The other is still haunted to this day.
Thrill to the other-worldly tale, which also happened to be the biggest news story in the nation at the time, about the
attempt to kill steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, "the most hated man in America," and how, according to Mr. Frick himself, it was thwarted by a ghostly apparition. (
Here is the present day site of the building where Frick was almost killed -- on Fifth Avenue across from One PNC Plaza.) And feel the goose bumps rise as we tell you about the spirits that still inhabit
Clayton, Mr. Frick's East End mansion.
Join as we try to solve the riddle of whether Harry K. Thaw killed the celebrated architect Stanford White in 1906 to avenge his wife Evelyn Nesbitt's honor, or because a spirit possessed him and commanded him to do it. The shocking crime resulted in the "trial of the century."
Allow us to regale you with stories that will make your blood run cold about the
Johnstown Flood; the premonition of
Roberto Clemente's death; Mrs. Soffel's deadly romance with Ed Biddle, leader of the "Chloroform Gang"; the sad spectre keeping watch over
Fallingwater; the infamous mystery concerning the crash of the B-25 bomber in the Mon; the UFO witnessed by dozens of Pittsburghers in 1978; even Liberace's brush with the supernatural when he nearly died in Pittsburgh in 1963, and many, many more.
We are constantly updating our research. If you have a lead you'd be willing to share with us about a Western Pennsylvania ghost, write to us at
hauntedpittsburgh@rocketmail.com
Halloween: 7:00 and 8:30 pm 
Haunted Pittsburgh's Woody Cunningham, the undisputed dean of Pittsburgh tour guides, was a guest on Pittsburgh Today Live on October 28, 2009. Woody explained our South Side walking tour and told stories about the house next to City Theater in South Side, 1129 Ridge Avenue, Byers Hall, and the Aviary.
