An Old Mysterious Building on property my friend bought leads to rediscovery of early navigation system

 My Friend bought a property out near Greater Pittsburgh Airport but on far edge of property sits a mysterious small red brick building  with signs warning FAA  property .

But what did it do ? Its obviously much older than airport which was originally built in 1952 .

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_International_Airport

 

well one thing lead to another and old memory of mine from Baldwin Boro has discovered it was part of an early aerial beacon system  that guided airplanes to airports im talking the old Original Allegheny county Airport in W. Mifflin 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_County_Airport

 

  My childhood memories of 60s  i remembered a strange field of antennas and a green buildings in Baldwin Boro off Streets Run Road  which is now housing . site was similar to image below 

 

It then when all this started coming together along with large arrows on tops of old buildings 

Before modern Radar and GPS   Radio Beacons where used to direct planes as well as arrows on tops of buildings and on ground. 

https://www.airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/guiding-light-airway-beacon-tower

 

 

Even More Events

 

A Line has been Crossed in the Paranormal Community and it Stops Now

 Eric H. Altman of Greensburg has crossed a line no Paranormal Researcher should ever cross.

He is now banned from ever appearing in any Dark Matters platform  

He put up and then later took down a very Humiliating ,Disgusting and degrading meme of a local Paranormal Couple loved by many in the Tri State  .that was screen captured.

He claimed he was hacked but offered no apologies and if he was hacked how did the hacker know this couples names no sorry Eric no one is buying your line of BS  .

You owe them and the paranormal community and apology.

This shit stops today I am tired of hearing the personnel attacks  on Paranormal members and groups.

Just because some one has a different opinion on Bigfoot  being flesh and blood or  multidimensional

etc. They are entitled to there opinion. because we don't know and will not know till one is caught and examined. 

 

Believe it or not at one time you could stop along Pa Turnpike and attend Sunday Church Services

 Yes hard to believe but near New Baltimore Pa you could stop along the turnpike walk up the steps to St Johns Catholic  church and attend Sunday Services 

 For years the church had a non working clock in its tower which was then repaired and put into service by a local volunteer.

But until they expanded the turnpike to 3 lanes in both directions you could attend church till 2007 

 https://www.gribblenation.org/2017/03/the-church-of-turnpike-st-john-baptist.html

 

Upcoming Paranormal Events

 

A forgotten and little know Uprising and Racial Riot by Black Troops during WWII in Mercer County Pa.

 Yes its hard to believe during WWII troops raising there voices in revolt  in the US  but that's exactly what happened in Mercer county. during WWII

While the Port Chicago explosion and revolt is widely known  by black troops and a movie made about how Black troops where mistreated it was the same here .

 It started while troops where training and awaiting deployment to overseas assignments  .

at the Shenango Personnel Replacement depot which later became camp Reynolds  .

which was located near Transfer Pa. which is North of Lake Shenango

https://anothercenturyblog.wordpress.com/2020/10/29/the-shenango-depot-massacre/?sfnsn=mo

 

https://campreynolds.com/history-page/history-page.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Reynolds

 

It was a hot summer and Black Troops where badly mistreated at Camp Reynolds  especially at the PX Store where unlike White Troops which had full use and buying of items  Black Troops where allowed water and a moon pie that was it .

Blacks also where quick to be picked up on a minor Day Pass  violation  or other simple matters. made to wear leg chains when taken to a local restaurant for meals often to be eaten outside if southern officers where eating 

There was also only one small black only theater and if there was room in white theater they had to sit in the back.  

Full Jim Crowe laws where being enforced. It was Mid July 1943

Black Troops had enough and a melee  occurred when they tried to enter the whites only PX 

it was quickly put down by white and black MP who where on duty. 2 soldiers where taken to 

onsite confinement and when those already there on charges heard what happened they broke out and started the fight all over again. This time armed with weapons and in the end 1 black soldier was killed.

but estimates are as high as 35. 

 Rioters where quickly rounded up and sent overseas to fight and its if the incident never happened . very little information or pictures is available. because of this blemish on the US Army Command 

 

 

 

 

Yes those are Seagulls you see flying around the Highland Park Bridge in Pittsburgh

 I have a friend who came down from Erie Pa area where they have plenty of Seagulls which everyone thinks of them as a coastal bird.

Well imagine her surprise when she saw them here in Pittsburgh as she drove over the Highland Park Bridge  here in Pittsburgh during a winter time  to come an visit for the weekend when temps in Erie plunged 20 below zero . 35 degrees did not seem so bad. 

 Yes for decades now a large group of Seagulls makes its winter time home here in Pittsburgh . Thou you mainly see them at the Highland Park Bridge and Lock and Dam where river stays clear of ice occasionally you will find them down at Pittsburgh Point Park as in Picture above 

 When Lake Erie freezes over that's when you see the most gulls they come down to Pittsburgh on holiday and have plenty of fish from Allegheny River  and higher temps than Erie and much less snow usually than Lake Erie area  .

Some have decided to stay year around as they like it here.  So you can imagine peoples surprise when you see one hanging around the Highland Park Bridge .

 Here in photo below they are hanging around  in Mckeesrocks Plaza 

 

Penn Hills Stonehenge Mystery what where these foundations for?

As you ride down Robinson Blvd. in Penn Hills toward Wilkinsburg until this year when they where torn down and ground into land fill  sat strange concrete pillars and foundations which marked a building being

 

 built but was never completed

They deteriorated to point they had to be torn down but what where they for?
 

Well at one time there where plans for a grand church to be built funds where raised and construction started and then stopped restarted and stopped for good. 

The pastor had supposedly absconded with the funds. 

A much smaller church sits above for worship and not sure if its even connected .No one wants to talk about this sad chapter and there are just rumors and whispers .

Now its all gone to be totally forgotten 

Strange looking items around a River Dam in Beaver county .what purpose did the serve and same for the dam

As you take Pa 18 from New Brighton to Beaver Falls you will run across the strange remnants of an other Era.

 

A small dam in the beaver river one of many and even stranger steel  and objects sticking out of it.

The remnants are from the old 10th st bridge which once crossed across the dam .

 But this is only part of the tale the dam is a remnant from the Pennsylvania Canal and  went all the way to Erie at one time.

Most people do not realize we had an extensive canal  system in Pa as well as later railroad and Trolleys

 All Thru Pa and Ohio you will find remnants here and there of the past 

 Sometime deep in the woods .

A forgotten period in History is said Abraham Lincoln secretively traveled along the canal as well 

More than a bridge to visit at Kinzua a newly opened Train museum that's haunted

 Not far from and on same road as  the Kinzua Bridge Visitors Center 2 brothers have developed a small Train Museum and Gift Shop known as The Big Level

The Seasonal Business   

Full of Pictures  Railroad Lanterns and other nostalgia the approx. 3000 sq foot Museum is a fun place to explore With hopes to expand over the next couple years its worth the time to check out .  

 

But besides the history and gifts there is a bonus Haunted Spirit who likes to knock things over and make noises and scare employees and guests .

Is it a railroader who was in an accident along the now abandoned line that runs behind the store or is it of Native American origin? 

Either way it makes for an interesting time . 

I recently came across evidence of a wreck on the line  which could have been close by so who knows either way check them out this summer 

Strange Mysterious brick buildings with Tin roofs in middle of farmers Fields . What did they do or serve in Tristate

 A friend of mine recently purchased a large  property out by Pittsburgh International Airport and had this building on it  Very similar to the building in picture  below located in a farmers field in Washington County Pa.  

 At first we thought it had something to do with the Airport ,but after exhaustive research we could find nothing . No utility said it was theirs either but what could it be.  The family members knew nothing about it and the ancestor who owned the property had long ago passed .

Well after belonging to a FB Group about AT&T Long lines Service  which I was part of in alarm industry back in the McCullough Loop days I finally figured it out after seeing similar pictures posted in that group . Unofficially these buildings are known as K-Carrier Huts or simply K- Huts   and they where part of the Cold War Era AT&T Long lines  communications system which consisted of Hardened  Microwave Tower Sites which served as back up to a multi pair Buried Coaxial Cable which ran all across the country to provide critical phone and video communication and path for certain government Data.

While most of the AT&T Long lines History is available on line including You Tube not much can be found on these huts as some of Landlines is still classified . 

https://telephoneworld.org/long-distance-companies/att-long-distance-network/history-of-att-long-lines/

Thou most of the landlines system was decommissioned in late 90s early 2000s and replaced with fiber-optics and Satellites some of it in more rural areas is still in use.  

What is available to the public is that these K huts as they where known served as Amplification boosters  to the Coaxial system .

When the buildings where decommissioned and sensitive equipment removed they where given to the farmers to use. Most now have started to deteriorate and nothing to see inside.