A secret restaurant hidden inside a Pittsburgh Steel Mill.

 No one seems to know his last name other than they called him The Greek  and he ran a little Hole in the Wall Restaurant maybe 8x10 feet  with in the J&L - LTV Hazelwood Coke Works  in Pittsburgh

My dad use to talk about the great Pies he made for Steel Workers  or getting a hot cup of coffee after fixing an electrical problem down on the river dock  where coal was brought in and coke shipped out on a cold winter day.

 

I have done all kind of research and can not find any information on the Greek or pictures of his little restaurant, but his little restaurant did exist.

There where many of these little hole in the wall restaurants all over Pittsburgh and W. Pa region at one time.

 One was Kathy's"s ?  up on 5th floor of the Investment building  on 4th st. for many years till it closed in late 80s. 

They would have a daily special and standard hot dog and hamburgers along with breakfast sandwich

Reasonable price good tasting and served quickly.

Its a shame most are now closed the owner long retired or deceased and short order type cooking skills 

required to run such a place are getting to be a lost art.  Besides the cost of trying to comply with health codes and be profitable. 

You never know how good it was back then till its gone. 

 

 

So what was The Green thing 4 young boys encountered in New Kensington Pa.

 It was in March of 1981 and some boys where  playing around some street sewer openings along Constitution Blvd in New Kensington which has railroad tracks running along it .

When they claim they spotted and had captured for a brief moment some Green Cryptid looked like a baby dinosaur.

https://archive.triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/new-kensington-green-thing-legend-resurfaces-online/

 

 That took off back down the sewer after escaping a headlock one of the boys had on it.

A local paper got involved and wrote a story on it  as well as  a local UFO Buff  Bob Goerman  even investigated the case but found nothing and it has not been seen since.

Just like the Flat Woods Monster.

Now where the boys just making up story's like the Clowns in the Woods or the Wood Chopper  or was there something really to it. 

I was doing some work down there around the time this happened and everyone just laughed it off.

Today hopefully some local Cryptid Investigator would be immediately called and evidence gathered but back in 81 everyone most likely thought it a story the kids made up. 

But this is not the first time such story's of strange creatures appearing in W. Pa. there are hundreds of documented cases still open as to what was really seen.

One of the many rumors of the time is the creature would return after 40 years sounds like something taken from the X files TV show. 

That means this is the year it should return but nobody has seen or mentioned it.

Was Big Foot hiding and stocking prey around the Old Wildwood Coal Mine in Hampton Twp Pa.?

 

 The Wild Wood Mine  in Hampton Twp off Wild Wood Road which was established in late 1800s  has a serious and dangerous bend which has since been eliminated   has had a history of violence and accidents one of most serious incidents a miner shot and killed by police during a protest in 1931 

https://redpgh.com/?p=363

 

So something strange happening there would not be unusual and that's exactly what happened   On a Saturday  afternoon in 1974  a retired  Wild Wood Coal  Miner was walking in the woods when he encountered a rather large at first what he thought was a bear .

well over 500 pounds it stood tall than a bear and had more human like features . 

https://www.reddit.com/r/bigfoot/comments/jazyof/is_bigfoot_hiding_in_wildwood_mine_1974/

 

https://newspaperarchive.com/north-hills-news-record-mar-30-1974-p-1/

 

But back then no one really heard or knew what a Big Foot was until  shows like Leonard Nimoys" In Search  of " started talking about it. This is not the first time that Coal mines and Big foot seem to have a connection there is even a theory that Big foot uses the old mines tunnels all over W. Pa.  to travel back and forth. many a miner will tell of strange encounters with beats and cryptids in and around mines so big foot is no surprise

To my knowledge this is only known report of a sighting at this particular mine. and there has been no further reported activity .

 In the 70s into early 90s a large Flea market operated in the old coal mine buildings along with other businesses 

The wild wood mine closed in the 50s and left behind a large Gob or Bony Pile as they are known which had a fire going in it  and in 1980s  and was cleaned up  and recycled as bio heat by a firm in Buffalo NY.

 

Probably all the activity to clean up the gob pile kept big foot away  

after the flea market closed it has been home to several different businesses including a fitness center and auto parts distributor.

Regarding that sharp bend by the mine a side story was told me back in 70s by a long since passed away Pa. Fish Commissioner  / Law Enforcer. named Charlie  that when he was a young man on his way  to North Park along Wild wood road he picked up a young girl who was hitch hiking  and end up she pulled a knife on him and was going to rob him she made him speed up and he hit that bend at 70 mph how he ever got around it in one pice i will never know. but it was so hard of a turn the girl slid away from him and he was able to slam on brakes and she went sailing against dash and he disarmed her, 

True story who knows but that road has plenty of tragic accidents along it as well as flooding