A Big Thank You to John Shalcosky of
The Odd ,Mysterious and Fascinating History of Pittsburgh
For bringing this story to light.
Water Goblins you say? Yes that's what young boys claimed lead to the drowning deaths of up to nine youth at a now filled in and built on Bruce's Pond off corner of Beechwood Blvd and Dallas Street near Frick Park
They claimed at midnight the creatures would rise from the ponds icy cold water
While the drownings actually happened the Water Goblin appears to have no fact to it.
Yet 9 children did looses their lives which is high but many of these long gone ponds around Pittsburgh can be very deep and slippery shoreline a child could easily slide in and drown.
That's why so many Ponds and lakes around Pittsburgh are where drained and filled in Like Silver Lake in East Liberty ,and if a story was made up to keep the kids away all the better.
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