Seems Ghost like to read when you realize the library's in Homestead, Dormont and Bellevue are said to be haunted

Seems ghosts like to read why else would there be so many ghosts and spirits lurking in them.
The most famous one in W. Pa.  the Carnegie Library in Homestead almost everyone knows about but there are 2 others  not as well known as well as plenty of rumors of others with other world activity's.

http://hauntsandhistory.blogspot.com/2011/11/homestead-carnegie-library.html

The other 2 include the Andrew Bayne Library in Bellevue

http://www.baynelibrary.org/

It is said the ghost of  Amanda Bayne Balph who donated the home seen in photo above from the Library's website  and named the library after her father   has appeared to staff of the library  and she is some times seen with a vie on looking out the window of here 2nd story room . she also has been known to make books apprear and disappear off shelf's when certain titles are looked for and plays games with the lights and the computers.

Then there is the Dormont library where it is said the old Librarian  Mary who ran it for many years s checked on visitors and staff. and caused books to fall of shelf and lights to flicker  until her husband who would come to the library t be closer to her spirit passed and activity's have all but ceased.

http://dormontlibrary.org/

http://www.swpenna.com/item/dormont-library-ghost-pittsburgh/

  The Dormont library along with many from Eastern Pa section are mentioned on website below. 

http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2007/10/haunted-libraries-in-the-us-pennsylvania-texas

It is also said there is activity at library in Lawrenceville in Pittsburgh  and Oakmont

Is there any truth to any of it are these library's really haunted ?  well you will have to visit and find out for your self and sit and enjoy a good book while you are at it. 

Hidden in an alley in Northside of Pittsburgh an old boarded up Building hid a Music Box Service like no where else in the world.

Yes " Telephone Music  "was a service like no other.
You walked in a bar to the Jukebox inserted a quarter then picked up the old  phone  on top of the Juke Box  with out a dial and a lady would ask you the number of the song you wanted to hear and magically it come out of the speaker in the juke box .

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19880807&id=mKtAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vOYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7140,1559731

It lasted some time into the 90's when the  lady you heard on the phone  Helen Reutszel  closed her door in a boarded up building in a back alley for the last time  for a business her dad has created decades  earlier and at one time was in several city's

But stored away in the 2 story walk up was a collection of the music boxes which had the receivers  which tied to the telephone line which made them so unique and after quietly sitting for  decades in an attic a customer of mine found them and is now in the process of rescuing them.   

 Hopefully they will be lovingly restored and the story about Telephone music will go on and not lost to history

 In an interesting side note one of these juke boxes played a pivotal role in a Charlie Chan Movie 1945's "Shanghai Cobra" with Sidney Toler.

The movie can be found on Youtube at following link.  its 47 minutes into movie you will see one of the juke boxes if you fast forward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJgaENlDyx8

This is what one of the boxes looked like in its prime