It was a nondescript apartment building which sat behind the local KFC restaurant which I often stopped at beside an electrical supply house I purchased from as well. and got lunch at when working that part of town The building sat on Wallace Ave 2 nondescript apartment buildings side by side . Over time one on right where things got out of hand became a public parking lot.
However the property would become a heated battle ground which saw the posting of guards to protect it front and back in a little known war between Muslim factors and neighbors in the 1980's in Wilkinsburg.
Apparently when the Muslims moved in they where not welcome to the point some one threw a fire bomb at the building causing damage thats when the guards members of the community in Muslim guard stood and protected the small community. What started it and what ended it I do not know very little was ever written about it . I talked to them a couple times always receptive to me we discussed our faiths the weather or what ever. I never saw them as a threat but apparently others in the community did. These where peaceful Muslims yes they do exist but like even in the christian faith there are those who take the word of god like extreme fundamentalists and the KKK who use there christian religion to hurt others just what has happened in the Muslim faith .
Then one day when I went to the supply house I found the guards where gone and building boarded up they had moved on. to where I do not know . The building sat empty several years and was then bulldozed and made into a parking lot .
I hope where ever they have moved they have been able to find peace in there lives.
An Investigation and Inquiry into Unsolved Crimes, Mystery's , The Bizarre ,Macabre,Unusual and just strange events and unique properties and buildings which played a part in or that have occurred in Tri State Area
They say the Miners are still working their shift at the Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown Pa.
The Johnstown area has seen more than its shares of disasters , floods ,explosions and accidents
over the past 200 years from 3 disastrous floods to tragic trolley and train accidents to deaths in its steel mills and manufacturing plants. But one disaster is little remembered and thats the Rolling Mill mine disaster which happened over 100 years ago.
As you drive down Pa 56 into Johnstown you see the magnificent Inclined Plane which rescued towns people during the floods but almost right beside it a disastrous coal mine explosion in the Rolling Mill Mine which took 112 men and boys lives occurred on July 10 1902
Thou the mines shafts have been sealed off after the mines workings played out you can still visit the shaft which has a partial opening and some claim see ghost miners walking that same trail
There is a Youtube Video which documents the mine and its haunting
over the past 200 years from 3 disastrous floods to tragic trolley and train accidents to deaths in its steel mills and manufacturing plants. But one disaster is little remembered and thats the Rolling Mill mine disaster which happened over 100 years ago.
As you drive down Pa 56 into Johnstown you see the magnificent Inclined Plane which rescued towns people during the floods but almost right beside it a disastrous coal mine explosion in the Rolling Mill Mine which took 112 men and boys lives occurred on July 10 1902
What made this event even more tragic where those who died trying to save the miners who where trapped in the only portal into the mine it was one of the largest mines in US with only one entrance way..
There is a Youtube Video which documents the mine and its haunting
As well as a 100th commemoration video of the accident.
To think of the horror that day of the explosion you are a newly arrived immigrant in a strange land now stuck in complete darkness awaiting your last breath. Company's did not care if you died few followed safety regulations and mine inspectors where often bribed No one cared and in many cases it was not known who the miner even was or if he had family often times death tolls where much higher bcuse mines collapsed and it was not even known who all was working that day.
They say some Patrons never left The Oaks Theatre in Oakmont Pa. ?
In the beautiful little town of Oakmont Pa. one of the few river
towns along the Allegheny River left untouched by the blight that hit
other towns when the mills closed is a small venue Theater called the
oaks.http://theoakstheater.com/
Thou it started as a small traditional Film theater in the 40's it would see its ups and downs with the economy but was recently rescued in past decade and is now a live performance and film theater along with a dinning room.
http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourallekiskivalley/yourallekiskivalleymore/6412613-74/theater-oaks-wichryk
Thou it started as a small traditional Film theater in the 40's it would see its ups and downs with the economy but was recently rescued in past decade and is now a live performance and film theater along with a dinning room.
http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourallekiskivalley/yourallekiskivalleymore/6412613-74/theater-oaks-wichryk
But
of course when they close up for the evening Staff and guests claim
not everyone has left. with doors closing by them selves and all the
spooky stuff that goes with it.
Thats why Oakmont Paranormal Society Which I am a member was recently called in to conduct an investigation in the theater.
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OPS at oaks during haunted Oaks Theater event |
While it was believed at first
one of the spirits of a Burglar who broke into the theater and was
shot and presumed killed by the theater owners son
This
has proved to not be the case he survived although some investigators
say traces of that violent event could still linger
However
after I started doing some research for the group I found a 45 yr old
gentleman from Fox Chapel a well to do town across the river from
Oakmont died of a heart attack in the lobby.
I
also found some other interesting facts on the burglar he was going to
use Nitroglycerin to blow the safe they belive he stole from a farmer.
Plus the name of the thief is similar to that of Criminals who blew up
and attacked an armored car carrying a payroll to a coal mine near
South Park So that may be where he learend his skills.
I
have to do some further digging on this issue. But in the mean time
oakmont Paranormal while conducting there investigation did find signs
of paranormal activity and will be releasing a report shortly of what
all they found.
A haunted Cemetery in Wintersville Ohio with an interesting Confederate Army Connection
My Father In Law recently passed and in cleaning out his basement I had a load of scrap metal that needed recycled on my way back to the scrap yard I came across a well maintained but very old cemetery and came to find it played a very important part in Civil War History seems in 1834 The Cross Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery was started but in 1863 it was the site of an encampment of Confederate troops commanded by General John Morgan. Yes that John Morgan and his Raiders seems they spent the night in the cemetery on their way riding thru and terrorizing Ohio residents they would be forced to surrender the next day.
But to make this cemetary even more interesting is the fact it is suposedly haunted as noted in this excerpt from The Ohio Exploration Society Website
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At the end of Cross Creek Road (Fernwood Road) is an old cemetery where
a white figure is reported to have been seen wandering under the trees
among tombstones. The figure is usually reported as female and is
visible from the road. The cemetery used to be a popular place to park,
but few couples go there more than once after hearing strange moaning
sounds there. The ghost is not always visible. Trespassers often report
feeling that they are being watched or sometimes hear someone following
them. The origin of the cemetery’s ghost is unknown.
Never know what you will find riding down those lonely country roads.
But to make this cemetary even more interesting is the fact it is suposedly haunted as noted in this excerpt from The Ohio Exploration Society Website
Never know what you will find riding down those lonely country roads.
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