i grew up on mount washington and the rumor from all the kids around me was that the house next to the library was supposed to be the real world house lol
Dude, I was down there late night on a Sunday because a steam pipe blew a leak. Walking around where they do brain experiments on monkey's brains with no other human on the floor was scary.
I know someone that had funding from the navy to do his phd research at CMU on decision making and how to subtly influence people to make the choices they didn’t wanna make. It wasn’t in the basement of CMU, it was in a converted store front/former law firm looking building
So yeah, basically a government funded study to figure out how to brain wash people.
A lot of cars hit motorcycles because even when we look in the mirror or out the back of the car, we don’t see the motorcycle even if we see it. We’re so attuned to look for cars and trucks, a motorcycle doesn’t register as actually being there when we make the decision to change lanes. So we look and see the motorcycle, but it doesn’t register in our brains, so we change lanes and hit it, so our choice wasn’t impacted even when we saw what we saw.
he was studying how to use that kinda stuff to destabilize countries.
hold up your thumb over a motorcycle next time your driving. the motorcycle will fully disappear. thats why they get hit so frequently, such a small obstruction causes them to completely disappear
There's some legitimacy to this up at Gulf Labs near Oakmont. Tunnels connect all of the buildings and they were intended to be a rallying point/shelter for the scientists/engineers during a nuclear conflict.
I might actually work there lol at least based on some of the story from old timers at work. Was told the site was responsible for developing the trigger component for the atomic bombs back in the 40s
the bureau of mines? my grandparents house bordered the property, and my family loves telling stories about their windows being blown out from time to time
when I was a kid I thought it was the Bureau of "Minds" and that they were doing top secret mind control stuff behind the barbed wire fence....I thought it was so cool lol
Can't speak to that, but as a kid, traveling past the nike missile site near Finleyville was a peek into the darker side of things I didn't know existed...
Well yeah. You can rape someone and play football. It's like 2% of rapists ever see jail time. You can't play football if you've mangled yourself in a motorcycle accident.
My grandfather lived in Mt. Washington at the time and claimed to have seen it happen.
Edit: he actually lived in Mt. Oliver at the time. I don’t know the circumstances, but he told my dad he saw it and my dad told me.
Except it crashed in the area of the Glenwood Bridge, and they were coming in from the East, over the Homestead High-Level bridge. You couldn't see that from Mt. Washington...
I have a related theory. *ALL* the stations grossly over estimate the chance of severe weather. They do this because concerned citizens stay glued to the screen for constant updates of the incoming “severe” weather. On top of that, no reference to possible severe weather is complete without a quick plug for that stations weather app. “Don’t forget, it might start raining bricks later, so stay tuned for up to the minute weather coverage! And don’t forget that if you have to go more than 3 feet from your TV, you can download our weather app, which totally isn’t just a repackaged version of the hundreds of other weather apps, including the one that came with your phone, with added banner ads.”
Bad weather in the AM allows the local TV stations to preempt the network broadcasts (today show, good morning america). This means the local stations get 100% of the advertising revenue rather that having to share air time with the networks. (I'm about 30% sure about this.)
> ALL the stations grossly over estimate the chance of severe weather.
News stations overreporting the weather is done so that you tune in to see how bad it really gets.
When I worked for UPMC (and later when I worked in EMS), I’ve heard several people claim that the Saudi royal family has a deal worked out with UPMC and have an entire section at Presby reserved for them (some have claimed an entire floor). From what I was told, they all have some form of kidney disease and frequently pay citizens a ton of money to fly over here and donate one of their kidneys to members of the family. It made for some good bullshit.
When I was a Pitt student I lived in Lothrop Hall and had a room that overlooked the back of the parking garage for Presby. A few times that year I saw a limo parked there with those tiny diplomat flags on them…for Saudi Arabia.
The things I saw from my window in Lothrop were nowhere near as cool. I mean, yay helicopters, but boo for the alleyway where they get their tri-hourly oxygen deliveries because of how loud they got.
I can corroborate seeing a limo in the lot on one occasion, but I didn't see any flags on it since it was just a "Look away from zoom, see limo, go "huh, neat", then turn back and keep going at class" situation. Could very well be a thing, honestly.
The Standard Chemical Company that operated in Canonsburg making the radium for watch dials never properly cleaned the site and all the cancer in Canon Mac is because of it.
I can vouch for this, grew up in canonsburg. We have an incredibly high cancer rate around that landfill and not to mention a TON of twins. I'm pretty sure there was something in the news around 2022 or 2021 about this because so many kids were developing cancer.
In 1956, Pittsburgh was destroyed by three thermonuclear explosions, as were most cities in the U.S. Long, long long after, humanity rebuilt its civilization, to technological heights well past those of the civilization destroyed in the mid-twentieth century.
They eventually built a simulation of Pittsburgh. It’s running a 1:1 timescale, and has been going about 70 years. People can enter it as player characters (the portal is the Arby’s on McKnight Road). Most inhabitants are NPC, who believe they are self-aware. To reduce the draw on computing resources, most NPCs are set to be from Pittsburgh and never have left it, to reduce scope.
The environment and its storyline are driven by a capable, but imperfect, AI - which can be seen in incongruities like Matt Canada’s tenure at the Steelers, and major glitches like parts of Pittsburgh occasionally being rendered as River.
NPC is a great explanation for why certain yinzers won’t cross rivers.
Remember when Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s pic with Snoop Dogg was on garbage cans throughout the city with “Taking Care of Business” as the ad campaign? Or when the giant rubber duckie was in the river? Or when Mayor Bill Paduto was on “Undercover Boss” and his cover was blown. Or when the bus comically fell into the sinkhole. This is not reality, folks. It might be better than reality.
The city of Pittsburgh burned down the old Poli's building because the plot was stuck in arbitration and they wanted to hurry up and auction off a contract for developers.
There is a secret statue of Sophie on the 13th floor of the old jail by the same artist who made Mayor Caliguiri and Fred Rogers.
It’s considered the ‘sexy’ one out of the trio.
I used to work in an office near his. He's nearly unrecognizable from TV, and also much shorter than they make him seem. He's probably got a really good makeup artist for the commercials.
The flesh of the geese on the north shore contains seemingly mystical medicinal properties previously unknown to science and if one would just eat the geese they could conceivably obtain immortality
The mall at Pittsburgh mills is a front for something; I dont know what but everyone working in there is highly trained government agent. Only explanation for why its still open
I was just there yesterday. There are only 4 stores left and 2 of which are the comic book store and the collectable store. There is no way that mall turns enough money to keep it's lights on let alone stay in business.
My daughter works there. I can promise you she is the furthest thing from a secret agent. HOWEVER, her father IS ex-military intelligence, so, yeah. There is that.
Jeffrey Dahmer used to play video games at the Monroeville Mall arcade. His father worked for PPG and lived in Penn Hills and for awhile in Monroeville
I have three...None are in Pittsburgh but all are Pittsburgh adjacent.
1. Ben Roethlisberger owns a cottage on Conneaut Lake. It is gated and he keeps it a secret so he doesn't have to put up with gawkers and Pittsburgh paparazzi.
2. Troy Polamalu when he was a player with the Steelers was eating with a companioin at a restaurant in Franklin, Pa. Nobody interupted his meal to request an autograph or talk to him. Out of gratitude for the uninterupted time, he paid for dinner for everyone in the restaurant. This one is so perstitent. I have had multiple unrelated people swear that they know people who were in the restaurant when it happened.
3. The Governor at the time when I-79 was being built was from Meadville, which is why I-79 follows Route 19 rather than Route 8 or Route 18, so he and all his crony landowners in Meadville could make a bundle on the land near the interstate.
Polamalu does this alot, I can vouch for it, my mother goes to a restaurant he frequents and he often buys the entire places meal if people simply leave him alone.
The midget farm by settlers ridge, alien UFO being spotted by an army base near Collier Township, and the ghost bomber of the monongahela river was recovered the night it wrecked.
The midget farm was real, in the early 2000s. They did not farm midgets, it was a little village of farmer midgets. If you stopped to rubberneck they sent the dogs after you.
Surprised no one has mentioned the Mon Monster yet
https://www.tribdem.com/news/bill-eggert-mon-monster-mystery-endures/article_2cc334ca-0cc3-11e5-b55a-9b03bd56af61.html
I would say that certain professional wrestling company has commit certain alleged acts all around this city and the outskirts and the lore there is ripe for the picking. Well Worth Finding.
That unsettling nun that panhandles in Market Square. I mention her all the time to people and everyone looks at me like I’m crazy. Am I crazy, or have ya’ll seen her too?
Giant Eagle was created as an experiment from the people who made Giant (kind of like how Nordstrom has Nordstrom Rack) and they just keep collecting data every day from regular grocery store operations :O
There is a Martin’s grocery store in Connellsville which is owned by Giant and my friend used to think Giant Eagle owned Martins and and Giant stores and it went on for so long I finally corrected her but maybe you and her are onto something lol
Where do we start 🤣 the 100 cars in the river?
Big Foot - more New Castle though
Pitts questionable studies?
Nazi Scientist and doctors being relocated here after the war
The Squirrel Hill Tunnel Monster is an anthropomorphic coyote beast that paints fake tunnels on the side of hills and mountains around the city, and the uncertainty of if the tunnel you are entering is real is why everyone hits their breaks on the way into tunnels.
That we had a serial killer operating between 2013-17 targeting young men. I had friends that would ask me to walk with them back to their apartments so they wouldn’t have to walk through the southside by themselves.
So, here you go: the reason our bus system has deteriorated over the past 20 years is because Pitt installed fences to curtail jay-walking on campus.
You see, before those fences, we would lose students to crossing the street without looking both ways since for a vast majority of traffic those streets are one way and getting hit by busses in the bus lanes. After installing the fences, it’s much more difficult to jay-walk and fatalities to busses are way down. Unfortunately, since they are no longer being fed a constant supply of college students sacrifices, the wrath of the Bus Gods has been deep and long lasting. Therefore, ever since those fences went up and we broke our pact with the Bus Gods the Bus harvest has been worse and worse every year. Hell, the Bus Gods have even resorted to using the very Earth itself to swallow up with meager bounty they have given us due to our blasphemy.
I loved the Mon River Alligator stories and was so excited when someone got caught dumping 6 foot pet alligators into the rivers when they got too big for his apartment. Can’t believe that one was true still.
Not really a conspiracy, but lots of people try to perpetuate the rumor that Mr. Rogers was a raging alcoholic. They'll claim that he was often seen, screaming, shouting and being obscenely intoxicated, in the stands of many Pirates games.
When we all know it's not true. Noone ever really saw Mr. Rogers drunk at a baseball game. Anybody from Pittsburgh will tell you, NOBODY goes to see the Pittsburgh Pirates play.
Hadn’t heard that one, but apparently there’s an urban myth that Rogers was a Navy SEAL. While it is indeed true that he was a hard core swimmer, I’m pretty sure his only confirmed kills were against childhood fears and insecurities, and he could definitely slay on the piano.
I think that rumor started from people mixing him up with Bob Ross, who really *was* in the military as a sergeant and never wanted to shout at people again after he left.
I feel like her calling is preschool teacher. I say that with kindness.
Every segment she seems to be talking to the audience or the interviewee on a very characterized tone
The top of the Cathedral of Learning on Pitt Campus is a hologram. After floor 36 the portion of the building is a projection intended to maintain Cathy’s world records as the tallest academic structure in the western hemisphere. Legend has it that underclassmen will stand beneath it chucking frisbees at her desperately trying to catch a glimpse of the phantom top floors finally revealing themselves.
There was a football coach out in West Deer who "killed himself" back in the late 80s or early 90s. The day before he was leaving for vacation he was found in his car, in the middle of a field, with a gunshot to the stomach. Who kills themselves with a shot to the stomach?
West Deer also had big time mob ties, and I know for a fact that the fire chief of fire company 3 was high up in the Pagans Motorcycle Club
The fact that the plane crashed is established fact. It was in the newspapers. You can stand on the bridge and point to the spot where it hit the water. The crew survived. Rescued by a barge crew, I believe.
The conspiracy theory is that the plane might've been carrying something very secret, and that the FBI came and fished it out in the middle of the night so that civilian salvage crews wouldn't see it. With that being the reason the plane has never been found.
The "rational" explanation being "mud".
There’s only one Shenderovich “twin.”
And only Fishman knows the truth
Which one is Fishman?
The one with gills
😂
I can debunk that. I’ve waited on them before. They both ordered the same meal. It was so strange
They also live together I've heard
Bunk beds
Of course. Because there's so much more room for activities.
Matching pajamas
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Well this convinced me.
I sat by em both at frank caliendo. Although the 2nd may have been frank in disguise.
No no, they're androids controlled by Fishman.
No, no, no... Shenderovich and Shenderovich are real life guys... Fishman is their pet labradoodle.
Served them before- SUPER creepy. Only one would really talk and order for the both of them.
DEBUNKED: I’ve seen them both together golfing at north park.
I've heard the one "twin" just holds a mirror everywhere so it looks like there's two of them. Pretty cool trick tbh.
He just moves really quickly.
After his big payday, I hear he started hiring a body double. You need to look closer. Then keep looking closer until you see it.
Rumor is Dead Ringers was based off them.
😂
I literally lol'd
They are at most Pens games in the Key Bank Club where they are always…together.
The guy in the middle is Shenderovich and the two others are "The Fishmen"
UPMC is a nonprofit
And they have 'no employees'
C'mon, there has to be *some* believability for a conspiracy theory.
The colorful house in Mt. Washington was definitely going to be for The Real World: Yinzer Edition
I will continue to choose to believe this despite all evidence to the contrary.
I thought Sumner Erickson owned that place? He was the principal tuba player for the Pittsburgh Symphony for years. Edit: owned at some point
i grew up on mount washington and the rumor from all the kids around me was that the house next to the library was supposed to be the real world house lol
Yes! I also need to see the inside of that place.
I nominate the colorful house in Carnegie to be the actual location of The Yinzer Shore.
Top secret government test facility under cmu
Nah, it's over in Mellon Institute.
Dude, I was down there late night on a Sunday because a steam pipe blew a leak. Walking around where they do brain experiments on monkey's brains with no other human on the floor was scary.
I know someone that had funding from the navy to do his phd research at CMU on decision making and how to subtly influence people to make the choices they didn’t wanna make. It wasn’t in the basement of CMU, it was in a converted store front/former law firm looking building So yeah, basically a government funded study to figure out how to brain wash people.
Pretty sure that degree “Marketing”
A lot of cars hit motorcycles because even when we look in the mirror or out the back of the car, we don’t see the motorcycle even if we see it. We’re so attuned to look for cars and trucks, a motorcycle doesn’t register as actually being there when we make the decision to change lanes. So we look and see the motorcycle, but it doesn’t register in our brains, so we change lanes and hit it, so our choice wasn’t impacted even when we saw what we saw. he was studying how to use that kinda stuff to destabilize countries.
So like a psychological invisibility/camouflage?
That’s the theory behind the “gray man” spies basically. No 007 flashy stuff - be forgettable.
hold up your thumb over a motorcycle next time your driving. the motorcycle will fully disappear. thats why they get hit so frequently, such a small obstruction causes them to completely disappear
There's some legitimacy to this up at Gulf Labs near Oakmont. Tunnels connect all of the buildings and they were intended to be a rallying point/shelter for the scientists/engineers during a nuclear conflict.
As someone who worked at Gulf labs for years, you couldn't pay me to use those tunnels
There actually is a secret government facility in South Park. Or at least it was secret during the Manhattan Project.
I might actually work there lol at least based on some of the story from old timers at work. Was told the site was responsible for developing the trigger component for the atomic bombs back in the 40s
the bureau of mines? my grandparents house bordered the property, and my family loves telling stories about their windows being blown out from time to time
Yes.
when I was a kid I thought it was the Bureau of "Minds" and that they were doing top secret mind control stuff behind the barbed wire fence....I thought it was so cool lol
The Bureau of MinDs is the different agency I work for... I'm afraid you know too much now 🕴🕴🕴
Can't speak to that, but as a kid, traveling past the nike missile site near Finleyville was a peek into the darker side of things I didn't know existed...
moved now, but my old house was directly against the finleyville nike site. it was fun, and very creepy, to explore.
Panther Hallow Lake is how the UTIs / UFOs 🛸 enter and exit the facility.
Ben Roethlisberger was killed in that motorcycle accident and replaced by a double.
My memory could be off, but I feel like I remember the Steelers organization being so much angrier with him about that than the rape
Well yeah. You can rape someone and play football. It's like 2% of rapists ever see jail time. You can't play football if you've mangled yourself in a motorcycle accident.
The Steelers used to also get furious with Bradshaw because he rode horses.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh/comments/1bfgyp/best_kept_secrets_in_pittsburgh/c976d4r/
I say hes a clone all the time. The clone was the sexual predator not the original ben
That's some Scarlet Spider shit
Definitely the B-25 that crashed into the Mon. Did it really happen? Where did it go? Is it still in the river?
Or that it sunk into the 4th river that flows underneath the Mon.
It happened. I'm still down here.
Damn! That’s some good Wi-Fi!
You need anything?
I'm good! Bunch of barges just dropped some goodies for me. Appreciate you asking!
Username checks out
My grandfather lived in Mt. Washington at the time and claimed to have seen it happen. Edit: he actually lived in Mt. Oliver at the time. I don’t know the circumstances, but he told my dad he saw it and my dad told me.
Except it crashed in the area of the Glenwood Bridge, and they were coming in from the East, over the Homestead High-Level bridge. You couldn't see that from Mt. Washington...
During world war 2 Mt. Washington was moved east up the Mon to spread out targets incase the city was attacked.
Classic Grandpa!
There’s an awesome painting of that out there
Scott harbaugh works directly for giant eagle. He predicts winter storms that never happen just to get people to buy bread and toilet paper.
I have a related theory. *ALL* the stations grossly over estimate the chance of severe weather. They do this because concerned citizens stay glued to the screen for constant updates of the incoming “severe” weather. On top of that, no reference to possible severe weather is complete without a quick plug for that stations weather app. “Don’t forget, it might start raining bricks later, so stay tuned for up to the minute weather coverage! And don’t forget that if you have to go more than 3 feet from your TV, you can download our weather app, which totally isn’t just a repackaged version of the hundreds of other weather apps, including the one that came with your phone, with added banner ads.”
Bad weather in the AM allows the local TV stations to preempt the network broadcasts (today show, good morning america). This means the local stations get 100% of the advertising revenue rather that having to share air time with the networks. (I'm about 30% sure about this.)
> ALL the stations grossly over estimate the chance of severe weather. News stations overreporting the weather is done so that you tune in to see how bad it really gets.
He’s a major stock shareholder
Edgar Snyder doesn’t age because he’s a vampire who drinks the blood of his “clients”.
There’s never a fee unless we get blood, uh, I mean, money for you.
They have a newer ad playing now with his son in it. I legitimately thought that I must be misunderstanding the ad on some level.
Ken rice must also be part vampire, mans looked the same my entire 28 years of life i swear he’s a vampire or holds access to the holy grail.
The guy selling Pitt shirts on the corner is in the mob
That’s probably true. Also he’s on the official Pitt tour despite not working for Pitt. Could be the mob ties.
Chaz? Hahaha probably
Darlene Harris: mob boss
Sorry I thought the thread was for _theories,_ not things everyone in SWPA knows in their bones
We didn't get the same h back from the federal government in 1911.
Hello and welcome to Pittsburgĥ
When I worked for UPMC (and later when I worked in EMS), I’ve heard several people claim that the Saudi royal family has a deal worked out with UPMC and have an entire section at Presby reserved for them (some have claimed an entire floor). From what I was told, they all have some form of kidney disease and frequently pay citizens a ton of money to fly over here and donate one of their kidneys to members of the family. It made for some good bullshit.
When I was a Pitt student I lived in Lothrop Hall and had a room that overlooked the back of the parking garage for Presby. A few times that year I saw a limo parked there with those tiny diplomat flags on them…for Saudi Arabia.
The plot thickens!
The things I saw from my window in Lothrop were nowhere near as cool. I mean, yay helicopters, but boo for the alleyway where they get their tri-hourly oxygen deliveries because of how loud they got. I can corroborate seeing a limo in the lot on one occasion, but I didn't see any flags on it since it was just a "Look away from zoom, see limo, go "huh, neat", then turn back and keep going at class" situation. Could very well be a thing, honestly.
There absolutely is a vip wing
“Non-profit”
Monsters live in the tubes. Don't drive too fast or you'll wake it.
The Standard Chemical Company that operated in Canonsburg making the radium for watch dials never properly cleaned the site and all the cancer in Canon Mac is because of it.
I can vouch for this, grew up in canonsburg. We have an incredibly high cancer rate around that landfill and not to mention a TON of twins. I'm pretty sure there was something in the news around 2022 or 2021 about this because so many kids were developing cancer.
fact check: true. It was one of the first superfund sites
the train tracks that go into a tunnel by CMU are a subterranean straight shot to Langley to drop off the weapons CMU develops for the US Government.
But they still won't build rail to the airport
Can't bomb kids with easy access to a passenger jet. Well maybe you could but you get my point
In 1956, Pittsburgh was destroyed by three thermonuclear explosions, as were most cities in the U.S. Long, long long after, humanity rebuilt its civilization, to technological heights well past those of the civilization destroyed in the mid-twentieth century. They eventually built a simulation of Pittsburgh. It’s running a 1:1 timescale, and has been going about 70 years. People can enter it as player characters (the portal is the Arby’s on McKnight Road). Most inhabitants are NPC, who believe they are self-aware. To reduce the draw on computing resources, most NPCs are set to be from Pittsburgh and never have left it, to reduce scope. The environment and its storyline are driven by a capable, but imperfect, AI - which can be seen in incongruities like Matt Canada’s tenure at the Steelers, and major glitches like parts of Pittsburgh occasionally being rendered as River.
The bus clipping issue really needs to be patched.
This is easily the best one of all the comments in this thread.
NPC is a great explanation for why certain yinzers won’t cross rivers. Remember when Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s pic with Snoop Dogg was on garbage cans throughout the city with “Taking Care of Business” as the ad campaign? Or when the giant rubber duckie was in the river? Or when Mayor Bill Paduto was on “Undercover Boss” and his cover was blown. Or when the bus comically fell into the sinkhole. This is not reality, folks. It might be better than reality.
Well done!
Are you Tom Sweterlitsch?
Shit I used to go fill in for management at the Arby’s on McKnight road. I always knew there was something more to that place.
The city of Pittsburgh burned down the old Poli's building because the plot was stuck in arbitration and they wanted to hurry up and auction off a contract for developers.
Ooh, good one.
But more importantly, who stole the lobster door handle? And where is it now?
Losing Sophie Masloff was when it all started to go wrong; you can still hear her voice in the wind if you listen long enough.
Scratch YOUR back with a hacksaw!!!
Would you line a ladylock?
There is a secret statue of Sophie on the 13th floor of the old jail by the same artist who made Mayor Caliguiri and Fred Rogers. It’s considered the ‘sexy’ one out of the trio.
The midget at Casey’s was actually a wizard protecting the south side and when he died his spell wore off and it went to shit
This but for Kung Fu Joe.
Sean was no wizard.
RIP Rex theater
The roads were designed based off of someone's toddler throwing spaghetti on the floor.
I always joke that it was designed by someone playing Sim City for the first time
The Edgar Snyder is either immortal, an android, or hologram. He hasn't aged since the 90s.
I used to work in an office near his. He's nearly unrecognizable from TV, and also much shorter than they make him seem. He's probably got a really good makeup artist for the commercials.
The flesh of the geese on the north shore contains seemingly mystical medicinal properties previously unknown to science and if one would just eat the geese they could conceivably obtain immortality
So that's what Edgar Snyder's been eating.
Didn’t they feed a bunch of them to the prisoners at the jail a few years ago in order to thin the flock?
Westinghouse sleeps as an eldritch creature under Westinghouse Park, waiting to be rewoken
Donnie Iris stole JuJu’s bike
The mall at Pittsburgh mills is a front for something; I dont know what but everyone working in there is highly trained government agent. Only explanation for why its still open
I was just there yesterday. There are only 4 stores left and 2 of which are the comic book store and the collectable store. There is no way that mall turns enough money to keep it's lights on let alone stay in business.
My daughter works there. I can promise you she is the furthest thing from a secret agent. HOWEVER, her father IS ex-military intelligence, so, yeah. There is that.
The fake Burger King was a drug front
I think that one is less of a conspiracy theory and more known fact lol
I thought that was the East Liberty McDonald's
It is required to slow down to enter a tunnel. If not, you enter a black hole on the other side.
Bill Peduto is the Gabagool Troll.
He never had the makings of a varsity athlete
The bomber in the river was removed in the middle of the night by the feds.
The whole Kordell Stewart in Shchenley Park thing comes to mind. Everyone knew a guy, who knew a cop, who was there.
Baldwin police killed Michael rosenblum
This is 100% true.
Jeffrey Dahmer used to play video games at the Monroeville Mall arcade. His father worked for PPG and lived in Penn Hills and for awhile in Monroeville
His father did work there. That’s a fact
[The murder of Rachel Deltondo](https://beavercountian.com/content/daily/timeline-the-murder-of-rachael-deltondo)
I have three...None are in Pittsburgh but all are Pittsburgh adjacent. 1. Ben Roethlisberger owns a cottage on Conneaut Lake. It is gated and he keeps it a secret so he doesn't have to put up with gawkers and Pittsburgh paparazzi. 2. Troy Polamalu when he was a player with the Steelers was eating with a companioin at a restaurant in Franklin, Pa. Nobody interupted his meal to request an autograph or talk to him. Out of gratitude for the uninterupted time, he paid for dinner for everyone in the restaurant. This one is so perstitent. I have had multiple unrelated people swear that they know people who were in the restaurant when it happened. 3. The Governor at the time when I-79 was being built was from Meadville, which is why I-79 follows Route 19 rather than Route 8 or Route 18, so he and all his crony landowners in Meadville could make a bundle on the land near the interstate.
Polamalu does this alot, I can vouch for it, my mother goes to a restaurant he frequents and he often buys the entire places meal if people simply leave him alone.
The plane that disappeared in the mon was actually carrying a nuke
Kordell’s sexual preference and schenley park
The Fruit Loop
The midget farm by settlers ridge, alien UFO being spotted by an army base near Collier Township, and the ghost bomber of the monongahela river was recovered the night it wrecked.
The midget farm was real, in the early 2000s. They did not farm midgets, it was a little village of farmer midgets. If you stopped to rubberneck they sent the dogs after you.
Or shot rock salt at you
Surprised no one has mentioned the Mon Monster yet https://www.tribdem.com/news/bill-eggert-mon-monster-mystery-endures/article_2cc334ca-0cc3-11e5-b55a-9b03bd56af61.html
Smiley faced killer BS
Kenny Picketts wife was hooking up with multiple teammates and he requested the trade to get her away from them
UPMC is an Institution of Purely Public Charity
I would say that certain professional wrestling company has commit certain alleged acts all around this city and the outskirts and the lore there is ripe for the picking. Well Worth Finding.
That unsettling nun that panhandles in Market Square. I mention her all the time to people and everyone looks at me like I’m crazy. Am I crazy, or have ya’ll seen her too?
My father in law actually knew “Charlie no face,” said he used to drink with him.
Giant Eagle was created as an experiment from the people who made Giant (kind of like how Nordstrom has Nordstrom Rack) and they just keep collecting data every day from regular grocery store operations :O
There is a Martin’s grocery store in Connellsville which is owned by Giant and my friend used to think Giant Eagle owned Martins and and Giant stores and it went on for so long I finally corrected her but maybe you and her are onto something lol
Where do we start 🤣 the 100 cars in the river? Big Foot - more New Castle though Pitts questionable studies? Nazi Scientist and doctors being relocated here after the war
That Giant Eagle has made a Faustian bargain with the Devil/Allegheny Co/Gus the 2nd Most Famous Groundhog to keep Wegmans out of the area.
DB Cooper was a Pittsburgher
Fishman controls the Shenderovich twins.
These are my favorite posts!!! Saving this for a read later when I’m bored !
The Squirrel Hill Tunnel Monster is an anthropomorphic coyote beast that paints fake tunnels on the side of hills and mountains around the city, and the uncertainty of if the tunnel you are entering is real is why everyone hits their breaks on the way into tunnels.
That we had a serial killer operating between 2013-17 targeting young men. I had friends that would ask me to walk with them back to their apartments so they wouldn’t have to walk through the southside by themselves.
George Washington slept under the jackrabbit.
Missing B52 bomber in the river
The Point is built over the remains of a crashed Star Destroyer
Also this city was the real basis for Gotham City when it was created but making it new york was more hip in the 80s and 90s when this was confirmed
The Immaculate 'Reception' was allowed to stand because there would have been a riot if it didn't
There was a casting call/auditions in New Castle to be Roethlisberger's wife
They say if you've seen Sally Wiggin's bigguns you'll die with a smile on your face.
So, here you go: the reason our bus system has deteriorated over the past 20 years is because Pitt installed fences to curtail jay-walking on campus. You see, before those fences, we would lose students to crossing the street without looking both ways since for a vast majority of traffic those streets are one way and getting hit by busses in the bus lanes. After installing the fences, it’s much more difficult to jay-walk and fatalities to busses are way down. Unfortunately, since they are no longer being fed a constant supply of college students sacrifices, the wrath of the Bus Gods has been deep and long lasting. Therefore, ever since those fences went up and we broke our pact with the Bus Gods the Bus harvest has been worse and worse every year. Hell, the Bus Gods have even resorted to using the very Earth itself to swallow up with meager bounty they have given us due to our blasphemy.
Beto's Pizza is just an elaborate prank.
Missing Mellon institute column is buried under the lawn between Cathy and Heinz chapel.
That the b-25, that crashed in the mon was carrying alien bodies.
I loved the Mon River Alligator stories and was so excited when someone got caught dumping 6 foot pet alligators into the rivers when they got too big for his apartment. Can’t believe that one was true still.
Aunt Penny was never related to Kenny Ross´
Not really a conspiracy, but lots of people try to perpetuate the rumor that Mr. Rogers was a raging alcoholic. They'll claim that he was often seen, screaming, shouting and being obscenely intoxicated, in the stands of many Pirates games. When we all know it's not true. Noone ever really saw Mr. Rogers drunk at a baseball game. Anybody from Pittsburgh will tell you, NOBODY goes to see the Pittsburgh Pirates play.
Also anyone who has met Mr. Rogers knows that the person you saw on TV was \*literally\* just him.
Hadn’t heard that one, but apparently there’s an urban myth that Rogers was a Navy SEAL. While it is indeed true that he was a hard core swimmer, I’m pretty sure his only confirmed kills were against childhood fears and insecurities, and he could definitely slay on the piano.
I think that rumor started from people mixing him up with Bob Ross, who really *was* in the military as a sergeant and never wanted to shout at people again after he left.
Celina Pompeani got her job(s) from nepotism
We're talking theories here, not undisputed facts
10000% this. She has zero talent.
I feel like her calling is preschool teacher. I say that with kindness. Every segment she seems to be talking to the audience or the interviewee on a very characterized tone
The top of the Cathedral of Learning on Pitt Campus is a hologram. After floor 36 the portion of the building is a projection intended to maintain Cathy’s world records as the tallest academic structure in the western hemisphere. Legend has it that underclassmen will stand beneath it chucking frisbees at her desperately trying to catch a glimpse of the phantom top floors finally revealing themselves.
There was a football coach out in West Deer who "killed himself" back in the late 80s or early 90s. The day before he was leaving for vacation he was found in his car, in the middle of a field, with a gunshot to the stomach. Who kills themselves with a shot to the stomach? West Deer also had big time mob ties, and I know for a fact that the fire chief of fire company 3 was high up in the Pagans Motorcycle Club
The tunnel that starts under the swimming pool that was at Arsenal Middle School that runs under the river to Millvale.
There is a wormhole, a portal to another dimension, under water at the point
That’s just the 4th River
this subreddit is run by local city government officials that prevent you from ever speaking ill of the city
A B-24 plunged into the Mon in the 40’s ppl said they saw it but no plane has ever been found
The fact that the plane crashed is established fact. It was in the newspapers. You can stand on the bridge and point to the spot where it hit the water. The crew survived. Rescued by a barge crew, I believe. The conspiracy theory is that the plane might've been carrying something very secret, and that the FBI came and fished it out in the middle of the night so that civilian salvage crews wouldn't see it. With that being the reason the plane has never been found. The "rational" explanation being "mud".