Area ‘haunts’
Katie Roupe / Observer-Reporter Katie Porfeli holds one of the many tools the WPPH uses to measure paranormal activity during an investiagion. The team uses recorders, cameras, EMF detectors and lighting to help them gather evidence of activity.
Katie Roupe / Observer-Reporter The Western Pennsylvania Paranormal Hunters investigate paranormal activity around the greater Pittsburgh Area. On their website huntparanormal.com the investigations and findings are listed.
TJ Porfeli, Katie Porfeli, Lynn Smith, Ken Smith, Kevin Hall and Matt Hall stand with some of their equipment in the Carnegie Library in Carnegie that they have investigated many times. On one of their more recent investigations they took a picture where a ghostly figure of a man is seen in the background.
Lynn Smith, Kevin Hall, Ken Smith, Matt Hall, TJ Porfeli and Katie Porfeli are some of the members of Western Pennsylvania Paranormal Hunters LLC. The group visits notable places like the Carnegie Free Library in Carnegie as well as conducts investigations of private homes to see if there is any evidence of paranormal activity.
Katie Roupe / South HIlls Living Denise Leithauser records audio while standing in one of the doorway shaped indentations in the tunnel under the Montour Trail.
Denise Leithauser, Nicole Weisbrod, Rebecca Dillen and Josh Renna are members of the Allegheny County Paranomral Investigators and the Pittsburgh Paranormal Adventures Society. The two groups are merging into one and have investigated places like Hill View Manor, Prospect Place in Ohio and Moundsville Prison in West Virginia. One of their newest investigations includes a tunnel under the Montour Trail where there have been reports of a girl in a white dress and a man with green eyes and a white glowing hand.
Members of the Allegheny County Paranormal Investigators and the Pittsburgh Paranormal Adventures Society walk through Bell’s Tunnel on the Montour Trail.
Additional places within an hour or two of the South Hills that have been the subject of investigations by Western Pennsylvania Paranormal Hunters, Allegheny County Paranormal Investigators and Pittsburgh Paranormal Adventures Society:
Nemacolin Castle, Brownsville – Reports of several different voices
Greene Academy of Art, Carmichaels – Reports of whispering and footsteps
Greene County Historical Society, Waynesburg – Reports of voices, objects moving and apparitions
Hillview Manor, New Castle – Reports of shadows, a female voice on the third floor and two investigators being “touched”
Harmony Inn, Harmony – Reports of shadows, whispers, cold spots and equipment turning off
The Ice Plant restaurant, Greensboro – Reports of voices and responses in the bar area, which is the older part of the building that was originally an ice plant
And … for those really interested in the paranormal, T.J. Porfeli, WPPH founder, suggests visiting Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Ky.: “It is one of the scariest places in America.”