Haunted Pittsburgh Law Redux

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This Redux originally was going to be about Pittsburgh's Federal Courthouse, but when we learned that just down the same street was Allegheny County's Courthouse and the Allegheny County Jail was just across from that, we figured, why not do all these haunted law-adjacent buildings? So that's what we have for you here. The Federal Courthouse is the newest building and yet, it still manages to have spirits. The much more architecturally appealing Allegheny County Courthouse has even more ghosts and it isn't surprising that the Allegheny County Jail, with its own Bridge of Sighs, is the most haunted. Join us for haunted law in Pittsburgh!

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Music used in this episode:

Main Theme: Lurking in the Dark by Muse Music with Groove Studios

Outro Music: Happy Fun Punk by Muse Music with Groove Studios

Other music in this episode:

Title: "The Turning"
Artist: Tim Kulig (timkulig.com)
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0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.4	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:32.4	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida.
0:39.2	It's the History Goes Bump podcast.
0:47.4	Hello, you sputacular people.
0:49.8	Welcome to History Goes Bump Redux.
0:52.1	I am your host, I am.
0:53.2	And this is Kelly.
0:55.3	Kelly, on this episode,
0:59.8	we're going to be going to Pittsburgh. And originally this episode featured Pittsburgh's federal courthouse, the more modern one. I think it was built in the 1930s. And it wasn't a really
1:05.9	long show. So I was like, we need to add some more stuff to this. So we're calling this one haunted law in
1:11.9	Pittsburgh because we're going to throw in the Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail. Oh, very cool.
1:17.7	Because we've got ghosts there too. Did you know they put French fries on salads there?
1:21.8	I didn't until they did it. Until we were served one. It's the one fun fact about Pittsburgh. I wish I didn't know.
1:31.2	Well, I mean, I could say having them on a sandwich or something like that, because apparently
1:35.5	they put chips, as you would call them, I guess. They put French fries on everything,
1:40.2	but I was really shocked to have it on a chicken salad. Yeah, I know we've told this story before, but we just went down to this restaurant that was down the street from the hotel we were staying in, and we were near Pittsburgh. It was Harrisburg, actually. And I was like, oh, I'm just going to get a salad with grilled chicken on it. And then they bring it out and put it in front of me, and it has French all over the top of it and I was like did they have some kind of an accident in the kitchen and the
2:07.0	waitress is hoping I don't notice they collided with each other and the french fries just jumped right
2:11.8	on top of the salad but I didn't say anything right away so I was just kind of pushed the french
2:16.6	fries to the side because I
2:17.7	try not to eat a lot of carbs and stuff. And then Jared whips out his phone and starts Googling. And he's like,
2:24.0	oh, apparently it's a thing. Sure is. And I was like, so much for eating a healthy salad when
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