Ghosts: Slag Pile Annie

In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the former Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation mill the ghost of a woman haunts the mill. She is typically seen in a remote and hard-to-access part of the mill. It's not surprising that if ghosts exist that they would haunt steel mills. Steel Mills are still dangerous, but since safety measurements are implemented. 

During WWII a lot of women went into the workforce many of them taking jobs that were considered "dangerous" for women. It was said at this time Slag Pile Annie was working at this particular mill during this time. She would continue to work there even after the war ended. It's vague on the incident, but Annie died in an accident by hot slag. It's said that she still resides there and people who talk to her don't realize she's a ghost till later.

One story/sighting of her happened in the 1950s a college student working at the mill for the summer. He was assigned to drive a buggy pilling empty hopper cars through a tunnel that ran under blast furnaces. He would wait for the furnaces to empty and would drive through and pick p the hot slag that spilled and filled his hopper cars. He would then take them to the slag dump.

On one day he would happen across a woman in a poorly lit tunnel. The woman was in her late 40's wearing work clothes and a red bandanna. He pulled up next to her and told her that she'd get killed in the tunnel if she was there at the wrong time. She would tell him "I can't get killed, I'm already dead." The young man was not sure how to respond and continued work. When he was done he decided to tell the foreman about the lady and what she'd said.

When he described her the foreman told him that she was in fact already dead. He informed the college student that she had died doing the same job that the college student was around 5 years before.

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