By Dr. Raymond A. Keller, author of The Real Resident Aliens is available on Amazon.com while supplies last.Venus Rising: A Concise History of the Second PlanetFinal Countdown: Rockets to VenusCosmic Ray's Excellent Venus AdventureThe Gospels of Thomas and Mary Magdalene: Morning Star Edition of the Hierarchy of LightThe Real Resident Aliens Cultists, necromancers, and spiritualists are known to frequent a stretch of road in the Pittsburgh area with 13 bends where 11 children and two teachers were burnt alive when a girl’s school went up in flames in the early 1900s.  Here they carry out occult rituals trying to contact the reticent ghosts and somehow help them move on to the Spirit World.  Photo source:  Investigating the Legend of 13 Bends - Part 2“13 Bends”The legend of “13 Bends” postulates that there is a road that bends thirteen times in one direction and twelve times in another direction within the Pittsburgh city limits where an unprecedented number of tragedies have taken place at sundry points along its distance.  Going back to the first decade of the 20th century, some paranormal investigators say that along that uncanny road there once stood an orphanage that burned down. Meg O’Malley, a correspondent for the Positively Pittsburgh website, checked into this story, interviewing many Pennsylvanians who have encountered strange phenomena while traveling on this road.  In her internet posting on the website titled, “Pittsburgh Urban Legends,” dated only 2022, O’Malley learned from one paranormal experiencer that, “If you drive down the road at night and put baby powder on your car, you will see the handprints from the children killed in the blaze.”  Some paranormal experiencers report seeing the burning orphanage while simultaneously hearing the incessant screams of burning children jostling to escape the consuming flames.  There also exists a variation on this initial account stating that it wasn’t an orphanage that burned down, but a girl’s Christian school, killing 13 of its residents (two teachers and eleven students).  Supposedly, each dead girl was buried at one of the bends in the road, accompanied by one teacher buried at the first bend and the other teacher at the last bend.  Occasionally, drivers along the road report seeing the spirits of the girls roaming around the woods at night, with two women teachers, one at the front and the other at the rear, guiding them through the trees.   O’Malley additionally reported, “One story says that one night a group of teenagers drove out to check out the spiritual (paranormal) activity and got into a car accident, killing all of them.  Their bodies remain in a mine shaft back off the road where three miners also are believed to have died.  The forest beyond the road is also the alleged final resting place of three hunters.”  As gruesome as it may seem, there are reports of necromancers visiting various bends in the road in the dead of night, performing ceremonies with the intent of contacting wandering ghosts. O’Malley and other paranormal researchers feel that the road in question is either Route 48 near the Boston Bridge or Campbell’s Run Road in the unincorporated community of Marmarville on the northern side of the Alleghany River across from the southwest tip of Three Mile Island.  There don’t seem to be any extant records of an orphanage or girl’s school operating in either of these areas and having been burnt down to the ground.  Nevertheless, many records from the late 1890s and early 1900s are known to have been lost, possibly through mismanagement or simply destroyed upon passing without notice of an archival date and then being accidentally destroyed.**********RISSA MILLER - LEGEND OF 'HELL HOUSE' - LON STRICKLER - Live Chat - Q&A - (CREEPY MARYLAND HISTORY)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? 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As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED---------------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.OUR PRIVACY POLICYThis blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2025 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved