Slag Pile Annie is the name of a ghost reputed to haunt the former Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. According to the story, she appeared as a rough-looking woman wearing a red bandana, working or just standing in a remote and hard-to-access part of the mill. The steelworkers who warned her of danger did not know she was a ghost, until she replied, "I can't get killed, I'm already dead."Trapani, B.E. & C.J. Adams III. 1994. Ghost Stories of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Reading, PA: Exeter House Books. 174 pp. .Swetnam, G. 1988. Devils, Ghosts, and Witches: Occult Folklore of the Upper Ohio Valley. Greensburg, PA: MacDonald Sward Publishing. 117 pp. .
The tale may have developed from the true experiences of women working dangerous jobs in the Pittsburgh steel mills during World War II.
See also List of ghosts
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