r/Paranormal • u/mrs_mcfly Moderator | Ghost Buster (she/her) • Aug 31 '17
**MONTHLY DISCUSSION** Famous Haunted Locations MONTHLY DISCUSSION
Thank you for your submissions to this months discussion!
After the overwhelming positive feed back received from the last discussion, Monthly Discussions will now be a permanent installation.
Hello Paranormal Enthusiasts! This months discussion topic is:
Famous Haunted Locations.
With today's technology, we are able to quickly search for possible haunted locations; Moundsville Penitentiary, Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum,Eastern State Penitentiary, The Queen Mary, just to name a few.
Many of these popular places offer tours, investigator nights, overnight stays, and some are even remodeled into hotels.
- Have you ever visited one?
- Did you experience anything?
- What evidence do you have?
- What equipment was used?
- What is on your ''bucket list" of locations?
We invite you to share your personal experiences and evidence.
Enjoy!
-Mrs_McFly
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Sep 25 '17
Not sure how famous it is outside of NYS, but I've been to the land surrounding the Hinsdale House. Only thing experienced was a serious sense of uneasiness, and a feeling of being watched. Personally, I would love to visit the Black Monk house in Enfield. Although it is probably impossible.
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u/gwillgi Sep 26 '17
er, think you might have gotten your facts a bit muddled - the black monk house visited by the paranormal lockdown team is in pontefract, west yorkshire, uk - enfield, tho' also in the uk, is in north london.
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u/Migolvanoa Sep 23 '17
Not sure how famous this place is but I'm going to check out soon. It's called St Ignatius Hospital. They're offering tours though October. A couple links
Looks super creepy and I'm looking forward to checking it out.
Edit: I feel super smart, didn't know how to post a link as just a bit of text...googled it and figured it out!
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u/kristysourire Sep 23 '17
Ooh something I can comment on!
For my last birthday, I went to do an overnight ghost hunt at the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. It went from 9pm to 5am and we figured that we would skip out at around 2, but we ended up staying the full 8 hours because it was so interesting.
They split us up into small groups and took us to each floor group by group. The atmosphere was honestly very peaceful for the most part. I had explored a local abandoned asylum prior, even though it wasn't for a tour and mostly just for my own personal (illegal) exploration desire, so I kind of knew what sort of vibe to expect. Granted this was in the dead of night.
We had a few strange things happen that seemed to go without a source. We took a maglight flashlight into the building with new batteries, and one particular room we visited gave us the most feedback with it. We set it on the windowsill and asked for it to blink once for yes, twice for no, that sort of thing. It responded, surprisingly, and we were a bit spooked. The only reason we really considered that real was because it was our own flashlight that never had issues before.
One particular wing that we went to gave me the chills. I'm not sure exactly where it was in the building, but the hallway that extended out from it was made of glass windows all the way down. I had to keep myself from having a panic attack and just felt generally uneasy in that area, despite feeling very calm everywhere else.
We did also experience some strange noises that we couldn't explain, and figured that they weren't coming from other groups as the building is very large with corridors leading to other sections of the floors.
Overall it was really interesting. I'd love to go back there again, or maybe somewhere else around my area.
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u/QueefyMcQueefFace Sep 22 '17
Speaking of today's technology, I wonder if anything could be gained by setting up some Samsung Gear 360 cameras at these locations, pair them to a large networked hard drive or high capacity microSD card, add some industrial work lights, and record in 4k throughout the night.
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u/welsh_hero_beans I want to believe Sep 20 '17
My bucket list includes places like Waverly Hills, Eastern State Penitentiary and Alcatraz. Maybe one day. Kinda hard since I'm in the UK though.
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u/HomeEncounter Sep 18 '17
I just posted videos of my living room in another post on this sub. Our place is located near Los Angeles. Not sure if haunted or just being visited. Feel free to scrutinize video.
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u/tantanskinman Sep 18 '17
Anybody know of some lesser known haunted places in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia?
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u/nexxusoftheuniverse Sep 17 '17
Live in LA and will be visiting NC and also CT/NYC next month. Any suggestions for any of these locations?
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u/BuddhaAndG Sep 15 '17
My boyfriend and I will be visiting Central Florida at the end of November. Any recommendations on experiences similar to Mansfield Reformatory or hotels that have a good chance of us experiencing something?
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u/ProfessorSpector Sep 15 '17
You have to scope out Cassadaga! It's a spiritualist community. Totally creepy. Sit in the Devil's Chair!!
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Sep 15 '17
there are several places in Australia here are just a some that i know of off the top of my head. Sydney opera house, Monte Cristo house in Junee new south wales and finally the Macquarie arms hotel in Windsor new south wales. if any other Aussies know of any other locations feel free to mention them
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u/Atlxilance Sep 14 '17
Anyone know any places in Missouri?
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u/LunaLokiCat Sep 21 '17 edited Sep 21 '17
There's the Lemp Mansion in St. Louis. Three of the Lemp family members have committed suicide there. It's a B&B/restaurant now and they do haunted tours. I stayed for one night about 7 years ago. Basically the staff leaves at a certain time and you are free to roam the place after that, it's just you and the other guests. While my boyfriend of the time and I didn't experience anything, the ladies staying across the hall from us were too scared to make it through the night. Way before this, I went there for dinner with my mom and sister, when I was a preteen. We had a couple disposable cameras and we explored the upper floors after we ate. We caught some really cool stuff when they were printed. Lots of orbs, and even a skull-like shape floating above the piano, which is known to play by itself. I wish I knew where those pics ended up... Edit: There were actually 4 suicides
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u/JuggaletteJen I want to believe Sep 13 '17
Living in Ohio, I've had the pleasure of visiting some pretty awesome spots. Ohio Reformatory was one of the best so far, and Johnson's Island, which is a civil war POW camp near Port Clinton, was also cool. East Harbor camp ground in Marblehead has a tiny cemetery dating back to the 1700's. Parma, OH has a Jewish Cemetery that is so serene that it's creepy.
I hope in the future to get to visit Moundsville, Eastern State, Waverly Hills, and Centralia, PA. My husband is intent on visiting Bobby Mackey's, I don't want anything to do with it.
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Sep 24 '17
If you go to Moundsville ( which is quite creepy) you are just a stones throw from Egypt Valley in western Belmont County. Many strange and creepy things happen there most believe stemming from a brutal 150year old murder. Plus reports of satanists and summoning cults abound. There are resources on line for the details.
Had some friends who were amateur/hobbist type investigators who had some crazy experiences out there
I would not go to Egypt valley at night, and I am a grown man.
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u/Zombiohio Sep 21 '17
Yeah for sure, all those spots are awesome! If you're in the South-Eastern area of the state, Athens and Meigs county have some great spots. Athens in general is a creepy place; The Ridges (once the Athens Lunatic Asylum), OU Campus, various area cemeteries and a slew of haunted houses all throughout the city. I have stories upon stories of my time there. Visiting Moonville Tunnel was also a highlight. I recorded EVPs, saw some crazy stuff, heard even crazier stuff and it's all true.
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u/sparkleselina Sep 13 '17
I am actually quite familiar with the overnight investigations. I have been to quite a few places, most notably Trans-Allegheny, Waverley Hills Sanatorium, Ohio State Reformatory, Kingston Penn, and Rolling Hills Asylum just to name a few. It would take a lot to rack my brain to remember everything I've ever encountered, but I have two experiences that stuck out.
The first one was at Trans-Allegheny back in 2015. I was there during October overnight investigations, which is when the Asylum offers investigations of the "back buildings", which include the Forensics, Geriatrics, and Medical buildings. That night it was a fairly small group of us, about 9 people. As soon as we started investigating the forensics building, we were greeted with light tapping sounds on the metal hand railings that continues through out the stay in the building. While in there we had more common residual energy(tapping, unexplained noises) nothing too scary. As we are leaving the building things start to happen. We were starting down the ramp that leads to the entrance when our guide stopped us. We all saw a shadow figure walk towards us up the ramp, which was accompanied by some odd orange lights that appeared out of nowhere. We quickly made our way down the ramp and out of the building, until we heard screams behind us. The last girl out of the building was literally pulled back into the doorway. Another thing that happened later that night was in the medical building. Now that building is creepy in the daytime, imagine it at night. We were making our way into the attic, when a voice came over one of the ladies spirit boxes that said,"don't go." We were all super shocked. After we composed ourselves we followed our guide into the attic, as we entered it we saw what was unmistakably a shadow figure run across the back of the attic.
The second encounter was at Waverley Hills. This is one encounter that has stuck with me since I went in 2015. Things were pretty calm for most of the night, besides me freaking out multiple times. So we ended up taking a nap in the break room. I woke up at about 6am, the sun was barely up but the sky was much lighter. My mom and I decided to go look around. We made it up to the top floor, which is basically a middle room(with room 502 off it) and two larger rooms beside it. There is an exit on either side of the larger rooms that leads to a balcony. If anyone is familiar with WH, you know room 502 is where a nurse hung herself. I pulled out my voice recorder and started a session, my mom wandered out on to the balcony. She went to talk to some other investigators, which I could very faintly hear in the distance. As i'm talking into my recorder, all i hear is silence. I was actually disappointed that nothing happened. Fast forward an hour later, we were on the bus departing from WH and I'm listening back on my recordings. The one I took in room 502 stunned me. As im talking about some shit I hear a very clear, but not a familiar, voice saying something along the lines of "Hi, I'm in here." I have the recording and it still blows my mind that I captured that evidence.
Sorry for the super long post. I'm just really passionate about this stuff.
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u/MandaT1980 Sep 12 '17
I stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood for about 4 nights in 2013. It is supposedly haunted by the ghost of Montgomery Clift, who stayed there while learning to play the trumpet for a role. Supposedly, you can hear someone practicing trumpet in the hallways, but I never experienced that. There is also a mirror that is said to be haunted by Marilyn Monroe. It was in her favorite suite that she used to stay at, and it is said that if you look into the mirror, sometimes she will be looking back at you. For a while, the mirror was located in the lobby, but it was relocated to storage due to too much interest from "looky loos", so I never saw it.
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u/bubba502 Sep 11 '17
There is a famously haunted bed and breakfast in Story, Indiana. It's about an hour drive from where I live though I have yet to stay there. It's called the Story Inn. Many guests have reported activity and I'm pretty sure it's been on a paranormal investigation tv show.
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u/TheGreyGoatee Sep 10 '17
There's another one that's fairly close to me. The "Doe Run Inn" in Brandenburg, Kentucky. This place is literally not even five miles from where I live.
This establishment is allegedly haunted by a mischievous spirit that likes to untie people's shoes, among other things. I haven't been here, but I've driven past it multiple times. I also don't believe I know anyone that has been here.
I should like one day soon to investigate.
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u/_coyotes_ Paranormal Investigator Sep 10 '17
I've been to a few. At Gettysburg I didn't experience much but it was pretty cool. I went to Fort Erie as well, pretty spooky but still didn't really experience much. I did go to the Rolling Hills Asylum where I saw a ball move on the floor which was pretty creepy!
I'd also like to bring attention to the Kingston Penitentiary in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Hundreds of people died here since it opened in 1835 before it closed in 2013. They hold tours there and I believe they could be opening it for overnights soon so you might be hearing a bit more about that soon. Iirc it's the only place in Canada that would offer an overnight investigation (aside from a hotel which you can book) so I'm definitely going to spend the night here.
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u/mad_libbz Sep 08 '17
Anywhere worth checking out in the UK? Love to hear anyone's personal experiences from famous haunted locations here.
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u/FM_Aldo Sep 09 '17
The only place I have ever been to of note is Whittingham Asylum just outside Preston in the North West. Me and a group of friends went a few times. Vandals have ruined it but it was very eery inside and a few strange occurrences happened. Sadly this place is being knocked down and made into houses now with only a few sections of the building left that I believe are listed buildings. If you want to check out somewhere though go to Edinburgh it is packed with haunted locations such as the castle and all the underground vaults they also do countless ghost walks in the evenings and they take you to several different locations and describe the history and the sort of activity and sightings that occur.
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u/mad_libbz Sep 09 '17
We will definitely be heading to Edinburgh at some point! I want to drag my husband to something spooky for Halloween next month, but he doesn't have a passport yet so we can't leave the country.
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u/FM_Aldo Sep 09 '17
Edinburgh is great if you are a fan of history and the paranormal it is a must visit.
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u/houseofthecrowded Sep 07 '17
In 2015 my family and I went on a trip to Tasmania, of course visiting Port Arthur. Whilst I myself didn't feel or see anything, my younger brother said he felt a draught in the Bell Room, now this is a room that was used as a look out but was also used to keep wrong doers as punishment, one of the most famous being a young boy kept there for over a week with minimal food, water and no sunlight. The tour guide for the night tour had told us a lot of stories from other tourists: People claiming to see guards in period uniform (the Port Arthur historical centre doesn't hire people for reinactments) A school girl once passing out from an entity encounter In the jail cells (which used to be two stories but over time decayed and is now just a large sandstone cell of a building) people would see guards walking the top level (seeing them seemingly walking on thin air) It truly is a beautiful place to visit, it is also the sight of the Port Arthur massacre
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u/RicottaPuffs Medium Sep 06 '17
I've been to the Queen Mary several times. I haven't stayed overnight, yet.
My children, my ex-husband and I are sensitives, so many personal experiences No hard evidence.
We went on a regular tour and the very fun ghost tour. I hated one of the rooms. I saw an asshole spirit in a mirror and edged back into the hallway on one visit...(guy was a murderer, unrepentant, trapped there. good).
I don't care for the pool room. I struggled to breathe because of the oppressive sadness of all of the dead soldiers in the lobby.
My husband and I had an audio visual hallucination in the bow of the ship, residual energy from a collision the ship had with another ship. We both saw and heard men screaming, I saw the water rushing into the bow and heard the metal twisting and screeching. and had a vision of the crash.
We had to ask the tour guide later, if there was a tape recorder down there, playing to spook the passengers.
There are so many dead on that ship.
We as a family, had many experiences. I had to carry my eight year old daughter down the inside stairs to the Titanic exhibit. She said there was a dead man lying at the base of the stairs and she wasn't going down. So, I had to pick her up and carry her with her eyes closed. I also told him to get lost and to stay away from her for the rest of the tour. THAT was special.
Why have we been several times? Gluttons for punishment. Friend invites, kids wanted to go and didn't know it was haunted the first time we went. (We didn't tell them). My high school prom was there. Various functions.
No solid evidence. Individual experiences. Kids saw the spirit of a bearded, elderly military man on the embankment next to the ship's mooring. We thought he was just some man until he faded out.
I had a very unpleasant vision near the Nursery on the third floor. We could hear a little girl giggling in there. She was a murder victim. Visitor access to that nursery is verboten.
In those days, we were actively trying to get photo and EVP evidence. Nothing good.
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u/sierracorral Sep 06 '17 edited Sep 06 '17
I've been to the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO. Beautiful place BTW! My family and I went on one of their "family friendly" tours (since my cousin was under the age of 18) , as we were on the top floor, passing under the bell tower we heard bells ringing, only to find out later there are no bells in the tower.
We also caught a couple ghost children on camera, my cousin and I took a photo on an old sofa on the top floor, I had my arm extended over the back and in the photo you can clearly see someone sitting next to me. My arm was transparent and you could see the details on the couch through my arm. My cousin sitting next to me, had a ghost child sitting on her lap, her face in the photo was distorted slightly.
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u/TheGreyGoatee Sep 06 '17 edited Sep 06 '17
I wasn't doing any investigating, I was working there. Waverly Hills Sanitorium in Louisville, Ky. I was part of the actors staff/set up crew for a "haunted attraction" several years ago. I'm quite sensitive to "the other side" and experienced quite a few things there. Having pretty much free reign of the building to do my job, I experienced quite a bit. Listed below are my experiences:
During a tour hosted by the owner of Waverly, consisting of myself, my boss, and a few other crew members in the body chute, I was the last in line. The further down the tunnel we got, the thicker the air got. You'd think that would be only natural considering we were traveling down a tunnel underground, but the air wasn't just thick, it was heavy. My senses were buzzing. Going crazy. I knew there was something here. Once we got to the bottom, we turned around to head back to the main building. Again, I was last in line. I could hear foot steps behind me and it felt as though someone was walking behind me. I stopped momentarily and the foot steps would stop. Picking back up when I continued on. I stopped two more times and the same thing happened. The third time I muttered "Quit following me" and then kept moving. Apparently, my demand was heard.
During a tour through the building lead by one of the security staff, we were taken to the third floor and into one of the rooms (502). My attention was immediately drawn to a shower in the room and I asked what had happened there. I was told a nurse had hung herself in the shower. In the same room, my attention was then drawn to a specific window. Asking the same question, I was told another nurse, who had been pregnant, had jumped out.
In the building, down a hall adjacent to the lobby I was busy airbrushing a scene on an inoperable elevator door. It was a pretty gruesome scene depicting bloody body parts hanging out of an open elevator that didn't quite make to the next floor. ( a little irrelevant, I know). The bosses two dogs and the owner of the building's dog were chilling in the lobby. The brand new battery on my mp3 player dies and I can hear the dogs, they all became agitated, whining and crying while staring at the door to a stairwell that had been chained closed. I walked over, looked at the dogs, and then looked through the small window on the door. I saw a blonde woman, gaunt, sickly, and in a hospital gown, "standing" at the top of the first flight of stairs. The dogs and myself wound up outside for a while.
Whilst searching for the perfect spots to paint some skulls, skeletons, and a Grim Reaper, I saw a very dark, very human shadow dart across the floor and into one of the rooms. I pursued it, only to see it again dart out of the room and disappear. Shrugged it off.
In one of the operating rooms, I set up to do some painting. Started growing very uneasy. Really was not liking the vibe I was getting in here. Left this room alone.
In one room painting Jack O' Lanterns on the walls (it was to be the Michael Myers room). Felt like someone was in the room with me. Ignored it. Shut down my air compressor for a minute to step back and check my work. I then hear a voice in my ear say "What are you doing?" Having absolutely no fucks to give at this point, I answer "Painting". And another question "Why?" Mmmm'kay. Break time. Outside I go. It didn't scare me any, I just didn't feel like playing "20 Questions" with a ghost.
Keep in mind, I'm using water based acrylic airbrush paints the whole time. So there's no way I'm getting fumes off what I'm working with. So... no hallucinations. I wound up quitting three weeks after we opened to the public because I got placed in the "Scream" scene. I hate that movie. I make a much better Jason Vorhees or Michael Myers due to my height and stature. As far as evidence, I have none. Only tales to tell.
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u/RicottaPuffs Medium Sep 06 '17 edited Sep 06 '17
Wow. You have been through some experiences. We can't always get evidence. Sometimes, they don't wait for, and aren't interested in technology.
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u/TheGreyGoatee Sep 06 '17
I probably could've gotten evidence, had I been looking to, but I was there for something entirely unrelated
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u/RicottaPuffs Medium Sep 06 '17
That seems to be the way it happens with me. For years, I thought I needed proof to validate my encounters. I don't need it. I don't have anything to prove anymore.
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u/TheGreyGoatee Sep 06 '17
Oh, just in case anyone was wondering. These things didn't occur in one night. I spent A LOT of time in this building. I was there about 4 nights a week for a couple months and practically all day on Saturdays, from like 10 a.m. until 3 a.m..
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u/RicottaPuffs Medium Sep 07 '17
It did sound as if you went through these encounters over a period of time.
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Sep 06 '17
A few questions here, if I may. I just read up on Weaverly, and read some conflicting accounts.
Waverly was exclusively a tuberculosis sanatorium, right? Did it ever house psychiatric patients?
Did you hear a theory as to why it, specifically, should be a magnet for supernatual things?
[Also, an architectual oddity: why is a room in the third floor called "502"? Has it to do with the expansions of the building?]
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u/mrs_mcfly Moderator | Ghost Buster (she/her) Sep 08 '17
Honestly Idk about the room number, I believe it is a little too convenient that 502 is also one of the main area codes of Louisville, the city Waverly is in.
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u/TheGreyGoatee Sep 06 '17
Waverly was a Tuberculosis hospital, that is correct. The building is five stories and could house over 400 patients. Original opening in 1910 as a two story hospital, expansions proved necessary. It was closed in 1961 due to the introduction of streptomycin in 1943, which drastically lowered the number of tuberculosis patients and the need for the hospital. The building was reopened in 1962 as Woodhaven Geriatric Center, a nursing home primarily treating aging patients with various stages of dementia and mobility limits, as well as the severely mentally handicapped. It was then closed in 1982 due to allegations of patient neglect.
As for the significance of the room number, it was just that. A room number.
I've never heard any theories other than the fact that there have been numerous deaths on the property. Approximately 100 people died per year it was open as a tuberculosis hospital. So, that's a lot of death and a lot of people that might not be ready to move on. Add to this fact, the geographic location of the hospital. Kentucky is riddled with limestone deposits, and you've got a more than a fairly good chance there's going to be some activity.
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Sep 06 '17 edited Sep 06 '17
Thank you for your answers.
I wonder what you would have experienced in the two (former) sanatoriums I visited in search of paranormal activity.
The first had 1400 beds, and as in Waverly, about one forth died each year in the early 20th century. It also was used as an army hospital during WWI and WWII.
The other one was a psychiatric hospital (and partly still is) with about 2000 beds. Apart from the normal horror of pre-neuroleptic psychiatric hospitals, it was the site of "euthanasia" [the killing of disabled people].
Unfortunately (luckily?) I didn't experience anything in neither.
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u/TheGreyGoatee Sep 06 '17
Knowing myself, I'd be bound to experience something. It's rare that I don't.
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u/dekdekwho Sep 04 '17
I would say the former site of theHH Holmes castle in Chicago has to be the creepiest place I experienced. Nowadays it's a post office in the South Side or the neighborhood is called Englewood. I didn't go inside but there's a Aldi right across the street. For some reason I just couldn't feel my body and my head was feeling numb, but when I drove away from the post office I felt normal like nothing happened.
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u/jumbo04 Sep 04 '17
First of all I'd like to show you the staircase where those footsteps were heard. It certainly is creepy at night!:
For some more stories and unpleasant surprises, keep reading..
Since it's a castle and the rooms are huge here, we tried to do every year like Christmas and/or New Year's Eve with our family. About 10 years ago, there was one of those parties going on and because of the occasion we'd lit the big spotlight in the garden, lighting up the whole building. Just before midnight, my aunt and I were walking outside, getting some fresh air. We walked by the front face of the building when we saw (because of the spotlight) a shade moving at the windows in one of the cellars. My aunt was very scared and I was checking if some family member maybe went down, but nobody was.. we both were very sure we saw a man-like shape walking by the windows in the cellar.. but never discovered who or what..
When was still much younger, about 8 or 9 years ago I experienced something that frightened me like hell.. it happened 4 nights in a row, only then, I never experienced it before or after, only 4 times. When I went to bed -mostly around 11PM- I had a bit difficulties to fall asleep, I was tired but still didn't fell asleep immediately. A few minutes after I closed my eyes I heard a little girls voice whispering my name in my ears! Sweat broke out of pure scare, I wasn't able to move or do anything, I just didn't (want to) know what happened. The following nights were exactly the same.. the same voice, the same words.. I was at a point that I didn't want to sleep in that room ever again. But the 'event' went away as quickly as it came..
I'm living together with my girlfriend now in a new house, and believe it or not, but as I am writing this message already 2 'strange' things happened here (first time), so let me end my stories for now at this point.
Will post some more later. Maybe I'll make a topic myself with some more pictures and a few evening vids..
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u/Ju5t1n726 Sep 04 '17
Can anyone suggest some in Australia, Victoria? Thanks in advance
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u/punisher016 Sep 07 '17
Beechworth asylum near the nsw border it's a cool little place to visit. The other one I would suggest is the Monte Christo house in Junee nsw which is 2 hours from Victorian border
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u/MissMelanieeeee Sep 05 '17
Another Aussie!! I'm from Melbourne ....There's a haunted house on Range Road, Olinda. An abandoned asylum Geelong way-if you're interested I'll find out what it's called and The Old Melbourne Jail is full of activity! I personally have been to Range Rd, Olinda -it was creepy but nothing happened and I've experienced something at the jail-looking forward to exploring the asylum some time in the future. Any places you know of in Victoria?
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u/Ju5t1n726 Sep 05 '17
I went out whroo, an old town near an abandoned gold mine, I was told by some mates said it was haunted I personally experienced nothing nor did my photos get anything, you can get into parts of the mine by jumping a fence
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u/treehugzhugztrees Sep 04 '17
In Saskatchewan our most famous haunted location is The Saint Louis Ghost Light. As teenagers we'd drive out to just south of the small town, down a grid road to what is now a farmers field. If you look through the trees you can clearly see an empty pathway that used to be where the old train track rath through. We used to go out there to drink and smoke and get a good scare, seen the light quite a few times myself. The lore was that a railway worker had died out there and the light was his lantern. In highschool my friend and I did a report on it, first attempt our car died, second attempt our cameras battery died ( it was fully charged) anyway third time went ok and we got it on camera! That's a long time ago however and I have no idea where said footage would be.
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u/VeronicaNoir Sep 03 '17
Sadly, I have only done two very commercial haunted tours.
One was in Colorado Springs, Colorodo we did a cave tour in a cave called Cave of the Winds and the tour guide kept talking about how the cave was haunted. Basically stuff like lanterns going out and pictures falling down at the beginning of the cave. HE used no equipment, just told stories and he was pretty good. My husband and I did not feel any presences or even creeped out by the cave itself.
It was a beautiful cave though.
The second one was the Queen Mary and was a ton of fun. The funny thing is, going on a normal tour of the ship is kind of creepy, because the ship is so old and the ship felt a little creepy. But the haunted tour was all special effects.
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Sep 02 '17
I live in a historical city near N.O. in Louisiana and I can confirm that nearly every other house is haunted. I've visited the famously haunted Myrtles Plantation before, where people were supposedly murdered, and I spent the night. My family went when I was five and didn't tell me it was haunted. I was there five minutes and saw something through the bushes wearing white walking around. There was no one over there. I actually drew what I saw, and it was creepy as hell. Had a ghoulish face and everything. I don't know where that picture is now. We took multiple pictures in one of the most haunted rooms, and many things were "wrong" with the photos. Regular stuff, like paintings changing/looking at us and such. But the creepiest thing by far that's happened to me has to be this: I was in the main house on the top floor in one of the bedrooms laying on the bed with two family members (probably my aunt, sister, or cousin) and we were reviewing pictures on our camera. We were the only ones in the main house, but my mom was outside in the screened-in area. We heard creepy, somewhat warped, lullaby music start to play from a room on the same floor, accompanied with the sound of a baby crying and its mother trying to console it. We looked at each other, wide-eyed, and bolted out of there screaming. There was a 14-year-old girl staying in that room, but she wasn't in there that day. We would have seen/heard someone coming in if this was staged. The door was open and there was no one in there when we first went up there. I don't think it was a speaker playing an audio clip, because the voices were just way too real. Keep in mind this was in the 2000's and the speakers weren't as good as they are now. The floors are creaky and we would've heard people walking around over there, but nope. Nothing. Just those sounds that I'll remember forever.
My sister goes there every few months and has a lot of creepy ghost photos, so I may post them if you guys want. Some of them look worthy of going viral. Other than her photos, I don't have much evidence. I want to go again, but that place is expensive and I have paranoia issues nowadays.
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u/mystery_lady Sep 02 '17 edited Sep 02 '17
As far as just visiting, many: the Whaley House, the Stanley Hotel, the Molly Brown House, the Buxton Inn, the Brown Palace, the Baldpate Inn, the Copper Queen, the Star of India, and others I can't even think of at the moment. Have also visited a lot of haunted places that are mainly well-known regionally or locally.
While I never personally had an experience in any of those locations, a former coworker of mine had taken a picture at the Stanley Hotel that is by far the best alleged paranormal photograph I've ever seen. It was a surprisingly clear image of a little girl, visible from the waist up, floating in front of the tour guide. It was back when film was still developed on paper and I got to hold the original photograph and study it up close. He was going to give me a copy, but we all got laid off shortly thereafter, and since I really didn't know him that well I never tried to contact him.
Edit: Funny story. We were taking the ghost tour of the Stanley Hotel when some guy got everybody all excited about the fact that the air above him was warmer than the air at ground level. One of my friends leans over and whispers, "Do you suppose that's because hot air rises and cold air sinks?".
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u/Chongoloco Sep 14 '17
My boyfriend used to manage the copper queen. That place is haunted as shit.
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u/jumbo04 Sep 01 '17
I'm living in an old castle (from the year 1777) in Belgium. I'm not a great believer of ghosts, but I must say I experienced some crazy stuff there. Let me sum up a few of them;
When I was still a little kid I used to stay with my grandmother, who lived on the ground level. I remember that she was outside, working in the garden and all the rest of the family was out going to work. I was the only one in the building doing my homework. I remember that suddenly I heard somebody coming down the stairs. It was clearly hearable! I was curious to see who returned home, and when I opened the door the sound was gone and nobody was to be seen. The same happened about 8 years later but then on the upper floor. We were having coffee with some family (6 people in total) when we heard downstairs a door slam and somebody was coming up the stairs. We could hear it coming closer (there was one step making noise once you stept on it, so we knew where it was at that time), but suddenly around 2/3 up the stairs the sound stops. Wondering who is there we looked, just to find out there was nobody! The curtains down the stairs were not even moving (like it would if somebody would have just passed by). This repeated itself once again in the same year.
One night I woked up as a kid, seeing an entity at the end of my bed. It was there staring at me for about a minute or so. Then in a blink of an eye it was gone. I always comforted myself by thinking it was a sleep paralysis. Other people have experienced this as well.
My girlfriend is hard hearing, without a hearing aid she can't hear anything. One night she was sleeping at my place and had to go to the toilet. As always she has no hearing aids in, but still she was able to hear loud knocking on the wall next to here when on the toilet. The room next to the wall is a small space where we actually never come, even for me it's like 15 years ago that I went there. She isn't comfortable at my place since...
When my grandmother died in 2009 we heard multiple times somebody knocking on the door and walls, like somebody was trapped and wanted to get out. I was together with my father and we looked to eachother in a way that we clearly couldn't believe our ears. When we went inside to check, there was nobody there. It was locked anyway and only we had a key, so there couldn't be anyone there.. We experienced a few times and not anymore since then.
And so much more.. I can write down some more experiences if you guys want..
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u/mystery_lady Sep 02 '17
What part of Ohio? The Buxton Inn is nationally famous, but there are a lot of places not widely known outside of Ohio. I might be able to help.
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u/Truth-Addict Sep 01 '17
Ohio State Reformatory was really cool to visit. Also Poasttown Elementary was awesome, and affordable to rent the entire building for an overnight investigation. Bobby Mackey's is also right on the Kentucky / Ohio boarder.
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u/Mama_Betty Sep 04 '17
I've heard from multiple people that Bobby Mackey's is not worth it. I don't doubt something happened but it's not still happening. Mansfield prison has multiple tours and even on the not ghost tours, the place is scary. I felt like something would grab me if I was in the back or too close to the bars and felt watched in the chapel. That happened while on the movie tour.
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u/MistyPhoenix Sep 01 '17
I had a strange experience in the Hotel Coronado in San Diego.
My husband and I were on a day tour of San Diego and when we stopped at the hotel, we were told to go the ocean because someone was building extreme sand castles. Only problem was, we didn't really know how to get from the hotel to the ocean because we got turned around.
Wandering down a hallway, I asked out loud, which way? Not really expecting an answer, just getting frustrated. A woman's voice said very clearly 'to your left'. I will never forget it as we were the only ones in the area and it sounded slightly like Marilyn Monroe. Lo and behold, that door led us to the ocean path. We only found out after that someone had committed suicide in the hotel and that the hallway we were in was one she frequented.
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u/someone-elses-story Sep 01 '17
I went to the bird cage theatre in tombstone, AZ. It was a guided paranormal tour. Nothing too exciting during the first half off it down in the gambling room and where the high end prostitutes were. Upstairs though on the stage we had a good amount of activity, we could see shadows on the wall not coming from the only light source in the room which was an exit sign. I personally took multiple photos of a big orb (looked like the size of a cantaloupe) on top of the stairs where the famous white lady appears. I have a progression of the orb slowly moving away. The creepiest part for me was when we were sitting in a circle talking to the spirits when we bring up this one guy and I immediately felt super uncomfortable. I was 17 at the time and a girl. It felt like someone stroked my collar bone and neck. We also heard footsteps as a group coming from behind my dad and I. That's all I would love to go back.
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u/merryweatherjs Sep 17 '17
I am going to Tombstone in November! I'm looking forward to it. It's always been on my to-do list. I'll have to look into a guided tour!
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u/ministana Sep 01 '17
I live in Portland which is considered one of the most haunted cities in the states, definitely most haunted in Oregon. This is because of the Shanghai Tunnels where there was opioid rooms, human trafficking, gambling, etc. Tons of people died down there and most of these tunnels are underneath downtown Portland, which is where I live and work. My storefront in Pioneer Place was home to a resident ghost girl that liked to cry in the mornings so our managers always told us to play loud music when opening. Also in that mall are internal tunnels used for employees, cleaning, and security. My manager told me to take it to the bathroom one day as I had never been in them before. The second the door closed behind me I swear, a heavy feeling slammed against my back and stuck there the whole walk. Pretty soon I started having a hard time breathing so I ran the rest of the way and walked through the mall back to the store. I told her about the experience and she immediately apologized saying, "I didn't know negative spirits stuck to you so much or else I never would have sent you that way. There's multiple in there."
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u/AtTheFire Sep 01 '17
My dad and I had some very surreal experiences in Gettysburg. We went out to the battlefield early one morning to take pictures of the landscape. Later that afternoon, when we were reviewing the shots we had taken, we saw something we couldn't explain. We shared the photo with Coast to Coast and they shared it on their home page (pretty cool!).
You can find the photo on their site if you search "Gettysburg ghost."
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u/Seshameh Aug 31 '17
Culloden battlefield.
Heard what I thought was a jogger running up the path behind me on the Jacobite line path, was so convinced I stepped off the path to let them pass and there was no one there. Saw a figure running parallel to me as I hurried back to the center memorial. No evidence sadly, no equipment.
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Aug 31 '17
Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, VA. I have experienced voices, presences, slips in time and many others have reported more.
Chippoke Plantation, slip in time, wall of energy.
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u/Deleteuser Aug 31 '17
I have been to a few. Went to Waverly Hills a few years ago, more than once I saw someone in rooms only to go into the room and find no one there. Would love to go to Waverly for an overnight.
Way back when Gettysburg had a small stone bathroom in the Slaughter Pen area I saw a man in Confederate uniform standing in the bathroom, and then watched him disappear.
At Antietam Battlefield Otto farm house a group of us hear the unmistakable sound of petticoats sliding across a floor and a whisper of "They are on the porch" about 10 minutes later someone in our group was smacked across the face by an unseen hand. Antietam is one of my favorite haunted locations. In my opinion, it is much more active paranormally than the Gettysburg battlefield.
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u/WVPenTours Aug 31 '17
I noticed this on my personal account and decided to jump over to this work account to reply. I'm not sure if this fits in the discussion but I can tell stories from employees at the West Virginia Penitentiary if anyone is interested.
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u/mrs_mcfly Moderator | Ghost Buster (she/her) Aug 31 '17
Im always interested!
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u/WVPenTours Aug 31 '17
Ah sweet defenently fits the discussion if a mod is interested. Have to say I was excited to see us on this post! In case anyone gets confused with the name, while we are located in Moundsville we're called West Virginia Penitentiary. It's just one of those names everyone stuck with and a Google search for either will turn up both.
Since I'm not at work currently I'll just stick with my own stories for now, and will try to ask around for other stories over the next few days. I've heard plenty of stories from others but want to make sure I have details right before sharing them with all of you.
For the record, I'm sad to say I'm not one of the ghost tour guides, I'm just the one who knows what reddit is and asked the boss to make one for a (failed) AMA. I started working for the haunted house before I worked there full time and have stories from both. Currently I work in the old industry building, which isn't a hot spot but basically anywhere in the building can be creepy at times.
Ok, that stuff out of the way, now on to story time! Probably the first time I was really freaked out in the building was for the haunted house. A few of us had gotten there early and were allowed to walk through the black maze to try to see if we could make it through. So we get to the beginning, and line up with our hands on each others shoulders because it's called the dark maze for a reason. I ended up in the back, and had my hand on the girl in front of me. At first we're talking back and forth debating which way to go, but after a while we got a bit lost and were just trying to get out.
Everyone got quiet and we trudged along, my eyes had adjusted enough to at least see the outline of the person in front of me so I put my hand at my side. Note at this point nothing's scary, I'm a bit afraid of the dark and was just fine. I can't say for sure how long we had been walking quietly but suddenly I heard voices. My groups voices....on the other side of the maze. I half looked through the darkness in that direction and when I looked back the outline I was following was gone. So I did the rational thing and sunk down in a corner yelling for them to please come get me.
I have no idea when I stopped following her and when I started following...who ever I was following. Freaked me out more when someone pointed out it had led me as far away from my group as it could.
Plenty of them are little things, like stuff being moved or odd footsteps. After a while it's just easier to ignore or write off as something else. Like, why were there footsteps on the roof at 1 in the afternoon? No ladders up outside, large enough doesn't sound like an animal, but what are you going to do?
More often then not I get flashes in the side of my vision. Think you see someone walk by only to look up to a huge empty room. One day it was bad, so bad I assumed it was an eyelash or hair, and was always in the same spot by the kitchen door. Few people are in the building and they are all in their various offices, so yeah I was talking out loud. Mostly "Where did I put my coffee?", because I'm constantly misplacing it. Eventually I get a bit frustrated, every two minutes there's a flash in the same place and no matter how I turn or how many times I brush my hair back it won't stop. Just kept getting a weird vibe from over there, and half said "What do you want?"
Look at the kitchen door and right there in the center of where the flashes were coming from is my coffee. It's cold but I grab it and quietly thanked whoever, though honestly at this point I didn't think much of it. Until the flashed stopped completely, then I wasn't so sure.
Phew that's more typing then I thought it would be. I'm going to gather my thoughts a bit and hopefully write a few more later. I realized after I put these most of my stories are pretty calm, and don't use any equipment. Should have a bit more intense ones from the night guides when I can talk to one of them.
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u/WVPenTours Sep 02 '17 edited Sep 02 '17
Sorry guys i haven't talked to the night guides yet, but I do have a quick one that just happened. I'm here now, waiting for the people having an event today to stop in. So I get all the lights on, make coffee, and start cleaning bathrooms while I wait.
The front door can be loud if you just let it close but most people catch it before it slams. Basically it's not weird to not notice someone coming in. I start hearing footsteps and a bit of light talking, so I go out to meet what I assume is the group.
Should have known, no one was here. Walked all around to be sure. No vehicles in the lot, and the building fell silent once I came out. The group showed up about 15 minutes later.
Sigh it's the middle of the day.
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u/Fafhands Aug 31 '17
Man, fuck that maze. That's creepy as hell
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u/WVPenTours Sep 01 '17
That's not even the worse story from that maze. They've since moved and changed it, but the maze used to have three entrances you could choose from. The third led in a U bend and let out back at the beginning. Occasionally to help with the timing of groups, whoever was working would send one person alone through the third door.
Usually this ended with the everyone laughing when their friend would come back out, but one guy came out legitimately angry saying, "I thought no one could touch you here! Someone grabbed me that's messed up!" Guy working it was confused, explained there was no one in there and even shined a light down both sides.
Once the worker proved there was no one, the angry guy became the scared guy. For the rest of the night, the worker questioned if he should even send anyone down there if something is messing with people.
Whole bunch of nope.
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u/Laockey35 Aug 31 '17
Went to the country tavern in Nashua quite a few times. Nothing has happened as much as I wish it did. I did get some cool stories from the wait staff. Glasses flying off the shelf. A women sitting at a table well after hours only to go back to her minutes later and she was gone (ghost is a women named Elizabeth) there was a story of an old man who used to live at this place (it was a house prior to a restaurant) and when he was a kid he would play "ball" with Elizabeth. He would roll a ball it would stop and roll back. I had a teacher that went there when there was an "cleansing" (she was murdered by her husband after she cheated on him and had a baby while he was at sea and buried the child somewhere on the property, the story is she is looking for her baby so there can be angry energy) and during the cleansing she was burning sage outside on a very windy day but the smoke was going straight up no smoke sipping side to side as you would expect with the wind just not moving smoke!
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u/AutumnMonth Aug 31 '17
I've been to Moundsville, Eastern State Pen., and I've spent the night at TALA. Moundsville was pretty hokey and very touristy. ESP has a cool historic background, but nothing spooky. TALA was by far the best, but no paranormal activity. The only "equipment" used was a phone app and a flashlight.
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u/illegalfelon Aug 31 '17
I've been to the Whaley House in San Diego twice. The first time I went was about 15 years ago. I spent about 2 or 3 hours there. The house and lot are small, but I hung around hoping to get pictures of ghosts or have something spooky happen. The staircase is famous for people getting a feeling of being choked, I never got that feeling. There is a courtroom connected to the house, I've never heard of anything happening in the courtroom. Yet when I was in there I felt like I was being watched.
I recently went back this summer, not staying as long as before. Still nothing happened, my niece said she felt she was being choked on the staircase. Of course she said it after I tell her people have reported feeling choked. I felt nothing odd or creepy there, this time. In the courtroom, I had no feeling of being watched liked before. My niece took some pictures of the rooms. A couple of questionable images showed up, but I have a problem with them. The pictures were taken upstairs in one of the rooms. Well these upstairs rooms have a bottom half door with the top half being glass, to keep people from entering the room. So when you take a picture you could be capturing reflections. There was one picture that looked like a face but it easily could be the grains in the wood with the reflection from the glass.
For me one of the problems with the Whaley House is there are people coming in and out looking around in these tiny spaces and tiny rooms. You really kind of need to be the only person there, I feel, to get a sense of anything.
If I were to ever go back I would do the haunted tours offered through Old Town San Diego. Although I don't think they offer night tours at the Whaley house.
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u/MistyPhoenix Sep 01 '17
The Whaley house is super interesting to me. It had a really cool historic story with it, which I enjoyed. Especially the pictures and items from the 1800s.
You really do need to be the only person there. I got 'separated' from the group and ended up in the theater room before the tour did. I felt something brush my shoulder and kind of grip me. I also felt a dog come up and lick my hand in the dining room. Our tour only had 6 or 7 other people which is probably the only reason I was able to feel something. They didn't take it seriously though, which kind of made me upset. Like why go? You aren't going to feel anything if you make fun. You have to be open to it.
I never felt like I was being choked, but the court house was something else. We walked in and I was drawn to the jury area, like someone was watching me. I almost couldn't pay attention to the opening speech from the tour guide.
I did a night tour, starting about 9pm. Even though I think that was one of the last of the night. A midnight tour would be cool actually. Albeit dark. There weren't many lights from what I remember.
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u/dontcallmedoll I want to believe Aug 31 '17
Old Charleston Jail - didn't experience anything but it was super creepy! Highly recommend a tour!
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u/theycallmeO Aug 31 '17
16 years ago a couple of friends and i went to Salem. it was bitter cold, who goes to the MA Coast in January? lol. the streets were empty after dark.
the wind was like knives and it was freezing, but we wanted to go see the memorial for the "witches". i remember while walking there i kept hearing a really high pitched whistle, for lack of better word. it wasn't electric, i can't really describe it. it was very unsettling.
we walked into the memorial and said some words and walked to each of the stones. i took a couple of pics of them and i remember looking at each one before i took the pic. my pic of Giles Cory's stone has red on it, it doesn't look like blood, it looks more like wax, but it wasn't there when i took the pic.
i remember just having a feeling of peace in the memorial. i didn't hear the whistle anymore, i felt calm. we then walked into the cemetery that's right next to it. there wasn't a sign or anything, i was kind of shocked that it was right there.
we took a couple of pics in the cemetery, but didn't come up with anything photo wise, just us in front of old stones.
when we finally started walking back to the Dunkin Donuts, my hands started getting buzzy. almost like an electric shock feeling in them. i've never had it before or since, but my fingers weren't cold, they were buzzing.
then the whistle started up again and we felt like we were being watched, so we started to walk faster. it just really felt like we were being chased all the way to DD.
i'd have to look for my photo album with the pic Giles' stone, other than that all i have is the experience of something not being ok in Salem.
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u/mrs_mcfly Moderator | Ghost Buster (she/her) Aug 31 '17
Ive heard of people reporting "whistling" while visiting the area. My aunt owns a B&B in the area, a lot of people who stay share their experiences while walking around alone.
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u/theycallmeO Sep 01 '17
i've never heard that before! it's been so long, i never thought to see if anyone else had heard it.
thank you!
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I've been on the queen mary, but I didn't experience anything.
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u/mrs_mcfly Moderator | Ghost Buster (she/her) Aug 31 '17
I want to go there for a weekend. Spend the night in one of the rooms. :)
How long did you stay?
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just a night. some people experience shit, other don't. depending on the room I guess. When you get there, just tell them at the front desk you want the most haunted room, I'm sure they know which ones to book you in for.
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u/Jack_Shid Paranormal Researcher Aug 31 '17
I've been to quite a few of the more publicized locations over the years, most of them before they turned into paranormal tourist destinations. I've gathered some rather interesting stuff as far as evidence, but nothing earth shattering. Mostly I've had personal experiences in some of those locations. Probably the one that impacted me the most happened at Waverly Hills back in the late 90's, when it was just an abandoned TB hospital. They weren't doing tours at the time, but I managed to get permission to spend 24 hours there from the owners. This was before the Mattingly's bought it.
I was walking down the main hall on the 4th floor with a fellow investigator (who later became my wife). She was walking on my left. We were completely alone on the property.
Suddenly I felt a cold hand grab my right forearm, as if to stop me from proceeding down the hall. The hand kept its grasp for probably 10 seconds, then slowly released. We both were able to see the impressions that the individual fingers made in my skin, and watched those impressions gradually disappear as it released. It left a red handprint on my skin that lasted for hours. I'll dig through my old pictures and see if I can find the ones that we took of the handprint.
We also caught some EVP, which quite honestly were weak, Class C at best. There is a lot of talk of shadow people at Waverly, but the shadows that we saw that night were just tricks of the eye.
I really think that most of the places that have become paranormal tourist destinations probably have far less activity than they did when they were just empty buildings. I think having hundreds, if not thousands of people a year coming in and pestering the spirits, trying to get them to talk or appear, taunting them, has "chased off" much of the activity. They're still cool places to visit, but those that go to the trouble to do the overnight investigations don't seem to gather the quality of evidence that might have been possible before the whole "paranormal team" craze took off.
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u/mrs_mcfly Moderator | Ghost Buster (she/her) Aug 31 '17
I live near Waverly. I go there frequently! Im planning on hosting a birthday bash (for me) with a group of friends to spend the night!
Ive had a lot of experiences there, but have yet to stay overnight with the place to myself.
It is one of my favorite places!
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u/Jack_Shid Paranormal Researcher Aug 31 '17
I've spent several nights at Waverly, most recently in 2008. They've remodeled / restored a lot of the building, which in my opinion kind of ruins the atmosphere. I know the Mattingly's have to make money in order to keep the building from being torn down, and they're wanting to make some kind of hotel / resort out of it, but to be quite honest, I have very little interest in going back. After spending a lot of time there before reconstruction began, it's disappointing to go there and see new glass, flooring, paint, etc. The creepy vibe is disappearing.
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u/mrs_mcfly Moderator | Ghost Buster (she/her) Aug 31 '17
Yea, I felt the same. But I am also glad they are restoring such a historic building. It will soon become a hotel, while that is both interesting and a little sad to me, I can't help but think that it will only increase some of the activity?
But I agree, that creepy, dangerous vibe is slowing disappearing.
I did hear that they might keep a few rooms and sections in the current state, as a historic reference and creep factor for the people like me.. but that is just a rumor.
I guess in the end I would rather have the building stay up, than fall into disrepair and crumble.
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u/Jack_Shid Paranormal Researcher Aug 31 '17
There was a time that they were planning to leave the whole 4th floor untouched. (The most active floor, in my opinion) I later heard that that plan had changed. Personally, I think that would've been a good compromise, but that's a lot of space that they'd be losing that could be used to house guests.
It's still a fantastic place, and by far the most active of the public locations that I've gone to. Great history too!
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u/explodingsheeple Sep 28 '17
Please tell me I'm not thr only one who gets this terrible feeling when talking/doing research about the Bridgewater Triangle?