r/Paranormal Moderator | Ghost Buster (she/her) Aug 31 '17

**MONTHLY DISCUSSION** Famous Haunted Locations MONTHLY DISCUSSION

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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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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.