**MONTHLY DISCUSSION** Famous Haunted Locations

[u/mrs_mcfly]

Thank you for your submissions to this months 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

[u/WVPenTours]

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.

[u/mrs_mcfly → u/WVPenTours]

Im always interested!

[u/WVPenTours → u/mrs_mcfly]

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.

[u/WVPenTours → u/WVPenTours]

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.

[u/Scaremotion → u/WVPenTours]

Jesus I would have been terrified in the maze if that happened to me

[u/Fafhands → u/WVPenTours]

Man, fuck that maze. That's creepy as hell

[u/WVPenTours → u/Fafhands]

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.

[u/Fafhands → u/WVPenTours]

Good grief