1.Pennhurst Asylum Haunted Attraction:Prior to opening as a haunted attraction, the old Pennhurst Asylum building sat vacant, falling on decay, for decades. Parts were even vandalized until haunted house owner, Randy Bates (famous for The Bates Motel Haunted House & Hayride in Philadelphia), to...
Several stories center on the fifth floor of the hospital, where tuberculosis patients with mental disturbances were reportedly treated. In particular, Room 502, where two nurses are said to have killed themselves — one by hanging, the other by jumping to her death — is said to be haunted....
Mental health pros boo haunted house at asylum: ; Advocates say Pa.; hospital is a reminder of; history not to be repeatedPATRICK WALTERS
Elmwood Cemetery, TN (The spirit of Alice Mitchell lingers near her gravestone where she has a clear view of Frederica’s headstone, and may feel some peace being among family headstones). People who kill themselves find that they still suffer the emotional pain they had in this world. ...
Three years later, Grace murdered Jack’s wife with a pistol, was committed to a Missouri mental asylum then fled with Dorothy to New Orleans, where she opened a flower shop on Freret Street and played the organ at a church. Grace and her daughter ensconced themselves in a large creepy ...
Have you ever heard scratching in your walls? Or maybe an open door you swore you closed? Perhaps your basement is a little eerie?These haunted house stories ...
Trans-Allegheny was finally closed in 1994 after over a century of horror stories about those left in its care. On a personal note, old hospitals freak me out in ways not many other places do; I can't help but think that so many unhappy people existing ...
Astonishingly, it is estimated that around 13,000 people passed away within the walls of of this institution during its 140 years of operation, which opens the door to plenty of potential ghost stories. Today, the abandoned mental hospital hosts ghost tours of the haunting grounds two hours wes...
“Watcher” case, I shared an1864 phantom stalker story. I’ve heard from several other bloggers and readers that they know of other, very similar stories and I hope that they will soon write them up to share with all of us. I have in my own files a particularly striking phantom ...
The curious detail that water did not extinguish the Brooklyn corpse-blaze, but fueled it is a near-constant in stories of Spontaneous Human Combustion. The theme of intoxication is also a common one–the Temperance movement actually used the threat of SHC as one of their deterrents. ...