The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
Screams can be heard along with sightings of ghosts that usually resemble patients that may have died there. This buildings windows and doors are boarded up partially due to the fact that people have reported seeing ghosts in the windows looking outside.
Mary Stringfellow, the hospital’s founder, was an organ player. Nurses working the third shift report hearing the organ playing in the chapel, but find no one there when they investigate. Another haunting involves a man who reportedly committed suicide by shotgun in one of the rooms. Patients have claimed to see the apparition of a […]
In the 4-South section of the hospital there have been reports of a ghost on the night shift. Mostly just trash cans being turned over (the most common report) but once or twice a month screams may be heard coming from one of the rooms.
An old man dressed in a black suit and black top hat has been seen by most of the elderly living there. Lights in the basement have been known to go on and off by themselves. Also, a young blond-haired nurse has been seen by the residents — she is known to make them feel […]
The Old Gym at the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base once served as a morgue for mangled body parts during wartime, and was also used as an insane asylum. Before that, the site was an old Army base connected to the Battle of Plattsburgh in 1812. There have been reports of screams throughout the night […]
Mary Telfair is said to also haunt this former ladies hospital. It is told that she roams the halls in a brown dress.
In the dark, you can feel an odd presence of someone else there with you. There have been reports of ghost sightings near the operating rooms.
Haunted by the spirit of an Alaska Native woman named Marie, who was murdered there in 1987. She is said to appear to people who are homeless, and warn them not to linger. This haunting is usually reported as being between the old ANS (Alaska Native Service) Hospital and the old Alaska Railroad terminal.
Fort Mackinac has its own collection of ghost stories and paranormal activity. The spirits of the post commander’s children are said to haunt the officers’ hill quarters. The hospitals located near and within the fort are reportedly haunted, with visitors experiencing an unsettling atmosphere of sickness that persists to this day. A skeleton was discovered […]
The Clara Ford Pavilion, formerly a live-in nursing school, is quite haunted. Security and maintenance personnel have had doors locked behind them during the early morning hours. One of the first-floor boardrooms has a particularly obvious cold spot and a feeling of dread, as well as the smell of decay. In 1926, a nursing student, […]
Made up of many different buildings and a huge, wooded grounds area, the Leestown Division of the VA Hospital in Lexington has been the site of several strange and frightening occurrences. Haunting images of several ghosts have been seen, as well as screams and moans, doors slamming, footsteps, disembodied voices talking, and equipment and appliances […]
Danvers – Danvers Mental State Hospital – The old buildings sit on top of a high hillside. Police monitor surrounding areas. The buildings are bare and empty. Candles are seen through the windows at night. January 2007 Update – Danvers State Mental Hospital: Most buildings have been demolished for the building of condominiums. Only the […]
A single sheet hangs in a room window facing the interstate. Authorities placed it there due to repeated sightings of a young girl reliving her death by hanging every night. Many witnesses have reported this disturbing occurrence. There is no power in the room, yet lights turn on at night, a rocker moves on its […]
Built on a cemetery site, this nursing home experiences numerous strange occurrences during the 3rd shift. Nurses report feeling unseen touches on their backs. On particularly active nights, multiple phenomena occur simultaneously: lights blink, the fire sprinkler near the nurses’ desk briefly activates, doors close on their own, and voices echo through the halls. Apparitions […]
Myers Hall was a Civil War hospital. A dying soldier demanded to see his horse. The horse was brought in, but upon finishing the task the horse refused to go down the stairs to leave so he was shot. The horse’s spirit still roams the halls.
Numerous flashlights going off and not working at the same time, people screaming, and a woman in a white robe running down the stairs. See Haunted Lineage notes below.
At night, the woods carry sounds of moaning, faint screaming, and sudden banging. Some believe the noises come from homeless individuals who lived in the forest and died there. Others say the sounds are tied to violent crimes. Many think these voices belong to former patients from the nearby hospital. If you prefer to avoid […]
The Goss Building is believed to be haunted. Staff have reported seeing a man in white walking the third-floor halls. There is a corner room at the front of that floor that leaves nearly everyone feeling uneasy. Please do not trespass. Always obtain permission before entering abandoned or private property. If you’re considering a visit, […]
During odd hours of the days, footsteps can be heard running down the hall on the third floor. Knocks on doors, and unlocking door sounds can be heard, all while no one is around. This used to be the location of a hospital and then a convent. There are tunnels that connect this building with […]
This large enclave of buildings in Camarillo is now a university, but it was originally built in the 1920s as a state mental hospital. It was converted into a school in the mid-90s. Over the years, there have been many stories of ghosts of all kinds, likely due to the fact that patients once lived—and […]
The apparition of a semi-transparent small boy in a jacket and a pair of blue jeans leaning on the hall way wall looking at patients has been seen.
Has been closed since the 1985. Reports of people in the non-boarded windows. Reports of screams nearby. Feelings of being watched. WARNING – No Trespassing – The building is being renovated into codos the name will be The Georgian Condominiums.
This is the actual site of an exorcism, the event the movie The Exorcist is based on. The original building was torn down some years ago. The exorcism was performed on a young (perhaps 11) year old boy. After a vision of St. Michael the spirit was vanquished. The site is part of the parking […]
The sounds of footsteps from an unoccupied floor can be heard.
Children’s ward is haunted. A patient stayed there and has seen a few strange things. The pen container on the nurses desk will slide to the other side. Children’s bedroom doors will close by themselves, slamming shut. Late at night there is crying of children and laughing in the play room.
Apparitions, sightings, and voices have been reported here.
Formerly a mental facility, there have been many sightings and sounds blames on a ghost they call “Oscar”. Oscar was a patient in the mental facility and before he died he swore to never leave and to make everyone’s lives there hell. My fiance worked as a CMT (med-tech) there, she didn’t believe in ghosts […]
Nurses have seen and experienced, “angels” in the back room when a baby is dying in the nursery. The temperature in the room drops to 60 degrees, and they experience cold chills. Also, babies can be heard in the room, when there are none.
Room 218 – The building is haunted by an Irishman named Michael. On the second floor, the ghost of a nurse is seen, pushing a person on a bed. Examples of other sightings are of a business man walking around in the lobby, a man pushing his wife down a flight of stairs, and a […]
There is an old mental institution which is now boarded up. Many people committed suicide in this place. A man hung himself. You can see little orbs and figures glowing. You can also hearing moaning and other noises. There is now a new mental institution, which has patients in it right now, but this old […]
The Pipestone County museum is formerly the old city hall. A little blonde girl has been seen there by several people. She is dressed in a blue 19th century dress with a white apron. Often, loud sounds are heard upstairs when no one is there (footsteps, stomping…) The old doctor’s office is located off the […]
One downstairs room was the morgue for the hospital. Things stacked and placed in this room are unaccountably scattered all over the place shortly afterwards. Things hanging on the walls fall, crashing to the floor, because the nails holding them are pulled out of the wall by an invisible force. Doorbells ring so persistently for […]
Once when one of the patients were badly sick and about to die, one of the nurses reported seeing a woman coming down the hallway going into the patients room but when they got there the patient had died and there was no sign of the woman they had seen in the hallway.
You will walk in rooms with no windows and feel a cool breeze come across your body. There is a morgue in the basement and at sometimes you can see the dead as ghosts lying in the morgue trays. You hear footsteps walking down the 3-floor building steps, and can feel presence behind you. This […]
Some times you will be walking past the old hospital and the curtains will flutter or you might catch a glimpse of movement through the balcony. It was present during the Civil War times and the owner says that sometimes he hears a stumble or a person limping at night.
Update: The Asylum as been torn down and it is very dangerous! No Trespassing – Old burnt down building. Claims to have heard footsteps and moaning inside the building. Also blood has been seen on the floor. An elderly man is said to haunt the place.
It is a three story building that looks like something straight out of a horror movie. It is positioned in a hay field on a rock road just past the local cemetery, and you’ll have to be very careful not to be caught trespassing by the owner who lives directly across the road. Once you […]
Lights turning themselves on and off… faucets on and off. Doors shutting themselves and opening themselves. A definite feeling that you are being watched in one of the rooms and the cold touches that are commonly felt with hauntings.
This is an old insane asylum, hospital, and old folks home that operated from 1901 to 1992. Witnesses have seen bloody handprints on bathtubs and bathroom walls, and heard old beds squeaking. They have also claimed to have a video tape with evidence of a ghost running in front of the camera. There is a […]
Some former residents that have passed on come back on nights that another resident passes on. Sometimes they can be heard and shadows seen.