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Haunted Places
We do this topic every year for Halloween
Of all the reported haunted places in the world, where would you spend one night if you could?
I think last year, I chose Gettysburg, but also thinkin' about maybe the Queen Mary, or The Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana
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| October 24, 2010, 00:30 |
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kamarel
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Alexandria, Louisiana, US
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QUOTE (Chazzy @ October 24, 2010, 00:30)We do this topic every year for Halloween
Of all the reported haunted places in the world, where would you spend one night if you could?
I think last year, I chose Gettysburg, but also thinkin' about maybe the Queen Mary, or The Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana
Newbie wants to go to Eastern State Penitentiary
I want to go to Winchester House
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| October 24, 2010, 00:32 |
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Winchester House ain't nothing to speak of..a 150 miles up the road...now the White House or congress building..that's really scary..  
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| October 24, 2010, 05:34 |
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QUOTE (Leviathan4u @ October 24, 2010, 05:34)Winchester House ain't nothing to speak of..a 150 miles up the road...now the White House or congress building..that's really scary..
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| October 24, 2010, 13:01 |
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QUOTE (JCSOS @ October 24, 2010, 13:01)
lol.. they are 2 places the kids can't trick or treat during Halloween.
But then the White House and Congress do their fair share of trickin' and treatin' every day of the year with you Americans, and other nations of course.
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| October 24, 2010, 16:28 |
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ashkats
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we lived in one for 19 years that was enough, but the place that we use to live next too, that one make me wonder ....it was a funeral home that was converted into apartments. in the rooms were they use to lay people out and embalm them and the freezers in the basement and so on....
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| October 24, 2010, 16:44 |
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I'd love to see the Winchester House, I see pictures and film footage but there's no way it could compare to actually seeing it in person.
Eastern State, that's one creepy place for sure, I've seen the TAPS team cover that one on TV.
In Missouri, about 2 hours away from me is Zombie Road, I have no shame is saying I would not like to ever go there, daylight or dark.
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| October 27, 2010, 21:28 |
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kamarel
60 / male
Alexandria, Louisiana, US
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ok
Zombie road sounds creepy cool
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| October 27, 2010, 22:05 |
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GG317
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Bowl of Granola, Massachusetts, US
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"Hammond Castle" (Gloucester Massachusetts) It's a museum in the town and strange happenings go on there. Last time, I heard about all the portraits coming off the walls and stacking themselves in the middle of the room. Funny thing was they had done it before and this time they were screwed into the granite walls with anchor bolts. The next morning, not a picture was ruined, but everyone of them was unscrewed and stacked up in the middle of the room. Took and eight-man crew, three-days, to put everyone of those pictures up in the first place and only one night to take them all down...  
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| October 27, 2010, 22:21 |
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ashkats
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crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Au sable point light station that place had my hair on my back standing on end in the daytime when we took a tour from all the people that died in shipwrecks and the bodies washing ashore, it was called the graveyard of ships from all the shipwreck's, it was a rock ledge that ran 3 miles out in the lake and its deepest point was 6 to 30 feet, they ran a ground in the fog and sank or were beached on either side of it by 12 mile beach or the dunes. after 12 mile is pictured rocks Nat lake shore on lake superior.
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| October 28, 2010, 03:04 |
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newbie1011
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The Shore, New Jersey, US
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2 out of 3 of my kids have been to Eastern State Pen. They said it was great . My daughter texted me while she was there. She said that during the tour they screamed so much and her friend went through almost the whole thing with her hood pulled over her face she was so scared. It's not that far from me and I keep saying I will go but I always manage to find a reason I can't go. I don't think its intentional. I heard they do sleep overs there now . I have to check that out. I don't think I could sleep in a place like that. The mice alone would scare the hell out of me. They really do it up for Halloween!
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| October 28, 2010, 06:52 |
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I would love a daylight tour of Eastern State, if you do go, please tell us all about it, I've heard so much about it, but have only seen it on a couple of ghost hunting shows.
I gather it's a huge place?
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| October 28, 2010, 17:06 |
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T.A.L.A,I don't know if I can spell it right,Trans Allegheny Lunatic Ass.the ghost hunters did a show there in Weston,WV not far from where I live.
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| October 29, 2010, 02:04 |
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Got to go see you later!
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| October 29, 2010, 02:06 |
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QUOTE (studleydoright @ October 29, 2010, 02:04)T.A.L.A,I don't know if I can spell it right,Trans Allegheny Lunatic Ass.the ghost hunters did a show there in Weston,WV not far from where I live.
Are you talking about the Insane Asylum? I have been there on a tour. It was really interesting, but the tour guide kept trying to avoid the real horrors that went on there.
We were told they had a wonderful arts and crafts program. Then one man popped up, "hey didn't they have a dungeon in the basement?" Tour guide response "yes, they did restrain some unruly patients in the basement." That is putting it mildly.
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| October 29, 2010, 04:13 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
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Bendover, Florida, US
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QUOTE (Goody @ October 29, 2010, 04:13) QUOTE (studleydoright @ October 29, 2010, 02:04)T.A.L.A,I don't know if I can spell it right,Trans Allegheny Lunatic Ass.the ghost hunters did a show there in Weston,WV not far from where I live. Are you talking about the Insane Asylum? I have been there on a tour. It was really interesting, but the tour guide kept trying to avoid the real horrors that went on there.
We were told they had a wonderful arts and crafts program. Then one man popped up, "hey didn't they have a dungeon in the basement?" Tour guide response "yes, they did restrain some unruly patients in the basement." That is putting it mildly.
You mean the place where they tortured the patients. I remember seeing a scene where they kept some in a horizontal cage. Not sure if this is the same place.
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| October 29, 2010, 04:26 |
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QUOTE (Iwant2kssuallovr @ October 29, 2010, 04:26) QUOTE (Goody @ October 29, 2010, 04:13) QUOTE (studleydoright @ October 29, 2010, 02:04)T.A.L.A,I don't know if I can spell it right,Trans Allegheny Lunatic Ass.the ghost hunters did a show there in Weston,WV not far from where I live. Are you talking about the Insane Asylum? I have been there on a tour. It was really interesting, but the tour guide kept trying to avoid the real horrors that went on there.
We were told they had a wonderful arts and crafts program. Then one man popped up, "hey didn't they have a dungeon in the basement?" Tour guide response "yes, they did restrain some unruly patients in the basement." That is putting it mildly.
You mean the place where they tortured the patients. I remember seeing a scene where they kept some in a horizontal cage. Not sure if this is the same place.
I am not sure if this is the same place you are thinking about, but they were caged and shackled. It was definitely barbaric treatment the patients received. Lobotomies were preformed there too.
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| October 29, 2010, 10:22 |
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QUOTE (Goody @ October 29, 2010, 04:13) QUOTE (studleydoright @ October 29, 2010, 02:04)T.A.L.A,I don't know if I can spell it right,Trans Allegheny Lunatic Ass.the ghost hunters did a show there in Weston,WV not far from where I live. Are you talking about the Insane Asylum? I have been there on a tour. It was really interesting, but the tour guide kept trying to avoid the real horrors that went on there.
We were told they had a wonderful arts and crafts program. Then one man popped up, "hey didn't they have a dungeon in the basement?" Tour guide response "yes, they did restrain some unruly patients in the basement." That is putting it mildly.
My brother had to go there for a drinking problem but can't remember what programs they had there.That was back in the80's I know they had shock treatments he said he got some.
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| October 29, 2010, 19:19 |
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ashkats
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crystal falls, Michigan, US
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i was reading shadowlands haunted places ... michigan is just loaded with them
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| October 29, 2010, 19:50 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
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The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, constructed between 1858 and 1881.The original hospital, designed to house 250 souls, was open to patients in 1864 and reached its peak in the 1950's with 2,400 patients in overcrowded and generally poor conditions. Changes in treatment of mental illness and the physical deterioration of the facility forced its closure in 1994 inflicting a devastating effect on the local economy, from which it has yet to recover.
The hospital housed "epileptics, alcoholics, drug addicts and non-educatable mental defectives" among its population.
Treatment such as lobotomy's (ice pick therapy) were common. Shock treatment was also common.
Thousands have been committed to the asylum over the years, and hundreds unfortunately died there.
The Asylum has had apparition sightings, unexplainable voices and sounds, and other paranormal activity reported in the past by guests and staff. Step back in time and see how the mentally insane lived, and died, within these walls.
I remember hearing other stories, of patients placed in baths or ice baths for days. And, when lying in the cages, there were marks left in the wood, where they'd scratch at the wood.
I can't even imagine, and these were medical people supposedly attending to humans. I could not treat anyone like that or be around it.
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| October 29, 2010, 19:57 |
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QUOTE (Iwant2kssuallovr @ October 29, 2010, 19:57)The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, constructed between 1858 and 1881.The original hospital, designed to house 250 souls, was open to patients in 1864 and reached its peak in the 1950's with 2,400 patients in overcrowded and generally poor conditions. Changes in treatment of mental illness and the physical deterioration of the facility forced its closure in 1994 inflicting a devastating effect on the local economy, from which it has yet to recover.
The hospital housed "epileptics, alcoholics, drug addicts and non-educatable mental defectives" among its population.
Treatment such as lobotomy's (ice pick therapy) were common. Shock treatment was also common.
Thousands have been committed to the asylum over the years, and hundreds unfortunately died there.
The Asylum has had apparition sightings, unexplainable voices and sounds, and other paranormal activity reported in the past by guests and staff. Step back in time and see how the mentally insane lived, and died, within these walls.
I remember hearing other stories, of patients placed in baths or ice baths for days. And, when lying in the cages, there were marks left in the wood, where they'd scratch at the wood.
I can't even imagine, and these were medical people supposedly attending to humans. I could not treat anyone like that or be around it.
I read the same thing as you on the Asylum. For the most part once you were committed, you were there for life. So many were there because family members did not want to take care of them. There were rapes, unimaginable treatment of a human being.
They use to be kept in closets, holes in the ground. It was the way mental patients were treated. The families did not want to deal with the embarrassment.
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| October 29, 2010, 20:26 |
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QUOTE (kamarel @ October 27, 2010, 22:05)ok
Zombie road sounds creepy cool
I've done some more reading and researching on Zombie Road, and I've changed my mind, I do want to go and will visit Zombie Road some day I hope to be soon.
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