share your spooky encounters and ghostly experiences here....

I went to Glenn Dale once and was completely scared shitless. I've never been more terrified. For those of you who aren't from the suburban DC/MD/Prince George's County area, I'll see if I can find a pic or two.

Glenn Dale was the site of an abandoned insane asylum + children's hospital for kids with tuberculosis or something like that. Driving by there during the day gave me fucking shivers.

I stand corrected. This site says it was a tuberculosis sanatorium and later became a institute for the chronically mentally ill. Here's one pic, more to come as I find them:

[img][334:500]http://www.opacity.us/images/db/32/0000001893.jpg[/img]

Edit: This Site has quite a few, including a photo of the children's morgue.

Did you really go in there?


Some of those pictures, particularly "The Last Hall" are pretty good.

Oh fuck no. We were probably 30-40 yards from one of the main buildings. I completely pussed out. 100%. Not that the other two were begging me to go in. They quickly agreed we should go back to the car and get the hell out of Dodge. We started walking briskly and suddenly broke into a dead sprint all the way back. Somewhere as we approached the car, some weird ass run-of-the-mill neighborhood noise came out of nowhere. We all shot in three separate directions, and it took about 30 minutes of back yard searching before we were back as a trio. We were in high school at the time. And it was around midnight or one in the morning. Dead of night.

It's been condemned for twentysome years, so you not only get the haunt, but also armed squatters and junkies who shack up inside for shelter, and it's on government property with a police trailer across the road, so the fear of being arrested is also there. And it's not small. It's a fucking campus.

Here's an overhead shot:
[img][650:423]http://carantics.com/glenndale/mapsgoogle.jpg[/img]

If you were to extend the map down and to the left, there is a little neighborhood down there. That's where you park. Then you have to walk across the road [where the LE in carantics.com/glenndale is] and walk across this field, probably 200-250 yards up a gradual hill in the wide fucking open to the building on the bottom right.

We could see people (or what we assumed to be junkies and squatters) as silhouettes in the windows or window frames. I've never been that frozen before, and I don't even believe in ghosts and shit. I did know some guys who went in there, and they all refused to ever go near the place. It's fucked up.

elephantstone, did you ever go over there?

yay! i love pictures of abandoned places like this!
i've never seen this place.

I'd offer to take you on a tour, but I would rather not cry in front of a woman.

Hey look! A video: http://carantics.com/glenndale/gdh10.mp4

I haven't watched much yet, but one of the first comments is "I'd feel a lot better if the car was closer."

something tells me not to watch this toNIGHT. but thanks...i'll check it out tomorrow in the daylight.

I got nuthin'.

I heard the steps creak once, and someone explained to me that the wood in houses expand at different rates...

never seen crap. my dad grew up in a small town on the southern oregon coast and he had some weird stories about cults (a lot of freaks live on the coast and the hills to the east) and other assorted tales...especially the legend of human chains. the story goes that on certain foggy nights of the year, satanic cults will gather and line up across a country road in the coast range, just around one of the 180-degree corners - so that when you come around the corner you will see them and slam on your brakes. this is where they break your window and drag you out into the forest.

i always tell people visiting from out of town this story when we are driving around up in the mountains at night.

I have facial hair at the moment. I have a spooky encounter every time I look in the mirror.

when is Halloween?

I really want to go here, and i'm planning on going sometime soon. If I can find people to go with me. Somehow I doubt it.

I love exploring shit like this, though.

I've explored the grounds of this place:

http://www.danvers-state-ia.com/index.html

It's where they shot the movie Session 9 (speaking of creepy movies...). It's in Danvers, Mass. It's patrolled by security, so we had to bribe one of the guards to get on the property. We didn't have much cash on us, so it was a pretty chintzy bribe

when i did my overnight jail, which was not unlike camp, our common area was across the hallway from prison-prison, and looking out the window and across the hallway at those faces, which i did exactly ONCE, was a little scary.

I love spooky places and ghost stories. I'm currently obsessed with the Hans Holzer books about his ghosthunting experiences over the last fifty years. Which number a LOT of really famous places.

I've always been a believer and had one freaky experience when in New Orleans about 13 years ago. It was my first night there and the morning after the bf woke me up to show me a piece of paper and explain that for some reason in the middle of the night my hand started moving along the pillow like I was writing something so he stuck a pen in my hand and paper under me to see what would happen. Nothing legible came out of it but it sufficiently freaked us both out.

Other then that there was a house on the corner of the block I grew up on, and no one lived there for about 20 years and the story goes that the owners were murdered and buried in their garden(of which I could see from my backyard three houses away) and supposedly their son had done it, because one day the couple just up and disappeared. The house stayed the same, still furnished but a bit dusty and with cobwebs to boot. Some guy friends of mine after a party at my house decided to go check it out one night and came running back saying they saw a scary woman walking around inside.

No one knows what the hell they saw but everyone still calls it the haunted house. Hell I moved from there years ago and have no idea if it still even stands.

http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/paranor.html

check out the top entry... creepy.

I know i've posted this before, but this page is great. People have posted some truly chilling stuff. This is one of the best:
(I know it's hard to read, but the poor composition, etc seems to make it all the more creepy)



MYSTERIOUS MAN IT ALL STARTED ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT IN 1984.I WAS LIVING IN GREER S.C.EVERY HALLOWEEN 2 WOULD COME ON AT 8PM AND GO OFF AT 10 PM.I CAME HOME AT 9:30PM AND MY MOM CHECKED MY CANDY AND SENT ME TO BED.THAT WAS 9:55 PM.ABOUT 9:58 MY BODY LOCKED AND I COULDN'T MOVE.BEHIND MY HEAD WAS A WALL AND BEHIND THAT WALL REST THE REFRIGERATOR.I CAN SEE THROUGH THE WALL AND THE REFRIGERATOR EVEN THOUGH I WASN'T FACING IT.WHAT EVER THIS WAS WANTED ME TO SEE IT COMING.EVERYBODY KNOW THE NORMAL WIDTH OF A REGULAR DOOR.THIS THING WAS LIKE A BIG BLACK CLOUDIT WAS BIGGER THAN THE KITCHEN DOOR BY MORE THAN 6IN ON BOTH SIDES.IT CAME THROUGH THE KITCHEN AND THROUGH THE REFRIDGERATOR.I WAS SCREAMING SO MY MOM CAN HEAR ME BUT NO SCREAMS LEFT MY MOUTH BUT I CAN HEAR THEM.THATS WHEN THE THE BIG "SHADHOA:LAYED ON MY BODY MY SOUL LEAPED IN THE AIR AND I WAS LOOKING AT MY BODY FROM ABOVE.THEN A WHITE SHADOW CAME AND LAYED ON TOP OF THE BLACK SHADOW.IT WASN'T THE SAME SIZE.MY BODY HAD THE WHITE SHADOW IN IT BUT THE BLACK SHADOW WAS STILL PRESENT CAUSE THE WHITE SHADOW HAD A BLACK OUT LINE.I RETURNED TO MY BODY AND IT WAS 10:38 AND HALLOWEEN 2 WAS ON BUT ONLY ON MY TV I WAS FORCED TO WATCH IT THEN IT WENT OFF AT 12 MIDNIGHT.I WAS 9 YRS.OLD OVER THE YEARS I CHANGED.I HAD A WARM HEART BUT I WOULD COMMIT EVIL ACTS AND I LOVE TO SEE BLOOD.I WAS A GOOD KID BUT I WAS OBSESSED WITH MURDER. 1990 I CAME TO MY MOTHER'S HOUSE,I WAS STAYING WITH MY GRANDMOTHER AT THE TIME,AND HALLOWEEN 2 CAME ON T.V.MY MOM WENT INTO A TRANCE AND SAID:OCT.31 1984 SHE WAS LAYING ON THE COUCH WAITING FOR HALLOWEEN 2 TO COME ON WHEN HER BODY LOCKED.WHEN IT DID SHE COULD SEE THROUGH THE WALLS OF THE 2 ROOMS BEHIND HER HEAD.THE SHADHOWS OF BLACK AND WHITE CAME AND LAYED ON HER BODY. IT DOESN'T END HERE. THE BLACK SHADHOA SEEMED TO EMERGE FROM MY BODY.1ST WAS A MYSTERIOUS VOICE TELLING ME YOU GOING TO DIE REPEATEDLY.THEN ONE NIGHT IN 92 I SAW SHADHOA FOR THE 1ST TIME.I FELL ASLEEP ONE NIGHT WHEN SOMETHING PULLED ME OUT OF BED. I HIT THE FLOOR TURNED THE LIGHT ON, NOTHING.I CUT THE LIGHT OFF AND A HOUR LATER I SEE A FIGURE WITH NO FEATURES STANDING IN THE LIVING ROOM.IT LOOK LIKE ME AT THE TIME BUT IT WAS ALL BLACK.I SLOWELY MOVED BACK TO MY ROOM SOMEHOW WENT TO SLEEP.EVIL ACTS CONTINUED AND STUFF I LOVED WOULD DISAPPEAR.THAT CONTINUED FOR THE NEXT 2 YEARS.DURING THEN I THOUGHT ABOUT SUICIDE TO STOP THIS MADNESS. IN 95 I WAS LIVING WITH MY COUSIN IN GREENVILLE. I CAME HOME WITH MY GUN IN MY HAND.I SITTING ON THE COUCH DRINKING A BEER IN THE DARK LOOKING AT MY NEW GUN,WHEN I LOOKED UP HE WAS STANDING 2 ROOMS UP IN THE KITCHEN.I KNEW HE WAS THERE CAUSE THROUGH THE THIN CURTAINS I CAN SEE THE STEET LIGHT OUT BACK BUT HE WAS BLOCKING THAT WINDOW.TO MY SURPRIZE IT WAS STILL BLACK BUT IT STOOD LIKE ME AND IT HAD MY PHYSIQUE.AGAIN I FELL ASLEEP WITH MY GUN. WHEN I WOKE UP IT WAS GONE BUT IN MY HIDING SPOT. I THOGHT I DID SOMETHING HORRIBLE THANK GOD I DIDN'T. I CAME HOME TO GREER IN 96. IN BETWEEN 96 AND 97 I TOLD MY BEST FRIEND AND MY YOUNGER BROTHER ABOUT SHADHOW MAN AND HIS PROCESS.THEY WERE SKEPTIC.ONE DAY IN 97 I TURNED THE CORNER OF MY STREET COMING FROM WHEN MY LITTLE BROTHER MY BEST FRIEND AND 2 GUYS WHO JUST MOVED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD RAN BY ME CRYING AND SCREAMING.I CAUGHT UP TOO THEM AND I ASKED WHAT HAPPENED.THEY SAID:DON'T GO HOME SHADHOA MAN BEEN THERE LOOKING FOR YOU SEEN HIM IN THE ROOM WHEN WE CAME BACK FROM SHOOTING BALL.NOW I REALLY KNOW I'M NOT CRAZY CAUSE THEY SEEN SHADHOA TOO. IN 98 IN THE MORNING I LEFT AND GOT ME A BEER AND MY COUSIN THINK I'M THE COOLEST SO HE COPY MY HAIRSTYLE AND THE WAY I DRESS.HE WAS SICK SO HE STAYED HOME.AT THIS TIME MY MOM MOVED INTO MY GRANDMOTHERS HOUSE WHEN MY GRANDMOTHER WAS PUT IN A HOME.I CAME HOME AND MY MOM SAID:DAMN THAT WAS FAST! I SAID:I BEEN GONE FOR AN HOUR I WAS HELPING AFRIEND MOVED HER FURNITURE.MY MOM TOLD ME SHE SAW SOMEBODY LIKE ME LOOKING AT MY COUSIN WHILE HE WAS SLEEP.SHE THOUGHT I WAS ME SO SAID NEVER MINE.IN 2002 TODAY I STILL FEEL HIS PRESENCE BUT I DESENSITIZED SHADHOA MAN BY TAKING ON HIS NAME AS MY OWN.STUFF STILL DISAPPEAR AND HE MADE ONE LAST APPEARANCE JUS ABOUT 2 MONTHS AGO.I WAS TAKING A SHOWER WHEN I LOOKED OUTSIDE AND A BIG BLACK FIGURE WAS IN A TREE.IT WAS SHADHOA MAN.I LIVE ALONE NOW SO IT SCARED ME PRETTY GOOD ESPECIALLY SINCE MY FRONT DOOR WAS OPEN TOO. IF ANYBODY HAD AN EXPERIENCE LIKE THIS OR WANT TO ASK ANY QUESTION ABOUT ME OR SHADHOA MAN.FEEL FREE TO E MAIL ME. I KNOW THIS SOUND LIKE A MOVIE BUT TRUST ME AND THIS SIGHT THIS IS ATERRIBLE REALITY I LIVE EVERY SINGLE DAY IT STILL GIVE ME CHILLS TO TALK ABOUT THIS
maurice dillard <shadhoa26@yahoo.com>
greenville, sc USA - Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 05:45:18 (PST)

yikes.


my office mate used to be this woman who performed 'exorcisms'.

she would tell me the creepiest stories.

her house was haunted. (until she exorcised it.) and wrote a book about it.

her daughter would see black shadows following her around.

she went down to mexico to perform an exorcism on someone who could FLY!

she hated my 'fairy calendar' because she said that fairies were evil.

so bizarre.

if i could fly, i think i could handle a demon. that would be sweet

one time i thought my coat was a dracula.

This year Halloween fell on a weekend
Me and Geto Boyz are trick-or-treating
Robbing little kids for bags
Till an old man got behind our ass
So we speeded up the pace
Took a look back and he was right before our face
We'd be in for a squab' no doubt
So I swung and hit the nigga in his mouth
He was going down, we figured
But this was no ordinary nigga
He stood about six or seven feet
Now, that's the nigga I'd been seeing in my sleep
So we triple-teamed on him
Dropping them motherf**kin B's on him
The more I swung the more blood flew
Then he disappeared and my boys disappeared, too
Then I felt just like a fiend
It wasn't even close to Halloween
It was dark as f**k on the streets
My hands were all bloody from punching on the concrete
God damn, homie
My mind is playing tricks on me

damn that song brings back some good high school memories.