Thread: Local places that are supposedly really haunted?

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I live pretty close to this place http://www.deadohio.com/tinkerscreek.htm I started going there with my parents when I was a kid because there is a large pond you can fish in near by. We didn't even know about the cemetery at first.

These days, I only go there in October. It helps my Halloween festive mood to be in a place like this. It is quite creepy as you walk through a large long field, overgrown with tall weeds & then all of the sudden you have this old cemetery right in front of you. You get this feeling of being watched sometimes. Ive even gone there after dark by myself.

So have any of you been to local haunted places?

I've been to Bachelor's Grove cemetery here in IL. Pretty quiet the day we were there. Got creeped out a little a couple of times, but I'm not sure if I did it to myself, or something did it to me. Took a couple hundred pics and got nothing. It was still a fun day, tho. Unfortunately, if you go there after dark, you'll be arrested for trespassing.

http://www.bachelors-grove.com/

This is in Streetsboro, huh? Never heard of this place. I live in Warren. May check this out.

Corpsewood Manor in Summerville, GA...I've never been there, but it would be awesome to take a walk through those woods:

http://voices.yahoo.com/corpsewood-m...64.html?cat=16

I live pretty close to the Bell Witch Cave... I have never been there yet, but I hope to go soon!

Thanks for posting that. I just spent the last 5 hours researching all the stories surrounding Corpsewood Manor, very interesting, very sad. The tragedy occurred in 1982.

Certainly! Glad I could help you stumble upon some interesting history. It is a very sad story. I imagine there must be a great deal of energy surrounding the place.

I used to shop at a haunted Toys R Us as a kid. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/toysrus.asp Never saw or felt anything there, but years later I managed a Walgreens Drug Store that was located across the street on the property that was originally part of the ghost's farm house. My employees swear that they could see shadows and reflections when nobody was around and there should have been none. However, early one morning I was in the office alone in the store when I saw a reflection of someone coming around the corner of the aisle. My first thought was that I had screwed up and left the front door unlocked and either a customer or employee had come in. When I peeked my head out the door no one was there and the front door was in fact locked. We later tried to recreate the reflection and came to the conclusion that something (or someone) would have had to have come around the corner.

Coming from Rural Pennsylvania, everything had a reputation for being Haunted. My Elementary School, for example was built inside of a Cemetery. The original schoolhouse burned down and the new one was rebuilt on the same site. This is actually common for schools in the region. If you looked at the big school down the mountain in the city (A small city, by most people's standards, by the name of Scranton) the high school and the elementary are built inside of a cemetery, even though they are the biggest two schools, complete with amenities like a football stadium.

In Florida and Las Vegas (The two places I live now) We have our share. There are all sorts of things around Las Vegas, like the old courthouse in the business district, to some facilities on the strip, which are supposedly haunted by ghosts from the fifties and in some cases, the 1800's. In Florida, I have the historic cities like Saint Augustine, which are considered to be very haunted and run Ghost Tours (I am friends with these Tour people and they drive hearses too, so we're a perfect match) as well as everything from the abandoned insane Asylum in Orlando, where the only building still standing is the large administrative building. The smaller housing facilities and other buildings were torn down after a strange incident occurred and a teenager was injured while exploring the building with friends. It's a cool place to see though. Last time I was there I had to access the fourth floor (Thank god for Parkour) and enter through a window, climb down the rest of the rooms in the dark, trying not to trip or fall down or through anything and unlock the bottom doors, so the rest of my group could get in (there are some interesting photos of my getting up the building floating around the internet someplace) I also took a pressure gauge from the master boiler in the subterranean boiler room as a souvenir.

Given as this Asylum is a place many youths go, either out of curiosity or to drink or do whatever kids do these days, I had an interesting idea. The Zombie that watches out the window of my Hearse ( http://www.hauntersdepot.com/2007NEW...noreZombie.jpg ) will eventually retire, as the constant Florida sun wreaks havoc on her and I will rebuild an animatronic Bucky version of her to replace her when she does, but I am not sure what I will do with the old one when I do. I figured inside that building, just around a narrow corner would be a good place to leave her, even though I would never see the reaction when someone found her.

This last October on our first busy Friday as we were handling groups going through the house, my Wife came into the doorway between the first room and old kitchen and said, "There is a man in the next room who needs to talk to you right now."
Of course the first thing that went through my mind when I heard this was "Now? when we are so busy? I hope it's important."
He was waiting there in the second room with his little girl, she might have been about 10, a thin girl wearing sort of a "party Dress", she has straight blond-ish hair.
"Do you have a special effect here making a little girl appear and disappear?"
"No we do not."
As they were going through the house, Daddy got slightly ahead of his Daughter, around a corner, and she saw a little girl, shorter than herself, with dark hair, wearing a purple dress and wearing white gloves. She was not afraid of the little girl until she noticed that the girl had no reflection in the mirror as she did!
"WHAAA!"
Daddy came back around the corner, rescued his Daughter, took her outside to my side yard, and tried to calm her down, then he thought about it more and decided it may have been a special effect here... no it was not.
One of the last tenents to inhabit this house as I was buying it so many years ago told me that he thought that he had seen out of the corner of his eye , a little girl running between an open doorway or something a few times. This all happened on the second floor. The way I have that room arranged, you are walking toward a mirror for maybe 15 feet, then you have to take a 90 degree turn to the right to continue, this area is very well lit.
Elderly people in this town spent time trying to talk me out of buying this house because they said it was "Haunted".
Eventually they told me specifics. In 1925 during prohibition they had tried to have a speakeasy in the wine cellar below the basement but the business failed because every so often a woman in a white dress would materialize in the one corner, float across the room and scare them all away.
This house rests on top of a Dolomite cliff, the wine cellar is chiseled and blasted from that solid rock. There is a theory about such haunting, it's the "Psychic-Energy" theory that the rock is responsible , holding on to such energy.
During these last 25 years that I have owned the house a great number of very strange things have happened here, not all of them would maybe qualify as "Supernatural" and the things that have happened here are Not like a Hollywood horror movie at all (Do those extreme things ever really happen anyplace?) But there remains a whole "Laundry List" of events here which remain definitely Supernatural.
I have now spent many years talking and writing about these things , trying to figure them out.
Many have come here to tell me their personal "Ghost Story", and I do listen and sometimes try to give some advice, calm them down if they seem to need that.
My "Haunted", Haunted House is called The Ravens Grin Inn and it is in Mount Carroll, Illinois, 2 to 3 hours due west of Chicago, ten miles from the Mississippi River.