April 25th, 2008 by djb
A new TV show called Whines and Spirits recently filmed at the Pied Bull Inn located in Chester, a town that is one of the most haunted in England.
Not sure we are going to see the show here in the states but the article does tell us it’s from the Most Haunted gang. The show will be on The Paranormal Channel on Sky June 9th. I believe Sky is a satellite system for the UK and is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch recently sold his controlling share in DirecTV. Maybe we will see the channel here in the states, there is certainly enough interest in the paranormal to fuel such an enterprise.
From the article in the Chester Chronicle:
The Pied Bull in Northgate Street was given the accolade by paranormal experts last week after they filmed a new television series called Whines and Spirits at the pub.
Ghosts are said to haunt the 12 rooms, and the building is said to date back to the 16th century.
Co-owner John Wright said: “They said we were among the top five most haunted pubs in the country but didn’t tell us where on the list we were.
Not a bad premise for a show. Check out ghosts while having a pint or two. 
Here is 1 recent public photo from Flickr.com
Fishchap posted a photo:
Outside the Pied Bull in Northgate Street. |
April 20th, 2008 by djb
The Goldfield Hotel is located in Goldfield Nevada. Goldfield is a small town by any measurement. There are about 500 residents. The hotel was built in 1908 and cost about a half million dollars. The building was very ornate with the lobby trimmed in mahogany and black leather upholstery. The building had an elevator and chandeliers made of crystal.
The hotel stopped doing business in 1946. The building was used in the 1971 movie Vanishing Point that starred Barry Newman and Cleavon Little.
The Ghost Hunters air their investigation of the Goldfield Hotel in April 2008. There have been other groups that have investigated the property.
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April 15th, 2008 by djb
The Farnsworth House Inn in Gettysburg has long been rumored to be haunted. The house was built in 1810.
During the battle of Gettysburg, the property was occupied by Confederate snipers. They shot at Union soldiers who were on Cemetery Hill which was located 200 hundred yards away.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has published an article about Farnsworth House Inn.
…something caught my eye at the end of the long hall. Looking up, I saw a black figure enter the dining room overlooking the street.
Just moments before, our waiter had related the tale of Zoe St. Amand, the lonely spinster who lived in the 1886 house in the early 1900s and starting haunting it after her death in 1954. Laughing in disbelief, I walked to the end of the hall, certain I’d encounter a waiter or another diner. The room, though, was empty. Needless to say, it scared the bejesus out of me. Yet shock soon turned to intrigue. Ghosts, many believe, only appear to people who they know will be receptive. Maybe I now had the knack.
The Farnsworth House Inn has been investigated many times by many paranormal groups.
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April 13th, 2008 by djb
The Mount Washington Hotel is located Bretton Woods ski area in New Hampshire. The elegant structure was built in 1902 by industrialist Joseph Stickney.
Joseph’s wife Carolyn Stickney is said to haunt the tower suites. She reportedly writes on the walls and turns lights on and off at random times. Often guests report hearing mysterious sounds of babies crying. And a malevolent woman is said to haunt room 206.
In the summer of 2008 there is an event at the Mount Washington Hotel brought by Beyond Reality Radio.
The Ghost Hunters visit the Mount Washington Hotel for an episode.
Here is 1 recent public photo from Flickr.com
Social-Eyes posted a photo:
Located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the Mount Washington Hotel is one of the last "Grand Hotels" left in the country. As its name suggests, Mount Washington is its backdrop. A grand masterpiece of Spanish Renaissance architecture, The Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire's White Mountains, was a two-year labor of love for 250 master craftsmen. Conceived by industrialist Joseph Stickney, this National Historic Landmark opened in 1902 and immediately became a favorite summer haunt for poets, presidents and princes. |
April 5th, 2008 by djb
The Ghost Hunters visit Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio for an episode to air for the first time in April 2008.
There are three buildings on the base that are reported to be haunted. Building 219 has an apparition of a boy. There is an apparition of an older woman in Building 70. Both buildings have unexplainable footsteps and voices. In a supply room in building 70, a worker reported hearing boxes being moved when she knew no one was in the room.
The third building is the home known as the Arnold House. Named such because Henry H. Arnold, the only person to have worn the five-star rank of General of the Air Force lived in it for a time. In 1911 he spent two months of flight training with the Wright brothers in Dayton. Arnold returned to Dayton in June 1929 as commander of the Fairfield Air Depot (located in what is now Area C of Wright-Patterson AFB) and Executive Officer to the Chief of the Material Division at Wright Field (now Area B). The house was originally built in the 1840s and was near where The Wright Brothers perfected their design and eventually opened a flight school.
It’s fairly surprising that the Air Force allowed the Ghost Hunters access to the buildings to do their investigation. We’re sure approval for the event must have gone to at least the commander level of the base because in this post-911 era, these things are just not routinely done.
Our hats are off to the Ghost Hunters and the USAF for making the effort involved so the show could be done. Perhaps they captured some good evidence along the way.
March 29th, 2008 by djb
Prospect Place which is also known as Trinway Mansion was owned and built by abolitionist George Willison Adams in 1856. The property was known to be on the underground railroad. It’s located just north of Dresden Ohio.
The mansion had every “modern” convenience and a few that were not in homes in 1856. On the second floor it had a copper cistern that provided water and water pressure for the first indoor toilets. There also were two coal burning stove with copper cisterns which gave the home both hot and cold running water. And nearly all of the other 27 rooms had coal burning stoves.
Imagine the carbon offsets one would need to justify their use today!
Finally the home had a primitive cooling system with ducts that took cool air from the basement to the upper floors. Also a pit filled with ice to cool food like butter, cheese and milk, a sort of refrigerator.
The mansion pretty much stayed in the Adams family until 1960. Then the property was left to deteriorate. Vandals stole much of the interior fixtures. Those copper cisterns were probably taken and sold. There was an attempt to refurbish the property in the 1990s and later in 2001. Those plans fell through.
The property has been investigated for ghosts in recent years. The claims of paranormal include a young woman who died late in the 19th century while wandering the home somewhat delirious from a fever. She stumbled over a balcony and landed on stone steps. The story goes on to say since it was winter she could not be buried so they kept her body in the basement packed in ice so it would not decompose. Looks like the refrigerator system was put to dual use.
Also the area where run away slaves stayed is supposed to be haunted. Apparently in the brick barn behind the mansion, seven people were hanged and now haunt there.
The property is to be visited by the Ghost Hunters in April 2008 in the episode entitled “Ghostly Bounty Hunter.”
Here are 6 recent public photos from Flickr.com
March 23rd, 2008 by djb
There have been some interesting personal experiences at the circular Baltimore courtroom that was modeled after a similar structure at the Library of Congress.
“We were talking, and she mentioned to me that she had become convinced there was a spirit or some type of presence in the courtroom,” Cohen said. “C’mon!” he thought to himself. “There’s probably a logical explanation.”
Next thing you know, the skeptic got the chills.
“My entire body felt like I was in a grocery store in the frozen foods section, when you open the door - you’re warm, in a warm area, but there’s this coldness around you. I stopped talking and said I had to leave. ‘I gotta leave.’ I literally turned my back to her and walked out. … It was the most unnerving thing ever. Never in a million years would I turn my back on a judge and just walk out. You want to give them the most deference possible.”
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March 21st, 2008 by djb
In late April 2008 the Ghost Hunters investigated the Weston Asylum.
The Weston Asylum located in West Virginia was previously known as “The Lunatic Asylum West of the Alleghenies.” And now the new owners have renamed it the “Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.”
Here is an article from WBOY-TV as they tagged along today with Jason and Grant.
So what was it like for the TAPS crew seeing the building for the first time?
TAPS member and the groups tech manager Steve Gonsalves says, “When you first drive up to this place you can’t help but think it’s haunted, it is all dilapidated and when you think of a haunted, abandoned building in the movies, this is what you think of.”
Gonsalves says the Trans Allegheny Asylum is the LARGEST place TAPS has ever investigated. But the size doesn’t bother the team, in fact, it makes them MORE excited.
Here is 1 recent public photo from Flickr.com
ulalume posted a photo:
Panoramic view of Weston State Hospital, Weston, West Virginia (not in use at the time). Excellent example of Kirkbride architecture. Too bad photo isn't quite in focus. Photographed with a Canon Elph APS camera, 2000. Scanned with Epson 1640XL, 2006. |
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March 20th, 2008 by djb
When you mention Gettysburg and haunted places you are going to have a long list of things to discuss. One of the places near Gettysburg that has been discussed as haunted is The Cashtown Inn.
The inn was built circa 1797 and was a stagecoach stop. The name “Cashtown” was coined because the first innkeeper was a man by the name of Peter Marck who insisted on cash payments. We imagine he never saw a “priceless” Mastercard commercial.
Since the inn was just eight miles from the battlefield, the area was turned into an armed camp for the rebels. The inn itself served as the Confederate headquarters for General A.P. Hill.
The claims of hauntings include a Confederate soldier, who sometimes knocks on the door of room #4. The soldier also appeared in a photograph taken of the inn around 1900. Another haunting is of the “lady in white” who hangs out in the upper floor.
Also guests at the inn have reported hearing children playing and the sounds of boot steps. People have reported being touched while in bed, seeing faces in photographs of windows and smelling cigars. Hopefully it’s not the children smoking cigars.
In March 2008 the Ghost Hunters aired their investigation of the Cashtown Inn.
Here are 3 recent public photos from Flickr.com
lreed7649 posted a photo:
On the main road from the west, it was at this spot where General Lee first heard the sounds of the battle, 3 miles ahead of him, on July 1, 1863, first day of the Battle of Gettysburg |
lreed7649 posted a photo:
Coming across South Mountain, General Lee first heard the sounds of the battle at Gettysburg in front of this tavern. |
justmecpb posted a photo:
September 20, 2007 |
March 15th, 2008 by djb
The Andrew John Volstead House is located in Granite Falls, Minnesota. Andrew John Volstead was known for authoring the National Prohibition Act of 1919. Actually Volstead was the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversaw its passage. Volstead served as the legislation’s sponsor and facilitator rather than its author. Wayne Wheeler was the one who conceived and drafted the bill. Wheeler was the attorney and general counsel for the National Anti-Saloon League, a member of the executive committee, and its head lobbyist.
Minnesota’s Beyond the Veil is a paranormal group that recently investigated the property.
The West Central Tribune has an article about the investigation (free registration required):
Originally built in 1878, a few of the house’s rooms still retain the furnishings that Andrew Volstead, his wife, Nellie, and their daughter Laura knew.
Volstead lived here until his death at age 87 in 1947. His wake was held in the house.
Machowski and Blaylock carried small, digital recorders and cameras to capture evidence of the extraordinary. Both also explained that finding spirits is very much a matter of being receptive to their presence.
Blaylock felt a female presence in the kitchen area, but said the spirit was quick to move. She felt it again when they ventured upstairs to Laura Volstead’s bedroom, she said.
At the foot of the stairway, Blaylock said she also felt the presence of a male. She described him as gray-mustached and stout, unlike the lean and tall images of Andrew Volstead found on pictures within the house.
Also see the captured EVPs on that page.
You can find the Andrew John Volstead House on our Haunted Places map.
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