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
statlerhotel posted a photo:
all hope is lost
parts of the ground floor were used as a haunted house and have tacky fake blood on the walls. |
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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:
Coming across the mountains from the west on July 1, 1863, Lee first heard the sounds of the battle a few miles ahead of him in front of the Cashtown Inn. |
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. |
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.
March 8th, 2008 by admin
The Knickerbocker Hotel in Linesville, Pennsylvania has been investigated by the Northwest Pennsylvania Hauntings (NWPAH) paranormal investigators. They conducted this investigation in October 2006.
The hotel was originally called the Arnold House and built in 1882. Later on it became the Arlington Hotel and more recently the Knickerbocker. Some of the paranormal activity reported is running on the steps and a feeling of people rushing by.
A former owner has been witnessed walking in the building. A small boy was seen running down a hall before disappearing. A middle-aged man with a beard dressed in coveralls appears in the basement of the building.
You can find the Knickerbocker Hotel on our Haunted Places Map.
In March of 2008 Paranormal State aired an episode of their investigation of the Knickerbocker.
As of this writing the group seems to be off-line. Their web site at www.nwpah.com is not currently available. Using the “Internet wayback machine” you can see a snapshot of their site from August 2007.
From what we have been able to gather the NWPAH was started by the husband and wife team of Colette and Rick MacLees of Meadville, Pennsylvania in 2005. Meadville is not far from the Knickerbocker Hotel so it sounds like a natural fit to be investigated by local people.
Update: A few of the members of NWPAH have formed a new group. It’s called Keystone Paranormal. Brian Boughner who is a member of Keystone Paranormal told us in an email that they investigated the Knickerbocker Hotel recently and will soon have results posted on their site.
Keystone Paranormal has posted results and so has O.R.P.I.T.
Read some other investigation results from Keystone Paranormal.
There are some public photos from the NWPAH investigation available from flickr.com.
[flickr 4:1:Linesville,hotel,nwpah]
March 1st, 2008 by djb
Many paranormal researchers agree that Fort Mifflin is haunted. South Jersey Ghost Research has documented their investigation.
A ghost known as the “Screaming Woman” is one of the best known. Her name was Elizabeth Pratt and the story is she hung herself after her daughter died of typhoid fever. It is said her screams still haunt the Officer’s Quarters.
Another ghost by the name of Jacob haunts the blacksmith shop.
Another haunting is William H Howe in Casemate 5. Billy was a prisoner during the Civil War who was convicted of murder and hung in the courtyard. While deserting as a Union soldier he killed an officer while he was being re-captured. We have written up a detailed article about Billy Howe.
Fort Mifflin was commissioned in 1771 and sits on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolutionary War, the fort was a centerpiece of the British conquest of Philadelphia. The fort was rebuilt in 1798-1800 during the presidency of John Adams according to Pierre L’Enfant’s design, and enlarged in the 19th century.
The fort was a U.S. military post until the 1950s. In 1962, Fort Mifflin was deeded back to the City of Philadelphia.
You can find Fort Mifflin on our Haunted Places Map. Also see the Fort Mifflin Photo Gallery.
A Ghost Hunters episode aired showing their investigation of this location on March 5th, 2008.
Here are 2 recent public photos from Flickr.com
DaveMundy posted a photo:
bought this from the gift shop at fort mifflin in philadelphia. |
Heaps Happy posted a photo:
The entrance/exit to Fort Mifflin in Philly |
February 29th, 2008 by djb
Preston Castle located in Ione California recently was investigated by the Ghost Trackers Paranormal Research Group.
The Preston School of Industry was established by the California State Legislature as a progressive action toward rehabilitating, rather than simply imprisoning, juvenile offenders. The building was built in 1890. First residents were housed in 1894. The Preston School of Industry remained open until 1960 when new facilities for the school were completed. The building remained vacant and fading into disrepair until September 10, 2001 when The Preston Castle Foundation received a fifty-year lease for the property.
Here is 1 recent public photo from Flickr.com
@tak posted a photo:
Preston School of Industry in Ione |
The Ledger-Dispatch has an article on the investigation:
The Ghost Trackers’ Sharon Leong, and her sister, Anne, felt there was still a good chance they’d identify paranormal activity once they took their recordings and video back home and examined them with technology that could amplify and break down the data. “A lot of times you don’t hear anything at all when you’re recording audio,” Sharon said. “And then when you turn it up on your computer you hear what are sometimes clearly voices too faint for the human ear. That happened to us a couple of months ago when we were at Alcatraz Island. We asked a question and didn’t hear anything; but then once we got home and turned the audio up, we heard a very frightening response.”
Several days after her trip to Preston Castle, Anne realized she might have been standing near enough to the group of people who heard the humming to have caught it on her camcorder. “It’s there,” she confirmed to the Ledger Dispatch. “The humming was faint and I had to use the headphones to hear it, but it was definitely a man humming.”
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