Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I saw a Ghost at an Abandonded Hospital for the Severly Mentally Disabled Children in Wollongong NSW Australia. Here's a Video my friend made on it.
The place is really stuffed up. What Ghost experiences have you had?

aparantly the house two blocks over from where I work was haunted (before it was torn down). It was right next to the kids hospital, it was a compely place with a commanding view of the area (it was raised up about 3 metres, it was on top of a hill).

All the usual freaky stuff. Faucents being turned, pictures being moved/rearranged and the sound of people walking in the house... The house had transient tennancy, and finally they just boarded up the house and locked the fence around it. It's in an awesome area of town, access to two major roads with limited traffic and close to the city core and near everything important...... but they couldn't sell the property. I'm not actually sure who bought it, but im guessing it was developers.

come to think of it, this entire area is pretty old with most of the houses being historical land marks including that one. Someone must have been awfully damn spooked to disregard the law around destroying historical landmarks like that...

My ghost story was pretty boring. Saw a bunch of hallucinations, all the lights went out, the temperature inside the house dropped ten degrees, and then I followed a procession of floating lights a few miles into the forest before passing out and waking up about nine hours later.

Standard fare.

Ghosts are no deterrent for teens with spray cans apparently.

HHmmmm after spending a couple nights in graveyard I could care less about the ghost........how much copper piping did you see? If so.....how difficult would removal be.....

In some of the pictures it looked like people had busted open the ceiling already.

My guess is that what was there is now gone.

Behold the place that lives at least a few clicks away from my house. O.o
One of the most frightening places in Libertyville, Illinois is the stone structure known as "The Gate." It is off River Road near Independence Grove Forest Preserve.

Just getting to the Gate can be terrifying, River Road is desolate and secluded and you have to go down it about two miles. It is lined by the dense forest on both sides and there are no streetlights. During the summer when it is humid outside, fog comes in from the ponds shrouding the lower parts of the road. The road makes a sharp turn, continues on into the darkness, and then comes to what the residents have christened "The Gate."

The first version of the legend says that the Gate was the entrance to a girl's finishing school in the early 1950s. A quiet and polished place where young women from Chicago's well-to-do families went for a proper education. The tranquillity was devastated one night when the principal had a nervous breakdown and killed four of the students, and then put their heads on the posts of the Gate.

Other tales say that the Gate was an entrance to a summer camp or an asylum, and the killer wasn't always the one in charge. It was either a camp counselor or a lunatic that had escaped from the asylum, went to the summer camp and murdered four children while they slept. The Gate in Libertyville Illinois Those that think it used to be an asylum say that the killer was a ward attendant who went insane and murdered four of his charges. All of the versions had a common ending, that the residents and officials trying to wipe out what was left of the buildings.

It is still said that the Gate is haunted by those who died there. But few agree on what kinds of occurrences go on there. Some say that in the early morning hours when they visited the Gate they saw blood dripping from the iron supports. Others say that at midnight on the anniversary of the murders, visions of the heads of those killed materialize on the fence posts, their mouths wide open as if screaming. Many other tales are told of apparitions, eerie screams, and unexplainable sounds.

Those who think that nothing happened there say that if any murders had occured it would have been impossible to cover them up. There is the three more recent murders that have been evaded and almost forgotten, which shows how easily the previous murders could have been buried.

They all took place at the Rouse Mansion which was given the name "Murder Mansion" until it was torn down in 2003. In 1980, Bruce Rouse and his wife were murdered in their beds—shot at close range in the face, bashed in the head, and stabbed multiple times in the chest. It was a cold case until 1996 when their son confessed to murdering them for insurance money.

The third murder happened in 1982. This killing finally revealed the history of organized crime that was in the area. At the time, prostitution and illegal gambling—helped by the corrupt sheriff's department—was still widespread. The Rouse mansion had become to site of most of the vice, with the police "watching over" it during the investigation. Instead, they turned it into a den of vice. It all came to an end when Bobby Plumber was murdered. He was beat to death and his body was found in the trunk of his car, parked at a Holiday Inn. After his murder was solved, the residents threw out the corrupt officals and the violence subsided.

Now days it is next to impossible to get any information about the murders or the corrupt officals. Which raises the question: If they have blocked the public from getting any information about the recent murders, could they also be hiding the facts about the murders at the Gate more than a half a century ago?

Some information that was found confirms some of the pieces of the legend. The Gate was once part of an orphanage, the Katherine Dodridge Kreigh Budd Memorial Home for Children, which opened in 1925. It was shut down for unknown reasons in the late 50s and was turned into the St. Francis Boys' Camp. The Camp was closed without explanation.

It is presumed that whatever caused the orphanage to close could be what started the bloody legends of the Gate.

considered the most haunted place in Illinois.

Rocker...you need to realy check for copper piping. Think $$ before ghost story

My family and I were in Salem, MA, for a wedding a couple years ago, and we stayed at a little inn that had probably been there four 250+ years. There was a floodlight in a parking lot next to the building, and it projected the shadow of a tree on the wall across from my bed. It was windy, so the branches were moving around quite a lot. At some point, the swaying shadows took the shape of a man and a woman having a conversation.

I chalk it up to exhaustion, which, IMO, is a more reasonable explanation than ghosts.

I was just reading about my town apparently my area was used for a staging point for where the mafia of chicago threw all of their victims away.... And then for smuggling and alot of horrible murders.

I live one town over from Salem, the spook capitol of the world.

I don't believe in Ghosts because if they were real, they would have butchered all the shopkeepers in Salem who ge rich off their images.

Did you have you salt rounds ready?

No ghosts but a buttload of people have been killed/executed/murdered the crap out of in the city...
Suppose they have to hoold a grudge or something right?

Ghosts don't exist.

Wouldn't that make Ghost stories just... stories?

You know, I've been thinking of buying a couple cheap video cameras and going Ghost Hunting....

I don't have the moeny for the cameras, and no one is brave enough to go with me.

Like Sam and Dean was rolling in cash.....That Impla just eats the money on gas....and damn near all the time they're eating....burgers..

purplefood wrote:Wouldn't that make Ghost stories just... stories?

Correctamundo.

Cheesecat wrote:Ghosts don't exist.

I dunno man...I've seen some creepy things on more than one occasion...things that don't really add up...

Obviously I have no proof it was a ghost but how else do you explain a person appearing and then suddenly disappearing?

I would like to believe in ghosts and id love to explore abandoned locations
But i just doubt that there real.

Otherwise there would be alot of ghosts running about by now.

Cheesecat wrote:Ghosts don't exist.

I thought the exact same thing for the longest time.

WARORK93 wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:Ghosts don't exist.

I dunno man...I've seen some creepy things on more than one occasion...things that don't really add up...

Obviously I have no proof it was a ghost but how else do you explain a person appearing and then suddenly disappearing?

Time travel?
I mean... why not?

WARORK93 wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:Ghosts don't exist.

I dunno man...I've seen some creepy things on more than one occasion...things that don't really add up...

Obviously I have no proof it was a ghost but how else do you explain a person appearing and then suddenly disappearing?

It's just your mind playing tricks on you.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18704_5-mind-blowing-ways-your-memory-plays-tricks-you.html

purplefood wrote:Time travel?
I mean... why not?

Because none of the sightings I'm talking about involved Delorians...

WARORK93 wrote:

purplefood wrote:Time travel?
I mean... why not?

Because none of the sightings I'm talking about involved Delorians...

What about police boxes? and men in tweed? possibly with a bow tie?

If you have ever been to the ruins of Murder Mansion. Ghosts are as real they can get.

Slarg232 wrote:You know, I've been thinking of buying a couple cheap video cameras and going Ghost Hunting....

I don't have the moeny for the cameras, and no one is brave enough to go with me.

Ill go with ya Slarg, Ive got nerves of steel.

Skarwael wrote:

THIS! Ho man, it scared the crap out of me! IT's stuff like this that makes me wonder if htere really is more to our physical reality.

Cheesecat wrote:Ghosts don't exist.

Don't spoil the topic please...