Shaun Underwood And Jackie Gee: Haunted Location,Places

The original Waverly Hills Sanatorium, a two-story wooden structure, was opened in 1910, but the larger brick and concrete structure as it stand today was completed in 1926. The hospital was always dedicated to the treatment of tuberculosis patients, a disease that was fairly common in the early 20th Century.

It is estimated that as many as 63,000 people died as the sanatorium. Those deaths coupled with the reports of severe mistreatment of patients and highly questionable experiments and procedures are ingredients for a haunted location.

Ghost investigators who have ventured into Waverly have reported a host of strange paranormal phenomena, including voices of unknown origin, isolated cold spots and unexplained shadows. Screams have been heard echoing in its now abandoned hallways, and fleeting apparitions have been encountered.

In the article, Those That Linger, by Keith Age, Jay Gravatte and Troy Taylor, you can read more about these investigators' experiences.

Here's a brief history of the building: Construction of Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium began in March 1924. It officially opened it's doors on October 1, 1926. It replaced the former TB Hospital that stood not too far from the current building. The old hospital only accomodated 40-50 patients, and it wasn't long before it was extremely overcrowded. Waverly Hills was built with 506 rooms, it was MUCH bigger than the original hospital.

Tuberculosis was a very contagious disease during the early twentieth century, and doctors didn't have any good way to treat it. They didn't have any antibiotics for it like we have today, so the most common treatments were fresh air, good food, and sunlight. There were always lots of patients at the hospital, and rumor has it that over 60,000 died while staying there. However, I recently heard from a website visitor who provided me with more convincing information stating that the actual death toll was probably around 8,200 patients. To see his analysis, please click here.

Waverly Hills was a state-of-the-art facility. The rooms were very nice, and many lead out to porches so the patients could get plenty of fresh air. They even had radios with headphone jacks on the porches and in the rooms so patients could listen to music. The sanatorium had a chapel, a school for the children, and special housing for the hospital staff also.

Because so many people died at Waverly Hills (and because it's such a creepy looking building!) it has a reputation for being haunted. It's even been named one of the top haunted places in the country. And after visiting, I must say I agree. It's definitely the most haunted place I've visited so far! It's not at all uncommon for people to see shadow people, orbs, strange lights, or to hear unexplainable noises.

One of the most well known ghost stories about Waverly Hills centers around Room 502. Legend has it a crazy patient murdered a nurse in this room by stabbing her to death. People claim to see the patient's ghost running out the hospital's front door in a white nightgown, screaming at the top of her lungs. While there is no record of a nurse being stabbed in this room, there are records of a nurse hanging herself. She got pregnant by one of the doctors, and since it was very looked down upon she decided to take her life in Room 502. Many people have experienced strange things in that room, and most believe it is her ghost that haunts it.

The Death Tunnel is another popular haunted area. One of the uses for this tunnel was transporting dead bodies out of the hospital. Since seeing hearses arrive and take away many bodies on a daily basis would bring down other patients' morale, the hospital staff thought it was best to transport the bodies away in an underground tunnel that the patients couldn't see. Some people believe that many of the deceased patients who left the hospital via this tunnel still haunt it.

In October 2006 I received the following observation from Amber R., a website visitor: http://www.therealwaverlyhills.com/

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As I was looking through your indoor pictures, I noticed almost all of your pics have orbs in them, especially the one labeled "Mesh wire over windows." And I couldn't help but wonder if you noticed the apparition of a man's face in that picture, right above the really bright orb towards the left. It's really creepy.

Location Number 2.

The Queen Mary

This grand old ship is quite haunted, according to the many people who have worked on and visited the craft. Once a celebrated luxury ocean liner, when it ended its sailing days the Queen Mary was purchased by the city of Long Beach, California in 1967 and transformed into a hotel.
The most haunted area of the ship is the engine room where a 17-year-old sailor was crushed to death trying to escape a fire. Knocking and banging on the pipes around the door has been heard and recorded by numerous people. In what is now the front desk area of the hotel, visitors have seen the ghost of a "lady in white."
Ghosts of children are said to haunt the ship's pool. The spirit of a young girl, who allegedly broke her neck in an accident at the pool, has been heard asking for her mother or her doll. In the hallway of the pool's changing rooms is an area of unexplained activity. Furniture moves about by itself, people feel the touch of unseen hands and unknown spirits appear. In the front hull of the ship, a specter can sometimes be heard screaming - the pained voice, some believe, of a sailor who was killed when the Queen Mary collided with a smaller ship.

Queen Mary was in service for decades as both a World War II transport ship and a luxury liner. It wasn't intended as such at the time, but the Queen Mary was named "The Grey Ghost" during the war because of the color she was painted to make her stealthy in the war-time waters.
In her time, the Queen Mary carried seasick sailors, destitute stowaways and wealthy vacationers. With this kind of history it's not surprising she saw her own share of deaths, now a hair shy of 50. In fact, there are so many haunting that some parts of the ship are now barred from the public. But for the paranormally curious there are still haunted tours of the cabins and halls that housed death. You can also lodge at the Queen Mary but after reading this, you may have second thoughts.

Of the numerous deaths, there was a young seaman by the name of John Henry who lied about his age to procure a position on the Queen Mary and was soon crushed to death while trying to flee a fire. To this day, knocks and bright lights can be heard around engine room 13 where the young man met his untimely death. Ịt's even been reported that the door to the engine room is sometimes hot to the touch or that mixed in with a ball of light is tendrils of smoke.
If spooky little girls like the ones in the Shinning scare you then you'll want to stay clear of the pool area. A girl from third class thought she'd have some fun and slide down the banister but a sudden wave upset her course and she broke her neck on the fall. She now wanders the pool area and nursery looking for her doll or mommy. She is not alone though. In the 30's and 60's two other women met their unfortunate deaths in the pool area and are seen periodically in that area.
War always brings atrocities but how about a cook that was cooked because the troops on board didn't like his meals? They stuffed him into the oven and burnt him alive as a lesson for bad cuisine. His screams still echo his horrible death to this day.
If you're still feeling brave enough to consider sleeping on the Queen, there was also a reported visitor that slipped a steward some cash in exchange for finding a 'willing' female passenger to keep him company for the night. After stowing his luggage, a female companion was found and they retired for the night. In the morning the man was missing from the dining hall so the steward went to find him. What they found instead was the corpse of the female companion! They could not locate the male guest, his registration information for that room nor his luggage, which people swore was checked and stowed. He simply vanished and left only a trail of blood and rumors.
The Queen Mary is home to 49 deaths but she was also surrounded by death. In an attempt to avoid enemy ships, she zig zagged her way into her companion ship, nearly cutting it in half, and was forced to leave 300 survivors in the water to be eaten by sharks or drowned. It is reported that mysterious pounding on the side of the Queen Mary is those men trying to signal to come on board.
The in-house psychic, Peter James, claims that he has communicated with over 150 separate ghosts on the ship. Peter gives bi-monthly ghost tours of the ship and claims to have made numerous contact with various ghosts, including a few mentioned above. From the sheer number and type of deaths that occurred, it seems plausible.
This is surely one of the most haunted places of modern time in America.

LOCATION NUMBER 3

Most Haunted Places in America: Gettysburg Battlefield

Few investigators and researchers would argue that Gettysburg Battlefield is one of the most haunted places in the U.S. As the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, nearly 8,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed and tens of thousands more were injured there on July 3, 1863. There have been numerous sightings of ghost soldiers, sounds of battle, recorded EVP and even video.

Visitors to the park have reported seeing and even talking to these phantoms from the past only to have them mysteriously vanish.

Screams and moans, the sounds of gun and cannon fire -- all echoes from the horrific battle are occasionally heard and even recorded.

One of the most compelling ghost videos ever recorded was shot at Triangular Field by Tom Underwood in 2001.

Ghost encounters are also common in the period buildings surrounding the battlefield, including the Farnsworth House Inn and at Gettysburg College. The experiences continue up to the present day, and the area is well worth a visit, not only for its haunted reputation but also for its historical significance.

You can usually count on paranormal activity at places that lost of life was sudden and unexpected. Then there is no wonder that a place where approximately 165,600 soldiers met, nearly 8,000 died (along with close to 3000 horses) plus one known civilian death and all in a three day period would be considered one of the most haunted places in America. July 1 – 3, 1863 this happened all in a little town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg.
Nearly 4 months after the battle, then President Lincoln dedicated a cemetery to the union soldiers and in his address stated, “The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” He was only partially right. The National Park Service took over the battlefield in 1933 and since then has done everything it can to restore the area (6,000 acres) to the conditions of 1863.
Not only has America not forgotten but it seems some of the participants of those horrific three days have not forgotten either. Some died instantly; some were brought to make shift hospitals in the town itself only to die later and some would be unfortunate enough to lay wounded until death found them. It is these instances that make Gettysburg a hot spot for paranormal activity.
Though the hub seems to be the battle field itself and particular a spot called the Devil’s Den, the town is also susceptible to activity. For example, countless dead were brought to the town and in addition to that the amount of animals dead and laying in the field, made the town reek of death. So the town’s people would use lilac water to cover up the smell of death. That smell of lilac is reported to be in the air during ghost sightings.
The Devils Den is an area in the battlefield that is made up of large boulders. Confederate sharpshooters would hide behind the rocks and would shoot as Union troops passed through. The sharpshooters are credited with hundreds of kills before the Union army found them and eliminated the threat. If was after the war however that a war photographer instructed his assistants to move the bodies of the dead soldiers and went as far as dragging one behind the rocks to pose as a sharpshooter to get a good picture.
It is this action that is said to be behind the paranormal activity in this area. Many photographers as well as visitors have had their cameras malfunction in this area, photographs not develop, apparitions in the picture and even backgrounds of the grassy fields in the pictures coming out black.
Other sightings is that of Jennie Wade, the one known civilian casualty. She was killed by a stray bullet while in her home. It has been reported that she wanders around her home where she dies along with her father who had to be institutionalized after her death.
Another paranormal hub is the Farnsworth House. This home was taken over by the confederates on the first day of the battle. It was used to house the Confederate sharpshooters which incidentally it was a sharpshooter that was aid to have accidentally killed Jennie. The Farnsworth house has had many paranormal activities reported. Apparitions, footsteps, smell of cigar smoke, objects moving and actually ghost touches have been reported by guests and employees alike.
Here is a great ghost video from Gettysburg Battlefield.

LOCATION NUMBER 4

Rolling Hills Asylum's

Located between Buffalo and Rochester, Rolling Hills Asylum's enormous 53,000+ sq. ft. brick building sits on a knoll in the hamlet of E. Bethany, N.Y. and has been a popular destination for ghost hunters for many years. Opened on January 1, 1827 and originally named The Genesee County Poor Farm, it was created by Genesee County to house those eligible for assistance including paupers, habitual drunkards, lunatics, the blind, lame or otherwise handicapped, orphans, widows, vagrants, and even a murderer or two. In the 1950s it became the Old County Home & Infirmary, and then in the 1990s was transformed into a set of shops and later an antiques mall. When the property owners, vendors and shoppers began to notice strange occurrences, a paranormal group was called into investigate and Rolling Hills' spooky reputation was born. Reports include disembodied voices, doors mysteriously held shut, screams in the night, shadow people and more.

Rolling Hills Case Manager, Suzie Yencer relates one chilling experience: "It was September 2007. While working a public hunt, we had a gentleman with us that was filming a documentary about the building. He wanted to try an experiment in one of the rooms. The room he chose was in the basement, popularly known as The Christmas Room. The experiment he wanted to try was to sit in the room with no lights or equipment on. The only light we would use was a pink glow stick in the middle of a circle of people. We also placed a small ball and a toddler size rocking horse in the circle. The gentleman conducting the experiment requested that only I talk and try to make contact with the spirits. The more I talked, the more strange occurrences began to happen. The glow stick started to move back and forth, and the rocking horse began to slowly rock. A few of the guests in the room including myself saw a hand and arm come out of nowhere and reach for the ball in the circle and then just vanish...."
The Rolling Hills website provides more details and information about ghost hunts and other events.

United Kingdom

Location Number 1.

BORLEY RECTORY

Borley Rectory-The Most Haunted House in Britain

Borley Rectory was reputed to be the most haunted house in the UK. The rectory was built by the Rev. Henry D. E. Bull in 1863 near the river Stour, Essex, to house himself, his wife and their 14 children. However the rectory burnt down in a fire started in mysterious circumstances in 1939.

It's thought that the rectory was destined to be a haunted house from the start due to the events that had occurred on the site many centuries before.The foundation was an age old Priory on land that contained a 12th century Church, Caretaker's House and other buildings. A.C. Henning, the rector in 1936, discovered that the Doomsday Book told of a Borley Manor prior to 1066, so he concluded a wooden church was probably also built around that time. The foundations contained underground tunnels and a complex of vault rooms. The Rectory had 20 rooms, was about 3 stories high.

The most popular story to the background of Borley was that in 1362 Benedictine Monks built a monastery on the site which would later hold the rectory. Legend told of a nun from the Bures convent, 7 miles southeast of Borley falling in love with a monk from the monastery. They had decided to elope to be together, but the elders discovered their plans. A friend of the monk was to drive a carriage to help them escape. On the fateful night they were captured by the elders. The coachman was beheaded, the monk hanged and the nun was bricked up alive in the walls of the vaults beneath the rectory. Their ghosts have haunted the site ever since.

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LOCATION NUMBER 2

Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England [Wikipedia]

aynham Hall is a country house in Norfolk, England. For 300 years it has been the seat of the Townshend family. The hall gave its name to the area, known as East Raynham, and is reported to be haunted, providing the scene for possibly the most famous ghost photo of all time, the famous Brown Lady descending the staircase. However, the ghost has not been reported since the photo was taken. Its most famous resident was Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1674-1738), leader in the House of Lords.

LOCATION NUMBER 3

Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland [Wikipedia]
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Edinburgh Castle is reputed to be one of the most haunted spots in Scotland. And Edinburgh itself has been called the most haunted city in all of Europe. On various occasions, visitors to the castle have reported a phantom piper, a headless drummer, the spirits of French prisoners from the Seven Years War and colonial prisoners from the American Revolutionary War – even the ghost of a dog wandering in the grounds’ dog cemetery

Something strange in the neighbourhood ... and it's up for sale: But would you buy Britain's 'most-haunted' manor house

The building has gained a reputation among ghost hunters

It's those hidden extras that separate Wymering Manor from the rest of the property market.

After all, how many homes can boast a ghostly choir of nuns who scuttle across the hall, and a host of unseen hands which reach out to touch those passing by?

The manor, said to be one of Britain's most haunted houses, is up for auction this month and is expected to fetch around £375,000. Prospective buyers should be aware that they will need to spend at least £150,000 to restore it to its former glory. Nerves of steel would also be an advantage.

Spooky selling point: Wymering Manor is a 17th century former vicarage alleged to be haunted

Ghostly goings on: reports of sudden drops in temperature, whispering and strange apparitions

The eerie Grade II* listed building in Portsmouth is featured in the 1086 Domesday Book and was once home to Edward the Confessor. Its current structure dates back to the 16th century when it was used as a vicarage and monastery.

The building still has two 'priest holes' where Catholics hid to escape persecution. Investigators of the paranormal claim to have sensed the presence of between 20 to 30 spirits in the home, including those of children laughing and whispering.

Security guards refuse to work alone at night

The building has gained a reputation among ghost hunters for high levels of paranormal activity, including sudden drops in temperature and strange apparitions. A former resident, David Scanlan, found the living and the dead got along fine.

He said the spirits 'seem to be quite nice and quite friendly and it's almost like we get on with them and they tolerate us'.

The house has proved a draw for numerous groups keen to examine the veracity of paranormal activity

Jeremy Lamb, chartered surveyor at Andrews and Robertson, said: 'This is a property of some renown for being haunted, so there is a fair chance a future owner may use it as a guest house because of the novelty factor attached to it.

'It's certainly a unique selling point and not often that we offer a haunted house. 'When I surveyed it the security guards told me they feel there is something fairly spooky going on in the house.

'Although they patrol it on a 24-hour basis because it attracts lots of people who are intrigued by its levels of paranormal activity, they refuse to work alone there at night.'

The manor was bought in the 1960s by Portsmouth City Council, which leased it to the Youth Hostel Association until 2006. It was then sold to a private organisation after the cost of the upkeep became too much for the council.

The purchasers intended to restore the manor and turn it into a hotel and function rooms, trading on the historic and paranormal links after a visit by the Most Haunted Live television programme in May 2006.

However, the development never took place and it was returned to the council. The building will go up for auction at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London on September 21 with a minimum guide price of £350,000.

The manor, which needs major structural work and restoration, boasts being the oldest house in Portsmouth, Hampshire and was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086. In previous incarnations it has been a 17th century former vicarage, monastery and youth hostel.

Investigators of the paranormal claim to have sensed the presence of 20 spirits including those of children laughing and whispering

The building has gained a reputation among ghost hunters for having high levels of paranormal activity, including sudden drops in temperature and strange apparitions, and has appeared on TV's Most Haunted.

It has also become a popular hit on YouTube with amateur documentary makers testing one another's wits against the ghouls.

The building will go up for auction with a guide price of £375,000

Up for auction: But security guards say there is something 'fairly spooky' going on

Tony Nicholas, head of asset management at Portsmouth City Council, says the money from its sale will be reinvested into services for Portsmouth people.

In 2007 Wymering Manor was granted permission for use as a hotel. The successful bidder will need listed building consent in addition to planning permission for any alterations, extensions or demolition works to its interior or exterior.

It will be offered by Andrews & Robertson at auction at London's Grand Connaught Rooms on September 21.

The YOUTUBE video below is a little bit like a well know TV show (Most Haunted) The style and music and there way to investigate. Its OK!! (lol)

Haunted Castle Keep, Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle Upon Tyne was originally the site of a fort on Hadrian's Wall. On the site of the Castle Keep itself was a Roman fortification called Pons Aelius. This fort was designed to protect the Tyne river crossing, and part of it has been excavated, and can be viewed at sites close to the Castle Keep. A Roman bridge was probably in the same location as the present Swing Bridge. The name of Newcastle came into being with the arrival of Robert Cuthose, the eldest son of William the Conqueror. He rebuilt the old Pons Aelius, calling it his New Castle, a name which attached itself to the town that grew up around the fortifications.
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The original earth and timber fort built by Robert was replaced between 1172 and 1177, during the reign of Henry II, and most of the stonework of the present Castle Keep dates from this time. The walls are so massive that chambers are incorporated within their thickness. In outward appearance the castle has changed little since it was built, apart from the addition of stone battlements, and blackening of originally honey-coloured stone by smoke from a nearby railway. The castles of Henry II actually represent something of a change in the government of England. Until the reign of Henry II castles were often the property of powerful individuals, although theoretically all castles were at the disposal of the king. Henry set out to make sure that castles were actually at the disposal of the king. He destroyed the castles of barons who opposed him, and swapped barons around between castles, so that no individual became too closely associated with an individual castle. Some writers, W.L. Warren for example, suggest this reflects the beginning of a different kind of government in England, less reliant on individuals, more reliant on an administrative system. There might be something in this, in which case Newcastle Castle Keep commemorates an important time of change for England.

Haunted,Castle Keep Newcastle

The most famous ghost is nicknamed “the Poppy Girl”. It is believed that a flower girl was sent to prison because she owed money. While incarcerated, she was raped and beaten to death by the male prisoners. Her apparition has been seen on the stairs plus the aroma of flowers has been detected.
During an overnight ghost hunt at the Castle Keep, paranormal activity was brisk. Chanting was heard in the Chapel, footsteps were heard but no figures were seen. An unknown lady was spotted in the Queen’s Chamber. Many of the investigators felt hands touching them and intermittent cold spots. Mists would come and go. One person photographed a four foot high black mass. When the picture was developed, a figure could be seen.

Read more at Suite101: Haunted Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Ghosts and Apparitions in Northeast England’s Largest City | Suite101.com http://maureen-k-fleury.suite101.com/haunted-newcastle-upon-tyne-a36305#ixzz1fZstvPNK

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