Your haunted houses

[Supermarket Slave Girl]

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[AnaKhouri]

Waverly is in my hometown; it is such a sad kind of building. I think places absorb the energies of things that happened there and a lot of people died there.

Now, I live one mile from The Gate to Hell!

http://www.bobbymackey.com/hellsgate.html

We go sometimes; it's a fun bar and has a mechanical bull! but much to my dismay I have never seen anything creepy there.

[TelephoneAngel]

whether you believe in hauntings or not, i do believe it is possible that certin places have their own "atmosphere"

For example, the house i lived in with my ex was a strange place, although immacculately decorated, a dream home, if you will, it made odd noises, and had a "cold" atmosphere, whereas the house i now live in, while it needs lot of loving care and is falling to bits, has a calming atmosphere.

Maybe it is relevant that the previous owner of dream house fell off the roof nd broke his back, it is that kind of house.

[shankyknitter]

my college is haunted. Most of our dorms are old converted brown stone houses built in the late 1800s early 1900s, we kept all the rooms the same and did no renovation other than that which was needed for safety reasons (in most buildings, some got restoration).

Gale house used to be a brothel and its the most haunted house on campus, its also in the movie "Age of Innocence" if anyone's seen it. We couldn't keep any sort of pictures or anything in the alcoves on the stairs, they'd be knocked off when no one was on the stairs. The best was when the RA left a picture in one of them, the next day it was upside down. Above the door. No one, including maintenance, could get up there without a ladder. We didn't have a ladder in our building.

[Midnight12]

what about old hospitals? the kind that are old but still functioning well?
heh the local hospital named after Dr Moss is old and I didn't see but felt the presence of a few dr's and nurses past. and one or two patients.
and i get to go back there in a week too! (whimpers)

[Sunsetsky]

There were stories about my old high school being haunted by a former student who fell to his death in the auditorium (fell off the catwalk). I don't know if it's actually true or not but the auditorium was pretty creepy.

[mircea12345]

LaLaurie House

http://www.prairieghosts.com/lalaurie.html

I live in New Orleans, and it does not get much better than this.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

A few miles out of town there is this place called JFK Prep. It was a seminary, then later a Catholic high school, and then closed around the time I was born and left to rot.

It is haunted as all get-out. It used to be a hangout for the local and not-so-local no-goodniks. Although I've never been there because I am a good boy, I know somebody who has. He told me he was there with some friends, and he turned around and saw some old man standing behind him, and he got so scared he ran right to his car and hightailed it the hell out of there.

There's been stories that somebody hung themself by a basketball hoop in the gym, and other people killed themselves in the dorms. I also heard there used to be a haunted house put on there, but that stopped when the promoters found they didn't have to do too much to "haunt" the building.

Even though they're now trying to keep people out of the area, I say it would be a great place for a ghost hunter to go through.

[Eireann]

In response to Sunsetsky's post (and no, we're not from the same town, or even the same state!):

In my hometown, the auditorium of one of the high schools is also haunted by a former student who fell to his death from a catwalk. This happened in the 1950s, and the student landed on the seats below. People sitting in those seats have often felt a hostile presence. Others have seen a male figure in the auditorium, but he's only visible from the waist up. Lights have been turned on and off without any living person being near them. A friend of mine claimed that she once walked through the passageway under the stage, and a chilly mist swept all around her, leaving her hair covered in droplets of water.