Some of my pics from our paranormal Investigation at Hill View Manor in New Castle, PA a couple of weeks ago. A couple of weird things happened: I was standing apart from the group during our pre-investigation tour and I felt someone run their finger down my entire arm, with firm pressure - I really thought someone from our team had walked up behind me but I turned to see what they wanted and nobody was there. No idea what to make of that. Later, some of us were in the hall outside the cafeteria and someone whistled loudly right behind us - we turned around to look at Shannon thinking it was him and his eyes were huge, and he said, “That was NOT ME!” We have fun but we don’t prank each other about that stuff. I personally didn’t get any audio/video evidence of any kind. I don’t know yet if anyone else did.
Nila and I took a drive down allegedly-haunted Winding Staircase Road in Tuscarawas County late one night. 2 miles through the woods, not one house. Purportedly, there used to be Satanic rituals held out here, and people have seen strange dark figures and weird-looking “animals” along the road. This isn’t slowed down, it’s as fast as we could go - a lot of potholes everywhere, then tight bumpy curves. It’s so bad they have to close it off for winter. Fun fact: There’s also a cool abandoned cemetery in the woods at the turn where we entered the road.
WTF is that whisper after my question?? This was in the Central Guard Room at Ohio State Reformatory. I was asking Nila about other rooms, but she was dicking around with her camera and didn’t even answer me. 🙃
We were standing in the middle of this room, at the center of the building. Nobody else was around, they had all scattered to the far reaches of the cell blocks. (This was a private 2-night investigation, just our team. Not a public hunt with tons of random people in the building.)
WTF is that whisper after my question?? This was in the Central Guard Room at Ohio State Reformatory. I was asking Nila about other rooms, but she was dicking around with her camera and didn’t even answer me. 🙃
The challenge was to sit alone in the pitch dark at the far end of a long, windowless room on the top floor where supposedly people get touched/scratched, hear things, see things… it was the most boring 20 minutes of my life 🙃
We haven’t listened to/watched all of our recordings from night one of our investigation at the Ohio State Reformatory but listen to this creepy moan caught in Solitary 🙃
We’re investigating a private home in Barnesville, Ohio this Friday. We’re finally starting to get requests again, we’ve basically had nothing since Covid hit.
Well, I’ve been doing historical research on the house and immediate neighborhood all week and I wasn’t expecting to find much but omg.
I haven’t found any info on anyone dying in the house or anything but even if anyone has, that’s hard to find if it wasn’t something recent. I did find tons of property records going back to the start of the town, so we do have many of the owners’ names and the surrounding property owners’ names going back to the beginning.
I discovered there was a “Home for the Aged” on the same block, about 50 feet from the house, in the early 1900’s. It was just a largish house, so only up to 4 or 5 residents at a time. That was common for the time. But a nursing home - there had to be some deaths there.
The most interesting thing I discovered is that when the town was first created in the very early 1800s there was a church and cemetery built just a few hundred feet from the house. The church is still there (torn down and rebuilt bigger several times) but the cemetery was abandoned and gone from the maps by around 1915. In an old book about the history of the town, there’s one sentence mentioning that the graves were moved to another cemetery. But I wondered if they actually moved the bodies, or just the headstones. I asked some local history buffs and found out that only the headstones were moved, and when the church was later rebuilt and a few homes next to it, they found some bodies while digging the foundations.
Not only THAT, but when the original church was built (one of the very few structures of the town in the beginning, which was nothing but thick woods when plotted), they destroyed an indian mound to build it. I’m told they used the clay and sand from the mound as materials for the church. This is very possible - I had read in an early account that there were mounds in the town. They aren’t noted on early maps of the town, even though I’ve seen other maps of areas nearby, made by the same mapmakers, that did mark mounds. So whatever mounds were there were destroyed very early on.
So not only was there an abandoned settler cemetery that was later dug up and disturbed, there was also at least one mound, possibly a burial mound (not all of them were for burials, some were ceremonial but that could be bad, too), in that same spot that was destroyed!
Like, damn… old people dying next door, a disturbed cemetery, a destroyed mound - that whole couple of blocks could be haunted. It’s a perfect recipe if I’ve ever seen one. 😮🤔
Cross-posting to main because this is INTERESTING.
This is the North Wagon Gate at Moundsville Penitentiary, the only remaining original outbuilding and the first structure built. This is where the paddy wagon bringing prisoners would enter the prison grounds. It’s also where the hangings took place (via the trap door shown above).
“From 1899 to 1959, 94 men were executed at the prison, with 85 men executed by hanging. These executions were open to the public until June 19, 1931, when inmate Frank Hyer was hanged for murdering his wife. Unfortunately, when the trap door beneath him was opened, and he fell, he was instantly decapitated. Afterward, attendance at executions could only be by those who were invited.”
So this happened last night during our Moundsville Penitentiary investigation.
You hear Nila say the word “kick” right at the beginning of the clip and then all the sounds you hear between “kick” and then me saying, “What was that?” are NOT from us. We were just sitting there not moving, and there were no other people in that end of the prison at the time.
Full context:
Nila and I were in this dining area that’s basically a big cage with 4 metal picnic tables in it and absolutely nothing else. It was for the most violent prisoners; that whole section of cells is caged off.
We were sitting at opposite tables, facing each other, with enough light to clearly see the whole room. We were doing an EVP session, and I was asking to hear footsteps or a voice or a loud bang - anything. About 30 seconds before this clip starts I said something about “keep trying”, then a long pause before Nila commented “[something-something] kick” and immediately after she did we heard all these little taps and rattles like someone was tapping and shaking the chain link and then that huge bang. It sounded like something hit the table beside me, but nothing did. Nothing fell from above and nothing in the room got knocked over. There was nothing in there TO get knocked over. We have no idea what the hell this was.
