Local paranormal hauntings

[Mark]

In your hometown, have you ever heard of any famous hauntings from around your area?

There are two from my area, one of which I have had witnessed firsthand. The first story is about a local historic bridge. The story goes hundreds of years ago a maid from Kismet Park manor fell in love with the air to Salisian manor. They used to meet near Salisian Bridge late at night when they couldn’t be discovered. Eventually the young man was to marry, but insisted he marry the maid instead for he truly loved her. His family refused to ever let him see her again and he killed himself. The maid didn’t find out for a while and ever night she continued to go to the bridge where she waited for him. When she found out she killed herself too and now late at night you can see her wandering around Salisian Bridge looking for her lost love. I haven't witnessed this so called ghost, but here is a picture of the bridge.



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The second is regarded as a haunted hill, which in the past has served as a mental hospital and a mass graveyard. Currently a local radio station runs out of a old building on the grounds. I used to host my own radio show there, until I started to experience strange things. The lights and the sound desk would always play up and would continue after so many electrical inspections. But what really freaked me out was seeing dark shadows walk past the studio door, when i was the only one in the locked secured building.

Here is a photo of the old hospital.



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[Mikey]

I grew up right next to Shades of Death Road.

I would bike ride on it all the time.

It's even got it's own wiki page

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[Brazoo]

A real stinky ghost haunted my bathroom after my buddy came by last week.

[Mark]

I grew up right next to Shades of Death Road.

I would bike ride on it all the time.

It's even got it's own wiki page

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That would be great to check out, I have recently developed an interest in the supernatural. I have felt a spirit in my house before, I hadn't told my dad and one day he went to see a psychic and the unknown psychic actually told my dad, that I had came in contact with this spirit. How strange is that?

I came in contact one night while sitting at my computer, I felt the temperature start to fall in my area and then I felt a human hand on my shoulder. I turned around to find no one there, I have seen a shadow every now and then since.

[Mark]

A real stinky ghost haunted my bathroom after my buddy came by last week.

That would have been a terrible haunt, did you have to call in a priest to bless the bathroom? I imagine it would have been similar to the Amityville horror, with the priest and the flies.

[Mikey]

I came in contact one night while sitting at my computer, I felt the temperature start to fall in my area and then I felt a human hand on my shoulder. I turned around to find no one there, I have seen a shadow every now and then since.

The temp changes and touches are cool, but a lot of investigators rule out corner-of-the-eye shadows as a side effect of the brain being funky every now and then.

[Mark]

The temp changes and touches are cool, but a lot of investigators rule out corner-of-the-eye shadows as a side effect of the brain being funky every now and then.

The shadow was right in front of me, I was standing in my kitchen and i watched a shadow walk from the dinning area into the study. It's really strange, I hate being alone in the house at certain times.

[jessica]

oh creepy! i love reading about this stuff and hope to never encounter a ghost firsthand.

[jimsmegos]

I really miss a good ghost story. It seems like they've all dried up in my neck of the woods.

[Brazoo]

That would have been a terrible haunt, did you have to call in a priest to bless the bathroom? I imagine it would have been similar to the Amityville horror, with the priest and the flies.

I was so scarred - let's put it this way, after I found the ghost I didn't improve the smell in the room.

[Shanester]

I live in New Orleans. Our cemetaries are above ground and every building is haunted.

[torgospizza]

I live in New Orleans...every building is haunted.

Is that good or bad for tourism?

I've been to several places that were purportedly haunted, and haven't seen anything outside of what was to be expected. Even when we moved into a house about twenty-five years ago, my Mom and sister thought it was haunted, I saw nothing and thought they had been influenced into thinking that way by the previous owner, whom was a New Age healer-type. To this day, they say stuff like, "Remember when that picture fell off the wall and almost hit you in the head when you were sitting below it?" I have to take their word for it, because if anything happened, it didn't make much of an impression on me.