SCAREDSHTLESS.COM

An International Ghost Hunter’s Website

We Listen, We Believe

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             When Pete and I worked at this facility, we worked the overnight shift together. Pete lived next door to me and one day when we were talking on my driveway about our jobs, he said that he had been working at this place alone and overnight. I said, “ Wow, that sucks. You work by yourself overnight with 30 gang bangers. How do you stay awake and why do you have to do it yourself?” Then Pete told me that the place was haunted and that the ghosts keep him alert and keep the gangster kids in line. He then told me that people that work that shift with him keep quitting because they see a ghost or hear a voice and  then they leave and never come back. So, I  knew what the next words out of his mouth were going to be…“Do you want to work with me? Come on, it’ll be fun. We can car pool and chase ghosts and keep each other awake talking about the neighborhood and stuff!” At first I was reluctant. I had my own business as a painter and wallpaper hanger. ( and still do... ) I don’t have time for this and my job too, I thought. Pete was persistent and so I went down there and was interviewed and got the job. Turned out to be one of the most unusual and interesting jobs I have ever had. I worked there almost 4 years as a counselor. I was scared to death my first weekend, but Pete kept me laughing and made it tolerable. After a while we got so used to the ghosts and strange activity and noises that we started to make jokes about it just to keep our sanity. ( Imagine Shaggy and Scooby trying to deal after seeing “like” the headless horseman.) I would come home every day and tell my wife about all that went on the night before until she got sick of hearing about it. Don’t get me wrong, she believed me and was very supportive, but after a while I think she could only hear these stories and see these pictures so many times.

             So one day my wife says to me, “You know, you should really write a book about your experience working at that place. Do the research on the history of the house and families that lived there and find out why the place is so haunted and publish it.” A great idea, coming from a writer herself, but then I have to find a publisher, do the dance pitching the book to companies and all that brain damage. That could take years! Then I had the thought that other people might have seen the same things and have had similar experiences not only at this facility but through out the state, the country and even the world. A web site is born! What a perfect way for all of us to share our stories and not be judged or told, “I don’t believe you. You made the whole thing up.” Nothing is more frustrating than that kind of attitude. You just want to say, “Look, I was there. I know what I saw. You weren't there and you have no right to tell me that I didn't see what I just told you about.” ( I’ll get off my soap box now.)

             You won’t get that attitude here or any kind of bad feed back here either. If some one wants to comment on your story in a positive way, then I’ll put it on the site, but any judging or negative comments that are sent in, I won’t even bother to put them up on the site, so don’t waste your time. In a way this is like some kind of cheap therapy for those of us who need to get this off our chest and open up to some one who will listen. So feel free to send in your stories and pictures if you got them… it’s kind of therapeutic and it’s free! By the way, I do not publish any email addresses from any contributor to this site unless you want me to publish yours on my links page and as far as all photos that you send and want me to publish, I must be able to copy and paste them from your email.  I have happened to see a lot of  paranormal activity at this place and that is why I have my own page. I will update it as often as I can with more stories and more pictures that were taken at random of different rooms of the Barnum House and from the outside of the house too. It’s amazing what can show up in a picture of an “empty room” there. Sometimes some of these pictures don’t show any paranormal activity at first and then when I look at them weeks or months later, I see a new orb or a new figure that I know wasn’t there before. I have no idea why this happens, but it does. I will also add stories that are being told by other members of the staff that worked at the facility with me, past and present. These will be added to the “Your Stories” page. So, look for them too, there’s some real doosies. Enjoy this web site, keep an open mind and keep ghost hunting!

 

 

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    Above is a picture of me standing in the same room that the picture of “Gray boy” was taken about an hour earlier. Below is a picture of a stairway with a lot of orbs! This leads to the basement of the Barnum house that was used to take the deceased bodies of the tuberculosis victims to await the coroner. This stairway was used for this purpose from the 1920’s to the early 1940’s. There is a lot of activity like groans and banging noises that come from the stairway. They can be heard on the other side of the door at different times of day. Notice the box at the top of the stairs? Sometimes when you open the door you can hear groaning voices down there in the darkness. So yea, I don’t blame anyone for not bringing that box down to the storage room. Below this picture is some info about us, our site and what inspired it.

 

            

 

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