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Randolph County infirmary- Winchester, Indiana

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Randolph County infirmary was formerly known as county asylum.

The place where the infirmary is built belonged to a farmer and his wife during the 1800s. They used to house people who did not want to live alone in exchange for some money from the state. Later when the property was acquired by the state, the first infirmary was built in 1851. Unfortunately after only two years from its construction, there was a fire destroying the building and many people lost their lives.

OfficialRandolphCountyAsylumInfirmary (1855)

In 1855, another building was built in place of the first one to accommodate the poor and sick. The building operated for the next forty years before being closed down again due to the living conditions being deemed unfit.

Finally in 1899 another building was built which stands till this date. The infirmary provided food and shelter to the poor and needy of the region sponsored by the county. Orphans, physically or mentally disabled people, old men and women who couldn’t provide for themselves were some of the residents of the infirmary. These types of infirmaries were set up in each state and county for the similar purpose. Even during the great depression in the 1930s these infirmaries still provided food and shelter to the people when the federal government had to sponsor these asylums. It was also used to keep tuberculosis patients when the illness spread throughout the USA and there was a need for space to accommodate the patients.

The Randolph County infirmary closed down in 2009. During the time of its closing down only 5 residents remained at the infirmary.

During the time of its operation there were many reported and unreported deaths at the infirmary. The exact number is not known but the reported deaths are close to 200. Reported deaths include suicide by hanging, tuberculosis deaths, old age deaths and a patient died after being pushed from the second floor window.

With so many reports of death and suicides one might easily guess that many of those who died with some unfinished business may not want to leave the place. In fact the infirmary is said to be one of the most active places in terms of paranormal. The most common activities include the doors slamming on their own, sounds of children giggling and running up and down the stairs, female whispering and sounds of women screaming. People have even witnessed shadow figures multiple times in the attic as well as the basement. So far there has not been any violent paranormal activity except for one person being scratched on the neck.

The building now hosts paranormal tours and events. The infirmary is mostly booked with visitors leaving pleased with their paranormal experiences.

On Google reviews people have described the place as one of the most haunted places in the world having experienced plenty of paranormal activities and most of them have explored the place multiple times. Those who want to explore the place or even stay overnight can do so by booking the place.

Haunted Buckholm tower, Scotland

September 9, 2022September 9, 2022Posted in paranormalTagged #abandoned, #creepy, #creepypasta, #cryptids, #folklore, ancient Ram's inn, aokigahara, australia, Buckholm castle, cabin, creepykids, Crybaby bridge, haunted Scotland, leap Castle3 Comments

Buckholm is a farm near the Scottish borders in Galashiels, Scotland. On the farm lay the ruins of the Buckholm tower. Built in 1582 by the Pringle family.

During the 18th century, James pringle was the owner of the estate. He was widely known as an evil and ruthless man. He mistreated his wife and son and would often beat them up. His family would always live in fear and one night when he went into the drunken state they ran away from home. From then on James pringle became even more angrier and started taking out his rage on the women of the village.

The Government during that time were persecuting the covenanters and he being such an evil man was appointed by the government to inflict pain on the covenanters. The local dragoons (appointed by the crown) were notified of illegal covenanters gathering taking place and they asked for help from James pringle. When they reached the location, the assembly had already fled and only an old man and his son were present on the spot. Both of them were taken prisoners to extract information about the others.

During the night, the old man fell ill and his son was shouting for help. James went into the cell and started beating them up. After some minutes of screaming there was complete silence and James came out of the cell and sat down to drink again. Soon there was a loud knocking on the door. The old man’s wife was found upon opening the door and she demanded to know about his husband and son. In a fit of rage James pringle took the old woman to the cell where her husband and son were kept. The woman screamed when she saw the condition of her husband and son. They were hanging from the hook of the ceiling and blood was dripping from their lifeless bodies. The old woman in pain and agony cursed Pringle and said that the hounds of hell would forever pursue him and even after his death. James pringle became scared.

It is said that he died after sometime and in his last days, the servants and guards would hear him scream. He believed that those hounds of hell were following him day and night and he died a horrifying death that many people believed was the work of hounds of hell. He would sometimes come out of his room running to servants pleading his servants to save him from the devil’s pets.

Every year on the day he died people can still see his apparition running away scared knocking all the doors begging to be let in followed by the barking sounds of hounds only to be dragged away to a place that many believe to be hell. This activity continues on a yearly basis and it is believed that the curse is still in effect.

Reverend Henry Davidson is said to have reportedly exorcised the ghost and banished the hounds to where they came from but he failed as people still claim to witness the terrified apparition on the date of his death anniversary.

Redditors deacribe a local myth/folk tale that gives them the creeps.

July 14, 2022Posted in blogging, paranormal, writingTagged #abandoned, #creepy, #creepypasta, #folklore, #ghost, #haunted, #haunted #poltergiest, #horror, #legends, #sleep paralysis #reddit #creativewriting #paranormalwriting, cabinLeave a comment

r/missbrenduh

Local myth? There is a small, small, small playground next to a weird overpass in our city. Like, two swings and a slide. It’s so hard to get to, I don’t even know why the city put it there. It’s not lit for night use except by a single street lamp. If you use the overpass at night, it looks so eerie and sometimes the wind makes the swings move slowly. In high school, everyone would say a little girl died there and if you don’t hold your breath when going over the overpass, she’ll claim your soul.

I still hold my breath. And I’m 37.

r/back2bach

A decommissioned offshore lighthouse. Even though the tower is locked and all utilities have long been disconnected, residents viewing it from the shore have witnessed the beacon lighting up randomly late at night, 2-3 times per year.

The structure remains solidly locked, and no boats have been reported in the area when the sporadic illumination occurs.

r/Honk_420_Goose

Wendigos. Creepy af. As a canadian who DREAMS of living in rural Quebec but is currently a city boy, These mother fuckers out their living their best life as a cannibal. Also i’m waiting for my mice to turn into mini mice-igos, one of my three mice recently passed away (i hope peacefully, or was murdered) my other two mice ate her corpse. Never found Hilda’s skull. One of my mice is white and was dyed pink after eating Hilda. I’m waiting for my demise at the hand of my little mice-igos.

To sum it up: Wendigos be out there living their best life stealing my future home. And my mice are probably under going the transformation into mice-igos.

r/dragon_barf_junction

the warwick crooner.

on the corner of chestnut and elm, in the backyard of 361 elm st. every full moon, on the rusty old swingset, a squat figure swings, vocalizing hyms of yore. those fools who dare spare a glance are immobilized, forced into observation until his bluetooth headphones die and he goes in to charge them. after the encounter, his victims are never quite the same. the crooner, he visits them in thier dreams, haunts thier nightmares. they see him every night as thier eyes finally close.

r/LR104201

Sinterklaas, he is a catholic “child friend” who takes kids

back to Spain in a sack if they are naughty. I still have

shivers down my spine about Spain, because my mother

threatened me with Spain to hell and back.

r/randomiaedjew

Ever heard of a shin sales or a sheid.. A Jewish demon that can take different forms and drives people insane if your lucky enough to get away from it alive… The only way to combat it is by holding on to your thumb facing it and saying you and are one, then the shaid will say you and are two, then you must respond you and are three and repeat this until 101, all the while it drives you mad…

Fearsome Critters, Written by Henry H. Tryon • Illustrated by Margaret R. Tryon

r/galactic_javelina

There is apparently something called a hoopsnake that lives by the river. It bites onto it’s tail and chases after you rolling like a hula hoop and I find that quite fucked up.

r/Severe_Put5098

The Sawney Bean tale. I couldn’t sleep without a light on for a full week because it was so traumatizing. recommend not looking it up if you have a weak stomach.

r/normal-hu-man

I live in upstate new York in the Adirondacks. And up here theirs always a sense of mystery in the air especially if you go to the more rural parts there’s bigfoot sightings strange happenings. Like for instance the tourism guide will tell you that cougars are extinct here however there have been many sightings of them my dad had personally saw a big cat dash across the road while on his way home from work. Along with the strange disappearance of one ted Nugent who was a pro hunter and ex army that just disappeared into thin air on a hunting trip. If you ever heard of missing 411 incidents this was one of them. It was said that when ted went missing the forest was dead silent (normally in the woods you hear something birds mice etc) anyway a few weeks ago I went out hunting solo I was sitting against a tree on top of a hill when suddenly the forest went dead quiet had a strong sense of being watched at first I played it off saying OH you’re just paranoid but as the sun went down the feeling got stronger and stronger until I said OK I’m just gonna cut this trip short. Was I paranoid was it paranormal I DONT KNOW

Redditors describe the weirdest story/myth their country has.

July 5, 2022Posted in blogging, paranormal, writingTagged #abandoned, #creepy, #creepypasta, #cryptids, #folklore, #ghost, #haunted, #haunted #hauntedhouse #poltergiest, #roadsupernatural #roadtrip, #sleep paralysis #reddit #creativewriting #paranormalwriting, cabinLeave a comment

r/forponderings

I grew up pretty close to this small town whose name means “fragrant water” in my local language. How did that come to be, you say? Well well well I’m glad you asked.

Apparently long long ago there’s a king who’s suspicious of his wife. He’s all like gurl you’re cheating, you gotta be! And the queen was like nooooo I’m not! I swear! But the king was not convinced, and kept accusing her. Eventually he decided that the queen is to be sentenced to death. Exasperated, the queen said: “fine, kill me. But then throw my body into this water right here and if I’m innocent the water will become fragrant,”.

The king was like LOL yea right, go die now. /stab

Well, she died. But they humored her and threw her body into the, uh… river or lake or whatever. It’s a body of water. Anyway, lo and behold, a strong flower fragrant starts wafting in the air, just as the queen said it would if she was innocent. The king fell to his knees, probably waving his fists to the clouds yelling a dramatic No0o0oo0000!!!

And then they named the town Fragrant Water. After this legend of a lady who died of shittyhusbanditis, an extremely common disease back in the day. I’ll let yall decide what message / lesson they’re trying to convey by naming their town after this legend. Think before you stab your wives, I guess?

r/LastBestIdea

Ogopogo in the deep Okanagan Lake of BC.

It’s basically Canada’s Loch Ness Monster

r/therearenogoodnames9

While growing up on the East Coast of the US I would say that the Jersey Devil was the strangest one that I heard, with Chessie the Chesapeake Bay monster being the most wholesome (mostly because of all the children’s books about Chessie).

r/ladyOrthetiger

Some groundhog crawls out of a hole and predicts the seasons.

r/sour_honey_

In Monterrey México, there’s a creepy urban legend about a dog eating cereal with a spoon, and believe it or not, a lot of people are afraid of.

r/Astramancer

Johnny Appleseed is a trip.

He wandered around planting apple seeds and the story talks about how he fed westward expansion.

Except… apples from seeds? You’re almost certainly not going to get an edible apple. You can make fermented hard apple cider from them, though…

He didn’t feed expansion, he boozed it up. And this is a children’s story!

r/TheCunning Woman_

The little town I lived in has a child’s grave in the older part of the cemetery. It is the only grave in the entire town that has a spiked fence and stones on top of where the body would be. It sticks out when you walk through the cemetery. Further, there is about 6-10 feet where there are no other graves, not the parents, no other kids or relatives. Local teens started circulating a myth that the child was born to a witch who was subsequently murdered after birthing the child. The myth goes that when the child died, they put spikes and stones on the grave to stop the child from rising and killing the towns people as the child would have been a witch as well. This myth circulated so widely that the cemetery put up a little board on the grave saying that the extras on the grave were to prevent animals from digging up the body. It didn’t make as much sense to the town teens as it’s was the only grave in town with those safety measures. People, mostly teens, still to this day go give gifts to the lonely child, lovingly refered to as the Witch Baby, from coins to stuffed animals and flowers.

r/FineBahnMi

In 1967, the then Prime Minister of Australia, Harold Holt, swam out to sea and was swept away. It was said that he was caught in a ‘rip’, and dragged out by the current. One of the biggest search operations took place in order to locate him, but was unsuccessful.

His body has never been found, and this has generated a whole bunch of theories. But yeah, pretty weird.

Redditors describe the creepiest urban legends from their area?

June 24, 2022Posted in blogging, paranormal, writingTagged #abandoned, #creepy, #creepypasta, #cryptids, #folklore, #ghost, #haunted, #horror, #legends, cabin, hauntedstories, roadtrip, urbanlegenda2 Comments

r/RaveninTheSky

Makcik keropok. Its a legend about a lady going around door to door selling keropok. (a type of cracker) If you refuse to buy any, she releases a Pontianak (a vengeful ghost) into your house. Best solution is not to open the door.

r/Tower-Educational

there used to be an insane asylum by my house in the 70s. It is probably five minutes away from my house if that. But, they tore it down in the 90s because it was just a giant eye sore, and had a dark history of mistreating patients. There is a cemetery on the property with hundreds of unnamed people who died there.

In the early 2000s, Walmart bought the land and wanted to build a walmart there since you would be able to see it from the highway. They excavated and such, and the day before they were set to start construction a huge landslide happened in the middle of the night that blocked the high way for days. If it would have happened at rush hour tons of people would have died.

Ultimately, it was deemed unsafe territory to build on, so it remains empty. Except for all the bike trails through the area. But no one ever rides during night time lol. I guess the people who died there didn’t want to be chilling underneath a walmart’s aisle 10.

r/KTsDefacement

We have a chair that’s been untouched since the 1960s in our schools boiler room. The janitor swears that a boy got locked down there by these other kids the day before summer break and died from the heat. He claims that the chair moves and that the door handle moves like he’s still there trying to get out.

r/rocket_goblin

its not really a known creepy urban legend, but in the 1800s in the owyhee mountains in idaho there was a group of hunters staying in a cabin and after failing to come back to their families a search party was sent out to look for them, they found the cabin, locked from the inside, with the window also locked from the inside. and they found all of the hunters dead with their heads crushed. no one knows who did it or how. but the incident repeated itself in like the 1970s or something.

r/Numerous_Emus

Black Shucks; big, black, ghostly/demonic dogs with glowing red eyes that are supposed to be omens of death. They generally appear on roads at night. There’s apparently a few around town and some drag chains too. Also one is actually a bear, but I have no idea why we have a ghostly demonic bear because we don’t even have normal bears in this country.

r/mikeynbn

I live in Romania and as a kid the most common legend was the “black ambulance” that would steal kids and harvest their organs and that kids’ bodies were to be found a few days later abandoned on a field with some money for the funeral. Also, in my town our parents would never let us go to the cinema because there was this legend about a man who wound put AIDS infected needles on the seats.

r/ninjasoul534

We have 3 mysterious men in a car called The Gaurdians (yes that’s what we call them) along Montana highway 464.
People have told experiences where they have car trouble and three men in a car drive up and help them out. Other people talk about headlights that disappear in places where they shouldn’t disappear. We also have a Native American in a jean jacket and jeans who materializes in front of cars before they can swerve out of the way. When the driver checks for a victim, no body is found.

r/OSmallTownMortician

We have little people (like 6in tall) that live in our forests. They stay well hidden unless you’re all by yourself and vulnerable, then they like to mess with you for fun.

r/FlameSamurai63

Not really creepy, but there’s one house in my hometown that is said to be haunted. There’s a tray with a golden teapot on it, and the tray has scratch marks on it. That tray has been sitting in the same location for years, remaining completely untouched, and still, to this day no one has touched it. Some of my friends insist that it’s haunted. There’s also an urban legend abut how an electrician (or someone with a similar job) fell off ofa ladder while setting up one of the light in the middle school gym. His ghost is said to haunt the gym at night whenever the lights are turned