One building now houses the Indiana Medical History Museum. The facility was shut down in 1994 after 146 years of existence. Evert’s, would plead for their improvement, for proper funding. They were also kept without proper food, light, air or company. The more violent patients were often chained in dungeons that were not even fit for animals. Schizophrenics, psychotics, depressives, imbeciles, all under one facility. The problem was that this term included without fine distinction, all types of mental disorders. In 1848, a “Hospital for the Insane” opened in Indianapolis, out of a genuine concern for the health and care of the clinically insane. If any place is sadly, desperately, irrevocably haunted, it is Indiana’s oldest mental asylum- the Indiana central state hospital. Keep these in your places to go list if you are planning for a ghost hunt. There are many other haunted houses in Indiana. Once upon a time, a horrible stench would float around the house, with no reason attached. Now, unquiet moans and whines are heard all throughout the house. They were desperate to stay hidden to prevent authorities from finding them and died a horrible death in the fire. The people in the basement were unable to escape the fire. Many weary souls used to be hidden under the watchful care of the worthy abolitionist Alexander Moore Hannah, who placed himself contrary to the law to be of service. In the historic Hannah house, the basement was once used as a stop on the famous Underground Railroad used to smuggle slaves to freedom. The spirits of the tortured don’t rest, they say. Dark red handprints will then appear on your chest or back. If you try to cheat and walk up or down the grassy hill, you may be pushed down. And in broad daylight, only 45-60 steps can be counted. Very few people can match the number both ways. If you don’t, you will die in the same, probably hairy way the entity said you would. On the way down, you need to count a 100 again. If you walk 100 steps, an entity is reported to appear and show you a vision of how you are going to die.
The task is very simple- you just walk up the stairs on a moonless night, and count them while you climb. This graveyard, dating back to the 1860s, often finds mention as one of the haunted places in Indiana where you’ll find a clairvoyant entity- but a malicious one. SUGGESTED READ Haunted 100 Steps Cemetery, Indiana ★ ★ ★ The paramount is amongst the most haunted places in Kentucky. Talking about the institutional hauntings, the paramount art centre is infamous for a kind spirit. A very elegant and ladylike haunting, Indiana natives could proudly say. Quiet, pale, and non-malevolent, she lurks among the books, and library staff meets her ever so often. She was first spotted in the 1930s by a custodian, He did quit after seeing a spectral woman, dressed in the style of the 1880s (when the library opened). The Grey Lady of Willard Library has actually been caught on camera. Haunted Willard Library in Indiana ★ ★ ★ ★ Founder Father Soring is also reputed to have stayed back for a few more years after his death, to serve in an unidentified (and paranormal) capacity. Since trumpet-playing wasn’t part of the Gipper’s skill-set, it was probably another, less famous dead person who refused to leave. The unscrewing of light-bulbs, friendly pushes and taps on the back, inexplicable door-slamming and phantom footsteps on the roof can be heard in Washington Hall.Īnother ghost used to play the trumpet in a slow, rich baritone at all kinds of odd hours, till silenced by an exorcism. He pled with his coach in his deathbed that the boys should ‘win one for the Gipper’. He caught that pneumonia by sleeping on the steps, because he violated curfew and he would rather freeze than face the stern brother (allegedly a Brother Maurilius) who was in charge. George “Gripper” Gipp was an epic football player for the Fighting Irish football team, under Coach Knute Rockne, Notre Dame, when he died of pneumonia in Washington Hall, in 1920. It would almost be an insult if it didn’t make it onto ‘the haunted places in Indiana’ list. Notre Dame is a top notch college, with an interesting history dating back to 1842 and involving even clashes between the Catholic student body and the Ku Klux Klan.
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