Comments on: The 5 Scariest Buildings in America

By: King Randy

King Randy — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:55:20 +0000

I went to the WMH in July.Actually I read about it on here once and went on vacation across country to see it. So not scary…..interesting, but not scary

By: helenann

helenann — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:15:45 +0000

Everytime I read about Kirkbride and his buildings, I say a bit of a thank you to his principles…odd as they seem now, he really was attempting to give the mentally ill a chance at recovery.

By: Katarina Navane

Katarina Navane — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:31:49 +0000

Haha! People thought of my ideas already.

@Jen I was going to suggest 1140 Rue Royale (The Lalaurie House) as well, but my research into it has shown that most of the worst stories about it were apocryphal at best.

@marmarohio I was going to suggest The Ridges too, not just because I’m from Athens–it’s similar to the above story of Danvers but with the addition of a few oddities like The Stain (look up the story on that one, it’s cool! I’ve been to see it and the pictures don’t do it justice(

I’ve been to the Winchester house and didn’t find it to be at all scary. Very cool yes, but more of just a neat old house with a few oddities than anything else.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:22:36 +0000

I was a tour guide at the WMH in college, and it’s incredibly lame. When I was a kid, the guides would tell the tours all the spooky ghost stories and superstitions and it was really cool.
Then the building was bought by some corporation and registered as a historic monument, and they completely changed the tour to give the place more “dignity.” By the time I was a guide, we weren’t allowed to tell any of the great stories; it was all just “And this is the room where they kept blocks of ice, and this doorway leads to a brick wall because she added another room without bothering to remove the door, and here is where she held seances…” Sooooo boring.

By: Willow

Willow — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:34:58 +0000

I often drive past the Westboro State Hospital in MA. That place creeps me out, not because it’s particularly scary, but because of the faceless institutionalised appearance of the place. It’s so inoffensive to look at that I find it really unnerving to think that there are locked wards there.

By: marmarohio

marmarohio — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:58:25 +0000

I’m surprised no mention of The Ridges in Athens, Ohio.

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:21:51 +0000

Wasn’t the Winchester House also one of the inspirations for the movie “Rose Red”?

By: Chrystani

Chrystani — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:27:12 +0000

@Jeri,
That was a good link. Some of that stuff was…
*shudder*

That stuff puts Hostel to shame.

Im going to repost the site in my name as well. Thanks Jeri.

By: Jenn H

Jenn H — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:26:08 +0000

just to add to the crenshaw house story – another tale about the upstairs holding area is that it also held slave women for the sole purpose of impregnating them by another slave known as ‘Big Jim’. that’s what the house was originally known for and, I believe, the source of the horror atmosphere.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:58:09 +0000

I live in the back bayous of Louisiana, in a place that is widely known to have been an “unofficial” graveyard during the 1800s. Once we had a flood, and when the waters receeded, there was a coffin with the bones of child sticking out of the bank. It was neat, in a creepy way. My friends and I discovered an unmarked graveyard near my house, and we used to play in it all the time–the tombstones were there, but no names were on them, having been worn away by weather and time. Anyway, some developers came in and bulldozed the whole thing into the bayou, so I always say that when the undead arise to take their revenge, they’re coming for those contractors–but not us, we used to bring them flowers! :)