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Ideal_Rock
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I have a house crush. I totally fell in love with an old condo. Great space, loads of character, fabulous location, reasonable asking price. The catch? It's allegedly haunted. I don't mean haunted by the victim of a tragic romance, I'm talking about thousands of people suffering and ultimately dying in this place.
This condo is in an old mansion that was used as an isolation hospital for epidemics back at the turn of the century. It was the official quarantine hospital for the 1918 flu pandemic. This is a major city with high population density (even back then) so I have no illusions about what took place there.
The developers made every effort to preserve the original structure. Units have multiple wood burning fireplaces, original floors, plaster walls. This isn't like Danvers hospital where the facad was preserved, but the condos are new. Hospital staff would have scrubbed blood etc off of these floors.
I'm a scientist. I don't believe in ghosts. At least that's what I tell myself. I do get "weird feelings" about places, people etc. Not exactly ghost stuff, more like an echo of things past. Probably all in my head.
I used to work at a psychiatric hospital. The building was 60's and looked a lot like the hospital in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. My office was on a ward with low risk patients. I was fine on my unit. Other parts of the hospital not so much. The hospital was built on the grounds of a much older hospital that had mostly been demolished. All that was left was the main building, some of the basement, and a tunel system that was used to shuttle patients from building to building. This was all designed back when lobotomies were a thing. That place was freaking scary. Just this feeling of anxiety mixed with dispair. The odd time I had to use a tunnel (mostly storage while I was there, no more patient transfers) the walls were closing in. It was just so oppressive. That space was allegly "haunted" as well. More like a Shining effect.
So that was a long ramble, but would you sell your perfectly nice and not haunted house in favor of something with a bit more "history"?
This condo is in an old mansion that was used as an isolation hospital for epidemics back at the turn of the century. It was the official quarantine hospital for the 1918 flu pandemic. This is a major city with high population density (even back then) so I have no illusions about what took place there.
The developers made every effort to preserve the original structure. Units have multiple wood burning fireplaces, original floors, plaster walls. This isn't like Danvers hospital where the facad was preserved, but the condos are new. Hospital staff would have scrubbed blood etc off of these floors.
I'm a scientist. I don't believe in ghosts. At least that's what I tell myself. I do get "weird feelings" about places, people etc. Not exactly ghost stuff, more like an echo of things past. Probably all in my head.
I used to work at a psychiatric hospital. The building was 60's and looked a lot like the hospital in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. My office was on a ward with low risk patients. I was fine on my unit. Other parts of the hospital not so much. The hospital was built on the grounds of a much older hospital that had mostly been demolished. All that was left was the main building, some of the basement, and a tunel system that was used to shuttle patients from building to building. This was all designed back when lobotomies were a thing. That place was freaking scary. Just this feeling of anxiety mixed with dispair. The odd time I had to use a tunnel (mostly storage while I was there, no more patient transfers) the walls were closing in. It was just so oppressive. That space was allegly "haunted" as well. More like a Shining effect.
So that was a long ramble, but would you sell your perfectly nice and not haunted house in favor of something with a bit more "history"?