In the All Hallows Eve spirit, what's the scariest place(s) you have ever visited? I have three (no particular order of spookyness):
1) I forget the name of this graveyard. It's in Rockville, CT and has a large stone building in the middle. When you drive up the road to the building at night, stop and shine your brights on it, it looks like a big skull. Nothing amazing about it since it's from the shape of the large doors and shadows.. but eerie. This graveyard is also home to "The lady in blue". I knew many people who saw her, and most people wouldn't give you an odd look if you said you did. I never did. But, when we'd go to the graveyard at night and walk around, it was sure spooky. I name this place since it's the only graveyard I would walk around in at night, and would usually be pretty freaked out. We'd only spend maybe 15 minutes at a time there. It would just become an "Ok, let's just go" sort of thing because it's just spooky. Of course, most grave yards are at night.
2) Dudleyville, CT. You can look this place up on Google. It was a town in CT which was founded in the 1700's and had very bad luck. Suicides, desiese and many odd accidents. Eventually, the town was destroyed and all that's left is foundations in the ground surrounded by woods. It's known as a "dead zone" since the amount of birds and wildlife there is oddly sparse. There has also been many reports of people having their car battery die when there. It's not easy to find, and most people in the area really don't want people going up there. We had to stop for directions, and people acted like they didn't know what we were talking about (we ended up being 3 miles from it). We went during the day, so it wasn't overly spooky. But, there surely was a lack of life. I don't recall seeing or hearing any birds, squirrels, crickets.. anything. And it's in the woods, where you should see/hear these things. We found some foundations, which as pretty cool. I can't say we had any abnormal experiences, but the place really does have an odd feeling about it. I do recall feeling like the woods were looking at you, if that makes sense. It was just very still, and stale in there. I wouldn't go there at night. You can look up ghost photos and info about the area.
3) My friends grandmothers house, Tolland, CT. Oh man, this place is scary. It was built in the 1700's, and the guy who built it is buried up the road. This place has had things happening in it for some time. My friends father used to see things (like someone sitting at the foot of his bed, and outside his door) when he was a child. The smell of something baking when nothing was (which I experienced), things moved around, shadows, noises.. the full spectrum of haunting activities. There was also a "blood stain" in the attic. It wasn't always there, however. It only appeared when she was going to sell the house.. I think it was after the husband died. When people would come to see the house, a small pool of "blood" would appear in the attic. When they would leave it would go away.. leaving a small stain on the wood that couldn't be cleaned. It didn't always happen, but they did take the house off the market. Whatever was there, seemed to like the grandmother being there. As far as I know, she never had any bad experiences there until she was about to move (was time to go into a "home"). When the time to move was close, she would hear banging on the walls, and activity would rise. But, nothing bad or violent that I knew of. It was suspected that the guy who built the house was still there, the grandfather (he was seen outside in the apple trees, which he loved), and who knows who else. There were plenty of things found on the property and in the house from the "olden days". Secret compartments under stairs, hidden rooms, etc...
We used to have fires in the back yard (was 20 acres of land or so), and hang out. But, day or night.. the house was spooky. Most of us, day or night, would run as quickly as we could out of view of the house (or into it). The house stared at you. It knew you were there. It saw you, and everyone felt it watching you. This wasn't a "Man, feels like someone is looking at me" feeling, it was "Holy crap, the house is watching me" feeling. ALWAYS. Even people who would go over there and didn't know the stories of the house would feel it. I went there dozens and dozens of times, and would always look at the ground, and get to where I was going as fast as I could. I wouldn't dare look at the house... I'd may look at a window and see something I wouldn't want to. Again, nothing bad seemed to happen there. There was a "black shadow" that would sometimes come, and make people uneasy. But, no things flying across the room, or whispers saying "geet ouuuut". One of the brothers once saw the black shadow come from the bedroom and seem to lunge at his grandmother. That bothered him, but this was also in the time closer to her moving where more things seemed to occur. Oh, did I mention that bedroom which she stayed in was the old "birth and death" room?
One time we put an infrared video camera and a few mics around the house at night. What did the takes reveal? Strange noises like people were walking around (nobody was there... we were all outside at the fire) and flying "orbs". I don't recall if there was any "voices" on the tapes. I didn't listen to all of them. I do remember that a door which was closed, was opened. The sound was heard on a recorder downstairs, and the initial walkthrough showed the door closed, then later it was opened. I know a person didn't open it since there were no footsteps (old wooden floors, you'd hear it).. just the sound of the door. I get shivers just thinking of the house. It wasn't a mean house, it just watched you. I really can't explain it. In Dudleyville, the woods saw you.. but this house watched you. It knew you. It knew where you were, where you were going, and stared.
Some new people moved in. We aren't sure if anything strange has happened since. We do know the police were called out there the first week for something. And we do know that all the lights were on in the house at night for quite some time (people would drive by the house to see what was going on. It was a beloved house). Were they always on because they were still moving stuff in, or because they didn't want them turned off? We also do know that they called the father, at least once, asking about strange things. But, he wouldn't talk about it to the kids.
Ok.. so those are the spookiest places I've been. I'd say the house was the spookiest.
Posted by Kevin at November 01, 2004 11:01 AMWow that was quite a ramble.
Posted by: Remingtonh on November 3, 2004 2:29 PMInteresting stuff about your Grandmother's house in Tolland. My wife's family is from Tolland, and her parents still have a house on Doyle Road. They built it about 1964 themselves, so it isn't haunted. There is also an old barn on the property, but as far as I know that isn't haunted either. Is your grandmother's house anywhere near Doyle Road?
I never heard about that Rockville graveyard. I'll have to look into that the next time we go "back east" to visit. Honestly, most of the old graveyards in New England are pretty darn spooky.
I used to read about Dudleyville in the paper pretty often (like around halloween) when we still lived in Connecticut, but I don't think they ever gave good directions about how to get there, and the locals got less and less happy about people visiting there. I never did go myself. I have some stories people wrote in to me on my web site www.spookyfiles.com/USA,-Connecticut,-Dudleytown-or-Dudleyville/, and I can defiantely see why locals don't want visitors getting lost and / or freaked out in the woods there.