Joeph Ladd School: One of the Scariest Places in the World
History and hauntings of this mental institution.
From 1902 until 1982, this compound was known as the Ladd School (a mental hospital and rehabilitation center). Now called the Joseph P. Ladd Center it is an abandoned site. The buildings today are deserted and in total disrepair. The area is crumbling on itself slowly and the only new thing is the graffity on all the walls and the garbage on the floors. The area use to contain 10 buildings including a 6-story hospital, a large gym recreational center, a power plant with 400 foot tower, a community center, a dorm room building, a class room building, a crematorium, a cafeteria center, and a few administration buildings. Now only a few of those buildings are left, and those remaining are falling apart.
Many people believe that the Joseph P. Ladd Center is very haunted. Some of the people who have visited the abandoned buildings here have witnessed paranormal activity taking place. Some of these trespassers have been sent running by the spirits here others have stayed to experience the strange activity occurring here. People say that as soon as you enter the site you get chills up and down your spine and an overwhelming feeling that your being watched by someone or something. To get into the buildings, trespassers usual have to squezze through the windows and sneak in. People have heard strange noises throughout the Ladd Center. On a few occasions strange voices were heard coming from an empty area where nobody was. A few visitors were even attacked by an unknown entity and had things they were holding knocked out of their hands. People have seen ghost here a number of times. One man claimed to see the spirit of a little girl. When he went to approach her, the little girl just disappeared right in front of him. On another night, a different man claimed he also seen a ghost, this time a woman spirit who was floating through the hallway.
One of the scariest buildings currently still standing is the hospital. The water tub hydro therapy room is located in the very freaky hospital building. The run down room still holds many objects and hospital furniture, including a torture tub that was used on patients here in the past. It is known that patient torture occured at hospitals like this one during the early and mid 1900’s. Water torture and electro shock therapy were commonly used on the mentally handicapped patients. When you enter this room, right away fear overtakes you. Its one of the most scary rooms on the site. Another is the padded cell rooms that use to hold the uncontrolable patients. When you enter one of the padded rooms its definately overwhelming.
It seems that those who died here, are stuck here on the property for some reason or another. Some of the patients here must of been miserable and some suffered for their handicaps, maybe that is why some of them still haunt this place. Definately one of the scariest sites in America and maybe one of the most haunted places in the world. Not a place I would want to go to by myself.
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Buddy Weber
On February 29, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Good article.
Fran Geiger From Arkansas
On April 9, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Ha Ha
I love ghost.
local rhodeislander
On June 6, 2008 at 10:45 am
this place is so much more than just a ghost story. what they did to these people was so brutal and wrong you almost feel like you heart is breaking when you’re there. been there a few times, scary as hell.
Darksidehearts
On January 24, 2009 at 12:53 am
I feel that there may never be peace for any being remaining there as they are trying to fully tear down the place in order to make it into a vacant lot. However on discovering medical records there they still need approvals from existing family lines in order to continue with the demolition. If they do though those souls will never gain peace as their resting place will no longer be there for them, imagine how long they will have to roam the earth lost and confused. It’s not their fault for ending up where they are now.
jesus christ lll
On February 19, 2009 at 10:45 pm
i walked into that place and i got touched inappriately by 4 men.( they grabbed my junk) it was a great time tho. very scary. very scary. very fun. my friend dan got raped very badly on the third floor and he liked it
jesus christ lll
On February 19, 2009 at 10:49 pm
you’re gay dan
LADD investigator
On February 19, 2009 at 10:59 pm
well jesus christ i happen to be connected to those demonds through family and i know that they would never do that to anyone without using their mouths!
jesus christ lll
On February 19, 2009 at 11:35 pm
ohhhh yes. corn. reminds me of back in the day when i was growing up in tapleton kansas and my mom used to make corn on the cob every tuesday and thursday. so that ment every tuesday and Thursday me and and my uncle glen would have to go out and pick the corn from the neighbors corn field. our neighbors, the grenns, didn’t like us to much they thought we were to loud and disrespectful. but anyways… back to my story. so as we went to pick the corn we had to be very sneaky because the grenns were always watching their corn field and they had a dog named ollie who would just chase you for miles and miles. ohhhh boy could that doggie run. back to my story tho. so as we went to get the corn we would crawl all the way there and all the way back because this corn was just soo good. it was soo juicy and delicious it was like eating an angel that just fell from heaven. boy oh boy was that some good corn
Local Resident
On May 1, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Although this place has a twisted history i don’t think its haunted. I’ve been their many times and to most of the remaining buildings, mostly the hospital, and beyond dripping water, bumping into other groups of people, and scaring other groups of people nothing much has happened. The scariest thing that ever happened to me was when me and friends heard gurney wheels being rolled around on the floor above us, which freaked us out since we knew that no-one was up their. It took us maybe 5 minutes of being scared shirtless to realize that it was a bunch of bats squeaking in the attic.
ghost beileverr=)
On June 4, 2009 at 6:38 am
i know ghost are real and i am deff going to that place. i don’t know what is going to happen but i have exprience this before at my old house. soo if this is the scariest places in rhode island why not go to it.
NorthVandea
On June 29, 2009 at 7:14 am
The Ladd School is not haunted! Think logically people, it’s an abandoned decrepit facility that is falling apart. If you hear talking, it’s most likely other trespassers or guards. If you heard noises of any other kind it’s just the building. If you were an old abandoned building that’s at least 20 years old I bet you’d creak and squeak too. Is it a cool place to explore? Yes, but it’s not haunted.
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