Socyberty » hauntings at institution http://socyberty.com Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:26:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Joeph Ladd School: One of the Scariest Places in the World http://socyberty.com/paranormal/joeph-ladd-school-one-of-the-scariest-places-in-the-world/ http://socyberty.com/paranormal/joeph-ladd-school-one-of-the-scariest-places-in-the-world/#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:18:01 +0000 Steve Weitzner http://socyberty.com/paranormal/joeph-ladd-school-one-of-the-scariest-places-in-the-world/ 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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