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ATLANTIC PARANORMAL SOCIETY
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A Night at M.T. Coffin's Ghost Theater |
Jason and Grant |
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The lighting is dim, very dim. You enter a parlor thickly
decorated with artifacts that were gathered from haunted homes, cemetaries and other places where they were removed due to
their paranormal characteristics. You are guided to an antique couch where you are told to sit and screem while a picture
is taken of you. In the near darkness you hear the other people in the room shuffling and whispering nervously.
Then you
see a point of light entering the room from between the curtains blocking a doorway. There she is, Madam Theresa Coffin. She
is ominously daunting in her all-black lace widow dress and veil as she glides into the room. Sliding past you in eerie silence,
she begins to speak. Her voice is ageless and dripping with character as she recounts the more illustrious history of some
of Plymouth's dwellings. Her stories leave you hanging on every word building in suspense until in a loud crash of thunder,
or a shout from the Madam send the onlookers reeling in screams of fright.
After listening to a few tales that chill
the spine, you are invited downstairs where you are surrounded by items that have been moved at one time or another by an
unseen force. The light down here is not dim, it is non-existant, pitch black. The stories that the Madam recounts down here
are far more intense than those told upstairs. As she speaks in her richly poetic prose you feel weighted down and nervouse,
expecting something to grab you at any minute. Then, just when you're about to scream, the Madam goes easy on you and makes
you chuckle. After your heart has been through the ringer a few times she decides to invite you to her haunted home, offering
to make you breakfast if you can stay there past 3:00 AM.
Overall, this was a fun night out. We really enjoyed it.
A great show for people of all ages. Plymouth is rich in haunted history and Madam Theresa is the one to tell you all about
it. Make sure to make reservations and tell Gus, TAPS sent you.
Check out their web site here.
- Jason & Grant
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 More on MTV's FEAR |
Jason Hawes |
| While we were at St Agnes hospital,
we were accompanied by some of the filming crew. It was about 10pm and me and a couple producers were standing in the hallway,
while Andrew Thopson was talking with one if the writers of the show. One of the crew, I believe his name was Matt, came wailing
out of one of the rooms to tell us something when out of the corner of his eye he saw a figure glowing in the room next to
him. He darted passed us in a scared frenzy and started trying to find the way out of the building. He was terrified to tell
us what was wrong. After a minute or two we were outside and he told us what he had seen.
It was a figure of a person standing in the doorway of
the room right next to the room that we were in. We finally convinced him to go back in with Andy and a couple others. You
could feel the energy in the room from were the spirit had been, it made the back of your head tighten up and made you feel
off balance. A few of us left, so Andy and Matt could try to communicate with this entity.
After a little while they exited the building. Matt seemed
very shook up, Andy told us how they saw the entity again and how Matt was reluctant but he overcame his fear and touched
the spirit and felt the energy. It was his first ever contact with the spirit world.
We explained that if you never put yourself in the predicament
to see these things then chances are you won't, but that they are looking for haunted places to do shows at, so they are putting
themselves in these situations, so eventually they would probably all have some kind of paranormal contact. They understood
this even though they weren't looking forward to it. But it comes with the territory of this field. So if you dont want to
see things you may not like or understand then this isnt the field for you!! |
| Working on MTV's FEAR |
Jason Hawes |
| I was called by MTV's Fear producer
about a walk through on a hospital that they were going to use in Connecticut for a new show they were doing. It was an old
hospital, St Agnes Hospital was the name. That is all I can say about the building.
While we were there, we spoke with many producers about
the buildings. These buildings had no power to them anymore and had tunnels under the ground that lead to each building. A
producer decided he would walk with us during our investigation. Me and a fellow investigator walked the gounds and found
many hot spots in a couple different buildings. But there were 2 buildings out of the 5 that were extreamly active.
We were in one of the buildings
when the fire bell right in front of us started going off. It scared the MTV producer so much that he jumped on me. Again
there was no power to these buildings and we even went into the basement and verified that the alarms were all unhooked. The
producer was terrified about going back in that building.
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Waverly Hills Sanitarium
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Location:4301 East Pages Lane
Louisville,
KY
Directions: From I-264, take Exit 8A onto US-31W S/US-60. Continue south on US-31W S/US-60 for
four miles, turn left onto Pages Lane. Turn left onto Paralee Lane and drive towards the Bobby Nichols Golf Course. Take the
left fork in the road and drive up the hill to Waverly Hills.
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History: In 1910, a wooden,
two-story tuberculosis hospital opened on one of the highest hills in southern Jefferson County. Officials realized that the
hospital was too small because they were housing more than 130 cases. A new building was constructed in 1924 and the new Waverly
Hospital opened in 1926. Waverly Hills was considered to be the most advanced tuberculosis hospital in the country. In many
cases, entire families came to live at Waverly Hills.
Ten thousand people died during Waverly's first three years alone.
At the height of the tuberculosis epidemic, it is reported that one patient an hour died. An estimated 64,000 people died
at Waverly before Streptomycin was discovered in 1943.
By the 1950's tuberculosis was pretty much eradicated. There
was no need for such a huge facility, so the hospital closed in 1961.
The buildings were reopened in 1962 as the Woodhaven
Geriatrics Sanitarium. The state of Kentucky closed Woodhaven in 1982 due to patient abuse. The buildings, contents and land
were auctioned off and the doors were locked for good.
The new owner wanted to tear down the buildings, but was stopped
because the property was on the National Historic Register's endangered list. Since he couldn't legally tear it down, he decided
he would do everything in his power to get it condemned. He encouraged vandals to vandalize the building. They broke windows,
bathroom fixtures and doors. The walls were covered with graffiti. The owner dug large holes around the foundation in an attempt
to crack the foundation. His efforts failed, and he finally gave up and sold the place in 2001.
The hospital is currently
being renovated. In recent years, interest has grown in the history of the building. It has been featured on Fox TV's, World's
Scariest Places, and on MTV's Fear.
Haunting: The ghost of an old bleeding woman, with her hands and
legs are in chains, has often been seen running out the front door. She cries for help before she dissipates into thin air.
Many
people have seen a little girl, known as "Mary" on the third floor. Reports say that she plays with a ball; others have only
heard the ball bouncing on the floor or down the stairs. Her ghost has been seen peering out the third floor windows.
The
fourth floor is regard as the most active area of the hospital. There have been reports of ghostly shadow-like people walking
the halls, and doors slamming for no reason.
The full body apparition of a female nurse in white has been seen on the
fifth floor. This could be the ghost of one of the two nurses that died in room 502. In 1928, the head nurse hung herself;
it is believed that she was unmarried and pregnant. It is unknown how long her body hung before she was discovered. The county
coroner's office attributed her death to suicide. In 1932, another nurse working in the same room, supposedly committed suicide
by jumping from the room's balcony; she died when she struck the ground.
The "body chute" is a 500 foot long tunnel
with concrete steps one side and a motorized rail and cable system on the other that leads from the hospital to the railroad
tracks at the bottom of the hill. When patients died they were brought down the tunnel to an awaiting hearse. This was done
so patients wouldn't see the hearses or the bodies leaving. Voices have been heard along the long eerie passage.
A
spectral man in a white coat and pants has been seen roaming the cafeteria and kitchen area. No one knows who he is but some
think he's an old employee of Waverly, who contracted tuberculosis and died. The smell of food often wafts from the kitchen
though no meals have been served since 1982 when the hospital was closed.
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AMERICAN GHOSTS
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Stones River National Battlefield
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Location:
3501 Old Nashville
Highway
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Directions:
From I-24 take exit 78B. Follow Highway 96 to the
intersection with U.S. Highway 41/70. Turn left and take Hwy 41/70 north to Thompson Lane. Turn left on Thompson Lane. Exit
to Old Nashville Highway and follow signs to visitor center.
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History: A fierce battle
took place at Stones River between December 31, 1862 and January 2, 1863. General Bragg's Confederates withdrew after the
battle, allowing General Rosecrans and the Union army to control middle Tennessee. Although the battle was tactically indecisive,
it provided a much-needed boost to the North after the defeat at Fredericksburg.
The 584-acre National Battlefield
includes Stones River National Cemetery, established in 1865, with more than 6,000 Union graves, and the Hazen Brigade Monument,
believed to be the oldest, intact Civil War monument still standing in its original location. Portions of Fortress Rosecrans,
a large earthen fort constructed after the battle, still stand and are preserved and interpreted by the National Park Service.
Tours
are available daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., all year except Christmas Day. For more information contact Park Ranger Jim Lewis
at (615) 893-9501.
Haunting: Some claim that on quiet nights you can hear distant gunshots and marching
of the soldiers. At times ghosts of soldiers can be seen walking around the park. The most haunted spot in the park is the
Slaughter Pen, which is stop # 2 on the tour. Visitors report cold spots and the feeling of a presences.
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Mount Olivet Cemetery
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Location:
1101
Lebanon Pike
Nashville, Tennessee
Directions:
From I-40 take the Briley Parkway North exit.
From Briley Parkway (Hwy. 155) take the Donelson/Lebanon Pike exit and go west a couple of miles and the cemetery is on your
left.
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History: Mount Olivet Cemetery was
organized on March 17, 1856. After the war between the states, the Confederate women of Nashville bought land at Mt. Olivet,
and formed Confederate Circle. The remains of about 1500 Confederate soldiers were moved here from area battlefields. Seven
Confederate generals were buried in or around the circle. They are William B. Bate, William N.R. Bealle, Benjamin Franklin
Cheatham, William H. Jackson, George E. Maney, James E. Rains, and Thomas Benton Smith. Other prominent Nashville Confederates,
Colonels Adolphus Heiman and Randall McGavock, lie nearby. In 1887 the Confederate men and women of Nashville organized the
Confedrate Monument Association. Two years later they built a 45 foot granite monument that marks the center of the circle.
Haunting:
There are various types of haunting associated with the Mount Olivet Cemetery. There have been reports of a "Black Aggie"
roaming through the cemetery, a "Black Aggie" is apparition of a very evil person who frequents graveyards in the dead of
night. It appears as a black ghost that looks like a floating shroud. It makes no sound, and has no features. In addition
the "Black Aggie", there have been sightings of ghostly lights and orbs appearing on developed film.
   
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