Located: Las Vegas, New Mexico
History The Castaneda Hotel was once an original Harvey House from 1898- 1948. A Harvey House was created by Frank Harvey, who practically invited tourism in the southwest with his chain of hotels and restaurants. Frank Harvey's houses combined everything a person wants into a destination. The most renowned features was the Harvey girls, who served as waitresses, hotel staff, and guilds. Some people say in 1926 a 23 year old bell boy shot and killed his wife, then committed suicide by then turning the gun on himself. This location has been so many different things in its history. Its been a boarding house, a flop house, and then it sat abandoned. This location 120 years old. This hotel is currently under renovation. Paranormal Encounters Not many investigators have had permission to investigate this location. Those who have gotten permission have caught some evidence, such as evps. The Hotel Castaneda is unable to accommodate ghost hunting at this time. Hopefully when they finally open up the location to investigators and researchers, more evidence and history can come to life.
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Located: Winchester, Indiana
History Randolph County Infirmary was started in 1899 and was also known as the Countryside Care Center which eventually closed down in 2009. The current owners bought the building in August of 2015. This location was used for everything, from orphan children to homeless people, mentally insane and even tuberculosis patients. There is a solitary room that has a prison cage complete with bars that was often used by the county sheriff for a drunk tank. Later, unruly patients were kept caged up there. This old building has had many caretakers throughout the years. In 1852, when the first building was called The County Asylum, the first superintendent was William Fitzgerald. He and his wife was only given a yearly balance of $500 to care for 16 patients. The patients that were able to work, they were given chores to help take care of the asylum. After only 2 years of operation the County Asylum was burned to the ground, we still don't know what caused the fire. However some records show some patients perished in the fire. Since the patients had no one to bury them they were put in cheap coffins and buried outback. In 1856 another asylum was build but the methods they use were still barbaric. This asylum was also under funded but the caretakers still did what they could with what they were given. So many stories of patients being over medicated and living in horrible conditions. Officials had no choice but to step in. Reports state a women living in a cage for what looked like for months. The roof in the cage was so damaged, rain water was leaking right in the cell. In 1899 this asylum was finally torn down due to the publics outrage on how the patients were treated. After that the Randolph County Infirmary was born. This new Infrmary set 6 very large wards. Living quaters for caretakers, a very large kitchen, and segartaded dinning hall, just to name a few. After the infirmary opened patients were brought in through out the county. Due to death reports the infirmary dealt with so many different illiness. For the first 40 years the infirmary struggled to keep a good repuation. However rumors of isulated insatdents, such as fights and sudices iimerged. In the mid 1950s the infirmary finally got a glimmer of lght with ome amazing caretakers tha twill take the infirmary to new hieghts. Over the years different caretakers would bring the infirmary to new heights. Known in its last days as the Country Side Care Center, the fight for treating the pateints was finaally achived. The people at the care center became a family. Dan Allen is now the owner was this location. He has opened the Infrimary to the public, for paranormal investigation and historic tours. Paranormal Encounters With this place having so much history, you can definitely believe its haunted. Some investigators have captured everything you want to capture. Some have witness full bodied apparitions walking up and down the run down hallways of the infirmary. Others hear or captured voices coming from the different rooms. Also the doors have also slammed shut all by themselves. Guest have also heard unexplained knocks coming from somewhere in the building. Anything can happen at this location. We have yet to investigate this amazing location. So here is another teams investigation of this locations. History
In 1850 this location was once a slaughterhouse and meat packing facility was constructed to serve northwestern Kentucky and nearby Cincinnati, Ohio. In the lowest part of the location is a hole in the ground where the blood and waste from the animals went. Some paranormal researchers have speculated that some Satanic cults started to perform rituals while the slaughterhouse was closed. It is rumored that both animals and humans were used in these rituals. In 1896, 22-year-old Pearl Bryan was murdered. Pearl's headless corpse was discovered in a field less than two miles from the slaughterhouse. Pearl was pregnant, and her boyfriend, Scott Jackson, urged her to come to Cincinnati where he could arrange an abortion. Jackson and his roommate, Alonzo Walling, attempted the abortion themselves, but something went wrong. To cover their tracks, they put Pearl's body in an empty field and surgically removed her head so her body couldn't be identified. They would have gotten away with the cover up, if they hadn't left Pearl's shoes on her feet. While on the gallows waiting to die, Alonzo Walling vowed to haunt the area forever. Pearl's severed head was never discovered. Some have speculated that Jackson had ties to a Satanic cult, so the head may have been used in one of the dark rituals held in the basement of the slaughterhouse. The slaughterhouse was demolished in the early part of the 20th century, and the lot sat empty until the 1920s when a new building was erected that served as a casino, nightclub and speakeasy during prohibition. The building reopened as a nightclub called the "Latin Quarter" in the 1950s. Johanna, a dance hall girl and the daughter of the nightclub's owner, fell in love with a singer, Robert Randall, who performed there. She got pregnant and intended to run off with the young singer, but her father forbade the romance and used his criminal connections to have the singer killed. When Johanna discovered what had happened, she poisoned her father, then took her own life in the basement of the building. In 1978, after a series of fatal shootings at the rough-and-tumble nightclub, the local authorities were forced to close the establishment. Later that same year , a young country singer named Bobby Mackey (Note: Bobby Mackey's full name is Robert Randall Mackey.) purchased the building and turned it into the music hall and tavern that still stands today. Paranormal Encounters Some still believe the building's basement holds the gateway or portal to Hell itself, because of all the demonic activity that happens on this property. Some guest and investigators have report physical and emotional attacks in the building. A former caretaker, Carl Lawson, that lived in the apartment upstairs, claims to have been demonically possessed by the spirits. His exorcism was performed in the club by a minister. Another club employee has seen a dark, very angry man behind the bar and a spirit who called herself "Johanna." She would often speak to him and leave the scent of roses in her wake. |
Kelsey Wilkey
- Paranormal Documentarian |