i went here last night with a few friends, unfortunately as we were walking towards the outside entrence to the basement, i thought i had heard footsteps in the woods, coming from all over, when we couldent get into the basement we had found an open window and then when we went over to it , all we here is POLICE GET ON THE GROUND 3 of my friends booked and were arrested when they tried to cross into legends manor, i was arrested by the smoke stack, all 4 of us were charged with breaking and entering, Tresspassing, and we have court sometime soon, the last time i had gone, we had walked into the creamatorium and it gave us all the chills, that place and the childerens ward are the only two scary parts of that hospital, the nurses station is actually pretty fun
Elevator accidents were common at Philadelphia Warehousing & Cold Storage where my father worked.Part of the problem was you could bribe the inspecters.
I remember one incident in the early sixties when the gate came crashing down on the head of some 73 year old named Gannon.He died a couple of days later.
My uncle Otto,who was the night supervisor there routinly Pulled the large spring-loaded band back to open the gate late one night and the darn thing snapped and hit him in the eye.
Now the elevator had a spring of water in the bottom of the shaft and that would fill with water.Sometimes the cable would slip or break and you'd go for a little ride.In the winter that water would freeze.
When my Dad was nearing retirement and never having missed a day of work in 50 yrs,he and his partner were loading the elevator when it started going up on its' own,with the partner 1/2 on and 1/2 off the car.He was pinned between the fork lift and the top of the door frame.(in those days tow motors didn't have protective cages)He died a few days later,and my father,who tried to save him by scrabbling up into the car to hit the controls,took a few days off.