A friend and I were there recently and after listening to the recordings we took we heard screams in the background that we only heard on the tapes and not when we were there.
Hey motts. Me and a friend went hear a few weeks ago, just taking pitchures of the outside. After reviewing them i noticed we caught what looks to be a ghost standing in a window looking straight down at us!! U can see everything waste up on the thing!!. Sooo creepy.. i just noticed it ten minits ago and my arms are still shaking!
Me and my friend have been there a total of 2 times ( so far ). But have never gotten in!( well sorta).... The 1st time, we had no issues with police, we walked around the place took pics, and even had a chance to go inside the kitchen area, that is exposed. This place smells terrible!! and is completely overwhelming. The only way i can explian it is just to go into a dirt basement, and multiply that smell times 50.... Btw, there is a fence now around the place, and if ur planing on jumping it, plan on bringing bandages, lol. My arms were cutt.... But back to my story, we definitely got sum activity there. As soon as we got there, were herd footsteps from the inside. We sorta just ignored it, and walked to a different part of the building. But.. We starting hearing them again?? Except they were getting louder and louder! As if they were walking toward us... We were a bit freaked out, so we walked to yet a different part of the building.. And we herd the same thing there 2, we could hear them start of slow, and far away, and get louder till u could hear it outside the window on the 1st floor, then my friend so a shadow in front of a window, and we booked it.. That was no person, idek what it was.. But on are 2nd trip.... We got there, and imediatly looked for a way in, and we found 1... As we started climbing 2 the 2nd story window, ( my firend was on my shoulder's ), i herd something 2 the left of me, and it sounded like something running toward me.. And this is the scary part... There was no wind, but i saw leaves moving as if somthing was runing staright at me, but there was no1 there... So we got scared and ran away. But went back 1 hour later. BAD MOVE. We got caught by a man with his dog and ran away, and by that time there was a man ( possibly a police man ) on a motor cycle at the entrance, witch we had 2 hide till he left. At that moment we made a last moment dash to get outa the place, when a police car got us.. CAUGHT.... Yep, every1 just take my advise, and stay away from this place. Its not worth it, 1st of all. And 2nd of all, there are things there, that obviously don't wont us there.. the police check there hourly, and residents do call.
First, thanks for the great photos, I was trying to explain this place to my wife, but your pictures did a far better job than my descriptions.
I grew up in Whitman, right next door to Hanson and while I was in college, my girlfriend (who was a Hanson girl) told me about this place. We visited twice. The first time was summer 1998. She and I plus one of her friends went in the late afternoon and were able to get in and explore the buildings a bit. Understanding tuberculosis and the painful way that it causes death makes you appreciate how many lives ended in an awful way in this building. I am a hard-core atheist and skeptic, but I could not help feeling uncomfortable the whole time we were there. I found myself constantly looking over my shoulder. We left when one of the girls thought she saw something move in front of her and freaked out - so we had to go.
We decided to go back a few weeks later at night. This time we wanted to bring a video camera and record the experience. It was a different group this time, myself, my brother, my girlfriend and another of our friends.
Unfortunately we didn't even make it into the building this time, nor did I have the camera going. As we approached the building a light came on in the room that is on the second floor of the central structure. Its the center window in the straight-on picture in this gallery.
In the light there was clearly someone standing in the window looking at us. Now, I'm not claiming it was anything "spiritual", most likely it was other kids who got there before us, but the light was definitely a light in the ceiling, not a flashlight and as far as I knew at the time, there was no live electricity running to the building. Whatever it was, it freaked us all out royally and we decided to leave.
I don't think that any of us ever went back, but I'd love to go back and check it out again someday, although the police presence seems a lot more common than it was back in the late 90's.
Thanks for the pictures though and letting me rant about the "good-old-days".