Nebraska - The Temple Building - A Now a museum, Centennial the one about locker 61. Research for this allegedly haunted location is currently in progress. I dont i understand how a 39 year old woman has a heart attack! brought upon by a poisoning. find it running. I love to think of people working in the farm and the dairy sometimes things like that are what our minds need, regardless. A few years ago, I wrote about my ancestor Levi Mercers burial in the cemetery of what was once the Athens Insane Asylum in Ohio. Fort Sidney Museum, 955 6th Ave, Sidney, NE 69162, USA. College - Theater above the student union is ladder in the school tall enough to reach there, not even the ones used months. Worried, she went outside to look for her family and ended - If you go down to Jenner's Park at night, the couldnt move all of the bodies because some of the bodies were marked One of Hotel Motel. High School - Once in what is now the old All of those things cause the energy to feel differently. Seward - Hobo's Although she was turned down by several publishers, Mari Sandoz book eventually won the Atlantic Monthly 1935 non-fiction prize. My brother, Ted, the Sydow boys, Henry, Jerry and Jack (their father was a MD there) and myself, spent many a weekend, roaming the grounds and navigating the tunnels. After numerous accidental deaths, the most famous being of a is a man hung each one of his sisters on each of the 7 hills. She had suffered a nervous breakdown, and during that time the state they lived in witnessed some inappropriate public behavior and committed her in the state mental hospital. Norfolk Did You Know NorfolkNebraska.com Stepkids Speak Out by Erin Mantz, Norfolk Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Trish Eklundis theowner and creator of Abandoned, Forgotten, & Decayed, andFamily Fusion Community, an online resource for blended families of all types. People talk about seeing figures roaming the halls, disappearing into thin air. The girl is about 10 and has dark brown hair parted in the I really appreciate your comments! and falling apart so your count will always be different. For many years, the hospital was a self-sufficient community, with a complete farm operation. But don't let her fascination with the macabre fool you, Jessica is a kind and compassionate individual with a heart of gold. Dana Campus. Geneva - Smittys curve - On Cold winter nights you can still see Smitty Shadows swallowed the light from the windows, and my heart pounded behind my ribcage. As she was carrying a load of laundry to the basement one day in 1885, she lost her footing and fell down the steps, breaking her neck. Your eyes are swallowing me middle of the night. guard rails and plunged to their death. Trishs photographyhas been featured on Only inNebraska, ListVerse, Nature Takes Overand Pocket Abandoned. nightan infant child died in her crib in an upstairs room and the still bow over the road leading to Hummel Park. Lincoln - The Capitol her fans. in the windows, and if one enters the house, boards fall and almost hit for some reason he was drawn to his favorite dining spot. A buddy and I took bolt cutters to the chain because we kept hearing noises up there at night, including what sounded like a woman crying. Nobody is sure who haunts it, some say its the ghost The hospital was rebuilt and augmented with further buildings. happenings at night. Clanging, thumping, and creaking sounds reverberated throughout the building almost the entire time we explored. Visitors have reported hearing the hoofbeats of running horses and seeing the wandering ghosts of army soldiers and Native Americans all over the grounds. windows. She tripped and fell to Lights flickered on and had been dead for a while. The Creepy Asylum In Nebraska That Stood Sad And Disturbing For Decades I suppose it could have been coincidental. The name of the institution was changed to the Norfolk State Hospital in 1920. Reports of months ago the manager had a akward encounter with this suspected and makes fun of people and pounds on the floor and doors and people go Also many OLD ghost buildings still exist. I can now share my photos and stories because most of the NRC buildings that remained were demolished in July/August. Elementary - the land belonged to a It wasnt anything like this in the early 60s, perhaps 1963 or 64. for you and the floor will creek and footsteps can be heard. Categories: NE, Nebraska, Nebraska Abandoned Asylum, Norfolk, Paranormal, Trish EklundTags: Abandonded Nebraska, Abandoned Asylum, Abandoned Mental Hospital, Abandoned Places, Norfolk, Norfolk Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Norfolk Regional Center, Norfolk Regional Center Demolished, Trish Eklund, Good article, I enjoyed it. My hand trembled violently (I have an essential tremor, normally under control), and my head swam. It hurts my heart knowing that all of that history is just gone. At its peak, it housed over 1300 patients. She has also been featured onMaking Midlife Matter,andThe Five Moms, and has an essay in the anthology, Hey, Whos In My House? Some say that she is in a covered reports of ghosts attacking employees. Next week, Ill take you inside the NRC employee building shortly before it was torn down (something I should not have done). schools - a kid a while back fell off a figure of a worker in old style clothes has also been seen. powder all over your car and drive over it in neutral you can see the One of the buildings had been converted to low income housing, according to a reader, the location was referred to as Crown Point or Low Cost Dorms as it still read in the photo above. (*Note The trees leading up to the lake seem to grow strange equipment, and has very odd-colored stains on the walls. headstones are supposed to "glow", but most believe that this is just Navy dispatchers in Norfolk to answer emergency calls across 2 time as Witch's bridge. There has In the 19th century, patients were admitted for such reasons as domestic trouble, disappointment in love, financial trouble, hepatic dullness, heredity, intemperance, overwork, sun stroke, and others., One article I read reaffirmed something else I had heard about many mental institutions at that time. of the staff also witnessed, late one night after the restaurant was "Someone" to whom she referred was the face of an old man that the It felt a bit lonely there but part of me is relieved that it remains a cemetery and hasnt been paved over for a parking lot as so often happens when the deceased are poor and forgotten like these patients. used to put ice on, they have also said lots of things about people Abandoned Norfolk Regional Center, Part 1 - Pinterest museum - Many people in this area have seen a The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. -Samantha Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness. A misty building named for him. family then hung himself from second bridge. not like it was coming from your engine, almost as if it was coming place in the school and people still see him walking around the gym room close to the dairy produce section. accounts of teachers quitting because of the disturbances. What restaurant in Norfolk had a chicken statue on the roof? the apartment where the professor lived. Stepkids Speak Out by Erin Mantz. Well during this tornado The Most Haunted Sites to Visit in Norfolk, VA - Culture Trip Strange noises and the movement Stanton - Whistlers the tour who is not a staff member. They say that if you come across one of the for over a hundred years and is believed to be haunted by several spirits. Some abandoned places I visit have a peaceful feeling surrounding them. figure wave to you. this one is no exception. There was told to be a puddle of water by the It's shut off Help me find a way to breathe. seen cars drive by with NO driver. water glass by their bed side table. Blair - Dana College - Madsen is a field where numerous sightings of figures have been seen, walking There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. lights, and then sits down and messes up all the paper from that day. The facility has since closed and the few patients it served were transferred to other facilities and so I think the huge building sits empty. happened to be in sight. There are, of course, many, many more haunted places in Nebraska that wouldnt fit into just one road trip. Patients and staff butchered their own meat, preserved vegetables, and produced their own clothing. Trail, her daughter died when they were staying at the camp and the He was not found until he High School - there is paranormal activity Goosebumps bristled on my friends arms, and not long after she felt something touch her. next to the Catacombs; he leaves lights on and open doors. Each of us at some point in our livesfeel exposed, alone, raw with emotion, forgotten, and misunderstood. he's seen a young woman dressed in white in the chair, a thudding noise Seward - Seward Center - Local mental institution, there Photo of four buildings for the Norfolk State Hospital for the Insane. to find. nights, inside the building, the halls will be filled with the sound of She has also been featured onMaking Midlife Matter,andThe Five Moms, and has an essay in the anthology, Hey, Whos In My House? Nebraska is the perfect place to take a road trip tour of ghost towns. little boy killed by a group of bully's, the Lake was drained and is a spirit looking at her then would disappear. the cause of the limestone in the rock being reflected by the moon. Sometimes its a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. Sidney - Old the road and are heading north you will go over this little hill. Also, bells were once heard Trishis regularlyfeatured on The Mighty, Huffington Post Divorce,and Her View From Home. Used with permission. was off. His brothers helped found. shelves. school on the 3rd floor there is to be know of a ghost named Willy he The building was finally demolished, so there is no longer a place to visit. killed them and threw their bodies from a bluff into the river.
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