Hell House (14)

From: "Kayin M." (kayin_angel@hotmail.com)
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: regarding hell house
Date: Monday, November 24, 2003 2:38 AM

..or one of the hell houses.

Hi there. My name's Kayin. I went to what we thought was Hell House with a few friends. See, I'm not from Maryland, i'm from Toronto Canada. I was visiting, and we thought it would be cool to check it out.

The thing is, ever since then, i've been trying to dig up info on what the hell it was that i visited that night. It's so hard to find good pics. And people's stories are always mixing up both Old St. Mary's College and Female Potapsco Institute. I wanted to figure out which one I went to.

I believe it was the Old St. Mary's College... cause i vaguely remember something written over a main door. On one wall that was still intact, a decorative cross was in the wall made of bricks. The stairs up to the place were overgrown. The paths hard to find. Lots of smaller buildings besides the main one, all of which were overgrown with forest.

The one thing i do remember quite well is a very hidden path in the forest off to the side. We followed it and came into the remains of some kind of altar. in the middle of the forest. It was a small four pillar domed structure, with a large CROSS still under it. I've never read anything elsewhere about this cross.

Anyways, here's our story about our trip there.

In the car, down a twisty-hilly road that seemed to be so dark covered by trees overhead, we were listening to some music on CD. At the beggining of a track of a song i thought i knew pretty well, there was this deep, throaty, rumbling noise that lasted less then a second. It didn't quite seem like it was from the speakers, but the music was loud. For the first few seconds i didn't think about it, then turned to my friend Lisa in the back seat and asked her if she heard that. She said she did, and that it was strange.

The funny part to the story is this. We got to the bottom of the hill and path up to the place. Parking our car, we got our flashlights out, and a walkie-talkie. Suddenly a VAN drives by, turns around, and pulls up and parks. Out of the van comes these two STONER kids. There were other people in the back of the van (the windows were tinted but could see a kinda freaky looking face in the window). Now, these dudes reeked of POT. It was hilarious cause they asked if we were going up, had flashlights, and could tag along for a bit. We said 'sure, whatever'.

So here we are, five of us, and two stoner kids, heading up this hill to this pretty scary place. I turn to Lisa and ask her : "Doesn't this seem like the start of EVERY teen horror movie ?? I mean, we have all the characters right here. These two stoner kids will be the first to get killed off." The stoner dudes eventually went away once we got up to a set of stairs, but I couldn't help but call everyone 'GANG' every so often, and add 'ZOINKS' to the ends of sentances.

Anyways, Back to the scary parts of the night...

Once the stoner dudes were gone, we continued around the main structure. Around the side (?) of it was a door. lots of grafitti. the insides were all caved in mostly, and all that was left was the walls.

We followed what seemed to be a path deeper into the woods. up some more steps. We came upon two small houses that were very overgrown with forest.

For this whole time, i had the feeling of something behind us, and it was unsettling to be at the back, behind everyone else.

there was a path we followed that, along the way, we found an odd piling of rocks in the middle. maybe the remains of a fountain or well or something. it had a wierd metal pipe sticking from the top of it.

we followed a foot path (there were brick borders along the sides of this path) untill there were too many trees in the way to keep going. we turned back, and at this point the feeling of whatever it was behind us was now gone.

we started back to where we came from, but then Lisa noticed what no one else would have noticed. A path off to the side that was mostly covered in trees and forest. We pushed through it all, and found a wall, and followed that to steps and an entrance to the wall. past the wall, maybe 15-20 feet into the forest was the remains of an altar of some type. Four pillars supporting a dome, with a huge metal CROSS underneath it.

This place felt much diffrent then everywhere else. Quiet and safe somehow. I'm not religious, especially not christian, but i could feel the diffrence here. We stayed for a bit. I noticed that the ground under us, under the cross, while dirty, was some kind of brick pattern if i remember correctly. But the ground didn't feel 'solid'. Jumping on it moved it in a way, and sounded like it was hollow underneath. We didn't think much more of it then that however, cause the whole thing was very creepy.

We continued through past the altar, and found our way down to another path. Eventually this led us to a strange wall thing in the side of the hill. What looked like a firepit or something built into the wall in the side of the hill.

We turned back here, and tried to find our way back to the car. At this point i immediately felt something close again, and it was there that Lisa and I heard the same deep breathy grumbly noise we heard in the car. This time our friend Jim was sure he heard it too, and we obviously picked up the pace. The noise sounded very close behind us.

From there along the way back, we saw probably the same overgrown house we saw from the other side. We also got our last look at everything, and also our discovery on how easy it was to get turned about down there, and how hard it was to find the way we came into the place. Eventually we just went down a path and ended back at the car. We left, pretty creeped out, but satisfied.

No dogs, no old man. Just two stoner kids. ^_^ I wasn't sure what the 'Greenhouse' reffered too either.

It's great how every story i've read describes it diffrently. It's odd too though. Kinda spooky. I'd love to see more pics, and even a layout of the surrounding area.

Anyways. I think my original point was to find info to clarify where is where. But hope you found it all intresting.

~Kayin

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