Hell House (5)

From: "Ian Boyd" (headcrush@msn.com)
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: MD Hell House
Date: Saturday, August 30, 2003 1:36 PM

I went to the "Hell House" in Elicott City in Mid-October about 3 years ago. There was 4 of us, 3 guys and a girl. We parked down on the road by the paper mill (or cement plant), in between two big rig trailers so as to not be visible to any officers of the law who might pass by. Adjacent to the small gravel area where the trailer rigs were chocked, there was a long, broad stone staricase we walked up that led to a forested area through which we had to walk to get the the main building, there was somewhat of a path through this area that led to the driveway right in front of the main building. This is where I viewed something very interesting. We had flashlights, and by shining them up on the building you could see the majority of the outside brick had been charred. This was ballsy (as well as not very smart) to shine a flashlight up on the building with blatant disregard for anyone (or anything) who might be disturbed by our presence. We were all mostly skeptic and at this point not scared. Anyway, the majority of the outside brick mainly near the windows was charred black, however near the top of the building, front and center recessed in the brick is a small white statue of a virgin Mary, which still appeared to be pure white. Now there may be a perfectly good explanation for this, but it was still strange and disturbing, to me anyway. We continued to walk around the left side of the main building and around to the back where there was a concrete stair that we began to ascend. Halfway up, myself and one other person stopped to get a look at the back of the building as the other 2 people continued to walk the stairs. In one of the windows at the top floor to my far left I saw a light flash. Not a bright light like that of a flashlight or camera flash, but a faint blue flicker that was visible but did not really illuminate the surrounding area. The best way I can describe it would be like an electrical spark in mid-air. This startled me considerably, mostly since the building was just a shell, I knew there was no "floor" at the 4th floor level and therefore ruled out human activity as the source of the light. Still I said nothing, thinking I was the only one whod seen it, maybe my eyes played tricks on me. A few seconds later my accomplice stopped and said "Did you see that?" "The light in the window?" I replied "Yeah that one." he answered and pointed at the same window I had seen the light apparition in. "Lets get the fuck out of here." he said. We got the others and explained to them what we had seen and started heading back down to the driveway at the front of the building. The other two didnt seem fazed by our account of what we saw, it actually made them want to get inside the building. So we walked around the right side of the building in search of a door or ground level window, to this day I dont know why we didnt try the front door..... Anyway as we walked around the right side we stopped and heard leaves crunching underfoot, followed by growls and chains, right then we knew it must be the caretakers dogs. They didnt bark, but we could hear them running, getting closer and dragging what sounded like chains. Obviously we ran like hell. The footfalls sounded huge, and Im assuming the dogs were large shepherds or rottweilers... I dont know what overcame but for reasons I cant explain I stopped dead in my tracks and turned around to see.... nothing. Nothing at all. Yet the sounds came closer, paws hitting the dirt, chains, and growling, sounded as if the dogs were right up on me, yet I saw nothing. By now the other 3 had ran past me back through the woods down the path we had came up, I made my own path through the underbrush and ran down the stone staircase as fast as I could to meet up w the others. We wasted no time getting in the van and getting the hell out of there... Im still a skeptic to this day, not ruling out the possibility that there are logical explanations for what I experienced there.. but I havent found those explanations yet, so as far as Im concerned the Hell House hosts an array of malevolent spirits. Something happened there that someone doesnt want you to know about.

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