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Hell House in MD - Bojangles - 08-03-2008
In Columbia, MD, there are a few local legends which come to mind, and which have a remarkable tendency to be based in truth. This is one of those legends. The true story of Hell House begins in the small town of Ellicott City, a short drive from Columbie. The town's "main street" is a quaint collection of coffee houses, antique stores, and head shops. It is surrounded by high hills and dense, ancient forest. A river runs through it. There is an old insane asylum (the subject of other true stories) and an overall air of energy and the supernatural. Now is where details begin to get sketchy, but I will outline fact.
Many years ago, there was an old girl's Catholic school. In a fit of insanity that would befit the strange atmosphere, and old priest allegedly hung five girls facing each other around a pentacle, then shot himself. Friends tell me they have researched local historical documents and found that the story of a murder is true, though the demented details were omitted, probably for the sake of decency, as this was many years ago. The house still stands and the stories of it are numerous.
Area teenagers are fascinated. One, lets call him Steve, went with a group of his friends to visit the house. They drove down, taking the strange road that seems to be invisible from the main road. Past the old cement plant and warehouse, now stark and deserted. The decrepid Hell House looming in the horizon. When the car passed along and the front and back windows aligned, it was truly a sight that would make the hardest of skeptics get a bad case of the willies. It always got dark earlier by the house than in the area surrounding it, and the dark was a darker dark than most were used to. It seemed to be palpable, and it played tricks on the mind. Back to the story at hand. The teenagers drove by the house, parked nearby (both entrances to the road leading up the hill are mysteriously blocked, one by a fallen tree, the other by a mysterious absence of pavement and abundance of overgrowth). The boys walked up the hill, feeling the whole time that something was stopping them. The terror they felt was both unexplainable and indescribable. But eventually they got to the top. There was a fantastic view on one cliff, and to their left, the house. All were afraid to go up to the door, much less inside. They'd heard the stories. Candles, blood, and an old man. Some say an old man guarded the place with rubber bullets and dogs (the dogs were real enough, put there by police eventually). Some say the old man was in jail or died. What the boys did see outside was frightening.
Already terrified, the boys were seeing things that werent there when one of them thought he caught a glimpse of something nearer to the side of the house. It wasnt until they were nearly upon him that they saw an old man holding a giant pitchfork sized wooden spoon and a priests collar. The boys ran down the hill, and one even cried. They drove home. Along the way they felt better, and laughed at themselves for thinking it was a ghost. Still, the fact that they all saw the same thing was disturbing. However, when they discussed the incident with others, they discovered that many had seen the same vision. Old man with a spoon, or sometimes an old priest with bloody hands. One story even held that girls can be heard crying. Whatever it was, it remains constant for those who see it, always doing something different, always maddening.
I have tried to visit Hell House three times. The first, i tried driving up the driveway. I had no sooner started up that it rained and the muddy trail made my wheels slip. THe second, I tried driving again, but in nearly the same place as the rain hindered my advance, my car stalled and would not start. It was a new car that had never given troulbe before. Once i tried walking with a friend, but at the point I had stopped before, we were gripped with parylyzing fear and could not bear to go on. Sheer unexplainable terror, for someone who had explored supernatural sites before with no such fear. If any who read this have been inside the house, or know anything else, or can help eliminate some myth, please post and let me know.
Hell House in MD - Zach - 02-04-2010
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Hell House in MD - Deadite - 02-13-2010
wow... i didnt know that you have a PARANORMAL forum here... I thought this is a forum only for Horror and Scary Film...and I did not expect that you have member that rendered paranormal investigation free of charge...lol,,, now i know where will i share my ghost encounters since there is someone here that discuss his theories and speculation of future paranormal plots, conspiracies, and secrets.