Philadelphia, PA
Eastern State Penitentiary - Eastern State is haunted by hundreds of prisoners that have been executed, beaten to death, or committed suicide. The most famous sighting is of a prisoner that killed 27 people in an attempted prison break. Reports of feelings of someone there, and dread, strange sounds and shadows or apparitions.
Fort Mifflin - Three ghosts are here. A women in the ruins of the commanders house, she is called the screaming woman. Another one of a Civil war soldier, confederate in the casemates and another soldier without a face sewing in the casemates.
Friends Hospital - Built in 1813 this building was the original patient quarters and home to the superintendent and his wife. It was said the female seen wandering in the halls bore a resemblance to a former hospital superintendent's wife. Also reports of hearing doors open and close when no one was around. Several third shift employees have heard a woman laughing on the first floor in the middle of the night. But could never find out where it was coming from. A security guard was making his rounds at night on the third floor when someone grabbed his shoulder. He turned around and there wasn't anyone there. The sources that experienced these events aren't the types to make things up.
** I grew up a few blocks away from Friends Hospital and used to go there to play the violin to the older patients in elementary school. I always hated going there because of the eerie feelings. Now I know why LOL
General Wayne Inn - This inn is home to more than 17 ghosts including Hessians, a ghost wanting his wives picture, a old owner, and a ghost singing.
The Institute of Pennsylvania - Reports of the elevator opening with a loud noise and voices, and foot steps came from the elevator.
Jeans Hospital - A few years ago Jeans Hospital was having financial difficulties and there were rumors that it would be bought out. It is said that Anna-May Jeans (founder of the hospital) began appearing to various members of the staff to show her disapproval of a buy-out.
Orleans 8 Movie Theater - A little girl seems to be haunting the projection booth. Sometimes, late at night, you can hear the little girl giggling and asking to come play with her.
**Now that would explain why I always got funny wierd feelings at this movie theatre. LOL
Palmer Cemetery - A witness visiting a grave of a relative reports bring flowers to the grave. Upon feeling a strange feeling turned around to see if there was someone there, only to find no one. Turning back around to the grave, the flowers had vanished. Also, in this cemetery a teenage boy hung his self by the entrance and sometimes at night one of the streetlights come on and you can see him hanging from the branch that was cut down. When you walk past the cemetery you can see shadows running around and tons of orbs flying around. At times you can see a big white person holding a baby and staring out of the fence.
St. Dominic’s Catholic School - there is said to be a ghostly presence in the graveyard.
Saint Maria Goretti High School for Girls - Cold hands felt, a ghost roams the halls throughout the schools and that the statue in front of the school cries once a year.
Saint Mary's Annex at Saint Joseph's University -In this converted convent, located on the fringes of the Saint Joseph's campus, many ghostly nuns have been seen walking the halls. People have also claimed to hear laughter, footsteps, and odd bumps in the night.
The Civil War Library and Museum - Was feature on unsolved mysteries--net work tv. On the second floor, in the Lincoln Room, the spirits of soldiers have been seen playing cards.
The old Penn Rynn Manor - Used to be the Biddle estate(as in Bailey, Banks and Biddle) It is right on the Delaware river. The story is that the original owners had a son that fell in
with one of the maids. This was looked down upon by the parents. The young lovers went down to the river and drowned themselves. The sightings have been of a lady on a white horse and a young man that would walk the path from the house to the water. The Walnut St. Theater - reorts of an apparition of a liitle girl from the early 1900s & hearing voices..
Philadelphia University (Textiles)- When the university was a small Catholic school for girls, a nun supposedly hung her self in the top room of the mansion, after finding out she was impregnated by the father...Today, the attic is locked but people still see lights on or the figure of the nun standing up there...the old classrooms are now an all girls dormitory that has had countless incidences from noises to white fuzzy glowing balls appearing in pictures taken...when nothing was there...supposedly you can still see the nun if you sit on the hill in front of the mansion...she is said to walk there at sunrise.
Roxborough - Leverington Cemetery - a very haunted site in Philadelphia, apparitions have been seen frequently
Somerton - St. Andrews Church - Original Chapel - Next door to the newer church building is the older chapel, a white building now used mainly as an annex. Locals have reported seeing hazy white figures in and around the grounds, and have reported strange noises coming from the woods behind the buildings.
University of the Sciences - Osol Hall - was originally a Psychiatric Institute. Legend goes, that a girl who was admitted there, went crazy because of mistreatment, and ended up killing herself on the 6th floor. Several years later, the Institute became a dormitory/apartment- like suites for students at USP. Several residents have heard strange noises, seen bathroom doors propped open after insuring they were closed shut while toilet seats would be put down if a resident was sure he left it up. Many resident's have gotten strange sensations and weird feelings.
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