Do disturbed souls haunt this world?
(Continued from October 3)
In 1992, the facility was closed down, and it was finally demolished a few years later. In the period between 1992 and 2000, there have been sightings reported of a ‘lady of Danvers,’ dressed in grey, at the windows and teams of paranormal investigators have reported hot-spots inside, even when there was no power on in the building. Th
e most eerie force, however, is said to emanate from the nearby graveyard, which bears the gravestones of more than 700 former inmates — each stone simply bearing a number.
Also in the United States is the Athens Mental Health Centre, called ‘The Ridges.’ It first opened in 1874. In December 1978, a female patient, Margaret Schilling, reportedly disappeared from an active ward and she was found only in January on the top floor of a disused ward, originally a place for sick and infectious patients. A maintenance man found her lying dead in front of a window — she had been dead for quite some days. Reports say that she had apparently locked the door from inside, taken off all her clothes and folded them neatly before dying! The strange, unexplained part is that even in this day and age, more than thirty years after Margaret’s death, there is still a stain on the floor of the ward, where her body was found. People, they say, leave flowers and trinkets around the stain.
The Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, also called the Weston State Hospital, in West Virginia, was opened around 1864 for the ‘mentally disturbed’, specially for those who were delusional and ‘saw’ things. This institution is believed to have been a place for some of the most experimental and unusual medical treatments, albeit with the best of intentions.
Patients were subjected to inhuman conditions. Finally the facility closed down around 1994. Even now, there are frequent reports of paranormal activity on the site, with distant screams and voices being heard, and apparitions have been seen on camcorders and cameras by visitors to the ‘haunted’ hospital.
A sensitive spirit does not understand the meaning of ‘insanity.’ It recognises compassion, peace and understanding. Before it leaves this dimension, if it cannot come to terms with the world and its cruelty, there can be disturbed manifestations. We sometimes should wonder whether the souls we call ‘insane’ are really so. Perhaps they recognise life for what it is and refuse to accept the human conditions and inhuman torture.
The writers are well-known Wiccans who endorse the concept of ‘white magic’
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