Ghosthunting - The Old Tooele Hospital (part of Stephen King’s “The Stand” was filmed here)

Last night our group went to the old Tooele Hospital for a ghosthunt. Part of the hospital is just pretty much abandoned and they do stuff for Halloween in there to spook people. The other part is a nursing home. We were not allowed to go in to that part.

Some interesting things did happen but the overall vibe I got was fairly negative. I never thought I’d have a problem expressing myself or finding the right words but I equate how I feel to someone where English isn’t their first language. Sometimes there just isn’t a direct translation but they just do their best to describe it. I feel that way about the feelings I get. I can only use words like “negative, sunken, sadness, angst, nervous feeling in my stomach” but they aren’t descriptive enough. I just don’t know exactly how to describe these feelings perfectly. They are new to me so they are harder to define. I come as close as I can in most cases.

At any rate the whole vibe I got was negative last night. Last week at the Rio Grande I was fine. I didn’t have negative feelings and it was kind of peaceful. This place was opposite for me. I didn’t want to run away screaming but I didn’t necessarily feel very comfortable there, but needless to say the hunt was ON!

They gave us a brief tour, went “lights out” and then we started the typical room searches. We roamed with a large group at first and then wanted to break off. We were told there are tons of things that happen there – lots of Orbs, a Vortex, and that we’ll get a ton of EVP’s. I haven’t reviewed most of the evidence. I ended up taking 511 pictures and did search through them all briefly this morning. I got a TON of orbs. They say you may get one or two out of every 200-300 pictures you take and I feel like they were in just about every other picture or so. Some of them are clearer than others and in some pictures I had up to 10-15 Orbs at once. Brandon said he got none, and Brittany has yet to give me her feedback (remember we just went last night – it takes time to sift through it all).

So we conducted a few EVP sessions – but nothing exciting happened audibly. Hopefully something(s) happened on our recorders. In one room Brittany felt like someone was lightly tracing or touching her elbow and the back of her neck, and it made her itchy. I did pick up an Orb in this room though it wasn’t near her.

Probably the most drastic thing that happened was in the last room in the hallway of the patient bedrooms. The three off us were in there. Brittany was off by a chair in the corner. Brandon was leaning up against one of the hospital beds and I was standing at the end of that bed by the wall – not touching the wall. I had just started to say that I got a very negative feeling in this room. As Brittany was trying to get me to describe it – out of nowhere I was shoved against the wall. “What the hell?” is what I said right after and I asked Brittany if she did that and she said she wasn’t even near enough to me to have done that. Brandon said he didn’t do it, and asked me if I was ok. It felt like a clear hand on my hip and a hard shove. It was hard enough to shove me in to the wall and I almost lost my balance as if my feet were coming out from under me. I don’t want to say it was a child though where I was pushed with so much force it had to be a child or someone super short or perhaps someone in a wheelchair (I know that’s a stretch but we were in a hospital). Brittany said “you were in his way.” Later I recounted the situation to another couple and the guy said “Maybe you were in his way!” Interesting…both Brittany and Brandon saw what happened and neither of them could have done it. I reviewed my pictures and didn’t find anything or any evidence. I was a bit spooked by that. I didn’t want to move and Brandon finally took me out of the room. The feeling stayed with me in that entire hallway, like someone was there with me.

Some other encounters from our group – people were smelling floral scents. I smelled nothing but somebody’s gum. Brandon thought he also smelled gum. We also found a room that had a washer and dryer with a very strong floral soapy smell – dryer sheets or detergent. The one room they said they smelled lilacs – that was close to this room. The hall where they said they smelled flowers we were not even close to the laundry room or a bathroom. I have a great sense of smell but smelled nothing but a sweet mint smell. I asked if anybody had gum and one girl did. I got closer to her and that was the smell, but they swear it wasn’t that.

Our instructor, Tom, also had an EMF machine. This is a machine that can sense energy and has a range of lights starting with a green and going up to a red – the more that lights up the stronger the energy is. I watched as Tom asked a series of questions to men by the name of Ned and Thomas. Thomas was said to have lit himself on fire and died when he was a patient there. I didn’t know any of that and I’m not sure how they knew that. At any rate they seemed to answer the majority of Tom’s questions by lighting the machine up. There are plenty of people that don’t believe in the power of these machines but there is something to be said about coincidence and a clear pattern. I was leaning towards a clear pattern. Tom asks a question, the machine lights up according to his question. It was kind of convincing to me.

In another hallway many of us heard moaning. It was very clear to me. However Brittany thought it sounded like a car, dismissed it and went on her path to other rooms. Brandon thought it was air coming through the door because it was windy. All very valid points and the only thing I picked up so far was an orb or two in that hallway. Hopefully we’ll hear more on the recordings. (To note this is the same hallway they thought they smelled the floral scents and I smelled the gum.)

I’m still fascinated. I’m still convinced but sometimes I think people see what they want to see. I did look at one of my pictures and thought I saw a face in a reflection of a window but I’m going to have Brandon and Brittany look at them to tell me what they see. The next picture doesn’t have the reflection in it.

Next week we are investigating Taylorsville HS which is where the class is held. It is our last class and from there we can take more classes OR we can just do our own thing. The 3 of us are in talks of investigating cemeteries when it gets warmer.

I’ll post pics when I get them transferred on to the computer. After reviewing the obvious one with Brandon he is also convinced he sees a clear face of someone in a mirror. I have a ton of ORBS and am about a third of the way through on my recordings. I have some interesting finds but nothing concrete yet. More to come!

Thanks for reading!