Tis the season to be spooky.<\/p>\n
And if youre looking to be spooky, a website has listed the 150 spookiest places in the U.S. for you to pay a visit (if you dare). Fortunately, three of them are already here in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Moving experts Pro Mover Reviews decided to focus on the not-as-well-known frightening places across the land, the ones who arent up there with the Eastern State Penitentiary but are just as creepy in their own right.<\/p>\n
Halloween is a time when we enjoy being scared and telling ghost stories, but many places around the U.S dont even need a holiday to spook us, explains the website. From weird noises coming from abandoned hospitals [and] unexplained paranormal activity to mysterious figures appearing close enough to touch you, these spooky destinations are places you wish were only just another ghost tale.<\/p>\n
When it comes to Pennsylvania specifically, the website lists the three following locations as inspiring the most chills in bones: Pennhurst State School in Spring City; the town of Centralia; and Hill View Manor in New Castle.<\/p>\n
Why these three? Well, for Pennhurst its all about the bad juju: The building was shut down due to the abhorrent way it treated its patients, because even though it was deemed a state school it was actually, as they put it, an Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic. In other words, it was an asylum, and got busted back in the 1980s for practicing eugenics on patients (among other things).<\/p>\n
Centralias creepy vibes stem more from the supernatural: According to UncoveringPA.com, what draws visitors to the town is that it is (literally) a ghost town, as in, barely anyone lives there anymore. This is all because a fire broke out in the town dump that ended up making the area unlivable, heating the ground up to the point where sinkhole unsuspectingly opened up below a 12-year-old boy at some point.<\/p>\n
Lastly, theres Hill View Manor, which opened its doors as the Lawrence County Home for the Aged in 1926. The building served as a place of residence for older people without families; the poor; and the mentally ill. It closed back in 2004 due to financial issues, although many of those who formerly lived there are said to still walk its halls.<\/p>\n
Enter at your own risk.<\/p>\n
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