anonymous - October 31st, 2009
This place was really eerie...I remember going there with my sister, her boyfriend and my best friend in 1977. I was 11 years old. We parked somewhere on Medical Dr. and sneaked in the back of the property. My sister's boyfriend, (now my brother-in-law) called it the midget farm and after much begging, he agreed to take us there. We got in thru an unlocked back door. The place was massive! There was a huge pool in back, separate living quarters, and the house had two main floors and an attic. We spent the whole afternoon in that place, touring it. There were all kinds of rooms, a library full of old books, a wine cellar, a dumb-waiter elevator and a massive stair case. The very top level had small rooms with dormer windows over-looking the property. The doors all had low door-knobs and all the light switches were only about 3' from the floor. I found a wine bottle in the cellar dated 1927,and I carried it as we walked around. The place was really freaky, with ornate carpet, hard wood flooring, fancy window treatments and heavy wall paper stuff on the walls. This house in its day was first class. Many rooms were locked with old skeleton key style locks. I found a key on a shelf in the library and it fit all the locks! We opened locked rooms and started finding stuff that really freaked us out. Strange chairs with leather straps to hold you down and weird tables that looked like something you'd see in a morgue. My sister was starting to get really creeped out and wanted to leave. I opened another locked door and it was a room about the size of a bedroom, but no windows. The inside of the door had red smudgy hand prints and "help" written on it. The floor was a mess too and other marks on the rest of the walls, but it was too dark to see all of it. Being 11, I was fascinated and didn't feel afraid, when my sister and bro-n-law saw this they got real quiet and the tone changed. My sister wanted to leave immediately, we all teased her and kept looking around. We found a prosthetic leg and a lot of manequin parts like arms and feet. We worked our way to the garage and found a cellar entrance and tunnels that went in several directions those were really creepy. We worked our way to the front of the house and it was incredible, a large porch, statues, a fountain with a pond full of huge gold fish, nearly a foot long! None of us had ever seen goldfish that huge. We left without incident and I got my souvenier wine bottle. Later in the day, we told my bro-in-law's younger brother about the place and the goldfish. He made us take him to go see this place, it was late in the day and was close to sundown. We decided to pull up to the front entrance on Donore Place. We parked and squeezed through the chained double gate that had about a one foot opening we all went through. We walked up the steep driveway and being the littlest one and the most excited, I was ahead of everyone else. Toward the top of the driveway, I saw a man with a gun walking toward us with a doberman on a chain, he let the dog loose and it came toward us. I was the first one to see this as the drive was really steep and I was 30-40 feet ahead of everyone else. I turned and ran and when everyone saw me coming back at them with a huge dog gaining on me. they ran too! I was now 50 feet behind them running as fast as I could. They were all out the gate and climbing in to the van and yelling at me to hurry. We all got in the van as this caretaker got to the gate, he was a big guy and could not fit through the opening. Things were getting really scary as we were all yelling to get out of there. My bro-in-law was trying to fish the key out of his pocket to start the van. I looked in horror as the caretaker unlocked the gate and walked up to us with gun in hand demanding us to get out of the van. Mike finally started the van and the guy stood in front of it banging his gun on the hood. Mike punched it and the guy had to jump out of the way to keep from getting run over. As we took off, he shot out the side window of the van and the one of the back windows as we sped off. I literally was pissing my pant and everyone else was screaming at the top of their lungs. We got home, shaken up and the van had broken windows and a bullet hole in the back door. I was told to never talk about what happened that day. I was scared shitless anytime someone brought up that place and if anyone drove near there, I would freak out. My brother-in-laws little brother eventually went back with some friends and they found tunnels that went really far all over the entire property. They were really freaked out about that place. Several friends tried to go back there but were chased off by the caretaker with dogs. That place was really weird, I was saddened when it burned down, it was a pretty majestic estate on a big piece of land. I still have that winebottle! |