The history of the haunted St. Albans in Radford, VA., starts out peacefully as the St. Albans School, a boy’s school. Nine years later in 1911 the school was closed due to lack of interest. Unhappy with the way things were being run at the nearby Southwestern Lunatic Asylum in Marion (now Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute), Dr. John King bought the building along with 56 acres and St. Albans was opened in 1915. In 1915, psychiatry was just in its beginnings and treatment of the mentally ill was not a highly pursued field of medicine. Though some perceived the early days of St. Albans as more a resort for the mentally ill the first medications used, opium, belladonna extract, mercury, and strychnine as wellRead the Rest…

Most Haunted Places in America: Valentown Museum In the early days of the railroad, many fortunes were made and lost building around where the tracks were speculated to come through a town. Valentown, a shopping center turned museum in Victor, New York unfortunately was one of those losing propositions. It did become a center point within the community though and provided us with a possible ghost of Valentown Museum video. Valentown Hall is a three-story building built-in 1879 by Levi Valentine and was supposed to be the center of a new town based on the fact that the railroad was coming through and he hoped he would be a stop on it. Unfortunately the railroad went bankrupt before it ever got to Mr. Valentine andRead the Rest…

In 1834 a farmer and captain of the militia named John Stone owed must all the land in downtown Unionville (now Ashland), Massachusetts. He heard the railroad was coming through and being known as a shrewd businessman, built a hotel right on the railway called The Railroad House. This was the beginning of a long history full of ups and downs that is now a part of the haunted Stone’s Public House. John Stone successfully operated the Railroad House for less than two years but leased the building to numerous innkeepers. John dies in 1857 a wealthy man and in 1868 W.A. Scott bought the business. Though having the best of intensions, Mr. Scott couldn’t keep up with maintaining the property. The hotel fell intoRead the Rest…