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(Note: The following occurred in September, 2000)
Central State Hospital
Hi. My name is Kelly and I'm a college student. I have grown up with a strong sense towards paranormal activity. My college is located in Milledgeville, Georgia, in the same town as one of the oldest mental institutions. It is still running but most of the old buildings are abandoned. There is one abandoned building in particular known for its paranormal activity. A bunch of crazy experiments in the mid 19th century up to the early 20th century occurred in this building. A lot of times the patients ended up dead. Well, after the government shut those buildings down where the experiments took place there have been sightings and stories of hauntings. One particular building, as I mentioned before, is keen to those reports. That building has been abandoned for well over forty years.
About four years ago, three different groups of college students attempted to discover how much of the legend of the building was true. All groups made it inside the building, all say the same story, and all were arrested for breaking and entering. Each time a group went they only spent a night in jail but never have been back to the mental institution. My friend, an upper classman, told this to me and I was determined to know the truth and see for myself.
I along with six others went to the haunted building. We looked around the entire building, which took about 45 min. since it is rather large, and were about to leave when something made me turn around and look at a window to my right. We had searched every nook and cranny to find a way into this ghostly abode when I saw a window open a good four inches from the sill. We opened it up half way, and climbed through piled up desks and mattresses into the side hallway. The groups before us told of a drop in temperature on the third floor; without haste we made our way up the old staircase to the third floor. As we passed the door (which was open), to the second floor my friend told me to come see what he had found.
As I stood under the doorway, he shone his flashlight onto the floor, and showed me thousands of footprints which looked thrown sporadically about. The reason we could see them was because an accumulation of sawdust from the ceiling had fallen to the floor below. Sawdust, like snow falling each day, would cover up those ghostly tracks, unless the floor was "danced" upon each day. I say "danced" because of the number of and the the positions the the footprints made.
We shook off our nervousness and headed towards the stairs and made our way to the third floor. All seven of us stood in the hallway and listened. We turned out our lights, and stood silently for about two minutes when the air temperature dropped to (estimated guess) 50 degrees. One friend turned on the light and screamed, "Did you feel that? Did you hear IT coming?" then ran down the stairs. We ran down after him, all us could feel the cold air following us.
We made it safely outside and to back to the "getaway" car parked at a nearby church. After we came back to the dorms we were proud. Not only did we not get arrested, but we now know there is a haunted building at the old mental institution.
-Kelly-
