Hell House (12)

From: Jimswifey23@aol.com
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Hell House Horror
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 5:04 PM

I finally have enough courage to share this story with all of you. I never realized how many people have had so many paranormal experiences. So here goes nothing.

I was seventeen years old and was living in Catonsville, Maryland. I had just moved to Maryland from North Carolina in 1996. I was living with my sister and needless to say, things didn't work out. I ended up meeting this guy and we started dating. Next thing I knew, things were getting worse at home so I decided to move in with him in his apartment.

He was originally from Maryland and had always been a sort-of "bad boy". We both were into paranormal activity and stories. He had a horrible experience with an Ouija board before he met me. He was dating this girl and she was always messing with the board. She was contacted by a spirit and the spirit wanted to talk to him instead of her. The girl ended up being possessed by the spirit and was later exorcised. The spirit vowed he would come back for him later in time. That was the beginning of the problems.

He started telling me about this place called," Hell House" that was located in Ellicott City, Maryland. He thought that it would be really cool to take me there and show me what it was like. So, one evening, we set out with a couple of friends to go and explore this place.

Now, you need to know a little about Hell House to understand why people were so intrigued by it. There are a couple of versions of this story, but this is the one that I know. Hell House was actually named Saint Mary's College. It was a college for Catholic girls. The school was running well until the Priest started having unholy lustful thoughts. He tried to repent and still could not satisfy his hunger. The Priest started sexually assaulting the nuns. The nuns were to afraid to go against Priest but begged him to repent his sinful ways. The Priest did not listen and kept assaulting the nuns. Well, one of the nuns finally stood up and went to the Archbishop and told him what was happening. The Priest was then thrown out of the college but vowed that he would return and that all would repay. Well, one night there was startling screams coming from the dormitory. When that nuns arrived to see what was wrong they found five of the school girls dead. The girls had been placed in the shape of a Pentagram. Authorities tried to find the Priest, but he was never to be found. Reportedly, the nuns were then possessed by demons. It is said that the nuns later massacred the rest of the students. Shortly after the college was closed. The owners placed a caretaker on the premises to guard the old college to protect it from vandalism and "noisy" teenagers. He had rottweilers on the premises to help "chase" out any trespassers. It was said that screams and laughter could be heard throughout the premises and in the tunnels underneath.

It was around eleven at night when we arrived at Hell House. Hell House sat on the top of a hill and there were three ways to get to it. Two were blocked by iron gates and one was a steep staircase entrance. We parked the car by the stairway entrance and stepped out of the car laughing. It was such a thrill to be there and the pure notion of seeing a spirit or hearing the screams was terrifying...yet exciting. The stairs were very steep and broken beer bottles lay on every other step. Foliage was growing within the cracked stone. All in all, it was a very scary sight.

I watched as my boyfriend started ascending the stairs. A horrible feeling came across me and settled in my gut. I couldn't go up those stairs. My boyfriend noticed I was uneasy but insisted I come up. Our friends were lagging behind and talking amongst themselves. Very cautiously, I started walking up those stairs. Now, I have a Christian background and have always been taught that if I truly feel something evil and it is trying to get to me to say, "Satan, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus Christ." I was a good ways up those stairs and my feelings just got worst. So, I said what I had been taught that would help me. I quietly muttered those words. Only I could hear what I said, so it was a suprise to me when my boyfriend looked back down at me,(who by the way, had almost reached the top) and said," Jessica, run, you've pi$$ed him off!."

Now let me tell you, it is really hard to run down steep stairs in the pitch black night, but let me tell you, I ran like hell. I reached the bottom and got off those stairs and my feelings started to ease. At the same time, I was mixed with fear and a horrible emotion. My boyfriend came down and said that a voice had told him he had heard me, and that I had made him very angry. I asked my boyfriend to repeat what I had said and he told me every word.

There is no way my boyfriend could have heard me. He was too far up those steps and I had said it coming short to a whisper. There is more to this story, because that spirit followed us home. I later found out that my boyfriend had run into this spirit before.

If you want to hear the rest of the story, I would be glad to finish it. Just email me and let me know.

As for the boyfriend, he is not necessarily of a good origin or character. Which took me some time to figure out. Needless to say, I am now happily married to another man, a good man.

Thanks for your time and sorry it is so long. Until next time.

Jessica

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