Ghost Story of a Hell House :: Ghost Stories Urban Legends

Ghost Story of a Hell domiciliateThe legend that I collected is a popular local story about an old building and its resident out in the woodwind adept the storys location. The person who told this story to me is my roommate he is a white, middle-class, twenty-year-old who is perusing government and psychology. I collected the story from him in our apartment unmatchable Tuesday night, sitting on our couch amidst a group of friends while earreach to some loud music. The fabricators performance of the story is main(prenominal) to none. Due to the loud music and distracting atmosphere, the story was not told very smoothly. The spliter make a lot of pauses and had to repeat himself several times. Furthermore, the teller did not know any solid facts, such as specific dates. Everything that he mentioned in terms of time were clearly estimates, as indicated by his facial expressions and verbal pauses. The teller prefaced the story by trying to get me to differentiate the l ocation of the Hell abide. We had gone hiking around the state park where near the house, and he explained its location by saying you know that hill and those timberland near the train tracks at the bottom of the mountainWell, Hell House is over near there. Im sure youve seen it dude. I admitted that I knew where it was so that he would go on with the story, even though I was certain I hadnt seen any creepy looking houses when I was over in that area. He continued the story by explaining that the address was originally Mount Saint Marys college in elder Catonsville, Maryland during the 1800s. He then say oh right, it was actually a womens school.He paused here for a minute and then carried on to tell me that most of it burned down in the 1930s and a satisfying lot of people died. After a moment he said actually it may have been the 10s or the 20s, Im not so sure. The only thing that remained after this fire was an old burned up house that the groundskeeper lived in an d continues to live in. The teller then said that the groundskeeper was seriously old and weird and that he is not sure whether he is alive or dead, but he made sure to emphasize that if he is still alive he is belike real expletive deleted by author old.