| In addition to the Halloween tours, Rolling Hills Asylum is open year round for paranormal investigations and more!
Rolling Hills Asylum in East Bethany, NY is reportedly the most haunted location in New York and arguably one of the most active in the United States! It has been featured on Travel Channel�s Ghost Adventures and Paranormal Challenge as well as on Sy-Fy Channel�s Ghost Hunters!
Opened on January 1, 1827 as The Genesee County Poor Farm, with the addition of the Genesee County Infirmary in 1938, has housed widows, orphans, Native Americans, Civil War veterans, drunkards, mentally and physically disabled, criminals, murderers, and more! The 54,000 sq. foot facility includes an infirmary, morgue, tunnel, and chapel has recorded over 1700 deaths with thousands more speculated!
Former residents still roaming the halls include Roy, a gentle giant who, topping 7 feet in height is a favorite spirit many investigators seek out! Nurse Emma, a no-nonsense, strict, and hard working nurse has been known to still make her rounds! Queenie White, heads up the laundry room, Aunt Maude, the former head cook during the Poor Farm years, and Jack, who visibly paces back and forth in the second floor solarium, are very active!
People come from all areas of the country to tour the facility, learn about its rich history, and investigate and communicate with those passed on. Disembodied voices, slamming doors, screams, footsteps, shadow people, phantom bangs, cold spots, touching, class �A� evp�s, and more, are regular occurrences!
Rolling Hills Asylum offers year round tours and investigation opportunities including 1 & 1/2 hr Historical Tours, 2 hr Flashlight Tours, 4 hr & 8 hr ghost hunts, and special celebrity events! And of course, for October only "The Haunting of Rolling Hills Asylum!" Halloween tours!
Don�t let the shows on television with all there fancy ghost hunting gadgets deter you. All you need is a still camera (and/or video camera), a digital recorder, and a small flashlight (less than one inch diameter) and you too can be a paranormal investigator! |