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(Louisville Courier-Journal)   Notoriously haunted sanitorium to become "boutique hotel with a spa and fitness center"   (courier-journal.com) divider line 245
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2008-08-07 02:58:49 PM
What the heck is a Ghost? I thought those things were just in the movies.
 
2008-08-07 03:06:12 PM
Nope. I got nuthin'

Except for the mummified remains of a mad man's scrotum that I bought down at the gift shop!

\Aisle seat, please.
 
2008-08-07 03:12:05 PM
The guy has created a wonderful marketing opportunity. If he executes a solid plan, he should profit handsomely.

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the general public.
 
2008-08-07 03:12:34 PM
Saw a show about that place. farking creepy place.
 
2008-08-07 03:13:13 PM
Are we completely sure this isn't viral marketing for some horror movie set to come out in 2010?

If not, I will totally book a trip to stay there.
 
2008-08-07 03:18:32 PM
ksparrothd: Saw a show about that place. farking creepy place.

That's the beauty of it - he's already got a ton of existing publicity, and a lot more media exposures are ensured. It's a marketer's wet dream.
 
2008-08-07 03:19:43 PM
dl.getdropbox.com

Wait, what?
 
2008-08-07 03:23:45 PM
ozone: Wait, what?

Yeah, I was wondering how exactly a frothy mix of semen and fecal matter oozing out of a man's anus could A) be haunted and B) become a boutique hotel.
 
2008-08-07 03:27:08 PM
Welcome to where time stands still
No one leaves and no one will
Moon is full, never seems to change
Just labeled mentally deranged
Dream the same thing every night
I see our freedom in my sight
No locked doors, no windows barred
No things to make my brain seem scarred
 
2008-08-07 03:36:02 PM
The ghosts will be in the gym in 26 minutes.
 
2008-08-07 03:36:19 PM
www.cinephano.fr

/approve
 
2008-08-07 03:36:46 PM
I will not be staying there!

I can't believe that they are even considering doing these renavations.
 
2008-08-07 03:36:50 PM
[cue picture of 'Arry Potta gettin' it on with Moaning Myrtle in the giant bath]



/ giggity giggity ghost
// she would have moaned less (and more) with some deep ackshone
 
2008-08-07 03:37:49 PM
robisfunky: /approve

I came here for that pic and was not disappointed. redrum! redrum!
 
2008-08-07 03:38:44 PM
Wasn't that place on the "Fear" show on MTV?

/that show wasn't bad, funny as hell watching those people wuss out.
 
2008-08-07 03:39:09 PM
renavations


renovations



Come on, doesn't everyone want to be slamming their significant other in their hotel room on crisp clean sheets only to suddenly realise there are three faces looking back at you from the mirror, and not two....?

So hawt. Otherworldly threesome.


/ fapfapfap
 
2008-08-07 03:39:57 PM
Awesome! I'll book for the next Friday the 13th, maybe have myself a seance or release some demons...

/I believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster too
 
2008-08-07 03:40:10 PM
Can somebody please direct me to a haunted location where I can have the place under the condition that I live within its walls???

I'll take a free haunted mansion/asylum with gargoyles and shiat any day of the week. I ain't 'fraid of no ghost.
 
2008-08-07 03:40:32 PM
www.best-horror-movies.com

HERE'S YOUR YOGA INSTRUCTOR!!!!
 
2008-08-07 03:41:17 PM
i253.photobucket.com
 
2008-08-07 03:41:29 PM
Cool
 
2008-08-07 03:41:41 PM
littlett's: I will not be staying there!

I can't believe that they are even considering doing these renavations.


Why not? Ghostly group sex and there's hardly anything to clean up afterwards.
 
2008-08-07 03:42:35 PM
I don't think that's a great idea. There must be a reason why the vast amount of vacated mental hospitals that sit on prime property are never razed or reoccupied at all, and then they eventually fall apart.

They recently started converting the old Danvers State Mental Hospital into condos here in MA and keep running into numerous nuisance problems and a suspicious fire, recently.

I won't say one way or another what the deal is, but some areas should remain unoccupied when they are abandoned. Would anybody convert the Dachau in Germany into a spa? I doubt it.
 
2008-08-07 03:43:10 PM
jynxyu: Why not? Ghostly group sex and there's hardly anything to clean up afterwards.

I have been there a few times and I can say that I would not want to stay the night there. Gropu sex or not.
 
2008-08-07 03:43:32 PM
18mill renovation?
Must be planning a pretty serious gift shop... Probably have room for an Applebees in the parking lot to!
 
2008-08-07 03:43:35 PM
God damn that place looks cool. I could do so much with it.

Mattingly, who bought the 30-acre property for $225,000 in 2001

Fark it, I'm buying a place like this.
 
2008-08-07 03:43:38 PM
I wonder if they plan to pro-rate the nightly cost due to the high chance of people running from the building in the middle of the night when the walls start to bleed.
 
2008-08-07 03:43:58 PM
ihatedumbpeople: Wasn't that place on the "Fear" show on MTV?

/that show wasn't bad, funny as hell watching those people wuss out.


Yeah, and the Ghost Hunter's did a show from there. I've been during the day (creepy), and for a "Flashlight Tour" at night (uber-creepy).
The location is terrific, though. It sits on top of a wooded ridge with a great view.
 
2008-08-07 03:44:30 PM
Wait.
Where?
Louisville?
Doesn't a certain alchoholic internet maven live near there?

CAN YOU SAY EPIC FARK PARTY!

I'd go.
 
2008-08-07 03:44:30 PM
jynxyu: Why not? Ghostly group sex and there's hardly anything to clean up afterwards.

Apparently you've never had to get ectoplasm off your matress!
 
2008-08-07 03:45:37 PM
I just thought, "What? Do ghosts exfoliate you with hemorrhoid cream?

/ouch.
 
2008-08-07 03:45:46 PM
I'll take the Thorazine Suite, and is the "body chute" for kids or can I ride it, too?

How much do you think people will pay to stay in a room "where people once lay dying of tuberculosis"?
 
2008-08-07 03:45:48 PM
If he does that again, you can shoot him.
 
2008-08-07 03:45:50 PM
littlett's: jynxyu: Why not? Ghostly group sex and there's hardly anything to clean up afterwards.

I have been there a few times and I can say that I would not want to stay the night there. Gropu sex or not.


Hadn't been there, would love too tho. Long weekend and I would do the overnight thing but only if I have booze.
 
2008-08-07 03:46:57 PM
TehBoognish: Wait.
Where?
Louisville?
Doesn't a certain alchoholic internet maven live near there?

CAN YOU SAY EPIC FARK PARTY!

I'd go.


Waverly Sanatarium Halloween Fark Party!

Even the name is epic!
 
2008-08-07 03:46:58 PM
wineought: How much do you think people will pay to stay in a room "where people once lay dying of tuberculosis"?

With the right boutique design, I'd say between $250 & $500, depending upon extras like spa treatments and in-room porn.
 
2008-08-07 03:49:04 PM
In Rockville, MD, they are converting Chestnut Lodge (new window) into apartment condos. This is the same Chestnut Lodge where the CIA's MK Ultra experiments were held, and prior to that was a mental institution for seriously disturbed people.
 
2008-08-07 03:49:19 PM
Umm yeah, how long would a tuberculosis spore last in a cool dark place?
 
2008-08-07 03:49:28 PM
Nestea Plunge: Would anybody convert the Dachau in Germany into a spa? I doubt it.

That's because the showers suck. No water pressure at all. Turn them on and all you get is air.

Great marketing gimmick. Though any accident during reconstruction will be blamed on the curse/ghosts/whatever.

Bonkthat_Again: Welcome to where time stands still...No things to make my brain seem scarred

SanitOrium. With an O. For sick people, not crazy people.
 
2008-08-07 03:49:36 PM
www.impawards.com
 
2008-08-07 03:50:09 PM
Ectoplasm facials?
 
2008-08-07 03:50:22 PM
There is a bar in Edmonton, the building they renovated used to be a Morgue. Originally the bar was called "The Morgue". People claimed weird shiat was going on, hauntings blah blah blah. The place was always going up for sale as bar after bar would open and then close shortly after.

Finally after some new owners decided to have a sayonce(sp?) and brought in priests to bless the place. It's been The Globe now for as long as I can remember. 10 years +

Some other Edmonton farkers might have more info on it.
 
2008-08-07 03:50:24 PM
upload.wikimedia.org

Turn THIS place into a hotel. i dare ya.
 
2008-08-07 03:50:25 PM
give me doughnuts: Waverly Sanatarium Halloween Fark Party!

Even the name is epic!


I wonder if Mr. Mattingly, since he is on the BBB here in town, had a little bit of pull to get the property so cheaply? I think it was a pretty risky business venture at the least.
 
2008-08-07 03:50:38 PM
That gives me a good idea. All you need to do is convince a town that a certain choice piece of land is haunted, then when the property value plummets, you buy the property for dirt cheap. As long as you're looking out for a group of pot smoking hippies and a talking dog, you're guaranteed to get a serious bargain.
 
2008-08-07 03:51:10 PM
Allen. The end.: Apparently you've never had to get ectoplasm off your matress!

I did say "hardly anything" and you're right, it's almost as bad as blood from a clown suit....
 
2008-08-07 03:51:32 PM
palelizard: Nestea Plunge: Would anybody convert the Dachau in Germany into a spa? I doubt it.

That's because the showers suck. No water pressure at all. Turn them on and all you get is air.


Oooh man thats so bad, yet I still laughed
 
2008-08-07 03:51:45 PM
www.wosound.com

I'd plop a 6 up in there based on the gropu sex comments, but then thought "nah".
 
2008-08-07 03:52:04 PM
x tek: I wonder if they plan to pro-rate the nightly cost due to the high chance of people running from the building in the middle of the night when the walls start to bleed.

"That's odd; the blood usually gets off on the second floor."
 
2008-08-07 03:52:11 PM
I've been there once, around Halloween, on a dare. I WOULD NEVER pay to stay there.
 
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