Tooele Hospital/Asylum 49

Well, we did it - we gathered our nerves and went on a real live ghost hunt, with professionals and everything!!
December 1, 2007 Rachel, Lesa, Lesa's sister Marcy, Lesa's mom Kathy and I went up in the first official winter storm to hang out with the Utah Ghost Organization and the owners of Asylum 49. (Which is a spook ally made inside part of the Old Tooele Hospital.) We had a great time!!
When we arrived, they had already kind of started explaining what was going to happen - we were broken off into smaller groups (around 10 or so) and guided through the hospital by either Troy Wood (Utah Ghost Organization) or Kim (owner of Asylum 49) or some other workers/co-owners. We started out with Troy, in the basement. Nothing like breaking us in!! It was not as "scary" as I would have imagined it to be, or maybe I'm just more mature - well at least mature enough not to scream and run! There was a part of the basement which was all dirt mounds and trails with a light in the far corner. We crawled there first - crouched really. Under the light was a chair, all by itself with wire like restraints. It was a very sad chair. It makes one wonder why it was there and what it was used for. We started taking pictures and they were full of orbs. (Which were mostly dust... Troy explained that most of the 'orbs' in pictures are dust - thanks to Dave - I already knew that.) However, he did explain that energy-type orbs were going to show movement and produce their own light rather than merely reflect the light from the flash of our cameras. Very interesting! We finished off the basement in the boiler room and maintenance room. Not a lot of credible photo's, but I did hear someone "shhhh" me in my ear.
The upstairs consists of about 3 hallways; Labor and Delivery, ER, and Patient/Lab Rooms. It was crazy - there were props for the Haunted House that were so distracting to me. I felt a little nudge, like I'd bumped into someone - only to turn around and see a woman about 3 feet away. That was fun. But other than that, nothing really exciting. We are going to send in our photo's to the Asylum people and they are going to make a disc with everyone else's stuff. When I get that, I'll post it!


Eating out in our "Ghosts are people too" shirts!


The chair and dust.


Boiler room - coal chute. There are orbs to the left, near the floor and to the right - on the screen. There are a couple of faint orbs above the box.


Just for fun... do you see an image in the mirror?


Patients room ... orb on the floor to the left.


Someone told us this was used to flush organs, and or body parts. I'm not sure if I believe that... it's disgusting anyway!