Ardmore Center
An abandoned psychiatric center, this location is said to be haunted by several different apparitions. In the back parking lot, many have reported to see children playing�children from the 60�s. It Is said that if one drives by, they may see the image of an old man wearing a flannel shirt in one of the windows. Upon inspection, the man is said to slowly move away. Hidden behind several trees, the building appears to be illuminated at night.
The Center has been torn down and replaced with another building within the last few years. I’ve never taken a look at the parking lot though.
Comment by Neil | 09.23.2005 | 11:26 am
Neil, if you have all this time on your hands, go take a look at the damn parking lot! Better yet, why don’t you pitch a tent and plant tulips on the nearest corner!
Comment by Chris | 10.1.2005 | 5:06 pm
Is this the former Clinton Valley Mental Instution? I’ve heard comments about things going on there since before it was closed. Also,you might want to track down some information regarding weird happenings at the former Oakdale Center in Lapeer. From what I hear, that’s also haunted.
Comment by Beth | 10.11.2005 | 12:33 am
We explored this place a couple of years ago and didn’t experience anything frightening, except maybe a creepy vibe which could have been just our imagination…took a couple of books left in the library…someone was clearly living there - clothes, shoes, an area on the floor made up like a bed - pretty sure it was human.
Comment by Marci & Stephanie | 10.15.2005 | 2:40 am
Me and my friends explored there right before they tore the place down. i’m pretty sure it was haunted, we would have cold wind blow by us when we werent even by windows,it smelt like rotting dead bodys. its gross but true. also a friend of mine saw a little girl in the hallway wearing a white night gown.
Comment by nomad | 10.27.2005 | 2:54 pm
i agree with chris but stay over night with a group of about 10-20.
Comment by rob | 11.7.2005 | 12:47 pm
MTVs Fear show was a good one for creepy places! wish it was still on.
Comment by tom burkhart | 12.1.2005 | 2:10 pm
That’s pretty cool.
and pretty scary.
Comment by NATASHA | 01.16.2006 | 6:45 pm
My friends used to speak of a ghost named Reno who haunted the place. He was institutionalized for depression and killed himself there. His name was written on one of the doors which was apparently his room. Another ghost was named Liz, but I don’t know anything about her. Has anyone ever heard of Reno?
Comment by Wanderlust | 01.30.2006 | 9:38 pm
I am really curious to know if anybody that has moved into those condos now inplace of that hospital has experienced anything bizarre! I am pretty sure they may be having a rough time selling those places to people who totally know of it’s history and what used to be there, or WHAT STILL IS!! OOOOH-OOH! boo!
Rick
Comment by rick housholder | 02.19.2006 | 11:55 am
I can attest to the strange things at the Oakdale Center in Lapeer. I went through many of the old buildings there before they were torn down, and experienced many unexplained and downright terrifying things.
Comment by Deen | 04.4.2006 | 8:03 pm
i was there with 4 other individuals in 2003 around december. we explored the 1st floor with only one mishap. turned on every faucet cause there was no running water and as i walked away from one of the faucets it spit out water and kept running even hours later when we were leaving it was still pouring water even tho no other faucet or toilet worked in the entire 2 stories. upon coming out of the staircase on the second floor their was a nautiating smell of rotting flesh. exploring found nothing but a rank smell out of the room on the corner from the left side of the stairs. from there a noise of electricity like being next to a live wire started. then after going through some rooms a sound of nails scrapping on metal began running around the walls all around us. we opened and stood in the first double door coming from the stairs and shined our flash lights down the hall. the sound got louder and some large black void was eating our light. the void was getting closer and the air got thick so at this time we ran the hell out there. we got the balls to come back for a thrid visit and nothing happened. so there is something there but will it inhabit the new building is a good question
Comment by justin gleason | 05.4.2006 | 2:11 pm
One incident back in the winter of 2003, my brother,
a friend, and myself went looking around inside. We got in through this busted window in the courtyard and we went through two halls to get to the gym. Once we got there, we heard this loud noise resembling a door creeking so we took a 180 and ran tripping over the debris and ****. We went back in the courtyard for a minute when we started hearing the sound of breaking glass coming down the halls towards the window we came through. We didn’t stick around to see if it was human or what. Other times while there, I would hang out in the courtyard and hear footsteps and a radio or walkie talkies but no one else was around. Weird.
Comment by Al | 05.5.2006 | 2:01 am
Al, you are such an idiot! Get off the acid, you trippin’ fool!
Comment by Big Bill | 05.20.2006 | 5:46 pm
I live in Michigan, and tomorrow night my frineds and I planned to stay the night at a haunted place, somewhere close. It surprised me while I was reasearching places to where we could go, how many places in Michigan that are said to be haunted.It is quite a few but I’m excited.
Comment by Anna | 06.24.2006 | 2:16 am
I hate to dissapoint you, but I have to tell you that there has never been any hauntings at the old Ardmore center. I know, I worked there and the most that ever happened was an occasional death–it was also a nursing home, and when people get old and ill, they do die. Also, I have seen a couple of the young patients (psychiatric) hop the fence and escape. Nothing more than that. Sorry to disappoint the “ghost busters” dj
Comment by djvarcoe | 06.26.2006 | 12:44 pm
could have my comment emoved so that i might rewrite it–thanks
Comment by djvarcoe | 06.26.2006 | 7:39 pm
I HAVE HEARD THAT PATIENTS AT THIS PLACE WERE KILLED BY THE “HELP”. I AM PRETTY SURE ITS THIS PLACE BUT I COULD BE WRONG. MANY OF THOSE PEOPLE WERE NOT EVEN SICK, THEY WOULD GIVE THEM SHOTS THAT MADE TRHEM WORSE.
Comment by Ella | 10.4.2006 | 3:41 pm
Where is this place located. I am from Livonia and I think I know the place you are talking about, but I want to make sure I’m thinking of the right place
Comment by Jojo | 10.9.2006 | 9:36 pm
I think this is the old Eloise. For you real youngins, ask your parents. Back in 1991 went through there with 10 members of my high school football team. We stayed about 1 hour. We left because as we were looking through some files that were left behind, we all started sweating. It was 45 degrees outside. Then we all felt like someone was watching us. Never returned.
Comment by Big T | 10.24.2006 | 9:32 pm
Jojo, I believe Ardmore was located on the east side of Farmington between 7 and 8 Mile.
Big T, Eloise was located on the northeast corner of Michigan Ave and Merriman.
Comment by Gail | 10.27.2006 | 9:55 pm
To just clear up a few things, Ardmore was located around 9 mile in Livonia and it wasn’t related in any way to Eloise or Clinton Valley. In a span of about three months - before the hospital was torn down - I got the chance to visit Ardmore on four differnt occasions. I wasn’t doing anything more than simple searching with some friends of mine, but Ardmore did give off some interesting ‘vibes’.
On my first visit, my friend and I showed up, only to be surprised by another group of ‘visitors’ who knew a bit about the area and how the local cops would drive around the building, every night, around 12 a.m. So, we made our way to the roof and sat up there until we saw a patrol car make it’s rounds and then leave. Afterwards, my friend and I went off on our own and checked out the main hospital and the house that was attached to it. As to how many ‘individual’ floors there were, I’m not sure, I just know that there were different parts of the building set up on different levels.
The second and third times I visited, we found some animal - not sure if it was a beaver, muskrat or whatnot - which had had it’s stomach cut open and the intestines were pulled out and twined around the body. I’m not saying it was supernatural, but a friend of mine who was into witchcraft, said that it could have been a site for Satanic rituals. There was never an odor of decay (except from the dead animal), but there was a strong smell of burned materials where it seemed as if someone had been trying to set the place on fire. We - ourselves - actually spent some time in the gymnasium with a small fire in an old metal garbage can we found. It was interesting to sit and listen to the sounds of the hospital around us.
As for hauntings, I believe that there were energies there that were left over from when the hospital was actually running, but we didn’t have the opportunity to see any apparitions. Beyond the odd sounds here and there and the feeling of ’sadness’, we didn’t have any extraordinary experiences.
Haunted? Yes, I would believe so.
As for Clinton Valley Hospital, you can find the land where the hospital stood in Pontiac on the eastside of Telegraph from the Summit Place Mall. There is a single building left standing, but it was a more modern day children’s hospital. Eloise is another interesting place to visit, but it is heavily patroled by security and access to the ‘now’ office buildings is prohibited.
Comment by Mark | 12.10.2006 | 7:20 pm
i’m not sure if ne one still comes to this site or not, but if ne one knows where the old slaughter house is, out in utica, I’d like to know. I was there once with some friends. They drove so I dont remember exactly where it’s at I just know it’s off of 59E in Utica. And it’s very haunted. Granted, this was like 7yrs ago that I went there. Thanx.
Comment by haunted for life | 02.12.2007 | 1:57 am
By the way, before it was a slaughter house, I was told, it was a phsyciactric ward. Back when “crazy people” were punished.
Comment by haunted for life | 02.12.2007 | 2:01 am
In regards to your inquiry, the Slaughter House in Utica has been torn down.
If you’re interested in other sites of hauntings, feel free to contact me at SweetCujo9@aol.com or http://www.myspace.com/darkenedshadow
Comment by Mark | 02.25.2007 | 12:20 am
Just a question, anyone know where the Striker house is? I was visiting a friend and she told me the house was completely haunted, we never got the chance to visit it, some old man currently lives there, but my friend’s dad lived there when he was a kid, and I guess he would hear lots of violent noises and see things. Apparently it was one of the first hospitals in the area for the wounded or something, Idk, I was just wondering why it wasn’t in here.
Comment by Taylor | 03.17.2007 | 1:45 am
I worked there in the 90’s and it was called Ardmore Acres then. It was on Farmington Road between 7 Mile and 8 Mile roads, (19810 Farmington Rd). I never saw anything happen there, but I only worked there a short time. I was to do bookkeeping, but one night they wanted me to escort a “patient” from one area to another for some kind of treatment, and I refused saying that it wasn’t what I was hired on for, and they still tried to make me do it, so I quit. I can imagine plenty of hauntings possible on the site considering some of the things that went on there.
Comment by Jerry | 08.28.2007 | 11:25 am
Hello Everyone,
I recently mentioned another website that had a large number of pages that lists supposed haunting. I also mentioned that if you emailed me, I’d be glad to share the URL address with whomever was interested. You can email me at sbce3 at excite dot com.
I received an email from a JEFF O’RILEY who requested the site’s address. JEFF…I have tried to email you the information using the email address you gave me, THREE times, and it keeps bouncing back. I just didn’t want you to think that I was ignoring you! I just can’t get the email to you!
Comment by SarieB | 10.17.2007 | 9:05 pm
Before this place was knocked down
i did go here
and very strange things happened to me and my friends.
when we went there, about a week later my friend bobby and brandi both got sick, on the same day
they eventually got better about 2 months(!) later.
on the same day.
and they were the only ones to go in this 1 rooom.
haunted- i would say yes.
Comment by Mari | 10.18.2007 | 1:21 pm
Is the “Ardmore” we are talking about on Farmington and now gone asof a few years ago?
Comment by D.Mari | 10.19.2007 | 6:43 pm
ya hi i was looking up ardmore because i used to pass it all the time and i thought it was a shame that they were tareing it down.. anyways my friends and i went there about 2 or 3 monthes before they tore it down and hung out there for about an hour and there were ghosts hanging out there, there was a little girl who looked like she was about 7 or 8 and an older man who looked like he was in his 40’s.. and you dont have to believe that but thats what we saw… anyways it was a shame that they tore it down cuz it was a beautiful building, i loved the architecture.
Comment by Jessica | 10.24.2007 | 11:37 pm
ya hi its me again jess same as the one above when i was there i took a pic of the upstairs window, which was broken out at the time… anyways i took the pic with my cell phone and there was a man in the window no joke… im searious, and i have 5 or more people that have seen the pic and they say that it is a man, even though there was no one in the building at the time and it was like 2 or 3 in the afternoon.. there was no chance of fowel play… i wish i could post it!
Comment by Jessica | 10.24.2007 | 11:56 pm
Well i was therea bout two years ago with my my friend jess and we were walking around the building and we kept seeing this little girl about 8 or nine in a white dress with a red ball in the parking lot on the left of the building and then about two weeks later we were on my back porch which is like a mile and a half a way she took a picture of me on my steps from my back door and the same little girl we saw was in the picture standing behind me and she was in the same white dress and was holding the same red ball also we had seen a man in the window of the front of the building and had randomly seen shadow people that would run and dissaprear in the windows and openings of the building. And now they built single family homes on top of the property when ardmore sat and i have driven by there a few times and seen shadowy figures walking down the streets between the street light of the sub that was built on top of where it stood
Comment by jeremy | 11.2.2007 | 1:52 pm
Well, of course we all know that Ardmore is gone, and has been since like 2003. People claim that the place was haunted, but really, it was just inhabited by homeless people. Me and my friends used to go in there all the time, and we never heard or felt anything at all. I think it was just a bunch of rumors started by bored teenagers who had spray paint cans. I also knew a couple of people that were REAL investigators, had their own website and everything. They agreed that the place was not haunted. I do miss the place. I think the creepiest part was when you had to walk through the woods to get to the back of the building. Oh, and the smell that people are referring to as “dead bodies,” was really just mold, and the smell of a really old building.
People used to talk about there being tunnels in that place. They were never found, and couldn’t be located on the blueprints either. Plus, the place wasn’t big enough to have tunnels in the first place.
Comment by Kelly Peters | 11.18.2007 | 6:50 pm
I live right by there and the building was really creepy to look at but my dad grow up in the neighborhood right by it and was in it all the time. he said that nothing bad happend in there, just teenagers making stories out of it. But he did agree it was really dark and there are some werid things inside. And just to clear it up MARK Ardmore is on farmington road inbetween 7 and 8 mile road in LIVONIA..
Comment by Alicia | 02.22.2008 | 2:02 pm
Thanks Alicia. Sorry that I was off by a mile or so; my apologies.
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Mark A. France
Michigan Paranormal Research Society
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