Hell House
This facility was once home to a college for girls. The nuns, however, began dabbling in Satanism and one by one, the girls were murdered. Inside the building, chilling screams are heard. At the top of the large staircase, there is an enormous cold spot.
Hell house was not a school for girls, it was a catholic school for boys entering priesthood. Please get your facts straight. Patapsco Female institute located near hell houe (St. Mary’s college in Ilchester MD) is the girls school you’re talking about located in Ellicott city. HellHouse is owned by Patapsaco State park and was never ever in any way shape or form a school for girls.
Comment by Ally | 09.17.2005 | 3:45 pm
Hell house was a girls school I live right down the street from it me and my friends go there all the time and there iare no ghost and nothing scary . the patapsco girl institute is very haunted its located on church road . It is haunted by a ghost named Annie and one night me and my friends went up there and turned the car off and called here name and someone screamed we turned on the car and left we are to freaked out to go back.
Comment by Dawn | 09.22.2005 | 2:19 am
Legends (urban and otherwise) are fun and and even creepy, but most often they have little basis in reality. “Hell House’ aka St. Mary’s College in Ilchester Maryland (about 1/2 mile from my house), was, in fact, a seminary for boys run by a Catholic sect known as the Redemptorists. The seminary closed in the 1970’s due to dwindling enrollment, but not because of death, disease, satanic cults or other wild legends. There have been a couple of fires (likely vandalism) that have left the main buildings in ruins. From what I understand, the spookiest thing about the place (other than it’s seemingly remote location) is the caretaker who apparently had a knack for nasty encounters with trespassers. Don’t know if he’s still there, but I drive past the place everyday on my way home from work. It does look kind of lonely and spooky sitting up on that hill overlooking the old Simkins Industries factory which also burned down a couple of years ago. It’s hard to see through all the trees in the summertime, but come Fall the remnants of the main building can be clearly seen from River Road. But, alas, the stories about former pupils and residence dying from horrid living conditions or at the hands of whacked-out nuns are just that…stories.
Comment by Rich | 09.29.2005 | 9:04 pm
I was one of those “trespassers” one night. You ain’t lying. That care taker is crazy, and creepy! I was taken there against my will, I knew about him, and didn’t want to piss him off, but my boyfriend, and the kids in the car behind us wanted to see what the big deal was about this house. Well, this guy don’t take kindly to people who are trespassing on that property. He happened to be coming home in his flatbed pickup truck the same time we were parking. He blocked me and my friends in so we couldn’t get out!. As some of you may’ve seen, there are containers that sit just before the property line, and he blocked us in a little behind those containers. The car that was behind us was able to back up just enough to let the car I was in, out. Somehow, I still don’t know who did it, someone picked up a brick and threw it at this mans windshield. I don’t know if it caused any damage, but I imagine it did. Later that night when we all got back to my boyfriends house, he checked the messages on his answering machine. There was a message that said “Hey Hoss, I’m comin’ to see ya” and hung up. It was at the same time we happened to encounter this man. I don’t know how he got his number, but we’re sure as **** it was him. I can still remember his voice. We never heard from him again, but this is a true story! Not made up by any means.
Comment by Nikki | 09.30.2005 | 12:40 pm
Like Rich said, Hell house is a peaceful quite place. My friends and I have actually climbed up the building but I don’t suggest it because its really dangerous. I’ve never seen the caretaker, and I’ve been up there 10 times so far. Hell house is usually crowded with families during the day, and up to no good teenagers at night. I really hate how at night, teenagers and drunks go up there to drink, smoke weed, and vandalize the property. Hell house is littered with broken glass, beer cans, and graffiti. I wish fewer people knew about it, and I wish it was farther back in the woods. The beauty of the place is remarkable. Its like an adventure book when your a little kid…enchanted kingdoms appearing out of nowhere from the evergreen forest. As you climb higher onto the hill, you will reach the chapel. Again, sadly, it has graffiti all over it…but its magnificence is still there..as if it lingers still in brilliance as the forest swallows it whole. Everytime I visit Hell House, I take whatever trash I can find with me so I can at least try to restore its beauty. I pray you do the same.
Comment by Dan | 10.2.2005 | 8:59 pm
Dan, Nikki, Rich, Dawn, and Ally,
I’ve some strange stoires about that place myself, but the caretaker thing is real. I saw that same pick-up truck driving around with a broken window. It was true the place was not a “girls only” school and there was no evil nuns. But the satanism thing is true there are colts all over that place it’s a shame to see so many teens getting drunk and having sex. That may sound weird, but I was one of those kids. I still to this day wish that I never of brought my girlfriend to that place……. To many bad memories. If any of you guys think Im lie’in that e-mail me at yogurt_the_dog@yahoo.com
Thanks for your time
Comment by Jake | 10.4.2005 | 8:27 pm
i know for a fact that hell house was a girls school because my friend went their i dont belive any of the rumors i just belive it stopped doing business. yes it has very creepy surroundings but if you look past that it can be a great adventure.i do know that a man murderd some girls but i belive that happend after they shut down.
Comment by rachael | 10.6.2005 | 12:32 am
i seen that creepy caretaker and his beatup truck at a gas station. i heard from the stories, he was a creepy guy and an ******* at that so i starred at him on purpose. he didnt like it. i snickered at him and got in my car. about a 1/4 mile down the road, i met up with him at a stoplight and i was like oh ****.
Comment by dan 134 | 10.6.2005 | 7:25 am
for the last time hell house is not a girls school. It was a school for catholic boys who wanted to become priests. I know I live near it too. If you don’t believe me google (hell house St. mary’s college) And to anyone who said their friends or whoever went there your lying. it closed down in 1972. And was recently sold to Patapsaco State Park.
Comment by Ally | 10.8.2005 | 4:33 pm
I saw a ghost there last night on 10/7/2005 it looked like a littlekid holding a teddy bear she was just staring at me. soon after that a ghost of a dog apeared and it ran over to me and started licking my toes I was so scared I ran so fast I fell down the hill and got knocked out as soon as I woke up the creepy care taker was standing above me with a chain saw about to cut me in half once again I jumped up ran back up the hill and the “dog” as there he started to bark at the care taker and the care taker backed of turned off the chain saw . ever since that day I have gone up all the time to see the ghost dog that saved my life every time I go up there me and the ghost are best friends and he licks my toes at will all the time
Comment by andy | 10.8.2005 | 5:46 pm
Okay Andy, your story sounds like BS. Because 1. The caretaker is dead and 2. You said you were up there a lot of time and you posted on 10/7 and it’s only 10/11. For one you sound like you’re in highschool, when do you have time to go to hell house?
Anyway heres the only website I’ve found that seems to have info that’s backed up by different sources.
http://ann.stubbornlights.org/stmarys/
Comment by Missy | 10.11.2005 | 2:25 am
you guys can fight for whats right all i know is that is sacry and if you have any thing to say e-mail me alonzo_hilaria@yahoo.com
love always
Hilaria Alonzo
Comment by Hilaria | 10.11.2005 | 12:33 pm
I can tell you from first hand that the caretaker is mean as anything. The stories of the dogs is very true. I use to go up there all the time when I lived in the area it was a place that me and a couple of friends went to every weekend trying to get inside to see how much was true. I haven’t been there for years. I have been away from the area for 10 years. A friend of mine was talking about it at work and she is the one that told me about the fire. Is any of it still standing or did they complete tear it down. I was just wondering because I would love to go there again.
Comment by tracy | 10.11.2005 | 8:24 pm
From what I’ve seen on the internet and recent pictures of the place it looks like a bunch of brick walls. The stair cases are still there on either side of the school, but I don’t think there’s any steps actually in the casing. You can google search for pics of this place, and you might run across some peoples websites who have went up there after the fire and took pics, and posted them.
Also, how long ago did this care taker die? Cuz he was sure alive and thriving when I was going up there back in 2001-2002. And because a couple of you said that you’ve seen him around. Haha, I can see it now. Now, there’s going to be a big urbend myth started that HE now haunts hell house. Wouldn’t that just be peachy? =) Happy Halloween folks
Comment by Nikki...again | 10.11.2005 | 9:06 pm
I haven’t been able to find anything after 2003, one posting said that they were suppose to finish demolishing the buildings, but if they are still privatley owned how could they. It is such a shame if it was vandilism that burnt the place down. But like the newspapers say that can’t say for sure how it started. Also just like w/ the 5 women that were killed, part of the story was not available to read. People don’t want to beleive things they can’t explain. Also I was thinking if they bought it on the intent to have it re open for the church, then maybe they should have give tours or something to get the money for that person to write for the grants. That is one of the reasons that I think most of the stories are true. When I use to go down there it was weird how you would make a loop around the ellicotte city and then come around again and then all of a sudden you had cars following you that come out of nowhere. if anyone finds anything new out please email me at stargazerstwo@aim.com. Thank you
Comment by tracy | 10.12.2005 | 1:09 am
I was just there tonight. I have heard about it for years but had never visited. Some friends of mine called me tonight and wanted to go out and get “spooked”. We decided to go to Ellicott City, first we went to The Patapsco girls college (Creepy College) said to be haunted by a girl named “annie”. We scaled the fence and looked around but it was very bright out due to the big moon, so it wasn’t at all spooky. Nothing was there, no cold spots or anything. When we were leaving we came across some teenagers that were there for the same reason and they told us exactly where Hell House was. We trotted back to the truck and went to Hell House. We parked under the train bridge and walked up the path to the tracks and looked around a bit. You could barely see the buildings through the tree’s (we were there around 10:30 pm) and we never did find the stairs to go up to the buildings, nore did we encounter any caretakers, dogs, ghosts or anything. I not saying that they aren’t there but we didn’t see anything. We plan to go back in the daytime so we can find out how to get up to the buildings and then go back again at night. Since we didn’t find anything overly “spooky” we left and went to Fort Armstead on the way home. There we got “spooked!!”
Comment by Brian | 10.15.2005 | 1:20 am
The care takecare is gone I think he died. From what I have been told he hasn’t been there since that last fire the burned most of the building down hollween night in “98″. If you parked under the rail road track the stairs are right there. When I use to go there, there had usually been a couple of 18 weelers trailers parked there. Depending on where u parked the car or truck you would have kept walking away from that littl factory there. But like I had said I haven’t been able to go out there since before the fire since I had my son and that is not somewhere that I would ever take him. SInce most of the main building is burned there is nowhere for the care taker to stay at. And the dogs had free run of the place so before it burned if you would have made it in you would have been attacked by them. If u have any ? you can email me at stargazerstwo@aim.com that is also my aim screen name. I am making a trip down next week
Comment by again tracy said | 10.15.2005 | 1:49 am
I was there yesterday. I walked up the old road off of Bonnie Branch. I saw no one and nothing up there except a beautifully creepy old catholic school. It is barely holding on, it looks as if it may fall at any second. The stairs leading up are still there, just to the left of the tracks as you’re looking away from the bridge.
After I finished there I felt like I was reenacting the trestle scene from Stand By Me by crossing the railroad bridge.
No ghosts but it was still nice to walk around up there and see it all.
Comment by J | 11.7.2005 | 11:03 am
Why do they call it hell house??
Comment by Lauren | 11.10.2005 | 12:39 pm
They called it Hell House because before the last fire the destoried it. The old caretaker at dogs that were mean as heck. And there was alot of unexplained things that were going on up there and w/ all the catcacomes there people thought that there was santic worshipers that stayed there. I was just there Nov 6, and alot of things are over grown and there are some tunnels that I wanted to explore but it was just me and another girl that went and we felt that if we went into the tunnels and if anything fell to block the enterance that we would be strong enough to move it. We didn’t get to finish looking around cuz like I said it was just the 2 of us. We are going to be going back up again. I’m not sure if there are ghost but there is something very strange feeling. It was really weird cuz when we were there I know for a fact that there is a pool and a changing room but for the life of me I couldn’t find where it was. If you want to know anything else my email add is in the other one that I worte and I would be happy to answer any of the questions that you may have.
Comment by again tracy | 11.11.2005 | 7:58 pm
Yeah ummm when did you people used to go to Hell House? I mean before the fire. Has anyone ever been inside? if so what did it look like? did you guys see the mysterious hole in the ground? my friends went in there. the ladder is amost gone, so be be careful. they said that it went down another 3 stories. pretty odd to find a hole in the ground with rooms in it. they also said they found needles. I just wanna find out how it looked in the 80’s - early 90’s. Julie980@aol.com. email me if you have any info.
julie
Comment by Julie | 12.2.2005 | 1:45 pm
I’m tired of trying to debunk myths about Hell House, so I’m not even going to get into that.
This site is legit…so if you want to know the truth about the Redemptorists go here: http://ann.stubbornlights.org/stmarys/#articles
There was a caretaker but he is currently in jail for shooting a trespasser.
http://ann.stubbornlights.org/stmarys/caretaker.html
Vandals started the fire. I’m not a believer when it comes to ghosts and all that such…so going up to Hell House isn’t scary at all for me. Its more fun seeing ruins from the 1800s.
I’ve pretty much seen it all, however, I still could not find 4 structures…1) the well 2) the tower 3) pool 4) the bath house. The well is apparently hidden off in the woods. The tower’s location is hidden by shrubbery but can be seen if your driving on River road if you look closely enough around the bends. In order to reach the Tower (its not very tall but it has an inside b/c you can see railings leading down into a possible doorway), you must either scale the cliff face around the bend of the road going up to where the road is being repaired for sinking into the Potomac river, or you must head northwest from the top of the stairwell (huge stairs) through the shrubbery.
I don’t know whether the pool is near that water tower on the top of the hill or that basin was just something else. The bath house is still a mystery, its supposedly near the pool, but I haven’t found it either.
This winter break from college coming up (after Dec 23rd), my friends and I are going to sweep the grounds looking for these hidden areas that are not apparent from the pathways.
I must warn all would be explorers that the tunnels in the basement are dangerous. My friends and I entered with rope and extreme caution ;)…I suggest you do the same.
If you wish to join my party of adventurers, you can email me at malebust@yahoo.com
I’ll only take sane individuals along i.e. no people who believe in haunted hocus pocus. LOL
Comment by Dan (from Oct 2nd) | 12.10.2005 | 3:45 pm
Out of my book called “Werid US,” it says that a guy named George Ellicott Jr. was planning to make it a “tavern.” But since the B&O Railroad was there, he had no need for it. So he sold it to the “Redemptorists.” They held the first mess on Auguest 28, 1866, then four years later they closed down St. Mary’s College.
Now God only knows what the school was once was. I’m not sure about the “girls.” But people say you can hear girls screaming coming from the ruined building. ^^; Of course we all know it’s “haunted” by the people who were killed there. =P
Comment by Ashley | 12.27.2005 | 2:21 pm
yeah I think ghosts are real becouse i am one
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Comment by dan | 01.8.2006 | 7:40 am
I find the plac pretty cool cause’ i’m a big history guy…. I live over in the Brooklyn Parkarea so i don’t get to visit Hell House often. Being so damn close to the city I appreciate that area alot… I’t’s a real pretty area that I hope never really changes….. Anyways, my dad went up to that place one time with my brother and sister. So, they were racing up the hill and my dad beat them both…. He told me when he got up there that there were two guys that con fronted him strapped with guns. Basiclly they told him not to ask questions but to turn around and go back down the hil…. My dad told me that, so whether it’s true or not I dont know, my pops never turns down a fight and thats the only one he supposedly turned down. To that dude Dan, it’s cool of you to try and keep that place uh…”tidy” as i’ll call it.LOL!!! Brother i’d help you if i could get over there!
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Comment by Mike | 01.16.2006 | 8:45 am
all this **** is full of shite and its not even scary either its just for scaring kids and it dosent work. its just trying to make kids not being able to go to sleep at nights but if its was my kid i would just have to start murder.
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Comment by Not Dan | 01.28.2006 | 1:18 am
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Comment by allen | 01.29.2006 | 7:36 pm
I see dead people they are all around me
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Comment by Marie | 02.2.2006 | 11:06 am
thats actually not true i am currently working on a documentary about hell house aka st marys college it was never an all girls school it was a seminary. however i have been there several times myself and do believe the place to be very much haunted thus sparking my interest in making a documentary about it.
Comment by chrissy | 02.4.2006 | 12:35 pm
When I went up there the last time I didn’t see any ghost. But somethings that were strange was I had been there before the fire and I know for a fact there was a pool and a pool house but when I was just up there I couldn’t find it. The reason people thought it was haunted is because when the caretaker stayed there and those “lovely dogs” he use to chase people off the property w/ a shot gun. I don’t remeber ever seeing ghost, but alot of STRANGE things did go on there. IF you want to know more you can email me at stargazerstwo@aim.com
Comment by tracy | 02.5.2006 | 12:42 am
I am really apalled by how many of these comments by people I take as being educated….ie. upper classmen high school or perhaps not in school..can not spell.Yes, there are such things as ghosts,etc..but one has to understand there are certain conditions to encounter them..or they you..and most of the time they don’t even care that you are there, they just appear. Now of course there are such things as personal ghosts. Those that are familiar to you, such as a friend or relative that will appear to you whenever they want to……Good hunting…Evie
Comment by evelyn | 02.5.2006 | 1:45 pm
My Stepdad said that it was a priest type place. You would think the Olde Ellicott City would have records of the place. x.X Just my thoughts.
Comment by Ashley | 02.11.2006 | 6:56 pm
my friend can see dead people and she is in a wheel chair and the ghosts push her off her chair when she is not looking
Comment by becca | 02.14.2006 | 11:13 am
even though the school was a scool for boys me and my friends always talk about it!and now i really want to go and im going!i love places like this!
Comment by brittany | 02.15.2006 | 9:02 pm
I love scary places … just not being alone in them!
Comment by alissa | 02.19.2006 | 9:23 pm
yopu guys are all fooled. this place wasn’t a school for boys or girls. it’s where they made porn!! idiots. my dad works there…
Comment by jacob hawts | 03.1.2006 | 2:26 pm
Sadly, what remained of St. Mary’s College a.k.a “Hell House,” was bulldozed on Feb. 13, 2006. I visited a month prior to the demolition and I found the place to be very peaceful. For over a hundred years it was a site for prayer and meditation-which I attributed to be the cause of the peaceful feeling I experienced while there. I made a return visit-this one at night, without the aid of flashlights-I wasn’t scared at all, but I did get a feeling of sadness though. Although I am a firm believer of the supernatural, I do not think “Hell House” has many real ghosts/spirits. I think the people who have built the tall tales of Hell House have created their own tulpas.
Comment by Tiffany | 03.14.2006 | 1:02 pm
me and my boys parked are cars it was about 10:00 at night we walk up 70 steps and than we hard dogs broking at use but we did not see them we get up to it and than we see the dog they are runing at use. they cant hurt you we went down in the basment and got cold fast we turn on are flash light and look on the floor there was a lot of bones we came out of the basment and walked back to the pool we all was back to the pool sat there for like 10 mins and than we hard screming from the water tower we runed back to are cars a fluw up the street
Comment by bradey | 03.14.2006 | 7:24 pm
All I can say is that I have only been there once, I am from Westminster, I was smoking alot of weed back then and was pretty nice while I was there, I just remember the stone steps and walking and all of a sudden seeing the building appear over the trees and I was in awe of the fact that such a place still exsisted in todays world. We walked around and didnt see anyone but I did see and hear dobermans inside. I was looking in a window and couldnt really see much and I heard this ticking sound and all of a sudden the glass shook and this doberman was barking in my face. I ran from there but that is not saying much because I am real sensitive to ghosts and things like that.
Comment by jason | 03.18.2006 | 12:48 am
just would like to add to my earlier statements and say that this was back in 1998 that I was there so everything could have changed by now. I hope not, I was very impressed by the place, haunted or not.
Comment by jason | 03.18.2006 | 12:52 am
after reading about the fire in 97 and reworking my own, somewhat clouded, mempories, I know that it was most likely ‘96 or early ‘97 that I was there because everything was still intact, no fire yet.
Comment by jason | 03.18.2006 | 12:56 am
damn!!make up yo’ fawken mind pplz!! so fawken dumb! first u say its hell house for gurlz and then u say its foe boyz…damn pplz….
Comment by babee_s0_fabulous | 03.18.2006 | 9:48 am
I am a traveling Shih Tzu,very hot and fluffy. I have never been to this place but if I did I would say “”AAAHHHHWWWWOOOOOO”.aNYONE WHO LOVES ME SHOULD ADOPT A DOG CAUSE I WILL NEVER DESTROY ANYTHING OR HUMP YOU!!!
Comment by mr.boswell | 03.19.2006 | 1:20 pm
Is the building really gone? This sucks if it is. I thought of something. How can be gone if they can’t the machiney up there. I calling that group to protect it. ;_;
Comment by Ashley | 03.19.2006 | 4:35 pm
My friends and i have been up to Hell house at night. We did see the priest with the bloody hands and he chased us into the actual ruins. There we saw five more figures in white nightgowns roaming around and screaming. One even came towards us with her hands outstretched as if she were enlisting our help. But, then her eyes darted toward where we had come from and there was the priest staring at her. She suddenly vanished, same with the other figures. The priest stood there a few minutes longer. It was then the i realized that my friends were no longer there. I ran back down the hill and there was no car. i cannot explain the sheer terror that filled my entire being. Eventually i called my parents and they came to pick me up. I never saw my friends again…
Comment by sarah | 04.4.2006 | 5:28 pm
Sarah,
I had the exact same experience…i might know what happened to your friends…what kind of car was it?
Comment by Mike | 04.4.2006 | 5:30 pm
A blue chevy impala
Comment by Sarah | 04.4.2006 | 5:30 pm
I saw that same car when i went up there. It had been partial burned and wrecked. My friends and i saw a group of normal teenagers walking up the hill and decided to join them…we thought we would be safer. But once we had caught up they were suddenly gone. We were at the top and saw the same priest. He chased us in the building like you said and the same thing happened to us. Only we ran out before the girl reached us….im so sorry about your friends
Comment by Mike | 04.4.2006 | 5:34 pm
i have heard all the stories about Hell House but the problem is i have never been there so i dont know which one to beleive so i want to go up there does any one have any advice for me and my friends if possible any one willing to give a tour of the place you can reach me though email that is ambie2cite1987@aol.com thank you very much
Comment by Amber | 04.7.2006 | 2:32 pm
i missed spelled me e mail it really is ambie2cute1987@aol.com sorry
Comment by Amber | 04.7.2006 | 2:36 pm
I have been up to Hell House many times. I’ve been to the pool, bath house,and the well. I have also been to the gazebo and noticed that no one on here mentioned it. It’s really cool, it has steps that lead up to it and iside in the middle of it there’s a huge cross. It’s amazing! I saw some people talking about a tower, I’ve never seen it, I would love to find it. I also saw someone say what was left of Hell House was demolished recently…I hope that’s not true, I really love the place. I really feel it’s haunted, it’s just a certain vibe you feel when you’re up there.
Comment by Kelly | 04.7.2006 | 3:55 pm
I think your all on crack (the people who were saying things about the people and all that) but what do i know. i think the stories aree made up.
Comment by kamei | 04.12.2006 | 4:44 pm
crackyheads!!
Comment by kamei | 04.12.2006 | 4:45 pm
i think that any one would know for sure is psychic slyvia browne
Comment by brandy thompson | 04.27.2006 | 9:58 am
It’s gone. The rumors of it being destoryed are TRUE! Mount Saint Mary’s College is GONE! It is no more now.
Comment by Ashley | 05.8.2006 | 6:48 pm
omg nah ah hell house is really GONE!!! is there anything left cuz theres still the underground tunnels and wut about the stuff all the way back i no they didnt desrtoy all that did they
Comment by shelby | 05.30.2006 | 12:49 am
hi,
I was just at hell house on 7/22/06 and the main biulding was knocked down but if you continue up the path and make a right after where the main biulding was the black cross is still there, also on the main road to the main biulding right where the main biulding was the path splits and one road goes staght and one goes to the right, if u look to your left u will see a large flat area and if u walk over to the edge of what looks like a cliff and lay down u can see windows of what i beleave to be the vary bottom two levels and u can walk down next to the wall on the right side and climd throw the windows and get in what looks to me like some cind of torcher chamber. If any one knows anything else about these rooms please e-mail me at stoney5212@adelphia.com, i really want to know what these rooms are. thanks
Comment by dj | 07.24.2006 | 9:17 pm
I’m Belgian but I’m in vacation here in Maryland with some friends, I’m going try this out tonight
Comment by Nate | 07.25.2006 | 6:50 pm
I wanted to go that place, but it isn’t on the map and civillians won’t have anything with that place. So I recognized that flat area but we were all to scared to stand on it by all this stories. What they gonna build on that flat area ?
Comment by Nate | 07.26.2006 | 6:36 am
I LIKE IT UP THE BUTT!!
Comment by sarah trees | 08.2.2006 | 11:04 pm
Well, I dont know about the caretaker, ive heard and even had one of my friends land in a pile of german shepperd s*it. I’ve been there a million times. I’ve been to the pool house too, its like a half a mile away from the school and through some woods. Oh my god, my first (AND ONLY) time at the pool house was something i’ll never forget. It was around 9 still light out like 2 years ago…it was just starting to get dark and we were all over that place, i get paranoid when we looked at the black water in the pool thinking so many different things. I look over to the pool house to my right, i swear i saw something there, a little black object against the dirty white wall…told my friends and it was gone, they also have a water tower up there ALL THE WAY in the woods me and my friends heard people running around us…and i will never go by the black cross again!
Comment by Ashley | 08.8.2006 | 1:25 pm
what is the address of all these places? st. mary’s college and the all girls school on church road?
Comment by Jenn | 08.9.2006 | 1:23 pm
I was in a car accident on 7 hills near the hell house and will never return there again. they have since torn down the college && that would be the only real reason to go up there. i went one night with 3 friends and met up with some people we did not know…. while walking up to the college we heard a little girl screams from the stream below, there was no way any of us could have done this because we were all together in a tite nit group. and we have also been to the womans asylum there && have heard cars behind us when we turned there were no cars there. so that is all i have to share at this time….. until the next time i have a “spook”. happy hunting
Comment by Courtney | 08.13.2006 | 10:06 pm
k so wat story iz true
Comment by angel | 08.15.2006 | 2:02 pm
Ok; first of all…Right next to “Hell House” it says located in howard county. NOT ST. MARYS! I am sure there is one there as well considering hell house is a pretty easy name to come up with for a spooky house…but this Hell House is in Howard COunty, not to mention, it’s definately not haunted. There is a guy that would sit outside. He himself had a dog. And he also carried a shot gun around. Before you ever found a ghost, you would find an old man shooting at you, if he’s even close enough for you to see behind all the bricks and trees. I rather deal with real ghosts and get the sh*t scared out of me that run from a real life person with a gun. Count me out.
Comment by Kayla | 08.23.2006 | 1:21 am
It was a religious boy’s school. It’s just a big pile of bricks now. If you do go, please don’t leave any more trash. There are too many beer cans there already. There is no parking on the Howard County side of the river but there is legal parking just over the Patapsco River bridge on the Baltimore County side. It is a very short walk back to the long steps. Since it is private property with No Trespassing signs, does anyone know if the police actually arrest you or do they just chase you away?
Comment by Carter | 08.29.2006 | 10:58 am
I have been 2 hell House many of times and the caretaker is dead the only thing u have 2 worry about is other people the night to go up there is Oct 30 im telling you, you will never think about ghost the same
Comment by Charles | 08.30.2006 | 12:13 am
Check out the tunnel underneath the main buildin me and my friends have heard kids telling us to leaveand screaming
Comment by Charles | 08.30.2006 | 12:18 am
I went to Hell House with a few friends back in the late 80’s, we weren’t there long enough to find any spooks before the caretaker(hillbilly) and his friend and dogs found us. We all hauled *** out of there and went down the hill to our cars under the train bridge, he came down the drive way in his truck and he chased us into Baltimore county and cut us off at Rt 144, we had two cars, my friends in one and just me in the other, my friends managed to get around his truck and out onto 144 which is a pretty well traveled road. Another car with some kids our age(17-19) got between me and my friends and they had no idea what was going on. The hillbilly caretaker had a tire iron or something and was walking toward them down the road, the driver of the other car had his window open and was asking the guy what the problem was, the hillbilly was just yelling “I’m gonna kill you”, of course the guy flipped out as the hillbilly got closer and slammed his car in reverse and backed right into me crushing my fender. Needless to say neither him or I ever got out to discuss it, we both hauled *** the opposite direction. I backed my car around a curve and over on the shoulder to keep out of direct site of oncoming traffic, when the hillbilly came around the corner I punched it and blew by him. I made it out to Rt144 and found my friends waiting for me. I’ve never been back since. About a month ago i decided to drive down River Rd to Ilchester for the first time since, but I didn’t stop. I don’t know what happened to the people in the other car. I don’t think I’d ever been so scared in my life.
Comment by 2B_RAD | 09.8.2006 | 3:31 pm
Also if you walk across the train bridge and through the train tunnel(I think they only use one track and it is two tracks wide) there is a path(used to be) to the right that goes to an old dam in the river, there was an open door on the side, and inside the dam you can see the water flowing over top of you through cutouts on the lower side. There are satanic insignias, pentagrams and such painted on the walls. I went there in the daytime but wouldn’t recommend it at night. Its scary enough walking through the train tunnel wondering if you’re on the right track.
Comment by 2B_RAD | 09.8.2006 | 3:40 pm
Here’s my conclusion: many people are scared to go that place (even we were scared but we did it) so people come paranoid by this stories and maybe that’s the reason that we were gone after a minute.. JUST FROM FEAR but if I have enough money to go back to Maryland I will check this place out alone cause my friends wanted back to the hotel. I want more information about that place, some of this stories I don’t believe about that blue Chevy Impala and stuff
Comment by Nate | 09.10.2006 | 6:23 am
Seriously, this place is not haunted. In high school we all used to go there to drink and hang out. And the cops come alot. Its creepy enough just walking through Patapsco State Park and checking out those building (the blair witch project was made in Patapsco State Park). But dont waste your time on Hell House. Watch out driving on the road there too…”7 hills” as its called, is a popular place for teenagers to speed through and try to get some air
Comment by Sean | 09.10.2006 | 10:33 pm
OMGoodness that is soooooooooooooooooooooooo scary !!!!! AHH something has me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Help!!! i go to school there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bacca
Comment by Becca | 09.17.2006 | 6:08 pm
I never been to this place before but i know is haunted i read all your comments..i did little research about the place and this is some kind a catholic priest school for boys..not for girls. but if i do past by..i’ll ask my cousin to come with me,i think she could communicate with sprits. shes kind of diffrent
Comment by shirley | 09.23.2006 | 1:03 pm
http://www.lostdestinations.com/hellhous.htm go there
Comment by shirley | 09.23.2006 | 1:05 pm
*V I S I T O R C O M M E N TS
I received this interesting email about the urban legends and stories surrounding Hell House from another visitor… thanks Lady Frosta…
“Merry Meet, My name is Lady Frosta and I live in Baltimore, Maryland. Hell House as you call it was one of my favorite places and still is because of the lore. I would like to share what I know about it, if I may. Us locals refer to it as Creepy College. St. Mary’s College was a school for high society debutantes at the height of the period, it was built as a charm school for Southern girls. When the original owner built it, he was forwarned about the land being drenched in blood. From the civil war. The owner wanted nothing to do with it and waved the warning away. He wanted to build the school for his new bride who was a school teacher. The years quickly passed with out incident and the man and his wife furnished with love a beautiful daughter, named Agatha, also today known as Black Aggie. As Aggie grew with in the school, she was the owners prized possession and with her charm and poise at an early age the wealthy Southerners threw money at the owner to make their daughters as diplomatic. Aggie grew to be a beautiful young woman and at the age of 16, she was about to have her coming out. It was around this time she started to hear voices of malice and malevolence and was startled by what they were saying to her. The owner and his wife were distraught and called the local doctor for fear that she was not sound or had come down with dimensia. The doctor gave her a clean bill of health. But the voices didn’t stop. The night of the party had finally arrived and the owner’s wife went to help Aggie get ready. She was said to have screamed so loud that the local quarry had stopped work. The owner quickly ran up the stairs to Aggie’s room only to find that his only daughter was dead. A vanity mirror had crushed her skull. Months dragged on the school was closed and resumed as soon as the owner felt his wife was able to teach again. The owner’s wife was said to roam the halls in her sleep looking for her daughter Aggie. The owner was worried and again called for the local doctor. He said that she was suffering from depression and that it would pass as soon as she would stop grieving. The rumors from the girl students were saying that they saw Aggie’s ghost. Some were that when the owner’s wife was sleep walking they could see Aggie’s silhouette walking beside her. The father’s of the girl students quickly pulled their daughters and funding. The owner was starting to panic. One night when he noticed his wife wasn’t in bed he searched for her. He finally found her in the bell tower, she had hung herself from the rope used to ring the bell. The locals stated that she couldn’t had done it herself she needed help. He closed the doors to the school and died shortly of tuberculoses, in his will it was said that he wanted to repent for his sins of not adhering to the warning he was given so many years ago, so he left it to a convent. The convent/seminary was said to have blessed the place thoroughly. Years passed and the Cardinal of the convent/seminary was said to have had lustful desires. He repented, confessed his fantasies, until he was said to have given into them. He molested 5 nuns. This went on for about a decade and his desires had grown more and more erotic and abundant. He too gave into them. One of the molested nuns came forth and confronted the archbishop. The archbishop barred the cardinal, but not with out words. Something like I will be back, no one is safe in this building. God will forsake you all. Something to that effect was said. On halloween night at midnight, it is said that screams were heard through out the building. The nuns and priests came startled out of their beds to find the five molested nuns were hung above an inverted pentagram. A nun for each point. This legend, has made it so that the local satanist are said to occupy the grounds and have their ceremonies there. By satanist, I mean anti-christian, the reverse of the bible, not Luciferians, or those who believe in the self. It was after the nuns were killed a man hunt for the barred cardinal was launched. He was never found. It is said that his soul even now doesn’t rest, but resides with the grounds. He traded his soul to torment those who opposed him. It is said that someone is murdered on Halloween night each year there. Some say the ghost of the cardinal or by the satanists. The bridge is called “Cry Baby Bridge” it is said that infant sacrifices were made there and the bodies were buried in shallow graves either in the cemetary or with in the woods themselves. At midnight you can hear the infant ghost cries, then shortly after you can hear a ghost train, although neither are there. Orbs and spiritual remnants are often sighted there. I have been to the college, and I was in all. I had goose bumps and the hair on my neck stood on end. In the woods farther back there is a swimming pool. There it looks like time stood still. Water still is in the pool, even though it is algae covered. A new diving board is still completely in tact. The brass railings may have ivy grown over them, but the brass itself is not weathered or has a batina finish to it, rather it looks as if it has been recently polished. The most amazing thing are the angel statues. It is said that if you sleep under them them will crush you in your sleep. Also there is a granite cross there, but it is odd be cause it is completely black. Which is unusual for a Catholic facility to have it. Some say that it was spray painted or weathered, I have seen it for my own eyes, it is just black. I hope this helps. Brightest Blessings, Lady Frosta”
…an interesting tale, however, our visitor Thomas- who is responsible for shooting the fantastic pix you see here on this page, and in addition has done a lot of research into the place’s history- offers the following clarifications about the somewhat confusing and unclear stories surrounding Hell House… thanks so much for sharing this with us, Thomas…
“Here are some corrections: (1)Hellhouse itself was never a debutantes school. She is confusing it with Potapsco Institute for Girls located near Hellhouse and often confused with it (2) I have never seen a pool nor have I read any other account of there being one. (3)There are no angel statues at hellhouse.If they had managed to survive looters and vandals all these years, believe me I would have taken photos.(4)Cry baby bridge is in another county. There is a bridge nearby, but its not the famous “Cry baby bridge” (5)Black aggie was a statue in another town. Its no longer there. The nuns story is pretty spooky and actually is associated with hell house, although in the version I heard its was five teen girls who were killed. Few take the story seriously, though. I never heard any story of everything happening on Halloween, or people being murdered there every Halloween.”
^the story is in a website http://www.lost…... i gave you the website already..am sorry is long
Comment by shirley | 09.23.2006 | 1:08 pm
there are 2 diffrent types of research…boy ..or girls school
Comment by shirley | 09.23.2006 | 1:11 pm
I know i know talk alot blahblah….here are some pictures how the place looks like. http://www.lostdestinations.com/hellhous/inside2.jpg
http://www.lostdestinations.com/hellhous/thewoods.jpg
http://www.lostdestinations.com/hellhous/front3.jpg
http://www.lostdestinations.com/hellhous/front4.jpg
http://www.lostdestinations.com/hellhous/stairs2.jpg
http://www.urbanatrophy.com/locations/07/loc07.html
^ that website says is for boys..and more stuff
Comment by shirley | 09.23.2006 | 1:16 pm
I just have a few questions. I go here a lot but i am now trying to find all the ‘hidden’ stuff. I heard there was a graveyard and does anyone know where it is. I know where the pool is but where is the bathhouse? And where is the well. I also found the black cross which was actually not far from the pool. Also i found on the side of the path many rocks which once seemed like ways inside the underground. Does anyone know is there is a way through to get to the so called ‘underground chambers’ Also if there is anything i missed can you please inform me about it. And what exactly is on the other side of the bridge?
Comment by andrew | 09.24.2006 | 3:14 pm
Black aggies statue is in a park on fredrick ave in baltimore city i live two doors down from it.want to go? ok go down wilkins ave to brunswick ave go allthe way down its a very short road stop at the stop sign and there u will see the very small park. the statue is right in front. trust me…go there and check it out
Comment by babygirl | 09.28.2006 | 11:22 am
Folks, sorry to tell you this but Hell House was demolished. It think it was last year. Sorry!
Comment by Mandy | 09.30.2006 | 10:40 pm
my friend and i took a drive to river road and the legend is that along time ago this mother tru her baby over the bridge and to this day you can still hear the baby crying but watch out behind you cuz the mother may chase you down the rode.
Comment by cheesy | 10.1.2006 | 1:21 pm
Okay, to help out…
I’ve gone up there plenty of times. First, across the bridge, through the tunnel, there’s NOTHING. Just trees. That’s it. Really. My friend’s and I walked ALL THE WAY through that dark, murky, damp train tunnel, and there’s nothing but trees and rocks on the other side. That’s all.
Second, the passage into the underground section where the college used to be is over to the right side of the building, if you were looking directly at the front where it once stood. It’s right next to a drop-off, on a section of concrete there’s a hole in the ground. You have to kind of climb down though, and after the first section underground, the rest is pretty unaccessable because of debris from previous collapses. BE VERY CAREFUL. On the first floor is pretty much rubble, and an old stove, and a window built into the side of the hill where you can look down at all the stuff people have thrown off from the top.
I don’t recommend going down there at night, though. Not because of stupid dogs or a caretaker that died a long time ago, but because you really just can’t see it until you’re almost on top of it, and I’d hate to think of what would happen if someone fell. OH MAN.
Comment by Jenna | 10.2.2006 | 4:10 am
Is this place tru or what?
Comment by Katelynn | 10.3.2006 | 3:15 pm
Is this place true or what?
Comment by Katelynn | 10.3.2006 | 3:15 pm
I think yall NEED JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!
undead caretakers, evil nuns ,teens. who the hell comes up wit this ****!!!!!!!!!
Comment by RJ | 10.11.2006 | 5:37 pm
the only real thing that is truly creepy about the hell house is the fact that it was in a fire and the only thing still standing was the statue of Mary in the front of the school. . . and if you look there is no reminse of smoke or fire even around the statue. my father was on the fir call. . .and he has told me some stories about it . . mostly abou the statue in the front of the building.
Comment by katie | 10.22.2006 | 7:22 pm
Go to http://www.hellhouse.info to find that the caretaker is real…his name is Allen Hudson and there are actual newspaper articles pertainting to his arrests for shootings of trespassers to the college. The college was demolished Feb. 2006.
Comment by Ann | 10.23.2006 | 8:25 pm
Hey, a few years ago durring my Safari Club Days. A bunch of us went up to the school after we got off work. We were all pretty trashed, but we walked right in, the place looked pretty good consitering it was abanoned. It looked like the typical catholic school. Like Holy Trinity. Wide steps, long hallways with classrooms, doors still intact, chalk boards. We went into the chapel, marble fixtures were still present. Pews were broken. We walked all the way up stairs and went out on the roof. what a view!. Never ran into any caretaker, but I left my lighter on the ledge. cool place sorry to see it go.
Comment by Cecelia | 10.31.2006 | 9:42 pm
After visiting about a year ago (and posting at that point) and not being able to find the staircase in the dark to get to the top of the hill, I’ve since wondered exactly “what” was up on the hill. This past week I drove by there in the earlier afternoon with the intent of “exploring” the grounds in the daylight, only to find that the structure has been knocked down. Don’t know if it was cleared or not since there is no way to drive up to where it used to be. Also, there is a construction crew working at the bottom of the hill developing the land. Probably to build more houses. So, to those that asked, yes, it’s true that it has been demolished. and IF they are building new houses at the bottom of the hill…you couldn’t sell me one for a dollar!
Comment by Brian | 11.2.2006 | 10:57 pm
Did you day cold spot or wet spot?the screams were them c u m ing
Comment by lazer | 11.20.2006 | 6:55 am
Lazer, correction…it was me who was screaming because I was c u ming so there is a wet spot…however that was just last week…I wonder how they put it on here so quickly? Anyways, I have a special talent…i can pee standing up without peeing on myself!!
Comment by Jackie Hand Job | 12.21.2006 | 10:48 pm
Went to Hell House yesterday. It is completely torn down but you can walk around and see ruins of other buildings. Interesting and creepy! Just a hike around Patapsco State Park is beautiful. I am trying to find a picture of cry baby bridge which is off of Bonnie Branch Road right near Hell House. Have read a lot about it but many bridges off that road - would like to know exactly which one it is. Anyone know?
Comment by Sue | 01.8.2007 | 9:36 am
i have been there and done that u clowns. and its total bull#$%@ if u clowns dont belive me go there and c 4 yourself. i didnt c or hear @%$& when i was there with a whole bunch of poeple about 7 years ago and its just a run down building clowns. dont belive everything u c,hear or read clowns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! boo
Comment by been there done that clowns | 01.10.2007 | 10:30 pm
Hell House was NEVER a school for girls. It was originally owned by an Ellicott brother (hense Ellicott City) who had hoped that a tavern he opened would succeed, but it failed since the train only stopped there if requested, which was not often. The stairs lead to where this tavern used to be located. It was bought by a catholic group called the Dedemtionist, for the purpose of preparing boys for entry into the priesthood. It was called St. Mary’s College. They later moved to a site further up Ilchester Rd and started Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The building burned down in the 70’s, but was owned by a private person from the Middle East, it was never owned by Patapsico State Park, which is owned by the Maryland state government. There was a caretaker who lived on the property, but was forced to leave when the building structure that his “home” was next to was considered a danger and may fall. If you look at crime stats for Howard County, you’ll see he was arrested for assault. He did shoot someone with his shotgun, but it was filled with rock salt. The building did have another fire on Halloween night in the 90’s. Its believed that some kids were drinking up there and set it. Drinking was a very popular thing to do up there. I went near there the other day and the brick walls and chimneys are gone. I guess they finally tore it down, don’t know why. I plan on walking up the steps sometime soon and looking around to see whats left.
Point is, there were no murders, it wasn’t a school for girls, nuns didn’t start practicing satanism, and unfortunately, it’s not there anymore.
All this info can be found if you ask the Howard County Historical Society.
Comment by Joe | 03.13.2007 | 7:04 am
Error. The catholic group was called the Redemptionist, not Dedemptionist
The guy who said that it had long hallways and chalk boards is out of his mind. It hasn’t had those since at least the 70’s, if not earlier. You obviosly weren’t there or thought you were.
Comment by Joe | 03.13.2007 | 7:09 am
wow this is really scary
Comment by bob | 03.17.2007 | 3:51 pm
Iv’e been to Hell House during the day. It was so intruiging. The pool was filled with green muck and there were frogs in there. The bath house was next to it. The whole place was incredible. The ruins of the house was amazing to look at. I didn’t find a “long” stairwell but the stairwell I went up had no cold spot. The caretaker wasn’t there when I was there (2002) but that is one scary place at night time.
P.S. Does anybody know about the house on College Rd. that apparently nobody stays in for very long? Its supposedly haunted but I don’t know if thats true. I just know that it’s barely occupied and owners never stay long. The lights are always on in the evening and you can see the red walls on the inside… scary…
Comment by missy | 03.20.2007 | 9:17 pm
I meant college Ave. not College Rd. And speaking of College Road, have any of you heard of speeding on Seven Hills? Supposedly if you hit the 7th hill at midnight a demon car chases you out of nowhere…
Comment by missy | 03.20.2007 | 9:33 pm
Hello all, When I was in highschool my friends and I used to go up to “hell house”, we called it creepy college. I have never seen or heard anything, but it is still creepy. The only thing I ever heard were the men working at the factory just down the hill on the other side of the train tracks. If you walk behind the building there are steps that go down, almost like an outdoor cellar. That was super creepy. If you continue to walk in the woods behind the college, you will see a cement path. If you follow it you will eventually run into a very tall metal cross on what looks like a cement altar. Since it was a catholic in origin, I am not surprised. Priest and nuns probably stopped there to pray. Many say it has been burned, but it is old so it has weathered. If you keep following the path back you will see a large round cement building with a rounded roof on your right, it it up on a slight hill. That was creepy so we never went near it. You will also see a very old, very dirty and very creepy inground pool and you have to walk through an old pool house to get near the pool. We have never walked farther back then that. I would not be surprised if there were more creepy things on the grounds, after all it was a school for boys entering priesthood.. I can understand why people would say it was called St. Mary’s college since what looks like it used to be the entrance, there is statue of the Mother Mary looking over the entrance. The steps leading up to the building were creepy and small. I also know the bridge people have mentioned. You have to park just below it to the right or left. There were usually tractor trailers parked there. We never heard any cries from the bridge. It is a shame that St. Mary’s was never rebuilt. It looks like it was a beautiful structure in its time. The last time I was there was in the 1999-2000 time frame. I am sure it has changed. My husband is from southern MD so he has never been. Next time we are in MD I really want to take him.
Comment by Amber | 03.22.2007 | 2:13 pm
hell house is no longer creepy for it has been demolished to make way for new home construction. the only thing that remains are the steps, and some of the old tunnels.
Comment by michael | 03.23.2007 | 10:10 pm
I found this Web site that gives alot of information on “Hell House”
http://www.ellicottcity.net/tourism/hell_house/
It has information on the myths and the truths.
Comment by kargon | 06.28.2007 | 12:28 pm
Ive been there a handfull of times. And yes during the day it is very peaceful. However at night, there are many energies there. Nothing really to be worried about, however if you go to the back of the building around what looks to be a green house of some sort you will find a hole. Around whare the well is. Me and some friends lowered a camera down there once, there seems to be a clsoed off tunel system down there. Ide love to go explore it but thats a danger im not even willing to tackle. And as for the satanic nuns ive heard that a few times, I wouldnt dare say if its true or not. However, the blood at the bottum of the well is very real. Potentially a sacrofitial stone?
Comment by Dan | 08.13.2007 | 11:57 am
The point of a stone being down in the pool is a good one- It may be a certain type of marble or blood stone which is red in color. Do some research on the color of the stones at Stonehenge and you’ll understand the color concept here. Very interesting story- It would be good for a movie production.
Comment by loco | 08.21.2007 | 4:13 pm
I have been to Ellicott City many times, and passed the location of “Hell House” (I know it as “Creepy College” as well.) but it wasn’t untill I met my current boyfriend that I learned what happened to the ruins of it.
His brother and his friends burned it down.
Comment by Marie | 09.11.2007 | 4:05 pm
Thats bs your boyfriend and brother didnt do that Lawls at there stupidity…Place isnt scary it was demolished to stop us from going there.There goes my teenage halloween night scary haunted place trip
Comment by Mike | 09.21.2007 | 5:50 am
I’ve never been to Hell house, but I’ve been to the Patapsco Institute. Now that place, i do believe is haunted from a few experiences I’ve had in the past. A few strange things happened to my friend and I. But my question, are there guard dogs on the property? Because I heard barking and dogs coming closer to us, from about a half mile away. Amusingly, I had thought it was Hell house that I was exploring and thought the dogs to be ghost dogs or whatnot. But since it wasn’t Hell house, there might have actually been dogs.
Comment by Chris | 09.22.2007 | 1:34 am
Me and my friends went to “Creepy College” about a year and a half ago about this time. It was definitely a very intriguing spot. We went 2 times, once at daytime and once at night. We walked all the way down the path that led behind everything hoping to come across anything else but the path got to overgrown and we decided to stop because we heard gunshots (must have been hunters in the area). We were walking back down the path and a train decided to go by, it was really creepy just being out in the woods at night hearing those sounds. We explored into the cement thing right near the main building, there was a ladder leading into there and it looks like part of it was filled in (I am assuming the part that led down to the tunnels was what was filled in with a bunch of rubble) but if you go down that little ladder it leads you into a small room which had another small room attached to it. Ummm…we also explored the side of the main building. There are pipes that led into the wall on the side, we shown our flash lights down there and decided to be risky and walk down there (don’t go if your claustrophobic, lol) There was, I think, 2 rooms leading off that tunnel we explored (one was small, the other was huge like a basement). A couple times the security truck from the factory right down the hill would make it’s rounds, we had to turn our flash lights off cause we were afraid they’d see us. It was all definitely an experience I will never forget, too bad there is nothing else around MD like that.
Comment by Amy | 09.24.2007 | 10:39 pm
Our group in east lab is doing a project to create a virtual haunted house. It would be helpful if your site could send us a copy of the storyline for hellhouse.
Comment by bryno ryno | 10.2.2007 | 12:55 pm
We are in the processing of collecting personal experiences to put into a movie surrounding Hell House’s facts/legends. If you have a story which you wouldlike to share please email us at:
OldHellHouse@gmail.com
Comment by Sandra Taylor | 10.13.2007 | 1:23 pm
Ok, let me clear up this whole crazy caretakes thing. My family personally knew him. He worked for Interlock Steelworkers and was a bum with no place to live. He knew the owners of the property and needed a place to live so they let him stay there if he would watch the place. He was a little crazy and definately an alcoholic. He had a bunch of dogs, rotties, that did attack people a couple of times and I defiantely believe that he mightve shot someone a time or two. Anyway, he was a heavy drinker and a diabetic, lost all his limbs to gang-green and eventually died. The End.
Comment by Lindsay | 10.28.2007 | 5:32 pm
Hi gang: I am here to finally debunk the mystery of Hell House. It was a girls school, then later allowed boys. There were in fact satanic rituals back in the early part of the century. That is why it was closed by the town. None of the rest is true however. I have been there many times, as it is only 2 miles from my apartment. Sadly, the place is in disrepair. The “turrets” have all fallen, and the carousel is covered with cobwebs and satanic graffitti. It is said to turn and play music at night however - ridden by the ghosts of school’s victims. The last time I was up there, which was last thursday night, I saw the caretaker rousting some drinking teens - I think he had a weapon so I ran and didn’t look back. If you don’t know what you are doing, I would not recommend going there. Things can happen and that caretaker is crazy. Love to all.
Comment by Joe D | 10.29.2007 | 11:36 am
According to newspaper accounts, the caretaker had chased a trio of young men away from the property a few years ago (1996?). They came back armed with baseball bats intent on doing him harm, so he shot one in the side with his shotgun. Nearly killed the boy. He was arrested, but I do not know if he pled guilty to something or if it went to trial. I imagine that he is in jail for it; even if he was out he probably would have moved on.
What I do not understand is why people persist in mixing up the two sites in their stories? Two different places people … Patapsco Institute was the girls school and St. Marys was the boys school. You can look it up on Ellicott City’s tourist info stie, I believe. Or go to the historical society. They are both well documented.
Myself, I never went to Hell House. I sure heard about it, and Seven Hills. One of my friends supposedly used to go up to Hell House to party…told stories about Satanic rituals, black sabbaths and the like. Said that if you drive in that area late at night sometimes you will encounter a hell hound (again, supposedly this happened to him). It always sounded to me like the sort of scary stories that kids told each other…usually the boys so that the girls would be scared and cling to them. Does anyone know whether that foundation sold the property, or if maybe they got some more funding and will move forward with their plan for a comparative religion institute?
Comment by Sara | 10.29.2007 | 10:46 pm
first get your facts straight this place is a piece of **** on the bottom of my shoe its not even all that scary and most of it is not even true When i went there i was bored out of my mind and i was not scared at all the baby was asleep to because the place put her to sleep
LOUSY JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!p.s hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Comment by maria | 11.3.2007 | 2:48 pm
we put **** not ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by maria | 11.3.2007 | 2:49 pm
I have been to hell house. It was torn down. Only bricks be there. A basement is there, but its is lame. We went inside. It was uber-***. A lots of beers bottlies weres there. No ghosties. But, I did finger-bang a corpse and it opened its mouth and said “I love you” there.
@$$-fuC|
Comment by The Majalsic | 11.7.2007 | 2:19 am
I see that your site is tricksy. You be bleeping my wordses. How dares youz. Prepare yourselfs for my mitey powerz…
This is how you say words like F-u-ck and Sh–it all over ze place and not get bleeped.
Or just talk about raping small children until there @$$holes bleed. Minimal cursing, and the point is driven.
And now for a limerick:
“There once was a man named Kyle,
I f-ucked him.”
Comment by The Majalsic | 11.7.2007 | 2:23 am
i went there the other night, its good scenery.. you can see the stars good. i heard dogs barking and heard a gunshot hough, is that ****** caretaker still alive.. does anyone know where he lives if he is cuz id like ot **** with his house
Comment by manny | 11.12.2007 | 5:53 pm
LET ME TELL U A STORY AND THIS IS FAR FROM A LIE OR A JOKE THIS IS A TRUE STORY IAM NOW 37 YRS OLD AND WHEN I WAS YOUNGER MY FRIENDS AND I USE TO GO UP THEIR SOMETIMES WELL THIS ONE TIME WE DECIDED TO TAKE A WALK UP THOSE STEPS AND THE STEPS WHERE BEHIND CONTAINERS WELL IT WAS FOUR OF US WELL HERE IT IS WELL WE MADE IT UP THEIR WELL ME AND ANOTHER PERSON DECIDED TO GO ALL THE WAY UP WELL WE WENT ALL THE WAY UP TO THE HELL HOUSE AND THEIR WAS A GUY SITTING THERE WATCHING THE GAME ON A LITTLE TV WELL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR THEIR WAS A CIRCLE WITH A STAR IN THE MIDDLE WELL THERE WHERE CANDLES LITE ALL THE WAY AROUND THE CIRCLE AND THEIR WHERE TRASH BAGS TIED UP NEXT TO THE CANDLES WELL ALL OF THE SUDDEN HERE CAME 2 DOBERMANS WE RAN WELL GUESS WHAT I HAD BOTH OF THEM ON MY ANKLES WITH A GUN AT MY HEAD U TALK ABOUT SCARED SHITLESS WELL THE OTHER COUPLE BEGED HIM TO LET ME GO I WAS CRYING BEGGING AND PLEAING FOR HIM TOO LET ME GO WELL HE CALLED THE DOGS OFF AND THEN HE LET US GO PROMISING HIM THT WE WOULD NEVER COME BACK WELL GUESS WHAT DID NOT EVER GO BACK UNTIL 17 YR LATER LATER ON I DID SOME RESEARCH AND FOUND OUT THAT THIS HAD HAPPEN TO OTHER PEOPLE ALSO THEY SAID THT THE MAN WAS A CARGEIVER LOOK I DO NOT CARE WHAT THE HELL HE WAS ALL I KNOW IS THT I SEEN SOMETHING THT I SHOULD HAVE NOT SEEN OR HE DID NOT WANT US TOO SEE.
Comment by TERESA | 11.19.2007 | 10:24 pm
Itwas not a girls school, at least when it closed down it was still a Seminary. Not all of the seminary students actually became priests, for various reasons, and some of those students really knew how to party. Some of us girls from Baltimore use to go up there at night and wait for the guys to sneak out in the middle of the night. It was spooky enough even then.
I don’t know who owns it now, but the guy who owned it before the fire, the one who hired that insane caretaker, was planning to just let the place fall down, or at least get bad enough that it wouldn’t cost as much to demolish it. I think he was planning to build apartments. The reason it’s still standing is because it is privately owned, so the only person who can tear it down is the owner.
Comment by Jude | 12.1.2007 | 2:20 am
I’d like to know the name of the current owner of this property. Any leads?
Comment by loco | 12.27.2007 | 1:40 pm
hey thats a scary story god thing i dont live neer there
Comment by kasey | 01.6.2008 | 11:21 am
http://hellhouse.ellicottcity.net/
For all the information you require to find out the truth about St Mary’s College, otherwise known as hell house or indeed creepy college.
best
Kipp
Comment by Kipp | 02.27.2008 | 9:02 am
Hi! My name is Brenn.I would like to experience the paranormal activity @ “Hell House”.I am looking to become a full time C.P.I. someday and I think that this would be a great place to start. Please contact me if anyone is interested in helping me out. Thank you for your time. cpimetallicats@myactv.net
Comment by Brenda | 03.6.2008 | 9:34 am
hey i love keith but i date his
best friend an he dates mine …
Comment by i love keith but he dosent know it ... | 03.14.2008 | 11:31 pm
The real attraction of this story is the insane grounds keeper; I personally think he takes his job a little too seriously, regardless, I will never set foot on that property again. We could feel the rock salt whizzing by our heads. I actually made it to just the top of the long flight of stairs, that was it. It’s not worth the chance of pain (either br Rock salt, or a vicious dog), and I’m serious when I say “Don’t bother going there!”. This guy keeps his eye out for people like you and I, who are curious. He drives up and down that street with his spot light waiting to catch you. I’m sure he could press charges on you for trespassing, too. So I ask; IS it really worth it??
Comment by Dee | 03.18.2008 | 8:25 am
i hope the previous writer’s of these comments go back to schoolsoon. They have a horrible time spelling or they are too busy drinking or jerking off! Get a life and use spell check. My father always said “it is better for people to think you are stupid than open your mouth and remove all doubt”.
Comment by rose | 03.24.2008 | 11:45 pm
HEY! I LOVE KEITH! AND YOUR NOT MY BEST FRIEND ANYMORE YOU ****!!
Comment by daisy | 03.24.2008 | 11:48 pm
I’ve lived in Ellicott City for almost 30 years. When I was in high school, my girlfriend and I went to hell house. I saw the caretaker’s dog, and I made him lick my balls (my girlfriend wouldn’t do it). Then the caretaker saw me and shot at me with his shotgun. I tried to run away, but I fell down, because my pants were around my ankles. The caretaker told his dog to “get ‘em!!”, so I pulled up my pants and ran away. I left my girlfriend behind, ’cause I didn’t luv her anyways, and she wouldn’t teabag my sack. I think the dog ate her, ’cause I never saw her again. I told her parents that she ran away to NY to be an actress. They spent two months in NY looking for her. Ha ha. I’ll bet she licks balls now.
Comment by jimbo | 03.30.2008 | 12:36 am
I live up the street from Hell House, I haven’t been up there because it kind of freaked me out. I don’t think the caretaker is there anymore though. Everyone I’ve talked to about it has said it was an old girls’ school, but I don’t know if they are reliable sources. The Women’s Institute in Ellicott City on Church Road it also supposedly haunted, although I’ve never seen anything abnormal up there. They do sometimes have plays in the ruins of the Institute.
Comment by Hayley | 03.31.2008 | 6:50 pm