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Hell House

Howard County, Maryland

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.

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Julie says:

December 2, 2005, 1:45 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

Dan (from Oct 2nd) says:

December 10, 2005, 3:45 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

Ashley says:

December 27, 2005, 2:21 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

the ghost of your moms past says:

January 5, 2006, 1:44 pm

yeah I think ghosts are real becouse i am one

dan says:

January 8, 2006, 7:40 am

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Mike says:

January 16, 2006, 8:45 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!
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY forever…… SDMF

Shannon says:

January 22, 2006, 12:12 pm

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.

Not Dan says:

January 28, 2006, 1:18 am

Dear readers,
The above message regarding Dan (see above) is grossly inaccurat much like the rest of the site. Dan is actually a 4 foot tall midget with brown not blond hair. I did call him one night, I would rate the experance a 3 out of 10. Instead of calling Dan I would strongly recomend harvesting nectar from tulips and maybe ever snap dragons. It is an experance that is much less disapointing and more fore fulling then Dan. Another sutiable alternative semitary school which once again more satisfing then Dan. Thank you for your time LOVE NotDan.

allen says:

January 29, 2006, 7:36 pm

but didn’t they no that by on by one a gurl just kept on missing

Marie says:

February 2, 2006, 11:06 am

I see dead people they are all around me
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

chrissy says:

February 4, 2006, 12:35 pm

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.

tracy says:

February 5, 2006, 12:42 am

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

evelyn says:

February 5, 2006, 1:45 pm

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

Ashley says:

February 11, 2006, 6:56 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.

becca says:

February 14, 2006, 11:13 am

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

brittany says:

February 15, 2006, 9:02 pm

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!

alissa says:

February 19, 2006, 9:23 pm

I love scary places … just not being alone in them!

jacob hawts says:

March 1, 2006, 2:26 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…

Tiffany says:

March 14, 2006, 1:02 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.

bradey says:

March 14, 2006, 7:24 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

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