Lillian Collins Hospital
Turlock, California
By Robin Wright
Originally the Sierra Building
In the 1920’s, this was a small town hospital that cared for the citizens of Turlock, California. According to a recent ghost hunting expedition done by American Paranormal Investigations, it seems that the building still cares for their spirits, though both their bodies and the hospital are long gone.
Built in 1918, The Lillian Collins Hospital was located in what is now the Sierra Building and currently contains Coldwell Banker Endsley & Associates. The hospital was best known for the doctor who created the MedicAlert bracelet when his daughter (who also happened to be the granddaughter of the hospital’s founder) had an allergic reaction to a drug while there in 1953. The hospital, which only had 40 rooms in the two-story building, eventually became too small for the city and was abandoned. In 1994, it was purchased by Bob Endsley and the downstairs was completely remodeled. The upstairs was left the way it was, and local charities used the space to host a haunted house fundraiser. It was during these fundraisers that the odd goings on in the building were first noticed.
While preparing for a haunted house event items would go missing when left alone for only a few moments. Cold breezes, footsteps, unexplained noises, and even unpleasant physical feelings have been reported. The owner of the building has had the motion detectors go off when no one was there. The events coinciding with the annual haunted house fundraisers ceased earlier this decade, but the strange happenings did not. That was when Endsley contacted API.
The investigation, which included video, photography, psychics, Electronic Voice Phenomena recordings, as well as a group whose purpose was to find logical causes for some of the stranger things discovered, came away with plenty of evidence that the hospital was still up and running on the second floor.
On video, they asked a spirit to come closer to their electro-magnetic field device. The EMF device recorded a dramatic spike in its levels. Geiger counter readings flared and diminished within moments and without the investigator moving.
Each and every photo captured orbs, or balls of light, somewhere on the photograph. But the truly amazing piece of evidence is the 11 second recording of a beautiful voice singing a French lullaby. The investigator was alone at the time. This recording is one of the longest pieces of EVP ever to be captured.
Other EVPs recorded were of female and male voices talking to each other, as well as male voices communicating with the investigators. One of the investigators said that the sounds on the tape remind him of what he’d expect from a 1920’s hospital.
Dark, human shaped masses were seen floating throughout the building and some investigators felt nauseated while on the second floor, feeling better when they returned downstairs.
The investigators sent to unmask the ghosts were only able to explain away the cold breezes as drafts from windows. The rest seem to be of truly supernatural origins.
27 comments on this haunted house. Share your story »
27 Comments |
[1] · 2 · Next » ·
Show All Comments
patty says: |
October 29, 2008, 3:25 pm |
I believe that there are ghosts left behind to attend to unfinished business. My own mother came and sat on my bed the night she died. At first it was scarey but then I felt comforted knowing that she cared to come say goodbye. Also the night my Uncle passed away I felt a cool breeze come into the room and go past me into my cousin’s little girl’s room. I then heard her talking to someone. When I asked her who she had been talking to she said it was her PaPa coming to say goodbye. Mind you she was only 3 at the time. My cousin said that he would visit them often.
Dylan Wible age8 says: |
November 15, 2008, 12:28 pm |
I do believe it! The other day something was controlling me! Swear to God!
Bob says: |
November 29, 2008, 9:34 pm |
This may sound discusting, but if I just sit in my bed at night, things will poke me in…uncomfterble places. Also, unexplained water broplets apear out of thin air and, usually, fall on my face, head or legs.
Gertrude Thomas says: |
February 10, 2009, 12:55 pm |
I know there are ghost & spirits out there. I have lived in haunted houses all my life. Regardless where we lived at it was haunted. We now live in a haunted house. Actually I think it is the property that we live on. We have about an acre of ground. One house we are remodeling is haunted bad. Actually we use it for a haunted house in October, we just add stuff to it. Our house that burned was haunted and now we moved a trailer onto the property and it is now haunted as well. In the woods bihind our house is a graveyard it is very old. We have been there and seen things in there as well. So If you don’t believe in ghosts just come to my place And I will surley change your mind.
desteny says: |
February 24, 2009, 12:15 am |
i think this is true and wow this was really weird i would not like to be there i would get to fraked out like when i saw the new FRIDAY THE 13TH IT WAS AWSOME
Ron Anger says: |
March 30, 2009, 3:23 pm |
Gertrude,
I represent some people that want to make a pilot for a reality T.V. show about ghosts and haunted places. We would love to take you up on your offer to visit your haunted place. We are in California. What state is your place located? Feel free to email me, rmccamey@sbcglobal.net.
steven ledsham says: |
April 5, 2009, 11:06 pm |
i have seen ghost or whatever thay are im not sure what to call them.my first incounter was in the house i grew up in in lawrance county alabama i and my siblings would here wispers of voices.and we had this lil dog and it would start barking and growling and fowlow something we couldnt see from door to door just like it was a person trying to walk by her the first sighting of one was when i was 14 me and some friends were rideing our bikes about duske dark when i lookeed over to see a lil boy bout our age sitting on his bike starring at me as if to say what the **** are you while i was thinging the same just lasted about 2 seconds but very real and i had many feelings of presince after the next pysical thing i saw me and a friend were rideing down a road going about 40 mph when we both saw a guy runing down a driveway and meet up with the car in front of us and the car had to be going 50 or beeter and just vanish we with out speaking at first looked at each other in amacement and then stoped and searched the ditches and fields for what should have been a hit pedestrian but nothig we had seen a whatever together and i have never seen one in person since i was 25 then im 38 now but i feel there presense from time to time real **** dont know what to think about it to this day.
Micki says: |
April 7, 2009, 4:35 pm |
We are paranormal investigators in Merced County, California. We are currently looking to investigate haunted houses in our area. We are discrete and only publish photos that do not give the locations away. If you would like to find out if your place is really haunted, drop us an email at atwaterghostresearch@yahoo.com or visit our website.
Stephanie Barajas says: |
April 18, 2009, 6:39 pm |
Well i think that this may b true or may not b true bcause i only belive till somebody proves that this iz true:)
vinaychavan says: |
May 1, 2009, 6:32 am |
I believe spirits and i also believe god…
sometimes incidents occur which make a force on us to believe it……
Nikki says: |
June 5, 2009, 6:47 pm |
I believe this because alot of people have never experienced was I have. One day when I was 6 I had a ghost totally walk through me. I know how crazy it sounds but it is so true. I still feel them til this day and I know abt all of the ghosts I see them while I hike and I look it up on the computer and its true. So dont think im crazy.
Kim says: |
June 6, 2009, 12:38 am |
Well, Im not speaking for myself but my wife had experince a house that was haunted. While staying in the house she seen and felt unexplain things. Such as, Door knobs turning, T.V. changing by itself, lights turning on and off and the bed would sink down like someone was sitting in on it. also her bed would shake but she was thinking it was a minor earthquake lol.
Ivonne P. says: |
June 10, 2009, 1:20 pm |
well idk if i believe this story but it seems pretty ok .=]
maribell borjon says: |
June 26, 2009, 6:12 pm |
I believe this considering the fact that i live in delhi which is 10 min. away from turlock.
Clifford Hillman says: |
August 10, 2009, 10:11 pm |
Why is it that we read and see shows about ghost but it is next to impossible to find a group to join on an investigation?
Kane says: |
August 14, 2009, 5:06 pm |
I remember it was back then when i was 10, it was Halloween so my friends and me we went around the neighborhood trick-or-treating. Then we were lost for a bit because we don’t really know the way but it was lucky for us that my other friend with his sister came and she is older than us all so we decided to stick with them since it’ll be safer that way. After trick-or-treating it was 10:00 and everybody say their goodbye and we all went home, but when I try to look back at my friend’s sister face i can’t see it maybe it was too dark and then my eye started to become watery(idk it happen everytime like goosebumps) so i ran straight home. Days later( 2 weeks) after that she hang herself in the bathroom. So I began to wonder what happen? So I started to ask some friends they says that she hang herself because she started seen and hearing ghost and every night when she go to sleep she always turn on the tv in her room so she won’t be scare. She also try to tell her mom about it but the mom don’t believe much because she don’t see and hear things like her daughter. I think she might got tired of living that way and so she hang herself but maybe she might got possessed but idk she just hang herself and die plus she was home alone with a little sister about 5 years old. Til this day I still hear rumors that she it haunting the house and some couple that just move in. During at night there would be light flickering and the tv will turn on by itself.
Hi everybody thanks for reading all this is true My grandparents still live near there and everytime i got over to my grandparents it give me the watery eye. Also those houses were built on top of a cemetery so alot of things happen but this story is enough.
Njibe Chinedum says: |
August 25, 2009, 2:19 pm |
I have anew spiritual technique and power to remove ghosts,earth bound spirits,marine spirits,vampires and witches from haunted treasures houses and lands on the spot.I am available and can come to any site if you send me four first class round trip air tickets,a letter of invitation for four persons, hotel and accomodation.call me or send me a mail at tel nos. 00 234 80 3055 7345, 00 234 70 395 28179 Email. soultosoul@live.com
kindest and warmest regards
Augustine Njibe
In The Golden Age.
Please Read my profile below
SOUL TO SOUL
CHARISMATIC MINISTRIES
MOTTO: EVERY LIVING SOUL PRAISES THE LORD.
Soul To Soul Charismatic Ministries is a new and modern Charismatic Christian adventure where all the secrets of the power of the miracles performed by Jesus Christ, The Spiritual Giants, the Angels of God and all the Great Souls are revealed and exposed to the public. Money, prosperity, fortunes, treasures, riches, success and wealth must bow to you and become your servants. When you attend our church programs, prayers, counseling and activities, you will become a magnetic field where miracles happen every second. We also give and provide authentic trade forecasts for traders who trade in stocks all over the world. Soul To Soul will give you absolute spiritual protection against all principalities and powers.
Barren women, impotent men, poverty, divorce, broken homes, broken hearts, broken friendships, loneliness, suicide spirits, People possessed by alcohol and drugs, Ancestral and general curses, haunted treasures, houses and lands, men and women in prison or jail, girls and women looking for husbands of their choice, men and women possessed by marine spirits, evil spirits and witches, People suffering from Hypertension, cancer, ulcer, stroke, psychological and mental problems, madness, HIV/AIDS, leukemia, sickle cell anemia, fibroids, and all forms of incurable diseases and deformities etc are healed, redeemed, and released on the spot. Also your good health and long life is guaranteed.
The United nations, Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, The United States, Russia, China and all the Countries located near the Great Oceans and Seas must consult Soul To Soul now for immediate and urgent prayers that will avert the impending destruction and catastrophe caused by the disappearance of the Ozone Layer and the Artic and the Antarctic oceans of ice that will continue to increase the density and the size of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans and destroy two third of the world with flood before the year 2020
The Israelis and all the Jewish community around the world and their neighbors the Arab league must consult Soul To Soul now for prayers that will break all the Ancestral and general curses, deaths, strife, hatred, war, sorrow and distress that they inherited from their forefathers and to restore permanent peace, security and prosperity to the region
Our prayers are not free because you cannot get anything from the spirit free.
Send your Sponsorship, Charity, donations, tithes, offerings, gifts, tributes and consultation fees through Western Union Money Transfer, Money Gram or by Swift to The
Great Soul. Njibe Augustine Chinedum, Soul-To-Soul Charismatic Ministries
Suite 215 Administration Main Office Block, Trade Fair Complex, Aspanda, Lagos State,Nigeria. For more information
Contact The Great Soul Njibe Augustine Chinedum.
Telephones: 234 80 3055 7345, 234 70 395 28179
Email: soultosoul@live.com
PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO SEVEN PERSONS AND YOU WILL GET AN INSTANT FINANCIAL BREAKTHROUGH AND HEALING IN SEVEN DAYS AND DO NOT FORGET TO GIVE YOUR TESTIMONIES AND TITHE TO SOUL TO SOUL.
« ·
Meagan O says: |
October 13, 2009, 10:23 pm |
I think you people really should learn how to spell correctly….I mean its really horrible, I haven’t read one comment that everything was spelled correctly. You expect people to believe all of these stories of ghost & spirts and stuff when I find it hard to believe that most of you don’t even have a high school education…..someone answer that for me….
Lizz says: |
October 14, 2009, 9:39 am |
To Meagon ,
Have it ever accured to you that most of the people who are submitting these stories are GHOST also….. HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!.
[1] · 2 · Next » ·
Show All Comments


susana says:
October 28, 2008, 10:09 am
i really dont believe anything about that unless you prove it to me in a special way.