Hell House (Ellicott City, Maryland)from: Barry Stevens < bstevens. Tue, Apr 1. 2, 2. AMsubject: Hell House Maryland comment. Reading some of the old comments, I wanted to say that the factory that had the fire, at the base of hell house was called simpkins corporation. They were a paper recycling company. I know this because I used to deliver there and the inside of the factory was creepy in its own right. I was told by a co- worker during my first couple of times there that there were a number of gruesome injuries as a result of the paper shredding equipment there and that there were two deaths, though I have no real proof or accounts of the deaths.
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I’m not sure what is left of this plant as I haven’t been there in about 1. Date: Sun, 2. 0 Aug 2. PDT)To. This is one of those legends. The true story of Hell House begins in the small town of Ellicott City, a short drive from Columbie. The town’s “main street” is a quaint collection of coffee houses, antique stores, and head shops. It is surrounded by high hills and dense, ancient forest. A river runs through it.
There is an old insane asylum (the subject of other true stories) and an overall air of energy and the supernatural. Now is where details begin to get sketchy, but I will outline fact.
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Many years ago, there was an old girl’s Catholic school. In a fit of insanity that would befit the strange atmosphere, and old priest allegedly hung five girls facing each other around a pentacle, then shot himself.
Friends tell me they have researched local historical documents and found that the story of a murder is true, though the demented details were omitted, probably for the sake of decency, as this was many years ago. The house still stands and the stories of it are numerous. Area teenagers are fascinated. One, lets call him Steve, went with a group of his friends to visit the house. They drove down, taking the strange road that seems to be invisible from the main road.
Past the old cement plant and warehouse, now stark and deserted. The decrepid Hell House looming in the horizon. When the car passed along and the front and back windows aligned, it was truly a sight that would make the hardest of skeptics get a bad case of the willies.
It always got dark earlier by the house than in the area surrounding it, and the dark was a darker dark than most were used to. It seemed to be palpable, and it played tricks on the mind. Back to the story at hand. The teenagers drove by the house, parked nearby (both entrances to the road leading up the hill are mysteriously blocked, one by a fallen tree, the other by a mysterious absence of pavement and abundance of overgrowth). The boys walked up the hill, feeling the whole time that something was stopping them. The terror they felt was both unexplainable and indescribable.
But eventually they got to the top. There was a fantastic view on one cliff, and to their left, the house. All were afraid to go up to the door, much less inside. They’d heard the stories.
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Candles, blood, and an old man. Some say an old man guarded the place with rubber bullets and dogs (the dogs were real enough, put there by police eventually). Some say the old man was in jail or died. What the boys did see outside was frightening. Already terrified, the boys were seeing things that werent there when one of them thought he caught a glimpse of something nearer to the side of the house. It wasnt until they were nearly upon him that they saw an old man holding a giant pitchfork sized wooden spoon and a priests collar.
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The boys ran down the hill, and one even cried. Along the way they felt better, and laughed at themselves for thinking it was a ghost. Still, the fact that they all saw the same thing was disturbing. However, when they discussed the incident with others, they discovered that many had seen the same vision. Old man with a spoon, or sometimes an old priest with bloody hands. One story even held that girls can be heard crying. Whatever it was, it remains constant for those who see it, always doing something different, always maddening.
I have tried to visit Hell House three times. The first, i tried driving up the driveway. I had no sooner started up that it rained and the muddy trail made my wheels slip. THe second, I tried driving again, but in nearly the same place as the rain hindered my advance, my car stalled and would not start. It was a new car that had never given troulbe before. Once i tried walking with a friend, but at the point I had stopped before, we were gripped with parylyzing fear and could not bear to go on. Sheer unexplainable terror, for someone who had explored supernatural sites before with no such fear.
If any who read this have been inside the house, or know anything else, or can help eliminate some myth, please post and let me know. Bevermouth@aol. com. Lenore adds: From: “Lenore” (lenore. To. You can contact the Patapsco female institute in ellicott city, and they will explain that every year the few weeks before halloween, they give tours and hold activities inside hell house. I was invited to go this year, but was unable.
I can give you the phone # for this organization. The girl who posted the follow is refering to the patapsco female institute which isn’t really hell house. Howard County Highschools puts on a really awful haunted house every year there. Hell house is further down past ellicott city off of river road and bonnie branch road. I have been there dozens of times. It burned down partially about 6 or 7 years ago on halloween night.
You can still go up to it and walk around the shell, although I wouldn’t go in, because it looks like it could collapse any second. The two side roads are blocked by gates now. When I went up there last, lots of people where there and were walking around it. In the back of the house there is another old run down caretaker house where the old man roofus lived who had the dogs and the gun.
The first time I ever went to hell house, I never made it to the top, but you definatly could hear the dogs barking up on the hill. He isn’t there anymore though. There is also a conservatory behind it, where they used to grow plants and things. I must agree that Hell House is one kick ass place to go, especially at night when it is really scary. Thanks again for posting this online. I have recently been looking for some information on it, simply because it is close to home and interestingly creepy!
I have not found much, but I will tell you what I have come across so far. Hell House is what is left of Old St. Im not sure if this was actually the old college or the old seminary. I have found both on the internet and have also heard both. I originally thought it was a seminary, other information leads elsewhere. I have heard about stories of a man who lives up there, with a dog. The man was supposedly the original grounds keeper and when the place burned down, he stayed in a trailer with his dog.
I have also heard that when people try to go up there, he will shoot at you and his dog will chase you away. However this is not true because my friends and I have been up there. We went up during the day and it was quite creepy but no dog and no man. There is a wide path that goes all the way around the skeletal building. Grafitti is everywhere as is trash. We walked around to the back and walked up some steps to the greenhouse. We went in the green house(that was pretty creepy).
Then there were a few more steps. I must have been searching very carefully because this was very hard to see. It blended in very well. This trend repeated a few more times, until we were into the woods and could look back and see the building from a distance. I was curious where the steps lead to so I followed them.
I have no idea what it was, but their seemed to be small paths all around. There was also a path as wide and flat as a driveway. We did not go on that path because it was very long and well who knows where it led to!(I think I was more curious than my friend.)This Hell House structure is at the top of a very steep hill! When we were at the very highest point in the woods (by the cement structure) I looked across the hill and noticed the woods across the road. They were exactly the same height as the woods we were in. It almost seemed as if the driveway path I described earlier lead all the way around to it.
The woods did not look untouched. Im not much for believing in ghosts. I did not see any “paranormal activity” or whatever its called. However that place was just creepy.
I am trying to find information on the fire and how it got started. I have heard there was an original fire and then another one. I can’t find this information anywhere!
Also, the female Potapsco Institute is sometimes also referred to as hell house. There are many stories to that place also, it is located not too far from old st marys college. One last thing. From both of these roads you can see Hell House if you look up (way way up) Honestly I drive through those roads all the time and never noticed hell house. I never even knew it was there till somebody pointed it out for me. Very very creepy. I hope this helps.
Well, I have been there numerous times and I also have pictures. Although it burned down around Halloween of 1.
It is a very eerie place especially at night. One incident I will tell you about is the time I went there with my friend and our girlfriends in early January 1. It was about 1. 0: 0. We walked up the driveway which was blocked by a metal gate. As we approached the front of the building we heard dogs barking in the distance. The driveway continued around the right side of the building.
We started walking down the driveway and when we reached the side of the building we saw a light coming towards us; like a motorcycle headlight. I was in the front but I was turned around talking to my friend so I didn’t see it right away. My friend grabbed me and started to pull me as the others turned and ran. I turned around and saw the light also.