My Date with the Dead: The First Floor
- Melissa
- Oct 27, 2015
- 3 min read
The first floor had a common room as well, this was where we originally signed our waivers. There was quite a bit of graffiti and also some of the original furniture.
First Floor Common Room – our first real view of the inside
In the back of the common room were some more half walls that were used to partition a few more rooms. Some had beds, some had nothing. We didn’t spend too much time in this particular room. Instead we made our way back out into the hall where directly across from the common room was the “Pennhurst Museum” that they were working on. This was basically a room where they had some memorabilia, if you want to call it that. We were not allowed inside the museum, but I snapped a few photos for my album.
Pictures from the “Pennhurst Museum” Located on the First Floor of the Mayflower Building
The only area left to investigate was at the end of the first floor hallway. This was similar to the layout of the second floor – one large room partitioned into four utilizing the weird half walls. I took a few pictures and moseyed around for a bit. The names of some of the patients were written on the half walls so staff knew which residents belonged in which rooms.
Some of the patient names written on the half walls
Interesting that one of them is my last name
By this time it was now approaching 2am. We went outside to catch some fresh air and try to wake ourselves back up a bit. As I sat on the catwalk I heard the Mooing again. I asked if there was still a farm on campus. The one investigator asked me why I wanted to know. I told him I heard mooing earlier and was hearing it again. Everyone got quiet and sure enough you heard “MOOOOOOOO.” The SJSS investigator told me there was still a farm, and it did still have LIVE cows on it. So much for my ghost cow theory – DEBUNKED!
The evening was winding down and I had asked if things were always this quiet. The investigators said some nights are more active than others, it all depends on the mood of the spirits. I was happy we experienced what we had, but was hoping for a little bit more. I got my wish. A few moments later we heard the Ovilus say something. We forgot to turn it off and it was in the one gentleman’s backpack. We could not quite make out what it said, it sounded like “A HEAD.” Which made me think immediately of decapitation. I knew that underneath the catwalks on which we were sitting was an underground tunnel system that connected the buildings. It was used primarily in the winter to transport supplies, but was also used to move patients between buildings and keep them out of the sight of any potential visitors that may come to check out the campus.
Later these tunnels were suspected to be an area where patients were tortured or sometimes “disappeared.” I started to think that perhaps someone was decapitated in the tunnels and was now trying to reach out to us. As the investigator pulled the Ovilus from his bag we heard it shout out “MEAT.” This kind of grossed me out because now I was thinking the worst possible thing – people were killed and used for food! My stomach did a flip flop and I felt as though I may be sick until the SJSS guide said the Ovilus said “AHEAD” and NOT “A… HEAD.” We were a bit confused as to what this meant. The Ovilus went off again saying “AHEAD, MEAT.” In the distance you could still hear the cow mooing…then it all made sense – There was MEAT AHEAD…as in cow… as in burgers! This kind of made me chuckle to think our last encounter was with a ghost who had a sense of humor!!!
We still had about an hour left but were all getting pretty tired so we decided to call it a night and head homeward. As I stood outside the car I said very sternly “No one gets in this car with us… you are not welcome to come home with us, you must stay here!” Just to be safe, we did stop at a Wawa on 309 on the way home in the hopes that if any spirits did hitch a ride then perhaps they would be intrigued by the Wawa and stay there… I mean who doesn’t like Wawa?
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