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MIDNIGHT IN THE ASYLUM CEMETERY

From Diane Ladley | Part of the Hist-eerie series | 29:01

"America's Ghost Storyteller", Diane Ladley, reveals actual, untouched recordings of mysterious paranormal activity experienced by guests of her haunted history tour on the grounds of the abandoned insane asylum in Elgin, Illinois. Her rich, vibrant storytelling voice transports you inside the intensely haunted cemetery at midnight, where lost souls of asylum patients are still said to roam—a legend made real by the startling evidence captured on these recordings—to face America's most haunting sins of the abuses that took place in asylums down through our history. A chilling, sound-rich audio experience perfect for Halloween.

Midnight_in_the_asylum_cemetery_small For over a century, people have reported frightening, ghostly encounters at the former Elgin State Mental Hospital Asylum in Illinois.  From 2008 to 2013, nationally award-winning storyteller and author, Diane Ladley—named by other storytellers as "America's Ghost Storyteller"—operated haunted history tours late at night within the asylum's isolated, abandoned paupers' cemetery and the grounds where the buildings once stood.  Now, in Midnight in the Asylum Cemetery, Diane Ladley reveals actual, untouched recordings of mysterious paranormal activity experienced during those ghost tours.   Her rich, vibrant storytelling voice transports you inside the intensely haunted cemetery at midnight, where lost souls of asylum patients are still said to roam—a legend made real by the startling evidence captured on these recordings—to face America's most haunting sins of the abuses that took place in asylums down through our history. A chilling, sound-rich audio experience perfect for Halloween.