MOANS, FOOTSTEPS AND SHADOW PEOPLE ~ OH MY!

I am now a partner of Orange County Ghost Tours and Events and this past weekend we took a group up to LA to do a tour of one of the most haunted places in CA. Linda Vista Hospital.

I have been here before but find it so interesting to go to. This is an abandoned hospital that had been closed down due to the fact there were to many unexplained deaths taking place here.

This is the driveway that pulled up to the ER.

Years of layers and layers of paint are peeling away. It is said that even though the building has been abandoned for years, many of the workers and patients still roam the hall ways and are often still seen and heard.

Many believers and non believers of Ghosts have reported seeing someone looking out the windows when no one has been inside.

The lights are reported to turn on and off even though the place is empty and locked up.

I can't help but wonder how many people pulled these doors open to get treatment inside, only to never walk out alive.

What really happened in this hospital most likely will never really been known. We can only go by what has been documented and reported. We will try to determine what is true and what are made up stories.

It is said that Howard Hughes was once at this hospital. However, my investigations have show this is not true.

He was involved in an accident not far from the hospital and an ambulance was dispatched out to him, bringing him to another near by hospital. Mr. Hughes wanted his regular surgeon to work on him so the ambulance went to Linda Vista and picked up the surgeon.

Mr. Hughes was never brought to Linda Vista though the rumor still remains.



Our group broke up into three smaller groups. I lead one group and we started out by going through the underground tunnel that connects the main hospital to the building across the parking lot. That building used to be the Mental Ward.

It is in these tunnels the bodies of those who died at the hospital was brought so they could be placed on ice until they were removed for burial.

This area is a very active spot for the paranormal. Voices have been heard and full body apparitions have been seen.

Photos of a little girl, who is said to run around down here, have been taken.

The night we were there it was actually very quiet. We didn't have any activity here.



This area is down in the basement and now has what appears to be jail cells. This room originally was used as an unauthorized morgue until State came in a fined the hospital for doing that. The hospital was forced to stop storing bodies here and it had to be turned into a storage area.

There is a creepy feeling when you are in here. It's hard to explain but it is almost a feeling of sadness and fear tied in together.

Also, while we did our investigation, all the lights were out and it is super dark. At times you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. All these photos were taken with a flash so it makes it look completely different then it does in person.



This is up inside the Mental Ward. The original wall paper and floor tiles still remain.

Two people in my group claim they heard sounds and saw shadows of someone walking into one of the rooms while we were in this area.

Several of us also heard what sounded like talking and footsteps coming from down this hallway.

We followed the sounds down the hall but was unable to see anything. We did some EVP work which is where you try to capture voices and sounds on an audio recording. I have not listened to my recordings yet so I don't know if I caught anything and I have not heard back from the other members to see if they did either.

This is the room two people saw what they described as a shadow figure walking into. So we did some more EVP work.

I have to admit I didn't hear or see anything here.

While we would walk into rooms like this knowing full good and well that it was done either by vandals or by a film crew, it still would startle us.

Picture walking in a super dark room with only a flash light and then that flash light captures this.

While we were in the Mental Ward our walkie talkies stopped working. No one could hear us when we called out, though we could hear them. They also started to make strange sounds that sounded like a mix of different voices on there and long ringing noises.

When we went back out we spoke to Security who were out in the parking lot the whole time. They said their walkie talkies also acted up the same time as ours. They too heard the strange sounds and very clearly heard "Help Me".

They were not hooked up to the same station as our walkie talkies so we knew we were not hearing each other.

It's very possible that a spirit was trying to use our radio to make contact.

Perhaps during one of our EVP sessions when we asked if there is anything anyone needed they were able to use the radio waves and some how put out Help Me onto the waves of the security people.

No one could figure out how or why this would have happened to two different sets of walkie talkies that weren't even running on the same station but yet not effect the other two that were on the same station.

In this area of the basement several people have heard, seen and felt paranormal activity.

We had no type of activity in here.

Inside the main part of the hospital you really get a strange feeling. One just because you are walking around in the pitch dark but then you come across items that were once used when the hospital was up and running.

You can't help but wonder what took place in these rooms and if anyone died while laying in a bed or hooked up to some sort of machine.

Were these people really treated as poorly as the reports say? Did the staff really neglect the patients and allow so many to die?



You shine your flash light and find meters that were once useful to the daily operation of this hospital and now are stopped in time.

The cafeteria still has most of the equipment there. In days gone by this room was very active.

People eating there for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Talking about the patients and wondering if they would get better or not.

Staff taking their breaks and sharing in the daily gossip.

How many cups of coffee was served from this machine? To many to count.

The exam rooms were a bit creepy as they often had exam tables still in them. I couldn't help but wonder what type of treatment were given in these rooms.



This was the lobby area of the main entrance. Here people would check in or inquire about patients.

I'm sure many people received word that their loved one didn't make it while standing in this room.

Anything to do with babies always gives me a strange feeling. Were any of them allowed to die because it was just inconvenient to keep them alive? Did they die from lack of proper care?

I hate to think that could be true but apparently the reports say it is.

This door make me question where it once was? Why would they have a cut out window with metal in there? Was this a door to a room where they didn't want to enter because the patient was crazy or could harm someone?

Several people claim this gurney moves by itself. It has been pushed against the walls and down a hall.

Is there an orderly still hanging around? Perhaps a Dr. trying to get the patient to the operating room?

It didn't move while we were there. At least not that we saw.

It was down this hallway that we all heard the sounds of a woman moaning. We called out and said to make a louder noise so we could tell which room they were in. A few seconds later a louder moan was heard. This happened three different times.

We went down the hall to find where the moan was coming from but it stopped.

However, there is an orb in this picture. Could that be the spirit that was trying to get our attention?

We found a bottle full of medicine that was from 1984. It was Anectine Succinylcholine chloride. At the time we had no idea what it was used for.

I later looked it up and found out it was a skeletal muscle relaxant used in surgeries and emergency tracheal intubation. It is must be used very carefully as it is known to cause cardiac arrest in several patients.

Could this be one of the medications that was misused by the Drs?

Since we are not allowed to remove anything from inside the hospital we left it where we found it. Though I now wish I had removed it and gave it to security to dispose of properly. I did send an email and ask them to locate it and remove it.



Many film crews film at Linda Vista Hospital and a lot of the movies that are made there are Horror films.

They do not always clean up after a shoot.

Knowing this did not make it any less creepy when we came across several wall full of what appeared to be blood. Some with hand prints, some with words written and some with just blood splattered about.

Remember we are in the dark with only the dim light of a flash light as we come upon things.

I've never been a fan of dolls. They always gave me the creeps. So when we found this one laying in the hallway all I could think about was a Twilight Zone that had a doll come to life and said things such as "My name is Chatty Kathy and I don't like you" then "My name is Chatty Kathy and I'm going to kill you."

I brought this up while we were there. One of the other investigators recalled that same show and started to get really freaked out so we had to move on.

While standing down at this end of the hall we were doing more EVP work. It was then that three of us saw a shadow person walk from a room on the left side over into a room on the right side.

I have to admit this was something I was not expecting to see. We quickly went down to the other end where we saw the figure and tried to figure out what could have caused the shadow.

We were unable to come up with any reasonable explanation and all agreed what we saw was definitely paranormal.

After our investigation we were discussing what we saw and it turns out another team saw a shadow figure in this same hall only in a different area.

It has been reported that the ghost of a Dr. Edward had been seen several times making his rounds at night. Perhaps that is what we witnessed.

This chair has been reported to move on it's own. As if someone is sitting in it and pushing themselves across the floor or turning around in it.

We did some EVP work here and waited a fairly long time to see if we could catch any activity but nothing happened.

This hallway was where we all heard footsteps coming down it. Only no one was there. The footsteps sounded like an adult man walking down.

The really strange thing is the last time I was here I heard the same thing.

This area has also been the location of many reported sightings of ghostly figures, voices been heard and footsteps walking down the hall.

Whatever it is has never been able to be explained by any of the paranormal groups that have been there.

Our night was filled with mostly quiet time. However, we did have several unexplained things happen while we were there.

We all left Linda Vista Hospital the same as we arrived there, believing that this place is the home of many lost spirits who are trying to reach out to the world they once left behind.

A VERY ACTIVE PARANORMAL NIGHT!

OK, OK! I'm finally posting about my Paranormal investigation. I've had so many emails telling me to hurry up and post. I really had no idea how many of you were that interested in this.


So, first met up with a few friends and we carpooled to Los Angeles to a deli that has been around since 1931. It's called Canters and has been a very popular spot with lots of movie stars and big wigs in Los Angeles.

There we met up with several more investigators for dinner. The food was very good but to be honest, I had never even heard of the place before. Though I was the only one who hadn't.

I didn't see any famous people there but I did meet a lot of new friends.


I know a lot of people think that any one who investigates the paranormal is a strange wacko. But, the truth is most of the people I've met are really just down to earth normal people.

Oh wait, maybe I'm a strange wacko and don't know it so maybe we are all a bit strange.

After eating we drove to the Linda Vista Hospital that we were going to investigate. I was very surprised to see so many people there.

Most of the times it's a small group that goes to investigate. There were over 40 people there waiting to get in.

It worked out fine though because the hospital is so big and there is also a 2ND building that was the mental ward.

We split up in smaller groups and only once did I see anyone from the other groups inside where we were.

Linda Vista Hospital has been abandoned since 1991. It used to be a great hospital when it was first built but as the years went on and the area surrounding it became run down, the hospital started to lack in care.

This part of Los Angeles is a bad part of town. It is known to be in the heart of gang land. Lots of shootings, stabbings and attempted murder happens in this area and has for many years.

So the hospital became to busy, the quality of Doctors and staff became poor and many people died because of this.

The hospital closed down due to many unexplained deaths happening here and to many lawsuits.

It is said to be one of the most haunted places in So. California.

There was a film crew there finishing up when we first got there. So we had to wait outside until they were finished.

This hospital has been used for several films and TV shows. This night they were filming some horror film.

I decided to walk around outside and take some photos from the outside.

No those are not tons of orbs! It was really dusty out. The dirt was being tossed around from everyone walking and a breeze that was blowing.

As I was walking around I did get a feeling like someone was watching me and the girl I was with. She felt the same thing.

We then looked up and it looked like a dark shadow of person was standing in the window.

This was over at the Mental Ward where it was still locked up and no one had been allowed inside yet.

The film crew was over at the main hospital area.

All the lights were off in the building that was the Mental Ward. We walked around and tried to open all the doors. We could not find a way in.

Did we see a former patient watching us? We don't know. It could have just been us excited about our up coming investigation.

It is super dark outside the hospital. If not for my flash you wouldn't be able to see anything. Again, lots of what appears to dust showed up in this area. Though some would like to think these are all orbs of all the Spirits around.

They could be, but I don't think they are. I'm a big skeptic and if there is any doubt I will lean the way of the explanation. Some will always believe everything is Paranormal. I have no real way of knowing.

It was finally time for our investigation to start. The film crew had all cleared out and left the parking lot.

We entered through the side door. It was right where the old Physical Therapy department used to be.

At this point, I was the first person in our group to reach this area. No one was ahead of me. This is important because if you blow up this picture, down the hall you can see the figure of a woman. It looks like she is walking towards the door into another room.

I can promise you, no one was there! No one saw this person when were there. Yet she is on the photo.

Click on the photo and see if you can see her.

This was one of the patient rooms. The rooms were much smaller then they are today and had two beds per room.

There was a sink and toilet in each room but showers had to be taken down the hall.

We came across this room. It appeared to be the morgue. Some of the old equipment was still there. Though it was odd that it was so clean.

I did have to laugh at this point because there were some people who kept saying "they felt Spirits here" that they felt like people who have died were still hanging out in this room.

Again, being a skeptic I don't tend to believe when others say this. It seems like some (a few) are people who so badly want to known for being able to detect Spirits that they "feel" or "hear" spirits all the time.

I walked across the room to the area in this picture. The refrigerators for the dead bodies. One person held their hand up to the doors and kept going on and on about someone who had been placed in there was sad and felt trapped.

So, I went to open the doors. Guess what? There was only a wall behind it. These were not real! This room is one used for filming awhile ago.

Guess that person who felt something only felt foolish here. I didn't say anything to them, but I just turned and walked away.

Now I'm not trying to make fun of anyone (well maybe a little) but there are some people who are just looking for stories to tell people and not really into investigating the paranormal. I think those type of people give the rest of us a bad name.

The hospital was eerie inside though. It was pitch black and without our flash lights we wouldn't be able to see a thing.

Some places appeared to look like the staff just walked away. There were still medical items, patient files and equipment left behind.

The patient files were real. Not some prop from filming. I looked through them and read some. They were back from the early 1970's. It was odd that they got left behind. Were they left in hopes they would get lost? Were these files of patients that died and no longer were needed for later?

I don't know.

I wanted to take them home and do some research on the names but was talked out of taking them with me. So they remained behind.

This was where the Dr. would change their clothes and keep their belongings until they went home.

This room was really creepy! Though we know vandals did this, it was still a strange place to be.

It almost had the feeling of evil in there. I left this room and didn't go back.

Walking through the long halls were a bit scary. You really could not see a thing except what your flash light was shinning on.

At times several people would hear walking and everyone would stop and get super quiet. If several people heard the same thing then we would stop in those area and do an EVP session.

That is where everyone turns off their lights and it's pitch black, recorders are on and questions are asked. It is believed that Spirits can then use every one's energy to make noise or talk so the recorders can pick up their voices. Sometimes they can be heard in real time but other times only the recorder picks up the sounds.

We also used K2 meters which measures electrical fields and it's said that a spirit that walks by them will picked up and the lights will flash from green to red. Some spirits can minupulate the K2 meter and be able to make them light up when they want to. That way you can ask questions and the spirit can communicate with us.

We were only the 2ND Paranormal group to get to go into the Mental Ward building. It is said that this area is really haunted and room 323 is where a mean spirit lives. They don't like to be bothered and have pushed people out. One girl went in and felt like she was attacked. When she came out she had her friend look at her back and it was all scratched up and bleeding like she was attacked.

I was excited about going in this room. Though several in my group wouldn't go in. They just hung out in the hall.

There is a few items of furniture still in the room. There is a bathroom with a bath tub that connects the room to the next door.

Sadly we didn't hear, feel or see anything in there.

This is the bathroom that connects the room.

We did do an EVP session out in the hall. It was super strange because we heard what sounded like two people screaming. Not the sort of screaming you would make when you were scared but more the screaming that you would hear from Patients that were not of sound mind.

The screams were not by the room 323 but down the hall. Down near other patient rooms were.

We played back the recordings and you could hear the screams on the recording also. We walked down the hall to where we heard the screams and no matter how far we walked the screams would be further down the hall or a different hall. It was as if the sound was traveling as we walked towards it.

I have to say it was one of the most creepy moments of the night.

Sadly our time in the Mental Ward was up and we had to switch back to the Hospital so another group could have their turn inside there.

We don't know if they heard, saw or felt anything in there or even if they went up to the 3rd floor.

Everyone was going to review everything at home then post it on a board so everyone else could see what they caught.

Back at the hospital we went down the basement area. There was some old hospital supplies there.

This baby crib/bed made me feel sad.

The old incubator also made me feel sad. I wondered how many babies died in there. I don't like to think about children being sick.

This was another room on the 1st floor that made me laugh. Those same people who "felt" something in the fake morgue felt something in this room. They claimed that they were being told that the doctors abused patient in this room.

The fact that this room was again, clean was my first hint that it too was most like a room that filming takes place in.

So I went to open up drawers and things and once again found it was a prop
room.

Now, that being said, I don't know what this room or the fake morgue was used for before so while I shrug at what those who claim to "feel and hear" things, I really can't say for sure they are making it up because I have no way to prove it one way or the other.

Yet, I can't say I believe them because they seem to sense these things in the rooms that look more like rooms where something happened. Plus, like I said, I'm a skeptic.

This is one of the old cafeteria rooms. While I didn't feel anything paranormal was in this room I still liked it. I loved looking at the old things. Then thinking about what it was like when this hospital was up and running.

This is one of the old elevators. It was in the back of the hospital that lead to the underground tunnel that went to the mental ward.

I couldn't help but wonder if they transported mental patients via this way so others didn't see them or hear them screaming and crying.

I love the old push buttons. I pictured patients running and pushing these buttons in an attempt to run away from the Dr. locking them up.

Yes, I have an active mind. I picture stories about old things at thrift stores and antique stores too.

Not all the graffiti was ugly. This took some time to draw. It was creepy thought because as we walked into the room and the flashlights hit it had a glow to it.

This was one of many areas that was either a check in room or a nurses station. I couldn't help but wonder how many people "Checked in but never checked out".

In one of the rooms down in the basement we came across this old gurney. It had what appeared to be old dried blood on it. Very gross.

This part of the building had a very Art Deco look to it. We were getting ready to walk into another area and I had a feeling someone was watching us from a different hall. So I turned around and just clicked my camera.

A few orbs showed up. I don't think these were dust because no one had been walking down this area. We actually came down a different hall and there was no breeze from outside or air conditioning.

However, it could be from dust. Due to the strange feeling I had and the fact that inside hardly any type of orbs showed up on any one's pictures I do believe it's not dust.

Though some people feel all orbs are from dust.

This was one of the old surgery rooms. This is the room where it has been reported by many people, that a little girl can be heard humming and crying. Also, a Dr. is said to have been seen going in and out of this room several times.

We did an EVP and K2 session in here. This by far was a high light of the night. All the flash lights were turned off, the room was black. Everyone was very quiet and we lined up against the walls. The two K2 meters were put in the center of the room so no one was near them.

We started to ask questions. First nothing. Then we all heard what sounded like a man walking outside the room in the hall. I say it was a man because it was the sound a mans shoes would make and heaver sounding then the sound a woman makes when walking.

Some people got freaked out and turned on the flash lights. We all talked about hearing the sounds and then played back one persons recording. You could hear the sound clearly.

So we quieted down, turn off the flash lights again and started to ask questions again.

Our group leader yelled out HELLO! Like he was yelling to someone out in the hall. That is when we heard "Hello" back.

People started to talk with excitement and someone turned his flash light on and walked down the hall to see if anyone was there. No one was around.

Our leader went on the walkie talkie and checked with the other groups. No one was even on the same floor as us. The closest group was three floors below us. The other groups were in the other building.

So we continued our EVP session and we soon heard walking coming in the room. A few people started to talk with excitement but was told to be quiet by our leader and then he asked who ever came in the room to go to the K2 meters and touch them so they would flash.

Right then the K2 meters started flashing from green to red. We then asked if more then one person was in the room with us. The 2ND K2 started to flash at the same time the other was flashing.

We asked a few questions and as if answering the questions the lights on the K2 would flash out the answer. The questions were yes and no answers. If the answer was no we asked them not to flash the meters. If it were a yes then to make them flicker.

Now I can not say for sure if these K2 meters really work but I can tell you that they flashed at the right times for them to be answers.

We would ask questions like "Are you a man?" and there would be no answer. So it was followed up with "So you are girl?" and it would flash. We would wait and then ask again "A girl right?" and it would flash. But, no flash when asked "so you are not a man, correct?".

It was so freaky! This went on for several minutes.

It turned out that it was little girl who had died during surgery and another lady who roams the hospital searching for her child.

The lady left shortly after she discovered her child was not in the room with us. The little girl stayed.

One person said "I love you" to her and more then 3/4 of the people in the room heard the voice of a little girl reply "I love you too". It was very faint but yet very clear.

Right as that happened the walkie talkie came on saying our time was up and we had to leave for the night.

No one wanted to leave but we had to. So everyone left the room. I started to let everyone go by me because I wanted to take some pictures of the room before we left. My friends, Claudia and Richard also stayed behind with me.

We clicked our photos and then went to leave.

As we were walking down the hall we were talking about how exciting it was and then we heard foot steps. We quickly stopped. I turned around and clicked this photo. You can see two orbs following us.

When we stopped the sounds stopped. Then we started to walk again and we heard them again.

We stopped again and held our flash lights up to see if anyone was there. No one was seen.

Claudia then turned on her K2 meter and it started to go off. She asked if the little girl was with us still and it went off as if saying yes. It stopped. She asked if the little girl wanted us to stay and it flashed again as if to say YES.

She told it that we had to go and she had to stay there. No flash. She asked if the little girl understood and it flashed again.

She repeated herself and said "Do you understand you have to stay here" and it flashed.

Then we heard loud foot steps again coming from the other direction. We held up our flash lights expecting to see someone coming to get us but no one was there.

The foot steps sounded like they were walking down the hall that crossed in front of us.

Notice in this photo that there is an orb down low as to where a child would be.

Then it was as if all the activity stopped. No more sounds, no hits on the K2 and no strange feelings.

So we left the building and met up with everyone inside.

I have to tell you this was by far the most activity I've ever experienced. While I didn't seem to catch to much in pictures I know what I heard and felt inside. It can not be explained.

Even as skeptic as I am, I have to say that I truly believe that Linda Vista Hospital is really haunted.

Sadly we were told that they are not going to allow Paranormal investigations there any more. That the owner may sell it as he is losing to much money every year and just wants to be rid of it.

I don't expect everyone to believe my story. Nor do I care if people do believe it. I know what happened that night. I know it can't be explained and I know I believe it.

I'm very very happy I got to go there before it closed down for good. It was a night I will never forget.