field, decrepit and covered in ivy. Although the original building has been abandoned for over forty years it is still
fairly safe to enter. The Industrial School is without a doubt one of the most active locations we have ever visited.
Although it has long been abandoned it seems as if some of the former residents are unwilling to vacate. It has
been reported to us that although the its mission was education, over the years it transformed into more of a juvenile
delinquent housing facility. The Industrial School and the old and new Lakin Psychiatric hospitals are divided by
route 62. The original offices are still in use and are located next to the new hospital. We were surprised to find the
paranormal activity was also very strong around the old hospital and in the old homes scattered around the state
farm.
school has just become to high profile and some nights is literally full of people which really affects our ability to do
an investigation. We were lucky though because on this investigation we only ran into one group of six very nice
people. They were also helpful because they were more knowledgeable of the area than we were.
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West Virginia Industrial School Lakin, West Virginia |
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October 15., 2005 |
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6:00pm - 1:45am |
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Fair ( Mostly Clear Skies) Temp: 68° @ 6:30pm falling to 47° @ 1:30 am |
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4 cam CCTV, EMF (4), Digital Still Cameras (4), IR Thermometer (2), 1 Hi8 Cam, 1 DVD Cam, 1 MiniDV Cam, Dig. Voice Recorder (3) |
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Fairly quiet night. The only thing we really ran into were "the living." A nice group of people were there looking around for a couple of hours with us. |
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of the ordinary.(above) The third floor which is mostly two big rooms and (right) the back of the building.
back and there were no lights anywhere in the area.
of the last great haunted sites in West Virginia. Rumors are circulating that the building will be demolished in the
Spring of 2006
was back in 1960 and 1968. Across the road the West Virginia Industrial School for Colored Boys. Through our research and combing
through papers that were left in one of the outbuildings many of the hospital patients were sent to the Lakin State Farm and the West
Virginia School Industrial School to perform hard labor
all literally covered with ectoplasm. (right)
One of the old buildings out back.(left) The
new building was also literally covered with
ectoplasm. These were taken on a clear night
with no fog at all.
picture I have taken and the object was accompanied by an EMF spike and an outdoor cold spot. Of the 100+ pictures I took in on my
exterior investigation of the offices at least 30 contained orbs, 10 ectoplasm, ans 20 other various phenomena. I had several spikes on
the EMF, the strongest being in the same location as the orb on the window, in one of our pictures. This patch of four orbs was also
located by the EMF Detector spike of around 5 milli-gauss. (right-bottom) As you can see on the picture there is a streak present in front
of the window, in the right of the picture. Right before we took this picture we had seen a streak very similar to this one moving toward
one of the other windows.
