The Great Manor of Tehidy
In 1734 this place was built www.cornwall.gov.uk/images/tehidy%20%20circa%201900.jpg a rather lavish building with 40 bedrooms and a drawing room with a gold ceiling. in 1919 it was turned in to a hospital for TB sufferers, there is a large twisty tree in the ground covered with the initials of patients who went there to die. In 1983 the hospital was closed and left to fall in to disrepair. By the time I went to secondary school it had been abandoned for about 11 years. One night we were camping in the woods and we were telling ghost stories around the campfire. One story was that of Screaming Annie who haunted the hospital and would come down through the ceiling and kill you. We decided that we should go and look around. It was very easy to get inside but it didn't take us long to feel it was a bad idea. It was pitch black and only the lights from our crappy torches to see anything. No ultra bright LED torches back then. The walls were filthy and the place very dank. More frightening was the fact that all the hospital equipment or at least a lot of it had been abandoned with the building. There were beds, some still made, covered in thick dust. All sorts of machines and implements. It almost looked as if they were all at work one day and just dropped everything and left. We didn't stay in there long as we were very creeped out.

Years later I watched the remake of House on Haunted Hill. It freaked me out way more than it should have. It was just like the old hospital and bought back loads of memories of it. It still creeps me out today, not that we saw any ghosts or anything, just the whole vibe of it. They knocked it down a few years later and built luxury housing on it. Shame, I'd always hoped the legend of Screaming Annie would live on.
( Peej, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 15:52, Reply)