The Old Carson - Yaren Obando

A friend told me once about a supernatural event that occurred about five years ago to his older brother, while working as a part-time security guard in one of his graveyard shift at an abandoned hospital.

The Ft. Carson hospital and mental clinic that is located in the outskirts of Colorado, was once a facility used to keep German and Italian prisoners of war. The facility was closed around 1961 and demolished a couple of years later to build this so called hospital. The hospital has now been closed for more than twenty years and still is being patrolled by authorities to keep homeless people out. ('Warning trespassers will be prosecuted").

The Spirit of War - Chau Ta

The Vietnam War inflicted pain on many Vietnamese and American families. Over 300,000 people died during this tragic 20-year conflict. Despite the international treaties established during the Geneva Convention of 1949 against the inhumane treatment of prisoners of war and wartime civilians, the Vietnam War did not abide by these terms. There are many accounts regarding the torture of war captives that were beat with fists, clubs, and rifle butts. This brutality caused the death of many soldiers in prison. Although many bodies were identified after the end of the war, the bodies of hundreds of thousands of soldiers have not been accounted for and given the proper burial. In the Vietnamese culture, it is important to provide a proper burial for deceased family members in order to give the spirit peace. It is thought that wandering spirits that are not given the proper burial will stay to haunt the living. Therefore, Vietnamese culture is deeply rooted with superstitions that dictate the appropriate treatment of the body after death.

Haunted History - Kenneth Tollefson

During the beginning of 2009, I was part of a very unusual occurrence that took place in Littleton CO. A group of us had gathered at my cousins house to celebrate his seventeenth birthday. A while passed and we decided to venture down to an old barn by his house that had been around for many years, before anything around it had been built. Many people had claimed that this particular barn was haunted. When we approached the barn we realized it was fenced and listed as government property, but of course, being young teenagers that did not stop us from going around the fence and completely ignoring the “do not enter” signs.

It was late at night and the only light around was a full moon and the lighting emitted from our cell phones. After tripping and stumbling on ditches and logs we finally made it to the barn door. After gathering up the courage we slowly entered the antique barn finding many old meat hooks lining the walls and dangling from the ceiling as well as what seemed to be animals or some creatures moving around the floor. Two of my friends and I decided to climb to the top of the barn to see if anything could be lurking about.