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Ghosts Walk
What do you get if you have three rookie ghost hunters and an Asylum where spirits walk? You get an evening filled with adventures and some scares that will keep you turning the pages. This short story will take you inside the walls of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Located in the state of West Virginia.
42 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 12, 2014
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May 31, 2016
This short e-book "Ghosts Walk" written by Jack Okorn is about a family trip of Josh, Lisa and Sarah from their home in Pennsylvania to tour the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (1864-1994) in Weston, West Virginia. A national historic landmark, and the largest cut stone masonry the U.S. the gothic asylum is also recognized for high paranormal activity of sightings, sounds and voices and featured on many ghost hunting programs. The asylum is open to the public for guided tours.
The introduction of the book covers a bit of the asylum history, and it served as a military station during the Civil War. Originally built to accommodate 250 residents/patients, by the peak of admissions in the 1950's the asylum was severely overcrowded with over 2500 residents. Combined with substandard and poor care due to staff shortages, lack of funding and resources, the bad publicity, asylums fell out of public favor for smaller direct care placements in community settings.
The narrator Josh tells this story in first person, while it is somewhat interesting, the three were self-defined ghost hunters, taking the late night tour lasting several hours. It was unlikely that they toured without a guide (never mentioned), and a few of these stories of ghost sightings seemed a bit far fetched, many scenes/sightings seemed likely staged by staff as part of the "haunted" tour. Okorn doesn't say this, but its easy to draw this conclusion. Some of the content needs to be written better, punctuation and improvement in the presentation of material. The photo of the asylum on the book cover is really good, also the ghostly apparition photo inside the book. 2* FAIR.
The introduction of the book covers a bit of the asylum history, and it served as a military station during the Civil War. Originally built to accommodate 250 residents/patients, by the peak of admissions in the 1950's the asylum was severely overcrowded with over 2500 residents. Combined with substandard and poor care due to staff shortages, lack of funding and resources, the bad publicity, asylums fell out of public favor for smaller direct care placements in community settings.
The narrator Josh tells this story in first person, while it is somewhat interesting, the three were self-defined ghost hunters, taking the late night tour lasting several hours. It was unlikely that they toured without a guide (never mentioned), and a few of these stories of ghost sightings seemed a bit far fetched, many scenes/sightings seemed likely staged by staff as part of the "haunted" tour. Okorn doesn't say this, but its easy to draw this conclusion. Some of the content needs to be written better, punctuation and improvement in the presentation of material. The photo of the asylum on the book cover is really good, also the ghostly apparition photo inside the book. 2* FAIR.
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