#lake shawnee amusement park

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The vanguard of a Rainbow of Halloween... draped in black and red...

sources: neondreams2145, ghostpyre, casketbound-archive (deleted post) at Lake Shawnee abandoned amusement park, Stavros Stamatiou's From A Raven’s Dream series, Nona Limmen via drugsandrainydays, wzroko, Cram and Ill Sung's Flirt With Death (Play For Free) album cover, bookphobe, Berserk (1997)

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Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, the abandoned amusement park built on a site with a dark history.

The skeletal remains of the little Lake Shawnee Amusement Park create an eerie atmosphere, which is appropriate, given also the site’s dark history. In fact, long before the amusement park was built, this was the site of a well-documented conflict between white settlers and the Indigenous Shawnee people. Hostorically, it was the late 18th century when Mitchell Clay moved his young family West…

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Terror At Lake Shawnee Amusement Park

In 1783 Mitchell Clay and his 13 children found some beautiful land in Princeton, West Virginia and decided to build their homestead there. People familiar with this slice of history say that the father truly may not have realized that his new land had been a Shawnee Native American trading post and burial ground; Mitchell may have honestly believed he was the first person there. Either way, this was a deadly mistake; understandably the Shawnee were none too pleased that their sacred grounds were suddenly inhabited by strangers. They quickly decided to do something about it, and Mitchell’s children would pay the ultimate price.

Young Tabitha Cole was attacked whilst washing clothes in the river, while her brothers Ezekiel and Bartley were taken from a field where they had been playing. The Shawnee stabbed and scalped Tabitha and Bartley; Ezekiel was taken to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he was promptly burnt at the stake. As soon as Mitchell heard that his children had been captured, he traveled to Chillicothe to save them; tragically he was just a few moments too late. The hysterical father took his children back home to bury, then retaliated by killing several Shawnee.

We’ll skip ahead to 1926, when Conley T. Snidow purchased the land and built Lake Shawnee Amusement Park. It was really a nice place; there were cabins, a dance hall, swimming pool, a lake with canoes and paddle boats, rides such as swings and a carousel. It was a very popular destination in it’s heyday, and thousands of people spent their hard earned money to vacation there with their families; it was especially loved by coal miners.

Once this place opened, more tragedy ensued. Several people were reported to have died in freak accidents at the park. One little girl was hit by a truck as she swung on the circle swing; another little boy drowned while swimming after getting his hand stuck in a drain pipe, this poor kid was not found until late that evening.

By 1966 the owner was forced to shut the place down as there had just been too many tragedies. In the 80’s it’s owners planned to use the land as a fun mudding spot, when archaeologists heard of this they decided to excavate the area. They found foods from all over, weapons, beads, all sorts of artifacts, and many, many ancient Native American corpses. It seems that most of those buried on the land had been children who’d passed away from malnutrition, anemia, etc. Some of the excavated bodies date back to the 1200’s. The land was not fully excavated, there are believed to be another 3,000 bodies there today, peacefully undisturbed.

Lake Shawnee Amusement Park still stands, and is available for visits. The family who owns the property today is more than happy to give tours, and last I checked they open it up every weekend in the month of October. If you go, make sure to have your camera ready. The place is widely reported to be very haunted – many unexplained things often happen, and a bloody little girl in a dress can often be seen by the swings which move on their own.

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1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded. 1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town. 1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal. 1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality. 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court. 1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics. 1936 – A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors. 1940 – World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland. 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States. 1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. 1949 – The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association. 1958 – The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole. 1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people. 1960 – Niger gains independence from France. 1972 – The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. 1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188. 1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers. 1981 – Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi. 1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara. 1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction. 2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks. 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia. 2007 – Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping. 2010 – Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage. 2014 – A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China. 2014 – The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins. 2018 – Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan. 2019 – Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia. 2019 – Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.

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Lake Shawnee Amusement Park Rock, WV

This abandoned amusement park was said to have been built on an ancient American Indian burial ground in the 1920s. it was also the site of the massacre of the Clay family children. A few deaths took place at the amusement park while it was open, and it eventually shut down in 1966. Then in 1985, the park reopened after Gaylord White bought the land and returned the park to its glory days. It only stayed open for a year, and the paranormal activity on the grounds was quite apparent. Witnesses reported seeing a young girl who died on the swing ride, her ghost would wander around in a ruffled pink dress, covered in blood. The sounds of Native American chants have also been heard echoing through the trees.

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Y'all, if you ever find yourselves in southern WV and get the chance, do yourself a favor and go check out Lake Shawnee Amusement Park. It's absolutely beautiful during the day and once it gets dark it comes alive. Trust me, it'll make a believer out of you.

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Six Million Dollar Corpse

With the release of IT: Chapter Two, Braydon and Belinda decided to cover haunted amusement parks/carnivals. They discuss Kings Island in Mason Ohio, a 364 acre amusement park where the land has seen over 100 deaths. Following along with Lake Shawnee Amusement Park which was once an ancient burial ground for the Native Americans. Belinda also tells the true tale of Elmer McCurdy and how his mummified body travelled from carnivals to movie sets for over 60 years!!

EPISODE NOTES:

We start off with Belinda talking about Elmer McCurdy. He was a shot and killed at the age of 31 in 1911 after robbing a train in Okesa, Oklahoma. After his body was left unclaimed at the local funeral home, the undertaker took it upon himself to embalm the corpse and set him up for display. Visitors could see him if they put nickel in his mouth. In 1916 a traveling carnival came into possession of the corpse and had him for the next 6 years until they sold him to Louis Sonney and his travelling Museum of Crime. But after Sonney passed away the mummy was put into storage for the next 15 years.

Then his claim to movie fame came about when Elmer's body was used in the movie She Freak in 1967. In 1968 he was sold to Spoony Singh, the man who started the Hollywood Wax Museum. After a terrible windstorm knocked over the display in Mount Rushmore and broke fingers and toes off, Singh sold him to The Pike in Long Beach, California. He remained in the "Laff in the Dark" ride as a prop until a crew member from "Six Million Dollar Man" tried to move him. McCurdy's arm fell off and the police were called. He was finally laid to rest in 1977 with concrete on top of his casket. He will never go on another rollercoaster again.

Braydon starts off the spooky-coaster with some hauntings on King Island. In the 1800's the island had an ammunition factory but an explosion had caused around 100 deaths, possibly more. The amusement park was then built in 1972 and is the 10th largest in the world! The park features over 100 attractions, 14 rollercoasters and a 33 acre water park. But, in 1991 three people died in the same day. Two security guards were electrocuted to death in a pond and a drunk lady fell 20 metres to pavement and died upon impact when riding the Flight Commander. The park also features an Eiffel tower where a drunk man climbed to the top and then fell down the elevator shaft and again, died upon impact. He now haunted the tower and is called "Tower Johny."

Johny isn't the only ghost. There is a little blonde girl between the age of six and nine, she's dressed in a blue dress and can be seen running in the car park. Her ghost is called "Tram Girl" because she runs in front of oncoming trams and stops on the tracks forcing the tram drivers to stop immediately. "Racer Boy" is an apparition that can be seen before or after sunset. He haunts the Racer previously known as the "Shooting Star" at Coney Island where the ride was bought from. The are reports of a boy falling out of the cart on the ride and being crushed to death on the tracks by another on coming cart. The Racer Boy is believed to be that young man. To make things worse, Kings Island also has a cemetery called "Dog Street". There are graves there dating back to 1803. The park is still active today.

Why stop at 2 stories? Belinda talks about Lake Shawnee Amusement park that was abandoned in 1966. Though the park is open for tours during October and can be book for private events, it is not in operation and everything is grown over. The land was once the scene of a horrible event the massacre of the Clay children by the Shawnee Native American tribe who scalped two of their victims. Though the Clay men killed some of the natives in retaliation, they still executed the third Clay child by burning him at the stake. The farm owned by the settlers was sold off some years later to Conley T. Snidow in the 1920's. He then built the park with with circular swings, a ferris wheel, a water slide, a dance hall, a speakeasy and opened up the pond and swimming whole complete with canoes.

The park had seen about six deaths but closed after two young children had died there. A young girl riding the circular swings was killed instantly when a truck backed into the path of the ride. Her ghost sometimes appears and she is still wearing the pink ruffle dress she was wearing but now its covered in blood. ON another occasion a young boy was swimming in the pond when his arm got caught in a drain and he drowned to death. The park was bought 20 years after being closed and the current owner says he can hear children's laughter, footsteps and the swings moving. When approaching the swings there seems to be cold air around them but a warmth inside the seats. A man can be seen sitting on the ferris wheel quite often though it would be impossible for anyone to get upn there. A visitor has even been locked in an old ticket booth even though it can't be locked.

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Lake Shawnee | Abandoned Theme Park | West Virginia | USA | HD

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As a person from WV who's been there, I would love to read a story about this place. An SPN fanfic would work perfectly tbh

Lake Shawnee Amusement Park - Princeton, West Virginia. It was initially opened in 1926, but closed in 1966 after the accidental deaths of a couple of kids. It was reopened in 1985 then again closed in 1988. Paranormal activity includes disembodied voices, Native American chanting, unexplained sounds and some of the long abandoned rides will move on their own. There is also said to be a full-bodied apparition of a man in one of the Ferris Wheel cars.

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Lake Shawnee: America’s Most Haunted Amusement Park This abandoned West Virginia amusement park has a bloody history.

It has been decades since the Lake Shawnee Amusement Park buzzed with the laughter of children.

But according to local legend, the park is still a playground for ghosts.

The southern West Virginia park was abandoned in 1966, after the accidental deaths of two of its young patrons. But it seems Lake Shawnee’s haunted history reaches much farther back.

Mercer County was home to a Native American tribe until 1783, when a European family’s attempt to settle the land sparked a violent turf war. The patriarch of the family was a farmer named Mitchell Clay, according to the Wyoming County Report. While he was out hunting, a band of Native Americans reportedly killed his youngest son, Bartley Clay. A daughter, Tabitha, was knifed to death in the struggle. Eldest son Ezekial was kidnapped and burned at the stake. Mitchell Clay enlisted the help of other white settlers to seek vengeance for his family. After burying his children, he murdered several of the Native Americans.

Centuries later, in the 1920s, a businessman named Conley T. Snidow purchased the site of the Clay farm and developed it into an amusement park. He built a swing set, a ferris wheel, and opened up the pond for swimming.

But death still hung over that cursed parcel of land.

A little girl in a pink ruffled dress met her end after climbing into the circling swing set. She was killed after a truck backed into the path of the swing. Another little one, this time a boy, drowned in the amusement park’s swimming pond.

According to Visit West Virginia, the park’s rides were responsible for a total of six deaths.

The park eventually shut down, but its structures were left to rot and rust.

The park’s new owner, Gaylord White, says he can hear the wooden swings creak, though it may not be the wind that pushes them.

“Sometimes the seat will start to move underneath your hand until you feel cold air blowing through the seat,” Gaylord White II told the Travel Channel. “And when you get to the middle you feel something warm. And we believe that’s her spirit.”

The younger White said he’s even seen the little girl, with her dress covered in blood.

“She looked at me and as long as she looked at me, I couldn’t move,” he said.

Paranormal investigators now frequent the site. It has also been featured on the Discovery Channel’s “GhostLab” and the Travel Channel’s “The Most Terrifying Places in America.”

Lake Shawnee has now opened up for daring visitors who want to see the place for themselves. Flashlights are mandatory, though you may not like what you see.

[Carol Kuruvilla, New York Daily News]

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The Lake Shawnee Abandoned Amusement Park

October 08, 2021

In 1775, a man named Mitchell Clay, Mercer County’s first white settler and his family made their home on the land that the Lake Shawnee Amusement Park would be on 150 years later. However, Mercer County was home to a Native American tribe and Mitchell’s settlement began a violent turf war between the two. 

In 1783, a group of Shawnee Native Americans murdered Mitchell’s son, Bartley and daughter, Tabitha. The Native Americans took the third child, Ezekiel and burned him at the stake. Mitchell Clay, along with a group of white settlers decided to seek revenge on the Native Americans and murdered several of them. 

Over 150 years later, a man named Conley T. Snidow purchased this land and turned it into an amusement park that started in 1926 and ended up in business for 40 years, before shutting down in 1967. Conley had built a swing set, a ferris wheel and had opened up the pond for swimming. 

The current owner, a man named Chris White, whose father, Gaylord White bought the amusement park in the 1980′s, claims that during the park’s time they would rent out wool bathing suits for 15 cents and there was also two water slides and multiple diving boards for families to enjoy. 

Lake Shawnee Amusement Park also had a speakeasy and a dance hall. With lots to offer, this place was extremely popular in the summer time for children and adults to have fun. 

However, many tragedies struck Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, including the death of two boys who drowned - one in the lake which wasn’t meant for swimming, and the other in the pond which was meant for swimming. Another little girl died accidentally in 1966 when a truck delivering drinks backed into the swings which she was occupying at the time. Chris White says this was the reason that the amusement park closed, though other sources claim it closed due to failing an inspection. 

There is supposedly 6 deaths that occurred while the amusement park was opened for 40 years.

Gaylord White, who is now deceased, but had worked at the amusement park as a youth, had bought the park in the 1980′s and re-opened it for a few years. The White family had brought in a ferris wheel and had accidentally found the original swings that used to be in the park. The White’s also added some paddle boats, bumper boats and a stage. 

The amusement park’s reboot was short lived, ending three years later when insurance rates forced them to close it down again. In the early 1990′s the White family made a discovery. Chris said they were bulldozing when they came across some artifacts such as arrowheads and pots. They got a team from Marshall University to come out and take a look, where they eventually discovered multiple children’s graves, where experts believe there are at least 3000 bodies buried there. 

Many believe that a bad flu went around, and in order to save the tribe, many left the area leaving behind the elderly and kids, which is seemingly who many believe these remains belong to. 

Given the tragic history of the place, it is not hard to believe that many think the abandoned amusement park is haunted which has gained much attention to it. The Whites began giving tours during the week of Halloween in the 1990′s, which then attracted ghost hunters, even the discovery channel filmed at the park. 

One incident that happened was when an investigator had gotten stuck in one of the old ticket booths. Apparently she was screaming for help and was pushing on the push door but it wouldn’t open. 

Chris White also said his dad had an encounter with the little girl who had lost her life on the swings in 1966. Gaylord White had been mowing the field when he felt a weight on his shoulders. He turned around and saw a little girl from the swings wearing a ruffled dress. 

It has also been reported that the wooden swings will creak and you can feel a warm presence on the seat, supposedly being the little girl. Another report claimed that the little girl appears with blood on her dress, and as long as she’s looking at you, you are unable to move. 

Some visitors have reported hearing footsteps, mysterious chants, and children. The amusement park has been featured as one of the most terrifying places in America, as well as one of the 10 most haunted places in the world. 

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Hey, West Virginia, what the fuck?

The Haunted Lake Shawnee Amusement Park

It’s not a large and colorful amusement park, all that resides are a set of swings, a Ferris wheel, and the lake itself. It’s not very imposing, but the land has seen true tragedy.

This is why many people believe that Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, West Virginia is haunted. 

Keep reading

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Robots hoy – Lugares terribles – La maldición del Santo – ¿Por qué tenemos que morir?

CUARTO MILENIO – Programa 17×03 – 19/9/2021

ROBOTS HOY

El pasado 20 de agosto se presentó el proyecto Tesla Bot, de la empresa Tesla, un robot humanoide que, gracias a la tecnología Autopilot, es capaz de montar sus vehículos y ayudarnos en nuestras tareas diarias. Este avance ha puesto sobre el tapete el viejo debate sobre si los robots constituirán un problema a largo plazo, si serán capaces de sustituir a los seres humanos y si, en definitiva, serán una amenaza más que una ayuda. Para debatir estas y otras cuestiones son visitan el youtuber Roma Gallardo, el técnico microinformático, productor y sintesista Roberto Lloreda y el Concejal Delegado de Innovación y Emprendimiento del Ayuntamiento de Madrid Ángel Niño.

LUGARES TERRIBLES

Iniciamos una nueva sección de la mano de Carmen Porter sobre lugares poco convenientes para pasear en la noche. Esta semana se centrará en Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, en Princeton (EE.UU.), un parque de atracciones con una historia luctuosa a sus espaldas. Se cree que el emplazamiento donde se construyó el parque fue protagonista de una masacre por una disputa de tierras a mediados del siglo XVIII. Tras la construcción del parque de atracciones se produjeron numerosos accidentes con niños con consecuencias fatales.

LA MALDICIÓN DEL SANTO

En la localidad extremeña de Tornavacas, existe una casa que, desde la antigüedad, albergó una talla de San Juan Bautista, que iban cuidando entre los vecinos. Según algunos de los habitantes del pueblo, dicha talla, por circunstancias poco aclaradas, parece haber desatado una oleada de mala suerte entre quienes se burlaron y actuaron sacrílegamente contra ella. Es la historia del santo maldito de la casa de la Arcilla, que hoy visitaremos de la mano de un equipo capitaneado por nuestra compañera Clara Tahoces.

¿POR QUÉ TENEMOS QUE MORIR?

Es la gran pregunta que la humanidad se ha formulado desde que tiene consciencia de sí misma. Si al morir desaparecemos sin dejar rastro, ¿para qué sirve entonces la existencia? Y, si al morir, nos espera una vida eterna en un Edén, ¿para que habitamos esta breve antesala? La filosofía que encierran estas preguntas pasa por comprender el concepto de “duración”, la del Universo, la de nuestro propio planeta, que tiene fecha de caducidad. Todo tiene su momento para dejar de existir.

En torno a ello hablamos con J. E. Campillo, catedrático de Fisiología y Premio Nacional de Investigación.

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Lake Shawnee Amusement Park Mercer County, West Virginia

In the late 1700s there was a bloody altercation between a white settler named Mitchell Clay and the local tribe of Shawnee Indians. This resulted in the tragic death of 3 of the Clay children and a number of Shawnee warriors.

Some say that these deaths have left a curse on the land. This may well be the case because in the 1920s a local businessman bought the land and built the Lake Shawnee Amusement Park.

Over the next couple of years several people died in accidents at the park and it ended up closing down in 1966.

The abandoned remains of the park are now considered to be one of the most haunted locations in West Virginia.

There are regular paranormal tours of the property and many people have reported seeing apparitions of a man and a little girl dressed in pink.

[littlefeather-wolf]

LAKE SHAWNEE AMUSEMENT PARK

(PRINCETON, WEST VIRGINIA) ... ADDRESS: 4213 Beckley Road, Princeton, West Virginia 24740 USA ... Lake Shawnee Amusement Park was established around 1920 by Conley T. Snidow ... The amusement park was abandoned in 1966 ... This amusement park is called “The Cursed Park”, and for good reason ... On the amusement park grounds, archaeologists discovered a massive Native American grave complete with several artifacts ...Thirteen bodies were discovered on the property, though archaeologists believe the number could be upwards of 3,000 ... Many people attribute a curse to the mass grave, which could explain the six deaths that occurred in the amusement park during its years of operation, including a six-year-old girl being hit by a truck on the swingsets in the last photo ... The current owner, Gaylord White II, says even he’s experienced strange unexplainable sights, feelings, and especially sounds ... In 2005 while filming the popular ABC show Scariest Places on Earth, the entire crew, including one psychic, refused to set foot on the grounds at night, saying that the “spiritual energy [was] too strong,” and claiming to have heard drums and chanting.... ✊