Purgatory

So why is a big empty lot on 31st and N. Classen supposed to be scary?  Well this used to be the spot of Club Purgatory, a heavy metal club where a group of partiers supposedly fell from from the balcony and died.  Before that, the club was the site of an Episcopal Church where it's rumored a priest hanged himself.  When I lived in this area as a kid, every time I passed the church turned night club I would get a creepy feeling and I still get that feeling just passing the empty lot. 

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any pictures online of what it used to look like, but we can use our imagination 

Haunted Mansion?

This is the Overholser Mansion, built in 1902 by a family that is considered in some ways to be among OKC's founding fathers. The home is now a museum, undergoing restoration (see the ladder?). There is a rumor that the family loved their home so much that they did not want to leave it behind when they passed.

The Haunted Plaza Court

This is one of my favorite buildings in town, and it's home to a handful of successful businesses - including my favorite hamburger joint, a wonderful bakery, a pub, and a YMCA. But rumor has it that if you find yourself here alone at night, you will hear other people in the hallways. The story as I heard it was this: Many decades ago, in the early 1900s, this building was host to a fraudulent and popular doctor. People put their faith in him to heal them of their cancers and other serious illnesses, when he in fact was only taking their money and putting on a show... so that a number of patients died of their diseases without ever having received proper care. And they are still there, looking for their treatment.

Halloween Month

I'm-a gonna tell you a secret. I know that zombies are totally "in" right now as far as horror, sci-fi, and Halloween goes... but I hate zombies. Seriously, they make me wanna throw up in my mouth a little bit. Fido and Sean of the Dead were hilarious, and so was that movie with the guy who was obsessed with Twinkies, whatever it was called... but zombies are nasty. When my husband dressed as a zombie one Halloween I absolutely forbade he touch me until after the party and he was washed up. I mean really. GROSS. EW. You see him up there? No way am I snuggling THAT.

Anyhow, did you know that Halloween is a whole month long? We here in the OKC celebrate Halloween from Oct 1 to Nov 6, that's how much we love Halloween. In fact, OKC hosts one of the country's only after dark Halloween parades, Ghouls Gone Wild, featuring its finale, the Flaming Lips' "March of 1000 Skeletons". So I'm gonna try to make all of my October posts Halloween or spooky/haunted related. Wish me luck! I apparently lost the photos I took on the haunted OKC tour a few years back - so sad! I don't even think that tour is operational anymore.

Here are links to past posts OKC Images has featured of haunted places!
The Rupert-Pennington Tomb
The Marion
 Kaiser's
The Skirvin Hilton