Paranormal tours offered at former psychiatric hospital

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 27 Oct, 06:08 · Archive

Halloween visitors are taking guided paranormal investigation tours at a former psychiatric hospital in suburban Detroit and a former funeral home in Toledo, Ohio. The Eloise Asylum attraction offers tours of its upper floors where patients were treated, led by paranormal investigation company Michighost Paranormal. Visitors can either join guided tours or set out on their own with rented equipment such as handheld electromagnetic field (EMF) metres.

Justin Cox, founder of Michighost Paranormal, said guests experience being touched, grabbed, finding handprints on clothing and being whistled at during the tours. 'Everything that you can imagine has happened here, and we've heard it all,' he said. Those involved in the paranormal field believe that trauma creates hauntings, and Cox described the facility as 'super haunted' given its history.

The Eloise Asylum began as a 19th-century poorhouse and expanded into a complex with dozens of buildings. By the late 1920s it was one of the nation's largest public health facilities. Family members of patients and others with ties to Eloise have objected to the for-profit use of the site, arguing against offering commercial amusement at a location where vulnerable people suffered.

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• Tours offer Halloween enthusiasts visits to former psychiatric hospital and funeral homeHalloween enthusiasts are seeking "real" scares at a former psychiatric hospital and funeral home.Clickorlando · 27 Oct, 05:15
• Tours offer Halloween enthusiasts visits to former psychiatric hospital and funeral homeHalloween enthusiasts are seeking "real" scares at a former psychiatric hospital and funeral home.News4Jax · 27 Oct, 05:15

In this story: Eloise Asylum · Westland · Detroit · Toledo · Ohio · Michigan · Justin Cox · Michighost Paranormal

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