My experience of a paranormal tour of a mental asylum

On Saturday 19th December, I was lucky enough to be invited to join a ghost tour of the old Glenside Mental Asylum in Adelaide by my dear friend Pauline. I am guessing there was about

30 people lined up outside on a very hot 40 degree Adelaide night waiting anxiously to hear of

the history of the building and to experience any paranormal activity.

While waiting outside to go in, I was drawn to one particular window on the 2nd floor. I was thinking once we get inside I hope i get to go into that room. It was very hot inside and it smelt old, musty, like amonia or hospital smell. Our two guides gave us a short talk on the nature of the building and the type of peope who were incarcerated there. People who had murdered others and were classed as criminally insane were locked away in there and also people who suffered with mental illness were put there.

We were allowed to venture through the place for a bit in our groups and just wander through the cells to see what we could feel, sense, smell, see. I immediately headed up the stairs and walked across into a room, which had number 30 on the door. The room was empty, just one window which could not be opened. I looked out the window into the carpark area and realised I was in the same room I had seen from when I was looking at the building from the outside. I found it hard to breathe while in there, like I was feeling suffocated. I left the room to join the rest of the group to listen to more stories about different cells.

I could feel the evilness in some area's and such lighteness in other area's. I could feel such sadness from energies that would have been there, that felt they were in the wrong place. I remember standing alone in a cell and looking at the window and I could feel such appreciation for the freedom I have today. I could just imagine someone locked in the cell who had no control over their mind, and to look at the outside through glass and not be able to feel the breeze on my face. I was thinking what if it was the late 1800's and I had parkinsons disease or bipolar or alzheimers and the doctors thought that was a mental illness that could not be treated and i was put in this institution and locked away when i was totally sane or just confused I could hear the word "freedom" through so many rooms, like that is all anyone ever wanted while they were in there, to be free of evil thoughts, to be free to live life, to be free of disease, to just be FREE!!

We were in a bathroom area and before we went in I felt a female had been raped in there. I stood near the hand basin and listened to the guide describing what they knew from this room. A lot of the accounts are also from others who have witnessed paranormal activity while in there or historical documents they have. As I listened I felt the energy of a female near me on my left and on my right I felt an evilness. The guide explained that a nurse had been raped in that bathroom and probably met her death there and she was being held there still by the evil energy. In my mind I connected with the female energy and asked her to come with me, to leave there, but as I connected with her, i felt this evilness push me toward the hand basin which made me feel as though i was going to fall over. I felt very whoozy and decided to let it go, if she was choosing to stay then so be it, she had the option to follow me and get out of there but I felt she didn't and stayed.

We then went into a recreation room. Our guide was telling the story of how someone was murdered in the room and they had discovered the murderer's name was William Blight. I did a bit of a cough as that name startled me, I had a William Blight as an ancestor on my fathers side. The guide looked at me and I said," I am related to William Blight," he then said they found out

it was actually Richard Blight that was the murderer. I was thinking how uncanny that I am on that tour my maiden name was Blight and he tells the story about a man with that surname, he never mentioned any other surnames just that one!

We then had a choice to do what's called a lock down. We could go into a cell for 10 minutes in complete darkness and be locked in there, no torch, no phone, just to sit or stand and feel what we could from the cell. Of course I chose to go into lock down in room 30. I sat there for the 10 mintues and could feel the energy of an aboriginal man next to me, he was happy to see me in there. I felt no fear, I remember smiling with him, that it was a nice feeling to connect with him. He was energetically connecting with me telling me he didn't believe he should have been there and that he was still there. The 10 minutes were up and we all gathered in the hallway to tell the guides of our accounts. No one put their hand up to say anything, so I decided to tell the guide about seeing or feeling an aboriginal man in cell 30. The guide said," why did you say aboriginal man? I said because "i felt him, I felt he was still here. " The guide said,"are you a sensitive? as it's funny you should say that, do you know any history of this building?" and I said "no, i never heard of it until tonight". He said, "it's only been in the last 2 months that we have found the remaining bones of an aboriginal man on this site and no one would know that only about 4 people".

So all in all, I found it to be a very interesting night, I would recommend if you ever want to go on a ghost tour to do so, even if you don't experience anything paranormal, you will find the history of the buildings to be very insightful and you never know while you are there you may learn somethng about a ancestor or connect with a spirit that needs your help.