“You’re going to be coming inside of an actual haunted building to experience a haunted attraction and sometimes the ghosts like to get involved,” Waldridge said.Įntry is $15, a $30 VIP pass lets you tour the Bad Side and “meet” the actual spirits. It’s a spooktacular experience, where the spooky is sometimes all too real. We have a manager that you meet which she’s her own character and then you meet the other ones face-to-face.” Most places have the Freddy and Jasons,” Waldridge said. “This haunted house is actually based on the history the deaths and the hauntings that happened in the building. Previously, another group ran haunted houses out of the hotel, but Waldridge’s stories are true. It’s the first year his version of the haunted house will be open to the public. “That one is probably from the 1950s if I had to guess,” Waldridge said.Īs Halloween approaches, Waldridge is preparing the other side (less haunted side) of the hotel for a haunted attraction. According to Waldridge, in the 1980s a woman killed herself on one mattress, the other they found stuffed under the back stairwell. Personal items from former tenants still sit where they were left, including a cigarette butt, alcohol bottles and two blood stained mattresses. Since its closure, most of the hotel has remained largely untouched. Two of the attacks happened on this side where human bite marks appeared on their skin,” Waldridge said. “People have been bitten in the building. He said it’s where people experience the most activity. “In the winter of 1978, a guy hung himself in a (bedroom) closet and he’s pretty active, he likes to move things around,” Waldridge said.Īccording to Waldridge, one side of the hotel is more haunted than the other so he called it the Bad Side. Waldridge estimates he has spent over 300 hours investigating the building communicating with the lost souls took their last breath in these rooms, but still call the hotel home. There’s a whole time period from 1935 to the mid 60s we know nothing about,” Waldridge said. “The deaths are ’65 to about late 80s, about 14 deaths. If the walls could talk, numerous stories would be of death and despair. Waldridge said he got involved with the building and its maintenance a few years ago. “That brought in a very seedy clientele people fresh out of prison, people fresh out of mental hospitals, people down on their luck all kinds of things,” said hotel caretaker and paranormal investigator, Jeff Waldridge. It became a place where people could rent rooms for around $30 a day in today’s money. Besides the props and people in costume, the building itself has its own past, with many actual hauntings taking place as well.īuilt in 1935, the Anderson Hotel was in operation until the 1980s. Halloween is just around the corner and there’ll be many haunted house attractions, but none as unique as the Anderson Hotel in Lawrenceburg.
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