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Abandoned Dudleytown & Durán Sanatorium
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In this week's episode, it’s haunted towns in Connecticut all the way to haunted hospitals in Costa Rica!
Lauren explores the abandoned settlement and real life “ghost town” of Dudleytown in northwestern Connecticut. Settled in the early 1740s, this town (which was never an actual town) has been closed to the public since the mid-1900s. Was it a curse placed on the Dudley family that caused the demise of Dudleytown? And do ghosts still haunt this ghost town?
Then from North America to South America, Felicia explores another possibly haunted, definitely deserted location - the Durán Sanatorium! Built in 1918 to treat tuberculosis patients as well as an asylum for the mentally ill, it was later used as an orphanage and then a prison. That is, until it was abandoned in the 1970s after the Irazú Volcano erupted nearby and damaged the building. Guess that’s why they call it the most haunted place in Costa Rica!
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Transcript
Introduction and Love for Spooky Content
00:00:13
Speaker
Welcome to the Sinister Sisters podcast. I'm Lauren. I'm Felicia. We're best friends. And we like spooky stuff. Yes, we do. We're back this week.
Horror Film Highlights and Critiques
00:00:23
Speaker
Do you have any, I don't have like real horror movie suggestions?
00:00:28
Speaker
But you're in luck because finally, for the first time in like six months, I've been like binge watching horror movies. So the first one that I want to mention is The Cursed. Did you watch that? It came out a while ago. OK. Now, is it werewolves? Yes. But not to be confused with Wes Craven's Cursed. The classic box office flop.
00:00:57
Speaker
chaos movie. That's probably what I'm thinking of. It's very notorious. This is a different The Cursed, also about werewolves. But it came out sometime this year. Oh, yes. I was thinking of Christina Ricci. Of course, yes. Understandably so. But this is a different one. This is The Cursed
00:01:20
Speaker
that the original title it says here was actually eight for silver, which I'm like, okay. That might've been a little on the nose, but the curse makes it also a little confusing. So I don't know what was the better option, but it's maybe a third thing, maybe a third thing, but it's actually fun. Like this movie, it was written and directed by Sean Ellis. And there's the thing I love about it is the creature design of the werewolf is so unique.
00:01:49
Speaker
I've never seen anything like it before. And it kind of blew my mind. That being said, there are some things in the movie that I'm like, they kind of go back and forth in a timeline in a way I don't think they need to.
00:02:07
Speaker
If that makes sense. Yes. It was like 35 years earlier and I'm like, the whole movie could have been the 35 years earlier. I didn't need any of this random World War I stuff. I don't know. Is that even the war that they're fighting in? I don't even know. I'm not sure.
00:02:26
Speaker
So the script itself got like a little wonky at times. But overall, I thought it was just like a really refreshing, interesting take on a werewolf movie with some very cool just images in it, particularly on like you can see it on the poster, the like silver teeth that are that are awesome that they have melt down into silver bullets. And the werewolf design itself is just is mind blowing. So that's my recommendation.
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for
The Excitement of Werewolf Films
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the week. That's amazing. Yeah, I haven't heard anything about it, but I have to check it out now. And there's not always a lot of werewolf films, so whenever a good one comes in, it's like, oh, cool. Yeah.
Mixed Reviews on 'We're All Going to the World's Fair'
00:03:05
Speaker
I actually, I forgot, I watched We're All Going in the World's Fair, which I know you talked about. What did you think? Did you hate it? Did you love it? I kind of. Did you hate it?
00:03:15
Speaker
I was mixed. I thought that girl is so good. I loved her performance. I thought she was so interesting and weird. Yeah. And seemingly just weird naturally, which I loved. Totally. But I kind of wanted more. Maybe it was because I had just seen Dash Camp. So I was like, I know. I don't know. I thought it was more sad. It's very slow.
00:03:40
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Yeah,
Anticipation for Jane Schoenbrunn's New A24 Movie
00:03:41
Speaker
it is just like sad instead of maybe like great horror film. I can say that. Yeah, it's very unique. It doesn't.
00:03:53
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follow this structure that a horror movie that we expect going into something that's called a horror movie. But yeah, I don't know. I thought it was really cool. And I think the director, Jane Schoenbrunn, just announced a new movie that they're working on. Oh, she's cool too. Yeah, like I can't. I was excited when I saw it. She's working on something new.
00:04:23
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Yeah. Oh, great. Okay. So Jane, she posted a picture that says I saw the TV glow and on a little director chair, and it says it's real. We're making an A24 movie this summer. Oh, good for her. So that's the thrilling news. I know. I was like, that's it. Probably she should have made men.
00:04:47
Speaker
Yeah, right? Oh my god. Anyways, so I still haven't seen men, by the way, but it's on the list. No, I haven't either. We're just shitting on in without seeing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's OK. Oh, I did. It's just our podcast. They'll never know. No. It's true. It's true. And maybe we'll see it. And in the next episode, we'll be like, hey, guys, it was actually really good. We were so wrong. It was amazing.
Sharing 'Beetlejuice' with the Next Generation
00:05:10
Speaker
You'll be happy to know we did introduce Willow to Beetlejuice for the first time this past weekend, too. Wow.
00:05:17
Speaker
It was pretty cool. It was pretty fun. I'm trying to think if there are any crazy reactions. She really liked it. She was not. I thought she might be like a little scared because I think even when I saw it, I was like a little like, ooh, the Maitland's dying is kind of scary. Like the, you know, when they go into like the skeleton part and they're like his fallout and all of that. Yeah. Yeah. It's mostly silly looking back.
00:05:44
Speaker
It's pretty silly. It's also like the color palette of that movie. I feel like takes like takes it out of horror land and then just into like spooky more to the comedy land. So like I feel like maybe that, you know, makes it like a little more digestible for a kid in a way. Totally. But yeah, that's great. I'm so happy. I'm so happy she liked it. She did. She was very into it. I was like and she she we were like she's so cute because she's right at that age where she's like
00:06:12
Speaker
understanding that actors are different than characters. There are directors. She's getting all of it. So we were like, this is the same guy that did Nightmare Before Christmas, worked on this movie. And she was like, oh, yeah, understanding that part, which was really cool. I don't think I understood any of that until I don't even know, much later in life. Yeah.
00:06:37
Speaker
And I know, you know, we didn't go into the specifics of like Tim Burton did not direct Nightmare Before Christmas, but he did direct Beetlejuice, but it was still. And he said that this is why this is an issue in our world, and this is where, yeah, yeah. He said, you know, Tim Burton and Helen the Bonham Carter have broken up. No, I'm just kidding. But when they were together, they were in separate houses. And let me tell you about the entire history.
00:07:04
Speaker
That's going to be me as a mom and the kid is just going to walk in the other room and say, that's the same mom. I feel like you're crazy. You're going to either have like the perfect product of you and Travis or it's going to be like a blonde cheerleader and you're not going to know what to do. I will know what to do, but I will support her. I will get her the bows for her hair and I will try not to look too spooky in the stands.
00:07:29
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I love it so much. Okay, I guess I should get to my topic as we think about Felicia's pink-wearing child.
Exploring the Haunting of Dudleytown
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I am doing an abandoned ghost kind of town this week, so I did find it on TikTok, but it's called Dudley Town, Connecticut.
00:07:53
Speaker
I think you probably could do a day trip, Felicia, except you can't really. You can't really because you're not really allowed, but I know that you like breaking rules. Oh, is it closed off? Oh, yeah. It's in a closed off area. Oh, okay. But you could risk it. But it's called everything from Connecticut's favorite ghost town to the village of the damned. It's supposedly very haunted.
00:08:18
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It's also apparently totally silent. You can't hear birds or animals or bugs there. A researcher who went there compared it to entering a recording studio booth. So very quiet. Whoa. So that's very eerie. Yeah. I still I think we talked about this when we were kind of talking about like forests like
00:08:39
Speaker
That's another concept that's so crazy to me is that there's just like towns that are abandoned. Just like structures, but no one there is such a creepy idea. And a lot of photographers that, so this is kind of for when you're looking at Instagram pictures, I'll see what I can find. But apparently a lot of photographers who have gone to the area.
00:09:01
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can't take pictures in the town. Their photos won't develop. Their phones won't work right. It just doesn't work. But then when they leave, their cameras work fine. So super creepy. I'll see what I can post. But there might not be that many pictures.
00:09:18
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But there are rumors that this town is connected to the Dudley curse, which dates all the way back to the 1500s. And this local rumor kind of just like talks about the founders of Dudley town and says that they were descended from Edmund Dudley, who was an English nobleman, and he was beheaded for plotting against Henry VIII.
00:09:45
Speaker
Later, his son, John, the Duke of Northumberland, I think that's how you say that. The Duke of Hazard. Sorry. The Duke of Northumberland plotted to overthrow Edward VI by marrying his son, Lord Guilford Dudley, to Lady Jane Grey. After the king's death,
00:10:09
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she became queen for a short time before that plot failed. And as a result, Lady Jane and both Dudley's were decapitated. So basically, a lot of decapitations. They loved that. Oh my God, they loved that back in the day. That's where I'm like, I just don't know that there's, I don't know. You'll see how this story goes where I'm just like, yeah guys, like a lot of bad things happened in the 1500s to probably the 1800s. Oh yeah, absolutely.
00:10:38
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People were just being beheaded. Beheaded, burned alive. It was a mess. Exactly, starving. I don't know. So in the meantime, Lord Guilford Dudley's brother, who was a military officer, returned to England from France, infected with the plague. The disease spread to his troops, killed most of them, as well as thousands of English citizens, all from Lord Dudley. Wait, all from that one guy?
00:11:06
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Spread it all around. If you feel bad about COVID, it could have happened with the plate too. You could have been that guy. Exactly. So there's like, there were rumors. I don't know if it was at that time or people just speculating now, but there are rumors that like they got involved with like a, you know, demon book, like a mythical book that opened the gates of hell and curse them. And so now anyone they befriend or anyone that like,
00:11:35
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encounters them is cursed. So they, after all this beheading, eventually the Dudley start moving over to America when they were fleeing England. So they came to this portion of Cornwall that eventually became known as Dudley Town, which I guess that was just like a thing.
00:11:59
Speaker
If there were a lot of family members there, you just renamed it after your last name, I guess. Yeah. It's kind of nice. Harristown. Harristown. Blobotown. I feel like I'm pretty lucky. I've got Harrisburg. Oh, yes. Harrisonburg.
00:12:20
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but it was actually settled in the early 1740s by Thomas Griffiths, but then kind of the Dudley's took over. So Gideon Dudley, I think it's Barzillie Dudley, Abel Dudley, Martin Dudley, all these families came, all these family members came over.
00:12:43
Speaker
And it was converted as so many towns, I'm sure at this time from forest to farmland, generations of families farmed there, but it was really not ideal for farming. It was on top of this high hill. And so they started suffering pretty immediately. There was a series of crop failures. There was also some pretty just like
00:13:10
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I don't know the right word, like rampant mental illness, suicides, people were disappearing, there was an outbreak of tuberculosis, bad times. But that's the part where I'm like, isn't that about what was happening in every single newly founded American town?
00:13:33
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, probably you're right. Like, it's interesting, you mentioned like the mental illness aspect of that. And like, if you think about it, it's like, yeah, if you move somewhere where there is no one, and you have to like, build your own infrastructure, you know, that's probably depressing, especially if it starts not going well immediately, like, yeah,
00:13:56
Speaker
They came over on this big boat like for many months. I've never thought about like the mental aspect of the founding of new areas. Like I've always thinking about like the physical like, Oh, a smallpox. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure. And just like a ton of change and really tough to live there. But there are some pretty crazy legends of like specific stories. So I'm going to tell some of them because they're,
00:14:26
Speaker
Spooky. So one of the legends was of Nathaniel Carter. So his family moved to Dudleytown around 1759. He lived in the house that was previously owned by Abel Dudley. And four years later, his family up and moved to Binghampton, New York. And apparently the curse followed them from Dudleytown.
00:14:56
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to New York. And in 1764, while Nathaniel was away, a band of hostile indigenous people invaded his home, massacred his wife and children, burned his house to the ground. And then when he returned, he was also scalped and killed. Super freaky. But again, I'm just like, doesn't that pretty much just happen to everyone? I don't know.
00:15:24
Speaker
Not everyone, but it was a rough time. It was a rough time. We've also got the legend of Mary Cheney Greeley. So she was the wife of Horace Greeley, and she hanged herself in Dudleytown a week before her husband lost his bid for the presidency. And this was in 1872. There was another legend that this revolutionary war hero named General Herman Swift went crazy.
00:15:54
Speaker
after his third wife was struck by lightning, which I read that and I was like, did he have three wives struck by lightning? But I think it just means he was married or- The third one. The third wife was struck by lightning. But I mean, the staircase, your second wife also fell down the stairs. Suspicious, I don't know. Your third wife got struck by lightning. Very suspicious. Did you call down the lightning? Yeah.
00:16:24
Speaker
One of the creepier legends that I think I like the best was of John Brophy. So he was one of the last official residents of Dudleytown. He moved there in 1892, so we're fast forwarding a little bit. His wife died of tuberculosis, then his children all disappeared in the woods. Oh, oh no. Just one after the other. Some claim that he went insane
00:16:52
Speaker
because of all of this trauma. And certain accounts said that he spent his last days raving about demons and monsters. His house burned down, then he was never heard from again. So some sources allege that he was in the house when it burned down and he died in the fire, while others say that he left and disappeared into the woods trying to find his children.
00:17:17
Speaker
So that one I think is pretty freaky. I feel like it has to be negligent parenting that all of his children disappeared in the woods. I mean, this guy sounded very suspicious. But maybe there was some paranormal activity or something that was luring them into the woods. But I agree, disappeared into the woods.
00:17:42
Speaker
Did you get sick of having kids? Super freaky. But once, so the population was definitely declining, probably starting in the like mid 19th century. So like, you know, late 1800s, once more area opened in the Midwest, and as I told you, it was not a good farming scene. So people started moving to the Midwest. And then by the early 1900s, it was totally abandoned.
00:18:12
Speaker
So I also feel like I don't know that many stories of places that have been abandoned as long as this has. So it's been over a hundred years at this point that no one has lived there. And there are stone foundations, there's some no trespassing signs, there's debris. Obviously with all of this,
00:18:37
Speaker
freaky stuff happening there, and I'll get into it a little bit more. There are people that visit, but it seems like most of the people that live there are kind of on the outskirts of the area. They're more in Cornwall and less in Dudleytown. There are trespassing fees if you try to go there today. You could be potentially arrested.
00:18:57
Speaker
It's technically owned by a group called the Dark Forest Entry Association, which I just feel like you're asking to be a creepy group with a name like that, but I don't really know. There's probably a little bit more research if you want to look into it, like how that group
00:19:17
Speaker
purchase the town, how they owned it and then just abandoned it seemingly. But scientists have visited Dudleytown and after testing the soil and water, they did find that there are high levels of lead and other metals. So there is thought that maybe that contributed to mental illness and sickness in the village. Maybe that could have been why it was so difficult to live there.
00:19:45
Speaker
And then as far as paranormal activity, so in case you didn't make this connection already, I said Connecticut. So you know that Ed and Lorraine Warren had to come check it out. So our favorite, I'm sure everyone listening to this podcast has heard us talk about them before, or maybe you're sick of hearing us talk about them.
00:20:09
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but they were real life paranormal investigators. They did, I don't know, we still don't know if it's open to the public, right? They had a museum. I don't think it is. Seemingly shut down after they died, right? Yeah, it's run by their child, but yeah, I don't know. But they used to have this museum of paranormal artifacts in Connecticut, and they're in the Conjuring movie series, or they're depicted by actors in the Conjuring series.
00:20:40
Speaker
But they visited Dudleytown in the 1970s, and they said that it was demonically possessed. So since that time, there's been a ton of people coming to visit. The abandoned town has become even more rumored to have paranormal activity, to have demons and monsters and just be this place of bad energy. And I also think it's interesting when the Blair Witch Project came out.
00:21:07
Speaker
There was apparently a spike in visitors and vandalism became more of a problem. So eventually the local police started monitoring it more, arresting people, keeping better track of it. But it's still just so odd to me that they've allowed it to stay this completely abandoned space.
00:21:28
Speaker
So people who visit the area have boasted, you know, paranormal photographs. There's orbs and lights. People say that they feel overwhelming feelings of terror. They see mysterious lights. They see, you know, different sights and sounds and even have experienced feelings of being touched or pushed or
00:21:54
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scratched by unseen hands. So some researchers refer to the area as a negative power spot or a place that entities can enter the world from the other side. So maybe there is some sort of like portal to another dimension or portal to whatever is beyond this life that's letting creatures into this area.
00:22:24
Speaker
I think mostly why I chose this story is just that initial idea of how crazy it is that there still are places that are totally abandoned. It's kind of like the abandoned amusement parks episode we talked about. I just think it's so crazy that there are these entire towns or structures or places where it's like no living people inhabit. It's just so wild to me. Absolutely, and there's no upkeep
00:22:54
Speaker
like places that are meant to inhabit people, when the people are no longer there, what happens to the place? It's like, it's a creepy idea. Right. And nature, like kind of taking it back. Like any photos I've seen, it's like the trees like taking over and all of that. As they should. Trees, honestly, you should just take this thing over because we have messed it all up. Just take over. I know. I know. They really need to get us back on track here.
00:23:21
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I'm picturing the Lord of the Rings giant trees, by the way. That's what I'm picturing. Yes. I would love it. Treebeard just stomps in and says, let's stop at this global warming. Yeah. Amazing. Well, that's Dudleytown. Creepy, abandoned village, Dudleytown.
00:23:39
Speaker
I love it. That's awesome. I love a haunted town and also like generally I'm always surprised probably because I live in New York where there's just a bajillion people that there would be somewhere that didn't have a bajillion people. Right? Already people feels kind of crazy. Maybe we should just create the next New York there. Probably. There was some guy I watched on YouTube for a while that
Eerie Solitude of Abandoned Towns
00:24:02
Speaker
I don't know where he was, don't remember, but he like had basically bought this abandoned town somewhere and moved in and was just kind of like just living there, just like renovating like this house he was living in and just like, he's like, yeah, if I need anything, I have to go to like the next town over. But like, this is like my town. It was crazy. Anyways, he just owns the town. Yeah.
00:24:40
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Searching for Ghost Stories in Costa Rica
00:24:41
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right, cool. So I'm doing another abandoned situation. So we did put these together. And mine actually is in Costa Rica. So many of you may not know that I am half Costa Rican. My name is Felicia Lobo. My dad is Costa Rican. You should just buzz that one more.
00:25:03
Speaker
But yeah, I probably should honestly. And I haven't been to Costa Rica. I was just talking about this with my parents since I was a teenager. So we're trying to actually plan a trip for next summer, because we do have a significant amount of family there. And some of them have come up here over the years. And different parts of my family here has gone down. But I haven't been there in a really long time.
00:25:25
Speaker
So I'm trying to go. But I got it. So I started being like, oh, wait, why have I not? Because I've done New York hauntings. I've done Maryland, where I did a lot of growing up. I've done North Carolina, where I was born. And I was like, why have I not done anything from Costa Rica? It's interesting, because when I started looking it up, Costa Rica is a small country, to be fair. But there doesn't seem to be a ton of ghost stories from there. There might be other types of, you know,
00:25:54
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paranormal things. But I was, I was in particular looking for something ghostly.
The History and Haunting of Duran Sanatorium
00:26:01
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And what I found is the Duran Sanatorium. And the Duran Sanatorium was built in 1915 by a doctor, Dr. Carlos Duran. And he built it because his daughter,
00:26:20
Speaker
was suffering from tuberculosis and was dying. And so he started traveling around the world basically because this is like during like the early 1900s, like tuberculosis was like rampant as well as the
00:26:36
Speaker
influenza or the Spanish flu also rampant at this time. And so he traveled around trying to be like, how how can I save my daughter? Like, what what is the best treatment for tuberculosis? And because tuberculosis is a disease of the lungs, a lot of people said you need lots of basically fresh air is like it is a very helpful place to start. They just sort of like isolate patients in fresh air.
00:27:05
Speaker
So it is like that concept is still so wild to me. I can't now it's killing me. But my great grandfather was like living in Connecticut. The doctor told him to move to Florida, which is how my grandmother ended up in Daytona Beach. But it was like he was cured from her. Like from the chair. Yeah. And I'm like, it will happen.
00:27:27
Speaker
Well, I do believe it makes sense that the air that you breathe, it's similar to the food that you eat in a way where that's whatever your body is taking in. It's like if you inhale too much smoke, you die. So I think it does make sense in a way. And if you live in a city that's very filthy, that filth is in the air. And you're actually breathing that in the same way that if you live in a house with black mold. It's like breathing and toxic things.
00:27:57
Speaker
Not that that I mean, I don't actually know what causes tuberculosis. Then it's very contagious. But but yeah, it makes sense. But I love that move to Florida. You'll feel better. And then he did. He did be old. That's amazing. So I do want to, of course, and this this story has nothing, just nothing to do with vampires, nothing at all. But zero. Yeah, zero. But I did want to bring up the classic
00:28:24
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that tuberculosis was often before, particularly before the industrial revolution, tuberculosis was associated with vampires because of how it affected the body and the coughing up of blood and all this stuff. And that it was so contagious that with one person had the disease, it started affecting the other family members around them. But once again, unfortunately, this has nothing to do with vampires.
00:28:53
Speaker
But dang, dang it. So blah, blah, blah. Duran Sanatorium was built in the mountains of Cartago, Costa Rica, which is near the Orazu volcano. And there's a lot of volcanoes in Costa Rica. And Cartago is actually only about an hour away from Alejuela, which is where most of my family lives, which I thought was cool. And I was like, oh, if I visit, it's not a long drive to go check out the Sanatorium.
00:29:20
Speaker
I don't know if I should go, but I'm just saying. I want you to come back cursed. Right? Yeah, exactly. So, you know, Carlos Duran, he started this for his daughter, brought his daughter up there and it was run by nuns who were like the nurses and they had like three different doctors up there and they started housing tuberculosis patients. And at the height of it, they had about 300 people.
00:29:47
Speaker
So this went on for some years. And then in addition to the tuberculosis patients, they also had some people with some sort of mental illness, some disabilities. They had some other people that came up there for treatment to get away from city life and be up in the mountains with the fresh air and to get better. So they were all housed in this one sanatorium.
00:30:11
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And it operated like this for a while, but by the sixties, tuberculosis was not really a big thing anymore. That, you know, pandemic or epidemic or whatever was kind of ending. And so they, it was pretty much emptied out. And then a lot of the other patients had been moved to other places. And so in the sixties they turned into, okay, if it's not going to be in hospital and get haunted, how else can we haunt this place? Oh, we'll turn it into an orphanage.
00:30:41
Speaker
Oh my gosh. So it was an orphanage, not for very long, just for a few years. And then they turned it into, what else could it be? A prison.
00:30:51
Speaker
No. Why, people? Why? Why library or something? Yeah, just a nice mountain library shopping mall shopping. Yeah, something else. So after this, basically in 1973, and it's just sort of history that the buildings themselves in 1973, there was a volcanic eruption, which happens every now and then in Latin America. And there was a lot of destruction to the sanatorium. And it's pretty much crazy concept.
00:31:21
Speaker
The volcanoes just happened. That just happens. I know. Let's just put some duct tape on this. Fix this back up. Fine. Yeah. And there was so much damage that it's been abandoned ever since. And so when you look up photos now, it's just this very creepy, all these buildings that are empty and spray painted and all these things. Demolished by a volcano. I mean, not demolished. They said no more. You've had enough up here. No more fresh air.
00:31:50
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So in terms of hauntings, this is obviously a place that makes sense for haunting stories because of everything that all the people that have died.
00:31:59
Speaker
in this building from tuberculosis and other things, lots of deaths up there, and then sort of these different hauntings that it started to be seen, I think even over the years while it was still open, and then now that it's closed as well. I will give a shout out to Ghost Hunters International. They did do part of an episode at the Duran Sanatorium.
00:32:24
Speaker
and it was just a terrible episode. I tried to watch it and I was like, this is not good, but nothing happened. The girl that kind of led them around, I liked her. She's like from Costa Rica and she was like, I don't know, like she was kind of cool, but it was like,
00:32:39
Speaker
It was like an exceptionally cheesy one of just like, did you hear that? And like sometimes that's fine. But for some reason, I don't know. It was different hosts. It wasn't for me. OK, but so the ghost that they talk about and I got some of these also from Amy, Amy's crypt, who is a YouTuber from Australia that does a lot of tons of paranormal investigations in various places around all around the world. And she's really, really cool.
00:33:08
Speaker
She did a pretty good investigation here and talked about a few different ghosts. So I'm going to go through those now.
00:33:16
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One is a nun classic. Also nuns, Catholicism is a very big deal in Costa Rica. Nuns work at schools. They're very much, I don't know, my dad always talks about the nuns that taught when he was a kid. Yeah, they're just in the culture. So as I said, this place was basically run by nuns and a couple of doctors. So there is a nun ghost.
00:33:43
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But she seems to be a sweet ghost. She's an older woman, and she seems to just be wandering around trying to care her patients, which I thought, that's nice. That's not so bad. It is nice. The most seen ghost is a little girl who people think is the daughter of Carlos Duran, who unfortunately, even though he built this whole thing for her up in the mountains, she did pass away from tuberculosis, which is just a bummer. I'm like, you did all that, and it didn't even save her.
00:34:14
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Yeah, so she is seen kind of all over, but most particularly sitting on the roof or on the staircases, just kind of hanging out.
00:34:23
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And then there's also another ghost who's just a pale, like an old woman, another old woman, but not a nun, who has a blue dress and white hair, who's wondering about. And most of the paranormal activity people note here is pretty casual, honestly. Mostly just cold spots, an eerie feeling, and then
00:34:47
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most notably, because I don't think you're really supposed to go inside, but people do, but you're not really supposed to. But a lot of people say from the outside, you can see shadowy figures in the windows wandering about.
00:35:03
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Yeah, so I thought just because this is a pretty short story, but just for funsies, I found a comment on Amy's Crips video from about four years ago by someone named Amanda Moraga, who has a personal account of being here on a high school trip.
Personal Experiences at Duran Sanatorium
00:35:23
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So I thought I would just read her account for you. OK, and she is Costa Rican, by the way.
00:35:29
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Okay, let me tell you how I was scared not once, not twice, but four times the same day here. I know that it doesn't sound real, but I shit you not, I'm telling the truth. And then she writes in parentheses, excuse my broken English, I'm from Costa Rica. And my native language is Spanish. Okay, we went there on a high school trip. The first time I saw the nun, I was in Catholic school. So when I just saw a nun,
00:35:56
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I thought it was just one that went with us on the trip, but she was actually outside. I just saw part of the nun's dress, but still. So she believes that was a ghost.
00:36:06
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The second time was in the children's area. There is a swings that are outside, sort of swinging without any wind. And it was just one of the swings. I like that. That's a good image. That is a good image. The third time, we were seven people in the children's area. And she writes, I think this is the most haunted place in the sanatorium, which I could see that.
00:36:33
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We were in the top floor and while we were all going downstairs, we heard someone, it says, drowning. Drowning. I'm not sure what that means, but it says like something heavy made of wood. So I think, I think just some sort of noise, but I don't know what that noise was. We went to look what was going on, but we didn't find not the wood or a person.
00:36:59
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And in that moment, some dude screamed, if you are a ghost, say hi. And then we heard someone jumping in the wooden floors upstairs. So someone in their group was like, hey, if you're a ghost, say something. And then they heard a loud jumping from above them.
00:37:20
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Well, there's your answer. There you go. There you go. Ask and you shall receive a spook. Some of the girls screamed and ran away and some went down upstairs. When they came back, they were pale AF because they didn't find no one around to make the jumping noise. It was just seven of us there. And the final one, it was just a cold spot and something like a whisper in my neck and that made me freeze.
00:37:48
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And then she writes, it was a really cool trip, exclamation point, exclamation point. I loved it. She was all aboard. Yeah, I love this girl. So Amanda, I know you'll never find this podcast, but Amanda Moraga, excellent telling. I don't know. Hey, yeah, you never know. That's all following you, Costa Rica.
00:38:11
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No, I don't think so, maybe. Yeah, so that's that's my story. That's the Duran Sanitarium. Pretty casual ghost, but it was nice to do a Costa Rican haunting on here. And yeah, definitely. And I still think of all places like, I don't know, those big hospitals, mental silos, orphanages, those are where ghosts are. I believe it. Yeah, just bad things happen there.
00:38:37
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Yeah, definitely. Have you seen, this is a little off topic, but there's a TikTok that's like, dude, my house is haunted or something. That is the most proof of ghosts I feel I've ever seen. I'm going to send it to you after this. Please, dude, my house is haunted. Great name. But I also just think like TikTok for horror stuff and or if you actually are catching haunted things, but I think less of that, I just think
00:39:06
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that is like such an untapped thing. And it's so creepy when you see it. Especially it's like at this idea of like somebody filmed something real in their house, they put it on the internet, and then everyone's like, oh, they photoshopped it. And it's like, what if they didn't? Yeah. I'm sure plenty of people do, but that also means that like anyone's that are real, just no one's going to believe them. And it's like, how do you get people to believe you? Like, yeah. I don't know. And this one's like an older man. Oh, interesting.
00:39:35
Speaker
I got to see that. Okay. Okay, cool. I'll watch that later. Amazing. I don't know why that was making me think of it. I was just like haunted and I just saw this TikTok that freaked me out. Yeah. Oh, I also just saw a TikTok account that I just followed of this girl that collects haunted dolls and it is very scary. So very stupid. I don't know if they can watch it. Yeah, I won't say it to you, but thank you all. Thank you all so much for listening and we hope you have some sweet, sweet nightmares. Bye.