Thursday, June 28, 2012 (3)

Jun 28, 2012
June 27, 2012
Wednesday
  • Ghost Hunt

  • Jun 27, 2012 at 1:00pm to Jun 30, 2012 at 2:00pm
  • Location: The Thomas House
  • Description:

      Event Information

    One Night Lodging at the Thomas House Hotel

    Full Dinner

    Ghost Hunting Workshop & Equipment Training

    Fully Guided History & Haunting Tour

    All Night Ghost Hunt

    Ever wanted to stay the night in a Haunted Hotel? Here is your chance to join the Ghost Hunt Weekends team at the notoriously haunted Thomas House Hotel. Your host, Parapsychologist and Author Chad Morin and a former TAPS Family Member Equipment Instructor along with the GHW Team will serve as your guides for what could be the most terrifying experience of your life. This event includes your lodging, meals, fully guided tours of the property, ghost hunting training by  GHW  and a full night of ghost hunting! 

    Moving Beds, Dark Figures, Cold Spots, Disembodied Voices and Feelings of Terror are experienced regularly here. Built in 1890, as a resort spa to the elite, it has been witness to 3 fires, deaths, numerous murders, accidents and even a one time home for a cult. The location also sits atop an under

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June 28, 2012
Thursday
  • Night at the Squirrel Cage Jail

  • Jun 28, 2012 from 3:00pm to 11:00pm
  • Location: Old Pottawattamie County Jail
  • Description:

    3206885783?profile=originalNight at the Squirrel Cage Jail:
    Council Bluffs, Iowa -- July 28, 2012
    Join us at One of America's Most Unusual -- and Haunted -- Jails!

    Night at the Squirrel Cage Jail
    Old Pottawattamie County Jail
    226 Pearl Street, Council Bluffs, Iowa
    July 28, 2012 -- 8:00 PM to 4:00 AM

    Built in1885, the old Pottawattamie County Jail is one of the most unusual houses of incarceration in America -- and according to many, one of the most actively haunted! The jail has a three-tier cell block with ten cells on each tier. It was originally designed to rotate continuously throughout the night by means of a water wheel in the basement, earning it the nickname of the "squirrel cage jail". In this way, all of the prisoners could be watched from a central location. Unfortunately, the 45-ton cell block was simply too heavy to work right and it became stuck frequently. Eventually, the jailers gave up on the plan and a night guard had to be hired. The cylinder continued to be used until 1960, when a prisoner died in

  • Created by: maureen mae