ASHMORE ESTATES
Hospital — 22645 E Cr 1050n, Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
Status: Status unknown · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/ashmore-estates-ashmore-illinois/

Hospital associated with documented cultural history.

A hospital in Ashmore, Illinois, Ashmore Estates is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Hospital associated with documented cultural history. It sits in the archive under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.

Ashmore Estates is the almshouse that became a haunted attraction — the Coles County Poor Farm's 'fireproof' replacement built in 1916 after the state condemned the old one for vermin and flies, the 38-by-58 brick building where thirty to forty inmates lived at a time and over a hundred died across the farm's eighty-nine years. The county sold it in 1959 and it spent the next three decades as a private psychiatric hospital, a shelter care facility, and finally a ruin the local kids broke into for twenty years before anyone called it haunted.
The haunting came with the abandonment — the Ghost Adventures episode, the Joker and the shadow figures, the haunted attraction it became in 2006 after standing empty since 1987. The poor farm that held the county's most vulnerable is the paranormal landmark it became, the same building that housed the 'incurably insane' now housing the investigators who come to find them.
The file keeps Ashmore Estates: the 1916 almshouse, the psychiatric decades, the abandoned years, and the haunted attraction the poor farm became.
Ashmore Estates is the archive's almshouse file — the fireproof poor farm and the haunted attraction it became.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Ashmore Estates is the archive's almshouse file — the 1916 poor farm and the haunted attraction.
An almshouse keeps its inmates' numbers — the file's suggestion being that Ashmore's hold is the count: the hundred dead across the farm's years, the psychiatric facility that took over, and the empty building the teenagers broke into until someone made it official.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] haunting: The directory records reports of paranormal disturbances. An institution's ghosts are arithmetic: enough years, enough misery, and the reports write themselves. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Directory of Real Haunted Places in Illinois'. The haunting is unproven and unfired: it keeps showing up for work anyway.
  source: Directory of Real Haunted Places in Illinois (https://m.hauntedillinois.com/haunted-places-directory.php)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Directory of Real Haunted Places in Illinois — HauntedIllinois.com
  https://m.hauntedillinois.com/haunted-places-directory.php

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