An urban explorer has vowed never to return to asylums after she experienced the “scariest night” of her life in a creepy abandoned hospital.
Jamie Marie has braved more than 100 eerie sites.
But there’s one place she’ll never return after the terrifying experience sent her running for her life.
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The Mansfield Training School in Connecticut, US, is a vast asylum that opened in 1860 and finally shut in 1993 after years of scandal and neglect.
Now left to rot, the building has a reputation among ghost hunters who swear its dark corridors and tunnels are still haunted.
In a clip racking up 925,000 views and 152,000 likes, she details the spooky ordeal.
“An energy I felt there steered me away from the property for over a year,” the photographer and social media manager told What’s The Jam.
“I made my way down to the basement, which included storage, a former electroshock room and a crematorium.
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“The air turned very cold, and I was overwhelmed with a strange feeling.
“I can’t even put it into words.
“I felt that I needed to get out immediately and proceeded to do so.”
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Jamie says the basement, with its electroshock room and crematorium, was so horrifying she bolted upstairs in panic.
The ordeal kept the 24-year-old away for more than a year – and she’s vowed never to step foot in an asylum again.
She said: “I have not visited the basement floor since, but I have returned to the other portions of the campus.
“The experience didn’t make me stop urban exploring, but it kept me away from hospitals and asylums.
“Even as a sceptic, and someone who has been doing this for over a decade, I still become overwhelmed with the energy in these places.”
Jamie, who lives in New England, US, has seen her passion for the paranormal take her across the states.
She added: “I have always had a passion for abnormal and unsettling things.
“I have always loved stop-motion movies, puppets, the paranormal and everything Halloween.
“As I grew older, I needed to incorporate this interest into something more physical, like a hobby.
“I started exploring abandoned places with my best friend and found a way to mesh the non-physical interests of my childhood with an abnormal hobby.”
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