Ghosts in Arlington?

[bobsim]

 I was thinking about a story I've heard more than once about a haunted apartment at the Carriage House Apts. and got to wondering if there were any other spooky spots around Arlington.
               

[thekillingwax]

Everyone always said it was #40. They're no longer the Carriage House Apartments anymore, are they? If not, I imagine they changed the number scheme but for some reason I though it was on the first floor around the right side of the building but I could be mistaken. I don't know of anything else specific in Arlington but that place was featured in a couple of books and I think a TV show back in the 90's.

[sandyshoes]

I'd love to hear the story...please?

[thekillingwax]

http://books.google.com/books?id=KY3ta7poJvsC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Here's a good bit of info about it. They're absolutely right about all the "legends" getting smooshed together. The "banshee" they mention I had always heard was associated with the apartment instead of the boys' home but there you go. Pretty interesting article, I'm still looking through the rest of the book.

[Ocklawaha]

http://books.google.com/books?id=KY3ta7poJvsC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Here's a good bit of info about it. They're absolutely right about all the "legends" getting smooshed together. The "banshee" they mention I had always heard was associated with the apartment instead of the boys' home but there you go. Pretty interesting article, I'm still looking through the rest of the book.

Interesting that the banshee comes up in a Jacksonville legend. It's roots are two fold, an Irish Spirit that crys at night, or a Native American woman from the "Ponka" or "Siouan" Cultures of NE/SD, killed in The Battle of Watch Dog Butte:

"Hell, with the fires out," is what the Bad Lands of Dakota have been called. The fearless Western nomenclature fits the place. It is an ancient sea-bottom, with its clay strata worn by frost and flood into forms like pagodas, pyramids, and terraced cities. Labryinthine canyons wind among the fantastic peaks, which are brilliant in color, but bleak, savage, and oppressive. Game course over the castellated hills, rattlesnakes bask at the edge of the crater above the burning coal seams, and wild men have made despairing stand here against advancing civilization. It may have been an Indian woman who was killed there, but there is a banshee in the desert whose cries have chilled the blood that would not have cooled at the sight of a bear or panther. By moonlight, when the scenery is most suggestive and unearthly, and the noises of wolves and owls inspire uneasy feelings, the ghost is seen on a hill a mile south of the Watch Dog, her hair blowing, her arms tossing in strange gestures.

OCKLAWAHA

[thekillingwax]

My aunt used to own a farm up in VERY rural Georgia and at night we'd sleep with the windows open and you'd here the coyotes and foxes out in the forest and it was one of the creepiest things ever, some of the sounds they make sound just like children crying or yelling.

[thekillingwax]

And if you're into creepy coincidences... http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/crime/2009-11-03/story/one_dead_in_jacksonville_apartments_fire

These were the Carriage House apartments.

[sandyshoes]

killingwax, thank you so much for all the info you shared; very interesting, indeed....

[Ocklawaha]

Around the Okefenokee and in the Osceola National Forest, one can hear those sounds of a woman screaming while being beaten repeatedly. When you hear them, you have two choices, either get to safety, or investigate by yourself and get on the menu. It's amazing to me how I can take a short walk and find, cat tracks, tree marking, and ground marking, but State Fish and Wildlife says the big cats are all but gone, even then, "ONLY IN THE EVERGLADES."

My opinion of these well meaning environmentalist scientist types is, they are going to get someone killed, with a false sense of safety in Central and North Florida. Me thinkith the rumours of the extinction of the Panther or Cougar, Red Snappers, and the North American Gigantopithecus , are greatly exaggerated.

As small cats (Yeah like 7' feet small) with solid hyoids, cougars can't produce a deep roar, but females can out-scream a 2-year-old child who just discovered a heart-pounding fear of clowns at the circus. The cougar scream is a rare, high-pitched noise that rips through the, wilderness air and causes hikers to freeze in place. Are those screams warning signs for us to get out of their territory? Like the wolf's howl, these cougar noises serve as forms of long-distance communication. Only females are known to make the screeching call, coinciding with their bodies' preparation for mating In human jargon, we'd call that scream a booty call.


For all those ladies out there who hate waiting by the phone for their hunk to call, look to the female cougars for inspiration. The dynamics of cougar mating is more progressive than you might expect from a deer-devouring feline. Female cougars reach sexual maturity at around 2 or 3 years old, giving birth to a litter every other year or so. Since male cougars roam their territories alone, females scream when they are in heat in order to let the males know where they are and that it's time to make some cougar babies.


Although female cougars may have to compete for a mate if their individual territories intersect, they still hold the power for when copulation occurs. Until she's ready, the males must wait. But once the deed is done, the male cougars return to their solitary habits. The female will establish a den and stay with her offspring for around 15 months before the cubs set off on their own.


So if you happen to hear the chilling scream of a cougar in the distance, just think of it as mountain lion mood music -- and head in the opposite direction to avoid being attacked by a randy panther.

[source: Ocklaexperience]
[source: Spalding]
[source: Busch]
[source: Dewey and Shivaraju]


http://www.youtube.com/v/xKw4OFAu1WM&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&border=1

OCKLAWAHA

[Cliffs_Daughter]

So, when was this book published?  I had heard that the apartment in question was actually closed and walled-off so nobody could rent it.

Or was someone pulling my leg with that?

[thekillingwax]

Says 2005. I've heard different things, usually it's that they used it for storage or like you said, blocked out but I'm willing to bet the book was closer to the truth than anything else- it's creepy and people probably heard stuff but the rumors of insane stuff happening are the results of legends being amplified  over time.