Haunted Amarillo - Old St. Anthony's Hospital Traditional Cache
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Haunted Amarillo - Old St. Anthony's Hospital
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This is the sixth installment of the Haunted Amarillo Cache series.
Container is a black altoids tin containing a log book only. Below
are actual pictures of the original St. Anthony’s Hospital. One in
1920 that shows the original construction, and one that seems to
have been taken in the 1950's or 1960’s with the addition facing
Amarillo Blvd. ***You might need a tool such as a long screwdriver
or small hands for removal, don't worry you won't break the cache
if you push hard***
In 1901 St. Anthony's Hospital became the first Catholic hospital
in the Panhandle. It was the very first hospital built in Amarillo
and opened its doors with 336 licensed beds. But along with all the
good and pleasant work the hospital did came dark and evil
entities. Since the hospital was Catholic in nature there were over
75 documented exorcisms that took place over the 100 years it was
occupied. It has been reported that some of the demons that were
exorcised left their victims, but didn’t travel far, and still roam
the now abandoned halls. As part of a study that animals,
especially dogs, lowered patient’s heart rates and stress levels.
The hospital employed volunteers that would bring their animals in
once or twice a week to interact with the patients. One such dog, a
Golden Retriever named Alex, refused to enter a certain patient’s
room. Instead he would just stand in the doorway and growl a deep
guttural growl. They say it was like he was following something
around the top corners of the room, but no one could tell what he
was looking at. Shortly after that incident the temperature in the
room spiked to over 120 degrees despite having the air conditioning
vents wide open, immeditly following the temperature spike was the
distinct smell of burning sulfur. The patient was promptly moved
from that room and it was turned into storage. Another
well-documented story occurred when a group of nurses were sitting
in one of the break rooms that faced a common walkway. All of a
sudden an elderly gentleman with an I.V. pole started banging on
the window that looked into their break room. He was screaming at
the top of his lungs, “HELP ME!!!! HELP ME!!!!! WON’T SOMEONE
PLEASE HELP ME!!!!” Needless to say all the nurses got up and ran
out the door on the back side of the room, as there was no door on
the window side of the room. When they ran around to where the man
was standing, they only found an I.V. Pole and nothing more. One of
the nurses remembered seeing that same man earlier, when she came
on her shift, as she was making her rounds. They all ran down to
the hall to where this elderly man’s room was located, only to be
greeted by a local funeral director who was removing his dead body
from the room. When these nurses asked what his time of death was,
they were told he had expired over an hour earlier. The hospital is
now abandoned which only adds to its mystery. The original building
still stands facing North Polk Street. Make sure you drive down
Polk as you leave and admire the buildings historic
architecture
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