Where the balls is this place exactly and who wants to go?

It's in Purgatory, MI...where the devil worshipers and the big foot is....no lie.

X

I'm down... Lets go next weekend. All Hallow's Eve and such. Should be fun.

If you guys want to get sacrificed by the devil worshipers...don't bring any weapons....however...I would be loaded...with weapons that is.

X

XD .40 strapped to the hip, baybee!

What day are you guys thinking?  I've got a thingamajig on Saturday evening, but that should end by 11:00pm.

-b0b
(...always heard the "mansion" was just a rumor.)

Nope it's real...well I should say was real before it burned down.  However the servent's houses and the Underground tunnels are still there that lead to Chi-town.  Do a google search and you'll find it.

My googling skills must be sub par. And Al Capone had a lot of mansions.  :-?

http://spiritsnmore.bravehost.com/PurgatoryMichigan_page.html

"AL CAPONE'S MANSION- There are only a few things that remain of this place. Mostly one side of foundation and a WHOLE lot of bricks. There are also two chimneys that have been left laying on their sides. The bricks are VERY neatly layed in a nice path. They are in a heap however and appear to be covering up at least ONE tunnel that is known to be at this place. It would take a BACK HOE at least to get it uncovered. There is also an UNDERGROUND room that has been completely unharmed. It has a door still and it locks from the outside. On the inside of this room (it can fit more than 18 people at one time), there is a hole directly in the middle of the ceiling, there is a shelf along one wall. There are metal hooks coming from the ceiling as well. There is also a small brick (looks similar to a chimeny or fireplace) that stretches from the floor through the ceiling, its only about 1 foot wide, with a small hole at the bottom. The floor is Dirt."

Man reading up on this is exciting...yeah let's go this weekend!  Bring camera, guns, video cam if possible.  Good stuff

http://pub37.bravenet.com/photocenter/album.php?usernum=3165305714&album=12193  - Some pics

X

I'm ready to go. That sunken factory sounds like a sweet place too!!

So are we doing this? Sat night maybe?

I really want to go, but if we do it Saturday, it'll have to be late (which is totally fine with me).  Purgatory is a huge place, do we know exactly (or approximately) where this place is at, or how long it will take to get there?

-b0b
(...will stock up on hollowpoints on Friday.)

How late is late? I was thinking in the spirit of things we would be going after dark anyways. As far as where, I think Patrick was looking for where exactly this place can be found.

How about we leave at 11:00pm?  That should make it sufficiently dark and we won't have to worry about traffic nearby.

-b0b
(...will have to buy batteries, too.)

Well seeing as TR is a hugely popular and well known city I can't fine the driving directions online.  However knowing a friend he says to take:

M-60 to Young Prairie Rd
First road on the right is Harter Rd
Then Williams Rd which is Purgatory.
It's two roads and take up both sides of the road.  The area is rather small so finding the buildings won't be too hard.

Also, do you guys care if we go around 12AM?

X

That's perfect for me.  I'll probably have to drive some of the kids home after the party, so 12:00am is perfect.

-b0b
(...lock and load, baby!)

Is it ok if we meet at your (as in Bob's) house? and then we can all car pool with one or two vehicles
I have no prob driving I just don't know exactly where it is.  Other than with the directions I have.

X

Yeah, that works for me.

-b0b
(...is probably closest.)

You guys suck, I want to go :(

I hope you get lost.

When are you going to bring your lady friend up here to meet us?

-b0b
(...CHRISTMAS!)

Should I come...or are you afraid I might steal her.

X
(Thinks he somehow has the Midais touch...and doesn't know if he want to get rid of it or not)

I'm not sure really.

I am trying to make it back for Christmas, but I'm not sure.  Even if I do, Leah is going to Tennesse (sp) to see her relative for a week around Christmas, so she wouldn't be coming.

Stewie, your woman would beat you down if she saw that!

-b0b
(...would supply the baseball bat.)

Not always a bad thing *growl*  ;)

X is a frisky fella


What should we bring?

I'm wearing some good ole fashioned camo and bringing a flashlight or 2, maybe glowsticks.

I'm going all black, because black is tactical.

-b0b
(...once you go black you never go back.)

Meet at bobs at midnight then... Dress appropriatly. Bring a flashlight. Anyone on here that wants to go, Give me a ring.

stick, you down?

Anyone have an extra flash light I can barrow?

I'm gonna pass, working in the morning.  My sister said she has been out there before and there isn't much to see.  She also said there is one cave to the right of the house and there are tunnels or something in the woods behind the house or something.

I can hook you up, Stewie.  Bring "D" batteries if you've got any.

-b0b

Here's some pictures.  Briney said he'd narrate when he got a chance.  Enjoy!

http://www.twncommunications.net/Other/Capone

-b0b
(...thinks we need to do this again.)

WTF is that!!!!!

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This is freaky, I enhanced the photo.  Can anyone see some windows or something in this picture too?  Let me post again with some arrows and stuff.

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Now compare this picture to the one above and see if you can see the windows too.

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http://www.jasonbriney.com/Capone1.jpg

http://www.jasonbriney.com/Capone2.jpg

Bob took 2 pictures, I remember him doing it. He took one, and then he looked at the screen, saw that it wasn't good, so he used his flash for the next. We were at the entrance to a long road that prolly went to Capone's burnt mansion. We went down there, but there was a youth camp or something that was lit up so we left. But these pics are definetly wild.

The second one was taken with a flash, my headlights were on, and he was in front of the car. It was pretty dusty.

I thought that the thing was like a post or something but... now i dont know.

~BRiney

Edge Enhancement cause i was bored.

http://www.jasonbriney.com/Caponedge.jpg

Ok last post on this... But Photoshop is too fun. Now these pics are scientifically sound....

...And I base that on absolutely nothing.

http://www.jasonbriney.com/superimpose1.jpg

With smoke removed:

http://www.jasonbriney.com/superimpose2.jpg

~BRiney

(...tra la la la la la)

That's freaky.  You should post that on some paranormal sites to see what they think about it.

-b0b
(...thinks it's an optical illusion.)

Well if you look at the "apparition" it's about the size of the fence post.  Most ghost apparitions appear at their normal height.  So if it IS a ghost...it's a child.

X

That makes it even more freaky.

Al Capone's unknown child he had locked in the underground tunnel prison.    :-/

When I come back to town, you motherfuckers BETTER take me up there, I want ghost pictures too god damn it!

Check out the poll at the top of the page.  I want to know what you guys think is in that image.  Ghost, or just an optical illusion?

-b0b
(...is really curious.)

Now being the most qualified person to talk about the paranormal since I have been studying the stuff since I was in 5th grade, I would like to offer my opinion into what the object is.  I have voted that it is in fact an optical illusion.  If you remember that night, it was late and the dew was decending.  That means there was fog.  There were also two light sources.  Briney's headlights and Bob's flash.  If you have a thick fog you often times capture what looks to be something more solid than the fog.  As you can also see in the pic there are different gradients of fog.  On the left hand side you see the fog is relatively less and on the right it is heavier.  Now I will say that it being a humaniod shape and seems to be at the level of the leaves it's "standing" on is very weird.  However you rarely have ghost pictures that are all white like you have here.  Usually if you get a shape it is not complete and if it is it's almost always transparents.  If this is not an optical illusion then it's closer to being an angel sighting which with angel sightings they rarely hide and make their pressence known on pictures only.  Again I put forth that this is just the fog and you know I'm not an govt debunker because I want to believe in this stuff more than anyone.  However I have to use reasonable doubt when looking at these types of pics.  Just like how some people saw the devil in the smoke of the second plane hitting the WTC, we often see things we want to see or see something our eyes tend to focus on more.  However, again with possibility, I could always be wrong.

X

I wish it was April 1st.  Bahahaha...

http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Other/CaponeHuntSmokeSmall.jpg
http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Other/CaponeHuntGhost.jpg

The word of the day is...

http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Other/Gullible.jpg

You can see the raw image here...

http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Other/CaponeHuntSmokeLarge.jpg

-b0b
(...BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!)

you jerkwad

Ha ha I rule the world!  I was right that it wasn't real!  Nice shop though.  Had those art majors fooled.

X

X wrote on Nov 5^th, 2005 at 4:33pm:

Had those art majors fooled.

Yeah, that's the best part!

-b0b
(...woooo!)

..|..

How about I had no thought or suspicion that a friend of mine would present a falsehood as reality. I asked for the pics that he took and we got a photoshop edit. Honestly I'm a little more than pissed.

You're mean.

I want to slap you in the face with a large trout.

Heck, I would do that anyway.

It sounds like fun.

My guess is that Briney showed all his friends the cool pic with a ghost in it.  Now he has to tell them its fake.   ;D

Who cares about that. I feel more that trust was broken here. A practical joke doesnt last a week. Its a joke when the person knows hes been pranked on shortly after. When its dragged out a week, its just f**kin retarded. He even posted this thing on an unsolved mysteries site and sent them a link to this thread.  I even had some convos with bob about it during the week and he just kept going on about it.

Har. Har.

Hope you all had a good laugh.

I do have to agree with Briney.  It was kinda shaddy.

X

I'm sorry if I made any upset, I had no clue that would happen.  In the future, I'll keep my practical jokes limited to 48 hours.  No harm intended.

-b0b
(...)

Question,
You found Purgetory on Williams Rd?  I thought it was on Purgatory Rd.  Any more details without photos would be great!
Thankx!

Any you are?

Any you are....  :D

I believe purgatory is just a nickname of a place out in the country in michigan.  Maybe that will help.

Sorry stick

And you are?

Apparently someone that chats with spirits.  Maybe he doesn't realize the image is fake...from last year...

I don't think there is a "Purgatory Road."  Purgatory is the name of the hunting land that Capone's mansion was formerly located on.

-b0b
(...could be wrong.)

There is a Purgatory Rd, but the mansion is not on that road, it is another one that connects to it.  We went there last weekend.  It is within a public hunting area.  I took pic's in the daylight to get a lay of the land.  May go back at night. I am also looking for facts that it was really owned by Capone and any other experiences.

We are also looking for places with a lot of activity.  We went to another location nearby and got some EVP's.

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EVP's, you say?

If I may inquire, what is an EVP?

-b0b
(...is too lazy to use Google.)

Why you don't know?!

EVPs are Electromagnetic Voice Phenomenon.  It's supposedly voices of the dead communicating with the living that are heard in the lower frequency range.  Many, many ghost hunters and parapsychologists use them as means to finding out who the people use to be who are haunting the spots.  Some or just downright eerie.  If you want examples I have a few great sites.

X

If you could show on a map or give directions as to where that pic was taken, that would be awesome. I was under the impression the mansion itself burned down a few years ago, and that the only surving landmarks was a servants quarters and a half sunken house or something like that. looking forward to more pics and descriptions.

Thanks

~BRiney

Perhaps we could all get together some weekend and make a joint trip out there?

-b0b
(...would love to see the real deal.)

Heck yeah...we have to do it for real this time.  If we could get actual directions or have someone take us.  I'd def go out there again.

X

Man, I just reread your posts and I know that the photo was touched, just thought you had actually been out there and had to make up something exciting  :o  So nobody went???

Yes the building that stood there was burnt down, no servants quarters, the photo is of what I believe to be a pump house, and that is partially submerged.  The driveway is still there, and an under ground room, probably a fruit cellar can be entered.  We may go back w a metal detector and try an excursion into a "ravine" behind where the house stood.  I knew there were "others" with us, but nothing bad or clingy.  I am still looking to get documents that Al owned the property and actual photos of the house.

I am surprised that I have found so little info on the internet, mostly KrissyKittys articles and what you guys posted.

This is the under ground room.

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Could you throw us some directions?

Also, next time you go you should post it with a time and place to rendezvue.  Stregnth in numbers to protect us from the red eyed bigfoot and the Satan worshipers.

X

Oh we were out there, its just that, like you said, there is very little documentation on the internet about its location. I guess we should have hit a library or something like the olden days  ;D.

We drove all over the game preserve out there, and one rumor said that the mansion had been on what is now a church camp's property. All in all, we pretty much got lost out there. So if you find something out that would be awesome!

What was in that underground room, btw? And what kind of EVP's were you picking up?

I'm a skeptic.

-b0b
(...would love to be proven wrong, though.)

I too am skeptical.. and probably twice your age.  I debunk before I believe.  

The "mansion" is supposedly across from where the youth camp was.  I was there in Feb. in the dark and there was a house to the left of the drive that had been burned and stables etc. on the left that there were remains of.   Across the street was the "mansion".  

This last weekend there were no remains of the camp, or anything on the south side.  It was cleaned up and said keep out w/a phone number. The pictures I took were of the the things on the North side of the street, or the mansion.  It makes sense, and I guess I need to look in the local county courthouse for documents.  BUT my life is busy w/ a job and 4 kids.  I did email a man on the internet who has an Al Capone museum for info....maybe the name "spiritchats" scared him!!

The evp's were from a nearby church.
I think the underground room was a fruit cellar...BUT it did have 2 doors on it, quite strange.  Thats why we will go back for more research.

Where all are you guys from???  OOPS I said "guys"

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Oh ya, that photo was not of me...

and bOb...I could probably show you how to believe!!  Do you know of any haunted places?  Lets do the work! (NO PHOTO EDITING ALLOWED!!)

Sherry G

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Just remember one thing guys.

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(...couldn't help himself)

excuse me.


I was drinking tea.



and it came out of my nose.





Cait
   (...buah hahahahahahahahah ;D)

I must be missing that reference?

-b0b
(...crosses the stream.)

gasp!

http://web12.dvd2web.de/ghostbusters/dt4.jpg

comon man!

Ghostbusters!

b0b you missed a Ghostbuster reference?

Get the hell out.

Oh and nice to meet you spiritchats.

Most of us are from a small town in Michigan.  Although very few if any of us actualy still live there.

And, uhh yeah, dont really pay attention to anything I post.  Most of it is vulgar and rarely constructive :)

OH GOOD JOB BOB!!!

http://mud.mm-a8.yimg.com/image/2893151377

You make baby Jesus Cry!  (note - not a picture of baby Jesus...cause there were no picutres back then moron!)

I find your lack of geek skillz....lacking

X

Well, I will let you all know when we go back (if there is time) we like to be spontainous.

We live in Edwardsburg and the others in the group are from Elkhart and Mishawaka.

I am trying to put together a forum for us to interact, and to include others that are interested.   I AM a geek flunkie.

Any other info or locations would be greatly appreciated!