Ok, this is probably creepy year-round, but I never gave it a second thought until the leaves started falling off the trees and the days became shorter. The Oneida Correctional Facility, located just miles from our house (welcome to Rome, where prisons can be found, well, everywhere) is a beautiful old facility. It looks like it could be an old mansion, an entire campus of historic buildings. That is until you notice the medium-security electric fence and security cameras that encompass the place.
The campus is made up of 47 buildings on 85 acres of land, and opened in 1988 as a medium security correctional facility. The earliest buildings on the land date to 1886.
If you think that's a little weird, consider this. the campus has been shut down, leaving most of the buildings abandoned and the property unmaintained. Only a few buildings seem to remain in use, and in the morning and evenings you can see the lights in those few buildings, and only those, on.
I assure you, we are perfectly safe in our home. In fact, the old campus is currently for sale (see more pictures here) - but this place is practically begging to be the setting for a scary movie, so I thought it only appropriate to post about it tonight, on the eve of Halloween. Hey - maybe American Horror Story should consider it for their next season?
Happy hauntings!
(photo credit goes to nydailynews.com)
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