Springfield Ghost Society

History

By Debbie Lowery

Profiles of Residents at Shamel Manor

1. Charlie- Very large, 6' 4", 250-260 lbs, solid, very burley - was mentally ill.
• Janitorial type
• Room was on main floor, 2nd room on the left. Only man's room on this floor.
• Scary looking in a way
• Very Protective
• Always joking with someone telling them to "Get Out".
• Talked on his ham radio in his room.


2. Petie - around 60 yrs old with a 14 mo. Old mind. He pounded his fists on things a lot to get attention.



3. Sidney - Was a pain in the a--. Would stomp his feet to get attention. He could not speak and made a lot of gutteral sounds. Always eating out of the garbage or the bath soap. Pounded on the floor. He was hard of hearing. Had grand mal seizures.



4. Ima Jean - Little jolly lady around 50 - 60 years old. Laughed a lot. Mind of a 1 yr. Old. Fat, short and grey headed. Loved dolls, they were her babies. Any time laundry was done around there, she made sure her doll's clothes were washed and then she would iron the clothes. Took care of her dolls like they were real babies.



5. Brian - Adult with a babies mind. He had Multiple Sclerosis, couldn't stand upright very well. Had a very twisted body. For fun, he would crawl up to you and pull your pant legs up and pull your socks down. Then he would laugh and say "Brian is a bad boy". He always talked about himself in the third person. "Look at Brian", "Hug Brian". If you would kick at him when he pulled your sock down, he would start screaming like someone hit him with a whip.



6. A man who's name has been forgotten would steal the girls underwear and hide them behind the tank in the bathroom on the 2nd floor. In the middle of the night he would get up and get the underwear and take them back to his bed and lay there and rub the underwear between his nose and his lip. He was told several times not to do this and was bought silk and satin ribbon as a substitute but it didn't work and he kept doing this.



7. Artie - Very protective of all the women. He would take his finger and shape it like a gun and tell everyone he was the sheriff.



8. Hazel - Always told people she was telling her sister on them. She liked to steal nice clothes too.

Conclusion:

By Debbie Lowery

The 2nd floor was reserved for the men's bedrooms. The main floor had the women's bedroom's, plus Charlies. The basement had the kitchen, dining room, beauty shop, laundry, classroom and storage rooms.

Considering the mentality of the residents it would not be surprising to find the cabinets and draws in the kitchen opened. They would like to get in there and open and close cabinets repetitiously.

There were several residents afraid of the dark. Sometimes the residents played tricks on each other by turning off lights to scare them. Lights being turned on could be because of the fear of the dark.

Residents loved repetitious things. They had several pound o' pegs there. Residents would pound on these for long periods of time. They had several big rubber bouncing balls that they would bounce a lot.

Everything in bold are some of the things we experienced during the investigations.