Remington Arms, Bridgeport
The Damned Story: The story starts in 1867 when the Union Metallic Cartridge Company opened shop in the East End of Bridgeport. Successful, the company was later purchased by Remington Arms, who in 1915 expanded the factory to a 73-acre manufacturing complex. During the first half of 20th century, it was among the biggest munitions factories in the world, employing over 17,000 workers and literally producing tons of ammunition and weapons each year. It was a shining example of the Industrial Era, a huge bustling facility in the heart of a burgeoning city that served as both a powerful economic engine and key cornerstone for American military complex.
Of course, like many factories in the Northeast, it was only a matter of time before someone somewhere else could do it better and cheaper. In 1970, Remington moved the majority of its production to a new plant in Arkansas, eventually abandoning the site altogether in 1988; other companies, including General Electric, have also used the site for stretches before finally leaving behind an empty sprawling complex that has slowly been eaten away by urban decay. Gone are humming assembly lines, busy rows of machinery and hardworking employees, replaced by empty buildings, broken windows and . . . the ghosts of the past?
Like any major factory, there have been occasional fatal accidents on the premises, including two different employees falling into giant pots of molten metal. In 1942, during the height of its war-time efforts, a deadly explosion occurred on the production floor, a horrible accident (some say it was wartime sabotage) that killed seven workers and wounded 80 others — an event that some claim is responsible for the shadowy black figures and dark shadows which have been reported by numerous folk over the years. Old employees still lurking after having punched out from this experience? Or maybe some of the less prosperous locals hiding out for a night?
Or maybe it’s the spirit of American freedom, still trying to protect the right to bear arms? (Or to arm bears, which is always so much more entertaining!)
In addition to the shadowy figures seen, there have been reports of various paranormal activities from eerie voices and disembodied screams to spirit orbs and mists. Those who have ventured inside the gates also claim to experience feelings of dread and unexplained cold spots. Bridgeport police officers, often investigating sightings of figures on the grounds, have also reported seeing unusual things on the grounds.
In short, more than one person has labeled Remington Arms as simply “cursed.” Considering its unfortunate history, and that the property has fallen into such disrepair, it’ s easy to see why.
In 2009, Travel Channel’s “Ghost Adventures” visited Remington Arms.
Our Damned Experience: We visited Remington Arms on a snowy day in December 2008. Although we didn’t crawl under the fence and go inside the buildings, we were able to get close enough to get a good look at many of the decaying structures. The spots you see on a few of these photos are rain drops, not orbs! Well, I think they’re mostly raindrops — I’m not quite sure if I can tell the difference (or if there is one).
We didn’t see any unusual figures in the windows of the factory, nor on the grounds, although there was a neighbor or two standing on nearby street corners seemingly waiting for something . . .
One of Kate’s friend’s husband did a bit of work at Remington Arms recently, and talked about it to us, including sharing some odd images.
If You Go: You probably shouldn’t — not because of things otherworldly, but because of people this wordly: drug dealers, gang members and other troublemakers you would expect to find in a poor blighted neighborhood in the cosmopolitan mecca that is Bridgeport. Steve used to deliver legal pharmaceuticals in this neighborhood, and often required police protection to do it!
Remington Arms is located at 812 Barnum Avenue in Bridgeport, and is easily spotted by the dilapidated buildings, barbed wire fences and glaring deterioration.
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One of my irrational fears is of abandoned industrial spaces, so it is unfortunate that I have to drive past Remington Arms quite frequently.
My husband had to go inside that place and do work with the company he works for. It’s not totally abandoned yet because General Electric has been using about a tenth of the property for storage and that was the area he was working on. While he was there him and his coworkers experienced shadows moving across the bathroom when they were alone and heard strange noises in different parts of the building that were supposedly vacant.
We had no idea he was working in the abandoned Remington Arms until he told me weird stuff was happening and asked me to look it up online. In my opinion that place really is haunted. His company is planning on going back soon to finish more work, so we are hoping to maybe get some good pics of the inside.
Me and a group of friends went inside these buildings because of a bet. We went in the morning because of the fear that there were ghosts or homeless people. When I first walked into the building I had a feeling that we were going to find something unexpected and that feeling was proven when I saw shadows movings and when my friend heard a man speaking behind him though when he turned around he saw nothing only a brick wall. I have no doubt in my mind that it is haunted because we also brought a digital camera along for our own amusement.
Ive been in this place and its great! no stupid ghost crap, just a huge, sprawling, dead facility. Definately got lost, climbed to the very top of the shot tower ( which was awesome and filled with cell phone gear), went in just about every room, checked out the catwalks….too cool. Be careful and youll be fine.
i live in bridgeport my school is down the street from there me and a group of friends went in playin around till we herd a scream in this area there was chairs rocking and we found shotgun shells till this day wego and try to find somethin i know its dangerous im a kid tho we like to be nosy and look at stuff im am 14 and so are my friends feelin to go 2daii
[...] the end of summer 2009, the team visited Bridgeport’s notorious Remington Arms, the former munitions factory — now abandoned — which was the scene of multiple [...]
I am a loyal fan and regular watcher of the Travel Channel’s “Ghost Adventures”. Those guys are to be highly commended for some of the harrowing places that they have investigated! They’ve got balls like an elephant! And, kudos to the Travel Channel for producing this show, it’s the hottest ticket on tv right now!
I was a caretaker at an abandoned sanitorium in northeastern Oregon in 1981. I lived alone in the building for 29 days before finally leaving in the mikddle of the night, because the paranormal activity became too much for me. I can assure any doubters out there that ghosts DO exist!
i went in there alot we explored the whole thing yet i didnt see nothing just like the house on lindley st they say its haunted and i still didint see a thing i mean i belive in ghosts but i dont think the factory is haunted or the lindly st house
I went to college at the University of Bridgeport from 1970 to 1974. I had passed these buildings many times in that four years. By that time, most of the production had moved out for the most part, and this was a strange, dark, eerie place indeed, even from the outside.
JUST BECAUSE YOU DIDNT SEE ANYTHING DOSENT MEAN ITS NOT HAUNTED GHOSTS DONT COME AROUND ON CUE.THEY ARE REAL IVE SEEN CRAZY THINGS AND HEARD CRAZIER.
GHOST ADVENTURES IS AWESOME AND ZAC BAGGENS ROCKS!!ID LOVE TO DO AN INVESTIGATION WITH THAT CREW BUT FROM WHAT IVE HEARD THEY WONT INVESTIGATE WITH ANYONE ELSE WHICH SUCKS!!!IM JUST AS ENTHUSIASTIC AS THEY ARE ABOUT THE PARANORMAL
Anyone in Bridgeport know what the future plans for the building are?
Condo conversion perhaps?
I have lived near the remington buildings at the old Father Panic Housing project on Hallett Street. Since 2004 the site has been redeveloped and we do not have Drug dealers or homeless people on our streets. Bridgeport has changed alot from the 1980′s. I do believe something could be going on at the site, but I have never seen or heard any ghostly ventures. Yes I believe about all the violence in the area, but the site has had a major Housing Project with over 3000 families who lived here. The Project is gone. So has the violence, maybe the ghosts are not just from the Remington Arms buildings, possibly from the area.
Just looked up the Father Panik projects Patricia .. I guess in 1937 it was called Yellow Mill Village..the first housing complex in the state Later named after stephan panik ..a priest who had worked for poor neighborhoods in east bridgeport . Thanks for the actual account .
Seeing as you live near the former arsenal ..let me know if the property at Remington is getting bulldozed or renovated Patricia ok ?
If you hear or see anything going on there.
I heard about this place when I saw the ghost special on tv, that is a good show. I think I like ghost hunters better though. Anyway this is a creepy place. On the show the guys were walking around in the daytime and heard banging in the distance inside of this abandoned place. I don’t know what some of the above posters are thinking. There is no way I would be walking around in there, day or nighttime! Besides it being very old and potentially dangerous (climbing to the top? come on man! That is just silly your asking for something bad to happen!!) I have had some paranormal experiences and seen some unworldly things in buildings that were not over 100 years old, so I am just fine watching this on tv, thank you!
im born and raised in tha port!! and i heard many stories abt that building and none of them good as a kid we heard that the old GE building on boston ave was connected to that building with underground tunnels and i always thought that was crazy so after seeing it on tv with those ghost guys i was shocked that it was true!!! the 1 thing i can see abt that building and this is speaking for my self and a group of friends was a strange redish light in there but never really thought to much abt it like wow thats freaky ..you know its like we live here you see then you dont you get use to it but yea deff a weird place! sad that its being torn apart by crack heads ripping out copper piping lol!! and as far as it being a bad place well it is wat it is, cant change that drug dealers and gangs is a part of life you know get over it!! but i agree with patricia it has changed alot the city is looking better but crime still is around. but like patricia said there was a MAJOR house issue were lots of people died it was very very bad and it was located on the other side of the train tracks so there is so much evil and bad going on a small section were so many people have died messed up deaths look up yellow mill village/father panik village in bridgeport connecticut!!!! murder was like a everyday thing so it could be crossed just be safe if you want to visit cuz more then ghost could get you lol!!! im out BRIDGEPORT ALLDAY
yeh soe ..musta been a bad neighborhood
I worked in the Remington Arms building, part of it in a Company called King Data in the 1970′s and we went upstairs to check out the building and looking through the draws and things we felt an eerie presence that made us give up looking and go back downstairs to work. Also my father used to talk about working in the Remington Arms building making shell casings and about one day people with badges taking them off the assembly line and talking to them. I never understood this until I watched the Ghost Adventures show and saw about Remington Arms and the story. I believe in ghosts and Remington Arms is very haunted.
I would sleep overnight at the Remington arsenal but you’d have to pay me.
MARY BANKS are you serious wow thats crazy, i wonder for years and years why they dont knock that old raggity thing down but now ummmm. i think i know but let me ask if they knock it down were would all those sould go?? and i also heard if you disturb them it makes them very angry soooooo wat to do with it??? does anyone have an idea the plans for it? i should ask CITY HALL HUH
OH IM FORGOT YOU JIM YEA IT WAS VERY RUFF there was so much gangs and drug dealing going on just on the other side of the train tracks< i dont think it was all going on at the same time but after it was all said and done it could be all crossed. the village was knocked down due to the very high crime so dont worry abt father panik village any more if your not from around here, im just saying all those souls could be anggry still who knows
I wonder if they convert the Remington buildings into condos would the ghosts stay. Would make some nice loft apartments. I’d move in.
It’s interesting now that train tracks were mentioned. on travel ch’s show they heard honking, but they never mentioned it being from a train.. it wasn’t car honking I distinguished, it was clearing a trains horn.. cuz it had they echo, car horn is quick n short this sound was long n got louder as if when it aproaches fast. also u could even here tracks of when it rides on the rails. I wish I could go down there but I’m in Texas. I hate to feel doubt, there’s only one way, n that’s be there. but these stories all come together..
Yeah even if they made it a high rise I don’t think I would move in but that was interesting about Father Panik village (appropriate name for the padre based on what I read of the place). I still don’t think I would spend the night there even if you paid me.
I saw the show and for one thing that front gate looked pretty delapidated. I mean anyone could basically sneak in under the crack in the corner of the fence where the two parts of the gate came together. Although I could not imagine anyone wanting to go in there. I guess maybe if they were a crackhead but that is still nuts. The place also seems to have some lingering hazardouse waste issues, from what I have read.
I don’t know if you caught the show but there were several interesting evps the guys caught and what appeared to be a flashing (perhaps red) light on on their night vision cameras. The one that got my attention the most was a gunshot and then a scream they caught with their camera on the 4th floor of the shot tower.
They had caught a car horn honking for almost 10 seconds driving by from both the 4th floor camera and a camera they had on the 1st floor of the shot tower, but the gunshot and scream noise was only picked up on the 4th floor cam. Spooky.
by the way Mary what do you think the ppl with badges talked to your father about? Curious to your thoughts.
Yeah good point Sev I thought that horn sounded very long for being a car horn. I dont recall hearing the tracks but its possible.
For one I’d like to get into those bridgeport archives. There seems like so much went on in around that place. it’s even creepier that there is a cemetery in the back yard. that’s not by design or claimed not true. we need some gutsy ppl that can get down there and utube some more action. iv never been inspired by the dead but sure am by the unexplained. somebody needs to write a book about this place.
I am a local historian and was fascinated with the Remington Arms building and Shot Tower. The Shot Tower was the biggest building in Bridgeport at one time, and Remington Arms what helped make Bridgeport one of the industrial capitals of the world.
But, like alot of historical buildings in Bridgeport, it fell into being a victim of urban decay.
Factory hours in those days were long and hard, and making anything was labor-intensive, so I can imagine that the workers in there found it grueling and dangerous.
As far as the building being haunted, I would say that there at least seems to be an eerie cast over the place both inside and outside of it, since the area is run down on The East Side of Bridgeport, and the factory has a cemetary “St. Augustine’s” right next to it. The cemetary is very old, and I believe it had been refurbished in the last few years, where now you can see the grave markers. Charles “Charlie The Bum” DiStatsio is buried here. He was a famous bum in Bridgeport and died in back of an auto place in 1965 of natural causes, so they say. He used to hang out on the East side.
If anything that I would fear most about the building is that is it deemed “unsafe”; Structurally, it is weakening, inside and out, the stairways are unsecure, and there are holes in the flooring. The walls have lead and asbetos in them, coupled with the fact that there once were homeless people living in there, if not now. So, really, it is more likely that you could be harmed more by this, than perhaps a harmless aparition, who perhaps is stuck between two worlds.
With that being said, I really hope the city has better plans for it either by removing it, or revitalize it, which I doubt at this time, since it would cost too much money.
During the 1940′s I lived on Pearl Harbor St., later moving to the West End and moving from Bridgeport in 1968.
The Remington Arms complex at one time extended all the way up to the powder farm that was to the north of Pearl Harbor St. The GE building on Boston Ave was also part of that complex, being built to manfacture arms and munitions for the Imperial Russian Army, but the Russian Revolution in 1917 put an end to that and the property was acquired by GE To the north of Pearl Harbor St. was a large wooded area known as the powder farm where Remington mixed the explosives in small batches used to manufacture ammunition. These powders were carried via a private railroad down in back of the GE to the Remington factory on Arctic St in a bright yellow self propelled rail motor car several times a day.
During the war the kids in the Pearl Harbor St. area used to play near the fence that surrounded the powder farm and made friends with the guards who patrolled the area, on foot, in jeeps, and mounted on horseback. Even though a war was going on it was a happy time to see the guards and sometimes they even gave us candy and apples.
As kids growing up there we were proud of the role that our town , and the many factories in it , had in the “Arsenal of Democracy” that had contributed so much to the defeat of the axis powers of WWII. I can still remember Corsair fighter planes flying overhead from Chance Vought in Stratford and the whole downtown area coming to a standsitll as people stopped what they were doing to take a look at those beautiful machines
As far as Remington being haunted. If you consider that the plant was in operation for close to 100 years and take into account the hazardous materials that was used it was rather a safe place to work. I can remember a huge sign in front of the shot tower that proclaimed “this plant has worked x number of days with out an accident”.
I worked in the Bassick Co. caster plants on South St. and Howard Ave for two years during the 1950′s and there were two fatal accidents and one suicide during that time.
I believe more fatalities occurred in the bloody bar-rooms of the town, and with more regularity, especially some notorious ones located on Water St. near the RR station.
.The TV show appeared somewhat of a put-on, trying to make something out of nothing. There has always been night-time screams and gunfire in Bridgeport. Most of the other occurrances could be easily explained if you take into account acoustics, reflections, etc.
It did bring back many memories of an earlier and happy times though.
TO Sue Del:
I remember Charlie the Bum. He used to hang out underthe RR viaducts moving between Kossuth St. and E. Main. He always wore a WWI army overcoat even during the heat of summer. And it got hot in those days.
The police used to pick him up with the approach of really cold weather and it was the first sign of spring when he reappearedl
TO: BobinCT
Thanks for the info on the railway that went fron the GE building on Boston Avenue to the Remington site. I remember years ago looking down and saw railroad tracks on the side of GE and wondered what they had used them for in relation to the factory. There was also a lake down there near GE, and that is where they got the name “Lakeview cemetary for the cemetary which is right next to GE. There was also “Lakeview Cafe” right on Boston Avenue which is no longer there. Being a local historian, I did not even know about “the powder farm”. Your right about the bloodshed in some of the taverns down on Water Street. I remember there was a small drinking establishment right underneath the railroad tracks called “The Club Car”. All the winos would hang out in there.
I used to see Charlie the Bum sleeping in store fronts. My father used to take us down the East Side in his truck and yell out “Look! There is Charlie The Bum”. He always did have his wool coat on even in the summer probably because he did not want anyone to steal it by taking it off. They used to take him in and hose him down. He was born in Naples, Italy and from what I read was an violin player. The story about why he became a bum is still unclear to me: Bums all have their stories of course, but the one I heard was that he was supposed to marry someone whose family had money and they didn’t approve of Charlie, so the marriage got cancelled and then Charles dropped out of society and became a bum. I was really pleased that a Italian man named Nunzio who worked for Lakeview monuments by GE, made him a respectable headstone and buried him in St. Augustine’s cemetary, which by the way, is right near to Remington Arms. Supposedly, there was a Hungarian women who was buried alive in there according to ‘The Ghost Hunters”. I don’t know her name, but would like to find out and go visit the grave.
I do historic research on the railway line that once housed the Housatonic Railroad, and then later, by 1872, became the New York, New Haven and Hartford. It started in Bridgeport on Water Street and later made it’s way all the way north through towns such as Trumbull, Monroe, and Newtown. The tracks were abandoned from Water Street in the 40′s, but the line continued from Stepney in Monroe all the way north to Pittsfield Massachusettes. I will probably be at the Trumbull Library in the next few months. You can check the “Community Calander” in The Connecticut Post. The presentation is called “Rails to Back Trails” I use slides to educate the public on the then-and-now of railroad history and how, today, the railroad line has become one of Connecticut’s best recreational trails.
With all that being said, Bridgeport was booming with industry. That is why they have all these on-off exit ramps off I-95 so that people could get in and out of these factories from the highway. I also heard one of the reasons that they started shipping things overseas was because the machinery in the factories were over-taxed. Of course, there were many other factions that aided in the decline of industry. One picture that stands out in my mind was in David Palmquists book “The History of Bridgeport”, where the zeppelin, The Hindenburg, from Germany was flying over Bridgeport. Later it exploded in Lakehurst, NJ. In the Remington building there were believed to be spies, and people were especially wary of German immigrants.
Boy did the Remington Story bring back a flood of memories.
In a previous post I mentioned the Remington Powder Farm.
Many in Bridgeport did not know of existence of the area or what was done there. It was top secret, heavily guarded and contain a very dense forest. Deer abounded inside and occasionally came down to the fence.
Very large explosions were occasionally heard inside the area, and usually when that happened an announcement was made in the Bridgeport Post that Remington was testing a new artillery shell for the military. But were they, or did someone screw up?
Using the Google satellite capability I can see that most of the Remington Woods appears to be intact. Before I left Bridgeport I remember some kind of a commerce park being planned for the area, but most of it still seems to be untouched. It is really a very large area, and looking at the satellite image I can see a body of water to the north of Pearl Harbor Circle that we didn’t even know existed. (Not Success Lake).
Just curious does any one know if the property has been developed? I suspect it might be a giant toxic waste site, because it really is a prime piece of property and that could be the reason it hasn’t been touched in all these years.
After the war many pieces of machinery from the main plant were packed up and shipped to other Remington plants.
A long time after this happened I was told that some of the ammunition production line had been secretly sent to the fledgling nation of Israel that was fighting for its very existence. The Zionists had managed to procure an ample supply of war surplus arms including a huge supply of Thompson Submachine parts that had been sold very cheap when the Auto-Ordnance Co. located on Railroad Ave., had all of their contracts canceled at end of the war. However they lacked a supply of ammunition and at least two of production lines from Remington had somehow been waylaid and sent to Israel.
I chalked this up to being another urban legend but a recent TV show about Underground Places had video that revealed a museum that was in a very secret, hard to get to, underground hidden facility in Israel containing machinery that was used to produce ammunition during the 1947-49 birth of that nation. Kind of confirms the urban legend.
To: BobinCT:
Is the Lake that was right across the street from GE called “Lake Sucess”. It was quite a large lake at one time, and now it is a rather swampy area. Also my next question is “Where is Remington Woods”?
Write back, Sue
SUE DEL
The lake that you mention was called Stillman’s Pond. It was used by the GE for cooling purposes for its power plant and the WIre and Cable Division. There were spray heads installed all over it and it made quite a spectacular site on winter nights spraying water and steam in to air and being back-lit by the lights on the front of the GE complex. In the late 1960′s the labor intensive Wire and Cable manufacturing equipment was dismantled, and sent to South Korea where it was put back into operation using cheaper labor. A less labor intensive operation was installed in Bridgeport.. I don’t know if it is in operation at this time.
Remington Woods can be seen on the Google satellite maps. It is bounded northerly by Broadbridge Ave, easterly by parts of Broadmere Ave. and earlier by Success Ave. southerly by Pearl Harbor Street and Circle, in the area as known both as Brady Village and Success Park which was another area entirely. It continued along farmland that later became Bullard Havens, Bridgeport Health Care , Highhorizons School and in the west by Evers St. Success Lake was/is right in middle of Remington Woods AKA as the Powder Farm. The body of water north of Pearl Harbor Circle that we didn’t know about appears to be a narrow strip of water (pond/creek) and can only be seen with a real tight zoom.
IT can be seen as a wooded area using the Google Satellite maps, if you zoom in close enough you can seen what appears to be the remains of some of the bunkers where the powder mixing and storage was done.
I had some great RR adventures if you’re interested. Most of my wayward youth was spend exploring many of the RR operations in the Greater Bridgeport area almost being killed for the effort on at least two occasions.
in back of my boys house theres a street that leads to the ge factory and thats past dq on east main street and does anybody know how remition got on fire like last year twice
WoW! thanks for all the history guys. Very cool
BobinCT:
I cannot answer mac’s question above about the street that lead to the GE factory and how Remington caught fire last year twice unless you can for him. I did not know anything about the fires. Thanks.
So…the Lake on the side of GE was called “Stillman’s Pond”, not to be confused with Lake Success. I have an idea now where Remington Woods is situated. I will have to Google it by Satellite to see some of the bunkers where they mixed the powder.
Since you seem to know alot of obscure facts about Bridgeport history, I was wondering if you know anything about “The North Bridgeport Station” which was situated on Carson Street which would be right in back of where The Ford dealership is on the corner of North Avenue and Boston Avenue. This station was supposedly a running stop, not to be confused with the station on Water Street. It must of went out when the line was abandoned in say, the early 70′s where they were still pulling freight north. I remember the tracks used to go over North Avenue and then there was a drop and then the tracks went in back of the old Nabisco factory and then along Park Cemetary and continued in back of the Coke and Fuel Company where the big green cilos are on North Avenue. Spring replacement is there, right next to the cilos. It used to be called “The Iron Ledge Company. The train continued north I believe up Sylvan Avenue or was it Resevoir Avenue which both ran parallel to one another. From there it cross over where Shaw’s was on the hill. That used to be a park called “Stadler’s park”.
There was a beach there at Beardsley park called “Sylvan Beach”. Anyway…..the train continued north on the west banks of Beardsley Park until it made it’s way north into Trumbull. There have never been any pictures of The North Bridgeport Station, nor is there a postcard. I was wondering if you know anything about The North Bridgeport station, or if you have a picture of it.
Write back, Sue Del
Hi! If anyone would like to contact me about local history they can e-mail me also at: sueanndel@hotmail.com
Answer to Macs question:
Off East Main St. past DQ is Cogswell St. and it goes to Asylum St. which GE’s back entrance boarders. Next to Park City little league. That whole are was real creepy inthe 70′s when I was a teenager. There was an abandoned slaughter house and Incineration factory that we used to goof off in. Definitly a spooky area with Lakeview cemetery ther as well.
My Bad, York st. is off Eastmain and it snakes over to Cogswell
[...] Adventures 11/27 The Ghost Adventures crew investigated the old Remington Arms factory in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It was a very active place, but I’ve about had it with Zak’s [...]
I did some you tube of the show some days ago and I believe I know the reason why there has not been any remodeling or tear down. the building is pivately owned property. in YouTube comments a guy has a friend who ownes the property. I think this may be a good reason why the city is not involved, from what iv heard thus far. love the history on this place guys, thx! brings a sort of peace to the madness which has evolved.
It is just plain BAD television. Three total idiots! Millions killed, countless police officers, no execration in this program. People actually say that they find this entertaining? I really liked calling the sounds of a train a car horn. It even had the Doppler effect. BTW, I grew up 1/2 mile from that plant and my father worked there in the early ’40s.
hi i lived\\ in bridgepor ct all my live i was born in 1970 i wasnt even around when all thhis was happening i was just born but now that i am hearing about all this it is very interesting i wanna hearmore even though i believe in god i live right next to the factory and i did see one night flashlights in there i dont if it was someone in there from the streets there is alot of drug dealers around so it could of been that
i’d love to check this place out im surprised theirs no cops watching this place i live in west haven and the old belt factory in my town supposed to be haunted but ‘ve been in their twice and never seen a thing it boarded up real good and people say its an urban legend but yea ghost adventures is fake in my opinion that and paranormal state the only ghost show i can see being real is taps (ghost hunters)
I grew up on Evers St Ext in Bridgeport, Remington Woods was right across the street. They had guards that drove around the park every day, 24 hours a day. There were deer, fox, owls, pheasant and other animals on the grounds. At times we could see them burning something but we didn’t know what. I think it was bad ammo. You could here crackling noises. As kids we use to walk along the fence from our house to Broadbridge. My neighbor use to feed the deer all the time, they would come up to the fence and let us feed them. I don’t know how true it is but I was told the ground is contaminated because ammunition was buried in the ground, and that it would take a lot of money to clean up the grounds. I had heard that they wanted to build housing but the cost of clean-up would not be worth it. There are office buildings there I believe Sikorsky has some offices there now. The deer have also since been removed. My mother had told me my grandfather worked at Remington as an engineer and that is where he met my grandmother. I also remember Charlie the Bum. They said he use to go to the woods at the end of our street. We use to find empty bottles all the time when went up there to play. I hope this helps BobinCT
Hi, i am interested in the unexplained and what we cant see, i love the show, but after watching T.A.P.S. (Ghost Hunters) For so long, it seems like these guys are going about it all wrong, and they are young guys just trying to get some recognition. I wonder why T.A.P.S. has went international last year, and they now have a third show (Ghost Hunters Academy), And these guys are still only the three original members, and they are aired on Travel Channel!!!
Hi! when my mom told my i was sooo scared. i even told some of my friends!
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I went there with 3 of my guy friends a couple of days before hallowen.It was kinda of scary because when we went into one room and we heard a little girl scream and a rocking chair move.It was really weird and i was scared.
There was a yellow railcar that used to go up and down to the two plants. You can see one rail line if you go into Lakeview Cemetary and look over the lake. There used to be three lines. This railcar would bring supplies under Boston Avenue and then make it’s way across Artic Street on the East Side, and then it into The Barnum Avenue and Helen Street Plant. The Plant on Boston Avenue was originally called “The Union Metallic Cartridge Company. The building was built between 1915-1916, and by 1920, UMC leased out the building to General Electric Company, for 7 million dollars. GE owned the building by 1922.
Factory workers had to use their bicycles to get from one side of the plant to the other in those days. The building on Boston Avenue was a half-a-mile long. Remington also made typewriters, sewing machines, and bicycles among other items.
There are two abandoned box cars at the Remington Plant off of Barnum Avenue. They are light blue and have the symbol Remington-Dupont. I was wondering if the Danbury Railway Museum would want them since, the Museum in Danbury has one of the yellow railcars in their lot on display.
As far as the site being haunted, I don’t know why any “self-respecting ghost” would want to hang out in a place like that? It has a really oppressed atmosphere and the building is derelic. I don’t know what the plans are for it except to say that like many other building in Bridgeport, it sits rotting there. It would cost trillions of dollars to clean up the Remington site. There is alot of lead and asbestos in the factory.
To think that Bridgeport was once the industrial capital, and that Remington Arms comprised of over half of the manufacturing of ammunitions during World War I, and World War II. Now, because of urban decay and the stigma that Bridgeport has because of the crime and the drugs, alot of people did not want to do business there. However, I really like how they cleaned up Downtown Bridgeport. Check out the re-furbished Arcade Mall on Main Street. Inside it is really quite like it was in the 1800′s . You can see the glass ceiling and the iron gridwork and the balconies are restored. This idea of architecture is a take-off on today’s mall layouts.
WHAT WILL THEY BUILD THERE NO ONE KNOWS EXACTLY BUT CONDO OR APARTMENTS BIG BIG MISTAKE THEIR WILL BE A FIRE ALWAYS IN THE BUILDING AND SOME MAY BE FROM HOMELESS BUT THEY WILL ALWAYS BLAME THE HOMELESS FOR THE FIRE BUT ITS THE GHOSTS. I HAD A DREAM ABOUT A FIRE AND DAYS LATER THE PLACE WAS ON FIRE,SOME GHOSTS GET TRAPED AND SOME LEAVE AND SOME ARE TRAPED DUE TO NOT THEIR TIME TO CROSS OVER FOR WHATEVER REASON AND SUDDEN DEATHS UNFINISHED BUISNESS WILL BE REASON FOR LOST TRAPED SOULS.I DROVE TO THE FACTORY RECENTLY FELT A HEADACH AND STRONG STRONG SADNESS.PEOPLE SHOULD JUST LEAVE SPIRITS AND PLACE ALONE DONT BOTHER THEM AT ALL.JUST CAUSE YOU KNOCK A BUILDING DOWN AND REBUILD DOESN’T MEAN ALL GHOSTS LEAVE.ITS JUST LIKE BUILDING ON A NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN BUIREL GROUND YOU WILL BE HAUNTED.THE PLACE NEEDS A REALLY GOOD BLESSING AND CLEANSING PRAYERS FOR SOULS TO GO TO LIGHT IN A GOOD MANOR.THE LINDLY HOUSE MY FATHER WAS ONE OF THE SPIRITUALIST CALLED TO THE HOUSE ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT AND THE LITTLE GIRL YES SHE IS STILL ALIVE LOCKED UP IN A ASYLUM WARD OUT OF STATE.I GIVE CREDIT TO THE PARANORMAL COPS YOU HAVE BEEN TO A PLACE THAT MY TRIBES NAME HAS BEEN SPOKEN ON WHO OWNS PLACE.KEEP UP GOOD WORK P.C.IM NOT HERE TO JUDGE OR SAY WONT I DONT THINK IS TRUE OR LIE JUST SHARING MY THOUGHTS ON THE WHOLE THING.
I live not to far from remington arms.ive been in there befor at night and its f***ing scarey! ive heard the noises but never seen the shadows I found a book of guns in there its cool to see how many guns they made in there! i had a good time with ma friend there Id go back but i want to see what ghost aventure guys seen! and by the way this hood is not so bad ive lived here my whole life. tell me were there are no drug dealers, gangs members, and other troublemakers??? try to see good in bad!!! and i believe these people should rest in peace someone should go and prey for their souls!!!
i live in da port i be huntin down dem ghosts
How do you get into the building I live a few blocks away from there
break and enter yo
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yo lol…i use to live der..i walked past that place ereday wen i go to school ..mann only iof i had known..
i really would love to explore at the Remington Arms factory…but don’t know if anyone would go with me… whats going on with the GE bldg?? My grandmother lives across the street and seems like no one is ever there???
i lived in bridgeport all my life and never knew what this place was some times friends and i would walk the street the cemetary is on at night and you would here gun shots within the building we never thought anything of it untill i did research on it and realized thie history behind it! . i remember the day the place cought on fire about 3 yrs ago and at the time my ex boyfriend had just started the fire department and knowing that he went into that building while it was on fire scarred me… till this day they never knew how the fire begain and it was a big one! i love history behind it but i will never go in that scarry building!
as long as i lived in bridgeport i never knew that place was haunted but i always thought it was scary looking
The guys from the Ghost Adventure Tv Show were great to work with at the Remington Arms plant. I patrol this area on a regular basis, It is quit creepy in there. We have had a rash of arsons in their lately. The area is not safe to walk around at night time between the homeless people , gang members, shots fired, and large holes in the ground. The owners of the land have tightened up the security and they will not even let the police in the GE portion of the complex.
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I have heard the same thing abou the remington Woods having ammo buried in the ground. I lived on Evers Street and in Nob Hill condos. The woods are in those areas too. When I was a kid they always told us it had land mines lol but as we grew up I did my own research and found out the truth. I now live around the corner from the Remington Arms, I pass it every single day. I find myself always looking at it when I pass by. I wouldnt even know how to get inside, I thought the whole place was fenced in.
its all bullcrap remington arms is no more haunted than my car…..give me a break ppl!~!!
i dont believe in ghost so to prove you people wrong im going to Remington arms factory this sunday and if there are ghost in there i will post another comment and tell you guys and girl everything that happen
Cool…Be careful. You staying overnight? Take pics!
the crazy thing about Remington Arms is that i literally live exactly across the street from it and i have to walk pass there everyday to get to high school and sometimes as i walk on by i can hear things (okward)
I used to work there as a security guard back in 1996-97. I would work third shift sunday(midnight) through Friday(morning) and I’m here to tell you that was one scary-looking place! As far as ghost stories about people hearing banging noises, I’ve had incidents like that during my time there. One night when I was doing a tour through one of the buildings( not sure which Bldg, but it was on the second floor), I had finished checking out a room and was leaving when I heard this banging noise and sounds of people screaming for help. I turned around , went back in, only to find no one there. I shined the flashlight around because I think someone was playing tricks on me, and I find bloody hand prints all up and down the fire-door. I got the hell out of there and that was my last tour for the night. The next day I found out that years ago an explosion had killed a bunch of people that were working there
In the interest of keeping my job, I’m not going to mention the name of the security company I was ( and still am) working for. Sweet dreams.
I recently went to the abandoned factory with my friend. This was before I heard rumors of it being haunted. Though I saw nothing, I constantly heard hammering from inside some of the tall buildings that seemed to have no entrance. I didn’t assume a haunting simply because I’m not a superstitious person. It certainly weirded me out though because I wondered why on earth anyone would be working in a broken down factory.
In addition, the friend I went with is a photography major in college and took tons of photos with a high quality camera. I’m interested in taking a look at them but I don’t know what to look for. Could someone email me with info?
Thanks.
Aug 28, 2010 The Remington Arms is on fire as I type this, I JUST drove by this AM around 830 am (fire began at 1030 am) it is basically burning to the ground, the fire is so bad they will not allow firefighters indoors.
I am personally p’d because I have been driving by there for over 10 years, at night that entire block of Barnum Ave is pitch dark & you are surronded on both sides of the street by this building & it is SCARY, no matter the temp outside as soon as you drive down Barnum and approach the RA you feel the temp drop for the length of the building until you get past it at the stop light by Lacy Factory heading towards Stratford or going back to E Main St.
I am certain the temp drop is because the building is so high it blocks out all sunlight.
So, here it 1998, I am all of 22/23. I JUST moved into Kossuth St. on Washington Park . My boyfriend Dennis & I were walking down Barnum Ave towards the hospital. I have no clue as to where we were going that time of night but anyways we approach the block where the building is, he has never really seen it, he just moved to Bpt to be with me, he says “I’d love to take pics inside that old building, what was it?” I did not know myself. Then he stops and stares up at the windows of the building and he says “Do ppl live in there?” “Problly squatters” I told him & he told me he saw a dude holding a gun in the 2nd floor window all the way at the end . I said “A gun? How can you see that with 1 raggedy light on this street at 730 at night in the winter” He insisted he saw a gun & a guy holding it, but not a drug dealer holding a modern gun he said it was different than that, a white or light skinned man holding what looked like a rifle or shot gun, like he was on guard patrol. We assumed they had armed guards that patrolled the building (this area had MUCHO drugs, robberies, hookers, homeless ppl, etc. at this time. They’d trinkle off E Main & from the park or head down that way from upper Barnum area.) Not so much any longer. Not like it was anyways.
So, I forgot about it until I talked to my Dad & asked him about the place a few days later. he’s like “Oh the old Remington Arms plant” then he told me what it was, a gun ammunitions factory. Well, it was kinda freaky cuz of what Denny saw. We thought ti was an old clothing factory or whatever.
Whether he saw a squatter holding a stick or bat or even a shotgun was never to be found out but when I looked up at the window I saw nothing. It was ONE of the ONLY windows on the 2nd floor NOT broken out.
It was also closest to the street light by the parking lot on the R hand side if you are heading towards Lacey Factory/Bpt Hospital.
I have gotten out of my car and walked around the cemetary (also rich with ghostly history) and walked the perimeter of RA in the day. You can sense it has it’s own story to tell if you are in tune to that type of thing or just stay quiet long enough you can get feelings of what it was like there back in its hay day.
Full of life, a neighborhod of working class factory workers, some of the houses around there have hints of that rich history in the architecture, a few original stained glass windows preserved here & there, the architecture of the buildings that have stores on the bottom & apts on top & the roofs form peaks or “princess towers”, as I called them, on the corners of the house,with the original tiling on the roofs, etc.
Kinda cool cuz my old apt on Kossuth wasonce one of the 1800′s era mansions of that area when Washington Park was “da bomb” Doctors, Lawyers, Politicians, etc. all lived on the park in their mega mansions.
I had the original 1893 fireplace in my apt but the chimney had no lining so I could not use it
Basically the hot shots lived by the park & the “little ppl” around the factories over by Remington and diff areas of the E Side & all over Bpt actually.
60.erica April 26th, 2010 3:02 pm :
i really would love to explore at the Remington Arms factory…but don’t know if anyone would go with me… whats going on with the GE bldg?? My grandmother lives across the street and seems like no one is ever there???
LETS GO!!!! WELL, IT CAUGHT ON FIRE A FEW HOURS AGO BUT WE CAN EXPLORE OTHER HAUNTE DPLACES, LIKE UNION CEMETARY, DUDLEY TOWN, FAIRFIELD HILLS MENTAL HOSPITAL IN NEWTOWN, ETC.
THE GE HAS UNDERGROUND TUNNELS & THAT OLD MOVIE THEATRE DOWNTOWN IS HAUNTED TOO..
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Well, as FraninBpt, has said, the Remington Arms Buildings had sadly caught Fire. And as I type this I have read that the City has given RemGrit an ultimatum, Either begin demolition of the remaining buildings within 48 hours or the City of Bridgeport will do it for them… Wow, Since I’ve moved here to Bridgeport, I’ve always wanted to explore its inner works and DOCUMENT, the buildings and Buck Shot Tower, to preserve more of it’s history for Generations to come, I guess that may never come to fruition…. Sadly Disappointed, of course the Stories of Ghostly Apparitions have always enticed me to visit the Place, going it alone was never an option for me due to the fact, there is always safety in numbers, and I always live by my own standard and Belief, “Safety before Stupidity” … Words I continue to live by….
The GE Building is being abandoned as we speak… They have been removing the innards for the past several years as I hear and I myself have seen them removing crates of machines through windows and barn doors throughout the building…. the Guards of course remain, but as far as the End Date, don’t know, but will try to find out more information, sometimes freelancing my photography helps to get some of the info I’m looking for…
so for now, the GE is still occupied, so trying to get in and explore without permission would be rather risky. I’ll say this much, that building is HuGE, and I mean HUGE !!!!
Is the Remington Arms Factory still up? I was planning one last trip before it got demolished.
Yeah, It’s still up, Dan. They only demolished a couple of the buildings that were deemed unsafe, due to the last fire that occurred. Unfortunately, though, the Remington is being patrolled and Guarded by Bridgeport Police, Night and Day, so getting in there would be near impossible… I would’ve loved to get inside the Shot Tower at least… guess that will be the one that got away.
Went down to Bridgeport today (from just south of Boston) to see if Remy was still standing and she is, a few buildings gone. I was going to go inside with my group and explore but we saw police so we just walked around the area across from the cemetery and took a few pictures, and we decided we were 100% not going to explore the factory when the same minivan passed us six times… and I didn’t feel like being robbed especially with over $3,000 on me. Anyways, she’s a beauty! even in such decay… Would have like to explore it about 10 years ago.
Would’ve saved you the long trip, Kurt, had you read the post I put up… LOL… sorry… at least it was a nice drive tho’ , I make it up to Boston every so often to visit my Sibling…
Yeah, I was just there today too. I was surprised at how easy it was to get in… Some police officer stopped us on the road and said “Don’t be goin’ over that fence now ya’hear? I don’t wanna have to give ya’ll boys a tresspassin’ charge!” (That’s kinda funny because I didn’t see one single no trespassing sign in that whole complex. The town of Bridgeport would’ve had a fun time telling me why they had a construction site surrounded by a whimsy fence with no “No Trespassing” signs. lol.
But yeah, the place is pretty cool! I liked it, that cop cut our trip short, just a note to anyone who goes there from now on – If a cop sees you around it, they’ll stop you, and then radio in. There were about 5 cop cars that “passed by” us on our walk back to the car. We got out of there quickly. Also, for anyone who goes to fast food restaurants after an Urbex Trip there’s a lot of food restaurants off 95-N Exit 34 (There’s a big sign for it) It’s about 10 minutes out, easy to find your way back though. :p
MY grandmother and her mom grew up in bridgeport back then..we have pictures of the remington forest,father panik,endless photos of the whole city with her and her friends in bars playing in the streets.Me being young this place doe’snt look the same at all not an inch.wE EVEN HAVE PHOTOS OF PEOPLES BANK WHEN IT WAS BEING DEVELOPED!
this archiecter is so cool how long did it take to build? and how many (about) murders and acidental deaths happened? and does anyone know any historical buildings that are not destroyed and open to the public?
I love the old buildings and the history. I saw a wonderful old industrial facility in West Virginia converted to an outlet mall and the effect was quite a crowd draw. I can see any kind of redevelopment like that for the RA facility would be extremely complicated due to the heavy metals and asbestos contamination.
I didn’t know the RA structure was still standing, and hated to hear of the devastating fire of Aug 2010 and subsequent demolition of parts of the complex. In Houston, Texas, an old hospital, long neglected and abandoned and haunted, was converted into Artist’s Lofts with amazing success. I hope the remaining RA buildings can be saved. They just won’t be making anymore like this.
The guys from “Ghost Adventures” are complete goonies. Though I did find this entertaining and a bit scary, you have to take it with a few grains of salt. My family used to live on Central ave when I was young, right across from Harding. I remember going for walks with my mom past the shot tower and the cemetery across the street. I’ve lived in Stratford now since I was 5 or 6, but my earliest memories are of that area.
@April- I believe they are going to save the shot tower, for historic reasons. Unfortunately they had to tear down some of the complex, due to the fires. I drive 95 every day and I always take a look towards Remington and the hospital– it just wouldn’t be the same if they took down that tower.
Im from bridgeport and it is a shame they had to move out. the fact is that we have so many damn abandoned factories here that you could build a whole nuther little state like Rhode Island with the abandoned land we have here. It disgusts me how they just left us and destroyed our city and working peoples lives like they did. remmington GE and others alike should be ashamed of them selves. FU U b*stards! you turned our once great hardworking city into a Sh*t hole slacker ridden Ghetto. 3 family houses that once held working familys now are abandoned sqwats for crackheads. maybe the next time corporate America asks for a bail out they will hear this message. thanks corporate big business your the best! age.
ever since i was little i have had very strange and mysterious dreams about this place i am three months from being fifteen and i still have these dreams and i am wondering what it all means
i was born and raised in tha bpt
“If You Go: You probably shouldn’t — not because of things otherworldly, but because of people this wordly: drug dealers, gang members and other troublemakers you would expect to find in a poor blighted neighborhood in the cosmopolitan mecca that is Bridgeport. Steve used to deliver legal pharmaceuticals in this neighborhood, and often required police protection to do it!”
To the author of this article and to everyone else that decided to talk crap about something that they don’t know about. I have lived in Bridgeport most of my life, gone to school and lived just down the road from this factory and nothing bad has ever happened to be. You will not get ‘robbed’ from just walking down the street, I walk around all the time by myself at night and I haven’t had a single problem. People need to stop making Bridgeport seem like such a bad place when it isn’t even that bad.
As Jaime said, you’re not going to get robbed. The only bad thing my group saw was used heroin needles.
LOL, Bridgeport is a dump. Dont go down there at dark. Its all the heroine users that cause problems near RA. Im not saying you will get robbed, but to think its safe is idiotic. So glad I got out of that cess pool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-bK13YyaHg
ay dont talk like that bout bridgeport my heart and SOUL is in that city i used to live by east main in three family owned by my family next to scoopers and the jamaican club
Yeah? And where do you live now? Come on, I’ve lived in Bridgeport for decades, it’s a dump and everyone knows it. Let’s not blow smoke up our own ass. Now as far as Remington Arms is concerned, I’ve walked, driven, and parachuted by the Remington, okay so I didn’t parachute, but it’s not as bad as everyone is claiming it to be. But , I’m not saying you won’t get robbed either, it’s just luck of the draw.. You could get robbed anywhere in Bridgeport. So to sit there and proclaim your love for a dump, just seems stupid. You could LOVE thehouse you grew up in, in that neighborhood, but not LOVE THE neighborhood, cause you live in a drug infested corner? Get where I’m going with this? Okay….now get back to talking about the history of the Remington Arms … Thanks
In fairness to Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven are in the top twenty last year for most dangerous cities in America. I think Bridgeport was 33..
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/most-dangerous-cities-in-the-united-states2010.html
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/submation
But back onto ghost and or spirits. They don’t exist, there is not ounce of submation or evidence in thousdands of years that can prove the existence of ghost. Most are just crazy people who think they see things, or people who want to beleive.
remington arms is really haunted because i be going in there, i be hearing voices or noises like people are still working there, its crazy, but i just ignore it and do what i was going to do. shit is real trust….
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Well its burned down now but if you ever had a chance to go in its amazing how big that factory was. I was explored that place and its unbelivable to be able to walk around their
Well I hate to hear it burned. My father worked there for 35 yrs. He worked in the very top in the shot tower.He said there were big pots of lead that he stirred and keep at the right temp..
then it would drop down to be put in shells. I always taught it was a cool building.When he retired in 1979 we moved to Arkansas. I do think he told me some creepy stuff that happened in the building. Wish he was still here to ask about it.He was the coolest dad ever.Harold Terry
was his name anybody know him. I hoped to get to check it out when i got to the port again
wish it hadn’t burned…..
your so full of shit its not a drug dealing infested city that wa in the late 80′s im a bridgeport representitive my whole life and here you come a stranger to our evironment and because the buildings are run down your quick o say its this and that if your goning to talk about the history of the building do that dont throw the city under the bus if you were scared thats your problem and for your friend supposedly dropping off drugs with police escort he was probably buying
Here ya go
Bridgeport Violent Crimes 1509
Average US City Pop 100,000+ 553.5
Bridgeport Murders 69
Average US City Pop 100,000+ 7
Bridgeport Rapes 69
Average US City Pop 100,000+ 33.1
Bridgeport Robberies 659
Average US City Pop 100,000+ 205.8
Can you Say Filthy Dump?
Do they still have the Jersey Barriers in the neighborhoods?
horace-no barriers took those out back in ’96
Mike-your bringing up statistics from 2003
the city pop is now at 140+ rapes down by 33%
and the murder rate is up as is in D.C, Detroit and new orleans. where are you from the deep woods somewhere out in philly nearest neighbor half a mile away. its people like you that make us not welcome people. Want to come and nit pic so much to say but yet want to come and take pictures of the buildings… but i be hearing voices or noises like people are still working there, its crazy, but i just ignore it and do what i was going to do. shit is real trust….
whats that shoot up and then say the city is shot? right right now i understand
I’m a Photographer that resides in Bridgeport I live in the North End of Bridgeport but I taken pictures of this building didn’t know what it was called until now this makes it even more interesting but that pictures I have taken I haven’t seen anything out of the ordinary just and old abandoned building decaying, but my next pictures will be inside
Be afraid of what U could see not what U cant
I used to live on lindley st. And me and a few friends used to go inside remington factory i guess for the thrill ov being scared… (there being nothing interesting to do in a town like bridgeport) Ive been in there way too many times and i can say ive seen and experienced way too many tripy things. My friends and i have seen shadows that appear to be the silouhette of a man atleast about six feet tall in the windows. And crazy thing is, the shadow was appearing and dissapearing from window to window everytime id look away and bk … Another time, we visited the roof all the way up some stairs. On our way back down the stairs, we heard a deep voice that said “GET OUT!!”.( on our way down the stairs, one of the guys got caught up by his nek with a wire that was hanging from the ceeling. but that wire was on the floor wen we first got there.) We ran as fast as we could outa there.Ive also seen a verry tall figure that almost looked like a reaper. exept it had the face ov an old woman with wrinkly dry gray face.And her mouth was wide open.she would glide on the floor. she was atleast 8-9 feet tall. i herd a crying/yelling /sad kind of voice that came from her. long story short, we started to run outa there , but this time we were being chased outa there.As we were running, i kept looking back at her. She was gliding towards us and it seemed like she would be at different distances behind me everytime id take a look back.. i was the only girl in the group. and i felt as if it was following me,not my friends.For some eerie reason ,it felt as if she was trying to only scare me…. One summer night i brought some new friends to a different area of the place. its not in the bk were the gate is. This area is right next to Bushwik factory. You would have to pass an empty driveway right next to the factory and go all the way to the end were there was once a bridge. i was told this was a mental asilium.its a smaller abandoned building…i dared them but they were too scared to go in… (were were standing there outside ,talking). suddently i see one of those tall shadows inside on the right hand corner of the doorway… To proove to myself that i wasnt crazy, i asked them if they see anything. It took them a few seconds to notice and they all immediatelly started yelling and running bk to theyr cars… I breaked out lauphing because it was funny and gave me relief that me and the ppl i went w. before werent crazy…..took my little brother there once. Hes a year younger than me. We went in and ive never seen my brother soo scared before. He said that there were other shadows jumping in and out of my shadow. He said they were shaped like a man figure… but i didnt see anything that day. Although i believe him cause he would never lie to me. And i can feal the look on his face how scared he was. Wanted to keep exploring but couldnt stand to see him this way so we left…….. And one last incident……… Found an old satanic bible in there.in case youre curious as to how it looks in there, there are a few office rooms w. really old rusty metal office desk. And the wole place has hallways and small rooms that have those old school metal beds and bed spring left ov it. There is just this one big room out ov all the rooms that looks more comfortable w. a fire place in it… It seems as if this place was burned down …. If u go there at night i am sertain that you will see shadows in the corners and going from room to room in the hallways… i can guarantee you that as soon as u walk in. you will get the darkes feeling overcoming your whole body. Wen i went at day i felt the same thing. even though it is bright in there cause all the windows are gone , i kept having the feeling of ppl being around me at all times..(instead of having the feeling of watching my bk, i would have to watch all around me. get some sort of pranoiya…verry eerie and heavy feeling in my chest of dread… but try not to let this bother you. Engoy the feeling… relax, and keep exploring… Anything new? write to me at moderngypsy7@yahoo.com
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I lived around the corner from Remingting Arms as a child and we played in the old cemetery across the street and at night we would hear strange noises come from the cemetery. I was always curious about the tower of Remington Arms. I would walk past the building every single day on my walk to school and at night you would get the feeling that someone was watching you from that tower. I was so surprised when I saw Zak, Nick and Aaron from Ghost Adventures do a lockdown at Remington Arms. I watched it one Friday night on the Travel Channel. I was telling my boyfriend all about the area around the cemetery and Remington Arms.
Yes I have been in this place and came face to face with 2 ghost. One was child and the other was a male. They both told me to get out so I took their advise and ran. I was hit in the head by a wooden baton I needed 8 stitches to seal the gach in my head. Believe!
saw the RA building on googlemap.looks creepy
I heard all this property is going to be demolished
pretty soon how true is that I dont know 
@frik listen ma man robert jr is right you guys got the nerve to be talkin bout tha port as if you own it you dont know notin about us. @vonny i believe that shit cuz it can happen the creepiest thing that happen to me was i was sleepin and right as i was bout ta go to sleep i feel a hand on my head and then this figure of a woman walk through my apartment stare straight at me and then it walked through the wall into my neighbors apartment.@henry listen i can tell your a skeptic but hear this there are historical moments of paranormal phenonmenon you just need to know where to look.
@Gio… My man, Did you even read what I typed? If not, then you could’ve kept the comment to yourself. Go back and read it closely. As a matter of fact, I’m going to copy and paste it for you, so you don’t have to go through the trouble… here you go.
FriK January 18th, 2011 11:38 pm
“Yeah? And where do you live now? Come on, I’ve lived in Bridgeport for decades, it’s a dump and everyone knows it. Let’s not blow smoke up our own ass. Now as far as Remington Arms is concerned, I’ve walked, driven, and parachuted by the Remington, okay so I didn’t parachute, but it’s not as bad as everyone is claiming it to be. But , I’m not saying you won’t get robbed either, it’s just luck of the draw.. You could get robbed anywhere in Bridgeport. So to sit there and proclaim your love for a dump, just seems stupid. You could LOVE thehouse you grew up in, in that neighborhood, but not LOVE THE neighborhood, cause you live in a drug infested corner? Get where I’m going with this? Okay….now get back to talking about the history of the Remington Arms … Thanks”
It’s number 94, just incase you want to check for yourself.
Okay, now I hope you read that closely enough to understand. Now where in there, does it make you assume that, (let me quote you on this) “I dont know notin about us” ?
Obviously, Robert Jr., made the same mistake, if his comment was geared towards me.
I’ll make this simpler, I’ve been a Bridgeport resident long enough (DECADES) to see the changes, in the quality of life in this City, to have the NERVE to talk about it. I’ve probably been a resident longer than you’ve been alive.
The comment also says it can be geared towards any City, as well.
Now to clarify it, I am a straight believer in the Paranormal, but, I’m also skeptic, of some of the stories, I hear. You have to admit, some of them can be pretty far-fetched. Doesn’t mean, they’re lying, just means, that it’s a bit hard to believe, and that’s where the investigations begin.
Again, Thanks. Let’s just keep the comments geared towards the Remington and the Bridgeport Hot Spots.
now frik about the comment i posted #88 what do you think i should because my friend want me to go and check it out says maybe there is something of valueable information that i might need to know so mabye (his theory) thats why remington arms is calling for me should i stay or should i go? and i am asking this as adult to adult advice because i obviously dont want to get into a fight on the internet because thats immature and stupid
Well my man, that’s really something only you can answer, if it’s that. Strong a feeling, then go, but remember, at your own risk. The police are monitoring that area constantly, so that would mean, no flashlights, unless you have a set of night vision goggles, you may be S.O.L…. And getting hurt is not an option you want to have.
i know i told my friend that he said he knows where he can get goggles and then he said we can survey the area to wich parts the police are not covering and go in i told him no matter what we are goin to be caught.
its getting demolished right now
i had dated a man back in the 80′s his mother was in the factory working during ww2 when it had an explosion – she was listed as missing only be found a couple of weeks later wandering around new jersey – of course she could not recall how she got there probably due to a concussion as a result of the explosion
IM A PSYCHIC,I’VE BEEN INVESTIGATING REMINGTON FOR A YEAR AND A HALF,I KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT PLACE THEN ANY O’VE YOU KIDS ON HERE…BY THE WAY DON’T BE AFRAID O’VE THE FACTORY ITS SAFE NOW,I HAVE DONE WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE.AS FOR THE BS TALK I KNOW THE TRUTH WITH THAT TO,I HAVE PUT BLOOD,SWEAT,AND TEARS IN THAT PLACE SO I WILL SAY WHAT I WANT! I DON’T WANT YOU PEOPLE THINKING ITS AN EVIL PLACE,SOMETIMES I WOULD SPEND ALL NIGHT THERE,OR JUST 5 OR 6 HOURS DAY NITE DON’T MATTER,BUT THE SHOT TOWER …NOW THATS A WORKOUT BUT THE VIEW FROM THE TOP IS WORTH IT! NOT AFRAID OF HEIGHTS LIKE THAT JAKEOFF ZAK! GHOST ADVENTURERS AND ALL THE STUFF YOU SEE ON TV IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT!!!!PEOPLE ARE CONFUSED ABOUT THIS FIELD ,SO THEY WILL BELEVE ANYTHING.THERE IS A HELL OF ALOT MORE TO THIS PLACE BUT I JUST WANTED TO CLAIRIFY A FEW THINGS FIRST.DON’T COME AT ME WITH YOUR LACK OF KNOWHOW YOU WILL JUS BE LAUGHED AT BUT IF YOU HAVE ?’S BOUT THE BUILDINGS ,SHOOTING RANGES,TUNNELS,I HAVE THE WHOLE LAYOUT IN MY HEAD,FEEL FREE IF YOUR CURIOUS TO ASK ANYTHING OR IF UR CONFUSED ABOUT SOMETHING.
i wish i was there to see it be demolished…..
This is only a shirt ride from the famous Haunted Skyscraper aka the Old Union Trust building in New Haven, CT which is one of the most haunted locations in CT.
I could have not cussed but hey,thats me i cuss and whats ur point? i hope we meet!! your a joke.worry bout yourself, not everyone on here.why do you even care? i dont care bout you, and trust me when i say you will know if im trying to put you down! Are you still in highschool,do you have problems at home,well dont take ur shit out on me,this is a comment site and these are my comments, so tell someone who cares cause i clairly dont care bout anything you have to say ,ur wasteing ur time,saying anything to me ,cause you know nothing about alot of things,talk to someone who care’s!
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I spent the first 13 years of my life a couple of blocks from the Remington Woods and remember the bunkers, one of which was visible from Gate 8 on Evers Street. As kids in the 1950s, we followed the chain link fence from Evers Street to Broadbridge Road and encountered lots of deer (and also snakes). The perimeter road was patrolled regularly, so most of us kids never ventured beyond the fence. Many of the men in our neighborhood worked in the various wartime industries: Sikorsky, Bridgeport Brass, Remington, GE, etc., so frankly, I don’t see anything particularly spooky about the old Remington Arms factory. It’s just a derelict building where a lot of our parents earned the money to keep us in shoes. Bridgeport in those days was a pretty decent place to live. As a kid, I started taking the 10 North Bridgeport bus downtown when I was about ten or eleven – alone. It cost a dime to ride the whole length of the route, and I never felt unsafe. I used to take art and swimming lessons at the YWCA and then hang out and window shop at Howland’s, Read’s and Leavitt’s, or spend my whole allowance on lunch at Walgreen’s. I remember when I-95 was built, and my dad used to take the train from the old railroad station to Manhattan, where he worked. I remember Charlie the Bum very well. Glad to know he had a decent burial and a memorial. He might have been one of Bridgeport’s most famous characters since P.T. Barnum. But sorry, Remington Arms isn’t haunted. It’s just old, like a lot of things. If you live long enough, you’ll be old one of these days, too.
RATTY,JUST CAUSE YOU NEVER SAW A SPIRIT THERE DOESN’T MEAN THERE NOT THERE.TRUST ME THIER THERE RIRHT NOW,I HAVE HELPED,COMMUNICATED AND EVEN BEEN ATTACKED BUT IM ALLWAYS DRAWN BACK THERE BY MY SPIRITS,IT’S OLD WITH ALOT OF HISTORY WHICH YOU WELL KNOW!WHEN YOU HAVE GIFTS YOU PERCEPTION ON WHAT YOU CALL NORMAL IS A LITTLE ALTERED TO SAY THE LEAST,BUT YOU KEEP BEING SKEPTICAL,AND I’LL KEEP HELPING MY SPIRITS AT REMINGTON,TILL THE END,HAVE A GOOD DAY.
so simon, does that mean you were the one who did that 30- second carhorn during the ghost adventures lockdown?:
“WOW’…..The article was intertaining until the wordly comments about the folks in neighborhood. I’m 100% sure ever one in neighborhood or not drucg dealers, gang memebers & troublemakers, and whatever other uncharteirze ideal of the residents you may have in that little mind of yours. I thought u guys came to review a buliding and give your opion on your feild of expertise. It seems to me you came with judgement on topic and lifystlye you know nothing about. How about all the folks that work? They don’t count? How unforute to have iive in any neighborhood where there is crime..well crime everwhere…crime… does not discriminated…like your comments did. If we all had our way we would live the way we want..but you deal with hand that was given to and you make the best of it . I ride threw that area ofthen. The folk in the area may not have Million dollars homes & acres of land but they have family & friends and that’s what makes a coumminty. On nice summer like day it may amaze you but we can walk and chew gum a the same time (meaning) a grill is always burning & kids r doing the things that kids do (playing). Bpt. has a lot history. We just need to make sure the correct officals get elected…. poor polictics make a poor city.
Bridgeport is a shining city of love and peace and Baby Jesus loves it there.
Okay, I live some blocks off of Ramington Arms, I gotta say that every time I go past the building it gives me the creeps. Even though Bridgeport is a lot better now a days then before, this part of town is still known for the criminal activity that goes on. There is a lot of trash everywhere and its just not a pretty site to see.
Anyways, these structures are being demolished now. My understanding is that they are making some more projects, I guess like The Greens or something. Kinda sucks cause I wanted it to be a mall. After all, we deserve a mall in Bridgeport.
Is this place haunted? From reading previous comments I think that it most likely is haunted, but I am more then happy to see it be demolished and have a better view to look at when I drive by.
thats not right it should not have been demolished that buildings been around for decades and i feel that the state of connecticut should have seen it as some sort of landmark in its own its own right.
think zak and all the rest are just faking all that. Because everytime something happens it’s so fake. I just don’t believe in ghost. And for aallthe other shows think that all put on to.
I believe in ghosts and I want to visit Remington Arms :[ Scary Stuff
THE SPIRITS ARE NOT SCARY AS LONG AS YOU DON’T ANTAGANIZE THEM LIKE ZAK ON GHOST ADVENTURERS,A.K.A PARANORMAL WANNABES!
People! The RA is still standing, the neighborhood it’s in isn’t bad at all. Every time I went I see the same nice sweet old people sitting outside with their grandchildren.
I’ve never felt threatened by anyone or anything. Once a cop followed me to the bodega, but that was it…. I just wanted a loosey and an Arizona iced tea!
I bring thousands of dollars in equipment with me and park a street over.
There are NO plans to demolish any of it. Only part that was demolished was burned.
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My friend and I have smoked weed in this old factory many times. It’s very fun to explore as long as you don’t mind your hands getting dirty on the rusted railings. I’ve been all the way to the top and down to the basement and I’d say that the basement is by far the creepiest part of the building. If you aren’t looking to get scared and don’t have some sort of flashlight you should avoid the basement. The top floor is the best part of the building by far. From the top floor you have a terrific view of the east side and it’s very fun to look down the elevator shaft when you’re six floors up.
oh and BTW if you ever walked in on me smoking a blunt in there I wouldn’t give you trouble, I’d offer you some. You shouldn’t be afraid of homeless people either.
Great place for a FEMA internment camp…I have my eye on this facility.
Many Westport (as an example) residents would never respond to a hypothetical question like, “Do you live near Bridgeport?” with a legit yes. Too bad it gets such a bad rap, but it reflects the real world more. Now I live over 1500 miles away and there a many Bridgeport like places, north, south, and in between. Yes you could get jumped, but there are a lot of people that would say hi to you. If you act scared anywhere it will have consequences. If you go to Bridgeport Nebraska you might get jumped by a prairie rattlesnake or a mountain lion. Peace out.
It’s an interesting place – I used to rent space there until it closed in 2005. Also did some work in the power house – that was really cool when it was running – all the guages moving and the old indicators on the control panels. When the boilers were running, you could hear / feel the subsonic vibrations outside by the smoke stack even through the thick brick walls. There was also a little glass door on the side of the boiler that you could look in on the flames with – that was really cool – seeing the huge flames in the boiler.
Did sowm work in some of the other basements too and never felt too strange – the only odd thing I saw was a dog skull in the basement of bldg 243 (I think that’s torn down now after the big fire).
I didn’t have much experience personally with the ghosts, except for catching a voice on tape in the second floor above the medical section saying “Help me.” Heard that someone was once working late all alone, I believe on the 4th floor (bldg 241?) and started smelling a sweet smell for a while and it suddenly turned into a putrid smell – they closed up shop and went home and didn’t work late again. I once saw a little white orb thing fly across the room on the side of my vision.
The guard who used to work there said he had a picture of the “lady in white” who used to descend the stairs from the 4th floor. I never experienced that.
I’ve heard other reports of filming of glowing orbs and things, especially on the 4th floor where the bullet making machines are (were?).
Speaking of Westport – if you go to the Winslow dog park (Post Rd E & Compo North) and you look carefully you can still see the foundation outlines of the old Westport Sanitarium – wonder if that’s haunted??
Peace.
Ok, I saw that Ghost Adventures show and I did think it was interesting. But just because people hear strange noises in a huge abandoned factory at night doesn’t mean it’s haunted.
That thing must have tons of metal in it and that alone would account for much of the noises, when it’s expanding and contracting during temperature changes. And don’t forget about rats, cats, homeless people, and even noise coming from the streets outside.
Any strange lights would most likely be your retinas playing games with you. Our eyes aren’t perfect and in the complete dark you WILL see random ‘glitches’ even just for a split second.
Recorded words are random guesses. I personally didn’t hear the words they claimed were being spoken. Random noise being interpreted as words.
So, no, it’s not haunted and there are no ghosts. You die, your body turns to dust and that’s it. (But I’m not going in there to proof I’m right. Never in my life.)
You what this is Bullshit… Mr Ray Bendici, no disrespect to you, but you claim to run this site and every time someone tries to defend themselves from this asshole, BELLA, you delete their comments but allow this BELLA to ridicule, belittle and downright verbally abuse everyone… She’s a piece of trash who thinks that she’s the Keeper of fk’n souls… come on, it’s getting ridiculous, I enjoy reading about the history of the Remington, but it’s getting to the point where she makes it unbearable. She is not the only person that has seen apparitions or dealt with the paranormal in any and every way. Talks about US KIDS, like she’s older than Moses on the Mountain, I’m sure I’m a lot older than she is… Did she receive the Ten Commandments while there? Geezus, she needs to shut the hell up already and let people post what they feel is relevant to the site… for the love of God.
Frik, it might be the new spam filter I installed. I’ll look into it. Sorry for any trouble this is causing people.
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frik the only person it bothers is you i was commenting on one person’s comment ,if they have a problem with that they can address it to me i don’t bash everyones comments! and who the hell are are you the keeper of this site…did i say anything to you …no everyone is entitled to say what they feel so mind your own business for a change if you have problems with me say it to my face dont hide behind a keyboard cause i just about had it with you! come cry to me not the person who created this site. what is really your problem,for real? if you dont like something i write then guess what DO’NT READ IT!!! how hard is this ? not really that hard. have a great day?
No worries the City of Bridgeport is tearing down the Remington building only to leave us memories of its great past.
i grew up in bridgeport until i was twelve years old and i never knew that this place was haunted and its pretty awsome to know that there’s haunted places in your home town that i’ve grown up in
WOW!! ARE WE SERIOUS!!?? GHOST ADVENTURES IS SOOOO FAKE! LOL! EVEN THE NAME “GHOST ADVENTURES” SOUNDS STUPID. YOU HAVE 3 KNUCKLEHEADS ZAK BOGUS IS THE BIGGEST CHEESE**** EVER!!! HAHA C’MON MAN EVERY TIME U GONA HAVA CAMERA ON U., UR GONA SHOW OFF, AND THAT EXACTLY WHAT THESE REALITY SHOWS DO. ITS FICTION ENTERTAINMENT. THERE MIGHT BE GHOSTS AROUND, BUT THESE GUYS TAKE IT WAAAAAY TO FAR AND EXAGGERATE. ITS PATHETIC AND A WASTE OF YOUR TIME AND MEANINGLESS. THE BEGINNING OF THE SHOW WHEN THEY DO HISTORY ON HAUNTED PLANTATIONS OR HOUSES ETC. ITS COOL TO WATCH AND LEARNATIVE. U GET THESE BONEHEADS AND THEY ACT IF THEIR TRULY SCARED. “WHOAAAA DUDE!”, “DUDE, WHOOOOOOAA!”…. GET SERIOUS GHOST ADVENTURES…GET REAL AND GET A LIFE
This was a very interesting article, as I came across it while researching the “old GE building”, as we call it–since they’re about to demolish it to make way for a new high school, reportedly (see http://www.gebridgeportproject.com).
One thing I didn’t appreciate were your comments at the end of the article about drug dealers, gangs, etc. Please don’t stereotype an area which you apparently don’t know that much about. As a resident of this Bridgeport neighborhood, of course you have some knuckleheads running around–as there’s good & bad in EVERY neighborhood, including the ones that try to hide behind their ritzy addresses and high real estate price tags.
No, our neighborhood might not be all glamorous like some surrounding towns in Fairfield County. But the majority of us are regular, hardworking citizens (who, by the way, pay EXORBITANT city taxes) and want the best for our families like anyone else. I’ve lived just a few blocks away from Remington Arms, and I have yet to see drug dealers hanging out on corners, thank you. Actually, the people you see “hanging out” tend to be the schoolkids waiting for their school buses in the morning…oooh, how “dangerous.” Just because a place is largely black & hispanic and might have a PAST history of violence–update your thinking, the same way Bridgeport is continuing to improve.
i agree with von…i never known or even heard of drug dealer or users in there. i been living in Bridgeport my whole life and i must say we are improving alot!
Yes, Michelle–Bridgeport has had its rough periods and still has room for improvement (i.e. the public schools, for example)–but it has definitely come a significant way and isn’t nearly as “bad” as it used to be. There are tons of events, shops, and a vibrant arts scene that gives the city a flavor that others don’t really have as much.
That being said, it looks like there’s some renovation of some sort being done at Remington Arms (especially where it faces the intersection of Boston & Seaview Aves.) Dunno whether it’s actually haunted or not, but I always thought its overall structure would make it a good candidate to be renovated into a work/live/shop complex or something–they would make amazing lofts.
In any case, I think there’s some cleanup going on; I see security guards and an assortment of construction-type folks going in & out, and it doesn’t look nearly as shabby anymore as it does in the pics on this page–they must be from some years back.
SO IS THER ANYONE ON HERE WHO KNOWS FOR SURE IF THERE GOING TO DEMOLISH REMINGTON ?AND WHEN?
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Is Anyone intrested in going back to the Remington before buildings get destroyed? I never went but the ERGE to go wont leave my mind. I always investigate anything I can find out of this place. I even ask older people who might know sum things. I would like to be fully prepared wen we go. Maybe a group? I lived in Bpt my whole life, well I’m in my mid 20′s… and as I got older, I wondered more. I’m Extremely excited about visting before these buildings are down for good. Whos down????
KITTY ,I HAVE BEEN GOING TO REMINGTON FOR BOUT TWO YEARS ,I KNOW THE IN’S AND OUT’S THE TUNNELS THE ROOFS AND BASEMENTS.I GO DAY AND NIGHT, I HAVE AN ASSISTANT SO I’M WELL PROTECTED,ITS JUS A TAD MORE DIFFICULT THEN BEFORE CAUSE EVERYTHING IS BOARDED UP BUT IT WAS FINE WHEN I WENT THE OTHER DAY! YOU JUST HAVETO BE EXTRA CAREFUL ,GROUPS ARE A BAD THING IN MY EXPERIENCE 2 OR 3 IS ALL YOU NEED.LETS JUS SAY WHOEVER IS WITH ME IS ALLWAYS PROTECTED,YOU REALLY DONT WANT TO GO WITH A BUNCH OF KIDS ,NOT A GOOD IDEA ,LEAVE ME A MESSAGE ON HERE LET ME KNOW IF YOUR INTERESTED.
hi, just wondering if this place is still worth the trip? any info that’s u.t.d. thanks!