Remington Arms Experience
As you may have noticed here at Damned Connecticut, we love to hear from you readers about your experiences with the odd and unusual throughout the state. Be it a haunting, an unusual place, an old legend, or even a picnic with the Melon Heads, we’re always interested in what you have to offer.
To that extent, Kate’s Friend has “volunteered” her Husband’s experiences while working at Remington Arms in Bridgeport, an abandoned old factory complex purported to be haunted. Since it is off limits to the public, it’s cool to get a firsthand report from someone who has actually been inside the complex for an extended time.
According to Husband:
Remington Arms was a really creepy place to be working in even during the day… At first I wasn’t sure it WAS Remington Arms because we were told we were working at General Electric.. Once we were actually in the building and strange things started happening we realized that GE was renting a small section of the Remington Arms buildings…
The strange experience I had was in the restroom… I was alone. The door did not open so I knew no one came in or out and I saw a shadow move across the room like someone else was there. We heard many strange noises in areas of the building where none of our workers were, and since it was the middle of the day and the building supervisor was there we didn’t think of vandals or drug dealers or anything like that.
Another experience I had was when I was taking pictures for my wife (who is obsessed with creepy places) there was a dead bird on the floor in one of the rooms, which wouldn’t have been unusual in an old abandoned building if it wasn’t completely mutilated and half scattered across the room.
To be honest with you I haven’t heard any stories about Remington Arms until we looked up the location online (I am completely convinced that my experiences were supernatural, and so I asked my wife to research the area when I was still at work…) That is when we put it together that “GE” was actually “Remington Arms” and the shadowy figures that I saw in the bathroom have been seen by others also.
Now that I know the history of the buildings and the sightings that other people have seen throughout the years I am totally convinced that my experiences were nothing but supernatural… No explanation for the shadows and sounds that went on in that building.
Thanks to Husband (and Friend) for sharing his experiences!
UPDATE!
Friend and Husband sent along a pair of interesting pics from Remington Arms –
They’re not sure what it is, and unlike many other “spirit” ectoplasm or orb-type photos, this is in broad daylight. Dust? Smoke? Or something else?
And this one –
They have no idea what that it is at the end of the hallway … Husband says there was no one in the area when he took it, but it almost looks like a person at the end of the hall.
Thanks again to Friend and Husband for sending this stuff along!
When was Ryan working there?
There are videos too (I’m the friend’s sister) There’s one video where music is coming from a brick wall…but there is no one else in the building. Creeeeepy!
[...] 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. [...]
My Brother and i went to the remington factory at night, but when we entered the fence and walked between the buildings we couldn’t find ourselves entering the building even though the doors were wide open. I asked questions as we walked through and took pictures with my digital camera. We caught a few orbs and one in particular orb that kept appearing that was tiny and red. We grew up just down the street and walked past this place everyday. I can’t wait for Ghost Hunters tonight!!! MAYBE THEY CAUGHT THE SAME RED ORBS WE DID ON CAMERA!!!!!
Anon if you ever see this please ask your friend to hook up that video to whoever is running this website. I would love to see and hear that if they post it here!! btw those are some great pics. Yeah the first one could just be dust but with this place’s history it could be more. The 2nd pic is a bit spooky, nice job!! Very interesting. I don’t doubt it that there was no one at the end of the hall when the photo was taken.
I have actually seen one of these shadow people before and pretty close up. I would say within 10 feet close. This was not at Remington Arms. In fact it was in a place that I will not return to again and it freaked me out when I saw it. Unfortunately I didn’t have a camera handy at the time but yeah that was basically what it looked like.
YEA I WANT TO SEE THAT VIDEO!!
yeah that video would be totally awesome! Did you see the show? I still don’t think I would spend the night there even if you paid me.
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. 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 or train 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.
I was there today. I dropped someone off across the street from one the old brick buildings with huge, broken out windows. You can kind of see the inside pretty well if you stand on your toes. Creepy. Scary. I would not want to be there at night, for many reasons…
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i live in bpt, i herd and seen all that in remington arms its creepy, but i just ignore it like nothing happen and keep doing what im doing, but once i was going down the stairs and i had a flash light it was at night i look to my right to see if someone was there and when i looked i just seen a black shadow right in my face and i just turn to the other side quickly and went outside so fast lol. i still go in there at night i just try not to think about it. for those who think its fake go in there and see for yourself….
My 94 yrs old father lives with me and we were talking about places he worked, one was Remingtion arms during WWII, He didnt recall anything out of the norm, except he witness a male worker the lost his hand from while working a heavy press too his hand.(approx 1941)
wow …. i cant belive im not the only one that feels like this. i lived up the street from Remmington Fire Arms from the ages of 5, to 9, in the late 60s, and early 70s. Next to the firehouse it was 1110 Barnum ave 3rd floor .Behind it there are railroad tracks we used to play there. I was about 8 maybe 9. Every morning i would walk to school and go under a steel walkway on barnum ave. I would stand there and just look up and stare in ammasement at what i don’t know. Then i would walk around the parking lot to saint cyril school,behind the railroad bridge. For many years as a young girl i had very bad nightmares . I would dream i was faling in a long dark tunnel, ony it wasn’t me. I remmeber while my sister and i were in bed one night, opening my eyes and seen a tall black shadow standing at the end of the bed. I called out to my father and he said, I’m not your father and just disapeared. Just like that one, i had several other expeirences while living there. Even when i moved away i was always drawn to this place, and I still am. I remember one time crying like crazy for no reason at all. while driving thru that block. The last dream i had was in 1991.I still have dreams but not as bad,. now i know why……. other than that i had a great chilhood there. We lived in communty it was truly multi cultural . Belive me when i tell you this place is very special……..
Does anyone know who to contact (the owner etc.) as we would like to investigate this building……KAPS (Kingston Area Paranormal Society)