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!
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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!
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)
I worked in the Remington Arms building from 1986 to 1989. I worked for a printing company and we rented space on the 2nd floor of the shot building. On many occassions I felt someone watching me. Shadows and myterious lights were so common that you came to expect them. It was like being in your childhood nightmares, no one ever touched you but you knew you were not alone. None of us wanted to be in the bathrooms it was too creepy.
If you were going to investigate make sure you go into the shot tower and the attached buildings… This is where the majority of sightings happen.
Which Remington building are you referring to? There are 3 basic complexes there – I used to rent a space in bldg 342 in the Arctic St complex. The other complexes are the old military buildings (the three deteriorated buildings to the south – the picture at the top) and then there is the GE complex that is in process of demoltion on Boston Avenue. These were, as I understand it, all part of one complex – I understand there are pipes and cables running between the Arctic St complex and the Boston Ave complex.
I never felt really strange there but have heard some stories – one of the ladder that started walking on its own in the basement of the medical bldg, one of the lady in white who would descend the stairs in one of the bldgs (I think that one was demolished after the last big fire), and one tennant who was working late and around midnight started smelling something very sweet and pleasant that very quickly turned into a horrible smell and she never worked that late there again. I saw a diffuse white orb once in the 344 bldg go accross the aisle; and a friend set up a tape recorder and we got a voice saying “help me” – very faint, but you could make it out.
Shame that they let it all go to pot – there were a bunch of tennants in the old Arctic St buildings and the heating plant was really cool when it was running – you could feel the subsonic vibrations of the flames in the boilers even outside the old brick power house by the RR tracks. It was a circa 1923 installation that still worked.
– J
Hello all, my name is Matthew and I am a photographer in the Bridgeport area. I did a somewhat extensive shoot at remington arms and it was fun experiance. But to say it is haunted is silly. I am a abandonment junkie who lives for the next place to explore. I have been in places that could have been haunted and this is not one of them.
If you do go park down the block and you can walk in no problems, just wait untill your out of eye sight. Inside the place is rundown and not so safe so be carefull where you walk, and bring a friend if possible.
The cops will arrest you if caught so go at your own risk. But as long as your carefull you will be fine. Its a fun place where you can get some killer snaps. Here is a link of my photo shoot from the place lots of nice pics if ya wanna check em out.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewhester/sets/72157629644848934/
i’ve grew up in bridgeport for so many years until i was 12 yrs old and i’ve never about this place until i saw ghost adventures and recently my dad told me that they knocked it down to make homes in its place
wow
just kidding
I’ve been in the shot tower,rem-grit bldg.,and the two brick bldgs,all in that same fenced in lot. EVPs are prevalant in these bldgs,on camera audio and voice recorders.Shadow on video that sinks into floor as static sound is heard on audio.Residual riot sounds captured from a worker strike gone violent.One worker,Frank Monty,was hit with a guards baton and eventually died from a fractured skull.
I go by Remington Arms Company quite often and remember the story of the explosion that occurred in 1942, in the building at the corner of Helen Street and Barnum Avenue. Someone was banging a nail through a wooden box and hit one of the cartridges which contained a highly explosive material called Polnol. Many people got killed in that blast, one woman that really sticks out in my mind by the name of Ethel Gunther, (who is the late Doc Gunther’s sister). The really ironic thing is that when I go by the front of Lakeview Cemetary, just beyond the gate, which was right across the street from where the explosion took place, I noticed that Ethel Gunther’s grave is directly across the street from where the explosion occurred. Her grave indicates that she died in 1942.
Also, I want to note that the first man in flight, Gustave Whitehead, from Bridgeport is buried in Lakeview Cemetary way in the back to the far, far right of the cemetary near where G. E. once was. Whitehead was believed to have flown his first flight over Fairfield, where South Benson Marina is now on August 14, 1901.
In regards to Sues comment.I have an EVP that I captured in the brick factories right next to the rem-grit bldg where the explosion took place.It says “Ethel”,which I had no idea there was an Ethel in the explosion,the same Ethel Sue speaks of.Any skeptics out there,you might not see an apparition or have an experience there,but I guarantee if you go there to any of those bldgs in that part of Remington with an audio recorder and/or a camcorder,you’ll get to document somekind of paranormal energy.I’ve got light anamolies that coincide with disembodied voices and EVPs.In other words,I get a visual anamoly the same time I capture an EVP or get a mel-meter spike.I’ve recorded a shadow sinking into the floor in the basement under the rem-grit bldg.Theres audio interference(static sound) as it descended into the ground.I have an earlier post back in April which tells of the residual energies I came in contact with here at Remington.
I response to Danny’s comment, I don’t know why it would read Ethel on the building. The building that the explosion took place in was on the corner of Helen St. and Boston Avenue on Bridgeport’s east side. The building is no longer there. There is another building in it’s place.
As far as picking up disembodied voices and EVP’s, I couldn’t say what it really is. However, I do know that there were alot of “squatters” occupying the building, but as far as apparitions, I don’t know why any self-respecting ghost would want to haunt Remington Arms Factory? lol. I am more on the historical side of the history of the building. Right across the street from the shot tower is a cemetary called “St, Augustine’s”. They buried Bridgeport’s famous “Charlie The Bum” in there. I remember Charlie would hang out on the east side and sleep in doorways with his long beard and woolen overcoat. My father would drive by the doorway and yell out “There’s Charlie The Bum”. It wasn’t very customary to see many bums during that time around the east side or Remington Arms. Now, they have them all over the place. On Charlie The Bum’s headstone in St. Augustine’s cemetary across the street from the Remington Shot Tower the headstone reads: Charles Di Stasio, 1897-1963. You can find the headstone in the back and to the far right of the cemetary. Charlie The Bum was born in Naples, Italy, and he was an accomplished violin player who dropped out of society for reasons not clear to me. Oh…there are so many stories as to why. If only Charlie could talk…he would have a tale or two to tell. Good Luck Danny with your search for ghosts. I’ll just stick to the history of Remington Arms, Thank-you!
Hi Sue.Ethel was’nt written anywhere in the building,it was an EVP I got on my digital audio recorder.It said “Ethel”.
I’m sure the explosion happened in the back of the Rem-Grit bldg,which is the boarded up gray bldg on Barnum Ave.Not sure of the address,but the shot tower is on the opposite side of the block,facing St.Augustines Cemetary.If you watch the Ghost Adventures episode at Remington,they call it the dancefloor of death,because of the open space.It was a packing and shipping warehouse for Rem-Grit in the back,while the front part of the bldg is offices.They made metallic cartridges for ammo clips and such.If you turn up Barnum Ave. off of East Main St.,It’ll be on your left side.You’ll see brick bldgs right next to(before) the gray Rem-Grit bldg in the same lot,along with more brick bldgs across the street.You’re thinking of the other property owned by GE and/or Remington on Dover St. and Boston Ave.
Hi! The building my friend pointed out that had the explosion in 1942 was on the corner of Boston Avenue and Helen Street right across the street from Lakeview Cemetary. My friend has the original article from the Bridgeport Post. I have to get the article and let you know what it said over this site. Give me a few days on that o.k. Sue A. DelBianco
Hi! . My friend has the original article from the Bridgeport Post. I have to get the article and let you know what it said about where the actual explosion occurred. Give me a few days on that o.k. Sue A. DelBianco
In regard to the Shot Tower on Helen street, I know it made perfectly round shot shells from molten “pig lead”. The factory workers would pour the lead into these cone shaped, tubes, and then the lead would begin falling down through all these different compartments until it reached a screen on the bottom of the tower after dropping 197 feet. The pig lead would solidify and make almost perfectly round shot shells, which were then polished. The process in there was a well-oiled machine in those days, producing thousands of shot per day during the Arsonal of Democracy. To say it is haunted by a ghost who fell through the holes of the shot tower’s floors, is just heresay. You would have to be more afraid of the squatters who live in there than you do the dead, plus even more so the fact that the building is deemed unsafe because of urban decay, you could stand to fall through one of the holes yourself in the shot tower. I wouldn’t beckon anyone to go into those building being the shape they are in for your own sake. I really hope they do not take the shot tower down, since the city is tearing down the rest of Remington Arms factory. The shot tower should be preserved as a historical landmark which represents Bridgeport’s once booming industrial past.
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