{"id":226,"date":"2008-10-10T19:37:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T23:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2008-10-10T19:37:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T23:37:02","slug":"scariest-places-on-earth-dixmont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/scariest-places-on-earth-dixmont","title":{"rendered":"Scariest Place on Earth: Dixmont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/10\/10\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Dixmont State Hospital\" width=\"484\" height=\"355\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;m usually skeptical about the paranormal and don&#8217;t like the associations often made between ghosts and asylums. But I do like being scared and I willingly set aside my skepticism around this time every year. I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about <em>Scariest Places on Earth<\/em> though. The episodes I&#8217;ve seen were far too overdone and just downright silly. That said, <a title=\"Dixmont State Hospital Photos &amp; History\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/dixmont\/\">Dixmont State Hospital<\/a> will be featured on a special airing of <em>Scariest Places on Earth<\/em> this month. The program will be shown October 28th at 10PM on ABC Family as part of their <a title=\"13 Nights of Halloween\" href=\"http:\/\/abcfamily.go.com\/abcfamily\/path\/section_Specials+13-Nights\/page_Detail\" target=\"_blank\">13 Nights of Halloween<\/a>. I&#8217;ve never seen this particular episode, so I can&#8217;t really say I recommend it. It&#8217;s probably worth catching just to see the Kirkbride building though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m usually skeptical about the paranormal and don&#8217;t like the associations often made between ghosts and asylums. But I do like being scared and I willingly set aside my skepticism around this time every year. I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about Scariest Places on Earth though. The episodes I&#8217;ve seen were far too overdone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[223,224],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-films","tag-dixmont-state-hospital","tag-scary"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}