{"id":69,"date":"2008-04-30T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2008-07-04T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T18:45:47","slug":"ghost-hunters-at-weston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/ghost-hunters-at-weston","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Hunters at Weston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/04\/30\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum\" width=\"484\" height=\"363\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/weston\/\" title=\"Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum\">Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum<\/a> is the featured location on tonight&#8217;s episode of <a title=\"Ghost Hunters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/ghosthunters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost Hunters<\/a>. The show airs at 9PM on the Sci-Fi Channel. TAPS \u2014 &#8220;not your normal paranormal&#8221; investigation team \u2014 will be shown hunting hauntings in the Kirkbride. I&#8217;ve never really watched the show, but from scanning a fan forum for 30 seconds I gather TAPS is a bit more skeptical and scientific than the average paranormal investigation unit. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s saying much though:)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of your opinion on paranormal phenomena, this episode is probably worth watching. There&#8217;s sure to be plenty of good footage of the Kirkbride.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, I&#8217;ve refreshed and expanded the <a title=\"Weston State Hospital\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/weston\/\">Weston State Hospital photo gallery<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t been down to Weston in a while, so the photos are from 2003 and 2004. It was a little sad taking down the even older shots. They were there for a long time and I had grown attached to their more &#8220;old school asylum photo&#8221; character. The newer pictures aren&#8217;t anything to write home about, but they&#8217;re definitely more slick than the older ones.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully I&#8217;ll have a chance to get down there this summer. I&#8217;d like to see the building again, and Weston in general is a nice place to visit for a day or two. I imagine it&#8217;s not everybody&#8217;s cup of tea, but I like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is the featured location on tonight&#8217;s episode of Ghost Hunters. The show airs at 9PM on the Sci-Fi Channel. TAPS \u2014 &#8220;not your normal paranormal&#8221; investigation team \u2014 will be shown hunting hauntings in the Kirkbride. I&#8217;ve never really watched the show, but from scanning a fan forum for 30 seconds [&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":[1,13],"tags":[155,156,146,157,158,25,39],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-pictures","tag-ghosts","tag-haunted","tag-photos","tag-taps","tag-trans-allegheny-insane-asylum","tag-weston","tag-weston-state-hospital"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}