It's not haunted, and there's nothing to hurt you unless you carelessly fall down the stairs. The local kids grow up chasing each other through those tunnels; it's all just a big playground - the perfect place to get over being scared of the dark.
The door slamming was really creepy! and LOUD! I had to edit the volume down. Don't know what caused it to slam like that. Here's the back story on the kid who was so flustered he couldn't talk straight.........We were inside one of the rooms and we came to a steel door. My wife grabs the handle and shakes it up and down. We didn't know it but the poor young man was on the other side of that door reaching for the handle. When it violently started shaking, he came flying out of there and came around the corner just as we were leaving the room. He was so scared that he could hardly get two words out! We didn't have the heart to tell him it was just us.....
ive been going there every year for a loooong time. i probably know that hill like the back of my hand. because i used to explore it when it was still all overgrown. as for ghost stories... the harbor defense command post up on artillery hill (its locked up now and turned into a museum and you can get a tour now on certain days) back when it was all overgrown and people didnt really know about it you used to beable to get in through the upper lookout. there was a staircase (now a big metal plate) and i remember my friend and i went down there, we were probably 12 at the time, and walked around and heard weird footsteps. we ignored it at first because sometimes it sounds like you are being followed in the bunkers. when we were done exploring we went to leave and we saw a wet set of footprints that didnt match our shoes. and we got the heck out of there. lol. also my cousins used to walk around in there before it was locked up and their flashlights used to die in there all the time. as far as anything else ghost story related..... i dont really have any other than that and that probably was just a person who found it too. i never had a bad experience in the bunkers. my best guess would be the houses and barracks if anything is haunted on the fort. there is stories of people dieing in those. like a highschool band member. supposedly there was a murder on the fort. in the 80s and 90's during the satanic panic people would go up there and and do weird rituals at night. some people still do supposedly although idk how true that is.. i think most people believe its haunted because its a big spooky scary looking place with some history.
Wow! Great story. The spookiest part for us was that narrow tunnel that kept twisting and turning. Check out some of the other URBEX videos on our channel. Since moving away from Washington to upstate New York, we've been having a great time. This area is loaded with great explores!
I also grew up in Port Townsend and spent my summers at the bunkers. I clearly remember the command post you are talking about. We called it the radar Tower. You are correct you could enter it from above and I remember large maps on the walls and chairs and wooden doors. In a field behind that Command Post you can find for large concrete pads. One of the pads had a steel door that opened to a ladder that dropped down into a room the size of a gymnasium. It was an underground water storage tank. The door has been cemented over. Being a teenager, my buddy and I also knew that entire Hill. We checked every crack and crevice and even located a mortar shell in one of the many pipes that ran underground. I believe they were are shafts. We read a post with a slip knot and pulled this thing up from about 6 ft below ground. I threw it on my bicycle and stopped by my grandfather's house on the way home. He confiscated it from us and took it out to the fort. It was on display in the museum years later. Remember the buried locomotive found near the beach?
@@exploreupstateny413 I used to go there when I was a kiddo, I haven’t returned in 15 years. What’s the state of the fort today, did the do it in boarding everything up?
It's not haunted, and there's nothing to hurt you unless you carelessly fall down the stairs. The local kids grow up chasing each other through those tunnels; it's all just a big playground - the perfect place to get over being scared of the dark.
I went there today! C:
I've camped here A LOT, but I've never seen anything creepy. But, I once did see a shadow walk across the camp site. But their were no planes.
The door slamming was really creepy! and LOUD! I had to edit the volume down. Don't know what caused it to slam like that.
Here's the back story on the kid who was so flustered he couldn't talk straight.........We were inside one of the rooms and we came to a steel door. My wife grabs the handle and shakes it up and down. We didn't know it but the poor young man was on the other side of that door reaching for the handle. When it violently started shaking, he came flying out of there and came around the corner just as we were leaving the room. He was so scared that he could hardly get two words out! We didn't have the heart to tell him it was just us.....
ive been going there every year for a loooong time. i probably know that hill like the back of my hand. because i used to explore it when it was still all overgrown. as for ghost stories... the harbor defense command post up on artillery hill (its locked up now and turned into a museum and you can get a tour now on certain days) back when it was all overgrown and people didnt really know about it you used to beable to get in through the upper lookout. there was a staircase (now a big metal plate) and i remember my friend and i went down there, we were probably 12 at the time, and walked around and heard weird footsteps. we ignored it at first because sometimes it sounds like you are being followed in the bunkers. when we were done exploring we went to leave and we saw a wet set of footprints that didnt match our shoes. and we got the heck out of there. lol. also my cousins used to walk around in there before it was locked up and their flashlights used to die in there all the time.
as far as anything else ghost story related..... i dont really have any other than that and that probably was just a person who found it too. i never had a bad experience in the bunkers. my best guess would be the houses and barracks if anything is haunted on the fort. there is stories of people dieing in those. like a highschool band member. supposedly there was a murder on the fort. in the 80s and 90's during the satanic panic people would go up there and and do weird rituals at night. some people still do supposedly although idk how true that is.. i think most people believe its haunted because its a big spooky scary looking place with some history.
Wow! Great story. The spookiest part for us was that narrow tunnel that kept twisting and turning. Check out some of the other URBEX videos on our channel. Since moving away from Washington to upstate New York, we've been having a great time. This area is loaded with great explores!
ExploreUpstateNY nice. I went to a few of the other forts in the area too and made a few videos too
I also grew up in Port Townsend and spent my summers at the bunkers. I clearly remember the command post you are talking about. We called it the radar Tower. You are correct you could enter it from above and I remember large maps on the walls and chairs and wooden doors.
In a field behind that Command Post you can find for large concrete pads. One of the pads had a steel door that opened to a ladder that dropped down into a room the size of a gymnasium. It was an underground water storage tank. The door has been cemented over. Being a teenager, my buddy and I also knew that entire Hill. We checked every crack and crevice and even located a mortar shell in one of the many pipes that ran underground. I believe they were are shafts. We read a post with a slip knot and pulled this thing up from about 6 ft below ground. I threw it on my bicycle and stopped by my grandfather's house on the way home. He confiscated it from us and took it out to the fort. It was on display in the museum years later.
Remember the buried locomotive found near the beach?
@@exploreupstateny413 I used to go there when I was a kiddo, I haven’t returned in 15 years. What’s the state of the fort today, did the do it in boarding everything up?
Pretty neat place. :)