GAP YEAR

By Sergio Cruz, María Sánchez, Manuel Juárez e Iván Santiago.

What’s our gap year going to be about?

→ Spend more or less half a year abroad.→ Visit horror and haunted places→ Travel by hitchhiking around the USA → Our purposes:

- improve our English skills doing something weird. - take a year out before starting university.

What are we going to need to this trip?

Bags (better one which can be easy to carry)

Sleeping bag (some days we’re going to sleep outside) Warm clothes (sport clothes) Camping gas and kitchen items Money ($) Cameras Laptop

How are we going to earn money?

Traveling by Hitchhiking Work cleaning dishes in restaurants Asking in villages for one day work

Creating a Youtube channel where we’ll upload our experiences at these haunted places

Our example of gap year

MAP

Summary1.- Barajas (Madrid)-JFK International Airport (NY)2.- Ronkonkoma Lake3.- Salem4.- Byberry Mental Hospital5.- Ohio State Reformatory6.- Waverly Hills Sanatorium7.- Villisca8.- Stanley Hotel9.- Colorado Springs Airport (Colorado)-Barajas (Madrid)

by hitchiking

RONKONKOMA

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→ First stop→ New York→ The lake’s lady→ The bottomless hole

Video

SALEM

- Witch trials (1692-1693)- Visit the witch Museum- Sleep in the Salem’s cemetery

Byberry Mental Hospital→ Philadelphia→ “Real life house of horrors”→ Den for criminals and satanic cults→ Tunnels under the asylum

Ohio State Reformatory

- It’s a prison built between 1886 and 1910. - It was built to condemn the young criminals and try to change their attitude. - It was closed by the federals in 1990. - There were more than 200 deaths. - “ THE HOLE “. - Try to sleep on the basement between 3 or 4 days. -----

WAVERLY HILLS SANATORIUM

- It is in Kentucky. - It is a hospital where the doctors treated the Plague. - 63.000 people dead at the hospital. - Around 50 doctors killed themselves. - The death tunnel. - Room 502. - Timmy. - One of the most terrifying places of America.

THE DEATH TUNNEL ROOM 502

Timmy?

Villisca➔ State of Iowa

➔ Small town

➔ Population: 1252 (in 2010)

➔ Apparently, nothing special

Axe Murder House● Horrible slaughter● 9-10 of June, 1912● 6 Moore’s and two guests were found dead● They all were found:

○ bludgeoned○ with axe wounds

● Unsolved● Spend a couple of weeks

Stanley Hotel

➢ In Estes Park, Colorado➢ Built in 1909 by Freelan Oscar Stanley➢ He had gone there in order to improve his

health➢ He fell in love with the place and decided to

open this hotel

Stanley Hotel in the past

Stanley Streamer automobile

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY IN STANLEY HOTEL:➔ Room 407

◆ Nobody can be there◆ There lives Mr Dunraven’s ghost◆ He defrauded many people in the past◆ Because of that, he was executed◆ Lights turn on and then off

➔ Room 418◆ Laughs◆ A child crying◆ A person has been sitting at the bed

➔ Many crimes unsolved➔ The first owners prowling around the hotel

WHAT IS

THAT?

A famous witness...❏ “The Shining”

was inspired in the hotel

❏ Stephen King wrote most part of it in room 218

❏ He experimented all these phenomena

COLORADO SPRINGS AIRPORT MADRID, BARAJAS