Haunted Hot Spot in Edmond, Oklahoma
At first you may just notice a barren field and nothing else, but it doesn't take long to realize the full history of this strange, abandoned plot. Concrete foundations checker the tan grass while rusty metal poles protrude out of the bushes and trees. There are several houses that have long since been vacated and later vandalized by passers-by. Further into the acreage, hidden behind some thick brush, you'll start getting an idea of what this place used to be.
Gandini's Circus went on for some time between the 1900's and 1930, touring across various parts of the states. Fragments of the circus still linger around including 4 or 5 trailers where the clowns, acrobats and animals were housed. Even the cages, large and small, are still there-- discarded when the circus apparently disbanded. Although many of the trailers are burnt from the inside out by either arson or a terrible accident, you can still find fliers, popcorn bags and soda cups along with assorted pieces of memorabilia throughout the area.
What makes the area so spooky is not the place's background, but it's lack of obvious history. I've tried to search the Internet for information on the circus but could only find a few pages vaguely relating to what it was. Digging through the ashes in and around the trailers I was able to find a few old fliers in tact that shed some light on the place, but still not enough to make this area any less frightening.
The real scare comes at night, walking through this barren place, maybe tripping over an old cougar cage or deflated clown ball, when the full scope of what 'haunted' really boils down to. Afterall, there may be nothing more dreadful than a haunted circus burned to the ground. A place does not necessarily require ghosts to be haunted, but if it's scary enough, maybe we're the ones who create them.
Published by Robert Cole
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Post a CommentOne of my friends and i went the first of December and it was during the day. It's padlocked but we took a walk anyway... It is creepy. I want to go back and explore somemore.
Hahaha. I've been here. We got chased out by some sort of ghost hound. It was crazy, and No, i'm not kidding. Go in the dead of night, and take nothing but your cell phones for light. It's creepy. You can hear all sorts of things, and see things. Just try it out. :)
its on kelley between danforth and second. If your headed south on kelley it's on the west side of the road. Type in gandinis circus on google it's the first link there is a google map of the place.
that sounds exactly like the place actually.
okay so if i went to the correct place its all fenced up and you cannot even see onto the property except through spots where a missing board is.
I have gotten more feedback on this article than anything I've ever written in my life. I am amazed.
Okay so, I promised one guy pictures of the memororbilia I got from the circus grounds, and I intend to provide those along with another article (but probably not an article) so if you guys want to see pictures of the fliers and other papers I got, send me an email.
Now as for the directions. I need to contact one of my old buddies about this.
I hope David's coordinates are right, I haven't google mapped it yet, because i don't really want to call someone up i haven't spoke to in years to ask about where that haunted circus was at.
so going by robert's directions it right there at the corner of kelly and 2nd (W. Edmond)?
I was told about this place, and it's close to these coordinates: N 35 39.555; W 097 29.825. Somewhere close to here!
Okay. Let me try to explain it again to the best of my recollection.
I think you take 2nd down toward downtown, past Altered Skates, and you eventually come to a 4-way stop and if you turn right, on the left, is an abandoned plot. There's really no place to park so you will probably have to park at some place nearby and walk in there. It's very hard to describe it's exact location, mostly because I no longer live in Edmond, and that rich town is always building new stuff. I may have to do a followup article and take pictures next time.
-Robert
Has anybody found this place?