Channel Islands University Investigation
PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION REPORT
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Case No. 2345-79039495599
Date: 07-12-2000
Time: 2300
Equipment: 35 mm Camera loaded with 400 speed film, and EMF meter.
Investigator: Brian Roesch
Location: Camarillo, California. (805) 437-8500
Results from investigation: Strange feelings of being watched, cold spots and eerie feelings when entering certain places like the library, administration office, and cafeteria...
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History of the location:
...Now Channel Islands University This large enclave of buildings in Camarillo is now a university, but were originally built in the 1920s as a state mental hospital. They changed over to a school in the mid 90s. There have been many stories of ghosts over the years of all kinds due to the fact that patients previously lived and died there, including a relative of mine. Some of the buildings were turned into dorms and some students have experienced all kinds of unexplained events. The sounds of children's voices at the children's center, by the Bell tower an old woman walking and asking for directions to the chapel.........and old woman wearing white wondering the hallways in the daytime.......In the restrooms the voice of someone saying, "SSSHHHHH!!!" in parking lot, a figure that looks like a man spinning around until it disappears near one of the street lights............objects seen with the corner of the eye and then when people turn they disappear. Many people have had encounters with ghosts at this site, during the day and at night the ghost don't have a preferred time.
Located minutes from the Pacific Ocean, where the Oxnard Plain meets the Santa Monica Mountains, the 670-acre site of California State University Channel Islands is truly dramatic. The main entrance to the campus travels through fields, orchards, coastal shrub, and craggy foothills with spectacular rock formations. Equally dramatic is the campus architecture. Built in the early part of the 20th century as the former Camarillo State Hospital, the sprawling 1930s Spanish revival buildings, cloistered hallways, Bell Tower, tiled fountains, open space, and many courtyards are being renovated to house our new state-of-the-art 21st century University.
CSUCI looks forward to meeting future challenges while appreciating and building on a rich past. The campus site represents a significant and interesting segment of Southern California history. It holds stories of the Chumash people, Californios, early ranchers, politicians, captains of agribusiness, field workers, Camarillo State Hospital associates, and Ventura County families. In these histories we find the vision, inspiration, aspirations, and challenges that will connect the scholarly research and teaching of CSUCI to the remarkable past and fertile future of Southern California.
The University opens in the Fall of 2002 with approximately 1,320 full-time transfer students enrolled for the our first year, and will welcome freshmen in Fall 2003. When the first four-year class graduates, total enrollment is projected to be more than 4,000. At its full capacity, targeted for 2025, CSUCI will serve more than 15,000 full-time equivalent students, many of whom will be the first in their families to attend a university.
THE CAMPUS OF WHAT USED TO BE Camarillo State Hospital is practically desolate on an overcast day in October. At first, the only signs of life among the verdant grounds, cloistered hallways and walled courtyards nestled in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains are maintenance workers tooling around on golf carts and a handful of students straggling in from parking lots. Inside many of the buildings, however, construction workers are loudly tearing away what's left of the most notorious forensic mental hospital in California.
Just over the Ventura County line, five miles inland from the Pacific coast, Spanish Revival buildings that once housed the largest population of people with mental illness in the country now host college classes. Camarillo State Hospital, which closed in 1997, is being reincarnated as California State University Channel Islands, the 23rd campus in the CSU system and the first full-time, four-year university in Ventura County.
"New Thinking for a New Century" is just one of the slogans university officials use to proclaim CSU Channel Islands as a cultural and educational hub. Welcome signs addressing new transfer students and red and gold CSU banners present a happy façade that belies the unfinished business of burying Camarillo's 60-year legacy of contradictions: Healing and abuse, fond memories and nightmares, myth and brutal reality -- call it institutional purgatory -- the aura of unfinished cleansing is undeniable.
Mitchell Eisenberg walks through
the past, darkly.
Students linger on the quad between classes. An old church bell chimes. The pastoral beauty merely cloaks the remnants of state psychiatric care. Where renovations have yet to begin, long, grimy linoleum corridors lead to metal security doors and into tiny, dank rooms with peeling wallpaper, rusty supply cabinets and medical sinks. Dingy pastel curtains droop from reinforced-glass windows with steel bars, through which curious visitors can look out and see how the surrounding farmlands must have looked to men, women and children in the labyrinthine locked units.
For some recent visitors, it was not a matter of wondering, but of remembering. On a Friday afternoon in August, one week before the university's inauguration ceremony, a group of former Camarillo patients journeyed north from Los Angeles to witness the campus' final passage from asylum to potential bastion of higher learning. For most of the visitors, who had not been to Camarillo in more than 20 years since their releases, it was a journey of reckoning.
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