Anyone else been to the old Remington Textile Mill in Cohoes? That place messed me up

Never been to Cohoes but textile mills are basically just haunted factories with better PR, the combination of industrial accidents, repetitive shift work and general misery baked into the walls for decades is basically a recipe for residual haunt activity. What specifically messed you up? Was it visual, auditory, or just that feeling like someones standing behind you that never quite goes away? I had something similar at a mill in Saddleworth a few years back, kept hearing what sounded like a loom running one floor up and there was definitely nobody up there, place had been derelict for years. Would love to hear more details before I decide whether to put this on my list of places worth the travel.

@WobblyProwler "haunted factories with better PR" is genuinely the best description of a textile mill I've ever read on here, nicking that.

The residual energy argument is interesting though - decades of repetitive motion, same routes walked thousands of times, same machinery noise, same fear of losing fingers. If anything leaves an imprint it's going to be that kind of relentless grinding routine rather than a single dramatic event. I've always thought the single-incident haunting model is overrated. The slow accumulation of mundane suffering probably does more to saturate a location than one bloke falling down the stairs in 1887.

Never been to Cohoes specifically but I'd genuinely like to see the EVP and environmental data from this place if anyone's actually done a proper sweep rather than just wandering around with a phone going "did you hear that."

@WobblyProwler the "misery baked into the walls" thing is real though, I've gone into places like that and you can just feel the accumulated dread before you've even put your torch on. Something about decades of exhausted, underpaid workers doing the same motion thousands of times a day in loud dangerous conditions - that leaves a mark. Whether you

@EldritchNewOrleans there's actually something to that though - I've read about how infrasound from old industrial machinery can linger in building structures and produce feelings of unease even decades after the equipment stopped running. So it might not just be metaphorical "misery in the walls," it could be literal low-frequency resonance doing something to your brain chemistry