Inside Boston's creepy, abandoned, HAUNTED Masonic Hall, where footsteps are heard running round the building and a 'female form' appears at sunset




From the outside it looks fairly normal – but it’s only members of the Addams family that would find the inside of this old, abandoned Masonic Hall in Boston homely.



Sinister images of the Massachusetts building show a lone chair in an abandoned hallway where the owner of the site has said he has seen a 'female form' appear at sunset.



Other photographs show dusty organs used for prison church services, and rustic safes lie abandoned from a by-gone era.

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Creepy: The haunted hallway in an old Masonic Hall in Boston, where a 'female form' has twice appeared Sinister: Only members of the Addams family would find comfort in the dusty corridors of the Hall Innocuous: The Hall looks normal enough from the outside - but is distinctly creepy on the inside Basement scene: The engine room inside the hall, which was first built by the Freemasons in 1880

There was also a pricey collection of law books gathering dust on a shelf and political placards littered some rooms showing the diversity of the building's purpose over the years.



The building in Boston, Massachusetts, was first built by the Freemasons in 1880 and was used as their meeting place for over 50 years.



Eventually the secretive group made a new temple and used the building to house elderly single men, often old Masons themselves.

Unnerving: Some of the interior decoration in the Hall is a bit on the unwelcoming side (left), but the building does have facilities for keeping valuables safe (right)

Forbidding: Looking down from the top of the staircase inside the Hall, which was used as a meeting place for the Freemansons for over 50 years Write stuff: Old books come as standard with the Hall, which is due to be renovated by the owner, who is all too aware of the building's haunting atmosphere Noteworthy: The Hall even has an old organ for a would-be Lurch to play on Window of opportunity: A political campaign placard inside the Hall, which at least brings a bit of colour to the surroundings In the 1970s, The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organisation, had the building for ten years, before a succession of businesses moved in.

As they went bust during the 1980s and rooms went vacant, the building fell into abandonment and disorder.



Its only purpose in these dilapidated years was for the prison service, who took prisoners to the old building for Sunday worship.

Sky's the limit: The view from the top of the Hall across the city, something that brings some welcome relief from the gloom of the interior

The old temple was recently bought by photographer Liam Carleton, 36.



‘We've heard things and seen a few things, there have been a few cases of footsteps running around the building,’ said Mr Carleton, from Boston.



‘There's also been a female form shown up in the hallway, that's only happened twice in the time I've been here and on both occasions it was during sunset.’



Mr Carleton, who is currently renovating the building, has been told he should try and do something about the hauntings, although he doesn't agree.

