1. Four friends plan to take a gap year to travel around the US and visit haunted and horror locations. 2. They will spend about 6 months abroad, starting in New York and traveling by hitchhiking. Some destinations include an asylum, a prison, and hospitals known for paranormal activity. 3. To fund their trip, they will work odd jobs and create a YouTube channel documenting their experiences. They provide a map of their planned route across the US, ending back in Spain.

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

2. 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.
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3. 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

4. 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

5. Our example of gap year
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6. Summary
1.- Barajas (Madrid)-JFK International Airport (NY)
2.- Ronkonkoma Lake
3.- Salem
4.- Byberry Mental Hospital
5.- Ohio State Reformatory
by hitchiking
6.- Waverly Hills Sanatorium
7.- Villisca
8.- Stanley Hotel
9.- Colorado Springs Airport (Colorado)-Barajas (Madrid)

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

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

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

10. 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.
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12. 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.

13. THE DEATH TUNNEL
ROOM 502

14. Timmy?

15. Villisca
➔ State of Iowa
➔ Small town
➔ Population: 1252 (in 2010)
➔ Apparently, nothing special

16. Axe Murder House
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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

18. 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

19. Stanley Hotel in the past
Stanley Streamer automobile

20. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY IN STANLEY HOTEL:
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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
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22. 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

24. COLORADO SPRINGS AIRPORT
MADRID, BARAJAS