Dressed in a black sweatshirt accessorised with a padlock necklace, he and his bandmates guitarists Jake Pitts and Jinxx, bassist Lonny Eagleton and drummer Christian 'CC' Coma are enjoying some downtime. Thankfully Andy is in less hellish conditions today, a brightly lit boutique hotel in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area that’s more delightful than despicable. It was like an urban myth to me, except for many years the myth was that the place wasn’t some haunted hell house.” “That place was an amalgamation of all my fears. “Every subsequent scare that inspired terror in me as a kid stemmed from that place,” he admits. What’s more, the facility sat upon a network of tunnels where the bodies of the patients who died were wheeled out to be buried in mass graves beneath the field where Andy and his fellow summer campers played baseball many years later. Dunham had indeed been a hospital, dating back to the 1800s, specialising in the treatment of people with tuberculosis. “I’d spent an inordinate amount of time in this converted old creepy hospital,” says Andy. But still, the singer admits his curiosity got the better of him and he decided to see if Dunham had a dark past. One place, The Dent School House, was where the janitor had supposedly gone on a murderous rampage, killing several children and stuffing their bodies into lockers.Īndy is quick to admit that this should be filed firmly under fiction as there’s absolutely no evidence this ever took place. After some time spent scouring California’s spookiest sites, of which there are many, Andy decided to look a little closer to home. One evening, he and producer John Feldmann, a fellow horror obsessive, ended up going down the rabbit hole of looking up the most haunted sites in America. Cut to 2012, and Andy is in the midst of making Black Veil Brides’ third album, Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones.
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