I Heard Someone Humming Inside the Building

This happened several years ago, before they started redeveloping parts of the old Central State Hospital property in Milledgeville.

I’m from Georgia, so I had heard about Central State forever growing up. A friend and I ended up stopping there while driving through town because neither of us had ever actually seen it in person.

We were not there trying to ghost hunt or anything like that. Just curious.

The place honestly felt strange immediately. Not like a haunted attraction. More just heavy and sad. There were all these old buildings spread out everywhere, and some were in really rough shape back then. It felt abandoned but not fully empty if that makes sense.

We were walking around outside near one of the older buildings. I remember some windows were boarded up, and vines were growing on part of the brick. My friend was standing behind me, reading something on his phone, while I wandered a little closer.

That is when I heard humming.

At first, I thought maybe somebody nearby had music playing quietly, but then I realized it sounded like an actual person humming to themselves.

Like a woman.

Not singing a song, really. Just humming.

It sounded like it was coming from inside the building.

I remember stopping and listening because it caught me off guard. It was soft but clear enough that I could tell it was definitely there.

Then it stopped.

A few seconds later, it started again and sounded closer somehow.

That was the point where I got really uncomfortable.

I walked back toward my friend and asked if he had heard it too, and before I even finished asking, he went, “Yeah… the humming.”

That honestly freaked me out more than the sound itself, because until then, I was trying to come up with a normal explanation for it.

We both just stood there, listening for a few more seconds.

Then it stopped completely.

No footsteps after. No voices. Nothing.

And I know this sounds dramatic, but the silence afterward felt weirdly loud.

We did not stay much longer after that. Neither of us wanted to get closer to the building. It was just this gut feeling that we should leave.

I still do not know what it was.

Maybe there was somebody inside somehow. Maybe sound carries weirdly around those buildings.

But I have never forgotten it, mostly because we both heard the exact same thing.