Tonight's location isn't technically haunted, but it is a fun haunted attraction for a weary traveller looking for something a little bit odd and different. The Jekyll and Hyde Club has several locations around Manhattan. It is my sons' favorite place to eat and although the food may be nothing extraordinary,...
The University of North Alabama in Florence has several ghost stories associated with it. It's old halls are littered with ghosts and phantoms. One of my favorite ghost stories from this University comes from the off campus bookstore. This bookstore wasn't always a bookstore. It was once a house and...
My father used to call my grandmother a witch. I never listened to him because he never had anything nice to say about my mother or her family. I took what he said with a grain of salt. It wasn't until much later that I realized their was a grain of truth in what my father said. The women in my...
The Tutwiler is one of the rare haunted hotels in Alabama. It is located in Birmingham and was originally named the Ridgely. Robert Jemison opened The Tutwiler in 1914 to convince the American Iron and Steel Institute to have its annual convention in Birmingham. He built the hotel to be luxurious and inviting. ...
A coworker of mine told me a story today. She grew up with her grandparents on a farm in rural Alabama. Her grandfather spent a lot of time in the fields working with his mule team. According to her, her grandfather was out working one day and the mules went crazy. They stopped working and tried to break...
I got my ghost hunting kit together tonight and went out into the darkness for the first time. I violated most of the tips I am going to list in my eagerness to venture into the night with my night vision camera, electromagnetic field meter, thermometer, and electronic voice phenomena recording device. I went out...
Most ghost stories are creepy. They hint at some unhappy soul lurking just beyond reality waiting to do us harm. The Riverhaven cabin is haunted, but the ghosts there seem pleasant and inviting.Riverhaven is a cabin in Gatlinburg, TN. It is described by the reality company as plesant and comfortable. This historic log home...
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All you have to do is turn on the television to realize that interest in the paranormal has exploded recently. The names of the televisions shows that are dedicated only to the paranormal have gone from the solitary few to one on ever channel. There are Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, and The Haunted. The...
The Dallas Mill is a fascinating place with a history that has been almost completely forgotten. The Dallas Mill was a cotton mill that was a center of life for those who worked there. The mill was the epicenter of a little city that centered around it. Employees were provided homes, medical care,...
I am very excited about tonight's haunted location. It is an old hotel in Selma, Alabama called the St. James Hotel. It is a beautiful ante-bellum hotel that was built in 1837. It has 43 rooms and suites some of which have private, wrought-iron balconies, whirlpool tubs and fireplaces. ...
Full article here: http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/escams.htmNEW TWIST ON COUNTERFEIT CHECK SCHEMES TARGETING U.S. LAW FIRMS01/21/10—The FBI continues to receive reports of counterfeit check schemes targeting U.S. law firms. As previously reported, scammers send e-mails to lawyers, claiming to be overseas and seeking legal representation to collect delinquent payments from third parties in the U.S....
There has been a recent explosion in excitement about ghosts and the supernatural which has lead to an enormous increase in ghost hunting. There are ghost hunting tv shows, clubs, and websites. Ghost hunting has become as popular as spiritualism in the early 20th century. I'm not a ghost hunter. ...
I have been inspired by another blogger who has recently done several posts on zombies. Although zombies are neither ghosts nor haunted, I thought it would be fun to take a break from my usual ghost story for an evening and instead pay tribute to some of the wonderful writers out there that make the world a more interesting...
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I love to travel and I love to rent houses when I travel. I avoid hotels when possible and look for rare and interesting places to stay. When I went to France, I found an old medieval castle that had been broken up into 4 town houses. I was able to rent one portion of this castle. The castle, Chateau...
From: suan johnson Subject: Divorce Settlement Date: January 17, 2010 7:05:18 PM PST To: susan.johnson34@sify.comDear Counsel, My name is Susan Johnson,I am a contacting your firm in regards to a divorce settlement with my ex-husband(Mark Johnson) who resides in your jurisdiction. I recently got a teaching job with a 2 year teaching contract in china so I am out of the country for now.we had...
Those who reside in Huntsville, Alabama are very familiar with dead children's playground. It is part of the unique history of this region. Dead children's playground is set in the middle of Maple Hill Cemetery, which is the largest and oldest cemetery in Alabama. Built in 1882, the cemetery covers over 100 acres of land. Dead...
The word poltergeist is from the German and means "noisy ghost." However, experts today agree that a poltergeist is not a ghost. A poltergeist is the product of the psychic energy. This energy has usually been found to be connected with angsty, pubescent teenagers. The most common manifestation...
In a write up Haunted American Tours did on the Louvre they wrote, "Many believe that thousands of lost and crazed starving and tortured souls still walk the many gallery's, looking for a way out." After spending one long day trying desperately to see the Louvre in it's entirety I would say the lost, crazed, starving...
I'm going to diverge from my usual daily journey to a haunted place tonight. Instead I'm going to dive into the darker side of the history of the paranormal and the darker side of those who have exploited the supernatural to profit from it. During the time comtemporary to and following World...
This is one of my favorite ghost stories because it is so different than the usual haunted house stories you hear. Most haunting stories end the same way. They end with fear and a family fleeing their home to escape the nightmare of the paranormal. This story shows that fear is in the mind of the beholder.This...
Searcy is one of my favorite haunted places. I did my internship here a very long time ago and I fell in love with it's history and it's white chipped walls. Everything about this old hospital spoke to me. It was even more remarkable because most of those who worked there and lived there every day were...
You think it is Paul Maroon from The Walkmen? From: Jang Wix Subject: legal issues Date: January 11, 2010 4:46:37 PM PST To: undisclosed-recipients:; Reply-To: Jangwix@hotmail.comHi Counsel.My name is Jang Wix. I am contacting your firm in regards to a divorcesettlement with my ex husband (Paul Maroon) who resides in yourjurisdiction. I am currently on assignment in South Korea. We had an out...
I thought this story deserved a revisit. This little hospital in Cullman, Alabama has enough former employees telling stories to fill a book with. Although I've never seen the hospital, the rumors conjour images of hospitals that resemble Arkham Asylum. My husband has been talking to...
Roosevelt Island is a narrow island in the East River of New York City. The island, now filled with towering high rise housing complexes, was once largely secluded from the rest of the city. Originally called Blackwell island, the island belonged to the Blackwell family for most of the 18th century and...
I had plans for a brilliant story today. I began work on it this afternoon and as I was uploading several stories I found a wonderful picture taken of a ghost. Of course, at that moment as I gazed at this amazing picture in slack-jawed awe, my computer crashed and I have spent the rest of my day trying to get it to work again. It is my story that my computer was...
The Catacombs of Paris have always been a source of endless fascination for me. The catacombs are a series of labrynthian tunnels that burrow beneath the city of Paris. The walls of these tunnels, or this ossuary, are covered in the bones of Paris's dead. Opened in the late 18th...
A friend of mine who lives in a small town in South Alabama sent me the most wonderful pictures. She moved into her century old home a few years ago and when she first moved into the house it was haunted by an irritating spirit. My friend sent me the story of her haunted house and since I don't think I could possibly...
Tonight's story is a personal one. The most haunted place I have ever visited is my family home, the Newton-Allaire house in Cheboygan, Michigan. This house has been in my family for almost 150 years. As long as I have been alive, it has been the residence of my grandmother and my great-aunt. Recently...
My husband works at a small hospital in Alabama. Although this might seem uninteresting, this hospital is always a source of interesting gossip and fascinating stories. One of these stories comes from the many nurses my husband spends his days with. Apparently, not so long ago there was a hospital in Cullman Alabama called Woodland Hospital. This hospital...
