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On Select October nights, listed on our website, scarriganfarms.com, our 170 acre farm is transformed into the scariest haunted trail in the region. If you are looking for a new and out of the ordinary way to get your heart pumping and adrenaline rushing this October, Scarrigan Farms is the place for you.
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Ticket sales begin nightly at at 6:30 pm and the first victims enter the trail at dark. We reserve the right to close early if we sell out, so come early. Ticket cost is $25 per person.
CASH OR CHECK ARE ACCEPTED FOR PAYMENT ONLY, NO CREDIT OR DEBIT CARDS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
You can enter Scarrigan Farms at our West Entrance, located at 1213 Oak Ridge Farm Highway, Mooresville, NC 28115.
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The haunted trail is a walking trail, over one mile long, through wooded and open areas. Along the way, actors, props, and sets are positioned to scare you. These scary people and items are designed to target specific phobias that you may have that can include but may not be limited to, claustrophobia, coulrophobia, chiraptophobia, demonophobia, lygophobia, necrophobia, and more. Anything is fair game. Actors work to terrify you, totally and completely. All current events are fair game, but remember, it is acting designed to make it seem like it is real.
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Southwestern Montana is not nearly as busy as it once was in the late 1800s. With the railroad, and gold rushes galore, the area was highly traveled by industrial workers, prospectors, businessmen, and even dangerous outlaws. For the Hotel Metlen and all its storied history and decorative stylings inside, just what exactly has caused this place to not only be haunted but also keep its entire top floor level of rooms locked and off-limits for nearly thirty years?
Is the Hotel Metlen Haunted?
The Hotel Metlen in Dillon, Montana, a three-story granite hotel capped with a Victorian style tower, was built in 1897 and by local businessman J.C. Metlen. He made sure that his hotel had the most luxurious accommodations for the bustling area which lies half an hour south of Butte. Having the most decorated hotel in town, it was natural that the saloon inside the hotel became the star attraction. As time has a way of doing, it brought about new ownership to the Metlen over the many decades as the population in Dillon began to dwindle. That’s when the first of many ghost stories related to the Metlen began to emerge.
The Ghosts of Hotel Metlen
It has been the hotel staff that has encountered the majority of the spirits over the years. A young female bartender that helped run the saloon downstairs was familiar with all the stories associated with the hotel, and even had seen an object or two levitate in midair. Unfazed by such paranormal activity, she received permission to hold a seance on the third floor, inside the Victorian tower. With her friends, they brought out a Ouija board to connect with whatever spirits were there. They never stayed in the tower and fled for their lives after the first sentence which spelled out from a spirit, “I don’t want you here”.
Oral legend here goes that a younger male had been murdered somewhere on the top floor and is haunting it. The most terrifying part of the hotel is without a doubt, the third floor. Hotel staff had multiple encounters with a dark, menacing shadow that has been spotted drifting down the hall. The cold spots and general scariness have led to it being indefinitely locked. Not all of the hotel has such a sinister presence as there have been reports of a younger female in a long flowing white dress that has been seen on the lower floors. Her ghostly spirit is said to smile at workers and visitors, giving them a certain feeling of peace upon coming in contact with her.
Today, the Hotel Metlen’s historic saloon is all that remains open at the moment to the public. As of press of time, the Metlen is actually for sale. With all it’s antique accommodations and history inside, the building’s owners hope that a new buyer with supernatural courage will come in and bring the Hotel Metlen back to life in the modern age.
11547 Braddock Drive, Culver City, California, USA
The Real Entity House from the 1980’s Movie
There are paranormal and supernatural hauntings where the events are manifested in a myriad of ways. Objects may move, fly across the room, or disappear altogether. Standing in one area of a haunted location, a person can experience cold spots or a feeling of great disorientation and even dread. Physically, people have been harmed and are not immune. Bitings, scratchings, beatings of malicious nature can occur to anyone at any time in these paranormally manifested areas. Above all, there is one taboo of such paranormal activity that is rarely talked about due to its extremely sensitive and personal nature. And that is sexual assault by a paranormal entity.
Haunting in Culver City, CA
In 1974, a pretty divorced mother of four children named Doris Bither moved her family into a small, West Los Angeles home. Having one younger girl and three older boys, space was small, but the Bither’s made the best use of what they had. Doris had a long history of abusive relationships dating back to her childhood as well as suffering formerly from her own battle with substance abuse addiction. Finally free of such abuse, she was going to make the best of her new home with her children.
The Entity Paranormal Attacks
With the children in bed for the evening, Doris was in her own bedroom reading and trying to relax after a busy day. Without warning a trio of nearly invisible paranormal entities appeared to her. The smaller two branched off and grabbed her arms and held her down. The third, and formidably large entity, spread her legs and sexually assaulted her. Unable to scream and paralyzed by complete terror and fear, Doris had no idea what was happening to her. Over the next several days, at completely random times, Doris was sexually assaulted by the same trio of entities. At one instance, her eldest son saw his mother being dragged across her room, he attempted to intervene and instead was assaulted by the unseen entities and thrown completely across the room! Another son also claimed that whenever a very dark rock n roll albums were played, the activity in the home seemed to amplify. The other children were not immune to the physical assaults, as they were bitten, scratched, and slapped by what was believed to be a fourth entity in the home. In later interviews, the children described seeing the entities and said they appeared in the form of a light grey fog that could swiftly move from room to room. For Doris, nothing she did was of any relief to her almost daily sexual assaults by the trio of entities.
Where is the Real Entity House from the 1982 Movie?
The Real Entity House from the 1982 film is located at 11547 Braddock Drive, Culver City, California, USA. You can see it from the street. The paint has changed a few times over the years, but it’s easy to spot by the address running down the wooden beam near the door and the bricked sidewalk and pavement in the front yard. Do not trespass as the current owners appreciate their privacy and maintain the that the home is clean from paranormal activity.
The Lights and Dr. Taff
Desperate for any kind of help, Doris when to a local bookstore trying to find any literature on the subject and if there was a remedy. Her frustrations were overheard by Dr. Barry Taff and his associate Kerry Gaynor who were a pair of budding parapsychologists at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). They had an active parapsychology department there and were most eager to help Doris. Showing up and making a house call, Dr. Taff and his associates were ready to investigate as best they could. They noticed the home had an overwhelming feeling of pressure inside it. The children were moody and irritable at times, roughhousing in front of the group. Upon interviewing Doris at home, the investigators wanted her to call out the entities to see if they would appear. As much as Dr. Taff and his team could believe that a haunting was possible, proving spectral rape would be something entirely different altogether. Doris called out the entities and began swearing aloud when suddenly a green mist manifested in the room with the couple dozen investigators. An arc of light shot above her head as a very large man’s torso formed in the mist. No doubt that her tormentor had finally exposed himself, and in front of a scientific and paranormal community no less.
Hollywood and Beyond
With Dr. Barry Taff’s parapsychological affirmation, the activity was given the name of, The Entity. So strong and convincing was the evidence that it wasn’t before long and Hollywood came calling. In 1982 Sidney J. Furie directed the horror film masterpiece, The Entity, starring Barbara Hershey and Ron Silver. The horror film was both a critical and commercial success, so much so that even award-winning director Martin Scorsese considered it one of the scariest films he had ever seen.
At some point after the investigations by Dr. Barry Taff and his team, Doris and her children moved to a different home in nearby Carson, then San Bernardino, and finally into the heart of Texas. With each subsequent move, Doris was continually harassed by the trio of spirits, to a point where she frantically went through mental health periods of believing she was actually impregnated by the entity, only to have tests show that was not possible. Doris finally was able to get relief from her tormentors when she passed away in 1995 from pulmonary arrest. The infamous “Entity House” still stands in Culver City to this day. Many paranormal historians cannot say for certain what it was that haunted and tormented Doris Bither, but her’s is the first documented and recorded case of a paranormal haunting going to such a sexual extreme.
The Sloss Furnaces of Birmingham, Alabama initially appears as a normal National Historic United States Landmark. Its antiquated and rich history is a testament to the will of the Southerners who helped forge its persevering success. But can this unassuming furnace landmark be paranormally active? Oh yes, it indeed can and certainly is.
History of the Sloss Furnaces
The Civil War absolutely devastated many of the locations and resources of the American South. Destroyed buildings and smaller homes, vast properties and natural resources, all were part of the sweeping carnage from the war. As the reconstruction and rebuilding began, materials were scarce and precious. Pig iron was a crude form of iron that was collected and smelted and used to aid the rebuilding process.
James Withers Sloss built and opened the Sloss Furnaces in 1881. An original founder of the actual city of Birmingham, Sloss was viewed as a wealthy industrialist who was looking to capitalize on the Southern reconstruction. In fact, the production of pig iron in the South grew by an estimated one-thousand percent within just ten years of Birmingham being founded. After only five years, Sloss sold the successful furnace. The new owner operated the furnace in name only and began recruiting new workers to join.
Tough conditions brought many work-related deaths at the Sloss Furnace
Across the city of Birmingham, at a rival furnace company, was a man named Theo Calvin Jowers. He was a journeyman of sorts who had experience in the furnace industry. Hired on with ease due to the lax regulations, Jowers thrived at Alice Furnaces, however, these lax regulations caused other problems for other employees as well. In a period of fifteen years after opening, nearly forty-seven furnace workers died on the premises. Exhaustingly long, and overheated shifts coupled with deplorable on-site housing only added to further to the worker’s woes.
The Legend of Calvin Jowers
According to local legend, Jowers was working on the late graveyard shift sometime in October of 1887. High above one of the hottest furnaces, Jowers lost his footing near some scaffolding and he fell headlong into the furnace. While slipping certainly was a possibility in the role of Jowers’s death, some employees had claimed that it appeared Jowers had been pushed by an unseen force. Either scenario was certainly valid as was Jowers sure death. There is an oral legend passed down from his family that the only part of his body that was recovered from the fiery furnace was his badly charred heart.
Is the Sloss Furnaces Haunted?
In 1897, a local painter’s body was found in the open water tank on the Sloss Furnaces property. His body had been perfectly boiled and a newspaper article from that time suggested that he was possibly murdered on site. The given reason for this was that he had been seen drinking at a bar the night before with some unknown parties and that Sloss was far from the man’s home, indicating he was taken there against his will. Shortly thereafter these events, paranormal activity began.
As the years began to pass at Sloss, workers at the reputable furnace began noticing the effects from a ghostly presence. In fact, something more unsettling was the fact that the presence was that of Theo Jowers. Even though he perished at a rival furnace company, Jowers was known to frequent Sloss for some mild odd furnace jobs. Men at Sloss who were well acquainted with Jowers had reported seeing his ghost right alongside other living workers who were furiously shoving iron ore into the furnaces.
Also, objects lying near the open water tank where the boiled man had been found, were often mysteriously moved around the site from their original resting spots. There have also been voices screaming at random times to “hurry up” or “watch the heat.” Possibly otherworldly communication from Jowers, proving his dedication to the job even from the hereafter. Other times, unsettling sensations and shadow figures are seen by the furnace wheel well.
Terrifying paranormal activity at The Sloss Furnace
One of the more terrifying tales from the Sloss Furnaces was the story from a man named Samuel Blumenthal. He was hired on in 1971 as a night watchman for the property. Late one evening while inspecting the top stairwell by an adjacent furnace, Blumenthal felt a mysterious push from behind. The sensation dug into his back and forced him up several stairs. Fighting the push, he leaped to turn around and claimed to see the physical manifestation of a half man, half demon creature. Before he had time to react, the creature struck him several times about his upper torso. Finally escaping, Blumenthal made it to a doctor who diagnosed him with several severe burn marks on his body, precisely in the areas in which he was hit.
Sloss Furnace today
In 1981, it was declared a National Historic Landmark due primarily to the fact that it contains a lot of industrial museum-worthy objects. Today, Sloss Furnaces remains standing, but somewhat aged and visibly rusted. Due to the historical significance and property size, metal art classes are held there regularly, as are outdoor festivals and concerts. Of all things, in October of every year, a haunted house tour is set up on the property for haunted attraction seekers. Given the property’s notorious past, there is plenty of real-life paranormal material to draw inspiration from.
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The Amityville Horror became infamous in the paranormal world for all the unbearable activities that the Lutz family was subjected to on a daily basis. One of the more incredible facts about that particular case is that the Lutz family only stayed a mere twenty-eight days before fleeing. But what if there was a midwestern home where a family was terrorized so thoroughly that they only lasted thirteen days before running for their lives? For those unfamiliar, the Screaming House of Union, Missouri, is one such place, and the LaChance family was the one victimized.
The Haunting of the Screaming House
In 2001, corporate trainer Steven LaChance and his three children were coping with a terribly emotional event when his wife, the mother of the children, simply left them. Crammed in a tiny apartment, Steven took his two sons and only daughter to the town of Union, which is roughly fifty miles south of St. Louis. Prospering at his job, Steven rented the multistory home from a local property management firm. Classic white, with an open porch, idyllic yard, and all the charms afforded it, the LaChances were thrilled to be starting anew. On the day of moving in, a sedan pulled up with the windows down as the passengers shouted to Steven and his family, “Hope you will get along well with them,” before driving off in a frenzy. Puzzled by what they meant, Steven and his family were about to find out in very short order just exactly what it was they meant.
Lights were the first thing the family began to notice. In the evenings, it would seem as if incredibly bright lights were being shone right through the windows into the home. Rushing outside, there were no bright lights originating from anywhere. The lights did not malfunction within the home, but there were electrical charges felt by the family. A contractor Steven hired came in and could find no source of an electrical malfunction in the home. They would describe an electrical current feeling that would pass across the back of their neck or sensations of an inside tickling that would manifest. There is a strong belief in the paranormal community that these sorts of electrical charges typically occur near a supernatural portal. Someplace where the negative energy or entity is coming through from.
The Screaming Begins
The activity in the home began to increase rapidly. Doors often opened and closed on their own. Steven’s children were often afraid to walk from one room to another without being escorted by one another or Steven himself. One of his sons had a terrifying encounter with a demonic-looking creature resembling a clown. Wild frazzled red hair, long white face with no eyes, and a gaping razor-toothed mouth. It is believed this is also the entity responsible for constantly rearranging and moving objects within the home, and in particular, the children’s rooms. Screams were regularly heard within the home. Steven and the children later described these as a deep, male voice that both growled and shrieked without provocation to absolutely deafening levels.
Terrified, Steven sent out a flurry of emails to paranormal groups, including the Warrens, but he never heard a reply. The final straw was one evening when the home began to violently shake and scream at the same time. Steven’s children were in their rooms and began to scream themselves from the horror. Rushing to them, he could not reach his daughter as her bedroom door would not open. Steven began thrusting and shoving with all his weight against the door to get it to budge or break, but it would not give the slightest inch.
The deafening screams increased, and with his daughter wailing on the other side, Steven looked to the sky and shouted, “God help me!” The door instantly opened. He picked up his daughter, not looking back towards her closet where even more screams emanated, and they ran out of the home. His daughter later claimed she heard pounding and lots of different voices coming from deep within the closet. Outside the home, Steven looked through the window to see a black, shadow figuring flying from room to room looking for them.
The Catholic Church and the Screaming House
Paranormal groups and the Catholic Church were called in to investigate the home. Historically, the home was supposedly built on the remains of a slave quarters cabin from the pre-Civil War era. Within five hundred feet of the home was an older cemetery, while across the street in a separate home, a violent axe murderer once took place. Steven and the group believed the entire land was poisoned by a bloody history.
Paranormal groups have documented dozens of EVPs and photographs of the activity in the home. Such documentation has not come without a price, while some investigators have been bitten or scratched. The Catholic Church issued a rare 156-page report on the home, claiming it was indeed manifested with a strong demonic presence. The Screaming House of Union is one of the more unknown haunted house cases ever documented, and from the events inside, may be one of the most diabolical ever.
What is the address of the Screaming House of Union, Missouri?
809 N Christina Ave, Union, Missouri 63084 is the best address that FrightFind can provide. Interestingly, there is no Google Earth information, and real estate sites do not have any information on this property. It may be that the area is under development, or perhaps the Internet is not even willing to go to this location. Please be mindful of the property owners and do not trespass.
Southwind Vineyard & Winery, Lebanon Road, Millville, NJ, USA
Hours of Operation: Friday Oct 18th 12PM Ticket Booth Opens & Campers Arrive 3pm-3am Music Saturday Oct 19 9AM Ticket Booth Opens 11am-3am Music Sunday Oct 21 Campers Leave by 12pm
Electric Halloween Festival is the largest & longest Halloween party in all of October! Gather all your ghouls together and come enjoy the crisp autumn air and that familiar fall scent of campfires. A full weekend of camping, music & performances, contests, games, and more.
MUSIC Everyone can get a taste of their favorite spooky symphonies here! A mixed-genre music festival that includes jam, hardcore, electronica, indie, rock, metal, funk, & more.
ENTERTAINMENT What else do we have in addition to music and camping? To keep things freaky & fun, we have a full length magic show, fire spinning, and games! There will be a costume contest each nigh and prizes for best decorated campsites. Traditional activities will include pumpkin painting & carving and more.
CAMPING Camping is included with the purchase of a day pass or weekend ticket. Tent, RV, and car camping is available and is first come, first served with no reservations needed. Fire pits (1-foot of the ground) are allowed, but must be registered at the ticket booth upon arrival. READ the camping rules on the website! www.electrichalloweenfestival.com/tickets
CONTACT: Email questions to [email protected]. Please do not contact the venue for information. Go to www.electrichalloweenfestival.com for band, vendor, and volunteer applications.
Admission Costs: Weekend Tickets: $90 Day Tickets: $50 at ticket booth only
In the bustling and picturesque neighborhood of Greenwich Village, the many streets lined with hundred year old plus brownstones gives off that classic New York City vibe. A lot of old world Manhattan charm still exists in these city blocks and homes. But for one totally unassuming building on West 10th Street, it is locally known as the “House of Death” and it has quite an active paranormal presence.
Is the House of Death in New York Haunted?
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The four-story brownstone building was constructed sometime during the late 1850s, just before the Civil War had started. The lower Manhattan area neighborhood was indeed home to many aspiring New York City socialites as well as some philanthropic businessmen. In fact, James Johnston was largely responsible for the Metropolitan Underground Railroad, was said to be one of the first tenants of the building. One of the most startling claims from local historians and paranormal enthusiasts is that since many tenants have come and gone, living over the many decades in the building, that there is a claim of up to twenty-two individual spirits roaming its halls.
The Ghost of Mark Twain
One of the twenty-two spirits is said to be that of infamous author, Samuel Langhorne Clemens who went by the recognized pen-name of Mark Twain. Clemens was said to be a resident of the building briefly between the years 1900-1901 and there is even an aged plaque there commemorating his stay there. But the building is not where Clemens actually died, he moved on from New York City and died in 1910 in Redding, Connecticut. Although Clemens died in another nearby state, somehow his spirit is haunting the building.
The first sighting of it occurred sometime in the 1930s when a resident saw the much recognizable spirit of Samuel Clemens staring out the window. As the spirit was approached it turned to the resident and meekly said, “My name is Clemens, and I has a problem here I gotta settle”, before disappearing. While Clemens ghost has been seen many times, historians have absolutely no leads as to what the problem is that the spirit is referring to that must be settled. The only lead may be that Clemens was in debt to financial creditors throughout a portion in his life and that he might be referring to an unsettled debt. Other times, his spirit appears in a classic southern gentleman’s all-white suit drifting near the bottom of the staircase displaying a sad expression on his face.
Jan Bartell Investigates the House of Death
Clemens wasn’t the only writer whose spirit is said to be lingering in Building 14. Author and actress Jan Bartell once lived in the building as well. She and her family had taken up residence on the top floor in 1957. At first, all was going well with Bartell but late one afternoon she personally witnessed a very large and formidable black shadow manifest in full view of her and drift right across the room. Stunned and greatly shaken by the sighting, Bartell and her family employed the help of a psychic medium to come in and try to help explain what was happening.
The psychic claimed to have felt the spirits of many people who had died and were buried under the building. Also, the spirit of a dead child was said to be active along with the spirit of an aborted baby. The aborted baby was said to have belonged to a widow who lived in the building whose husband died in the Civil War. Devastated by her loss, she chose to abort the child out of both melancholia and delirium. Bartell later moved out and chronicled some of her experiences in a book she wrote. Among other incidents she encountered was the icy cold touch of a pair of unseen hands to the back of her neck and her hair as well as objects moving and a low growling noise that could be heard. Spindrift: Spray From a Psychic Sea was the firsthand account that Bartell wrote on her experience what was later called the House of Death.
Murder at the House of Death
The building made national headlines briefly in 1987 when prominent New York City attorney Joel Steinberg moved in with his girlfriend, Hedda Nussbaum and their two small children, Lisa and the infant Mitchell. Steinberg, high on cocaine, savagely beat both Hedda and Lisa to a point where the younger girl was legally declared brain dead by the beating. Steinberg was convicted and served a lengthy prison sentence for his crime in the young girl’s death. To this day, the floor on which they stayed occasionally is known to have a flicker of lights going on and off at very odd times. A possible cry for help from the young Lisa’s spirit even after all these years.
Today, the building is still rented out to various tenants on various floors and keeps a rather normal profile. In such a populous city as New York, the long grim history of the building is possibly only one of many that exists there. But on the sidewalks of the city that never sleeps, it holds true that neither do the spirits.
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For paranormal enthusiasts who are excited by the proposition of investigating or exploring a haunted cemetery, those in New Orleans are always at the top of the list. But for those looking to visit a cemetery in a city that doesn’t have as much hustle, bustle and the same level of paranormal activity with the most gothic tombstones in the South, the Bonaventure Cemetery just east of Savannah, Georgia is a must see.
Records with the city show that the area which is now the Bonaventure Cemetery was once a sprawling plantation during the 1800s owned by John Mullryne. In 1846, the land was turned over and a cemetery was formed in its place. At over one hundred and sixty acres, the cemetery is vast in size and definitely an active place.
Is the Bonaventure Cemetery Haunted?
The most famous ghost of the Bonaventure Cemetery is that belonging to a spirit called “Little Gracie”. She was born to W.J. Watson, a man who owned a famous luxury hotel in Savannah during the late 1880s. At the age of six, Gracie died from pneumonia and her father was so heartbroken that he had a life-sized headstone sculpted in her image where he would regularly leave her flowers.
Over the years, people have reported if flowers are left at her gravesite, that the eyes of the statue will cry tears of blood. Whether it is over her unexpected death or her father moving away is anyone’s guess. Other times, the spirit of Gracie in a white dress is seen by visitors running amongst all the various tombstones in the cemetery.
Another famous statue inside the cemetery is said to come alive at times. The statue of Corinne Lawton was sculpted after her she drowned herself in the Savannah River in 1877. Her family was reportedly so ashamed she had taken her own life, they had her headstone face away from the rest of the family plot. Reports are that the face of Corinne’s statue smiles at friendly and respectful visitors to her plot while at other times, her face is capable of twisting up at anyone who scowls at her statue.
For those who are interested, the Bonaventure Cemetery is completely open to the public and there is no cost to enter it. It is regarded that for those visiting, bringing a camera is actually encouraged. Whether it be for a moving statue or to capture their beauty itself, the Bonaventure Cemetery is agreed to be one beautifully haunted place.
Every year, thousands of visitors crowd the Niagara region of New York state and Canada for a glimpse at the absolutely breathtaking Niagara Falls. The majestic views of cascading water, which is said to course through the falls at a rate of thirty-one hundred tons of water per second, bring in an estimated thirty million visitors to the Niagara area each year. With so many visitors, hotels are a necessity. A couple of miles downstream is one of the more premier hotels, the Radisson Hotel Niagara Falls Grand Island and it is haunted in particular with the spirit of a young girl named Tanya.
Is the Radisson Hotel Niagara Falls Grand Island Haunted?
During the 1800s, the Whitehaven Settlement found its particular way around the Niagara Falls area. Settling in on the far eastern side of Grand Island, a wealthy man named John Nice colonized this particular part of the island, in fact, he was the first unofficial supervisor of the area. Along with his wife, he built an enormous mansion on the island and ended up having ten children by her. One fateful evening in 1848, a fire broke out and the mansion was fully consumed. According to local legend, the only casualty was a young daughter, presumably named Tanya.
Over the years, with the advent of tourism, the property was sold and owned at first by Holiday Inn and eventually purchased by what was to become the Radisson Hotel Niagara Falls Grand Island. Not long after the hotel’s construction in 1972, employees and visitors at the hotel began to experience unexplained things. The most troubling of these discovered was the issues with the elevator. It had a tendency to get stuck between floors and on floors themselves. The buttons would not work, or would somehow all be pressed at once. Repairmen are called and can never duplicate the malfunctions with the elevator, although an unnamed repairman claimed to be examining the button panel and saw the reflection of a young girl in the door only to turn around and find the elevator empty.
The Ghost of Tanya
The employees and locals chalk all this behavior up to Tanya. She’s often described as a small, pale-skinned girl, about six years old, with blonde hair and wearing a nightgown from an older period in time. Guests have seen her in their rooms at night. She has been known to shake the feet of a sleeping guest to wake them and alert them of trouble. While no trouble has been found, this appears to be an otherworldly cry no doubt originating from the night of her fateful death. Objects have been known to become rearranged in the room. Doors both lock and unlock for housekeeping.
If anything young Tanya’s has never been violent or destructive in any way. Few paranormal groups and researchers have examined the hotel and find that this ghost of a small child is exactly that….a child. There is no harm in her presence and many repeat visitors to the hotel have found her soul to be quite endearing and a testament as to her love for her home area.
The Haunted Farm is Western North Carolina’s Scariest Haunted Halloween Attraction. Located in rural farmland near Hendersonville, The Haunted Farm sits on a mysterious, blood-soaked stretch of land where the forlorn and deranged Missy Mae Lively eternally pines for her lost groom.
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Located in San Francisco, California, and built in 1889 by a German immigrant, the Westerfeld House has played host to a most eccentric selection of guests and tenants over the many years. Russian czarists, famous musicians, and even a Satanic filmmaker have been mainstays at the home at one point in time. Looking closer at the Westerfeld, the activities both created and documented by LaVeyan Satanism follower Kenneth Anger is perhaps what stirred up most of the paranormal activity and opened up doorways to Hell.
Is the Westerfeld House in San Franciso Haunted?
The multistory home’s most haunted area is without a doubt, the top floor tower. Overlooking the many hilled views of the Bay Area, the top floor was frequently occupied by Anger’s most personal guest, found of the Church of Satan, Anton LaVey. The room is said to have been the chosen area for a number of Satanic rituals personally performed by LaVey in the home. Among one of the highlights is a pentagram that was etched into the hardwood floor to serve as a more permanent origin for performing rituals.
LaVey is also said to have kept a small pet lion in the room with him as well, with photographs providing evidence of this. There are claw marks that have been found in the wood of the top floor, while most point to the damage done by the lion years ago, some have wondered if the claw marks have been scratched in by demons that were conjured.
Invocation of My Demon Brother
One of the more bizarre and documented activities was Kenneth Anger’s documentary film short called Invocation of My Demon Brother. The film is a noir-style mashup of quick edits depicting nude men and women amongst a bevy of ritualistic scenery. Mock sacrifices alongside a cameo by LaVey as Satan all played with a soundtrack that emits hissing, growling, and bass sounds make for very disturbing viewing.
These days, the Westerfeld House with over twenty-five rooms is owned by local real estate developer Jim Siegel. The rooms are rented out to various tenants who claim that while they have not experienced any direct malevolent activity, they do report overwhelming emotions and physical presences in the home. Nightmares are wholly common, as are various banging sounds throughout the house. Current owner Siegel has said that he was well aware of the home’s various tenants and dark history. Upon buying the home he has said,
“One of the first things I did was have the house blessed by Buddhist monks”.
While the blessing has assured him and he claims the home isn’t haunted, there are still reports of a certain uneasiness upon entering there. Whether this is all psychologically manifested in a visitor’s mind or is a result of the house’s past activities, it serves as no deterrent as the home stands quite popular even to this very day.
Lying just one hour east of Los Angeles, the Barton Mansion is one of the most active paranormal locations in all of California. The West Redlands area home has been subjected to chilling and very dark accounts of shapes, shadows, pestilence, and Satanic rituals. How did a seemingly picturesque home become so supernaturally ill-fated?
Is the Barton Mansion Haunted?
Beginning in 1859, Dr. Benjamin Barton and his family purchased 640 acres of San Bernardino land for the most reasonable sum of only five hundred dollars. Settling into the area, Barton started working to acquire more land and came to own a very successful vineyard and winery. With more settlers passing through to settle in the new area of Los Angeles, Barton decided to retire as a practicing medical doctor in 1866. It was then that he began construction on what was to become the infamous Barton Mansion.
Inspired by Victorian influence, the beautiful two-story home was the pinnacle of construction for the times. With not many forests around in the area, the home was built with clay bricks that were fired in large kilns. Paranormal historians have said that this was to be Barton’s first mistake as the clay that was used to build the home came directly from a nearby Native American burial ground.
Dr. Benjamin Barton
The history of the Barton Mansion started with local ancestors of the Native Americans who begged Barton not to disrupt that particular area of land. The ancestors claimed that the burial ground was not to be disturbed or else an unholy pestilence would be unleashed. Barton dismissed the warnings completely and took them to be superstitions.
Almost immediately after construction of the house, Barton’s wife collapsed and succumbed to death. Advancing in age and shaken to his emotional core by the death of his wife, Barton became a recluse in the home. Shutting himself off to the outside world, Barton decided to contact another one: the underworld.
Barton and the Occult
Being quite educated as well as knowledgeable, Barton made use of his extensive personal library to contact his wife and children. During this time he became quite engrossed with magic rituals of Satanic origin and principle. Loud noises and red lights were known to have pierced through the uncovered window panes of the home late at night. One of the more daring presumptions of Barton’s spell casting was the use of human bodies.
The West Redlands area was still not too populated, however, the recent railroad expansion towards the California coast did bring in a contingent of transient workers. While there were no official arrests or records preserved, the oral legend of transients disappearing when looking for lodging at Barton’s house has held up over the years. With him being a medical doctor, the belief is that he surgically harvested the body parts of such people so as to provide the necessary parts for his ungodly rituals. Without warning in 1898, Barton died with his death remaining a complete mystery.
With immediate family all deceased, the mansion and property Barton owned went to extended family who eventually wound up selling the property. Of all things in 1920, the mansion was converted into a mental hospital. Over the next fifty years, the mansion eclipsed from a mental hospital into a nursing home for the terminally ill. Five decades’ worth of mental insanity coupled with the deaths of all the terminally ill in the mansion did nothing but amplify the already dark matter in the mansion.
Care workers had shared stories of seeing dark and menacing shadows dancing along the walls. Other workers reported objects moving, and foul smells that were never fully explained. In the late 1970s, a storm destroyed part of the mansion and it was officially closed and sold back to the local government.
The Barton Mansion Ghost Video
In 2001, a group of teenagers took a video recorder into the long-abandoned mansion to chronicle the insides. Decades worth of horror stories about the mansion had done much to pique the teen’s many interests in the place. A video clip from their footage went viral in the paranormal community after a most remarkable discovery. The clip is of the teens exploring floors on the staircase when after panning the initial hallway, they turn to see the apparition of a tall, terrifyingly pale demonic creature.
Fleeing down the stairs, the teens made quick haste to leave the property. Paranormal enthusiasts examining the footage agree that the terror in the teen’s voices appeared genuine as well and the video technology used at the time was incapable of digital manipulation. The clip remained online and still is a highly debatable piece of paranormal evidence.
Aside from the teenagers visiting, the mansion has been subject to other visitors. Nearby residents had reported seeing hooded figures entering and leaving the mansion as well as finding discarded animal carcasses near the property, insinuating that rituals were taking place. Today the mansion has been bought, sold, and converted into a spacious business office complex as well as an event hosting business. Picturesque with a modern update, the mansion still exists, totally unassuming from the outside, but still with a dark history on the inside.
