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U.S.S. Edson - Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum, 1680 Martin St, Bay City, Michigan 48706, USA
Investigate the USS Edson haunted ghost ship in Bay City, Michigan. The 1958 Forrest-Sherman-class Destroyer has many ghostly stories of paranormal activity on board this mighty ship. Come see for yourself on one of our many ghost tours throughout the year.
Looking for a thrill this Halloween? Check out the USS Edson haunted house.
208 Meriden Avenue, Southington, CT 06489, USA
Among paranormal historians, there are certain haunted house cases that are classic and legendary in their activity. Amityville out on Long Island is top of the mark when it comes to infamous haunted house cases. The Smurl Haunting in West Pittston, Pennsylvania showed that when a family is haunted, nobody is off limits. The Entity House in Culver City out in West Los Angeles was so active that the photographs documenting the activity still cannot be replicated today. Hard to believe at times, but there are haunted house cases popping up more and more in the paranormal community even today. The Bothell Hell House outside Seattle, WA breaks about every rule in the book, while The Screaming House of Union, Missouri literally screams at its unlucky inhabitants. The origins of such haunts are all wholly unique and terrifying in their own chilling and sometimes violent capacities.
The Snedeker House that inspired The Haunting in Connecticut
One such house that should be considered among the legendary haunted ranks is the Snedeker House of Southington, Connecticut. The town of Southington itself is that of perfect Connecticut small-town charm, but in 1986 the town was thrown into a frenzy of media chaos when a family reported their new home as being haunted. With details scarce and emerging at the time, media pundits and paranormal investigators alike were unaware, but the claims from the Snedeker’s would later be referred to in paranormal lore as, “The Haunting In Connecticut.”
The House that the film The Haunting in Connecticut is based on is located at 208 Meriden Avenue, Southington, CT 06489.
In 1986, the Snedekers were a family that struggled in a lot of ways. The father Allen was a former stone mason who was suspected of having struggles with alcoholism. His wife and mother of the children, Carmen, was a waitress in between jobs and finances definitely became a sensitive situation. This financial hardship was further complicated for them when their eldest son Phillip was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, which is a rare and sometimes deadly cancer that attacks the body’s immune system with intensity. The Snedekers looked to get Phillip into a cancer treatment hospital as soon as possible and they found one located outside Southington. Packing up what belongings they had, they moved to Southington in search of a new home to live while Phillip was to endure a series of cancer treatments. Looking for something with size, as they had four children plus two nieces that eventually moved in with them, the family found a duplex-style, multi-story home to rent. From the outside, it was two floors, on a quiet street with plenty of room for everyone and at least near the hospital. The price range being amazingly affordable the Snedekers jumped at renting the home. Little did they know that this picturesque Connecticut home was also formerly the town’s funeral home. The Hallahan Funeral Home to be exact.
Moving into their new home, and funeral home, the Snedekers and their children each took off to choose their new bedrooms. Phillip of all places chose the basement. Teenage angst, seclusion due to illness, or just morbid curiosity itself, Phillip nonetheless marked out this area as his new domain. Upon moving his furnishings downstairs into the basement, the family soon discovered a hidden collection of antiquated mortuary equipment. This discovery was not solely limited to the basement as the massive home also had some leftover furnishings in different parts of it as well such as bedroom dresser drawers. Inside the drawers, the Snedekers found a few photographs of what can only be described as pictures pertaining to people being prepared for funeral burial. Another room was a former coffin room that still held plenty of coffin pieces in there to give anyone a sure fright. The biggest shock also came on an extended bit of the property where some headstones were found indicating that bodies were buried on the actual property itself. A quick check with the town’s assessor of real estate property confirmed that the home was indeed the former Hallahan Funeral Home. The idea of living inside of what was once a funeral home did bring about some initial concerns for the Snedekers, however, given their financial commitment to the home as well as Phillip’s future cancer treatments to consider, they decided to stand firm in their new rental.
The very first sign of paranormal activity inside the house was a series of bizarre sounds that would occur day and night. Mysterious wrappings along with scratching sounds seemed to emanate from every part of the home without explanation or reason. Inside the home was a dumbwaiter of sorts where the chain pulleys would rattle and move on their own without anything loaded into them. Carmen’s young children initially clamored that they were seeing ghosts walking through the home and were so scared that they wanted to leave. She took everything therein as overactive imaginations from her children, but she had an eerie feeling about the place herself. The children often told about the lights flickering on and off and their father Allen got upset about the misuse of electricity and removed light bulbs from rooms.
The dumbwaiter was used for loading and delivering bodies down to the basement area where the mortuary was located and was now Phillip’s new bedroom. Mysterious sounds continued and sudden fluctuations in temperature occurred. One room would seem to be ice cold in the middle of July, while the room adjacent would be normal room temperature. The piercing coldness would then disappear as quickly as it had emerged in a room, all without any logical explanation. Then these mysterious activities gradually increased to become more physical.
Carmen was taking a shower one evening and the shower curtain began to cling to her body. While science can prove this could be a natural phenomenon, Carmen claimed that the shower curtain began to mysteriously rise as it clung to her. She claimed the shower curtain wrapped itself around her face and neck choking her. Blinded with shampoo in her face, her muffled cries for help were eventually heard by her niece Tammy who was staying with them and she pulled and unwrapped the curtain from around her aunt’s throat. Neither could explain what happened.
Little did Carmen realize that the attacks were just beginning for her as she began to be repeatedly assaulted by an unseen force. The assaults would happen at random times when she was completely alone and afraid to reveal these attacks to her husband Allen. Carmen would later reveal that the entity abusing her would become very forceful and slap at her face.
Carmen’s niece Tammy also claims to have been assaulted. Tammy had later described a quilt from her bed levitating off her all the way up to the ceiling. Tammy also claims that she would see a black shadowy face manifest during these terrifying times along with an unexplained whispering. She would cling to her Catholic faith and often would try to utilize her Rosary beads only to have this same force try and viciously rip the Rosary from her grip.
Apparitions inside the home became making themselves known in physical sense appearing as a taller woman with long black hair, pale skin, and piercing black eyes. Another was in the form of a man with whitish-colored hair and often seen in a pinstripe tuxedo. Phillip kept up with his radiation treatments at the University of Connecticut Hospital where he frequented and was noted as having a bizarre change in personality habits and would lash out uncharacteristically at staff. The terror inside the home mounted more and more, where even mopping the floor turned into a nightmare. Carmen one afternoon had taken to mopping the kitchen floor and without any explanation at all, the mopwater turned into blood. The dark red blood now inexplicably staining the floor, accompanied by the stench of a freshly decaying dead body was too much for Carmen and her family. They needed help and needed it fast.
Entering into the situation were local state residents and paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren from The Conjuring fame. It was Carmen Snedeker who called them to investigate their rapidly terrifying situation. While on the phone with Lorraine, Carmen told of gripping her Rosary beads which were coming apart at their very seams by an unseen force.
The Warrens arrived at the Southington home by the next morning with a Catholic priest in tow. A general blessing of the home was conducted by the priest which seemed to have zero effect on cleansing any paranormal entities from the home. Getting into the heart of the matter the Warrens found from local research that the home was built in the 1920s and became a funeral home. One of the funeral workers was supposedly convicted of committing necrophilia in the morgue of the home under the conditions of some Satanic ritual.
The Warrens theorized, as has a large part of the paranormal community, that such heinous Satanic acts can lead to paranormal activity and welcome entities into a place. Accompanying the Warrens during the many days and nights they investigated the house was their nephew, John Zaffis, a future paranormal specialist. Zaffis would later become popular as a collector of haunted objects, he himself experienced the same terror that was affecting the Snedekers firsthand.
One of the more bizarre occurrences one evening was when Zaffis was spending the night in the home, he found himself undergoing phantomania. In paranormal circles, phantomania is a form of sleep paralysis that is rooted in supernatural origin and can cause great mental and emotional anguish. As he was struggling with his own bout of phantomania, Carmen was in another room undergoing the same supernatural attack. Zaffis would later comment on the situation by saying that the terrifying visions accompanying the phantomania were simultaneously occurring in both him and Carmen at the same time.
As word began to spread about the haunting, Lorraine Warren later recalled that a pair of scientific instructors came to debunk the home as being haunted. During the early midnight hours of their first investigation, this pair of scientists ended up fleeing in the middle of the night and were so rattled by it that they actually moved to another state completely after experiencing it firsthand.
With the initial blessing of the home unsuccessful, the Warrens then contacted the Bishop of Hartford, voicing their concerns that much more Catholic help was needed. In response, the Bishop directed that two priests go to the home to not only bless it again but also hold a sacred Catholic Mass inside the home as well. During the ceremonial Mass, Ed Warren suffered a mild heart attack and believed that this was somehow caused by one of the many demonic entities in the home that held him responsible for the Catholic priests being present.
The Mass itself had whatever was haunting the home very angry but also wounded. Both priests along with the Warrens compelled the Bishop to send in a Catholic exorcist to drive out the evil forces. Without much supernatural interference from the assumed demons in the home, the exorcism seemed to be successful in the sense that the dark and brooding atmosphere inside it immediately felt “lighter.” Lorraine Warren would later comment on the situation by saying that during the actual crescendo of the exorcism itself, a rather large and thick tree mysteriously snapped in half and fell across the yard. Warren claimed that the weather that day was actually quite clear and rather ordinary, but some paranormal theorists claim that whatever was possibly haunting the Snedeker house, actually passed through the tree and snapped it in half.
After word began to circulate, the national media picked up that the Snedeker home was haunted and the Warrens were at the center of its cleansing. Tabloids and talk magazines alike blasted to the world the horrors that were inside the Snedeker home. The Snedekers eventually moved from the home and it was purchased by a pair of private citizens. The new owners of the home claim that they have not experienced anything supernatural or paranormal since purchasing it. They do however state that sometimes people will take pictures of the house from the street, but nothing sinister has ever come of it.
The story of the Snedekers eventually had Hollywood come calling to tell the story of The Haunting in Connecticut. The hauntings inside the home and even Hollywood’s story are loosely based on true-life occurrences. As for the Snedekers themselves, they have seemingly faded into post-haunting obscurity. Carmen has been known to give rare talks on the haunting that she and her family experienced. She believes that any other family going through a similar situation knows that there is hope.
The film, The Haunting in Connecticut was one of the first to feature Ed and Lorraine Warren in 2009, who helped write the script. Eventually, The Conjuring movie would launch in 2013 followed by Annabelle in 2014, and then The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Case, which covered the Enfield haunting in England. The Conjuring universe would continue to expand from there, mixing paranormal activity, great storytelling, and Hollywood intrigue for paranormal fans around the world.
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508 E 2nd St, Villisca, IA 50864, USA
Day Tours....Just show up at the house tues-sun 1:00pm-3:30pm cash only for tours. We are closed on Mondays.
The Midwestern United States has a long history of bizarre killing sprees, with the most infamous being the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas. The murder was aptly documented by author Truman Capote in his book In Cold Blood. Years before the 1959 slaying was another, one that had double the body count and was so gruesome that it knocked the sinking of the Titanic off the front-page headlines.
Villisca, Iowa in 1912 was home to a quiet and small corn farming community. Favorite among the residents were the Moore family, led by parents Josiah and Sarah. The two had four children in Herman, Mary Katherine, Arthur, and Paul. On a sleepy summer night in June of 1912, the Moores invited their daughters two friends, Ina, and Lena Stillinger, to go with them to a late-night church retreat which was a popular activity in the smaller community.
After taking in the church retreat, the Moore’s and their daughter’s friends went home to retire for the evening. In the early morning hours, a mannerly neighbor named Mary Peckham discovered no activity in the normally chore busy home. Puzzled by the stillness she fetched Josiah’s brother Ross, who came with his spare key to the house.
Moore never stepped past the front of the house parlor as he laid eyes on the two bloodied bodies of Ina and Lena Stillinger, with a farming axe beside them. Immediately the local policeman Hank Horton was brought to the scene and he discovered one of the most bloody mass killings of a family the state of Iowa had ever seen.
In a scene that eerily preceded the murders Amityville, all six members of the Moore family were murdered in their sleep, with the majority of the killing blows committed to the heads. Josiah Moore’s face was so badly caved in his eyes were mushed to a pulp, while the other victims received minimal strikes.
Nothing was ever taken from the Moore house, but there were plenty of suspects with chief among them being a bizarre drifter named Andy Sawyer and a mass murder named Henry Lee Moore who had been accused in his life of murdering over twenty people with an axe in nearby states and areas, including Villisca.
Hard evidence and motive were fleeting along with the lack of forensic analysis in the 1910s. Sawyer all but confessed, but eventually claimed he didn’t commit the murders but had information on the true murderer that he never revealed. Henry Lee Moore was eventually sentenced to life in prison for other axe murders in nearby Missouri.
While the case of the Villisca Axe Murders remains unsolved to this day and the house is a true-crime attraction. The popular television series Ghost Adventures chronicled the crime in depth. Using electronic voice phenomena (EVP), the group asked the house who really killed the Moore family and the EVP picked up a singular reply, “Andy”.
Interested in a tour or even staying a night in the Villisca Axe Murder House? Book a night here.
600 E Charleston Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89104, USA
Las Vegas is a desert oasis that’s capable of quenching the most distinguishing of thirsts. The constant gleam of neon lights, ringing slot machines, and Vegas nightlife draws millions of visitors to the Silver State every year. Located less than one mile off the famed Las Vegas strip on the side street of East Charleston Boulevard is the Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum. It caters to a different crowd, featuring artifacts and stories of paranormal history. The museum is downright frightening and wholly exciting.
The building itself is an older mansion that was originally built in 1938 by the prominent Wengert family. It was once the largest mansion in Las Vegas which gives Bagans plenty of room to house his objects of the macabre. The house has some darkness in its history as a former owner passed away inside the home. Over the years, the property was abandoned at one point and according to Bagans, it was revealed to him that dark rituals were performed in the basement area of the now haunted museum. In fact, he feels that the building was established with haunted spirits long before he ever took ownership. During its remodeling prior to opening, Bagans had a hard time keeping some workers on the job as many would be fine one moment and then run screamingly off the property after having a paranormal encounter inside. The now eleven thousand square foot museums boasts over thirty rooms jam-packed with some of the most haunted objects from all over the world.
One of the principles that Bagans tries to make known to visitors is that he is not trying to actively show a ghost or call forth a spirit. Instead, he is offering a place where if possessed ghostly objects choose to interact with a visitor or group, then they will do it because they want to. Some of the haunted objects he possesses are in fact just too dangerous for visitors to be near. One of the most terrifying is the legendary Dybbuk Box. This unassuming wooden box is said to contain the spirit of a malicious entity that is capable of haunting and even possessing a human being. Bagans acquired the box and after opening it with the help of a witch, he then claimed to see apparitions and dark shadow figures. Worse yet was the powerful growling sounds that emanated around the box. Bagans ended up sealing the box closed with a powerful combination of sage and salt to keep the dreaded Dybbuk spirit locked safely away.
While the Warren Occult Museum in Connecticut has the infamous Annabelle doll, the Zak Bagans’ Museum has “Peggy the Doll”. Bagans acquired the doll from a woman in England who claimed that the doll contained the spirit of a young woman who died sometime in 1946 of a chest related medical problem. Too many people close to the former owner suffered from severe chest pains or even mild heart attacks. Bagans now has Peggy the Doll in an isolated room that is not part of the standard tour. He claims that people who come in to see Peggy have suffered chest pains or heart attack related symptoms on the spot. Other times it’s given crippling headaches and even caused some people to suffer a ghastly uncontrollable fit of vomiting! Still so, Bagans does not mistreat Peggy or hide her away but further insists, “I always want to show them respect because the things they’ve caused are quite real”.
Outwardly haunted objects are not the only thing on display in the museum. One of the more innocuous items is a cauldron formerly owned by infamous serial killer Ed Gein, who later inspired the wildly successful Texas Chainsaw Massacre film series. The cauldron was used for everyday work on the Gein farm as well as later used to render dismembered human limbs down to the bone. In the museum, people have reported a sense of dizziness and unease after staring at the cauldron too long. At other times there has been mysterious interference with electronic devices when standing near the cauldron. Gein’s not the only serial killer with property there to be seen by visitors. John Wayne Gacy’s paintings that he made while on death row hang in a hallway as does a portrait of Charles Manson in which his actual cremated ashes were used to paint his portrait eyes with!
The Bagans’ Museum does have separate rooms that contain less supernatural objects such as a room filled with many spooky puppets and dolls. Another has carnivalesque fortune-telling objects, while a nearby room displays celebrity items such as Michael Jackson’s death chair and even torture writer Truman Capote’s medication bottles. Voted “Best Museum by Las Vegas Review-Journal”, tickets and tour slots fill up fast for the museum every day. Bagans is sometimes around the museum to greet fans and visitors as a pleasant surprise. However, visitors must sign a waiver in which they affirm that they are about to see the most haunted objects in the world and must do so at their own risk! That is perhaps the best gamble in all of Sin City.
Los Angeles, CA 90068, USA
Easily one of the most recognizable images anywhere, located in Griffith Park the Hollywood Sign is a beacon for those yearning to be a part of the entertainment industry. Perhaps nobody yearned more for celebrity than aspiring Golden Age stage actress Peg Entwistle.
Originally from Wales, Peg Entwistle turned her sights on Hollywood to catch her big break in show-business. Having made a previous stopover in New York City on Broadway, Entwistle traveled to the Los Angeles area and was making a huge name for herself as a talented stage actress in the area. After appearing in only a single film to her credit, Entwistle went late one night, climbed forty-five feet to the top of the great sign and leaped off to her death. Her suicide garnered both a tremendous amount of publicity, as well as reports of her ghost being seen.
Peg Entwistle
Being a natural tourist attraction to the area, most people park and make the small hike up to the sign to snap a quick picture. The trails around the sign are also perfect spots for walking and hiking. On more than one occasion, hikers have reported a woman in a dress almost gliding towards them from out of nowhere, asking for directions on how to reach the top of the sign before slowly disappearing. Others have reported a blonde woman in a white dress on rainy or foggy evenings who is slowly walking up to the sign before disappearing.
There are also frequent reports of the overpowering scent of gardenias at the bottom of the Hollywood sign and around Griffith Park. This was a reported favorite scent that Entwistle frequently wore and made even eerier by the fact that there are no gardenias anywhere to be found in Griffith Park!
Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, CA, USA
Prison escapes are one of the rarest events to occur inside correctional institutions across the world. But what if there was a way to ultimately prevent escapes? It should come as no surprise that in 1934, a maximum-security federal prison called Alcatraz was opened on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. To authorities then, if inmates escaped, the raging waters would drown them. If the thrashing waves didn’t kill them, then the sharks surely would. Decades after closing, Alcatraz remains one of the top haunted prisons in all of North America.
In 1861, Fort Alcatraz which was on Alcatraz Island had been fashioned into a military prison by the Department of the Pacific, where Civil War-era prisoners of war and some Native Americans were kept. By the end of the Civil War, military prisoners and those accused of treason were kept housed there. In 1898 during the Spanish American War, the meager inmate population of twenty-five ballooned to over four hundred and fifty inmates and slowly gained a reputation as a legitimate prison. The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 caused great distress to the city’s infrastructure and prisoners were sent to Alcatraz while repairs were made. During the next twenty-seven years, the military made changes and upgrades to the site before officially selling the prison to the Bureau of Prisons.
Native American Prisoners at Alcatraz Prison
When Alcatraz officially opened on August 11, 1934, it received a large transfer of federal inmates as the prison was officially being touted as the final destination to accumulate the most violent and troublesome federal inmates. Some of the most notorious inmates to be incarcerated at “The Rock”, were Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, Rafael Miranda, and Robert Franklin Stroud. Split amongst three cellblocks with personal cells measuring 9x5x7, it was no surprise that such tight quarters helped inspire a torrent of violence that carried over once the prison was closed years later in March 1963.
Cell 14 of D Block is reputed to be the most haunted place in the entire prison. D Block was the area of the prison where the most violent and disobedient inmates were sent. This area housed what is commonly called “The Hole” in many prisons, a small concrete room with no light, a mattress on the floor, and a hole to relieve yourself in. The most popular story is that of an inmate confined to Cell 14 who screamed and shouted all night long that there was a creature with red glowing eyes in the room who was trying to kill him. Guards dismissed the claims as typical paranoia but were shocked to find the next morning the inmate laying dead in his cell from strangulation which was unexplained since the inmate had nothing in which to strangle himself.
Cell 14 of D Block
Haunted by the situation, until the prison’s closing, guards were reported to have an extra man in the headcount and his ghost was spotted on occasion being that extra in line before vanishing. Another prisoner was reported kept for nearly three years on Cell 14 and was finally released back into the general population and upon doing so immediately stabbed another inmate to death. He was never formally charged because his mental state was so corroded, coupled with talk of a red-eye creature had him labeled as officially insane.
Spirits rushing and disappearing were noticed firsthand by Warden James Johnston. He was giving a small tour of the facility to some federal inspectors when they heard a mysterious crying sound that followed them to all the spots they were touring. The sobs grew louder and louder until right upon Warden Johnston, an unexplained gust of wind swept past him and the sobbing ceased. As if phantom prisoners and sobbing sounds weren’t enough, banjo music has been heard.
Al Capone, during his time there was sickly, and to ease his time he joined the prison band playing the banjo. After a vicious altercation in the prison yard, the guards let Capone practice strumming in the shower rooms. Not only after Al Capone died, but also decades later, visitors to the prison have heard banjo music being played around the shower room areas, of course with nobody in sight.
Alcatraz was famous for housing male inmates only, however, in 2014, a British couple taking a tour of the deserted prison took one of the most remarkable ghost photographs ever taken. It is of a woman in decidedly period dress who is staring back at them. Very hard to say who the female might have been or how she ended up at Alcatraz. Given that the island did house Native Americans at one point, there is the belief that she is a deceased former prisoner of the island. In fact, it is also believed that a portion of the Native American deaths that occurred on Alcatraz, helped contribute to the other ghostly phenomena in the prison such as glowing multicolor orbs, cold spots, phantom apparitions, and incessant banging of cell doors.
Alcatraz may have had its doors closed all those decades ago, but that does not stop it from being one of the most popular tourist attractions to those who visit the San Francisco Bay area. In fact, there are many tours to the island of both the sightseeing variety and paranormal that are in operation to this very day.
11547 Braddock Drive, Culver City, California, USA
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
20 32nd Street North, Birmingham, AL 35222, USA
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
809 N Christina Ave, Union, Missouri 63084, USA
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.
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 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.
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.
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14 W 10th St, New York, NY 10011, USA
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.
Apartment 2W
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.
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.
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.
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.
20 Nevada St, Redlands, CA 92373
The Haunted Barton Mansion in Redlands, CA
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?
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.
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.
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.
328 Chase St, West Pittston, PA 18643, USA
The late Vatican exorcist, Fr. Gabriele Amorth was fond of reminding both the faithful and the skeptical, that one of Satan’s primary goals is to the destroy the family. It’s an old strategy to divide and conquer loving souls in hopes of thwarting them of their heavenly reward. Some would say that Amityville operated under a similar strategy of division with paranormal delusions of terror. However, there is one haunting that is considered just as devastatingly terrifying as Amityville, and that is the Smurl Haunting House of West Pittston, Pennsylvania.
In 1974, the Smurl family purchased a double block duplex style home for their large family. Parents Jack and Janet needed lots of room for their four young daughters, as well as Jack’s parents who were going to live with them as well. Being a staunch Roman Catholic family, the Smurls joined the local parish and were quick to make friends in the small neighborhood community.
The first sign of paranormal activity occurred when the family was awakened by bizarre banging noises on the walls and ceilings. Given that the home was older, not much was considered in terms of something sinister being the origin. As the months went by, foul smells began to emerge with no reasonable explanation as all the plumbing was deemed functional. Terror fully manifested one evening in the family living room when the Smurl’s dog, a German Shepherd mix, was picked up by an unseen force and thrown violently against the wall in full view of the entire family.
Months and months went by as the terror grew. The Smurls were rebuffed by the Catholic Church as their claims were not taken seriously by clergy who demanded more proof than they could provide. Things still worsened as Jack’s mother suffered a devastating heart attack at home while the appearance of what only could be described as “black masses” floated throughout the home accompanying with them sudden room freezing temperatures.
The months turned into years as the Smurls met everyday firm with resolve and perseverance. One late afternoon the youngest daughter was doing her homework at the kitchen table when the overhead ceiling light began to furiously sway. With a sudden snap, it broke loose and fell with the child dodging herself out of the way by mere inches. A heavy lighting fixture that both Jack and his father installed with secure, thick 14mm bolts had ripped themselves straight out of the drilled hardwood.
Convinced that whatever demonic entity was in the home wanted to do them bodily harm, the Smurls were committed to being extra vigilant. Then one evening with the family out and the home to himself, Jack Smurl was sexually assaulted by a succubus in the family living room. The shame and violation he felt only turned into anger when Janet had revealed to him that she too had been sexually assaulted. Her assaulter was completely unseen as it was in the middle of the night in bed while Jack was kept asleep.
Later Janet said that she was completely paralyzed by something and unable to struggle against her unseen attacker. The Smurls had finally had enough of the torment and reached out for help, only this time it didn’t yet come in the form of the Catholic Church, but instead came from a pair of paranormal investigators.
Ed did his best at using religious provocation to bring out whatever was in the home as known medium Lorraine had taken to extensively touring the home looking to connect with whatever was there. Sitting down with the Smurls, the Warrens concluded that there were four presences in the home. There were two women, with the younger being past the age of a teenager, who she felt had a malevolent tendency. Another was the spirit of a man who Lorraine felt had died in the home decades earlier or on the physical property itself. Finally, there was a powerful demon who reigned over the home and supernaturally forced the home’s three spirits to torment the Smurls.
Against such powerful odds, the Warrens put the family in touch with an Episcopal priest who came and performed an exorcism on the home. As the activity dwindled to a degree, word spread throughout the neighborhood and into the local media. Soon news vans and reporters were staked out on the neighborhood block, looking to break any new information. As a result, the Catholic Church sent a priest to live in the home briefly with the Smurls so as to not appear cold to the situation. After half a week, the priest left due to no activity surfacing. However, the Smurls underwent a second and third exorcism shortly thereafter.
Finally, in 1987 the family had enough of the activity in the home and moved. Weeks into their new home, the solitary black mass manifested and the terror slowly began again. Reaching out with one final plea, the family was able to procure a fourth and final exorcism, this time from the Catholic Church. Details about what went on during it were kept secret, but it was believed to be the longest, and most powerful of the four exorcisms the family endured.
Today, the family remains out of the paranormal spotlight. Both of Jack’s parents are now deceased, as is Jack himself who died in 2017. Janet and her now adult daughters still reside near the West Pittston area and have reported no paranormal activity since that final exorcism. In the demonic battle for the souls of the Smurl family, the Smurls surely won.
Bothell, WA, USA
In 2012, all Keith Linder and his girlfriend Tina wanted, was to enjoy their newly rented house in Bothell, Washington. A suburb near Seattle, Keith was employed as a software engineer with Microsoft at their headquarters and enjoying all the area had to offer in terms of leisure. Everything was a total living dream for him and Tina, starting what should have been an exciting new chapter in their lives. But instead, they were subject to a pure living hell at the hands of an unseen paranormal entity.
Shortly after moving into the somewhat newly constructed home, the first sign of anything suspicious is when household objects such as car keys and silverware began to disappear. Writing off the missing objects as simple misplacements, nothing strange was suspected. Then one evening while watching television, a potted houseplant in a heavy ornate vase, levitated in full view of both Keith and Tina before shooting up into the air and shattering to the floor! Trying to make sense of the plant tumbling, Keith and Tina still dismissed what they saw. Weeks later, thunderous banging sounds began to occur on a regular basis. Descending from the upstairs attic, always at night, it verged on near foundational damage as the sounds were that loud, but no actual damage could be found. At other times upon waking in the morning, Keith and Tina would go downstairs to their kitchen and find every single kitchen cabinet and drawer pulled wide open.
The nightly bangings increased and reaching out, Keith and Tina found some local non-denominational ministers to generically bless the house. After the blessing, a few days passed with no further activity, so to celebrate the new house and job, a housewarming party was thrown. Hours into the party, guests complained of cold spots and being touched or pushed by an unseen force when nobody was around. As the evening ended with only a guest or two in the house and in full view, one of the few remaining plants levitated, flew across the room and smashed to the floor. At this point, Keith and Tina came to the realization that there must be an entity of supernatural origin in the home and it is not willing to leave. After an impromptu sage smudging and Bible quoting session, Lindler soon discovered that, like his keys and silverware, his Bible was now missing as well.
The paranormal activity in the house steadily increased as the weeks went by. Doors were now slamming, and the home began experiencing electrical issues. Worse yet, Keith took a mysterious fall down the stairs, horribly injuring his patella. Shortly thereafter on a Sunday afternoon, all the upstairs light fixtures in the home exploded all at once. Desperate to find any information Keith was able to locate one of the former tenants who used to live in the house. She refused to set foot on the property, but reportedly said, “that house is living Hell”.
Day after day, the attacks increased in frequency and devastation. Keith and Tina began reaching out to paranormal experts in the field. Along came documented paranormal researcher Don Phillips, who was based in the United Kingdom and upon hearing of all the violent and constant activity in the home, was on the first flight out to Seattle. While most previous ghost hunters to the home used seances and spells to help, Phillips relied more on scientific methods that showcased the electromagnetic pulses of paranormal activities within the home. Phillips took upon himself the absolutely monumental and grueling task of staying in the haunted home with his tech team for over two weeks. After all was said and done in the investigation, Phillips and his team walked away with over four hundred recordings of vocal phenomena as well as twenty-eight of them in direct response to questions.
For reasons only known to itself, the entity manifested briefly into the appearance of a middle-aged woman, tired, disheveled, yet angry and nasty looking. The appearances were never captured to video, but still offered no clues as to why they are haunting anyone who lives in the home. Sometimes in 2016, it became all too much for both Keith and Tina to handle, and they decided it was best to end their personal relationship with one another. Both have moved out and Keith currently resides in an apartment near Seattle and reports no ghostly activity has followed him. As for the house? It still stands and was recently occupied. However, the newest tenants say there is still paranormal activity ongoing in the house.
1739 East 13th Avenue, Denver, CO 80218, USA
In 1968, musical composer Russell Hunter was just looking to get away from it all. Tired of the hustle and bustle of New York City, he decided to seek time away to the Cheesman Park area of Denver, Colorado. Hoping that the change from crowded skyscrapers to the beauty of the Rocky Mountains would inspire his musical writings further, he was all enthused about his new move. What was meant to be a time of serene inspiration, instead turned into a stay of pure paranormal terror.
The house in question was rented by Hunter for a measly two hundred dollars a month, which was a steal for 1968 considering that the home was well over two thousand square feet and sat quietly in a welcoming neighborhood. However, Hunter soon found out that the rent for the home was so affordable because nobody else was willing to put up with all the baggage that came with it.
Not long after arriving and moving in, Hunter was finding himself subject to very early morning wake-up calls of the unexplained variety. Extremely loud and forceful bangs punctured the early morning silences he had while trying to sleep. The wrappings were so loud and strong in their intensity that he claimed if one put their hand to the wall you could feel it actually vibrate. Surprised and looking for answers, he would go about the house to find doors opening and shutting at random as well as the kitchen being thrown around into disarray. Even during waking hours, an unknown thud sound would tumble down the main staircase.
Unexperienced in the paranormal, Hunter did the only thing he could and began searching through the house as thoroughly as possible to reveal what might be causing the frequent disturbances. In his quest for answers he found of all things, a hidden staircase in one of the house closets. Eager at pursuing his newest discovery, he found that the staircase took him straight up to the third floor of the home and into the attic where he made yet another shocking discovery. He found an old, rusted-out trunk that contained a set of antiquated school books and a journal. When reading through the journal, he discovered that the writer was a young boy, who was disabled and unable to leave the home and he wrote constantly about his love for his favorite toy, which was a red rubber bouncing ball. Hunter now realized that the source of the commotion that was keeping him up was that of a young ghost.
Troubled more than ever, Hunter then reached out to psychics who helped conduct a seance in which the young boy’s ghost made contact. He communicated that his body was buried under the house and that his parents had put him there when he died so as to make sure their fortune was not to be willed to other family members who would squander it. To ensure this further, his parents adopted another boy who resembled him and thus the moniker of “The Changeling House” was born.
Sure enough, the child’s bones were found under the house by Hunter. However, the activity in the home became quite violent as windows and mirrors would explode at random whenever Hunter walked by them, scarring his body with bits of broken glass. The banging and constant wrappings also increased in both frequency and intensity.
Russell Hunter only lasted a few months longer before he simply couldn’t take it anymore, and moved across the city into a newer home. However, the child’s ghost seemed to follow him and he was subjected to the all too familiar sounds of torment. Reaching out to a local Episcopal minister, Hunter had both himself and his new home blessed and that ended any further paranormal activity.
In the years to follow, much research on the home was conducted by both freelance journalists and paranormal enthusiasts. It was found that construction on the home was made in 1893 after the land had been home to an actual cemetery for close to thirty years. Since a short sale was conducted, not all the bodies were dug up and moved when construction began. The house was indeed built on top of a cemetery and this is a possible explanation for all the paranormal activity there.
As the years passed, a popular horror film chronicled the haunting there, and the 1980 film The Changeling, starring Academy Award Winner George C. Scott opened to rave reviews. More importantly, the home was actually demolished after the land was once again sold out, this time to a high rise apartment complex company. In one last show of strength, Russell Hunter actually attended the demolishing of the home and not to be outdone, so did the boy’s ghost. In one final and grim twist of fate, as the home was being torn down, one of the home’s windows mysteriously popped from the home’s frame and crashed into the head of the bulldozer operator. He was killed instantly.
7500 East, Randlett, UT 84063, USA
Skinwalker Ranch is said to be a hotbed of paranormal activity and strange happenings. For over 50 years, reports of UFO sightings, glowing orbs, poltergeists, animal mutilations, crop circles, and even Sasquatch have come to light. Frightening events are just known to happen in this area. Over 100 cattle mutilations and disappearances have been investigated by Colm Kelleher and Goerge Knapp over the years.
George Knapp and Colm Kelleher collaborated to turn their book of the same name to a film based on the ranch and its supernatural activities. The film studies the surrounding areas which are apparently tightly secured by what may be military controlled areas which appear to have Area-51 level security. Could something nefarious from nearby properties be contributing to the UFO sightings and paranormal activity?
Skinwalker Ranch is a 512-acre ranch just southeast of Ballard, Utah. The Skinwalker Ranch is located at 7500 East, Randlett, UT 84063, USA in west Uintah County. The Skinwalker Ranch is also known as Sherman Ranch but received the Skinwalker name from the Navajo legend of the skin-walker, a shapeshifting witch similar to Wendigo lore.
Many stories have surfaced over the last 50 years. The property is on the Ute Indian Reservation which adds to the lore. The name and many legends have passed down from the Ute and surrounding tribes.