Haunted Places

The infamous Exorcist Stairs The Exorcist is labeled universally amongst film fans as the scariest motion picture ever made. There are others that come close in terms of gory special effects or a sudden plot twist late in the third act. But The Exorcist is still regarded 45 years later as a film that will terrify and disturb. Being a film that old, movie memorabilia and props from the set are very rare amongst collectors. Read more…

The Ammons Haunting In the winter of 2011, Latoya Ammons was under incredible scrutiny for claiming that her house and family were possessed by several demons. The Ammons House haunting was documented in over 800 pages of official records from local police and the Department of Child Services in what may be one of the most well-known hauntings since the Conjuring or Amityville hauntings. Is the Ammons house haunted? In November of 2011, Latoya Ammons and her family moved into their new home in Gary, Indiana. It didn’t take long for strange things to happen. Read more…

The Legend of Haunted Clinton Road, America’s Most Cursed Highway In West Milford, New Jersey, the eerie Clinton Road stretches almost 10 miles, has one of the country’s longest traffic lights, and is oozing with unusual phenomena. The road may not be much to see at first, but when you consider Clinton Road’s history, it gets a lot more interesting. Read more…

The Warren’s Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut Most people who bring haunted or possessed objects into their homes do it by mistake, but not Ed and Lorraine Warren. In fact, not only do they keep haunted and possessed objects in the basement of their home in Monroe, Connecticut, but they’ve made it into a one of a kind  Occult Museum. What is The Warren’s Occult Museum The Warrens began studying the paranormal in 1952 and have risen to fame from The Conjuring film series. Read more…

The Murder House from American Horror Story Season 1 The famous house that put American Horror Story on the map is the Rosenheim Mansion in Los Angeles. The mansion was built by famous architect Alfred Rosenheim in 1908 for his family home. The house is now better known as Murder House thanks to American Horror Story. Murder House Inspiration While this is the house used for the exterior shots for AHS season 1 in Los Angeles, rumors are that the inspiration for the Murder House was the Bailey Mansion. Read more…

The Enfield Haunting House from The Conjuring 2 Ed and Lorraine Warren were considered to be famed authorities when it came to diagnosis and remediation of paranormal situations. Their paranormal case files number in the thousands. Oftentimes they received hundreds of letters at a time from people needing help, only able to respond to the most severe. They were made globally famous when their investigation of a Rhode Island estate was made famous in The Conjuring movie. Read more…

One of the most frequently used horror film tropes is the story of nubile teens alone in the woods staying the summer at a campground. Leaving the bucolic and rustic splendor of the campground, they traipse into the deep, dark woods to get to know one another’s bodies a little bit better when unbeknownst to them, they’ve secretly been selected and stalked by a masked killer along the tree lines. Screams are heard, machetes hack and heads and body parts fly. Read more…

Haunted 1858 Garnett House Hotel in Garnett, Kansas Built in 1858, The Garnett House origins were as a hotel. It was the first hotel in Garnett, Kansas and is the only surviving antebellum structure in the town. Garnett House has operated in several capacities such as a residence, a school, a Doctor’s office, and hotel. The outlaw Jesse James was rumored to have stayed in the hotel as an alias at times. Several other famous documented guests include Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickock, Buffalo Bill Cody, Belle Starr and Bat Masterson. Read more…

All of your worst nightmares… awaken and come to life. Try to make it out alive… I dare you… Read more…

The Haunted Patterson Road Bridge The Civil War was bloody and devastating and claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of US soldiers. With a path that left many deaths in its wake, there are many places that are said to be haunted by the spirits of soldiers who may still be looking for peace. Numerous spots in the US are said to be haunted by the ghosts of the Civil War, including the haunted Patterson Road Bridge in Houston, Texas. Read more…

Hell on Earth: History of the Haunted Eastern State Penitentiary Eastern State Penitentiary was built in 1829 and operated until 1971 when the prison was closed. At the time Eastern Penn was built, it was the biggest and most expensive publicly funded structure ever built. The historic prison set a new standard for architecture and design and was used as a model for 300 other prisons around the globe. This building is considered the world’s first true penitentiary, designed for reform rather than punishment by incarcerating each prisoner to their own solitary confinement cell. Read more…

The Haunted Oman House and the ghosts of the Manson Family murders In the summer of August 1969, popular actress Sharon Tate and three of her closest and most personal friends were brutally murdered in a senseless killing from the notorious Manson Family.  The home eventually changed hands with different owners and infamous renters over the years before being totally demolished and rebuilt with a completely new address change in 1994. Read more…

Fort East Martello Museum. Home to Robert the Haunted Doll. The Fort East Martello Museum is home to the Robert the Doll aka, Robert the Haunted Doll. People come from all over the world to see famed artist Gene Otto’s even more famous counterpart, Robert the Doll. Gene kept Robert the Doll with him until his passing in 1974. Robert is said to have been cursed by a Bahamian servant who made the doll out of wire, hay, old clothes and some of Gene Otto’s own hair. Read more…

The Winchester House, (AKA the Winchester Mystery House) is probably one of the most well known private residences in the United States. The elaborate mansion located at 525 South Winchester Blvd. in San Jose, CA is renowned for its massive size and structural oddities, even landing a spot on the National Register of Historic Places and being officially designated a historical landmark in California. This structure is perhaps most impressive as it was built almost completely without blueprints. Read more…

The Widow Jane Mine is a 145-year-old cement mine that has been said to feature the ghost of a young woman walking between the stone pillars of this cavernous man-made mine. The ghost is presumed to be that of Jane, a young widow who walks the mine in her long white dress. The mine is a great place to visit to witness an amazing feat in US history as some of it’s cement provided the foundation for the Statue of Liberty and New York’s Brooklyn Bridge. Read more…