Real Haunts

The 200-Year-Old Haunted Old Absinthe House As a popular tourist destination, New Orleans enjoys one of the premier street fair spectacles in existence every February with the infamous Mardi Gras. Thousands upon thousands of people immersed in total revelry take adequate and proper use of the supremely lax public drinking laws within the city limits. Popular crafted street drinks such as the Hand Grenade, Hurricane, and Crawdad Bloody Mary make the good times even greater. One of the more hidden gem cocktails for the swarthy city streets is an Absinthe Frappe, which of course is composed largely of absinthe. Read more…

New Orleans is a supernaturally charged city with a heterogeneous mixture of life, death, soul, voodoo, and the outlying occult.  Centuries of ships and sailors from all over the world have come to this bustling port city engaging in everything from commerce and cutthroat behavior, to trade and ceremonial magic.  Over time such behaviors have resulted in thousands and thousands of people from all over the world having their final resting places being carved out deep in the Louisiana soil. One of the more haunted cemeteries in the city is St. Louis Cemetery No. Read more…

The mere mention of seaside boardwalks is likely to conjure up visions of the famed Jersey Shore along the New Jersey coastline. Everyone has heard about Atlantic City, but near the southernmost point of the state is Cape May. Famous for its sandy beaches, refreshing eats, sunshine, and historic charm, Cape May has been attracting vacationers for centuries. However, those looking for something a little quieter can venture to the shores of Higbee Beach, along Delaware Bay. Here, among the dunes, forests, and sandy shoreline, local legend says one former resident may still be taking his evening walks. Read more…

Over a century, thousands of people have stayed at the Fergus Falls State Hospital located in Minnesota. Today, its hallways are empty and its rooms abandoned. However, local legend says the old hospital isn’t always quiet. Opened in 1890, the hospital was designed by Warren B. Dunnell using the Kirkbride Plan, which emphasized natural light, fresh air, and spacious surroundings. Despite the hospital being fairly big, it became crowded quickly. Originally intended for about 1,000 patients, Fergus Falls eventually peaked at 2,078 patients in 1937. Read more…

In New Orleans, the historic and classically gothic style cemeteries are one of the more enticing sights to see in the city. Many people cannot explain it and sometimes confess to feeling slightly awkward about it, but touring a cemetery in a visiting city provides something of disquieting thrill that they cannot explain. Naturally, a city as old as New Orleans is just about the most perfect place to take a cemetery ghost tour or venture off on your own and explore some of the most breathtaking and eerie graveyard sights you’ve ever seen. St. Louis Cemetery No. Read more…

New Orleans has been steeped for more than three hundred years in music, magic, bloodshed, pirates, battles, and revelry, creating a mystique that seems inseparable from the city itself. Some paranormal theorists believe traumatic events can leave an imprint on a location, while others argue that hauntings grow from rumors. Few places in New Orleans capture both sides of that debate like the infamous LaLaurie Mansion. On the corner of Governor Nicholls Street in the historic French Quarter, the LaLaurie Mansion is one of the city’s most infamous landmarks. Read more…

St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the United States as Spanish Admiral Pedro de Aviles founded the city all the way back in 1565. The city was named for the Catholic saint as Aviles and his men made contact with the shores of the city on the saint’s feast day. Over the centuries of beachside prosperity that came to the city, one of the most lasting is the Ponce De Leon Hotel. Built in 1888 by Standard Oil co-founder Henry Flagler, the Ponce De Leon Hotel was built to be the most luxurious hotel in the area. Read more…

St. Petersburg, Florida is an idyllic seaside community on the enormous fringe of Tampa Bay. The weather is so favorable for this area that it’s called the “Sunshine City” as it’s reported to average nearly 361 days of constant year-round sunshine. St. Petersburg has consistently been one of the top-ranked beach areas as it bustles with tourism no matter the season. However, at the Vinoy Renaissance Resort, no amount of sunshine outdoors can ward off the paranormal activity that is contained deep inside, to the point that even major league sportsmen do their best to avoid it. Read more…

The University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV), is situated just a mile and a half away from all the gambling glitz of the famous Las Vegas Strip. Proximate to both the mysteriously tragic Luxor Hotel, and even Ghost Adventures paranormal frontman Zak Bagans Haunted Museum, UNLV is of all things just a simple university that happens to be situated in the center of Sin City. But not it’s not the bright lights, big-time shows, or high stakes games that students have been known to muse about in their time away from academia. Read more…

Moss Beach is a relatively small coastal area on the Pacific Ocean that is twenty-five miles due south of San Francisco. Lonely and windswept from the gusty ocean waves, this small town with a population of only three thousand people casually displays its oceanic charms with little fanfare. Things at Moss Beach however were once not so quiet, and in fact during the late 1920s Prohibition Era, the beach reeled in an influx of bootleggers, gangsters, and high-end strumpets. Nearly one hundred years later, the most exciting place then and still, is the fantastically haunted Moss Beach Distillery. Read more…

Haunted Lake Lanier Think of everything out there in the world that you’ve known or heard to be haunted in your life. Houses, cars, prisons, asylums, bars, restaurants, museums, dolls, and even churches. Everything you’ve ever heard or read about that deals with paranormal or supernatural activity typically exists within something easily tangible. This may be a first here for us at Frightfind, but there are some paranormal mysteries out there and none are more inexplicable than the recent theory that a lake…Lake Lanier in Georgia….is haunted. Read more…

Mineral Wells is considered by many to be a sleepy, small-sized Texas city that sits just an hour due west of Dallas. With a population barely at sixteen thousand people, this unassuming location has managed to go through American history with virtually nothing groundbreaking to happen other than it was the site of spring training for the infamous 1919 Chicago “Black Sox” World Series scandal.  However, with the uptick in people who are becoming more and more curious about paranormal and supernatural activity in general, Mineral Springs is in fact hiding one of the more chilling surprises in Texas. Read more…

There’s something about the performing arts stage that both the living and the dead find so intoxicating. For the living, if you’re performing then the adulation of the adoring fans creates a certain emotional high that isn’t easy to take away. For the dead, this same high creates such an attachment that even the throes of the might and unknown afterlife aren’t enough to drag you away from it. One such existing venue today is the Ryman Auditorium in none other than Music City itself, Nashville, Tennessee. Read more…

It is hard to imagine that the Civil War reached far and away from the battleground states in the Deep South, all the way to California. Secessionist and southern transplant John C. Breckenridge had relocated to the newly founded Golden State and in the shocking 1860 Presidential Election, had actually received more than double the votes Abraham Lincoln did in this particular area. In a panic, Union enthusiasts boosted their efforts to have a presence in California, and in particular the Los Angeles area. Read more…

The image of castles bring up supremely dark, tall, and gothic stone structures that are firmly entrenched in the mountainsides of an Eastern European area like the ever chilling horror staple of Transylvania. A powerful and foreboding sign of the dark power held inside, a castle is always considered a structure of many secrets. For those not inclined to make the trip to a faraway Eastern Europe, the Franklin Castle in Cleveland, Ohio has enough scares to send a shiver down most spines. Read more…