Ghost Stories

“The First Omen” – An Antichrist Origin Story

Published by FrightFind On January 5, 2024

The First Omen is the long-awaited prequel to the supernatural thriller, The Omen. The First Omen promises to take viewers on a journey to the origin story of the Antichrist that we all fell in love with. Directed by Arkasha Stevenson and produced by 20th Century Studios, this dark and twisted tale is set to be released on April 5th, 2024. The First Omen is a follow-up to The Omen, a classic horror movie that has spawned sequels, remakes, and spin-off series over the years. This prequel promises to take fans into the origins of this terrifying tale and provide a new take on the Antichrist legend.

Set in Rome, The First Omen focuses on a young American woman sent to serve the church. As she begins her journey, she uncovers a dark conspiracy that shakes her faith to the core. The journey takes twists and turns that lead to a deeper understanding of the Antichrist. The movie promises to be an exciting mix of drama, suspense, and supernatural horror.

Watch the Omen Prequel Trailer, The First Omen

Arkasha Stevenson, the director of the movie, is known for her previous works such as Fly Trap, Jules D., and The Choice. Stevenson’s unique style of storytelling brings together mystery, drama, and psychological horror elements that resonate with the fans. The First Omen promises to be no different. The cast includes some of the brightest talents in the industry, such as Nell Tiger Free, Tawfeek Barhom, Sonia Braga, Ralph Ineson, and Bill Nighy.

Nell Tiger Free, known for her performances in Too Old to Die Young and Game of Thrones, takes on the role of the young American woman who starts her journey in Rome. Tawfeek Barhom, known for The Looming Tower, plays a pivotal role in the story. Sonia Braga, a legendary actress known for her works in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Bacurau, brings her talent to the movie. Ralph Ineson, known for his works in The Witch and Game of Thrones, brings his charisma to his role in the movie. Bill Nighy, an iconic actor known for his work in Love Actually and Pirates of the Caribbean, adds a layer of depth to the movie.

Fans of The Omen have been eagerly anticipating this new take on the Antichrist origin story. Since the release of the original movie in 1976, there have been sequels, remakes, and spin-off series. However, The First Omen promises to provide a completely new perspective on the story and characters. With its exciting plot and talented cast and crew, this movie is poised to be a hit with fans of the genre.

The First Omen Release Date

The First Omen is set to be released on 5th April 2024. The movie is produced by 20th Century Studios and is expected to open to a large audience. The movie has been filmed in multiple locations across Europe, to create the perfect setting for this supernatural thriller.

The First Omen Movie Poster

The First Omen is poised to take fans on a thrilling ride through the origins of the Antichrist legend. With its talented cast and crew, exciting plot, and unique direction, this movie promises to be a hit with fans of the genre. April 5th, 2024, can’t come soon enough for fans who have been eagerly anticipating the release of this prequel. We can’t wait to see what The First Omen has in store for us. The supernatural thriller genre is alive and well, or “dead and well” for true fans, and this movie proves that it still has much to offer.

America’s Most Haunted Prisons

Published by FrightFind On May 5, 2022

Are prisons and jails really haunted? For most people, the aforementioned places are among the least likely that they would associate with ghostly hauntings and mysterious supernatural occurrences. These penitentiary systems are designed to formally correct and house convicted offenders, but instead many more paranormal investigators today are discovering that they all are actively haunted locations. Here’s a list of six sinister jails and prisons where they serve sentences…..afterlife sentences.

Alcatraz Prison

San Francisco Bay

Built on a supremely small island in San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz Prison was designed to hold some of the worst federal prison offenders at the time of its opening in 1934. Surrounded by raging bay waters that sharks were partial to swimming, “The Rock” as it was known, housed such reputed gangsters as Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly. However, it wasn’t until the prison closed in 1963 that adventurers and tourists made their way to Alcatraz and discovered that it most certainly wasn’t abandoned….at least by the living.

If you are looking to get right to the action, Cell 14 of D-Block is perhaps the most haunted. This area was notoriously referred to as “The Hole”, containing small rooms with no light and minimal human contact. During its operation, a prisoner was said to have been screaming all night about a grey creature with red eyes that was staring at him, only to be found the next morning mysteriously strangled to death.

Groups, ghost tours, and historical outings to Alcatraz occur with regularity and in 2014 a pair of British tourists found something shocking. During a routine snapshot of a cell, they found on the photograph the ghost of a woman staring back at them. As if the creep-out factor wasn’t high enough, strange gusts of wind, banging noises, cold spots, and eerie banjo music said to be played by none other than Al Capone’s ghost are still heard today!

Pottawattamie County Jail

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Constructed in 1885, this three-story Victorian-styled county jail is the most unique in the Midwest, for among other things it contains rotating “squirrel’s cage” jail cells. However it is not so much the haunts inside these cages that are cause for paranormal concern, but those on the outside instead.

During its eighty-four-year operation, it served as the main jail for those awaiting trial and also those serving misdemeanant sentences. That’s why when the jail was decommissioned and closed, the first spirit paranormal group discovered was a little girl in a tan dress. Historically children weren’t inmates there, but the prevailing theory is that she was buried under the spot where the historic jail was built. She is best known to peek out behind jail cell corners and also tug at the shirttails of touring visitors.

Four inmates have been known to have died in the jail, and they’re not the only active spirits in the place. Inside the old guard quarters, the cabinets have been known to be thrust open and then mysteriously banged shut by an unseen force. Inmates on furlough from the cells? Or guards who still feel committed to watching the place in the afterlife? Regular tours are still held today, so grab your EMF reader and you make the call.

West Virginia Penitentiary

Moundsville, West Virginia

You just know that prison has to be haunted when it’s the oldest one to be found in a state. Built from 1863 to 1875 when West Virginia had just seceded from the state of Virginia, the West Virginia Penitentiary is one haunted place. During its fantastic one hundred and twenty-year run as a prison, it has racked up a chilling amount of haunted tales to keep people awake at night. Violence in the prison was so rampant it was labeled as one of “the ten most violent prisons in America” by the Federal Government. Just who is at the top of the paranormal list in this one?

An entity known as the “Shadow Man” is said to reign supernatural supreme there. Thought to be the spirit of former inmate R.D. Wall, this intimidatingly large and shadowy figure was convicted of the sexual assault of women. As it would turn out, female ghost hunters and tourists to the prison have reported a feeling of being watched as well as having an unseen hand grab them by the shoulder.

Further down near the infamous “Sugar Shack” area of cellblocks is that which formerly belong to an inmate named Red Snyder. Serving time for arson and murder, Snyder was savagely stabbed to death in his cell. Today ghost hunters have picked up an astonishing amount of profanity-laden EVPs believed to be from Snyder himself, who screams that people are invading his personal cell space and are to leave at once. The penitentiary does host a bevy of historical, photographic and of course paranormal tours here. In fact, it has recently been the site of Para-Con, one of the hottest upcoming paranormal conventions around.

Wyoming Territory Prison

Rawlins, Wyoming

Gold hit the Wyoming Territory hard in the late1800s, and with all the ruthless prospectors, daredevil gamblers, and cutthroat outlaws, a prison was most needed. Opened in 1901, it wasn’t long before the prison accepted the death penalty via hanging until 1916 when the gas chamber was officially put in.

Child murderer Andrew Pixley was on record as being the person who took the longest to die in the gas chamber, as he laughed for over two minutes until he was finally dead. It should come as no surprise that ghost hunting groups and visitors to the prison hear an eerie laugh coming from near the execution chamber! Even creepier is the fact that on the day of his death, a black cat was said to have somehow found its way near the execution. Fast forward to today, and people have reported seeing a black cat slink around in Pixley’s former cell. Informal seances involving a candle placed in Pixley’s cell have reportedly been blown out, only to mysteriously relight itself moments later.

Perhaps even more terrifying is the spirit of former inmate Frank Wigfall, who killed a beloved prison employee in the outside world. When arrested and convicted of his crime, once back at the prison he was viciously hung with a rope by inmates off an upper floor cellblock railing. There has been a couple of reports of the ghostly image of a man being pushed off and hung with a spectral rope in full view of the living. Over the decades, the prison took on many different names and stately owners before being closed in 1981.

A piece of Wyoming history, in 1988, a local joint power board for preservation helped to establish the site as a prison museum that remains in operations today, where tours are given with regularity. Being a highly rated, historically thrilling tour, it’s one of the more popular tourist experiences in the state and can almost guarantee that for some, they will be scared straight!

Ohio State Reformatory

Mansfield, Ohio

Over three stories tall, and designed with a German-influenced Romanesque castle-like appearance, the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio is an intimidating presence. Thought to have housed over 155,000 men in its one hundred and four-year operation, the prison has been unaffectionately known to locals as “Dracula’s Castle”. Surely with that many inmates, lots of them would be theorized to haunt the place, however, this is found to be incorrect. It is not an inmate that is the most active ghost here but in fact a former warden’s wife.

Former warden Arthur Glattke’s late wife Helen is reputed to be haunting places all around the prison as her spectral image shows up in the most unlikely of places. Accompanying her spirit is the scent of sweet roses, which were said to be a particular favorite of hers and ghost hunters usually encounter one sensory experience before the other surfaces. Former prison guard Frank Hanger is another non-inmate said to be haunting the reformatory. Brutally murdered by an inmate, Hanger is said to linger around tour groups and if someone is dawdling too long or forever taking their time going upstairs, Hanger’s ghost is said to give them a supernatural shove!

Today the Ohio State Reformatory has been taken over by a group that has cleaned up the prison and regularly runs and hosts paranormal tours and events on-site. And as with most people who visit, this was indeed the same prison used for the filming of the Academy Award Nominated film from Stephen King’s book, The Shawshank Redemption.

Missouri State Penitentiary

Jefferson City, Missouri

You just know that prison has the potential for paranormal and supernatural activity when Time Magazine once referred to this prison as, “the bloodiest 47 acres in America!” Built way back in 1836, the Missouri State Penitentiary was no stranger to the death penalty. With the addition of a gas chamber, over forty inmates were put to death in it, including a pair of child murderers turned lovers named Bonnie Heady and Carl Austin. Decades later after their 1953 executions there, EVPs there are at an all-time high including such soundbites from beyond as, “stay”, “love”, and “kill”.

Prison deaths at Missouri State were exceptionally violent. One inmate named John McBroom had run afoul of some inmates he was sharing a cellblock with who believed him to be an informer for the prison guards. During breakfast call early one morning a pair of inmates charged into his cell, using a pair of broken scissors as a weapon. They stabbed him repeatedly in the eyes and skull and he ended up bleeding to death before he was ever found. Years later, visitors to the prison have reported seeing a pale white apparition of what appears to be a man, bleeding profusely out of his eye sockets, wandering around the cell walkways.

This formidable and chilling prison is still standing today. A collection of paranormal, historical, and photography tours of Missouri State are available in both public and private capacities for those looking to get a glimpse inside the infamous walls. These highly affordable and guided tours are some of the best that are offered for a haunted location such as this.

Most Haunted Universities in America

Published by FrightFind On March 30, 2020

Among some of the oldest buildings out there in America today are our universities. The age of these college campuses even surpasses that of some statehoods being founded. Think you’re really alone in the library on a quiet evening studying? Was your dormitory part of an unholy campus ritual? Check out this list for some of the most haunted universities in the entire United States.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Among the many secondary battle sites of the Civil War is the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. In a supernatural twist, it is not the Civil War battle sites around the city that are reputed to be haunted, instead, it is the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga that is said to hold all the ghosts. Hooper Hall has doors opening or slamming with nobody there and heavy fast footsteps on the antiquated tile floor.

Students report feeling watched by an unseen presence that seems to bring a chill with it. Despite being an on-campus church, the Patten Chapel is haunted by the spirit of a woman dressed in white. She has been seen in both the daytime as well as nighttime, drifting for an instant by stunned students and agog faculty members. Disembodied Civil War soldier spirits in the former medical college building? This university definitely has a 4.0 in Ghosts 101!

Marquette University

Marquette University was founded all the way back in 1881 and stands as a private Roman Catholic school that was initially built by the Jesuits to help with the influx of the German immigrant population at the time. But being built by such holy men and means, is it safe from the supernatural?

One of the most haunted places on campus is within the Schroeder Hall dormitory, particularly on the ninth floor is where most activity is said to have taken place. One student in a room is reported to reach for his Rosary and have his ankle snap! Disembodied sounds and shadows got so bad at one point in time that a priest was brought in to bless the room to quiet down any activity. Another student claimed that ectoplasm had even begun leaking down a wall at one point in their room. And even at Mashuda Hall, objects that levitated and moved caused such a disturbance that there is a long-standing rumor around campus that an actual exorcism was performed in the hall so as to end the paranormal activity.

Penn State University

Long considered to be one of the premier universities in the northeast area, Penn State University has been a cornerstone for academia to all those seeking higher knowledge. But your friends at FrightFind are here to tell you, they’ve got ghosts! A campus library is said to hold the spirit of a murdered student who to this very day still tries to break through to the living to reveal her murderer. Atherton Hall is one of the oldest on campus, and it should come as no surprise to anyone that it has a ghost, the spirit of Frances Atherton, the late wife of the school’s former president. Doors slamming and odd noises sure, but at other times her spirit has been spotted as if checking in on the students.

Schwab Auditorium is another campus haunt that many believe contains the spirit of a former janitor who still makes their presence known. Scratching sounds about the floor, doors opening and closing, heavy footsteps in empty areas, and objects being mysteriously relocated are just a few of the reported phenomena. Extra Credit: In 2006, former student Ryan Buell founded the Paranormal Research Society (PRS) at Penn State. It was a homegrown club on campus that met up to investigate paranormal cases in the surrounding tri-state area. Their paranormal adventures were later chronicled in the smash-hit television show, Paranormal State.

Iowa State University

Iowa State may have been founded back in 1858, but it’s very possible that the spirits haunting this campus were there a long time before that. Farm House on campus is said to be haunted by the spirits of two different women who once lived there. While the Farm House is a museum today, the curtains have been spotted by students and visitors mysteriously swaying with nobody in the room. On more than one occasion a female spirit has been seen to manifest and one frightened woman was said to have approached and greeted the spirit before it disappeared into thin air.

Fisher Theatre is still haunted by the spirit of a long-time acting professor who once directed some of the finest plays from her wheelchair. In a chilling turn of events, her wheelchair was donated to the program and still used by the students in plays. And guess what? That very wheelchair has been seen moving and turning….with nobody in it!

The University of Georgia

Like in any good horror film, the most haunted place on a university campus is the sorority. Prior to serving as a sorority house, the Alpha Gamma Delta mansion was actually home to a wealthy Athens family. However, the happy home turned into tragedy when the eldest daughter hung herself after being stood up at the wedding altar.

The spirit named Isabel haunts in a variety of ways. The most innocuous is her turning the lights on and off at odd times, along with the occasional door opening or closing to its residents. However the most terrifying of these paranormal acts is that some young women who are getting themselves dressed in front of a mirror have seen the reflection of Isabel in the mirror staring back at them! Demosthenian Hall is yet another one of the university’s many haunted buildings where an ashen grey spirit has manifested to scare some students out of the building completely.

Yale University

Found in 1701, Yale is the third oldest university in the United States so you just know there are a few ghosts there. On campus is the chilling Wrexham Tower which has its share of dark history. . According to campus lore, three different students at one time or another committed suicide in a third-floor suite there. Intermittently, over the years various students have reported paranormal activity in this particular suite to involve freezing temperatures, voices, and doors opening, and closing, all associated with classic poltergeist behavior. As a result of the complaints, Yale has had the room completely sealed to prevent any further dark manifestations from happening.

Outside beneath the New Haven Green walkways used to be an actual burial ground during the Revolutionary War, but bodies were relocated at some point in the 19th Century to the Grove Street Cemetery. Bodies mismatched with headstones have given further credence to the belief that the spiritual grounds of Yale are quite restless and thus the abundance of ghostly hauntings here.

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg College was founded in 1832, some thirty years before the Civil War and its bloody exploits charged through. Penn Hall is said to be the most haunted place on campus because, after its early construction, the building was used as a temporary field hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg. Reports of the paranormal activity here start innocent enough with lights mysteriously flickering on and off without any provocation or explanation. There are sudden thudding sounds and whispering voices that can be heard in the halls from time to time.

However, it is the basement area of Penn Hall that is the most frightening. Students and campus workers have taken the elevator to the basement and once the doors open, a fully-fledged and manifest Civil War ghost hospital scene is taking place before their very eyes! Virtually all of the other campus haunts here involve Civil War soldier spirits in some varying capacity, making it one of the only college campuses in the United States to be haunted exclusively by spirits from this era in American history.

Ohio University

First constructed all the way back in 1804, Ohio University in the sleepy town of Athens is totally unsuspecting on the surface. However, looking closer this quiet campus has more than its share of noisy spirits. Wilson Hall is the most haunted building on campus and Room 428 is often thought of as the epicenter.

Disembodied voices are said to be heard emanating from the room as well along with on and off again pockets of freezing cold air. The activity has been surprisingly real as objects have been seen both levitating and being thrown across the room by an unseen force! In fact, students have claimed to see very demonic-looking faces in the door and threshold of the room. Oral campus legends have propagated that a former female student practiced astral projection among many other things in the room and quite possibly opened up a doorway. Odds are whatever came through didn’t adhere to the admissions policy exactly.

Fordham University

Constructed by the labor and means of the Catholic Church via the Jesuits, Fordham University in Manhattan is one of the oldest in New York City. Is it haunted? With the supremely gothic architecture and design on the outside and the stories that have leaked out, we sure think so! Martyr’s Court is a cross-section area of campus that holds two antiquated residence halls. Students in the dormitory there have for decades seen the spirit of a little girl with blonde hair who peeps from around corners in the bathrooms only to disappear when approached.

Keating Hall (in 1973 Keating Hall was used as a filming location for the legendary horror film The Exorcist) had a campus security officer doing a routine safety check for the building only for him to flee in terror as chairs in one commons area were wildly being thrown about the room by an unseen entity! Across campus at Queen’s Court, things were so active one night that a resident Jesuit priest who stayed on campus actually had to perform a ritual blessing to ward off the spirits that caused him and the students in the hall not to get any sleep.

Flagler College

St. Augustine is the oldest city in the United States and it should come as no surprise that its very own Flagler College is quite haunted! Said to be haunting Flagler College is none other than the spirit of its namesake, Henry Flagler himself. His death may have been in 1913, but that hasn’t stopped his spirit from being seen for several decades afterward. A popular hotel before it became a college, Flagler actually kept a bevy of mistresses all over town including one at the hotel itself. Haunting the fourth floor, this Flagler mistress entity is known as “The Woman In Black”, and her presence is especially chilling. Adjacent to her former room there, students over the years have claimed to hear high-pitched screams as well as see objects flying off shelves. Strange light anomalies have been reported to permeate this area of the hotel that reaches into the college grounds.

Reportedly, a few brave students have breached the closed-off area to the room and a campus rumor claims that some of them entered the room and saw a shadowy figure dangling from the ceiling by their neck. Thinking about taking an official college visit to Flagler? Special attention should be paid to those prospective students who have taken pictures and left there noticed mysterious shadow figures in their photographs!

13 Real Ghost Videos

Published by FrightFind On October 29, 2019

People either believe in ghosts, or they don’t. Everyday videos are uploaded to Youtube arguing for or against the evidence of life after death. Are these ghosts or something else that perhaps science can explain?

Here are 13 of the scariest ghost videos online today.

Ed Warren Ghost Provocation Bonus Footage

An excerpt from an early 1990s VHS tape that was a documentary on Ed and Lorraine Warren, the ghost hunters from the real Conjuring House haunting. This is actual footage from a real haunting the Warrens investigated. Ed Warren uses religious provocation to challenge the spirit and what happens next will leave you speechless!

Ghost Chair

Can wheelchairs move with nobody in them? Outside a hospital emergency room in India, a stationary wheelchair mysteriously rolls forward on a level path, constantly changing direction unassisted for what appears to be a distance of seventy feet! Even more impressive is the security guard who observes it with a shocked expression.

Haunted Ventriloquist Dummy

Everyone agrees that ventriloquist dummies are creepy enough on their own, but to see a decapitated one move? At a private collection in Liverpool, England a WWII era dummy called Mr. Fritz was caught on the overnight security camera blinking his eyes, moving his mouth, and even opening and closing the locked glass case. Pay special attention during the up-close shots and spot the white orbs!

Schoolhouse Ghost

At a primary school in Cork City, Ireland an overnight security camera was recording footage of a school hallway. In the dead of night with nobody in the school whatsoever, a very active poltergeist makes their presence known on camera. Turns out that ghosts don’t like having homework to do either.

Shadow Man Airplane

Everyone has heard of snakes on a plane, but how about shadow figures? A security guard at Mexico City International Airport responded to a bizarre noise complaint on an empty jetliner. Responding in the dead of night, what he sees next has him running for the nearest exit. Guaranteed goosebumps on this one for sure.

Paranormal Bedroom

With nearly 5 million views on Youtube, the woman in the short video is unknown. What has been found is that she believed paranormal activity was occurring in her bedroom and she set up an overnight camera to capture it. What she experienced and was documented has been unexplained to this very day. Pay special attention after the activity to spot all the whizzing orb activity.

Ghost Baby In the Crib

It is natural for every parent to check on their baby, and keep a video monitor on them to make sure they’re sleeping soundly. But what do you do if you spot a shadowy specter looming over your newborn in the crib? A mother in Thailand caught on film what appears to be the presence of a ghost child or perhaps something more sinister floating right up to her sleeping baby!

Ghost Pub Glass Attack

It’s a busy night at a crowded pub in Belford, Northumberland. The patrons are naturally jam-packed around the bar, as many pints of ale are served. Overhead surveillance camera footage was able to capture what happened to one man’s ale pint glass. Students of paranormal activity have not been able to spot anything that would signify the glass being tampered with. Setup in the real-life haunted Salmon Inn, this rambunctious ghost behavior is nothing new.

Ghost Stretcher

Security camera footage from a hospital courtyard in Rosario, Argentina shows an unattended stretcher begin to move around and for the briefest of moments seem to actually levitate. While the paranormal activity it displays is eerie enough, what happens at the end of the video is really scary and shows that whatever is pushing the stretcher isn’t nice.

Haunted Pub

Owners at Tyler’s Kiln located in Canterbury, England have recently experienced an uptick in paranormal activity. This haunted bar has doors opening and closing, mysterious shadows flying by, and security alarms going off in the dead of night. To try and capture who might be setting off the security alarms overnight, they set up a surveillance camera. What they captured next was completely unexpected.

Black Shape Bridge

Two men out for an evening drive near the Haunted Governor’s Road Bridge in Davidson, Maryland. One of the most haunted places in all of Maryland, the pair capture a sinister black shape on camera that scares them so badly, they speed away in a panic.

Ghost Apartment

Joseph Chansuolme lives in an apartment near Southaven, Mississippi. Living alone, he began experiencing and seeing things in his apartment that were paranormal in origin. He set up a camera to run while he is in and out and what he found next was truly shocking.

Villisca Axe Murder Ghost

Inside the home of the real-life shocking Villisca Axe Murders of 1912, the current owners were experiencing some paranormal activity in one of the children’s bedrooms. A camera was set up along with one of the owners confronting the ghost child themselves.

Most Haunted Cemeteries in America

Published by FrightFind On September 13, 2019

Cemeteries are much more than areas mapped out for the eternal rests granted to those who shuffled off the mortal coil either too early or too late. Over time, these sacred grounds have come to both paranormally and supernaturally reveal to the world that they are anything but restful dwellings. Ghostly figures, shadow men, mysterious laughter, burning headstones, and unexplained phenomena of all types are to be found in cemeteries and graveyards all across the United States.

Here are the top seventeen most haunted cemeteries in the country.

Smith Anderson Cemetery

Windham, Maine

Twelve miles outside of Portland, Maine is what many consider to be the most haunted cemetery in the entire state of Maine. Set at the end of a long dirt road, this cemetery may be on the small side with 528 graves, but it is definitely big on the haunts. Namesake to the cemetery, the Anderson family’s personal crypt on the property has elicited many mysterious bangs coming from inside the walls to visitors passing by. Most peculiar to this location is the activity involved with people’s cars. Many have gone to visit the grave of a loved one only to find their car has mysteriously moved ten feet in another direction without any assistance. Some have found engines running and all four car doors open…..with no keys in the ignition at all.

Concordia Cemetery

El Paso, Texas

A formidable cemetery with over 53 acres and an estimated 60,000 graves, the Concordia definitely has the space for a few supernatural events. In serial killer lore, “The Nightstalker” Richard Ramirez made this the central location for many of his dead of night Satanic rituals. Ironically the most haunted area of the cemetery is the infant section. A melancholy area for anyone, some women who have visited this particular area of the cemetery have spoken that passing over the infant graves they inexplicably feel their c-section wounds actually tingling. Special tours are held here during the Halloween/Dia de Los Muertos holiday.

Stull Cemetery

Stull, Kansas

One of the most frightening to make the list, the Stull Cemetery in Douglas County, Kansas had been rumored to cause His Holiness Pope John Paul II to actually give Vatican pilots instructions to fly around it when he visited the United States in 1993. There is the broken down Stull Cemetery Church, which is said to have been the site of many late-night Satanic rituals that not only made the Prince of Darkness appear but also created a portal to Hell on the very property. The ruins of the church left a bizarre staircase that was buried into the ground where many paranormal enthusiasts felt was a stairwell straight to Hell.

Lubbock Cemetery

Lubbock, Texas

Conservatively estimated to hold a minimum of sixty thousand graves, the Lubbock Cemetery is a very chilling place to be. Standing to the background of the cemetery is a towering, an abandoned railway trestle. Unexplained sounds have emanated from there so often it has been coined to be “The Gate of Hell”. Late rock and roll icon Buddy Holly is buried here, and many visitors claim that not only is the angel statue near his grave possessed and threatens your escape from there, but also that you can hear his music softly being played from somewhere down in the ground.

Resurrection Cemetery

Chicago, Illinois

This is the only cemetery known to have the ghost actually haunting it, hitchhike and ask for a ride miles before you get there. Resurrection Cemetery is the home to Resurrection Mary, a seemingly lovelorn spirit and urban legend icon that desires nothing more than a ride to her final destination of the evening, which just so happens to be the local cemetery. Many terrified drivers have seen her escape from their cars and run off amongst the tombstones in the dead of night. Other times drivers have reported that she simply disappears in front of their very eyes. In fact, the burned handprints on the front cemetery gate are said to belong to none other than Resurrection Mary herself.

Old Gray Cemetery

Knoxville, Tennessee

Near to the downtown heart of Knoxville, the Old Gray Cemetery is actually one of distinction holding many fine Southern dignitaries, politicians, and even celebrities among its 5,700 plus graves. During the daytime, it’s quite a sedate, and dignified environment. However when night falls, sometimes total hell breaks loose. The chief entity haunting the Old Gray is locally referred to as “Dark Aggie.” A shadow man that appears in the form of a black mist, he’s been known to not only sneak up on late-night visitors but also mysteriously be able to whisper their name to them without any provocation whatsoever.

Manoa Chinese Cemetery

Oahu, Hawaii

The oldest and largest Chinese cemetery in all the Hawaiian islands, the Manoa is one creepy place to be. Aesthetically designed to employ the use of feng shui to keep certain energies at bay, however, this particular subset of geomancy is proving to only go so far. The frequent laughter of children at all hours in all locations of the cemetery is an especially perplexing and paranormally troubling activity. Nighttime plays hosts to many orange flying orbs which many of the locals say leads to a deadly curse. Stories of vanishing bodies and manifestations even have some hardened police officers on the island slightly afraid to go and check out the cemetery alone.

Pere Cheney Cemetery

Pere Cheney, Michigan

The cemetery in this location also serves as having the double distinction of not only being haunted but also being located inside a modern-day ghost town. Central among the eerie atmosphere in this antiquated graveyard is that of the Pere Cheney Witch. Local lore has many believing the witch was having a child born out of wedlock and cursed the town before being hung there in the cemetery. Glimmering, soft glowing orbs have reportedly been a supernatural mainstay at the cemetery over the years. Also, brave visitors have reported hearing the sounds of what is said to be children laughing and some visitors have even dashed to their parked car in fright only to find children’s handprints mysteriously covering their cars.

Stepney Cemetery

Stepney, Connecticut

The Stepney Cemetery is currently going down in paranormal enthusiast lore thanks in part to its now most famous dwellers, international paranormal investigator power couple, Ed and Lorraine Warren. Think the Warrens would finally be getting any rest after a long life of investigating American’s most violently haunted homes? Think again! The cemetery has a penchant for both Civil and Revolutionary War spirits. In fact, the first and oldest known grave belongs to a soldier named Nathaniel Knapp who still is said to be seen today. Lately, visitors also report if you say a prayer at Ed Warren’s grave and then touch the tombstone, the cross is extremely warm to the touch even in the middle of winter.

Lafayette Pioneer Cemetery

Lafayette, Oregon

The sleepy town of Lafayette lies half an hour southwest of Portland and is home to the haunted and wholly eerie Lafayette Pioneer Cemetery. The top spirit in the cemetery is said to belong to that of a witch who was brutally murdered there on the property sometime in the 1850s. One of the most bizarre and incredible reports of activity associated with the witch at the cemetery is a change in the weather. Not just rain to sun or hail to snow. It’s almost as if the entire season changes. A hot summer day suddenly has a mid-winter gust to it. Winter winds suddenly give way to a spike in temperatures. Feelings of being watched along with some choice EVPs have this cemetery being high on the scare factor scale for sure.

Grandview Cemetery

Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Graves inside the Grandview Cemetery date all the way back to the 1700s, making it one of the oldest cemeteries in the entire state of Kentucky. However, it has been known to some locals and visitors, not as the Grandview, but instead “The Gates of Hell.” Spirits here are said to be the supernatural manifestation of Satanic occult practices carried out in the cemetery and woods surrounding it over the course of two hundred years. The atmosphere they create is one of invisible fear as few people have reported feeling quite an unease stepping foot onto the cemetery property. Animal sacrifices here have happened on the property so often over the years that some locals have referred to it as “the Killing Field.” Such sacrifices are said to call upon a witch that lives in the wooded area. People have reported hearing blood-curdling screams in the middle of the day as well as at night with nobody around at all.

Cedar Grove Cemetery

New Bern, North Carolina

A picturesque and sleepy coastal North Carolina is one of the most unlikely places to have a haunted cemetery, but it no doubt does. The single most disturbing fact about this location is the staggered coquina shell triple arch that stands at the front of the cemetery. It is called the “Weeping Arch” by many locals and certainly for good and quite deadly reasons. Mysteriously enough, when a funeral party is said to pass underneath, red-rust colored like tears have been known to drop down from the arch as if it were weeping for the dearly departed. Worse yet there is an urban legend attached to it saying that anyone passing under who gets hit with a droplet will be marked for death next!

Union Cemetery

Easton, Connecticut

This is the cemetery that had hardened demonologist Ed Warren running for his life in the middle of the night. Situated in Easton, Connecticut, the Union Cemetery is home to the famous “White Lady” spirit. She has been described as having a long face with cascading black hair on either side of her head and wearing a long flowing, period piece white dress. The White Lady has been known to walk along Highway 59 and many times drivers have encountered her ghostly visage up close and personal when some have even said to have driven their cars straight through her. Not only have drivers driven through her, but some report that they have felt her very “ghostforce” as her spirit passes through the car. Ed Warren did come close and discovered a rather bizarre connection between her spirit and those of floating orbs in the graveyard, however, he could never truly investigate it because a black phantom ghost dog would prevent it!

Westminster Burial Ground

Baltimore, Maryland

The Westminster Hall and Burial Ground is a very antiquated cemetery located in the heart of the city of Baltimore and the most frequented grave in the entire cemetery is of melancholic poet and author, Edgar Allen Poe. One of the more terrifying entities in the cemetery is the “Screaming Skull of Cambridge.” According to various oral legends, the skull belonged to that of a minister in the area who was brutally murdered and shrieked his head off as it occurred. Today people have reported hearing an incredibly high-pitched, piercing scream that comes from the area where the screaming skull is said to be buried.

Bodie Cemetery

Bodie, California

The Bodie Cemetery itself lies inside of a real-life ghost town from the mid-1800s and is supremely haunted. The most remarkable thing about the Bodie Cemetery is that there is a particular supernatural activity that involves children and dwelling within the cemetery is the spirit of the “Bodie Angel”, a young girl tragically killed by her own father. Men who have toured the cemetery have also reported that they have heard a young female voice speaking out and saying the word, “daddy.” Lost spirits of Asian railroad workers who were buried without the customs of their religious faiths are said to pace endlessly here, awaiting an eternal rest that never seems to come for them. There is also the Bodie Curse that is associated with the cemetery and that any visitor who takes even the tiniest souvenir from the ghost town will be subjected to incredibly and even supposedly fatal bad luck.

Forest Park Cemetery

Troy, New York

Largely abandoned with well over an estimated one thousand graves, the Forest Park Cemetery in Troy, New York has become a chilling memorial to the dead. Right away the atmosphere is moody and dark, and backdropped against the granite tombstones and aged mausoleums is an angel statue that has been decapitated. Today, some visitors claim that this blood from the statue still drips from the neck where it lost its head, but this has never been confirmed. For those brave enough to make it past the headless angel, people have reported being scratched by an unseen force in the cemetery across the back of the neck and down their arms. Flurrying red orbs and spectral lights are sometimes spotted floating and streaking past some of the caved-in graves. Whether or not the Forest Park Cemetery is haunted by a possibly demonic spirit given the signs, the paranormal speculation on this chilling graveyard continues.

Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery

Bremen Township, Illinois

Located just minutes from downtown Chicago in the outlying area Bremen Township is the Rubio Woods Forest Preserve. However, deep within the heart of this heavily wooded preserve is an isolated, one-acre cemetery that many locals say is the most haunted location in the entire Chicago area. Burials in Bachelor’s Grove are said to go back as far as 1834 when a portion of German immigrants settling to the area were buried here as well as workers who perished on the nearby Illinois and Michigan Canal. A local rumor is that Chicago mobsters from the 1920s and 1930s used to come here and bury bodies of those they killed. This may be a paranormal first, but an actual phantom ghost house has been physically known to manifest and then disappear. Today the Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery is still accessible through the Rubio Woods Forest Preserve. Many who visit here claim that anyone who enters here must not come with bad intentions as it is a respected graveyard and doing anything sinister is likely to cause a most unwanted manifestation. Guarded by Cook County Forest Officers, Bachelor’s Grove is only accessible during daylight hours.

The Curse of La Llorona – The Weeping Woman

Published by FrightFind On April 18, 2019

Legends are everywhere in the paranormal and supernatural communities. They can be oral traditions that tell of a certain event in history, that while unauthenticated by certain means, they nevertheless hold a certain degree of truth to them that is indisputable. In the American West and Southwest, there is one particular legend that has been gaining more and more popularity these days, and that is “La Llorona, otherwise known as “The Weeping Woman”.

The Legend of La Llorona – The Weeping Woman

The most agreed upon part of the legend of La Llorona revolves around a tragedy. Locations vary for the setting between Northern Mexico, California, and the American Southwest area. The legend tells of a woman, in some stories she is referred to as Maria. Others have her simply as “the woman” or “the widow”. She was known to live in a dry area with a small river bank nearby. There have been certain rivers in both California and Mexico that have been associated with Maria, but some simply cannot be located and the only consensus is that her tragedy occurs by the river bank.

The most standard facts about her story are that she was a beautiful young woman, married to a handsome and faithful soldier of the local military with two young children. The husband is tragically killed while away and word gets back to her of his untimely demise. Overwhelmed by grief, she takes her two young children to the riverbank and drowns them. The legend varies some here that she was said to be wailing loudly as she drowned them. Others have her drowning them before flinging her own self into the river to drown, while another legend has her being found and her running off from the shame of what she did.

Another more unsavory version has the young woman giving birth to twins. When having them baptized there is some sort of error and only one of the children are baptized. Her husband grows disenchanted with her and he leaves her and the twins for another woman. Out of self-loathing, she drowns the children and herself. Upon dying, she is turned away by God and he curses her to forever roam on Earth for what she did to her children. Her spirit is seen near riverbanks, in a faint white dress, with soiled black hair. as she moans and cries out for her unspeakable past actions.

The Curse of La Llorona Comes To Hollywood

While many versions exist for La Llorona, only now is her story being realized for the big screen. Warner Bros. released a horror film entitled, The Curse of La Llorona on April 19, 2019. The plot focuses on a 1970’s California family who is being stalked by La Llorona. James Wan, writer and director of the Conjuring film series is producing. Check out the trailer below.

The Ghost of Theodosia Burr

Published by FrightFind On January 30, 2019

Paranormal enthusiasts agree, that whenever a person tends to die either an incredibly violent or sudden death, that their spirit remains here on Earth. Something about the energy of such a living person that is taken in a way, leaves an indelible imprint on things. Of all people, a former Vice President of the United States, his very daughter suffered such a fate and is said to still be haunting to this very day.

Who was Theodosia Burr?

In 1801, Aaron Burr was selected to serve as Vice President to then President-elect Thomas Jefferson. Burr’s only surviving child to adulthood was Theodosia. He and his wife took special care with young Theodosia and made sure that she was privy to a rather luxurious upbringing. She had the finest education, mastering many languages and even music. Theodosia was taught how to command herself in the political society at the time and was a very remarkable young woman. With such qualities, many suitors came and she felt drawn to Joseph Alston, a wealthy young landowner from South Carolina with political aspirations. Vice President Burr was content with his daughter’s choice and agreed to let her marry him and move to South Carolina.

Upon arriving in South Carolina, Joseph began a campaign to become governor, and due to his wife being so highly educated, he let her run several of the land properties that he owned. Before long, Theodosia became homesick for her father and mother and wrote to them often. Her sadness didn’t last as she soon gave birth to a son that she and Joseph named Aaron, after her father. Like herself, she ensured young Aaron the exact sort of upbringing as her, replete with high education studies, languages, and budding marksmanship. Tragedy struck them in 1812 when young Aaron developed malaria and died.

Her melancholia was immense and Joseph agreed it was best she returns home to her parents for the Christmas holidays in December of 1812. Joseph, now Governor of South Carolina, ensured she travel by sea up the eastern coast by private charter to her parents. The War of 1812 was still being settled and Joseph as Governor, couldn’t leave his state. He did, however, formally write a pass to Theo and the small ship she was taking in case the British forces intercepted them for any reason. On December 31, 1812, in Georgetown, South Carolina, Joseph ensured his wife Theodosia was onboard the ship, formally called the Patriot. He gave her the pass he had written and kissed her goodbye. It was the last time he would ever see his wife again.

How did Theodosia Burr die?

Days overdue, word was sent that Theodosia never made it to her parents. It was believed her charter passed near Cape Hatteras, which infamously had been known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic”, due to all the ships that sank in the area. Declared to be dead, both Joseph and Theodosia’s parents were heartbroken, especially after they held out hope for months that she would return.

Few years passed before captured pirates began to confess to their crimes either in courts or on their deathbeds. Surviving records are controversial, but a small breakthrough came from a newspaper in New York, The Brooklyn Eagle. In it was a sensationalist article about a pirate named Frank Burdick who claimed he and his crew had captured the Patriot somewhere off the coast of the Outer Banks, North Carolina. The Patriot’s crew were slaughtered and their goods plundered while Theodosia was forced to walk the plank and she drowned in the Atlantic Ocean.

One of the goods on board was a painting of herself that she intended to give as a gift to her father. Burdick is said to have taken it due to its high-quality construction, and eventually re-gifted it to another family years later. The family, in turn, used the portrait as payment to an elderly doctor who eventually had it overturned to the Walpole Library at Yale University.

The Ghost of Theodosia Burr

The ghostly spirit of Theodosia has been seen in many places associated with her previous life. The infamous Georgetown dock where she last saw her husband is one of the more popular spots and there are accounts of fisherman seeing a young woman with black hair in a white dress wandering out before fading away. Another ghostly spot is on the banks of Nags Head Beach, North Carolina. Beachgoers report seeing a woman in a white dress wandering frantically, looking lost. Whenever approached, again she fades slowly away.

The most heartbreaking of Theodosia’s ghostly appearances is in Battery Park, the Lower Manhattan area of New York City. After his Vice Presidency, Burr lived in in the city and died nearby in Staten Island in 1836. His ghost haunts the Battery Park sea wall, as this was where he was to originally pick up his beloved daughter. People are said to have seen both his ghost wondering the sea wall, and being accompanied by a woman in a white dress with black hair, no doubt the spirit of Theodosia. A bittersweet ending that both father and daughter spirits are present while neither are aware that the other is finally with them.

Guillermo Del Toro’s Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark

Published by FrightFind On January 21, 2019

Guillermo Del Toro’s films are always among the best made in Hollywood. With Academy Awards and legions of adoring critics, the somewhat reclusive director always manages to stay faithful to the horror film genre. Here are 6 need to know facts about the horror director’s latest production, Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark.

Production on Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark has officially wrapped

Not only is post-production on the film virtually completed as of December 2018, but the film also has an official release date of August 9, 2019, from Lionsgate Films.

Guillermo brings the Saw

Guillermo Del Toro’s Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark

Writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan

It is no secret that Guillermo Del Toro is not directing the film, but has instead shifted his duties to producing and writing the screenplay. Alongside him in the screenplay writers room are veteran screenwriters Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan. Those names sound familiar? They should because they’re the infamous horror writers behind the SAW film franchise series. As far as directing goes, Del Toro entrusted Andre Ovredal with the film. If his name sounds familiar that’s because he’s the director behind 2010’s cult hit, Trollhunter.

Children’s Stories?

Del Toro, Melton, and Dunstan are not solely responsible for the plot of the film. Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark is actually a children’s horror novel of the same name. The original novel was a series of three children’s books written by author Alvin Schwartz and magnificently illustrated by the great Stephen Gammell. Written for the scope of the preteens, the books are also anything but subtle. Such terrifying stories as Hearse Song and Ghost With Bloody Fingers are still horror classics.

Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark Cast

Actors Dean Norris, Lorraine Toussaint and Gil Bellows

Casting has been made known. Actor Dean Norris of AMC’s hit show Breaking Bad, has been cast in a secret role. Lorraine Toussaint from the popular Netflix show, Orange Is the New Black, is cast and rumored to appear in a very paranormal capacity. Gil Bellows, fresh off of Amazon’s Patriot and remembered by many as the young inmate, Tommy, in The Shawshank Redemption, has been cast in an unknown role.

As the heart of the film will revolve around a teenage ensemble comprising of mostly unknown young actors and actresses such as Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Austin Abrams, Gabriel Rush, Austin Zajur and Natalie Ganzhorn.

It’s a Secret!

On the set of Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark

Lionsgate and Del Toro have gone to incredible lengths to keep the plot lines in the film as secret as possible. The only official plot point that has been leaked revolves around the main character named Stella, who along with her friends are blamed for a Halloween prank, only to find out that something far more sinister and terrifying is responsible and hiding out in their town.

Keeping the look and feel of the books?

In late August 2018, a fan of the book series reached out to Del Toro on Twitter, asking as well as begging him to confirm that the scary and terrifying illustrations of the book series drawn by Gammell will be preserved and shown in the film. Ever the minimalist, Del Toro replied with only the word “yes”.

August 2019 can’t come fast enough and for the legion of fans hoping for the first big-screen glimpse of the terrifying, Harold the Scarecrow!

Zak Bagans’ Demon House

Published by FrightFind On September 21, 2018

Paranormal ghost hunter and television show creator Zak Bagans is a man who is on almost a never-ending quest to search for the truth. This quest is popularized by his own television show, Ghost Adventures. In creating the show, he hoped to find answers to questions and has said of his paranormal missions, “There are things in this world that we will never fully understand. We want answers. We have worked years to build our credibility; our reputation. Working alongside the most renowned professionals in the field; capturing ground-breaking proof of the paranormal. This is our evidence”.

Having such a firm grasp on the pulse of the supernatural, it came as no surprise that when Bagans learned of the Ammons House haunting and exorcism of Gary, Indiana, he wanted to step up and investigate how genuine and terrifying it was. Taking his mission to new heights, he did something that was a paranormal first for him. He bought the actual Ammons House himself and chronicled it in a disturbing paranormal documentary, Demon House.

What happens in the Demon House?

Latoya Ammons, along with her mother and three children, were horribly tormented by demons living in the new home in 2012. After months of battling the demons, as well as the authorities, the family ended up fleeing the home sometime in late 2013. This wasn’t before contacting local Catholic priest, Fr. Michael Maginot, who performed a spate of exorcisms. While the exorcisms were proven effective, Latoya has refused to acknowledge or speak about what has gone on out of genuine fear of the demons in the house following her and her family.

Upon hearing this, Bagans purchased the house over the phone with a realtor in Gary, and a week later stepped foot on the premises for the first time ever with his crew. Minutes into his tour of the home, Bagans was contacted by a psychic medium he knew over the phone who warns of a twelve-foot tall demon guardian that resides in the house and tells him to stay far away and leave. Bagans remains committed and refused to leave.

To get more perspective on what truly happened in the house, Bagans does his best to pursue the whereabouts of Latoya and her family to interview them and inform them that he purchased the house. Learning of a family apartment that Latoya resides in, he pursued the lead to discover she refuses to meet or speak with him about the house out of further fear that the demons there will terrorize them.

Latoya’s brother Kevin does, however, agree to speak with Bagans and tells him that children seemed to receive the brunt of the demon’s anger while in the house. Bizarre ritualistic chanting, growling, and domestic violence was rampant. After meeting with Bagans informally, Latoya kicked her own brother out of her new apartment over fears that after meeting with Bagans, the demons will find them and once again invade their lives.

With more and more individuals refusing to speak with him, Bagans resorted to accessing police footage of the home after the Ammons initially fled. He sought out a local police detective who had been in the home previously and agreed to go on camera with Bagans. He alerts Bagans to an un-searched area of the home, under the basement steps to discover a patch of dirt flooring amidst a mostly concreted room. Further discovery finds half melted and used candles that were likely associated with demonic rituals of some kind. Short on more people willing to talk, as an instance of pure coincidence, a woman pulls up in a car by Bagans and tells him she was a former renter of the home before the Ammons family.

Bagans agrees to give the woman and her three teens a tour of the home to get a deeper perspective. Giving her name as “Mica” she tells of strange noises and a sense of dread while living there. She flat out refuses on camera to go down into the basement stating her brother used to live there with her and his room was in the basement and she had constant nightmares of his death. Mica’s brother was shot and killed only months later after having the dreams.

Midway through the documentary, Bagans is able to locate DCS Investigator Valerie Washington who personally witnessed the demonic possession of the children. This included one of them walking backward up a hospital wall unassisted to a height of over twenty feet, before flipping straight off the ceiling. She refuses to go near the house or meet Zak in person but agrees to a Skype session in which she informs him she no longer is in the area and had to leave due to the psychological trauma that she suffered and still has to receive therapeutic counseling for.

State of Indiana Intake Officer’s Report

Things soon began to unravel for Bagans in his documentary. A crew member quits midway after being unable to handle the situation anymore. To quell any skeptics, Bagans arranges for Dr. Barry Taff to check the geothermal activity around the house to prove there is nothing scientifically causing any hallucinations or unexplained activity in the house. Using magnetic readings Dr. Taff discovers alarmingly high levels in the home. Personally evaluating Bagans own body, Dr. Taff informs him that he’s giving off a magnetic reading of eight to twelve million times that of a normal human being.

Throughout the investigation, Taff experiences periods of dizziness and swaying. After his visit, he’s hospitalized into intensive care after his major internal organs all simultaneously shut down. Mica’s daughter, who visited Bagans earlier in the home attempts suicide. To help Mica and her family, Bagans arranges for them to meet with Fr. Maginot and an on-camera exorcism is performed on her to free her soul from torment.

What happened to the Demon House?

To get to the bottom of everything once and for all, Bagans does something not recommended by his own crew, he accelerates the situation by literally boarding himself up within the house overnight. Cameras placed in the home document his constant pacing and informal seances to manifest whatever is in the home. Odd growls and wrappings instill a paranoia in Bagans who soon witnesses a black mass coming out of the wall from his own perspective and a painful stabbing sensation behind his eye sockets. Dawn comes and Bagans rushes to a doctor to find out his eyes are crossed with double vision and he’s afflicted with a condition knows as diplopia. Surgery is ruled out as it could cause permanent blindness, and instead, Bagans is forced to wear prism glasses as he’s informed that his eye condition is indeed permanent.

In a final battle, Bagans hires a crew that totally demolishes the home as he cites to the camera that the home is cursed and he wants nobody else to become afflicted by it. True to his love for the paranormal, Bagans keeps the basement stairs and buckets of dirt from the flooring as keepsakes to remind him just how real his mission truly was.

The Ghosts of the Queen Mary

Published by FrightFind On August 14, 2018

For those in search of an unorthodox hotel experience filled with supernatural wonder, look no further than the RMS Queen Mary.

History of The Queen Mary

The Queen Mary has a long, storied history that dates back to the great depression. Built by John Brown & Company during the early 30’s, the ocean liner departed on its maiden voyage on May 27, 1936, from Southampton, England. It served as a luxurious cruising experience for celebrities and the rich – containing numerous dining halls, pools, cocktail lounges, and a grand ballroom. The Queen Mary became a symbol of elegant lifestyle during a time when the country was in the midst of an economic crisis.

The ship continued to be a majestic travel experience up until late 1939, when the vessel was transformed into a troopship during World War II. To repurpose the vessel for war, many of the ship’s luxurious furnishings were stripped and the exterior was painted in camouflage grey – giving it the nickname “Grey Ghost”. It became one of the fastest troopships; capable of carrying 16,000 troops at 35 miles per hour.

Is The Queen Mary haunted?

After the war, the ship was reformed into a cruise ship for the elite and served its initial purpose as a lavish ocean liner until late December of 1967, where it docked in Long Beach, California and has stayed there since. Now, the famous ship serves as a floating hotel for guests who want to have a unique vacation experience. Part of that experience is the vessel’s share of haunted sightings.
Ever since docking in Long Beach in the 1960’s, the Queen Mary has been the location for numerous paranormal sightings.

The Cruise ship-turned-hotel has become a hotspot for paranormal investigators and tourists looking for a few good thrills. Guests can expect the usual array of ghostly mischief: people hearing mysterious knocks, doors opening and closing by themselves, temperatures dropping dramatically, and strange aromas of the past. An encounter with the supernatural seems to be just around the corner on the Queen Mary, but certain rooms on board the ship attract more ghostly activity than others.

Haunted Rooms on the Queen Mary

The ship’s engine room has received many reports of paranormal activity. At the depths of the engine room, lies a massive, heavy black door, known as door #13, which is rumored to have crushed two crew members to death during the ship’s seafaring days. One of the crew members, an 18-year-old boy dressed in blue overalls, supposedly frequents the area to this day. His ghost can be found wandering the engine room’s walkways, making his way towards the ominous door that ended his life and disappearing on arrival.

Queen Mary’s Engine Room

The ship’s poolrooms also play host to wandering spirits. While not in use today, some have reported hearing strange activity emanating from the first and second class poolrooms. Tourists and crew members have reportedly heard sounds of splashing, laughter, and wet footprints leading to the changing rooms. Some have witnessed a woman, dressed in 1930’s swimwear, walking around the pools before disappearing into thin air.

Queen Mary’s Pool Room

The second class poolroom is host to one spirit in particular – a little girl. A ghostly presence, known as Jackie, has reportedly haunted the location for decades. She is described as a young girl, clutching a teddy bear, who drowned in the pool decades ago. Guests and workers have described hearing her voice, along with laughter, in the area. Although there are no official records of anyone ever drowning in the Queen Mary’s pool rooms, some paranormal investigators nevertheless believe that Jackie’s spirit resides in the area.

Queen Mary’s Most Haunted Room B340

Haunted Room B340

Out of all the locations on the Queen Mary that experiences creepy events, the most famously haunted room aboard the ship is stateroom B340. Stateroom B340 has been the site for the most reports of haunted sightings on board the ship. For the past few decades, people have witnessed lights and faucets turning on and off, bed covers being pulled off while sleeping, and, most terrifying of all, an ominous, dark figure standing over guests while sleeping. Stateroom B340 has become so infamous, that tourists have been requesting a stay in that room for years. It’s been closed off to rent since the late 80’s, but has recently opened to rent for single night stays. So, if anyone’s looking for a terrifying hotel experience, then stateroom B340 is for you.

The Queen Mary was once one of the most majestic ocean liners to sail around the globe. Today, it’s one of the most haunted travel destinations in America. Tourists are welcome to book a room at the ship-turned-hotel in hopes to witness a few ghostly events. If you don’t mind strange knocks, doors randomly opening and closing, or being greeted by a dark figure in the middle of the night, then perhaps a night in the RMS Queen Mary is for you.

Child Ghost Caught On Tape in the Philippines

Published by FrightFind On May 21, 2018

Dash cam captures a paranormal sighting in the wake of Typhoon Yolanda.

5/8/2018 – While traveling from Eastern Samar to Tacloban, actress Myrtle Sarrosa spotted what appears to be the ghost of a child on the side of the road. Sarrosa, best known for her role in the Philippines initial screening of Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition, was driving late at night when she saw something on the side of the road. It appeared brightly in her headlights as she cruised down the highway. It’s hard to tell what exactly she caught on camera, but in reviewing the film, it appears to be a small child. Here is the unedited footage that Sarrosa posted to her social media account.

Myrtle Sarrosa Ghost Encounter Video 2018 in the Phillipines

As you can see from the video, there is nothing around on either side of the road. There are no footprints, debris or mud. The apparition is simply floating in thin air and appears to be holding its head in its hands as if it was mourning or weeping. After reviewing the ghost sighting many times, we are sure of only one thing, it was CREEPY.

Sarrosa goes on to comment on her original Facebook post:

“Our volunteer driver Sir Long was telling us that it happens a lot to travellers where they see spirits that have passed away during the Bagyong Yolanda. Siguro it was a spirit of a child that passed away during the typhoon in the past, siguro.”

Ghosts of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)?

Known as Super Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, Typhoon Haiyan was one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded. This giant ocean-based storm breathed to life on November 3rd, 2013 and blew its last gust of wind on November 11th, 2013. During its storm cycle, it caused an estimated $4.5 billion in damages, 4.1 million displaced persons, and a staggering 6,300 deaths. This storm is one of the most devastating natural disasters in modern Filipino history. Many people in the area where the Sarossa ghost encounter was recorded were personally affected by Yolanda’s storm path. The strongest part of Typhoon Yolanda crossed the very same area where Sarrosa spotted the supposed ghost. Could this have been a ghost of one of the souls lost to Super Typhoon Yolanda?

Inflicting mass casualties, Typhoon Yolanda also caused tremendous emotional pain and suffering. So much, that some say it crosses the boundaries of pseudoscience and could possibly be an out of body experience. Could a child, trapped and doomed to a painful lonely death, torn from his family in the eye of a hurricane, have transcended to an astral plane and somehow gotten trapped in the purgatory between living and dead?

Could this be related to the Legend of the White Lady ghost in the Philippines?

To the west of Samar lies the island of Negros Oriental. The legend of the ‘white lady’ or female ghost who haunts the forests is prominent there. She will appear at random to strangers as a specter on the side of the road which is similar to Sarrosa’s encounter. Filipinos know this ghost as ‘Kaluluwa’. The translation of Kaluluwa from Tagalog is ‘spirit’ or ‘soul,’ but can also be used for ‘ghost.’ This spirit attracts many visitors hoping to catch a glimpse, and many claimed to have done so. They will see the white lady as they pass, but upon revisiting the area there is nothing there, only trees. Some say she is a witch or a ghost. Balete Drive in Luzon is another place known for frequent sightings of the White Lady.

Tuberculosis, Stephen King and The Haunted History of The Iconic Stanley Hotel

Published by FrightFind On March 24, 2017

Freelan O. Stanley may not be a household name for many but his technological and (inadvertent) horror contributions likely ring some bells.

Following the successful sale of a dry plate photography manufacturing plant (to the founder of what is now Kodak), Freelan and his brother Francis gained true business notoriety as the creators of the best-selling steam powered automobile, the Stanley Steamer.

A haunting diagnosis

Unfortunately, Freelan’s success and financial standing did not guard against health maladies of the time. After becoming afflicted with tuberculosis, he along with his wife Flora loaded up their Stanley Steamer wagon, waved goodbye to the coastal shores of Massachusetts and hello to the dry air of the Rocky Mountains – specifically, Estes Park, Colorado.

Freelan O. Stanley, creator of the Stanley Steamer motorcar and the Stanley Hotel.

Not one to let health concerns get in the way of good business, Freelan had soon purchased over 6,000 acres of land in the park, eventually creating a hydro plant in Fall River and the area’s first distributed pipe water system. Still, that wasn’t enough for this creative entrepreneur, so making a potentially risky business move at the time, Stanley invested upwards of half a million dollars in what is today one of the most iconic hotels in the United States; The Stanley Hotel.

Funneling not only money but electricity and water from his other Estes Park businesses directly into the property, Stanley created – according to an Estes Park newsletter, the Trail Gazette – one of the “first hotels west of the Mississippi to have electricity.” Posh, elegant and harboring a certain East Coast flair, the hotel contrasted wildly with the natural, rugged aesthetic of the wild west. Twenty-five miles from the closest railway and sitting at a breathtaking 7,500 feet above sea level, the hotel garnered attention around the country.

An explosive beginning

Business boomed for the first few years, luring in wealthy socialites who longed for fresh air and natural surroundings but with the convenience of their luxury commodities. It wasn’t long, however, before tragedy struck. According to the hotel’s archivist, a thunderstorm lashed out during a warm summer evening in June 1911. Knocking out the power to the hotel, the guests were ushered to the lobby while hotel staff teamed up to light the backup gas powered lamps. Room 217 (changed to room 237 in Stanley Kubrick’s movie adaptation of The Shining) had an unknown gas leak which was quickly discovered by Elizabeth Wilson as she entered the room holding a candle. Of the three maids injured in the massive explosion (which is reported to have blown up 10% of the 70,000-foot hotel), Wilson survived, continued working for the hotel, and became head chambermaid until her death in the 1950s.

Following renovations and repairs, the hotel reopened to a somewhat lackluster crowd. Whether it was apprehension regarding the accident or the flurry of local news reports that seemed to heighten the mystery of the events (Wilson’s name was incorrectly documented in one, survivors were listed as deceased in others, and one even reported that the gas leak should never have occurred considering the lamps were all off at the time of the accident), the popularity of the hotel dwindled.

Famous Whiskey Bar at The Stanley, featured in The Shining, where guests report laughter and ghostly chatter can be heard

A hotel fit for a King

Rumors of ghosts and unexplained events began circulating; further warding off a wary public. Over the years, the hotel changed owners, faced foreclosure and likely would have closed its doors for good had it not been for an intrigued author – hailing from Freelan Stanley’s own home state of Maine – Stephen King.

Stanley Hotel Room 217 Steven King's Room

Room 217 – where Stephen King dreamt up The Shining.

King and his wife visited the property in 1974 and found themselves to be the only guests at the hotel prior to its winter closure. Perhaps it was the isolation or the haunting tales of the accident that spooked King, but after spending only one night in room 217 and having vivid nightmares of his small son being chased down the long corridors of the hotel, he checked out with frightful inspiration. According to King himself, after waking from his nightmare and in the span of one cigarette he had mentally outlined the plot of what would become The Shining.

It was King’s fictional tale of a winter hotel attendant that spawned a renewed interest in the property. Guests checked in with hopes of having their own ghostly experience and if witness testimonies can be believed, many have had them.

Ghosts and guests

Visitors leave the haunted Stanley Hotel with reports of disorganized luggage, thumping on walls and doors, childlike laughter, and even unusual odors, those being specifically attributed to a ghost named Eddie who earned the nickname “Stinky Man”. (According to hotel staff, however, Eddie apparently resented the nickname and now only produces pleasant smells.) While Elizabeth Wilson did not perish in the accident, it is her spirit that is the most prominent presence at the hotel today. Possibly still trying to organize and tidy up rooms, there are accounts of her presence lingering around room 217, unpacking guest’s suitcases and as reported by a few unwed couples, climbing into bed and trying to separate the sleeping lovers.

Taken by a guest and featured on Fox News, this image purportedly shows a figure at the top of the staircase. Photo credit : Fox News

Multiple paranormal experts and film crews have visited the hotel, including Zak Bagans and the Ghost Adventures crew and Syfy’s Ghost Hunters. According to the hotel’s own media center, Ghost Hunter’s lead investigator Jason Hawes experienced a glass shattering on his nightstand and doors opening and closing by themselves. The Stanley Hotel embraces its notoriety and paranormal fame by scheduling ghost tours as well as paranormal conferences in advance.

Continuing a legacy

Today the hotel brings in thousands of guests annually. Some are skeptics and others true paranormal devotees looking to reaffirm their own beliefs. Some are history buffs, there to simply admire the colossal monument that marked a new era of technology for the west. Others come as nature enthusiasts, simply looking to gaze upon the natural beauty of snowcapped mountains. The same mountains that so strongly tugged at Freelan O. Stanley’s heart when he first chose the home of his now famous namesake.

Whatever their reasons, visitors from all over the world flock to the area, and if the tales are all to be believed, it’s likely that the Stanley Hotel will be forever occupied by a few die hard, resident spirits.

The Mystery of Roanoke Island

Published by admin On August 16, 2016

We find the giant question mark surrounding American Horror Story’s 6th season theme very fitting when combined with the rumors that it might involve the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Even if AHS pulls the rug out from under us on Roanoke’s involvement, the mystery of the theme and the questions about what really happened to the Lost Colony seem very fitting.

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

One of the creepiest and most unsettling mysteries in the history of the United States might just be the story of Roanoke Island. Located just off the coast of North Carolina in modern day Dare County, Roanoke Island was home to a group of 115 settlers who went missing after a harsh winter in 1590.

In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh received permission and a charter from Queen Elizabeth I to travel to the new world to explore and colonize settlements in remote lands not under her rule. Raleigh sent a group of colonists to be governed by John White to the island of Roanoke where they established a settlement.

The Settlement of Roanoke Island

In 1587, 115 men, women, and children sailed to Roanoke Island with the hopes of forming a new settlement, but they instead became the stuff of legend. Governor John White sailed back to England to get more supplies for the colonists. His return to Roanoke was delayed by war and weather.

White left behind several family members, including his own daughter and newly born granddaughter. He had expected that the voyage from Roanoke Island to England and back again would take well under a year, but it was actually three years before his return.

The Vanishing of The Lost Colony

When White returned on August 18th of 1590, instead of finding his friends and family waiting for him, he came back to an empty colony. All 118 people that White left in the colony were gone, and there were few signs to indicate what happened to them. There were no signs of struggle, attack or famine. They had simply vanished.

What does Croatoan mean?

The only evidence they found was the word “CROATOAN” significantly carved into a post and the letters “CRO” etched into a tree. The remnants of the colony were a few broken down buildings and not much else. White assumed that the settlers took shelter with the local Croatoan Native American tribe on Croatoan island to the south. However, bad weather conditions and other factors forced him to abandon the colony and move back to England. The word “Croatoan” could have meant several things. It could have referred to the Native American inhabitants, or it could refer to the island itself.

Dozens of theories now exist about what actually happened to those colonists. The most common theory is that the harsh winters left the colony with few supplies. Those who survived may have sought shelter with the Native American tribe, which might explain why later settlers reported seeing white children and people with red hair living with that tribe. Other stories are a little more gruesome and even supernatural.

Mysteries, Dare Stones, and Other Wild Theories

One theory claims that the settlers left the island in the hopes of finding help, but that they encountered a number of problems that led to each one dying. The Dare stones, which appeared in the 1930s, back up this theory. The Dare Stones had a series of messages carved into them and are said to be from the Roanoke settlers. These stones allegedly tell the story of what happened to each survivor from the survivors themselves. They are named the Dare Stones after Eleanor White Dare, the daughter of John White. Eleanor Dare’s stone was the first to have been found in 1937.

Eleanor’s stone stated that her daughter and husband were both dead and that savages had killed the rest of the colonists. The stones weave a tale that is not the easiest to follow. Some tell of a sanctuary and some say that a tribe bore ill-will with the colonists. The stones were dated back to the 1590s, but continue to leave enough to the imagination that things did not go well for the Lost Colony.

Eleanor Dare’s stone read,

Ananias Dare &
Virginia Went Hence
Unto Heaven 1591
Anye Englishman Shew
John White Govr Via

However, the Dare Stones were said to be fakes in 1941. A journalist questioned the stones authenticity as well as the character of the stone’s finders. The stones are not recognized as genuine today, but their authenticity has also not been completely ruled out either which continues the mystery.

An even more gruesome theory claims that Spanish explorers found the island and either murdered or kidnapped the survivors. There are even rumors that the settlers encountered dark spirits on the island and that those spirits ended their lives in grizzly ways to protect the local Croatoan people. If they did come to an untimely end, it might explain why visitors see strange lights, hear whispers and see orbs on Roanoke Island today.

What Happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?

New evidence found by archaeologists working in the south may prove what actually happened. Bones and other evidence dug up in multiple sites led researchers to believe that the survivors actually formed two different groups and set off on a journey away from the island to find help. This evidence includes English pottery that predates the first recorded English settlers to arrive in the region after the first colonists. Other evidence included tools unlike those used by local tribes and weapons. Some believe the colonists encountered something so deadly and so dark that they had no choice but to flee for their lives.

Fans of this historic mystery can look forward to learning more about the colonists and seeing what Ryan Murphy thinks happened during the sixth season of the hit television series American Horror Story. Murphy, the man behind other hit shows like Nip/Tuck and Glee, created the anthology series in the hopes of telling a new unsettling story every year. The first season focused on a family who experienced weird things after moving into a haunted house. Later editions of the show took place in a mental institution, a circus sideshow, a creepy hotel and a home belonging to a coven of witches.

What will the AHS theme be?

As with previous editions, Murphy refuses to spoil the upcoming season with any new details. When photos leaked of the cast working in Santa Clarita, California, many surmised that the show would focus on the Lost Colony. The only thing fans know so far is that the show will focus heavily on children, leading some to wonder if the new season will tell the story of Virginia Dare and the other lost children of that colony.

Despite not filming on Roanoke Island, leaked photos show historic buildings taking center stage in the new season. With wood clapboard siding, blown glass windows and thatched roofs, these buildings look just like those the colonists lived in while on the island. Fans can look forward to seeing classic faces from previous seasons like Evan Peters, Kathy Bates, Denis O’Hare, Matt Bomer, Wes Bentley and Lady Gaga, however Jessica Lange will not be reuniting with the AHS cast. The new season of American Horror Story will also feature some new additions to the cast like Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Junior.

There are also rumors that the new season will jump back and forth in time between modern days and the original settlement on Roanoke Island. This will likely explain what happened to the survivors left behind by White and connect their stories to a modern day plot. Murphy teased that the new season will have a connection to the first season of the show too. If American Horror Story does involve the mystery of Roanoke Island we’re in store for another interesting ride come this September 14th.

Orphanage by J.A. Crook

Published by FrightFind On September 30, 2015

It was. Three times its head spun in a sort of hellish and ritualistic practice that survived the dark impositions of the thing. The room was without light. Its hollow plastic arms rolled in its shoulder joints and moved it forward like a demon wheel with teeth, pulling itself inch by inch across the center aisle between the dreaming children.

It stopped mechanically and the sacrilegious sizzle of grinding plastic brought a few of the children to stir as it stared at their exposed feet with a dead contemplation in its painted glass eyes as to how their toes might be rearranged. Its arms rolled and it dragged its bowed legs and rotten blue onesie like a pile of its own hanging bowel and with all of the ingenuity of some dark sage it twisted itself in the animation of a deep sea star and mounted the innocent padding of a child’s bed and waited. The child’s chest rose and fell. Foam dribbled from the tiny hole in the center of the thing’s plastic lips. Dead eyes stared.

It crept forward like an escaped shadow and the bed maintained its shape throughout the thing’s light movements as if the bed were a sort of hallowed terrain that rejected evil so entirely that it’d rather not acknowledge it existed at all. A whistle like a punctured sinking lung began as the thing neared the child’s skittering eyelid and the thing’s glass eyeballs rolled in their sunken sockets with a frenzy of corrupt excitement and its own hinged eyelids bobbed up and down, a broken gyro that caused a perpetual winking as moved closer and closer.

As the child breathed and the thing’s mouth set so close, the air from the child’s lungs was intercepted like a blasphemy of pneumatics and the child’s eyelids slowed. The child’s body sunk in a sort of vile stasis with all the attributes of time itself being stolen away. The thing sucked. Its eyes rolled faster. The whistle became louder and the child’s sleep movements became more lethargic and lifeless. A soft pop resounded as the thing’s face caved to the intensity of its own draw and it stood there like a jawless apparition of gluttony set to swallow itself whole.

The door of the room burst open and the lights turned on and the whistling sound gave to a lifeless thud of hollow plastic on the ground between some of the children’s beds. The children all stirred and looked up to the scanning matron near the light switch in sleepy confusion and uncertainty but the lights just as quickly went out and left the room dark again. But the child in that bed next to the fallen thing just laid there motionless and was no longer receptive to light at all. The child was as dead and empty as the thing itself and that thing stared at the ceiling now, with one broken eyelid full down and another gleaming glass eye that lay full open.

Orphanage by J.A. Crook. J.A. Crook is an independent horror author from Lubbock, TX. Check his website out here or follow him on Twitter.
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