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You will find below a small sample of the numerous hauntings that are avaible for your visits.
Do not hesitate to send us more places with detailed informations about the ghosts and the story of the place.
One of England's most famous ghosts is the wicked Lady Howard, who in a phantom coach made from human bones - the bones of her four late husbands.
The skeleton of a dog runs beside the coach. The story goes that each night the coach comes to Oakhampton Castle in Devonshire and the skeleton dog
picks a blade of grass from Oakhampton Park to carry back to Lady Howard's family home. She has to take this journey every night until every blade of grass
is picked - that is until the end of the world - as a punishment for murdering her four husbands.
When King Henry VIII wanted to marry another woman, he accused his wife, Anne Boleyn of treachery and had her beheaded. Anne's body is said to haunt
the Tower of London where she spent her final hours. She has been seen as a pale figure in a grey dress, who carries her head under her arm.
Ghosts may not only be people. In 16 41 the Flying Dutchman was sailing around the Cape of Good Hope on its way to Holland. Its captain was a man
called Henrik Vanderdecken. A huge storm blew up but the captain was so desperate to get home that he cursed God and swore that he would sail until
Doomsday rather than stop. For these words against God he was doomed to sail forever until he could find another ship's captain to accept a letter from him
which begged for the Lord's forgiveness. This has never happened and it is said that any ship that comes into contact with the Flying Dutchman will suffer a terrible fate.
There are many alleged ghosts residing in places of great suffering. These include prisons, battlegrounds, hospitals and execution chambers. Spectral
appearances send shivers down all our spines and we can't help but wonder.
The LORELEI (pronounced lorer-lei) is a German ghost who appears as a beautiful woman. She sits on a tall rock the banks of the river Rhine and sing a
song so enchanting that sailors who hear it lose all sense of direction and steer their boats onto the rocks.
The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
The Brown Lady is famous mostly as being one of the most reliably photographed ghost in history. Although she has not been seen since 1936, she
is said to wear a long brown dress or cape. No one knows who the Brown Lady is, or how she is connected to Raynham Hall.
The first sighting was reported in 1835 by a house guest, Colonel Loftus. He actually viewed her twice. He said she was wearing a brown satin dress and had
only black empty sockets for eyes. Another sighting was made by Captain Frederick Marryat. He intentionally slept in the "haunted room," but instead
caught a glimpse of the Brown Lady an upstairs hallway. His description was the same as Loftus', except this time the Brown Lady was carrying a lantern.
Marryat happened to have a gun with him, and fired point-blank at the figure. The bullets, of course, passed right through the ghost. The ghost was not
reported again until 1926, at which time it was viewed by two little boys. In 1936, the famous photograph was taken by photographers Captain Provand and
Indre Shira during a shoot for the magazine -Country Life-. Shira saw the ghost on the stairs, an instructed Provand to take a picture.
The Bell Witch
"The Bell Witch" haunted the Bell home in Tennessee in the early 1800s. The
"witch" was actually a poltergeist, which did lots of annoying things like throw things around and scream/knock loudly at all hours. John Bell, the father, died
during the Bell Witch's tenure. Some claim he was poisoned by the Witch. Betsy Bell, John's daughter, is suspected of having faked the whole thing.
Reliable records are lacking, so we'll probably never know whether the Bell Farm was truly haunted.
Borley Rectory
Borley Rectory is often called "The most haunted house in England." The site of the rectory originally held a monastery, which was inhabited by Benedictine
monks. Subsequent to this, the monastery came under the ownership of the Waldergrave family, who occupied it for three centuries. In the late 1800's a
descendant of the Waldegraves, the reverend H.D.E. Bull, built a new rectory on the site of the old monastery. It was not until after the new rectory was built
that strange things started to happen.
One of the spectres that was said to roam the grounds was a nun ho in the 13th century fell in love with and tried to elope with a monk.According to legend, the
nun and monk were caught in their get-away horse and carriage. As punishment, the monk was hung and the nun was walled up alive in the rectory. Some
people reported seeing the ghostly form of the horse and carriage in addition to the nun. The reverend Harry Bull, who died at Borley, also was reputed to have
haunted the rectory. He would appear dressed in the grey jacket in which he passed away.
In the late 1920s, the house was owned by a reverend (Lionel A. Foyster) and his wife who reported poltergeist-like phenomena. Supposedly the prankish spirit
locked the wife in the bedroom, and other times threw her out of the bed. There were also pebbles thrown at the windows, and mysterious writing which would
appear on walls.
Harry Price, a famous ghost hunter, investigated Borley Rectory in 1929, and again in 1937. He supposedly witnessed some of the activity, including the
ghostly nun. Although Price spent a great deal of time in the Rectory, his research is generally considered to be biased and therefore flawed.
Unfortunately, Borley Rectory burned down in 1939, taking its secrets with it. In 1945, human remains rumored to be those of the nun were found on the site,
and were given a proper burial. But the legend of Borley has not died yet; people still visit the site today to see if they can spot the ghostly nun.
Drury Lane Theatre
The ghost is described at various times as a soft green glow, or a handsome young man. During renovation in the late 1970's, they stumbled on a skeleton
with the remnants of a grey riding coat with a knife sticking out of its ribs.
The ghost is that of a young man who was murdered in 1780. J. Wentworth Day, a ghost hunter, reported seeing a moving blue light in the theatre in 1939.
The Tower of London
The Tower of London has a long and bloody history, and of course many ghostly legends are associated with the Tower. In 1483, two young princes were
murdered in the Tower, and their ghosts were reported to have haunted the tower until the year 1674, when their bones were found and buried in a proper ceremony.
The most famous and most often reported ghost in the Tower is Anne Boleyn. She was beheaded by her husband, Henry VIII, in 1536. Other Tower ghosts
include Sir Walter Raleigh, Guy Fawkes, and even the apparition of a bear. In 1816, a palace guard who was on duty spied the bear. Not realizing he was
facing an apparition, the guard attempted to lunge at the creature with his bayonet. The guard reportedly later died of shock.
In 1864, a soldier saw a ghost and again attempted to use his bayonet. The soldier fainted when he realized his antagonist was a ghost, and was later court
-martialed for neglecting his duties (hard to guard the castle when you're fainted dead away). However, the charges against the soldier were dropped when two
witnesses came forward to support the soldier's ghost story.
Winchester Mansion
The Winchester Mansion, in San Jose, California, was built by Sara Winchester, the widow of William Winchester. Sara visited a psychic who told her that she
must build a house large enough to house the souls of all those who'd been killed by Winchester guns, and Sara spent the remaining 36 years of her life
(until she died in 1922) doing just that. The mansion's construction is just as odd as Sara's personality. There are stairways and doors that go nowhere,
secret rooms and passages, and elevators that only go up one floor. Some believe that Sara had the house built in a confusing way so that the sprits
wouldn't be able to find her and seek revenge. The number 13 is prevalent throughout: 13 bathrooms, stairways with 13 steps, and so on. There is a
rumor that Sara would never give her workmen the day off, because she was afraid that the day she stopped building she would die. One day, however, after
many complaints, she finally gave her staff a day off, and that is the day she died.
The Chase Vault (AKA The Moving coffins of Barbados)
In Christ Church cemetery on the island of Barbados there is a burial vault of unknown origin. The earliest records call it the "Chase vault". It was first used
for the burial of a Mrs. Goddard in1807, followed by two-year-old Mary Ann Chase in 1808 and her sister Dorcas in 1812, a probable suicide. A few weeks
later, Dorcas' father Thomas Chase died. When the vault was opened, all the coffins had been moved from their original places. It was thought that thieves
had been in the vault, but the concrete seal of the tomb was still in place.
Two more burials were made in 1816. In both cases, when the vault was opened, the coffins already present had been moved about. The casket of Thomas
Chase was of lead, weighing 240 pounds, far too large to be moved by a single vandal. In each of these burials, the workers returned the coffins to their
proper places and sealed the mauso leum with cement. It happened again in 1819. This time, the Governor sprinkled sand on the floor (to sho footprints),
and pressed his personal seal into the fresh cement. In 1820 the tomb was opened again, and the coffins were again out of place, even though no footprints
showed and the concrete seal was undisturbed. The governor ordered the coffins removed and the vault left open; the mystery has never been solved.
La Llorona
La Llorona is the legend of a woman who has lost her children, and who can be heard, and sometimes seen, weeping in the night. La Llorona (the name means
"She who weeps" in Spanish) is in most stories said to be Mexican, although sometimes she is a woman who lived in the American Southwest. Thewoman has
lost her children, usually because she herself has killed them because she wants to marry a man who doesn't want any children. She is so anguished over the
depressing circumstances that she kills herself as well, and is thus doomed forever to roam her native land, weeping and wringing her hands. Sometimes
she is said to be searching for her children, and sometimes she is said to appear only as a warning to those who see her.
In the Southwest, she drowned her children in the acequia (irrigation ditch,) and now she roams the ditches looking for her, or any, children. Usually the story is
told with the intentions of keeping kiddies away from the ditches, so they won't drown.
Around Mexico City in 1550 according to legend, an Indian princess fell in love with a Mexican nobleman. The nobleman promised to marry her, but betrayed
her and married someone else instead. The ultimate result of this treachery is that the princess murdered her children in a fit of rage, with a knife given to her
by the nobleman. Afterwards, she wandered the streets crying for her children, and was eventually hanged for her sins. Since then her ghost has been searching for her children.
The Amityville Horror
The Amityville Horror, although now considered a hoax, is one of the most famous haunted house of all time. The small house in Amityville, New York was
made famous in the mid-70s when George and Kathy Lutz told the media of bizarre happenings which were alleged to have taken place at the house during the month they lived there.
These happenings included such things as flying pigs with glowing red eyes, walls that oozed blood, an infestation of flies in the attic, and a pit to hell in the basement.
Supposedly, whatever had tormented the Lutzes was also the thing that had driven Ronald DeFeo to shoot and kill his entire family in that house in 1974. On
November 13, 1974 around 3:00 a.m., the son, Ronald DeFeo shot his mother, father, two brothers, and two sisters with a high-power rifle.
Ed and Lorraine Warren are a husband and wife team who investigate paranormal activity. Their most famous case is probably the Amityville horror.
Mary Worth/Bloody Mary
The Mary Worth (also known as Bloody Mary, Mary Margaret, etc) story is popular at sleepovers. As the story goes, a beautiful young girl named Mary
Worth was in some sort of terrible accident (or occasionally the wounds are inflicted purposely by a jealous party), and her face was hideously deformed.
From then on, she is shunned by other people, and she sometimes becomes a witch. Now for the scary part. Supposedly if you say Mary Worth's name three
(or five, or ten... it varies) times while looking into the mirror, Mary Worth will appear and scratch your face off or kill you.
The Vanishing Hitchhiker
It is a dark and stormy night. A person driving sees a forlorn figure at the side of the road and decides to give him or her a lift. Usually the hitchhiker is a
young woman in some sort of trouble... her prom dat dumped her, or hercar broke down. The driver gets to her house only to discover that his passenger
has disappeared without a trace from the back seat of his car. He knocks on the door to the house, maybe to make sure the girl is ok, and the door is answered
by the girl's parent. Eventually it comes out that the girl died some years ago, and every year on the anniversary of her death (or her birthday), the girl hitches
a ride back home with a stranger.
There are variations of this legend. Sometimes the girl appears to make it home safely, but the driver finds something the girl left behind in his car, and goes
back to return it, thus learning the truth about the girl. Sometimes the driver lends the girl his jacket or sweater, and goes back the next day to retrieve it.
Haunted Traintracks
Once, there was a tragic accident on set of traintracks: A busload of children was crossing the tracks, and could not get out of the way in time to avoid the
approaching train. Now, if your car stalls out on the tracks, it will be pushed over the tracks to safety before the train hits you. The ghosts of the children
have saved you, and sometimes you can see their small handprints in the dust on your car. The most well-known example of this urban legend are the
haunted traintracks in San Antonio, Texas.
The Whaley House, San Diego, Calif.
Southern California's oldest two-story brick structure is also possibly "the most haunted house in America." Now a museum, it was completed in 1857 by pioneer
Thomas Whaley, who "never left. He's a tough one." Other apparitions include a crying baby and even a "ghost dog."
The Constellation, Baltimore, MD
Now a floating museum in the city's Inner Harbor, the 1797 frigate was once a flagship of the U.S. Navy. Among the more storied ghosts are a former captain
and a crewman who was put to death ("strapped to a gun and blown to bits") for falling asleep while on watch. "(The captain's) own feelings of guilt about this
execution perhaps caused him to remain aboard."
The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minn.
In 1967, a young usher shot himself to death in his car. Since then, his likeness has been spotted near and in the building, including in aisle No. 18, where he
worked. "Perhaps it was his home away from home."
The Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York City
A former Revolutionary War headquarters, the house was bought in 1810 by French wine merchant Stephen Jumel and his American-born wife. In 1964, a
group of visiting schoolchildren said they were "shushed" by a woman in a filmy violet dress - presumably Madame Jumel. "Subsequent curators have been told
to downplay the ghosts, out of fear that rowdy elements might want to be difficult on Halloween."
The Queen Mary, Long Beach, Calif.
The posh ocean liner brought glamour to the high seas in 1936. In 1967, she steamed into Long Beach, her final docking, where she is now a museum/hotel.
Numerous ghostly sightings include one by doorway No. 13, where a young crewman was crushed to death during a 1966 safety drill. His presence is usually
preceded by a loud sound described by one night watchman as 'metal rolling quickly toward me.'"
Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pa.
One of the bloodiest conflagrations in the bloody Civil War occurred in a part of the battlefield called Little Round Top. "A phantom soldier (wanders) this area -
he appears to be looking for his regiment, and he is clearly not cognizant that he has been killed in battle."
The Octagon, Washington, D.C.
Ghostly doings have been reported since the mid-1800s in the graceful 1800 mansion that once housed the American Institute of Architects. One story
concerns the original owner's daughter, who fell in love with a man her father disapproved of and jumped from the second-floor landing. She died "on the very
spot" where a ground-floor carpet "keeps flinging itself back when there is no one about."
The Spy House, Middleton, N.J.
This colonial plantation house turned museum is also "full of entities." Among the apparitions are a woman in white who "tucks the covers into a crib or bed, then
turns and vanishes" and a tall, bearded man.
St. Mark's in-the-Bowery New York City
This church was built in 1799 on the site of an earlier one that dates back to Peter Stuyvesant's days as governor. The most notable of three ghosts said to
frequent the place is a man with a cane, thought to be "Peter Stuyvesant himself, who had a wooden leg and used a cane."
The railroad crossing near Maco, N.C.
In 1867, a conductor was riding in the rear car when it uncoupled from the train. He waved his lantern to warn a following train, but a crash ensued and the
conductor was decapitated. Since then, passersby have reported seeing a moving light at the Maco trestle - it's thought to come from the conductor's
railroad lantern. "Unfortunately, he isn't aware of the fact that a train is no longer following him."
The lady in white at Bachelor's Grove, Chicago
This small, abandoned cemetery should have faded into obscurity and probably would have if not for the 100 or so reports of eerie phenomena that have been
reported there. Some have called it the most haunted place in America. The apparitions include a mysterious, phantom farmhouse with white porch pillars
and a porch swing that squeaks until you approach it. There's also a pond on the grounds that legend says was a dumping ground for murdered gangsters
(despite no records of bodies ever being found there). The pond is not only haunted by the restless souls of the unavenged murdered, but also by the ghost
of an old farmer, who was pulled into the water by his plowhorse. Of course, no haunted cemetery would be complete without its lady in white, and Bachelor's
Grove has one, too. She can be seen wandering the grounds, babe in arms, on nights when the moon is full.
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