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Do you want to tickle your nerves with quality, going on a trip? On our planet, you can find enough places characterized by increased paranormal activity and the presence of ghosts, according to eyewitnesses. So, where can a risky and adventurous tourist who wants to encounter something supernatural go?
1. Eastern State Penitentiary
The maximum security prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has long been the subject of much paranormal research. The building resembles a well-fortified fortress with towers and powerful gates, and it served as a prison for almost 140 years until the early 1970s. Today it is a state museum, and one of the most interesting places in the former prison is the solitary confinement of Al Capone himself. The ill-treatment and torture caused many prisoners to go insane and die, which is why visitors today report hearing ominous whispers, weeping, and even dark silhouettes in the rooms.
2. Tower of London
There were so many and so many executions in the Tower that the manifestations of paranormal activity within its walls do not seem surprising at all. Most often, visitors and workers notice the appearance of the ghosts of Queen Anne Boleyn, the executed wife of King Henry VIII, the children's silhouettes of Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York, and the elderly Countess of Salisbury, whom the executioner managed to behead only the third time.
3. Gettysburg
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania is one of the most visited historic sites in the United States. This is the site of a bloody three-day battle (1863) during the civil war, which claimed the lives of about 50 thousand people. It is believed that the battlefield and several nearby buildings, then used as temporary hospitals for the wounded, have forever remained an eternal haven for the souls of many soldiers, whose ghosts are often observed by tourists who come to these parts.
4. Pere Lachaise
The atmosphere of the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris is unique and inimitable, its territory is not like any earthly cemetery, but rather like some special city of the dead. Ancient tombstones, statues and the absolute silence of Père Lachaise make visitors feel as if they are constantly being watched by invisible eyes.
5. Bran Castle
Bran Castle in Transylvania is a real attraction for tourists. Still, because the people still call it nothing more than Dracula's castle. There are no historical records confirming that Vlad the Impaler was his master, but for several months he was kept in this castle as a prisoner. However, imagination is a powerful thing, and Bran Castle has forever become Dracula's own fearsome fortress.
6. Liner "Queen Mary"
The transatlantic military transport liner Queen Mary is also haunted, according to numerous eyewitnesses. Today it is permanently laid up in the port of Long Beach (California) and performs a lot of functions: a museum, a restaurant, a hotel and a room for presentations, exhibitions and conventions. It even has a church and a chapel for wedding ceremonies on board. Among the paranormal activity, one can note the appearance of a young man who was crushed by door number 13 in the engine room, the sounds of splashing water from an empty pool and traces of wet feet and
dancing lady in white in the first class lounge.
7 Mansfield Prison
If you walk into the former prison and penal colony of Mansfield, Ohio, chances are you will feel very uncomfortable there. Many horrific and mysterious deaths have been recorded in the prison infirmary.
The chapel once housed a torture chamber, and the so-called "Hole" was a terrifying punishment cell. By the way, it was Mansfield Prison that “played the role” of Shawshank Prison in the movie The Shawshank Redemption.
8. Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle is a tourist attraction, and certainly not without its own ghosts, namely Greyfriars dog Bobby, who guarded the grave of his deceased owner, and a mysterious man in a leather apron. In addition, the sounds of bagpipes are heard here, since once a local piper was lost forever in the tunnels under the castle, and visitors also note the constant feeling that they are being watched by invisible inhabitants of the castle.
9. Parisian catacombs
They say that the Parisian catacombs are simply overpopulated with ghosts. And this is quite understandable. The catacombs serve as underground burial chambers for the vast quantities of bones removed from the overcrowded city cemeteries.
From the remains, an amazing, but rather sinister ossuary (bone) was built in the form of crosses and imitation walls.
10 St. Louis Cemetery
St. Louis Cemetery in New Orleans (Louisiana) looks like a real scenery for some Hollywood horror movie. Visitors are also drawn to the grave of a local voodoo queen named Marie Laveau, who passed away in the late 19th century.
It is believed that even from underground, she continues to fulfill the wishes of those who come to her here for help - most importantly, do not forget to draw three crosses on the wall of her crypt.
Show maximum concern for everything that concerns you, for your life and your property are in great danger;
to see a ghost or an angel suddenly appear in heaven - the loss of a close relative or some other misfortune;
a female ghost appears in the sky to your right, and a male ghost appears to your left, and both look joyful - a meteoric rise from obscurity to glory, but your star will not shine for long, for death will come and take you away;
the ghost of a woman in long robes is calmly moving in the sky - you will make progress in scientific pursuits and become rich, but nevertheless, there will be a shade of sadness in your life;
the ghost of a now living relative - your friends are plotting something unkind, be careful in concluding business contracts;
the ghost looks haggard - this person will die soon;
a ghost haunts you - strange, unpleasant events;
runs away from you - anxiety will be small;
for young people - be careful in dealing with members of the opposite sex.
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Photographer Sef Loveless is a real expert in the field of abandoned houses. To search for objects for shooting, he travels a lot, communicates with people and finds buildings that seem to have descended from horror screens. Each of these houses is accompanied by a story, and some even cause one desire at all - to bypass them and as far as possible.
Sef designed his photo tours of abandoned houses in the book "13: American Horror Story". It includes detailed photographs of buildings, their history and testimonies of residents living in the neighborhood.
1. In 1941, this house was a brothel. Years later, several bodies were found in the basement, each of which had all the organs marked with perfect circles.
2. According to history, a family with four children lived in this house. After the parents committed a double suicide, for 10 years the children grew up alone in this house.
3. Another family drama played out in this house in the middle of the 20th century. A certain Benjamin Albright first killed his son, and then his wife and himself. Since 1958, the house has stood intact, preserving the history and all the personal belongings of the family.
5. In the 70s, the mansion was a small hotel and became famous for some very strange deaths.
6. The Milan mansion was notorious in the area. It is said that a practicing witch lived there and the neighbors were afraid of this place. Rumor has it that after her death, the witch was buried right in the house.
7. "Doll House" from Philadelphia got its name from a very strange interior. There is no furniture or other evidence of life in it, but the whole house is filled with dolls and metal racks with saws and other tools.
8. This house in the city of Hartford is notable for the fact that, in addition to the accompanying ghost stories, it became the source of the idea for the famous TV series American Horror Story.
9. Serial killer Michael Madison lived in this house, who used the basement as a place of massacre of his victims.
10. At the beginning of the 20th century, the family living in this house mysteriously disappeared. The investigation yielded nothing, but they say that residents then repeatedly saw the silhouettes of residents in the windows of the house.
11. This abandoned orphanage gained notoriety in the 20th century thanks to Robert Burdell, also known as the “Butcher of Kansas City,” one of the most notorious serial killers in US history.
12. In this house in Buffalo lived a local sheriff who committed suicide. The house was empty, but residents repeatedly complained to the police about the voices in the building. Structural tests yielded no results.
All over the world there are abandoned buildings covered with legends of the past. Fans of tickling the nerves often go there to see paranormal activity with their own eyes. And skeptics, who cannot be frightened by any ghosts, listen with interest to stories related to this or that house. In this post, we have collected the creepiest abandoned buildings that will give you goosebumps.
There are many legends around this creepy abandoned hotel located in Cyprus. Many people claim to have seen ghosts there. “Why would there be ghosts?” - you ask. And it was like this...
In 1930, the hotel flourished and was the most popular tourist destination. Berengaria was owned by a very rich man who had three sons. When his father died, he decided to divide the inheritance in the form of a hotel and family wealth equally between his sons.
After a certain time, the brothers began to quarrel over the division of the profits brought by the hotel. And soon after the start of the conflict, they all died under very strange circumstances.
Not knowing the true cause of their death, people decided that their father and the hotel had taken revenge on them, which, by the way, turned out to be abandoned. The locals took everything they could carry away from there. And it is believed that the hotel has become a haven for the ghosts of greedy brothers.
This now abandoned building of a former sanatorium is located in Louisville, Kentucky (USA). In the 20s of the last century, this city had the highest mortality rates from tuberculosis, as it was located in a swampy area. In 1926, a sanatorium was built here, famous for its advanced methods of treating then incurable tuberculosis.
Nevertheless, the mortality rate in the sanatorium was very high. So that patients would not see how many people were dying, it was decided to build a special tunnel 150 meters long and send the bodies of the dead to the railway station through it. It was called the "Tunnel of Death".
When a cure for tuberculosis was finally found, the sanatorium was empty. After that, it housed a nursing home with a treatment center, which was closed due to terrible conditions for people. There was even talk of conducting experiments on the elderly. Since then, the building has been empty, the vandals broke the windows in it, took out all the furniture.
Everyone who visited this abandoned place vied with each other about the high paranormal activity there. In addition to strange sounds, slamming doors, randomly moving objects, visitors saw here a little boy playing with a ball, a woman with cut wrists, calling for help; a hearse driving up to the service entrance to the building, where coffins were loaded into it. We also saw the ghosts of two nurses here, one of whom hanged herself after learning about tuberculosis infection, and the second jumped out of the window.
The forgotten estate of the Demidov family is located in the village of Taitsy in the Leningrad region, about 39 km from St. Petersburg. The owner of the house was industrialist Alexander Demidov.
It is said that Demidov's daughter, Sophia, suffered from tuberculosis in her youth. So that she could, without leaving the house, arrange walks in the fresh air, the corridor of the house ran in a circle along the windows, and wide glazed terraces were arranged on the sides of the building.
The legend said that the seriously ill Sophia read a lot, and dreamed of taking up natural science, following the example of her grandfather. But the disease did not leave her. One autumn day, from the terrace of the mansion, Sophia noticed an unfamiliar young man in the park. The girl violated the doctors' ban and left the house to meet a young man. They started seeing each other every day. But one day the young man did not appear at the appointed hour. A thunderstorm broke out outside the window, and Sofya kept running out onto the front stairs to see if her friend was coming. Running out once again, Sophia slipped and, hitting her head on a stone step, died.
Since then, her ghost during a thunderstorm appears on the terrace and halls of the house.
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Actually, it's just a legend. But Sophia recovered safely and married the Chief Jägermeister Count Pyotr Gavrilovich Golovkin. She died at the age of 62.
But extreme travelers claim that in the estate you can meet the spirit of Alexander Demidov himself. If you lurk under the cover of night on the front staircase of the house, you can hear rustling on the upper floors, as if something or someone is quietly turning the pages of an old book.
The abandoned Villa de Vecchi, also known as the "Haunted Mansion", is located in Italy near Lake Como. For many years now, it has attracted mysticism lovers from all over the world, thanks to its mystery.
In 1850, returning to his homeland after a long wandering, Count Felix de Vecchi decided to create a cozy nest for his family. And he succeeded. In the first years of its creation, the villa enchanted guests with its warmth and comfort. It had a large piano and a warm fireplace, the walls were decorated with expensive frescoes. A wonderful park was laid out around the villa, in which a rather powerful fountain was even installed, working under the pressure of water from the mountainside.
Abandoned houses are fraught with many mysteries, but the American photographer Sef Loveless is not looking for answers to questions, he simply photographs these houses and learns their sad stories. Next, we will introduce you to the most mysterious haunted houses that are empty to this day.
In 1941 this house was a brothel. Years later, several bodies were found in the basement, each of which had all the organs marked with perfect circles.
According to history, a family with four children lived in this house. After the parents committed a double suicide, for 10 years the children grew up alone in this house.
Another family drama played out in this house in the middle of the 20th century. A certain Benjamin Albright first killed his son, and then his wife and himself. Since 1958, the house has stood intact, preserving the history and all personal families.
In the 70s, the mansion was a small hotel and became famous for some very strange deaths.
The Milan mansion was notorious in the area. It is said that a practicing witch lived there and the neighbors were afraid of this place. Rumor has it that after her death, the witch was buried right in the house.
"Doll's House" from Philadelphia got its name from a very strange interior. There is no furniture or other evidence of life in it, but the whole house is filled with dolls and metal racks with saws and other tools.
Serial killer Michael Madison lived in this house, who used the basement as a place of massacre of his victims.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the family living in this house mysteriously disappeared. The investigation yielded nothing, but they say that residents then repeatedly saw the silhouettes of residents in the windows of the house.
