Ghosts are out there. The following list are some of the most haunted places. Read on — or better yet, visit them — if you dare. Goldfield Hotel, Goldfield, Nevada Washoe Club, Virginia City, Nevada Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, Arkansas Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, West Virginia Queen Mary, Long Beach, California Pennhurst State School, Spring…
Many things that can happen in the course of a paranormal investigation, and not all of them are good. The list that follows offers some ideas and guidelines of things that you should avoid. Never investigate alone. Investigations are not only more exciting with a team, they’re also much safer. Having other sets of hands…
These are a few of the guidelines, ideas, hints, tips, and suggestions for investigating the paranormal. Make sure you have permission to conduct an investigation. Keep your perceptions clear prior to the investigation. Never drink or smoke during or before an investigation. Arrive with an open mind. Always be aware that there may be a…
According to the definition, a haunting is the repeated manifestation of strange and inexplicable sensory phenomena at a certain location. Hauntings have no general patterns, which is what makes them so hard to define. Some phenomena may manifest on occasion, or even continually, for periods that last from several days to centuries. Other manifestations may occur only…
What causes a place to become haunted? No one really knows. In fact, there are so many types of hauntings from human ghosts, to animal ghosts, and even ghost ships, that no one has ever been able to come up with a general theory that can explain all of them. Any single theory would have…
In the 19th century, yellow fever swept New Orleans, but Reverend Peter Thevis, the pastor of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church, had a plan. He prayed to St. Roch (who is most identified with good health and healing), asking for members of his parish to be shielded from the disease and promising to build a…
Locals know this tiny cemetery in an unincorporated Kansas township as a portal to Hell that the devil comes through twice a year. As outlandish as that sounds, the ruins of a nearby church and the bizarre architecture will have you half-believing the rumors. No Satanic sightings have been confirmed, and anyone caught trespassing in…
You know that feeling you get when you find out the previous renter of an apartment was kind of a creep? This gothic, castle-like prison complex was once the (involuntary) home of notorious murder clown John Wayne Gacy and serial killer Richard Speck. There were riots and slayings, executions and other maladies that made this…
The Disappearance of Glen and Bessie Hyde was a strange disappearance that allegedly happened to newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde, who disappeared while attempting to run the rapids of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, Arizona in 1928. Description Glen Hyde had some experience with river running, having traveled the Salmon and Snake Rivers in Idaho…
The Subway Man was an entity seen in the subways of Manhattan, New York on October 1, 1999. The witness was ascending the escalator at Penn Station and had reached street level when she noticed standing about 20 feet away, what seemed to be a male figure about 6-feet, 7 inches tall. He stood near the mouth…
