This historical landmark has an unusual history: part aged juzgado (court and jail); part 200-year-old-plus home. Today it is a restaurant, where the jail cell is now a wine cellar and a private dining area, and another ghostly legend stalks. This legend has no name, just a headless monk sometimes carrying an ax, walking by…
A lady with long, dark hair wearing a white gown stares at you from beneath a pepper tree in San Juan Capistrano. Speculation runs wide regarding her identity. Some say she was once a convicted killer, others say a witch or even La Llorona, the traveling spirit from Mexico looking for her lost children. There…
Citizens of Puebla City, located in the southeast of Mexico, told folktales about a mysterious network of tunnels hidden beneath the city. For hundreds of years, no such tunnels were ever found, so people assumed that they were nothing more than the stuff of legends. But then in 2015, a construction crew discovered a very real tunnel…
On the night before Ted Bundy was executed, he spent most of his time crying and praying. At 7 a.m. on January 24, 1989, Bundy was strapped into the electric chair at Starke State prison in Florida. Superintendent Tom Barton asked Bundy if he had any last words, to which he replied: “Jim and Fred,…
Wild Goose Yacht “Every time you turn around expect to see me. ‘Cause one time you’ll turn around and I’ll be there,” John Wayne said in the movie Red River. Now the famed western hero is said to haunt a U.S. Navy minesweeper commissioned in 1942, which later became a luxury yacht he purchased shortly…
Since 1852, Captain Tony’s, the oldest saloon in Key West, has been known to be haunted: doors slam for no apparent reasons and there are inexplicable banging noises and frequent ghostly visitations. Perhaps that’s because it’s the site of the town’s original morgue and was built around a tree that the town once used for hanging pirates!
A prisoner camp during the Civil War, Fort Delaware in Delaware City was ultimately home to more 30,000 Confederate soldier inmates. The few thousand that died before they could leave the Union fort are said to still haunt the area.
The misfortunes that have occurred in Dudleytown are so terrible and numerous that its nickname is “the Village of the Damned.” The now completely deserted town is said to have been home to many suicides, disappearances, and even demonic activity. It is believed that the founders of the village—and by extension, the village itself—are forever cursed….
The Ridge Home Asylum was a real facility that opened in Arvada in 1912. It reportedly housed patients who were horribly mistreated—some of whom weren’t even mentally incapable, but had just been forsaken by their family. Though it was demolished in 2004, people say they can still hear the screams and see the apparitions of former…
On the afternoon of June 24, 1947, amateur aviator Kenneth Arnold was flying near Mt. Rainier, Washington, when he suddenly spotted nine unusual objects on the horizon. Arnold claimed the craft flitted from side to side and flipped in unison like “the tail of a Chinese kite,” and he estimated they were moving at around 1,700 miles…
