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Famous Haunted Places
By David M Downs on September 10, 2009 |
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Everyone loves a good ghost story or tale of a haunted house. The best stores are the ones that are real, documented, and involve people and places we have heard of. Here are four such stories.
The Tower of London
For hundreds of years the Tower of London was used to torture, execute, and imprison it's unfortunate inhabitants. Given it's history, one can understand why many consider it to be haunted and many ghostly sightings have occurred there.
One of Henry VIII's wives, Ann Boleyn, had the misfortune of being beheaded for displeasing her husband and king. It has been claimed that she walks the Tower on the night before an execution. During World War I on the night before an enemy spy was to meet his end, the Tower's guards reported seeing her ghostly figure wandering it's halls.
A guard in 1816 was at his post when he noticed a dark shadow on the steps to one of the buildings at the Tower. As he investigated, a large bear emerged from the shadow and attacked him. In self defense, the guard used his bayonet against the animal but it passed clean through and the bear appeared to swallow him. The man passed out and died a short while later.
Winchester Mystery House
San Jose, California has what some would say is the strangest home ever built. Soon after her husband and daughter died, Sarah Winchester, widow of the man who created the Winchester rifle, believed her home was haunted with the ghosts of the victims of his invention and the only way to placate them was to keep building onto her home.
Sarah began construction on her mansion and kept adding to it and modifying it for 38 years. Part of her quest was to confuse the ghosts so they couldnt find her. Inside the house you will find doors that open into walls, staircases that lead nowhere, and a maze of dozens of tiny rooms. Over 600 rooms were built and then demolished over the 38 years.
The have been a number or reported incidents in the mansion. Sightings of ghostly apparitions and rooms becoming cold for no explainable reason. During a seance, a psychic reportedly appeared to age and take on the appearance of Sarah Winchester.
Lizzie Bordens House
Lizzie Bordens house is now a bed and breakfast in Fall River, Massachusetts. Many of us probably remember the story of Lizzie murdering with an ax her father Andrew and stepmother Abbey, who Lizzie hated. Lizzie was seen in the yard burning a dress, but she was never found guilty.
Cold spots are felt in many of the rooms. Some guests have had the ghost of Abbey supposedly get into bed with them. Others have seen Abbey doing laundry and dusting. Employees of the B & B have claimed to hear two women arguing and then someone crying.
The Stanley Hotel
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Colorado long been thought to be haunted. If you dont believe it, just ask Stephen King who was inspired to write The Shining after a stay there. Between things he heard about the place and some things he witnessed, a classic book and movie were created.
A made for TV version of the novel was filmed at the Stanley Hotel and many of the cast reported strange events during the filming. |
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