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While the brick home at 8435 Roanoke Drive seems like your average suburban residence, it happens to be where some seriously spooky events occurred, inspiring the film, “The Exorcist.”
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Legend has it that the family’s son was possessed by a demon after playing with a Ouija board — watch out kids! Priests came to check out the scene and found the boy’s bed shaking, while scrapes and welts started appearing on his skin, even forming letters and words. The infamous exorcism actually occurred at a nearby university.
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The remains of hundreds of people were discovered in Skeleton Lake in 1942 when a British forest ranger was hiking the Himalayas. The mystery as to how these remains got here has been theorized throughout the years.
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World War II soldiers who had been shot, ancient hailstorms killing off an entire village — everything was up for debate. But, in 2019, scientists revealed that the deaths likely happened over a 1,000-year history, believing that the skeletons were perhaps from religious burials or exploration trips gone awry. Regardless, the setting is certainly haunting.
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More than 200,000 people visit the St. Augustine Lighthouse every year. Yes, the views are spectacular, but it’s the spooky spirits lurking in the shadows that really get all the attention.
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Joseph Andreu, a lighthouse keeper who fell to his death while painting the lighthouse, is said to be haunting the lighthouse. Screams of young girls, believed to be Eliza and Mary, have also been reported. The duo drowned in the 1800s running after a cart that had crashed into the ocean’s waves.
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Oradour-sur-Glane is essentially a memorial to a horrifying act that took place when Nazis occupied this village in June 1944. In total, 642 men, women and children were executed or burned alive in a matter of hours.
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While a new village was built nearby, this ghost town still remains as a reminder of the terrifying inhumanities that took place during World War II.
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This historic ocean-liner is now a hotel that’s permanently docked in Long Beach — along with the about 150 spirits that call it home.
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That’s right, you can spend a night at sea with a crew member that was killed by the pressure of a watertight door as well as a woman dressed in white (why is it always white?) who greets those staying in one of the luxury suites.
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This small island was created as a memorial for a young girl who drowned here, but it has become much creepier than that. The island’s owner and caretaker, Don Julián Santana, began placing thousands of dolls hanging in the trees in the 1950s.
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Locals say that they’ve seen the dolls moving at night and even calling them in low whispers.
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The largest and perhaps most decadent private residence in the U.S. also has a few ghosts living here. The former vacation home of George Washington Vanderbilt II is now a resort that spreads across 135,280 square feet.
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Both the ghosts of George and his wife, Edith, have been reported roaming the halls, even calling each other’s names. A headless orange cat has also been said to walk the grounds.
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A Nationalist Party government official occupied the house at Chaonei No. 81 with his mistress until Communists took over in 1949. He decided to flee to Taiwan, leaving the woman behind.
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She was so distraught that she decided to hang herself. Her troubled spirit is believed to haunt the mansion, inspiring the story for the movie, “The House That Never Dies.”
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Another Gateway to Hell is Stull Cemetery, where a burned-down church once stood. Believed to be home to the devil himself, the cemetery comes to life every Halloween when noises have been caught on tape as well as sightings of a ghostly child.
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As such, hundreds come to the cemetery each year on All Hallow’s Eve to experience the scares for themselves. It has been fenced off, and police patrol it daily for this very reason.
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Founded in 1887, Chacarita Cemetery is Buenos Aires’ largest cemetery and is where corpses were delivered daily during the city’s yellow fever break.
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The graveyard hasn’t exactly been kept up, touting overgrown grass, empty crypts and a whole lot of cobwebs. Visitors have seen ghosts in the trees and a taxi with a license plate that reads “666.” And don’t enter after midnight, as locals believe doing so means you’ll end up staying forever.
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What happens to the heirs of famous firearm manufacturers? Well, just visit the Winchester Mystery House. Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., known for the production of Winchester rifles, began construction of the mansion in 1884, and it never stopped until she died in 1922.
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She believed she was cursed and haunted by the ghosts of people killed by Winchester rifles. After all, her husband and father-in-law both died in the early 1880s, and her daughter died five weeks after birth in 1866. So, when a spirit told her to never stop building the house if she wanted the spirits to leave her alone, that’s what she did. The 160-room house is filled with architectural oddities, including staircases that lead to nowhere, doors that open onto walls, crooked hallways, spy holes and hidden passageways.
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South Africa’s oldest building, the Castle of Good Hope, is where most of the ghost sightings in South Africa occur. After all, it was a place of torture, where prisoners were placed in a deep, dark hole and left to drown by the ocean’s waves.
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Governor van Noodt, a wicked general who died of a heart attack after he was cursed by a soldier he'd sentenced to death, haunts the castle grounds. Visitors have also reported screams coming from the black hole and a bell tower that rings by itself.
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Castle Frankenstein is the setting for Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” It’s where a creepy alchemist conducted strange experiments in an effort to find immortality. Yes, he may have even created a monster said to be lurking in the woods, enticing virgins to play, never to be found again.
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Tours are available, but October is the best time to visit when it hosts one of Germany’s biggest Halloween parties. Those extra daring visitors will want to venture up the tower to discover how gruesome the Middle Ages really were.
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Back in Massachusetts, the Omni Parker House is haunted by former owner Harvey Parker who opened the hotel in 1855. It was also the inspiration behind Stephen King's short story, \"1408,\" about a haunted hotel room. The book details paranormal activity similar to that of Room 303 at Omni Parker House. That includes strange shadows in the room and the bathtub water turning on randomly.
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At the Omni, it’s Room 303 that’s haunted, however, with reports of strange shadows and bathtub water turning on at random.
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Aren’t all caves a bit scary? That’s certainly the case for this one, where an evil spirit supposedly lived in the 1800s. The Bell Witch would leave the came to torment the family of John Bell, who reportedly heard rattling chains and heavy knocking on walls. John Bell even died under mysterious circ*mstances.
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Today, you can explore the cave for yourself to see if you can find the Bell Witch.
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The Chiajna Monastery was going to be one of the most important churches in all of Romania when it was completed towards the end of the 18th century. But priests abandoned it when they suspected it was haunted.
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It later became a place of refuge for people suffering from the plague, and it’s these spirits that frequent its grounds. Visitors say they’ve seen a female ghost, huge shadows and bells ringing — even though they were destroyed decades ago.
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