Ancient Ram Inn, Gloucestershire, England
This quaint little Inn in Gloucestershire plays host to ghost-enthusiasts year-round. The building, which was built on a 12th century pagan burial ground, is the very picture of a haunted house, complete with creaky floorboards, musty smells, chilly rooms, and dimly lit hallways. Completing the picture is the accompanying accounts of paranormal activity - ghostly residents including two demons (a succubus and incubus) and a witch, poltergeists, and orbs – and the knowledge that eight patrons had to be exorcised after their visit. The sinister history of the Inn, which includes murder, child sacrifices, pagan rituals and suicide, thoroughly explains the spirits present between the walls.
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Bhangarh Fort, India
Located in Rajasthan, the ruins of Bhangarh Fort are purported to be the single most haunted site in India. According to legend, an evil sorcerer named Singhia cursed the palace after a beautiful Princess rebuffed his advances. He condemned the Fort's inhabitants to death, swearing that their souls would be imprisoned in there forever. The whole town of Bhangarh was abandoned thereafter, and even the Indian Government has prohibited anyone to enter the area after sunset. Eerie voices echo from the Fort, restlessness grips anyone who enters the site, animals flee from the place at nightfall, and it is said that anyone who enters after nightfall, will not return.
Borley Rectory, Essex, England
Borley Rectory was a Victorian mansion which was built in 1862 by Reverend Henry Dawson Ellis Bull. The building was built on the site of a 14th century Benedicine Monastery. The story goes that a nun from the Bures convent, 7 miles southeast of Borley fell in love with a monk from the monastery. They decided to elope to be together, but were discovered. A friend of the monk who was to drive a carriage to help them escape was beheaded. The monk was hanged, and the nun was bricked up alive in the walls of the vaults beneath the rectory. The trio are now said to haunt the grounds of the house.
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Eastern State Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, U.S.
At the height of its use, the Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania crammed 1,700 prisoners into cells, including the infamous Al Capone, in 1929. But as early as the 1940s, it was the unsettling spirits that started giving the guards and inmates trouble. Manifestations included evil cackling, shadowy figures, ghostly faces in cellblocks and eerie voices echoing the halls. It is also often reported that Al Capone was tormented by the spirit of James Clark, a man he murdered in the St Valentine’s Day massacre. The site was abandoned as a prison in 1971, and currently holds ghost tours instead.
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Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh Castle is often claimed to be one of the most haunted spots in Scotland, and it is located in what may well be the most haunted city in all of Europe, Edinburgh. The fortress was constructed on top of the volcanic Castle Rock 900 years ago as a military fortress. Visitors to the castle have witnessed apparitions including Lady Janet Douglas of Glamis, who was burned at the stake for witchcraft, a phantom piper who got lost in the castle’s underground passages, French prisoners, and colonial prisoners from the American Revolutionary War. The castle is best known for the headless drummer who has roamed its halls for centuries and who is often heard in the night.
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The Myrtles Plantation, Louisiana, U.S.
Built in 1769 by General David Bradford, The Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana is home to at no fewer than twelve ghosts. Rumours abound that ten people were murdered at the Myrtles Plantation, though only one murder – that of William Winter, whose ghosts crawls up to the seventeenth stair where he died – has been confirmed. The most famous ghost roaming the Plantation is that of Chloe, a slave who became the house owner’s mistress and was subsequently hanged for her adultery
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Poveglia, Italy
Located between Venice and Lido, Poveglia is an entire haunted island uninhabited and off-limits to visitors. The rumoured history of the island leaves little doubt about why bell towers clang, and moans and screams echo from across the waters. Originally a self-governing island, over time Poveglia was used as a burial ground for victims of the plague, and accommodation for soon-to-be victims. Both dead and barely alive bodies were burned, buried or left to rot. Rumours also abound that a mental hospital was erected on the island in 1922, where a doctor performed gruesome experiments on his patient, before going crazy himself and jumping off the bell tower.
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Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England
Nestled in the countryside of Norfolk, England, Raynham Hall was built by Sir Roger Townshend and has been in the Townshend family for 300 years. It also houses the most famous photograph of a ghost, the Brown Lady. The photo was captured by Country Life magazine in 1936, and depicts a white figure descending stairs. Stories of a ghost haunting the Hall started in 1835 - when guests present at a Christmas party in the house described and sketched an apparition dressed in brown – and ran rampant throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Brown Lady is said to be the ghost of Lady Townshend - second wife of Viscount Townshend – who is rumoured to have been locked up in the house by her husband.
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The Rose Hall Great House, Montego Bay, Jamaica
The most famous house in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Rose Hall is a Georgian Mansion that was built in the 1770s. The paranormal activity that abounds in this house is credited to the legend of Annie Palmer, a black magician who arrived in 1820 and killed her three husbands, various lovers, and slaves. She was murdered in her sleep by a Voodoo priest, but was improperly buried on the plantation. Her ghost has been captured in various tourist photos as it roams the halls. Other ghostly manifestations in the house include hurried footsteps, whispers in the dungeon, faces in the mirror, babies crying, music, and tapping on the walls.
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Stanley Hotel, Colorado, U.S.
The Stanley Hotel in the Colorado Rockies is the hotel that inspired Stephen King’s The Shining, and is a popular destination for ghost hunters. Numerous ghostly encounters have been reported throughout the hotel including the ghosts of the original owners of the hotel, Freelan Stanley and his wife, roaming different areas, keeping an eye on admin tasks, playing the piano, dressed in formal attire and phantom children running in the halls.
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The Tower of London, London, England
Located on the North Bank of the River Thames, London, The Tower of London was constructed by William the Conqueror in 1078. The building has served various purposes over the centuries – armoury, prison, torture and execution room, treasury, royal residence, public records office – but currently holds the title as the most haunted site in London. The most famous ghost that roams the Tower is Anne Boleyn, who one of the wives of Henry VIII, and beheaded in the Tower in 1536. Her ghost has been spotted on several occasions, sometimes carrying her head under her arm. Other apparitions who haunt the expansive building include English monarch Henry VI, who was murdered inside Wakefield Tower, the “White Lady”, whose aroma wafts around her haunting place, and Margaret Pole, a woman who was hacked to death and screams throughout the tower with her executioner at her heel.
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Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky
Waverly Hills Sanatorium was opened in 1910 on the highest hill in southern Jefferson County. The facility accommodated 40 to 50 tuberculosis patients in an age when the treatment could sometimes be worse than the disease. In all, an estimate sixty-four thousand patients died within the walls of the Sanatorium. The site has a chilling history of mass deaths and patient abuse during the its tenure as geriatric hospital. Today, the hospital has it all: cold spots, disembodied voices, and ghosts roaming the halls.
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The Whaley House, San Diego, California, U.S.
The Whaley House, in San Diego’s Old Town, was officially considered the most haunted place in the United States by the U.S. Commerce Department in the 1960s. The house was constructed in 1857 by Thomas Whaley, on a partial cemetery, and over the centuries accumulated numerous restless spirits. The spirits sighted include Whaley and his wife, Whaley’s daughter who appears like a realistic child, a thief Yankee, Jim Robinson, who was hanged on the site and the family dog, Dolly Varden, who licks bare legs of women.
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