The Mills House Wyndham Grand Hotel

 in Charleston

This hotel was burnt down by a fire in 1861 and rebuilt in 1968. It is said to be haunted by soldiers who roam the halls at night. Some people say that they have seen the spirit of Commander Robert E. Lee roaming the halls. Others say that they have seen appearances of women wearing hoop skirts in the lobby. 

Works Cited:

 “The most haunted hotels in each state.”  Insider, Darcy Schlid, September 26, 2019, https://www.insider.com/most-haunted-hotel-in-each-state#south-carolina-the-mills-house-wyndham-grand-hotel-in-charleston-40

                                                                                                                            Kassidy Reynolds

Eastern State Penitentiary Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Information by Jazzmine Carlisle

It opened up more than 180 years ago and was known for the strict discipline there. It was the worlds' first actual penitentiary. Some notable inmates are Victor Babe, convicted of murder, and Scare Face, Chicago's most famous mob boss. His real name is Alpha Capone. He spent his months there in luxury. Scar face was there for eight months, and Victor was there for life. 

Information from: Work cited  

    “History of Eastern State.” Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, www.easternstate.org/research/history-eastern-state. 

Tyler Shensky

In the Queen Anne Hotel in California, there is a ghost that lurks and haunts in room 104. Normally when someone talks about ghosts people get scared but apparently, the ghost of Mary Lake is very different. People have stated that the ghost unpacks stuff for them. When they wake up the luggage is repacked so they can leave and not have to pack up. There also have been reports that fallen pillows have been put back on the bed and that she tucks the person sleeping in 410 in at night and sings the theme song. She cleans up room 104 and keeps whoever is inside the room safe and protects them. Supposedly this is a friendly ghost that people are not afraid of and others don't mind sleeping in there. This has been an interesting ghost as she originally lived there taking care of children so she still takes care of people even in the grave. 

Ghost Source 

://www.ghostsource.com/hauntings/"queen-anne-hotel".php

Tayla Harrell

Winchester Mystery House in San Jose California

 This house is a big mansion with many twists and turns. The owner of the house Sarah, bought a house with 8 rooms but she kept adding onto the house. When she died the mansion was very big:  160 rooms, 47 stairways and fireplaces, 6 kitchens, 2,000 doors, and it was 24,000 square feet. No one really knows why Sarah kept building onto the house or why it was built so weirdly. This weird house would cost 71 million dollars if it was built today. 

 “Welcome to the Winchester Mystery House®”, Winchester Mystery House,  20 October 2020, https://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/ . 

Charles Manigault

11-10-20

Franklin Castle

Human bones were found in a closet in 1975. Franklin Castle was built in the 1880s by a banker Hannes Tiedemann. This building spent several decades as a German cultural center. Tales of Franklin Castle have grown weird and scary.

    Ugc. “Franklin Castle in Cleveland.” Atlas Obscura, Atlas Obscura, 15 Aug. 2014, www.atlasobscura.com/places/franklin-castle.

Jayden Chavis

11-10-20

Stull Cemetery in Stull, Kansas

Some people believe that this cemetery is a gate to hell. This burned out the church is supposedly haunted because this is where Satan comes to visit the grave of his child. In the '70s a student published a newspaper article stating that the devil haunts this town every night and that there were witches who went to that church before it burnt down. Every year people vandalize the cemetery thinking it's a portal to hell even though its just a legend. 

Article published by Nathan Vickers and Chris Oberholtz

31 oct, 2019, https://www.kctv5.com/news/local_news/seemingly-harmless-ghost-story-gets-out-of-hand-in-stull-kansas/article_cbf67bbe-fbe4-11e9-95fc-2fa8047b620e.html

 Luna Mansion in Los Lunas,New Mexico

information by Wynter Figueroa

The Luna Mansion was built in 1880 by the Santa Fe Railroad Company. It is known for its great steaks, hot chili, and great deserts; but that’s not all it’s known for. It’s also renowned for its resident ghosts. Legend has it that in the 1970s was when the ghost of Josefina began to appear. Employees have described ghost Josefita as being very real, dressed in 1920s period clothing. Josefina has also been seen in the two bedrooms on the second floor, an attic storeroom, and at the top of the stairs leading to the second floor.

Weiser Kathy. ‘’Haunted Luna Mansion in Los Lunas, New Mexico.’’ Los Lunas 1881. https://www.legendsofamerica.com/nm-lunamansion/

                             Miayawna Murray

Lizzie Borden House.

I don't necessarily think her house was haunted; it was just a mystery crime honestly, the place is huge. I wouldn’t think someone like her could have murdered her parents just because there’ no facts that they didn’t have a good relationship. It's just a conspiracy but you can prove it. To me it seems like a lot of what she says; he says. But maybe it could have been a ghost. I do think ghosts and spirit things are real, but I'm not scared of them. Lizzie Borden was arrested and charged with the horrific murder of her father and stepmother, which both were ax to death. Lizzie never found not guilty because there's no hard rock evidence against her.

CBS News. “Lizzie Borden Case: Images from One of the Most Notorious Crime Scenes in History.” CBS News, 1 Apr. 2020,  www.cbsnews.com/pictures/lizzie-borden-case-images-crime-scene.

Dock Street Theatre in North Charleston, South Carolina 

BY Alexis Ruff 

The theatre opened on February 12, 1736. The Dock Street Theatre was the first building in America to be used exclusively for theatrical performance. The place became haunted by this lady that they referred to as Nettie took her life by, purposely leaning over the balcony and falling to commit suicide. The theatre burned down and was turned into a hotel called “Planters Hotel” which was built at the same stop where the theatre was at. The 1886 earthquake in Charleston ruined the hotel so, they turned it back into a theatre. The Dock Street Theatre now is not only haunted by ghosts but, by a prominent actor from the 19th century who worked and frequented the hotel. The original place that the Dock Street Theatre was on is still haunted to this day. 

Jarvis, Robin. “Most People Don’t Know The Haunted History Behind The Beloved South

Carolina Theatre.” Only In Your State , South Carolina, 02 August 2017, https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/south-carolina/haunted-theater-sc/

Here are some pictures of the inside and outside of the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, SC

information By: Cassidy   This penitentiary is known to be very haunted. The history behind this penitentiary is pretty crazy. They locked the prisoners up in a cell and they were not able to talk to anyone or see anyone all day. The prisoners ended up going insane. Just imagine what it would be like to get a death sentence and not be able to talk to anyone for the rest of your life. And a lot of them started to commit suicide because of that. There was a disease going around too and that´s one of the causes for deaths in there also. Prisoners would get punished very harshly. There was one prisoner who complained about a ghost being in his cell and talking to him.

Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia,PA

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Editor: Kealen Bedoya

    In the great state of New Jersey outside of their cities lay a huge forest called the Pinelands. The Pinelands is home to many ghost towns that all use to be thriving villages that were home to cranberry farms and legends. Disaster would strike the area in the mid-1900s and a great fire would cause many villages to burn to the ground. Today only legends remain about the area and how that great fire could occur, the area is deserted with only a few pieces of structures that remain from the fire and small new villages that contain people to this day.

    “New Jersey Pinelands Overview - Pine Barrens Ecosystem.” Pinelands Preservation Alliance, 23 Oct. 2019, pinelandsalliance.org/learn-about-the-pinelands/pinelands-overview/. 

              The Ohio State Reformatory                                                                                                            The Ohio State Reformatory was built in 1886 by Cleveland architect Levi Coalfield. But first held inmates in 1896. The Reformatory was called the ‘’intermediate Penitentiary.'  Because they exempted inmates that were too young for juvenile corrections. The goal of the Reformatory was ‘’reform’’ and rehabilitate their inmates. The Reformatory had high success rates with OSR. Religion, education, and trade. Inmates were admitted for 18 months. By the early 1960s, the state pulled its financial support from the Reform model. In 1990 the Reformatory closed down.                                                                                                                                                                  by Austin Kessing

"About the Ohio State Reformatory.’’ Doesn't say when it was written. https://writing.citationmachine.net/edit/3586252e-7c6e-464b-9611-af0f0c863c1a

By: Sterling Givens

The Indiana Medical Museum sits on the grounds of the former Central State Hospital on the west side of Indianapolis. In 1896 the Pathological Department started to experiment on the physical causes of mental disease. Central State Hospital known as "Indiana Hospital For The Insane" opened in 1848. For over 150 years they housed patients with all kinds of diagnoses, from dementia, depression, hysteria, etc... By the 1950s the hospital had housed around 2,500 patients with new medical discoveries the patients population died down. In 1994 the Central Hospital was shut down due to the claims of abuse to patients.

By: Sterling Givens

Here is a side view picture of the museum. as it sits on 160 acres of land on the west side of Indiana.

Work Cited:

"Indiana Medical History Museum-Home." Indiana Medical History Museum, 2017. imhm.org

Editor: Londyn Clemons-Vice

Place: Iolani Palace 

Origin: Honolulu

This palace is located in Honolulu, an unknown smell of perfume fills the air at night. The second story window, of the room, was once Princess Kapiolani, people think that the perfume is the dead princess aroma, the building gives Ghost Tours. Many reporters go on ghost tours, to see if weird things happen, There are many reports that weird things happen in a lot of different places near this building.  

    Barr, Lois. “HAUNTED HONOLULU CAN'T GIVE UP THE GHOST DEAD PRINCESSES, HUMAN SACRIFICE VICTIMS SAID TO WALK WITHOUT FEET.” The Buffalo News, 31 Oct. 1993, buffalonews.com/news/haunted-honolulu-cant-give-up-the-ghost-dead-princesses-human-sacrifice-victims-said-to-walk/article_42288d83-e1c7-5014-88c8-26450422df22.html. 

Londyn Clemons-Vice

The Axe Murder house by Haley Wrenn

This house is located in Montgomery County in Iowa and it is known for holding the place of a family of 8 who was murdered. They were killed in their beds and the killer put their clothes over their heads and left the mother exposed but they were no trail of sexual assault, The murder happened between June 9 and June 10. The murder investigation lasted for over 10 years trying to find the killer. It is one of the creepiest places and still is today. 

"The Villisca Axe Murders." Iowa Cold Cases, 5 July 2020, from https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/villisca-axe-murde

Lord's Tavern in Natchez Mississippi was underlying 1789 by Richard King and it was believed to be spooky by the mishap in 1930 where they discovered 3 bodies behind a chimney in a divider and incidentally, one of the skeletons ends up being the mistress of the proprietor and a few people have detailed some paranormal exercises like pictures in the Taverns mirror and a crying infant all through the restaurant.

King’s Tavern in Natchez, Mississippi

Logan Garrett

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/magnolia/2018/10/20/list-haunted-houses-ghost-stories-mississippi/1682810002/

Marie Delphine Macarty was a very cruel woman. She was accused of murdering her three husbands, when the second husband died the people became suspicious. There were a lot of reports that she was abusing her daughters, which she was. She had also beaten, starved, and tortured her slaves, that’s when a former slave had set fire to the building that he was chained in to finally show the city what Macarty had done. She died in that fire, most believe that her spirit haunts that very place.

Maya Adkins

The Haunted Lalaurie Mansion

    "The Haunted LaLaurie Mansion." New Orleans Ghost, Cemetery & Haunted Tours, www.frenchquarterphantoms.com/. 

Maya Adkins

The Stanley Hotel has located in Colorado. The famous author, Stephen King, stayed in the hotel and came up with the book idea called The Shining. There are many scary stories about the hotel and many ghost sightings along with it. The hotel finished building in 1909 with 420 rooms and four stories. When the owner of the hotel died it is said that people can see his ghost at the receptionist's desk. 

Stephen Vanscyoc

STEPHANIE EARLS, et al. “Colorado's Stanley Hotel Offers Plenty of Haunted Tales.” Colorado Springs Gazette, 30 Dec. 2019, gazette.com/life/colorados-stanley-hotel-offers-plenty-of-haunted-tales/article_608df8f4-5c12-57c0-a362-e3dc70103bfa.html. 

        Crescent Hotel and Spain Eureka Springs, Arkansas

                                    CARLOS CORONEL REYES

In 1886 the Crescent hotel was being created. While it was being created a guy identified as "Michael" fell to his death in the grand building. When the hotel was finished people began to die without no reason they have closed the hotel for a while then they decided to open it. In 1908 a woman fell a died but they suspects say she was pushed. After that happened the building remained closed over the years.

"The 1886 Crescent Hotel and Spa." The Atlas Obscura. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-1886-crescent-hotel-and-spa-eureka-springs-arkansas 

Angel Lopez

Shanghai Tunnels Portland, Oregon 

    The Shanghai tunnels consist of a lot of passages going from Portland's old town(Chinatown) to Portland's central downtown area. The tunnels also connect to the Willamette River. Over 150 years ago there was a legend of Shanghaiing. It was the capture and illegal sale of able-bodied men to sea captains in need of crewmen. 

work cited:  “The Shanghai Tunnels.” Portland Ghosts, 5 Oct. 2020, portlandghosts.com/the-shanghai-tunnels/. 

Angel Lopez