Real Haunted Houses, Etc. Near You

I thought it would be fun to share stories and photos of places near where you live that are reported to be haunted.

 

There are reported lots of haunted places in McDonough, Georgia. Here is one bookstore that I've been to. I experienced nothing paranormal while there. At most, I felt a sense of a "presence" as I walked through the aisles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7lC9EK9i50"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7lC9EK9i50

 

I have been here and did have an experience. We went several hours after it had closed and drove slowly along the length of the building. While stopped in front of one of the doors, we heard a loud noise like a door bolt being thrown. It startled us so the driver of the car tried to accelerate and leave. The car was in gear but would not move for several seconds while the engine just revved as if something was holding the car back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEZg-qWwxgE"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEZg-qWwxgE

 

When I was younger, I used to catch my bus for school (yes that long ago) next to a small pond and copse in an area that measured approx. 40 x 40 x 40 feet that held a tragic past.
The story surrounded the drowning of a young girl of about 14 years.
The tale was of suspicious circumstances and that her spirit remained.
appearing on and around November, December.
As time went on there was an attempt to build on the site, but the area was unstable and after a few unsuccessful attempts, the pond was filled in and left overgrow.
Now cleared, one still gets the chill of company if one walks over it/
It is an eerie feeling - no shit!

 

I bet it does feel creepy!

 

Another from Savannah, Georgia - which also has reported tons of haunted places.

I have one photo with anomalies from Bonaventure Cemetery. I was there during the day on my visits and never felt anything, except annoyed by tourists.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=hby4KVSEvwg

 

Yeah it really does, Wythenshawe; or to give it it's original place name 'Wyth in the Shaw' was built of country side that had small and scattered homes; not always hamlets, and there are a few places where gruesome historical tales are known - although retained more by older generations than the "IT Kids of today" - Such a shame, as I told my children when they were young and will do same to my Granddaughter, there is always something out there that we don't know, it is not so much scary, but sad stories. For in reference we must respect the past
- Although, maybe it's just me then

 

Sounds like an interesting place.

 

Cool ! I would love to check this place out . Love the pirate history .On a side note. Black beard was one mean s.o.b. . I read somewhere long ago he would tie candles and fuses into his beard and hair and light them . The smoke would envelope his head and give him a demonic presence to his enemies . He was decapitated and his head hung to the mast of his own ship , the Queen Ann's revenge . Legend has it , his headless body swam around the ship three times . Myth for sure , but interesting lore .

He acknowledged burying treasure before his death . And I could almost bet the pirates who he had bury the treasure he had put to death , yeah he was that kind of guy . Like Ben Franklyn said " three can keep a secret , if two are dead " . It's still considered one of the great missing treasure in the world . And I do believe it may still be out there , if he was the only one left to know of its location .

And its location may just rest in my backyard of the Chesapeake bay, according to my research . The Pirate house seems like one cool place !



I have research

 

Gettysburg Pa. is just over the Md. line , and about an hour from me . It's one the most haunted places in America . It has a huge paranormal activity . Over 51,000 souls were killed or wounded here . It is one of my favorite places , and I just spent three months living there in the r.v. . There are over six ghost tours walking and riding . And there is indeed a heavy sad presence there that looms . I've spent countless hours there on the huge battlefield . It is indeed hollowed ground . There has been numerous sightings of whole phantom battalions . I love history , and this is a VERY special place . Not only in history but in paranormal activity . There were a lot of lives cut short in their prime . It's very eerie late at night or early in the morning before the sun , when the fog looms low on the ground . And many lie in unmarked graves . It is said that Gettysburg could be smelled over twenty miles away during those thee days of battles . The blood , carnage and rotted bodies was horrendous . Not to mention the ones left wounded and waiting to die one the battlefield . It was so bad they buried them in very shallow graves were they fell . This is where embalming the dead in America began , they started embalming the dead soldiers with arsenic to try to preserve them .

This battle was the turning point of the civil war and dictated our nations history . They don't make men like this anymore , who believed in there their cause enough to die for it . Ironically enough neither Lee nor Grant , wanted to fight here . The whole thing was an accident as both sides bumped into each other there . It's an amazing beautiful place .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuNXloAiJIk&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLB39887999340F523"]UNDOCTORED PHOTOGRAPH OF GETTYSBURG GHOSTS - YouTube

 

I'm a HUGE fan of Edgar Allan Poe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-QjgWl1wNk&feature=related"]Creepy.E02 2005.Grave of Edgar Allan Poe Ghost of the Silver Run Tunnel Pt 2/5 - YouTube

I visit his grave site sometimes it's about six miles from me . And I've taken the church catacomb tour once . It was fantastic . Never saw anything , but what a neat spooky place . Many of the prominent people who built Baltimore and Md. are buried here .

And another mystery has grew here . Every year for the past 60 or so years on Poe's birthday a mysterious stranger visits his grave in the wee hours . He or she leaves three red roses and a bottle of cognac on his grave . Poe was fond of the bottle you know ? Anyway for the first time last year the "visitor" did not show . Perhaps now they too have passed . It was a great tribute , to a literary giant .

 

You know they found the QAR, right?

http://www.batangastoday.com/blackbeard-ship-18th-century-artifacts-recovery-by-archaeologists-resumes-photo/13431/

 

here's mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXn-BT3Z03I"]Frankenstein's castle 1 - YouTube

 

I live in New Orleans, nuff said,

 

Sounds awesome..

 

Yes, I believe I heard about that.

 

I went here at night to try to get some pics from the sidewalk. My camera would not function while there. I went a couple of blocks away and the camera was fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C38ZvJjqX4c"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C38ZvJjqX4c

 

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Yeah it is a neat tradition . I hope if the person has passed , someone takes on the tradition . It would be good for some of the frat kids close by , to continue on the tradition .

Here is another one close to me you may have heard of Aerianne , this one has made its way to national urban legend I believe . As I kid I remember hearing if you said black Aggie 10 times in a mirror , she would appear behind you . Kids right ? I have been to the grave but the statue was long removed .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ae5HeLv2BA"]A Black aggie story - YouTube

 

That's pretty creepy.

 

Right behind me is a 3 story wooden house that was built in the 1890's (I've been told). It has long had a reputation of being haunted, with a number of renters (at least 5 off the top of my head) that ALL described the same "ghost"...a man in a black suit coming up through the floor. They all also told us of things falling, cabinets opening, and sometimes the people would be awakened out of a sleep by "something" pulling their hair. And for the record, right after one of them would tell us of these "occurences"...they would soon just leave that house with quickness. As in you would see them moving like one load, and BAM...gone. For years, nobody would stay there longer than 3 or 4 months.

Growing up, both my brother and I knew our house was haunted, but oddly enough neither of us discussed this as we were growing up. We only discussed this after we were adults, and had moved away...but I came BACK! :2thumbsup:

We both would hear someone walking behind us (on a daily basis as we practiced the piano) and sit in a chair. Chairs would rock, and things would sometimes move. We both saw things. I have seen a marble egg levitate (more than once) and roll around on a level surface. About 15 years ago, the spirits here finally found peace - or rather, quit with their tomfoolery, and it's not really "active" now.

I've visited Charleston...and some of those places feel like they are just teeming with spirits. Has anybody ever visited the Round Church in Charleston...and walked that cemetary? mercy sakes...that was something. (I loved it.)