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A ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living. Descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike forms. Aside from actual ghostly apparitions, traditional signs of haunting range from strange noises, lights, odors or breezes to the displacement of objects, bells that ring spontaneously or musical instruments that seem to play on their own.
Despite centuries of investigation, there is no scientific evidence that anyone has survived death or any location is inhabited by spirits of the dead.
Nevertheless, ghosts are among the most widely believed of paranormal phenomenon: Millions of people are interested in ghosts, and thousands read ghost stories on Reddit every day. A 2019 Ipsos poll found that 46% of Americans say they truly believe in ghosts. According to a 2009 study by the Pew Research Center, 18% of Americans say they have seen a ghost.
La Llorona is the legend of a woman who has lost her children, and who can be heard, and sometimes seen, weeping in the night. La Llorona (the name means "She who weeps" in Spanish) is in most stories said to be Mexican, although sometimes she is a woman who lived in the American Southwest. … Read more
The Chase Vault is a burial vault in the cemetery of the Christ Church Parish Church in Oistins, Christ Church, Barbados. It is best known for a series of unexplained incidents in the early 19th century involving the coffins within the vault. Each time when the vault was opened to bury a family member, all … Read more
The Winchester Mansion, in San Jose, California, was built by Sara Winchester, the widow of William Winchester. Sarah Winchester’s husband invented the Winchester rifle and made his family very rich. But Sarah believed that a curse had been placed on her family. Her only daughter, Annie, died from marasmus and her husband died from pulmonary … Read more
The Tower of London has a long and bloody history, and of course many ghostly legends are associated with the Tower. This is due, no doubt, to the scores of executions, murders and tortures that have taken place within its walls over the last 1,000 years. Dozens upon dozens of ghost sightings have been reported … Read more
The Demon Drummer of Tedworth is a famous supernatural story told by Joseph Glanvill in his Sadducismus Triumphatus. In 1668, Glanvill published Sadducismus Triumphatus, Latin for The Defeat of Sadducism, meant as A Blow at Modern Sadducism … To which is added, The Relation of the Fam’d Disturbance by the Drummer, in the House of … Read more
The Theatre Royal in Drury Lane is located in the Covent Garden district of London, England facing Catherine Street. It earned the reputation of being the most haunted theatre in all of England. Originally built in 1663 by Thomas Killigrew on Drury Lane, it is the oldest London theatre still in operation. Nell Gwynne, actress … Read more
Borley Rectory is often called “The most haunted house in England.” The site of the rectory originally held a monastery, which was inhabited by Benedictine monks. Subsequent to this, the monastery came under the ownership of the Waldergrave family, who occupied it for three centuries. In the late 1800’s a descendant of the Waldegraves, the … Read more
The Bell Farm has been made notorious through books, TV specials and movies. The legend is the basis of the films An American Haunting (2006) and The Bell Witch Haunting (2004). Between the years of 1817 and 1821, the Bell Family was terrorized by some sort of entity, mostly said to be a woman, who … Read more