The Gallows Still Creak: Boise’s Old Idaho Penitentiary and Its Executed Dead
The Old Idaho Penitentiary opened in 1872 and operated for one hundred and one years before...
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The Suicide Pact of 1896: Maine’s Wood Island Lighthouse and Its Unanswered Cries
On June 2, 1896, a dispute over unpaid rent on a remote Maine island ended with two men dead and a...
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The Unsinkable Ghost: Molly Brown’s House and Denver’s Most Beloved Spirit
There is a smell in certain rooms of the Molly Brown House that has no source anyone can...
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POWs and Poltergeists: Haunting of Springfield’s Pythian Castle
There is a castle in Springfield, Missouri — not a metaphor, not a facsimile, but a stone...
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The Colonel’s Last Drink: Haunting of Austin’s Historic Driskill Hotel
The Driskill Hotel rises from Brazos Street in Austin, Texas the way Colonel Jesse Driskill...
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The House Where Three Wars Left Their Dead: Haunting of Vicksburg’s McRaven House
The house on Harrison Street in Vicksburg does not look like a single building because it is not....
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The Owner Who Never Checked Out: Why Professional Athletes Refuse to Sleep at Milwaukee’s Pfister Hotel
The Pfister Hotel opened in Milwaukee in 1893, built by Guido Pfister and completed by his son...
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The Monster of Royal Street: Madame LaLaurie’s Chamber of Horrors in New Orleans
At 1140 Royal Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter, there is a mansion with wrought-iron...
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The Underground Railroad’s Unfinished Journey: Haunting of Hannah House in Indianapolis
Hannah House isn’t haunted the way most houses are haunted. Built in 1858 by Indianapolis...
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The Chairs That Move Themselves: Rhode Island’s Belcourt Castle and Its Haunted Antiques
Belcourt Castle isn’t haunted by its history — it’s haunted by its contents. Built in...
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