The Asylum They Couldn’t Close: Inside Pennhurst’s Legacy of Suffering and Spirits
Pennhurst opened in 1908 as the Eastern Pennsylvania Institution for the Feeble Minded and...
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Ghosts Below the Waterline: The Haunted Voyage of the RMS Queen Mary
The RMS Queen Mary made her maiden voyage in 1936 and spent the next three decades being more...
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The Bloody Pit: Massachusetts’ Haunted Hoosac Tunnel and Its Two Hundred Dead
The Hoosac Tunnel took twenty-four years to build, cost twenty million dollars, and killed nearly...
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Room 311 and the Woman Who Never Checked Out: Tennessee’s Haunted Read House Hotel
The room key is physical — a metal key for a manual lock, the kind used in 1927 when Annalisa...
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Where Vietnam’s Last Emperor Wept and Never Truly Left: Haunting of Hue’s Imperial Citadel and the Forbidden Purple City
You enter the Imperial City through the Noon Gate, its tiered stage above the central archway...
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The Kingdom Built on Bodies: Haunting of Haiti’s Citadelle Laferrière, the Caribbean’s Largest Fortress
The Citadelle Laferrière does not yield its location without effort. It sits at the summit of a...
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The Firing Cannon and the Soldiers Who Never Stopped Guarding It: Haunting of El Morro Fortress, Havana, Cuba
The tunnel into El Morro is narrow, its ceiling blackened by centuries of salt air, and it opens...
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The White Witch Who Still Rules Her Plantation: Rose Hall Great House and Jamaica’s Most Famous Ghost
After dark at Rose Hall Great House in Saint James Parish, Jamaica, the guides tell you not to...
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The Drug Lord’s Paradise and the Ghosts He Left Behind: Haunting of Hacienda Nápoles, Colombia
Pablo Escobar purchased Hacienda Nápoles in 1978, located 93 miles east of Medellín in Puerto...
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The Prison Where 111 People Died Before Lunch: Haunting of Carandiru Penitentiary, São Paulo, Brazil
The prison was designed in 1920 to hold prisoners under the modern principles of Brazilian...
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