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Old Posted Apr 22, 2018, 2:45 PM
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The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia is a popular attraction especially around Halloween time. Supposedly tortured prisoners of the past still haunt the hallways.

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When Eastern State opened more than 180 years ago, it changed the world. Known for its grand architecture and strict discipline, this was the world’s first true “penitentiary,” a prison designed to inspire penitence, or true regret, in the hearts of prisoners. The building itself was an architectural wonder; it had running water and central heat before the White House, and attracted visitors from around the globe.
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The prison, which closed in 1971, is considered by several sources to be one of the most haunted places in America. It has been featured on the Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures and Most Haunted Live, Syfy's Ghost Hunters and MTV's Fear. Dozens of paranormal researchers visit every year and report that it's a hub of otherworldly activity. Perhaps most convincingly, there are the stories of eerie experiences by visitors, staff, guards and inmates that have corroborated each other since the 1940s.
Cellblock 12 is known for echoing voices and cackling; Cellblock 6 for shadowy figures darting along the walls; Cellblock 4 for visions of ghostly faces. Many people have reported seeing a silhouette of a guard in one of the towers. Footsteps. Wails. Whispers. The same stories, over and over again.
Is Eastern State Penitentiary Really Haunted? - NPR


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This cell was restored to how Al Capone had it while he stayed in the prison


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Old Posted Apr 22, 2018, 6:48 PM
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london is a big “whole damned place is haunted” type. you dig anywhere and BONES.
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^ certainly could be said for cleveland as well!
And here. It's actually one of our claims to fame that shit gets weird here. You want ghosts? We have them -- hundreds of them, including some that are seen falling from the roof of an apartment building downtown so often that the county 911 center has a protocol to follow whenever someone calls it in yet again. You want cryptids? We have them -- including a race of malevolent fae against whom the Cherokee had to wage a war. You want an inexplicable "thing" whose night spent terrorizing the city jail in 1908 was documented in official county court documents and reported in the newspaper? We have it -- apparently it spent its time swinging from the ceiling and crawling up and down the walls while grinning at the inmates until a minister in jail for public inebriation persuaded it to go away. You want a secret society that unleashed an interdimensional being? We have that too -- the society was the Silver Shirts, they were pro-Hitler and devoted to helping him take over Europe while they took over America by magical means, and the supposed being they set loose was last seen bounding down Brook Street in Biltmore Village.

The question though, is why would an unassuming and wealthy resort city have so many ghosts? The likely answer is because from the mid 1800's on up through the 1930's this was a health resort for tuberculosis sufferers. A great many people spent a long time in Asheville coughing up the soft white cheese that used to be their lungs, and a lot of them died doing it. Then there were the asylums which followed the tuberculosis sanitaria. Rich people began to regard Asheville as a fine place to discard their troublesome troubled relatives -- including Zelda Fitzgerald who went insane, was incarcerated at Highland Hospital in the Montford neighborhood, and was incinerated there in 1948 when it caught fire. So... add incurable illness and mental illness, and you end up with a lot of death and a lot of souls who went to their deaths troubled.

Then there is the fact that our history here is unnervingly grim. We are and have always been a resort, which led, of course, to the construction of all manner of grand hotels... which were confiscated by the federal government during World War II and used as prisons and hospitals. One, the Kenilworth Inn, was used as a prison, then as a mental hospital, and it remained so well into the 1990's. They were renowned for their use of the lobotomy there. We've been hit by plague, particularly the Spanish Flu of 1918, which killed so many people here that there are entire rows in Riverside Cemetery devoted to flu victims. Our Civil War history was nasty, including at least one incident in which a slave was whipped to death in front of a group of captured Union soldiers as a warning. There was also a massacre of thirteen Union loyalists in which they were lined up by a ditch and shot in the head. A school caught fire in 1917, killing seven children, and in 1906 a man shot his way down Eagle Street and up Biltmore Avenue, screaming that he was the devil and didn't care if he got sent back to hell. He killed five people and a dog before he himself was lynched, shot more than a hundred times, and his body put on display so people could come and see. And lastly, the 1960's were an especially nasty decade because no fewer than three serial killers were active in and near Asheville at one point or another, and in 1967 the worst plane crash in North Carolina history occurred when a jet took off from Asheville Regional Airport and later collided with a small private plane, killing more than eighty people whose bodies and body parts were torn apart and rained down all over the area near where the plane went down.

So... yeah. Add that up and you get ghosts. A whole damned lot of them.
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Old Posted Apr 22, 2018, 7:04 PM
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Despite its size, its tumultuous history, there are very few hanted places in Paris.

Even the Catacombs of Paris are not really know to be hunted among locals.
What is the most scary inside the Catacombs of Paris is the other humans that could be found there !!
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Old Posted Apr 23, 2018, 5:52 PM
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london is a big “whole damned place is haunted” type. you dig anywhere and BONES.
Pretty much. A few years back a policeman walked in with a plastic bag for the identification centre at work. Inside were some bones, they took one look and confirmed at least one of them to be human - the tiny jawbone of a 3 year old child.

The forensics studied the pieces and found they came from 3 different people - the thighbone of a teenage boy, the skull parts of the toddler, and a rib from an old woman. When we asked where they came from, it was a posh mum who lived right in central London. Apparently her kids dug up these kinds of bones all the time in HYDE PARK, just under the surface and in the heart of the city.

Turns out back in the war, the rubble left after the Blitz was spread out all over the royal park.


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Another gem is St Anne's in Soho. You'll notice that the church appears to be raised, sitting on a platform higher than the street (where the gate starts). That is because it's a mound made of thousands of bodies, being one of the largest unofficial plague pits from the last epidemic that wiped out 100,000 in 1665:


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Old Posted Apr 23, 2018, 6:05 PM
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And here. It's actually one of our claims to fame that shit gets weird here. You want ghosts? We have them -- hundreds of them, including some that are seen falling from the roof of an apartment building downtown so often that the county 911 center has a protocol to follow whenever someone calls it in yet again. You want cryptids? We have them -- including a race of malevolent fae against whom the Cherokee had to wage a war.
Tel me more about the cryptids please. Love that kind of stuff.
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i've lived in chicago for 42 years now and i've never seen, heard, or otherwise experienced a single ghost.

i guess chicago is pretty clean from a spirit-world perspective.
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There was a very well-documented haunting at the New York Public Library in 1984 which resulted in an encounter between an apparition and three scientists from Columbia University's Department of Parapsychology.
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^ yes, I remember watching a riveting documentary about that when I was a kid back in the '80s.
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