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The following places are alleged to be haunted by ghosts:

Australia

Ghostly face of a murderer or just rippled glass
  • Fremantle Prison in Western Australia visited by both recordings and spirits of the past, the face of Martha Rendell, the only woman to be hanged at Fremantle, appears in the window of the church regularly. The face seems to be caused by ripples in the glass that reflect light in an unusual way, but the resemblance is uncanny.
  • Richmond Bridge, Tasmania The oldest bridge in Australia. Supposedly a ghostly, headless figure is seen walking across the bridge late at night. Some locals believe that the ghost may be that of a convict labourer who was decapitated during an accident that occurred during the bridge's construction, but this incident is often put down to rumour.

Canada

  • Nicholas street hostel, Ottawa, Ontario - Said to be haunted by the ghost of a man wrongly accused of murder and executed. Building is now a youth hostel, but the top floor is as it was one hundred years ago.
  • The McRae Mansion,Vancouver, British Columbia. The ghosts of General A.D. McRae, his daughter Lucille, and murdered nursemaid Janet Smith are said to haunt the mansion.

France

  • Versailles Palace, outside Paris. In 1889 two school teachers on a visit to the Palace grounds walked through a set of Palace gardens, saw a physically deformed man on a swing in eighteenth century clothes, and entered the Chapel Royal where a Mass was being sung on the High Altar. When they returned the next day they found the gardens completely changed and the door they supposedly entered the Chapel Royal through locked with a rusted lock. Staff at the Palace insisted that the grounds they claimed to have walked through didn't exist and the door in question had not been opened since 1789. Both women were sacked from their teaching posts and called liars. Years later, a file was discovered which showed that the grounds at Versailles had once looked as the women described and the man they described seeing matched the description of Queen Marie Antoinette's brother. But the part of the grounds the women had walked through had been remodelled during Napoleon I's reign and details of the grounds up to that point forgotten except in long unread state files. How the two women could have seen the gardens as they had existed in 1789 (one hundred years prior to their visit) when no-one in their lifetime knew what the grounds had been like, and when the only file describing the layout was locked up unread in the French national archive, remains a mystery.

Germany

  • Babenhausen Barracks (German : Babenhausen Kaserne) - now a museum - the ghosts of German soldiers, some in WWII-era uniforms, have been reported; lights are said to turn off and on by themselves, and voices are heard in the basement. Footsteps and commands are heard at night, without physical cause. If a soldier happens to visit the museum and pick up a telephone, a woman will at times be heard "talking backwards", unintelligible, in neither German nor English. The town was the site of a witch hanging in the 19th century CE, and her ghost is said to have seduced -- and then killed -- several German soldiers over the centuries[1].
  • Bernkastel-Kues Cemetery - Several legends have arisen about a ghost in the cemetery; a lady with long white dress, which glides from one grave to another, crying, without touching the ground. In the 19th century, one terrified German hunter shot the creature. He was brought the next day to the military hospital in Koblenz with swelled legs and a fever. He did not recover, and died the next day. Later, legends arose that he was murdered by the white lady.
  • Osnabrueck, Haste - die Karlsteine (the stones of Charlemagne) - in ancient times, the location which is now Osnabrueck was the site of a large Heathen temple, and burial area[2]. When Charlemagne mustered the strength to force the Christian faith upon the Germans in the area, his forces killed the priests and disgraced the graves; and it is rumoured that he himself broke the largest altar stone, to 'prove' the supremacy of the Christian god over the pagan gods. Nevertheless, the magic remained infused in the site, and on the winter solstice and summer equinox, strange orbs of light have been seen over the centuries. Screams can be heard, and stains appear on the stones in the apparent absence of physical cause; this has been attributed in local legend to the murders of the priests[3]. (A few pictures of the forest here.)
  • Reichenstein Castle - according to local legend, Dietrich von Hohenfels and his nine sons robbed the castle. His sons were caught by the authorities and killed, Hohenfels was captured the next day. He asked that he be hanged and his sons' lives be spared, but upon seeing that they were already dead, his head fell from his body. All ten bodies were buried in St. Clement Chapel, in the castle; and the ghost -- headless -- is said to haunt the castle[4].

Himalayas

  • Mount Everest - the ghost of a climber has allegedly been seen by other climbers, two of whom in 1975 claimed to have shared a snow hole with the ghost during their climb. Some who have seen him believe this is the ghost of climber Andrew Irvine, who disappeared in an attempt to summit the mountain with George Mallory in 1924.

Ireland

  • Dublin Castle - in the mid-nineteenth century a member of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland's staff reported seeing two file clerks walk through his office carrying papers and chatting before exiting through a long sealed up door. The same two 'visitors' have supposedly been witnessed by people working in the Castle. On one occasion they were heard talking about Theobald Wolfe Tone, an Irish rebel executed after a failed rebellion in 1798.
  • Leap Castle in County Offaly has been described as the most haunted castle in Ireland. Completely gutted by fire, locals have described seeing the windows at the top of the castle "light up for a few seconds as if many candles were brought into the room" late at night.

Sweden

United Kingdom

  • Chillingham Castle in Northumberland is reputed to be one of the most haunted locations in the world. This remote, eerie castle is regularly featured on paranormal TV and radio programs. It is believed that every room in the castle is haunted by at least one spirit. Famous ghosts include the Blue Boy - the ghost of a young boy whose body was found bricked-up in a wall between two parts of the castle.
  • Cranborne Chase in Dorset in the United Kingdom. A ghost riding a horse bareback and wielding an axe, is supposedly seen. Witnesses described him as looking like a stone age warrior.
  • Upton Court in Upton, Slough, is said to be haunted by a girl (aged around 18) in a blood-stained nightdress on some Friday evenings, seen walking towards the main door of this late-medieval manor house. It is now owned by the Slough Observer newspaper. Similar sights have been reported at the immediately adjacent St Laurence's Church.
  • Temple Newsam is reported to be the most haunted house in Yorkshire, with the most famous ghost being that of Mary Ingram commonly known as the Blue lady,who in her life became deranged after an attack by highway men. Ghosts linked with the more famous residents of Temple Newsam include that of the White lady, this is said to be the ghost of a Lady Jane Dudley née Grey (not the same as Queen Jane) who worked at the house for Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. She fell in love with Lord Darnley and committed suicide when she heard of his marriage to the Queen of Scots.
  • The Old Bailey, London's main criminal court. A person of unclear gender supposedly appears in the building during major trials. These appearances have been allegedly witnessed by judges, barristers and policemen.

United States

(In alphabetical order)

  • 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, Long Island, New York, is reputedly haunted due to a mass murder (the DeFeo family) that took place in the house on the evening of November 13, 1974. The Lutz family moved into the house thirteen months later, but fled 28 days later claiming that the house was haunted. Families have continuously lived in the house since the Lutz family fled and have reported no supernatural disturbances whatsoever. Several people (notably the attorney for the man who murdered the DeFeo family) have come forward to say that the story was concocted as a money making scheme and an appeals strategy over many bottles of wine. Though both George and Kathy Lutz disputed that until each of their deaths, The Amityville Horror franchise has been a huge money-maker for over 25 years and a family currently lives in the home. See The Amityville Horror
  • Boone County, Illinois has several intersecting roads south of the city of Belvidere with a reputation of being haunted, most notably Bloodspoint Road. Stories circulated by the surrounding populace include a phantom vehicle that chases cars, a vanishing farmhouse and various apparitions.
  • Bunnyman Bridge in Fairfax County, Virginia has several stories about an entity (the "Bunnyman") who supposedly haunts the area.
  • Chickamauga Battlefield in Northwest Georgia. Site of one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War. According to some, Chickamauga is haunted by the ghosts of killed soldiers and a frightening entity known as "Green Eyes"
  • Several buildings located at Church Street Station in Orlando, Florida are reported to be haunted. While the attraction itself has been closed down for a few years, many of the remaining local businesses have moved elsewhere because of the paranormal phenomenon. Church Street Station is now, however, a very popular tourist destination for ghost hunters, parapsychologists, and paranormal enthusiasts.
  • Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas - One of the most famous hotels in the state of Texas, and long a gathering place for the state's political players, it is said to be haunted by at least half a dozen ghosts, including the spirit of a young girl heard bouncing a ball down the main stairs; the ghost of founder Jesse Driskill himself; and a "suicide bride" who killed herself in room 427 in 1989.
  • The Lemp Mansion Restaurant and Inn in St. Louis, Missouri is said to be haunted by ghosts of the members of the Lemp family. Four of the Lemp family members committed suicide. Glasses have suddenly flown off the bar, feeling of being watched, apparitions, etc.
  • The Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, Ma, which is now a Bed and Breakfast, may possibly be the most haunted house in America. The sight of a double murder, one of the most famous in US history, sightings, noises and the feeling of a cat walking across people have all been reported.
  • The Masquerade, a now-defunct performance theatre/music venue located in the historic entertainment district of Ybor City, Florida, is said to house ghosts whose moods were dictated nightly by the quality of music played.
  • Moonville, Ohio - A forgotten mining and railroad ghost town, little left behind to mark its place except a railroad tunnel haunted by potentially three spirits. The town's cemetery is also supposed to be haunted.
  • Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana- it claims to be the most haunted house in United States. The Myrtles Plantation is a bed-and-breakfast inn located on the outskirts of St. Francisville, 30 miles north of Baton Rouge.
  • New Orleans, LA - Numerous sites in this city, especially in the French Quarter, claim multiple hauntings. Arnaud's and Brennan's restaurants, the Hotel Monteleone, the park and cathedral at Jackson Square, and most of Royal Street are among the French Quarter's most famous haunted sites. Since Hurricane Katrina, many residents report higher paranormal activity than usual.
  • Ohio State Reformatory - nineteenth century prison reputedly haunted by a Mrs. Glattle, who was killed in 1950 when a gun accidentally fell and discharged.
  • Race Rock Light - a lighthouse on Race Rock Reef, southwest of Fishers Island, New York. The reef is a dangerous set of rocks off the coast of Fishers Island on Long Island Sound and was the site of many shipwrecks.
  • A guest room in the Story Inn in Story, Indiana is supposedly haunted by a ghost known as "the Blue Lady". Little is known of who she might be, or why she might haunt that room, but her presence is mentioned in many separate guestbook entries. She seems more likely to appear if a certian table-lamp is turned on.
  • Sunnyvale, CA - Many Toys 'R' Us employees have reported seeing unusual rearranging of toys in the aisles, and reported sightings of a man in his thirties dressed in old clothing. His name is believed to be Johan, and the store still remains opened today. In fact, most customers are completely unaware of this legend.
  • Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, KY - a former tuberculosis hospital, Waverly Hills has been of strong interest with paranormal investigators, some calling it "the most haunted place on Earth". There are unconfirmed reports of more than 60,000 deaths at the site, and the property owners, workers, and investigators have claimed that at almost anytime you can see strange lights, phantasms and shadows moving around the corridors and rooms of the building.
  • The White House - its kitchens are reputedly haunted by Mamie Eisenhower, wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Mrs. Eisenhower had a difficult relationship with household staff who worked in the kitchens. After her husband left the presidency, kitchen staff during the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies reported finding the kitchen reorganised overnight back to the way Mamie had demanded. After the death 'Mamie reorganisations' were reported by a number of staff in the kitchen who could find no explanation for the changes and none of the security staff on duty saw anyone entering or exiting the kitchens at night. Some staff claimed to have seen Mamie on occasion in the kitchen rummaging through cupboards.
  • The Whaley House in the "Old Town" section of San Diego, California, is a reportedly haunted house. The house was one of the regions first court houses as well as hanging grounds before being converted to a residence. [5]
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