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Woman Hollering Creek.
Saint Hedwig, Texas

Woman Hollering Creek

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.
31 days of halloween

Dial-a-Ghost on Thomas Edison's Least Successful Invention: the Spirit Phone

Building devices to talk with the dead was a popular diversion for inventors in the 1920s.
Natalie Zarrelli October 18, 2016
Monroe, Connecticut

The Warrens’ Occult Museum

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.
Manětín, Czechia

Kostel Svatého Jiří Ghost Church

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
black magic

6 Dark Places Aleister Crowley Performed His Particular Brand of Magick

A guide to traveling with "the wickedest man in the world."
Molly McBride Jacobson September 22, 2016
music

Watch Early Rotoscoping Turn Cab Calloway into the Ghost of a Walrus

Simultaneously eerie, cute, jazzy, and artistic.
Molly McBride Jacobson September 21, 2016
Cryptozoology & Paranomal Museum in Littleton.
Littleton, North Carolina

Cryptozoology & Paranormal Museum

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.
Ghost Palace Hotel as seen from the main entrance
Baturiti, Indonesia

Ghost Palace Hotel

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.
Greenfield, Massachusetts

Eunice Williams Covered Bridge

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.
City Hall Station
film locations

8 Spooky New York Places That Should Be in the New Ghostbusters Movie

There's something strange in these neighborhoods.
Meg Neal July 15, 2016
Place where you should stop to hear the ghosts
New Hope, Pennsylvania

Van Sant Crybaby Bridge

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.
An illustration from one of Rose Mackenburg's articles for the <em>Winnipeg Tribune.</em>
ghosts

The Female Ghost Buster Who Rooted Out Spiritual Fraud for Houdini

How Rose Mackenberg took on phantoms and fakes.
Tony Wolf May 5, 2016
The Golden North Hotel
Skagway, Alaska

The Golden North Hotel

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.
notes from the field

Found: A Creepy Note From a House's Former Inhabitant

"I WILL ALWAYS BE WATCHING YOU," the 15-year-old note read.
Sarah Laskow March 16, 2016
Photochrom image of the interior of St. Joseph’s Chapel, c. 1900.
monks

Psychic Archeology, Or How to Dig Up the Dead With Their Own Advice

Atlas Obscura February 22, 2016
music

Michael Jackson And Stephen King Made a Film About Ghosts, and It Tanked, Hard

Eric Grundhauser December 16, 2015
Permanently Closed
Pomfret, Connecticut

The Abandoned Village of Bara-Hack

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.
victorian

Why Can’t Ghosts Let Go of the Victorian Era?

Dan Nosowitz October 29, 2015