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Located right next to the village of Glamis, in Angus, Scotland, is an imposing turreted fortress called Glamis Castle. The structure looks like something out of a dark fairy tale, with lofty towers, turrets and very thick surrounding walls, and it has a rather long and storied history. It has been the home of the... Read more »

In September of 1956, the eminent engineer Dr. Harvey Slatin and his artist wife, Yeffe Kimball, purchased a 4-story red brick residential building at 11 Bank Street in New York City’s Greenwich Village. The structure was around 125 years old, and their plan was to renovate it and restore it into its former glory as... Read more »

Hauntings come in all shapes and sizes, and they are always mysterious enough as it is. Yet while many of these feature fleeting phenomena witnessed sporadically by a smattering of individuals, others prove to be much more potent and persistent than others. In some cases, the weirdness comes hard and fast, and one such case... Read more »

Throughout history there have been myriad tales of strange ghostly phenomena, involving ghosts, specters, and demonic forces from beyond our understanding. Some of these have been lost or muted in the mists of time, leaving us to wonder and speculate on just what is going on, banishing them to the limbo between real history and... Read more »

Tucked away within the city of Manchester, in North West England, is a suburb by the name of Gorton. Known for its rich history and historical architecture, notably Gorton Monastery, a 19th-century High Victorian Gothic former Franciscan friary, it is a place also steeped in lore and tales of hauntings. One of the more spectacular... Read more »

In 1960, 11-year-old Virginia Campbell moved from Ireland into the quiet residential area of Park Crescent, in the Clackmannanshire town of Sauchie, Scotland, along with her mother, Annie, and her much older 30-year-old brother, Thomas, his wife Isabelle, and two children. At the time, Virginia was described as a shy child who kept to herself... Read more »

There seem to be certain haunting cases in which a person has been locked to a certain place, perhaps in a sense imprisoned there or tethered there by some calling. Born in upstate Syracuse on Sept. 18, 1833, Samuel Abbott became a decorated Civil War hero fighting for Union forces working his way up from volunteer ensign to first lieutenant before his duties there were done, serving in Company E of the 12th New York State Volunteer Infantry. He would go on to spend 50 years as a state civil se...

Many rural localities of the world have their own strange and spooky traditions, things which are firmly entrenched within the myths and lore of the land. Such legends are very often imbued with the paranormal and forces beyond out understanding, seemingly pure myth, but accepted wholeheartedly by those who see these things as a part of reality as they know it. In the remote, rural areas of Spain there is one such belief that has remained ingrained upon the consciousness and perhaps even the la...

In February of 1970, police officer Bob Crawford was called to an apartment on Church Street, in St. Catharines, in Ontario, Canada, on a typical domestic disturbance call. Things were wrapped up and the officer was about to leave when a woman by the name of Barbara Page flagged him down and breathlessly requested his assistance. Thinking she was in big trouble; Crawford followed her back to her apartment in the next block over and found the place in an utter state of disarray. Furniture had be...

Hotels are in some ways inherently creepy places to begin with. How many people have been on that bed, putting their head to that pillow, sharing the same space that you occupy now? All of these people with different lives and paths, staying in that same place, their time there overlapping in time, it is all rather spooky when you think about it. What has gone on in that room and who has passed through its walls? Who has been in there with you? Such questions become even eerier when you are sta...