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The 26 Most Haunted luxury resort, conservatory for young women, Built in 1796 by General David
junior college. But the strangest mark on its Bradford, Myrtles Plantation is considered to be
Places in the U.S. history came in 1937 when it got a new owner, one of America's most haunted sites. The house

Norman G. Baker. Baker was a millionaire is rumored to be on top of an Indian burial
inventor who decided to pose as a doctor ground and is home to at least 12 different
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(despite having no medical training) and turn the ghosts. Legends and ghost stories abound,
hotel into a hospital that could "cure" cancer. He including the tale of a former slave named
was eventually found out and run out of town, Chloe, who had her ear chopped off by her
Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast, Fall although reports say that his spirit found its way master after she was reportedly caught
River, Massachusetts back to the site—and found some otherworldly eavesdropping. She got her revenge by
Without a doubt, the most famous company, too. The now-operating Crescent poisoning a birthday cake and killing two of the
haunted bed and breakfast in New England is the Hotel is said to be haunted by at least eight master's daughters, but was then hung by her
Lizzie Borden house in Fall River. For those ghosts, ranging from a five-year-old girl to a fellow slaves. Chloe now reportedly wanders
unfamiliar with the story (or the macabre jump- bearded man wearing Victorian clothing. around the plantation, wearing a turban to
rope rhyme), police accused Borden of brutally conceal her severed ear.
killing her father and stepmother with a hatchet Masonic Temple, Detroit
in 1892; she was acquitted of the murders later With its 16 floors, 1,000+ rooms, and The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park,
that year. At the Lizzie Borden Bed and Gothic facade, the Masonic Temple is one of the Colorado
Breakfast Museum, visitors can tour the house most imposing additions to Detroit's skyline. The Stanley Hotel's stately Georgian
or spend the night, even staying in the room According to rumors, there's also more to it than architecture and world-renowned whiskey bar
where Abby Borden was killed. Guests and meets the eye, like hidden passageways and have lured travelers to Estes Park since opening
employees have reported all kinds of strange staircases. The most famous urban myth in 1909. But the hotel reached new levels of
activity in the house, including weeping and associated with the Temple, however, is that of fame after inspiring Stephen King to create the
footstep sounds, an apparition in Victorian-era its architect, George D. Mason: Legend has it fictional Overlook Hotel from The Shining. That
clothing wandering the halls, doors opening and that Mason went bankrupt funding the eerie association aside, many other ghost
closing, and muffled conversations coming from construction and then leapt to his death from the sightings and mysterious piano music have been
vacant rooms. —Randy Kalp roof. You'll be hard-pressed to find facts to back connected to the hotel. The Stanley Hotel leans
up this tale, but it certainly does help explain into its reputation quite cleverly, offering nightly
Whaley House, San Diego people's reports of a ghost climbing the steps to ghost tours and psychic consultations from the
Thomas Whaley built this family estate the roof of the building. in-house Madame Vera. []
in 1857 in San Diego, on the former site of the
city's first public gallows. Shortly after he Poinsett Bridge, Greenville, South
moved in, he reported hearing the heavy Carolina
footsteps of "Yankee" Jim Robinson, a drifter Built entirely out of stone in 1820, the
and thief who was hanged on the site four years oldest bridge in South Carolina is also one of the
before the house was built. Whaley's family state's most haunted spots. The Poinsett Bridge
history ended up being filled with tragic deaths is believed to be frequented by the ghost of a
and suicides, many of which occurred inside the man who died in a car accident there in the
home itself. Some of the family members 1950s, as well as one of a slave. Another eerie
reportedly still haunt the landmark, often legend tells of a mason who died during the
accompanied by cigar smoke and the smell of construction and is now entombed inside.
heavy perfume. Visitors to the site have allegedly experienced
everything from floating orbs and lights to
Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, disembodied voices.
Arkansas
Since its construction in 1886, the Myrtles Plantation, St. Francisville,
Crescent Hotel has served several purposes: Louisiana