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Are there any real haunted places around your area? If so, have you ever visited and/or experienced anything out of the ordinary? Do these places feel extra haunted during the Halloween season?

There's a couple of haunted places that I know of, one being an extremely haunted cemetery a couple of towns over. Legend has it that if you visit this haunted cemetery, your car will chased down by a huge phantom truck after you leave. It's spooked many people. Of course, it's been proven that the phantom truck was merely a redneck who gets angry at the spectators, but there's still fun in the story. I've visited the cemetery once with no ill results. It didn't even feel very creepy to me. And during the Halloween season the place is constantly monitored by cops due to teenagers breaking in and causing mischief.

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Originally Posted by Cateeto

Are there any real haunted places around your area? If so, have you ever visited and/or experienced anything out of the ordinary? Do these places feel extra haunted during the Halloween season?

There's a couple of haunted places that I know of, one being an extremely haunted cemetery a couple of towns over. Legend has it that if you visit this haunted cemetery, your car will chased down by a huge phantom truck after you leave. It's spooked many people. Of course, it's been proven that the phantom truck was merely a redneck who gets angry at the spectators, but there's still fun in the story. I've visited the cemetery once with no ill results. It didn't even feel very creepy to me. And during the Halloween season the place is constantly monitored by cops due to teenagers breaking in and causing mischief.

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Are you referring to Bloods Point Road?Been there many times.I hit most of the Grave Yards.Never saw or felt anything.

Originally Posted by skullboy

Are you referring to Bloods Point Road?Been there many times.I hit most of the Grave Yards.Never saw or felt anything.

Yes!!! I don't know what the deal is, but whenever I visit cemeteries I don't really get many results. I even went to Bachelor's Grove and nothing... But I think that that's because it's become so touristy

There is a town about 30 miles from here with the story of a ghostly train that shows up on the anniversary of it's wreck.
Sadly, a man was killed last week while looking for the train with a group of ghost hunters when a REAL train came around the curve and knocked him off the trestle bridge.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/201...for-ghost.html

If I stop to tell you all the haunted places in my city, I'll be here for hours!

I live in York, which is supposed to be one of the most haunted cities in Europe. I've never been to seriously investigate a location here, but I'm organising a 'Haunted Pub Crawl' for Hallowe'en, so who knows?

We're starting at a pub that I genuinely believe to be haunted - it's called The Black Swan.



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Whenever I go in there, I just feel uneasy, and I always feel drawn to a particular spot on the stairs.

From the pub's website:

Some interesting ghosts have been reported in the Black Swan. One is of a Chalinesque figure that wears a bowler hat and wanders aimlessly through the rooms waiting for someone to arrive. After a while he usually disappears!

Also a beautiful young ghostly woman wearing a long white dress has been staring distractedly into the fire, her face hidden by long black hair. The pub’s strangest ghost is a pair of male legs seen walking around the Landlord’s accommodation. His regular visitations have not been explained!

This used to be tuberculosis sanatorium and mental institution were for sale.
There I could arrange the best party ever. It is said to be haunted. Dunno.

If you want haunted, ya'll need to visit Virginia City, NV...and Bodie. I live very close to both.

In fact we are surrounded by creepy old ghost towns.

VC is inhabited and a tousity sort of place, but it sits upon hundreds of miles of abadoned mine shafts. There are pilings, entrances to the shafts and air vents everywhere. People's yards have been known to get sink holes up there due to collapsing shafts beneath.

The cemetery there is beautiful and so relaxing. I've never been freaked out in cemeteries...in fact I find them very calm and peaceful places to visit and hang out in. When I was little my mother would often take me to local cemeteries to just chill and have a nice walk while reading the epitaphs. LOL not really that odd if you recall, back in the day for the most part people held VERY different ideas about graveyards. They were often prime picnicking territory.

But the VC cemetery definitely has an interesting, slightly spooky feel to it. It might be it's sheer size and the amount of unmarked graves and solitary tombstones in the sagebrush. They say there is one stone which glows at night and anybody can see it, but upon closer investigation they can never find it.

Walking the board walks of the city is an experience in of itself. Sometimes...it feels like you are pushing through a crowd of people, when in fact there are very few around. The history of the place is palpable (and quite violent).

The Gold Hill Hotel, nearby, is particularly known for it's two distinct residents...a female spectre who smells of rose perfume and has a penchent for shaking beds, and a much more amiable gentlemanly presence who has appeared to some and smells distinctly of old cigars.

My grandmother was a tourguide/curator for a much closer spot, a mansion near a lake in a valley here. It has since been closed to the public for funding issues, but during her time they'd expereince quite a bit...running footsteps upstairs when she was closing up alone, strong perfume smells...the portrait of the husband which hung above the fireplace even followed her once with his eyes.

I have many other stories but am sort of pressed for time...I should take some pics of the VC cemetery next time I visit though, it is lovely and very "cemetery-y", dead spindly trees and crumbling monuments and all. Here are some photos from Google...

http://wnhpc.com/wnhpcchs20421-m.jpg





It is my main inspiration for a potential cemetery haunt.

Originally Posted by Ecula

This used to be tuberculosis sanatorium and mental institution were for sale.
There I could arrange the best party ever. It is said to be haunted. Dunno.

I love that picture! Lots of creepy coolness!

Man... I am jealous of all these cool looking places - The Black Swan & the TB ward.

Just remember this when you visit haunted or abandoned places:
"Take nothing but Photographs. Leave nothing but Footprints."

We have an old Woodman of the World building that is huge that is supposedly haunted. It has been closed since the 60s and is in disrepair. Every year around this time the local television stations do a story on it. They sometimes let a few people tour it and I heard on the news this week that they will do open tours this year for a fee. There is a pretty good local folklore about the building and some of my students have gone on a tour there to get a story for the campus paper in the past. They come back pretty spooked about it.

Also, the little theatre on our campus is haunted. The ghost there is named Mortimor and the stage crews have some pretty hair raising stories about things that have happened in the stage areas and prop rooms. Again, we have had some pretty good stories about this.

Another area place is a well known bed and breakfast in the town where I live It is called The Inn of Many Faces and legend has it that there are ghosts that have been seen there. The owners don't play this up, but will talk about it at times. It is a beautifully restored building.

Then there are the stories about the haunted areas of two area cemeteries. One of them has a huge monument that seems to wink at you. It is especially true when a train comes by. This cemetery used to have a huge iron fence around it, but it has been removed. We used to sneak in there.

Another cemetery is out around the lake area and supposedly you can see floating images there. Again, I spend many a night there waiting and watching during my teen years. LOL

My students had a Halloween party one year at a staff member's house out around the lake and his backyard backed up to a small cemetery that has lots of old graves. You guessed it, we took a field trip tour of it.

But. hey, we are the crew that always ran a haunted house for the school Halloween carnival and it rivaled the professional haunts in the two larger towns around us. It was our major fundraiser of the year and we had people standing in line for hours for two nights. Oh, the fond memories of teaching and advising.