Haunted Places

Visitors to the Bullock Hotel, one of the key features of historic Deadwood’s Main Street, may have the opportunity to experience a visit from the hotel’s founder. Seth Bullock passed away in 1919. I grew up in an old turn-of-the-century house with an active history. It had once been a guest house where Theodore Roosevelt stayed and still had the original horse hitching posts and old-fashioned well spigots for the horse troughs. Old houses make the best settings for ghost stories. Creeking steps and doors take us back to the opening of the radio drama “The Inner Sanctum,” and dark drafty attics give us the heebie jeebies as wehalf expect Bela Lugosi to appear around the corner.

When we first moved in to our house, school kids told my then 8-year-old brother that someone had died in the house and they could be heard walking around the attic at night. My brother told us this at the dinner table and, despite my parents’ best attempts at refuting the story, he was determined to find the ghost. That night, after everyone had fallen asleep, he carefully climbed the stairs to the attic in hopes of catching the ghost during his stroll. What he planned to do with the ghost when he caught him, I’m not sure. As little boys are wont to do, he probably would have questioned the poor thing all night about the logistics of being a ghost (is it any wonderhe grew up to be an engineer?). Unfortunately, those creeking steps did his plans in. Mom soon followed behind him and tucked him back into bed before he could meet our spooky house guest. South Dakota’s historic preservation efforts have helped keep these wonderful old houses around, like the one I grew up in, for generations to enjoy. But the legends of haunted places in South Dakota will last forever. To view the rest of this article, please visit the source

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A landlady today confessed it was spirits of a different kind that attracted her back to a troubled Ipswich pub in a bid to resurrect its reputation. Sheryl McGeown has re-opened The Spread Eagle in Fore Street and rekindled her relationship with its many ghosts. She was previously a landlady there until around three years ago and used to drink in the pub as a customer. She said: “I love the ghosts and I love the pub. I have seen a little dog, a floating head and they play games in the cellar. “We have all new equipment here now and everything has been getting glitches. “I am not insane. I saw them so I am going totell people.

Something keeps drawing me back to the pub.” But Ms McGeown, 42, faces a deepening pub crisis and has vowed to keep her business head on as she aims to revolutionise the beleaguered boozer. The pub was shut down for a period in 2006 by Ipswich Borough Council after a catalogue of violence. And it closed again earlier this year for around four months due to a lack of trade. Ms McGeown said: “The pub had a really bad reputation. We want to make it a home away from home where people feel comfortable and safe. “People should support their local pub because the history is being lost.” Her comments come in support of The Evening Star campaign to get people to back their local. And they follow a renewed attack on the government bypublicans in Suffolk over fears that further tax increases will drive the industry under. Ms McGeown has now taken over the reigns again at The Spread Eagle and oversaw its refurbishment earlier this year. She said: “We have fixed the ceilings, tidied everything up and the toilets are now inside. There is new furniture and lighting and eventually we plan to serve food.”

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From locations like the Worth Illinois Historical Museum that is part of the Heritage Corridor, to the Joliet Museum of Victorian Life and Joliet History, historical societies have joined forces with Chicago area Paranormal Spiritual Observer, Psychic, and Internet radio show co-host of The Unexplained World, Edward Shanahan, to create 'Haunted Historical Locations - tours and experiences'. These are not just bus tours--they go beyond that--as they offer the ability to explore many of the historic locations as well. Historians will tell the historical facts, and Edward Shanahan will tell the paranormal history in between. Edward Shanahan has lived his whole lifewithin minutes of the Chicagoland area's most haunted historic locations in the S.W.

Suburbs just outside of Chicago around areas like Bachelor's Grove Cemetery and Resurrection Cemetery which is home to the infamous Resurrection Mary. The haunted Archer Avenue and Willow Springs Illinois are also within minutes of his home and have provided him with the paranormal knowledge that allowed Shanahan to be written about in the book 'Encyclopedia of Haunted Places'. His knowledge, experiences and photos of the many haunted locations in the S.W. Suburbs of Chicago has been recorded in 'Voices From the Chicago Graves' and the new book release, 'Ghosts Coast to Coast'.Shanahan's abilities as a Paranormal Spiritual Observer, Psychic and Feeler have broughthim together with Ms. Ursula Bielski--Chicago's top paranormal author--to conduct the tours in the city of Chicago. They have combined their talents for the last two years for their 'Beyond The Veil' overnighters. The Haunted Historic Locations - tours and experiences can run four hours or more, depending on the amount of locations that are explored by foot. As a part of the tour, Edward Shanahan will also provide a demonstration of his 'Circle of Energy' at one of the haunted historic locations.

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The Borley Rectory The haunting of the Borley Rectory during the 1920s and 1930s, is undoubtedly one of the most famous in Britain, as well as being one of the most controversial. There seems to be a consensus among many people that the rectory was never really haunted at all, all phenomena being put down to fraud, misinterpreted natural phenomena, and the will of Harry Price to create an interesting case. The wealth of sightings and experiences by independent witnesses, suggests that although much of the phenomena can be explained in rational terms, a percentage remains which can still be seen as inexplicable at the present time.

History: The rectory was built in 1863, on the site of an old Benedictine Monastery for the Reverend H.D.E Bull and his family. In 1892 the Reverend Bull died in the Blue Room. Harry Bull then took over from his father until 1927, when he also passed away in the Blue Room, now with a reputation as the haunted room of the house. After a year standing empty, the Rev Eric Smith and his wife moved in, and lived there for three years. It was during this time that Harry Price stayed over at the house for three days, as part of his long-term investigations. In October 1930, the Rev L.A Foyster and his wife Marianne moved in, and stayed for 5 years. In 1935 (after the Foysters had moved out) the property was leased to Harry Price for a whole year, the results of which were published in The Most Haunted House in England. The rectory was gutted by fire in 1939 when the occupier, Captain William Gregson, who had bought the property, accidentally turned over an oil lamp near a bookstand. The fire caught hold quickly destroying the rectory beyond repair. The ruin was finally demolished in 1944.

Ghostly sightings, Legends and Strange Phenomena : From around 1885, there were sightings of a ghostly nun in the grounds of the rectory, and poltergeist activity was observed. According to local lore, the ghostly nun was the spirit of a 13th century nun from a local convent, who had fallen in love with a monk from the local monastery. They were said to have fled from the area in a coach and horses...