The Top 5 Haunted Places in America

livescience ^ | Benjamin Radford

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People who want to see ghosts usually seek out spooky cemeteries or creepy houses. But what if you aren't lucky (or unlucky) enough to live next to a dark old mansion or a deserted insane asylum? A good place to start is the top five haunted places in America, where people have reported (and in some cases created) ghostly encounters.

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The Winchester Mystery House

In 1881, Sarah Winchester, the widow of famous gun maker Oliver Winchester, became convinced that she needed protection from the evil spirits of all the people killed by Winchester rifles. A psychic advised her to continually add rooms to her San Jose, California, mansion to confuse any ghosts that may try to find her. (It's not clear why ghosts, which can supposedly move through walls, would be confused by the rooms, but it apparently made sense to Winchester.) She did so for nearly forty years, adding more than 100 rooms and staircases, until her death in 1922. After Sarah's death, her own ghost was said to haunt the halls of her mazelike mansion. Today the building remains a popular tourist attraction, a bizarre monument to superstition and paranoia.

The Top 5 Haunted Places in America

[SkyDancer]

My brother’s closets when I was growing up .....

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[mkjessup]

Needs an underwire for more lift and support.

[SkyDancer]

Told my dad there was something living under my bed ... he fixed the problem by cutting off the legs of the bed, it rested on the floor ... problem solved ... plus my brothers could no longer hide under it and scare me ....

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[SkyDancer]

So how did you get pictures of my brothers???????

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[Fast Moving Angel]

Gettysburg should have been on this list.

[SkyDancer]

Well there goes my dinner ....

[JoeProBono]

[Forward the Light Brigade]

My 5 haunted Places would be:
1. The White House in Washington
2. The Octogon House in Washington.
3. Fort Warren, Boston Harbor
4. Gettysburg, Devil’s Den & Farnsworth House.
5. Universal Studios, Hollywood, Sound Stage 28.

Other runners up:
6. Lava Beds national Park,
7. St. Marys Art Center, Virginia City.
8. The Alamo, Texas
9. Virginia Governor’s Mansion
10. Ford’s Theater, Washington DC.

[PzLdr]

[1] The White House
[2] The House Speaker’s Office
[3] the Office of the Senate Majority Leader
[4] The New York Times
[5] MSNBC

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[Poe White Trash]

You’re being VERY naughty.

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[csmusaret]

I could see 6-10 but not the top five. Anyway, I was told by a tour guide that the old city jail in Charleston, SC is the most haunted place in the country.

[Poe White Trash]

I ain’t gonna say it. Gonna resist temptation. I AIN’T gonna say THAT WORD.

[jdub]

google “bell witch”. Besides killing someone, the witch attacked members of Andrew Jackson’s party who had come to investigate. Jackson was reported to have later said that he’d rather face the British Army alone that face that damn witch again.