[JoeProBono]

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 .....

[JoeProBono]

[Fast Moving Angel]

Gettysburg should have been on this list.

[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

[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.

[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.

[Deadeye Division]

Website ordered to pay $125,000 over ‘haunted’ mill claim

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/website-ordered-to-pay-125000-over-haunted-mill-claim-83396.html