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NEW YORK, NY — Halloween revelers were shocked this week after a new haunted house that had gained strong notoriety for featuring human bodies being ripped limb from limb turned out to simply be a Planned Parenthood clinic. "Totally not what we thought it was," said haunted house aficionado Cliff Martin. "We heard there was this medical-themed haunted house that had really horrific scenes that would scar your psyche and hang like a dark cloud over your soul for the rest of your life, so we came to check it out." "What we discovered was worse. Way worse." Sources say...

The Landlady's Tale By SWORDMAKER copyright 2000Preface The following story was told to me by the woman who rented my parents their first home in California when they moved to Sacramento in 1939. A devout Catholic (so much so that although she had been divorced by her husband, she did not consider the divorce valid and did not remarry until her husband died many years later) the landlady swore on her Bible, in front of my sister and me after she told us the story, that it was absolutely true. She was quite serious about it.In the 1970s, I personally...

The Landlady's Tale By SWORDMAKER copyright 2000Preface The following story was told to me by the woman who rented my parents their first home in California when they moved to Sacramento in 1939. A devout Catholic (so much so that although she had been divorced by her husband, she did not consider the divorce valid and did not remarry until her husband died many years later) the landlady swore on her Bible, in front of my sister and me after she told us the story, that it was absolutely true. She was quite serious about it.In the 1970s, I personally...

GREENVILLE, SC—As Halloween approaches, haunted house attractions and extreme horror experiences are competing for the crown of "most horrifying haunted house in the country." According to horror enthusiasts, a new attraction called Maskless Murder Mansion has left the competition in the dust with a twisted new vision of horror: an old mansion filled with regular people who happen to not be wearing masks. "Yeah we know this is really messed up stuff," said Zach McDongle, owner and mastermind behind the attraction. "So far, no one has had the courage to make it all the way through." For anyone brave enough...

I told you Nancy Pelosi belongs in a mental institution and she has definitely proved it now. She told a recent gathering of the Women’s Political Committtee that spirits of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth cady Stanton and Alice Paul spoke to her at the White House. Seriously, I’m not kidding. She said she heard them say, “At last we have a seat at the table.” Pelosi tells the women, “He’s (Bush) saying something to the effect of we’re so glad to welcome you here, congratulations and I know you’ll probably have some different things to say about what is going...

Older houses come with a variety of interesting features: Cool architecture, intriguing family history, and even tales of ghosts. This listing has all three and a mortuary. Welcome to a grand and mysterious home built in 1912 and located in Northern California. The place comes with so many stories, it even inspired the best-selling novel, "The Mortician's Wife." The actual mortician's wife supposedly watched as her husband died at the kitchen table. According to legend, she was so distraught, she retreated to her room and left his body untouched for weeks. Her boudoir is Warner's favorite place in the house....

Scared man who sued over 'haunted house' loses in court People who go to "haunted house" attractions to be scared shouldn't be surprised when they're scared, a state court of appeals has ruled. A state appeals court has given precedent-setting status to a ruling that gave the scary mansions the same legal status as ski lodges, bumper cars and other commercial recreational facilities: They're not responsible for injuries caused by an "inherent risk" of the activity. In this case, the court said, that risk was the terror Scott Griffin experienced after leaving what he thought was the exit gate of...

Know what's scarier than being trapped in a haunted house? Being trapped in there naked. And that's exactly what sets the "Naked and Scared" haunted house in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania apart from others. Participants must run through the house completely naked or "prude", meaning that they are allowed to wear underwear if they choose.

After a "Noreaster" dropped several inches of snow in states from Maryland to New York, it's looking a lot more like the weekend before Christmas than Halloween. And if you're down in Warner Robins Sunday afternoon, you may hear what sound like your favorite Christmas carols. But, it's actually group of "scare-o-lers," putting a Halloween twist on some Christmas favorites. They'll be "scare-o-ling" from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in front of Spirit Halloween next to Big Lots. It's all part of "A Walk Through Bedlam Haunted House." This spooky walk introduces guests to the secret past of Warner Robins....

I, Lucas Smith, have recently completed my reading of the book Homeland: An Extraordinary Story of Hope and Survival, by George Hussein Obama (President Barack Obama's youngest brother in Kenya). George Hussein Obama, in his book, which was published in January of 2010 depicts Kenya just as I, Lucas Smith, saw Kenya in February of 2009. There are several segments of the book that aid in dipicting Kenya as I saw Kenya in 2009. Many critics (and Obots) have made claims that my, Lucas Smith's, depicting of Kenya in 2009 was tremendously inaccurate and downright impossible. Let's see what President...

Want to buy a haunted house? Oh, no, not the attic. Anywhere but the attic. But the visitors insisted on going in. The house's owner reluctantly opened the attic door and stepped aside as her two visitors trod into the gloomy room. "All I know is we walked into the attic with her, and it's cavernous, and we were just looking hard, and, I don't know, this feeling came over me -- this warm feeling," Craig Schaible says. "I looked at my wife and she felt it, too." Craig and Yvonne Schaible were thinking of buying this 111-year-old Victorian house...

Man Has Fatal Accident In Haunted House Victim Was President Of Catacombs KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The man who died working on a haunted house in the West Bottoms was part of the family that founded the Halloween attraction. Police said Dennis E. Kingsolver, 38, of Kansas City North, died Monday night in an accident involving the elevator of an old structure in a warehouse at 1100 Santa Fe St. Investigators said the elevator's counter weights broke and hit Kingsolver, killing him. Another person inside the building called for help. A police spokesman said the man's death was ruled an...

There are just some songs that are so good, that when heard on the car radio, they trigger an automatic reflex to pop open a frosty cold brew. I know it's illegal in most states, but the law be damned when RYS (Retrograde Youth Syndrome) is triggered by the the following songs: 10. Pride and Joy (Stevie Ray Vaughn) 9. Wild Night (Van Morrison) 8. Locomotive Breath (Tull) 7. White Room (Cream) 6. You Shook Me (AC/DC) 5. London Calling (clash) 4. Sultans of Swing (Dire Staights) 3. Honky Tonk Women (Stones) 2. Roadhouse Blues (Doors) 1. La Grange (ZZ...

Family wishes ghostly noises would just go away Occupants believe their West Inverness house is spooked by Joseph M. Giordano When members of the Meyers family saw a figure in the window of the Jasmine Road house they wanted to buy, they should have known something was up. But they didn't, and now they may be living with something paranormal. "His name is Dexter," said 8-year-old Ozzie Meyers V. "And he kept asking me to read to him." Ozzie's parents, Jennifer, an apparently down-to-Earth woman who works for Johns Hopkins University, and Ozzie IV, a stay-at-home dad, thought it might...

My night of terror in a haunted house Nov 20 2004 Nov 2004 By Duncan Gibbons "A night of terror" is how a man described the time he spent in what is said to be one of Warwickshire's most haunted houses. Michael Chapman was one of 10 people who spent the night at Shrieves House Barn, in Sheep Street, Stratford. The 500-year-old building, now home to Falstaffs Experience museum, is said to be a hotbed of paranormal activity. Mr Chapman, 48, a fine art expert from a village near Stratford, said the ancient building soon revealed its dark secrets. Volunteers...

I've had MANY requests to have a thread where people share their own ghost stories. Well... here it is. Have at it!

'Woodland Haunting' centers on home Former resident to make series of films about 'incidents' Monday, August 30, 2004 BY JAMES BRIGGSNews Staff ReporterAn Ypsilanti Township home is the subject of a five-part series of independent films being made by one of its former residents. Dennis Baker, 43, grew up in the home at 9735 Woodland Court, which his family owned from 1967 until 1996. Baker, who now lives in Castle Rock, Colo., says the house tormented his family during those years. Baker claims he and his family heard strange footsteps and witnessed a boy appearing and disappearing. Decades later, Baker...

Democratic Presidential nominee Senator John Kerry stands in the stage lights as he listens to his running mate Senator John Edwards at a campaign rally in Zanesville, Ohio, July 31 2004.