If during the horror movie you do not have blood in your veins, if you adore visiting places with a gloomy past, then you will definitely like this mysterious selection of ghostly hotels, castles, abandoned houses.
Everyone who visits them, notes that he feels someone's invisible presence, chilling horror and all the time he does not leave the sensation, as if they are constantly watching you.
1. Lizzie Borden House, Massachusetts, USA.
In the press, there is a lot of information about this seemingly innocent girl Lizzie Borden. If to go into details, then in 1892, on one of the summer days, when only the servant remained in the house, Father Lizzy and stepmother, the 22-year-old girl hacked her father with an ax, and while the frightened servant was running after the doctor, she took up her stepmother. The most interesting thing is that everyone in the district thought Lizzie was an angel in the flesh and no one believed that she was a murderer. As a result, the girl was acquitted and released.
Now everyone has the opportunity to wander through the rooms of the old house, look into the living room and see the sofa on which Lizzie Borden's father was brutally murdered. In addition, it is said that someone walks along the corridors at night and, probably, that this someone is unconquered innocently killed souls.
2. The liner "Queen Mary" (RMS Queen Mary), Southern California, USA.
It is the most luxurious, fastest and largest liner of the late 1930s. For today it is a museum and a hotel, where one can stay alone with ghosts. Since 1991, the ship has been thoroughly studied by psychologist-psychologist Peter James. He noted that in all his work he had never met a place so visited by the other worlds. You will not believe, but once on the liner 600 (!) Ghosts were recorded. For example, one day Peter heard the voice of a little girl named Jackie, and he, like 100 eyewitnesses, did not hear it.
On the "Queen Mary" is the restaurant "Sir Winston". His visitors often hear mutterings, knocking on the wall and deaf sounds that come from the cabin of Winston Churchill. Psychologist-psychic explains that this is the favorite cabin of ghosts. Moreover, often there comes the smell of cigarettes and this despite the fact that, firstly, it is forbidden to smoke on the ship, and, secondly, the cabin almost never has visitors or attendants.
Employees of the floating hotel have repeatedly noticed very strange phenomena, for example, people saw the heads, feet and images of people dissolving in the air who were dressed in old-fashioned clothes. But here's a visual video, on which Jackie's crying baby can be heard.
3. The Castle of Brissac (Château de Brissac), France.
In the Anjou area it is one of the most beautiful castles that fascinates with its architecture. It was built by Earl Fulke Nerra. At first it was a fortress, but in 1434 it was purchased by the chief minister of King Charles VII Pierre de Breze, who after 20 years completely rebuilt the estate, turning it into a castle with a Gothic look. A time after the death of Pierre, Brissac's castle was inherited by his son, Jacques de Breese, and from this moment begins the most interesting.
Soon he married Charlotte de Valois. And if Jacques loved to go hunting and engage in the usual business for himself, his wife wanted constant festivities, a perverted way of life. So, after another dinner with his wife, Jacques de Breze retired to his bedroom. In the middle of the night he was awakened by a servant, saying that strange sounds were coming from Charlotte's bedroom. The enraged spouse flew into her bedroom, and in an attack of anger she inflicted more than a hundred sword strokes on her spouse and her lover.
As a result, he was arrested and ordered to pay a rather large fine. Later, his son Louis de Breze was forced to sell the castle. Local people said that it was since then that in the castle walls one can see a female ghost in a green dress and with gaping holes from a sword on the body, and from the same bedroom where the murder was committed, sometimes loud groans are heard.
4. The House of the Family Moore, Iowa, USA.
In 1912, members of the wealthiest family of the city, businessman Josiah Moore, were brutally murdered in their own house. Among the dead, and his wife, and three little sons, a daughter and two of her friends (9 and 12 years old) who stayed overnight at a party. In a dream, everyone present was hacked with an ax.
In 1994 the house was bought and reconstructed. Now it has a private museum. In addition, anyone can spend the night in it. It is rumored that if you pronounce the names of the deceased children, then electricity starts to run in the house.
5. The Moundsville Penitentiary, West Virginia, USA.
This prison is known for a large number of riots and executions. She was on the list of the most brutal correctional institutions in the United States. Moreover, until 1931 all the hanging here were public. Moreover, there is such an eerie atmosphere here that even the famous American murderer Charles Manson asked that he be transported to another prison.
In 1995, Mundsville was closed. Now it is a museum in which it is allowed to stay overnight. They say that at midnight you can see the shadows of dead prisoners and guards.
6. The forest of Aokigahara (Aokigahara), Japan.
Otherwise this forest is called a place of suicides. In Japan, there is a legend that in the Middle Ages poor families who could not feed their children and elderly people carried them away to die in this forest. And for today this place beckons to itself those who wish to settle scores with a life. Also know, what it popularized? The book "Guide, how to commit suicide." After a while, bodies with copies of this book were found in Aokigahara.
And if you decide to visit this gloomy place purely out of curiosity, know that the local will immediately start to dissuade you from such an undertaking. In addition, it is easy to get lost and even with the help of a compass it is very difficult to find a way out. The first thing you notice here is dead silence, which at first seems pleasant, and after that it will start to cause anxiety and a feeling of utter despair.
On the approaches to the forest there are signs with warning inscriptions like "Your life is a precious gift of your parents". And in the neighborhood there are special patrols that catch wishing to kill themselves. Calculate those who dare to hike in the forest easily: most often these are men in business suits.
7. The Stanley Hotel, Colorado, USA.
If you adore mysticism and everything connected with ghosts, then you will definitely like this hotel. In this hotel, Stephen King himself found inspiration for the plot of the book "Shine." And the hotel staff often hears mysterious sounds coming from free rooms; Not once standing in the lobby of the piano began to play as if by itself. However, they say that on this piano is played by the first owner of the hotel, which is often seen in the lobby and billiard room. Also in the hotel lives the ghost of his wife and many other mysterious tenants.
8. The Crescent Hotel, Arkansas, USA.
This hotel is also called the hotel of Dr. Baker's death. It is located on the top of a hill near Lake Ozarax, famous for its medicinal properties. The hotel was built in 1886 and from that time on it was established the reputation of a mystical house. For example, during construction, one of the workers broke down and fell to the place where the 218th room later appeared. Everyone who settled in it, repeatedly encountered the ghost of the poor worker-worker. Moreover, the TV crew who decided to film a documentary about the "Crescent", claimed that in the mirror in the bathroom there were hands that tried to grab the person standing in front of him. Many heard the screams of a man falling from the ceiling.
But these are flowers. In 1937, the building was bought by Norman Baker, who decided to open a clinic here. He came in a purple car, in a purple suit and a purple tie. As it turned out later, this color was his favorite, and the doctor gave him a special, mystical meaning. We will not go into details of his biography. In short, it was a charlatan who managed to fool around hundreds of thousands of people, earning $ 444,000 on them (now it's about $ 4.8 million). He claimed that he knew how to cure cancer. Worst of all, many believed in him, and many people died from his "medicine".
After settling in the hotel "Crescent", Baker killed people. It is believed that with his medicine he drove 500 people into the grave. At the same time, they all had to write letters to their relatives, assuring that the medicine really helps. And the people who sat on the veranda and drank cocktails were not healthy patients, but hired actors.
In the basement of the hotel, he equipped an anatomical room, where he conducted experimental operations, opened corpses and made amputations. There was also a freezer in which he held amputated limbs and removed organs. There was also a small crematorium. In it, Dr. Baker burned corpses, tortured patients. When he was working, a thick smoke poured from the pipes on the roof of the hotel, painted in his favorite purple color.
Today, hundreds of Dr. Baker's patients are walking along the corridors of the hotel ...
9. Cemetery "Highgate" (Highgate Cemetery), London, Great Britain.
The Haiget cemetery is located in the northern part of London. In the 1960s there were rumors that a vampire was walking around here. And after on its territory were found the bloodless bodies of animals, the local sounded the alarm and began a real hunt for vampires. It even got to the point that graves were opened and aspen cola was driven in. Moreover, many people say that in our days in this cemetery you can see the ghost of an old woman looking for her children.
10. Hospital "Belits" (Beelitz Heilstätten), Germany.
In 1898 the doors of the sanatorium were opened. However, with the beginning of the First World War the building was converted into a military hospital. Here the soldiers were treated, including the young Adolf Hitler, who was wounded in the leg. Later Belitz was a hospital for the Nazis.
In 1989, on its territory, the serial killer Wolfgang Schmidt, nicknamed The Beast Beast, was in charge. He killed women, leaving behind the crime pink underwear, which choked his victim. In 2008, at the hands of the photographer died model. He claims that during the BDSM photo shoot the girl herself accidentally strangled her.
With such stories it's not surprising that in the building many see ghosts. The guard constantly hears horrific sounds, and visitors tell that in the building the doors open themselves, and sometimes the temperature in the rooms changes dramatically.
11. Edinburgh Castle, Scotland.
Yes, yes, this is the same castle that inspired the creation of the Hogwarts School of Sorcery and Magic. In addition, it is one of the most visited places in the whole of Scotland. And during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) hundreds of French prisoners were imprisoned here, some of whom were tortured in the castle cellar. And in the XVI century on its territory was burned accused in witchcraft girl. Everyone who visits the castle, notes that he saw strange shadows, wandering his corridors, and felt incomprehensible heat in his hands.
12. Island of the Dolls, Mexico.
This small island is located between the canals of Sochimilko. If you are not afraid of the doll Chucky, then welcome to the island. Here every tree, every building is hung with dark toys with empty eye sockets, shattered heads and broken parts of the body. With these eerie dolls, the entire island was adorned with one local named Julian Santana Barrera. The first doll belonged to a girl drowned nearby. It is rumored that Juliana pursued the spirit of the little girl and about 50 years he did that he collected discarded dolls and decorated them with an island. Moreover, a mad Mexican built on the island a hut in which he lived for the rest of his days.
13. Bhangarh Fort, India.
It is located in the western part of India, in the state of Rajasthan. The first thing that already alarms every tourist is the sign at the entrance, informing that the fort's territory can not be entered after sunset and before dawn. Do you know why? It turns out that everyone who dared stay here for the night never returned ...
Local people believe that the Bhaghara residents who died earlier on the spot after sunset return to the accursed place in the form of all kinds of entities, at the sight of which, everyone has blood in their veins.
14. Hotel Monteleone, Louisiana, USA.
The hotel "Monteleone" opened its doors in the 1880s, and since then its guests constantly report on the unexplained phenomena occurring here. In the "Monteleone" regularly stop working elevators and themselves open the door. Many guests saw the ghost of the boy Maurice Bezher next to the room in which he died.
15. Sanatorium "Wyerly Hills Sanatorium", Kentucky, USA.
It opened in 1910-th year. In its walls, all those who were sick with tuberculosis were treated. In the sanatorium at one time there were 500 people (given that it was calculated for a maximum of 50). Every day one of the guests died. And in 1961, when the number of tuberculosis patients decreased, the sanatorium turned into a Geriatric hospital. It is rumored that it was a psychiatric hospital, which 20 years later was closed after it became known that his staff cruelly treated patients. Everyone who is visiting this abandoned building now feels a glance and a chilling cold from the ghost called Creeper.
16. Winchester House, Northern California, USA.
This beauty once belonged to Sara L. Winchester, who at the end of the 1880s, because of her illness, lost both her daughters and her husband. After that, she fell into a depression and began to devote herself to the improvement of the home. It is rumored that after such a loss the woman turned to the medium. At a spiritualistic session, her husband's spirit told her that all the troubles in the family were the revenge of the victims of the rifle, which was created by the father of her husband, Oliver Winchester. And in order to prevent their spirits from reaching Sarah, she needs to build a special house and in no case to stop repairing it. So, she soon acquired this ancient mansion.
To date, it has 160 rooms, 2,000 doors, 6 kitchens, 50 fireplaces, 10,000 windows. And for 38 years of construction the house has turned into a real labyrinth, where Sarah never invited guests. Fortunately, the ghosts never reached the widow, who in 1922, at the age of 85, died of old age. But after that, something strange began to happen in the house: the doors themselves slammed, things moved, the lights went out. Specialists in paranormal phenomena believe that some disgruntled ghosts in the long search for Sarah have become eternal captives of the mansion-labyrinth.