Behind Urban Legends

Long Island’s Jamesport Manor Inn: An insider’s story

Long Island's haunted Jamesport Manor Inn

You can get used to about anything, living at the Jamesport Manor Inn on Long Island. A former dishwasher who was also a tenant before it burned and was restored, proved it one afternoon as he was at his sink, doing his job. A waitress, who was also familiar with the specter of what people [...]

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The Jamesport Manor Inn: Gourmet dinner and spirits

The haunted Jamesport Manor Inn, Long Island

The Jamesport Manor Inn, Jamesport, Long Island, New York. To order fine art prints or view larger, click here   One could argue that the main character of The Witching Hour, a novel by Anne Rice is the Mayfair mansion on First Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the book, the house is painstakingly restored, [...]

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The ghosts of St. Helena’s chapel of ease and Land’s End light – true hauntings from South Carolina’s sea islands

Chapel of Ease on St. Helena Island, South Carolina

Chapel of ease on St. Helena Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. Click here to view larger or order art prints from the low country of South Carolina St. Helena Island, a sea island located in the Port Royal Sound of South Carolina has a long history. Some say it’s the oldest settlement in the United [...]

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Too good to be true, mayhem on the highway turns into a ghost story from Old Charleston and the legend of Lavina Fisher

Old Jail, Charleston, SC

A look at Lavina Fisher, and the truth behind the true ghost stories and legends of America’s first female serial killer, hung in Charleston in 1820.

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Hoppy Rebstock, the heartbeat in the tombstone and the joys of school picnics

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Growing up in a small town in the midwest gives one a treasure trove of urban legends and ghost stories. Here’s one of the tell-tale heart and the tombstone that walks in the night, from the Gothic Cabinet of Curiosities and Mysteries

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A warlock’s curse? The ghosts of Salem’s Howard Street Burying Ground

Howard Street Burying Ground, Salem, Massachusetts

Has the 17th century curse placed on the town and sheriff by Giles Corey, pressed to death in Salem in 1693, been wreaking havoc ever since?

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Urban legend Black Annis makes the trip from England to the midwest

Creepy House in north Carmi, Illinois

Following Black Annie from England to the midwest, where she still frightens little children in this installment from the Gothic Cabinet of Curiosities and Mysteries.

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A Southern Gothic Ghost Story from Edisto Island, South Carolina’s Low Country

The crypt of L.B.Legare, in the graveyard of Edisto Presbyterian Church

What could be more horrifying than being buried alive? A southern gothic true ghost story from the Gothic Cabinet of Curiosities and Mysteries

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Growing up gothic; Of devil worshippers, Satanists and the Dark Secret of Harvest Home

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Urban legends often have very rural roots. Read of devil worshippers, Satanists and rock and roll in this drawer of the Gothic Cabinet of Curiosities and Mysteries

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Newbury Massachusetts and the Pierce Tomb: Dancing with the dead on Old Burial Hill

Pierce Tomb, Old Burial Hill, Newburyport, Massachusetts

The Pierce Tomb in Newburyport Massachusetts has been the victim of various vandals with a macabre streak a mile wide over the past eighty years. Learn more in this

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