Gothic Travel

Cry Innocent: Salem witch attraction brings the witch hunts and trials to life

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Bridget Bishop. I know nothing of it. I am innocent to a Witch. I know not what a Witch is. Examiner: How do you know then that you are not a witch Bridget Bishop: I do not know what you say. Examiner: How can you know, you are no Witch, & yet not know what a Witch [...]

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Concord’s Colonial Inn: Revolutionary ghosts of a literary nature

Concord's haunted Colonial Inn

Concord’s Colonial Inn. Click to view larger or view more images of haunted houses The overnight shift at the front desk of Concord’s Colonial Inn is a lot like most small inns. After the last guest is checked in, restaurants and bars closed, there’s paperwork, reports and printing out bills for those checking out in [...]

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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 Salem Inn: Hauntingly lovely in Witch City, MA

The Haunted Salem Inn, Salem MA

The Salem Inn, Salem, Massachusetts. To view larger or to see more haunted houses in Salem, click here The young lady had just walked away from her post at the guest counter of the Salem Inn, a tiny little thing tucked into a nook just below the staircase – and stepped into the parlor to [...]

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The legend comes to life with Jonathan Kruk in the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow

Jonathan Kruk in a performance of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow in the Old Dutch Church, October 20, 2010. To view more Sleepy Hollow pictures, click here

View of Old Dutch Church Burial ground from the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. View larger or see more spooky churches by clicking here. The Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow has been perched on the hill overlooking the Pocantico River and the Albany Post Road for well over 300 years. As a young [...]

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Old Yarmouth Inn: Fish and Chips and spooks at Cape Cod’s oldest inn

The Haunted Old Yarmouth Tavern on Cape Cod

Old Yarmouth Inn, Yarmouthport, Massachusetts. To view larger or for more haunted house photos, click here One can only wonder if the fellow sleeping in a bedroom at the Old Yarmouth Inn, in Yarmouthport, Massachusetts had heard the following story … Early one morning, a guest in the Quisset Harbor room awaoke to find a [...]

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DEKs American Restaurant: Comfort food and true ghost stories in Rocky Point, Long Island

DEKs American Restaurant, Rocky Point, Long Island, New York

Dek’s American Restaurant, Rocky Point, Long Island, New York. To view larger or to see more pictures from Haunted Long Island, click here The bartender and a friend are shooting pool in the empty restaurant, waiting to lock up. It’s either late at night or very early in the morning, depending on one’s perspective and [...]

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Horseman’s Hollow: Sleepy Hollow goes for the jugular

Horseman's Hollow in Sleepy Hollow, New York

Horseman’s Hollow, Sleepy Hollow, New York. Click here to view more images from Horseman’s Hollow to view larger   When I was a kid I used to love haunted house attractions. It probably started with a visit to the Haunted Mansion at Disney World, and was fed almost every year by some form of Halloween [...]

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Barnstable Village Haunted History Tours: A delightfully creepy Halloween stroll

Barnstable village's haunted Old Jail, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts

The Old Gaol, Barnstable Village, Massachusetts. To view larger or more haunted house photos, click here Ghost tours are great, don’t get me wrong. They’re fun and informative, and a great way to get leads for this site. But they aren’t typically bone-chilling, or even frightful. It’s hard to feel creepy in a group of [...]

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The Beechwood Inn, Barnstable Massachusetts: ghostly encounters in the shower

The Rose Room, the Beechwood Inn, Barnstable Village, Massachusetts

The Rose Room of the Beechwood Inn, Barnstable, Massachusetts. To view larger or to see more haunted house photos, click here It’s Halloween, and I’m in the tub of the Rose Room at the Beechwood Inn in Barnstable, Massachusetts. I’m just back from the Barstable Village Haunted and History Walking Tour, which was a two [...]

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