Haunted Houses and Buildings

The haunted house is the bedrock of gothic horror. Luckily, historic homes that are open to the public often have their own ghosts. With others you can be content standing outside in the dark of night, peering up at the darkened upstairs corner window. Public buildings of the past aren’t without their own charms, and quite often their own spirits.

The death, resurrection and retribution of Zona Heaster Shue, The Greenbrier Ghost

Back in 1897, when Trout Shue snapped the neck of his wife, Zona Heaster Shue, the Greenbrier Ghost, he believed his troubles were …

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True Confessions: In which the author relates his own encounters in the land of Sleepy Hollow

Above: The shot I was taking in Washington Irving's Sunnyside when the lady laughed. People are always asking me if I believe …

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A return to Bardstown, Kentucky: Spending the night in a cell at the Jailer’s Inn, a haunted jail in a town known around the world for its ghosts

The only troubling sound I heard the night I spent in the Jailer’s Inn in Bardstown, Kentucky was the sound of a cell door …

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Old Wardour Castle … a splendidly haunted ruin in the British countryside

“On the south western border of Wiltshire about half between Salisbury and Shaftesbury and in the parish Tisbury stand the ivy …

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