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.

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

Old County Jail, The Jailer's Inn Bed and Breakfast, c. 1819, Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky The only troubling sound I …

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

Old Wardour Castle, Tisbury, Wiltshire “On the south western border of Wiltshire about half between Salisbury and Shaftesbury …

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Living With Ghosts, Part One: The Downstairs and Restoring This Old Gothic House

Author's Note: This is the first in a series of pieces on my childhood home. It's my own story, more or less. I did fudge a few …

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