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Nov 11, 2009 Posted in haunted location by admin

TOP 5 HAUNTED LOCATIONS IN NEW ORLEANS

1. Lalaurie House

1140 Royal Street, that is notorious even by the bizarre traditions of the French Quarter. Built in 1831, the three-story edifice was the home of Dr. Louis Lalaurie and his fashionable wife Delphine, esteemed for her elegant balls as well as for her charitable work among the sick and the poor. 1834, when a fire broke out in the Lalaurie residence. Firemen smashed open a locked interior door and came upon a scene surpassing horror: There, chained and suffocating in the heat and smoke, were seven starved and severely beaten slaves. Upstairs, in a sort of macabre laboratory, the fire patrol found more slaves, some dead, others barely alive with limbs amputated or purposefully deformed. Preserved organs and other body parts completed the picture.

Money mysterious photos occur often at the Lalularie house. Balcony ghost photos and haunted videos usually show orbs, strands of mist and the figures of a ghost or two walking it’s legnth.

2. St. Louis cemetery Number 1

Considered by locals visitors and paranormal investigators world wide as actually the most haunted cemetery No. # 1 haunted Cemetery in all the United States.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Some of the more interesting tombs in St. Louis Number One are a huge tomb that holds the remains of some of the participants in the Battle of New Orleans; chess champion Paul Morphy; New Orleans’ first black mayor, Ernest N. “Dutch” Morial. But the most famous and interesting tomb here is said to be where Voodoo Queen Marie Leveaux is buried. People still visit her tomb to light candles, perform various religious acts and leave offerings. New Orleans’ first black mayor, Ernest N. “Dutch” Morial is buried right next to her.

Across the street, with its front facing N. Rampart St., is Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, which originally was the mortuary chapel built to handle the funerals and last rites of victims of yellow fever in 1826. It is the oldest surviving church in the city.

Vault burial was introduced in New Orleans during the Spanish regime, and our oldest cemetery — St. Louis No. 1 (1789) — has society tombs built by the French Society, the Portuguese Benevolent Association, the Cervantes Mutual Benefit Society, the Italian Society, and the Orleans Battalion of Artillery.

This New Orleans graveyard is said to be haunted by the ghost of the world famous Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau. Her spirit has been reported inside of the cemetery, walking between the tombs wearing a red and white turban with seven knots in it, and mumbling a original New Orleans Santeria Voodoo curse to Cemetery trespassers. Her Voodoo curse is loud and very audible, heard often by passerby’s on nearby Rampart Street. Locals say this has started in recent years for she is alarmed by the many vandals and state of the cemetery.

3. Le Pavilion Hotel

A paranormal research team identified four ghosts at LePavillon including a 19th century teenage girl, a young aristocratic couple from the 1920’s, and a dapper gentleman from the same era who likes to play pranks on the cleaning staff.

“Imagination governs the world”- Napoleon Bonaparte

With a history stretching back to the Gilded Age and impeccable French décor throughout, Le Pavillon Hotel of New Orleans piques the imagination in a way that even the Emperor himself would applaud.

Located in the heart of downtown New Orleans, Historic Le Pavillon Hotel is adjacent to the French Quarter, only five short blocks to the celebrated music clubs of Bourbon Street and the famous restaurants and antique shops of Royal Street. Within a five-minute walk, you can find yourself at the Louisiana Superdome for a NFL Saints home game or at the New Orleans Arena for a world-class concert or NBA Hornet’s game.

If your travel to New Orleans is conference related, you will be pleased to know that Le Pavillon is only eight blocks to the Morial Convention Center, the largest convention center in Louisiana. During Carnival season, Le Pavillon Hotel offers an ideal location; as Mardi Gras parades roll only two blocks away from the grand entrance of this classic New Orleans hotel.

Opened in 1907, Le Pavillon Hotel New Orleans is a member of Historic Hotels of America and maintains membership in the exclusive Preferred Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. Le Pavillon Hotel of New Orleans has been the proud recipient of AAA’s four-diamond award since 1996. Out of hundreds of eligible New Orleans Hotels, Le Pavillon Hotel was named to the “Gold List” by Condé Nast.

In a world of steel-and-glass skyscrapers and cookie-cutter design, the age of grand hotels seems long gone. A rare exception: Le Pavillon Hotel of New Orleans is where guests can instantly conjure the days of genteel luxury, romantic evenings and glittering nights.

Offical Le Pavilion Hotel web site

Often called “The Belle of New Orleans.” Le Pavillion offers turn-of-the-century charm in the heart of downtown New Orleans. Twenty foot Italian statues representing Peace and Prosperity greet you at the Poydras Street front door. Inside this spectacular grand hotel you’ll find crystal chandeliers, historic antiques and several lively ghost.

Noteworthy, among the hotel’s impressive collection of historic antiques, are a distinctive portrait of a lady of the French Court that hangs in the Crystal Room. Two stipulations to the hotel’s purchase of the painting were that it would never leave New Orleans and that it be the only painting of a woman in the room where it was to be hung.

The hotel also boasts the largest gas lantern in the United States, which hangs burning at the front porch.

Proudly sitting in our Castle Suite, is a magnificent hand carved marble bathtub, which was a gift from Napoleon to a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner. A similar tub that had belonged to Napoleon is housed in the Louvre.

Marble Bathtub,
Palace Suite 730
This extremely rare marble bathtub is purported to have been owned by Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France. It is hand carved from one single large block of white carrera marble. It is said that the Louisiana Purchase was signed by Napoleon in a marble tub. It is one of only three known to exist in the world today. One of them is proudly displayed in The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, while the other is in a private collection.

This Haunted New Orleans hotel makes guests feel at home by providing homelike touches like complimentary evening peanut butter finger sandwiches.

At one point a few years ago the hotel management hired paranormal investigators, who identified several ghosts in the hotel. one group found four another say they documented over 100.

Strange noises in the night apparitions of figures standing at the foot of different beds. Bed sheets being tugged into the air after midnight, and disappearing items only to turn up in odd places. One guest visiting for a large medical convention held in New Orleans last year gave an account of a old gray haired woman sitting on the side of his bed, he said he felt the weight of her body on the bed and her cold hands stroking his head and saying “I will never let you go.” he turned on the light and she faded away. And Yes, He checked out within the hour.

Paranormal investigators And visitors have deemed this Number 1 one of the most haunted hotels in New Orleans.

BEWARE! Hidden by the luxurious décor are many tales of eerie occurrences and ghostly happenings. It is said that the entire cleaning staff refuses to go on a certain floor. There have been sightings of more ghosts at this hotel then any other in the haunted Bigh Easy.

On June 24, 1991 Le Pavillon was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Le Pavilions’ sister hotel the Driskill, in Austin, Texas is also reported to be very haunted also.


Offical Le Pavilion Hotel web site www.lepavillon.com/

4. Arnaud’s Restaurant

In other cities, gourmands may get excited about a restaurant one minute and the next minute, the spot has been turned into a hardware store. Not so in old New Orleans, where restaurants can become part of the family. None of these moreso, it seems, than Arnaud’s. New Orleans families have been visiting Arnaud’s for generations, choosing it as the location where they want to commemorate their most important family events and milestones.

Founded by a colorful French wine salesman names Arnaud Cazenave, Arnaud’s recently celebrated 80 years of serving New Orleans families and visitors the finest cuisine in a classic atmosphere that speaks of Old World grandeur and a simpler time.

In fact, so beloved has this dining institution become to New Orleanians that many have simply decided to spend eternity there.

Arnaud Cazenave is said to be the most active spirit in the restaurant, perhaps still hanging around to make sure that everything is being kept in order and to his liking. Cazenave, whom most New Orleanians came to call Count Arnaud, for no apparent reason as he was not nobility, was a stickler for service in the grand French style, and it is likely he still maintains these standards today. If silverware and napkins are not set to his liking, the staff says he has no qualms about moving them; If he does not like the set up at the bar, he will rearrange it until he does. The kitchen, the service areas, no space is off-limits to the ghost of Count Arnaud.

Just before Count Arnaud died, he let it be known that his successor was to be his daughter Germaine Cazenave Wells who guided the venerable institution through many years.

The Germaine Cazenave Wells Mardi Gras Museum was opened at Arnaud’s Restaurant in her honor in 1983 by then-proprietor Archie A. Casbarian. Open free to the public during restaurant hours, the collection of Carnival court gowns, costumes and other memorabilia made in France provides a rare glimpse of the private side of Mardi Gras.

The museum has two basic themes-what Mardi Gras is and who Mrs. Wells and her family were. The museum brings together more than two dozen lavish Mardi Gras costumes, including 13 of Mrs. Wells’ queen costumes, one of her mother’s and one of her daughter’s, as well as four king’s costumes worn by Count Arnaud, (whose title was entirely local and honorary) and six children’s costumes.

The spirit of Germaine Cazenave is said to haunt this area of the restaurant and Mardi Gras Museum most frequently. There have been reports from employees and patrons who have been startled to see a misty form appear among the many Mardi Gras gowns and keepsakes. That misty form is said to be the daughter of Count Arnaud.

The restaurant serves classic Creole dishes, including the Count’s own spicy recipe forRemoulade Sauce. The restaurant features many dining rooms and the French 75 bar.

813 Bienville St, New Orleans, LA 70112-3121

Official arunads Web site www.arnauds.com

5. Canal Street at City Park Avenue

One drive through this major city intersection and it’s obvious to see why the area ranks number one on our list of Haunted New Orleans Streets. This major intersection once marked the outermost limits of the old city of New Orleans and is a location where an amazing thirteen cemeteries converge. Beyond the intersection is the median (in New Orleans vernacular, the “neutral ground”) that once was the location of the New Basin Canal: in itself yet another graveyard for so many Irish, German and Italian immigrants died in digging it and all of them were buried where they fell.



Oct 3, 2009 Posted in haunted location by admin

Haunted Location of the week: The City Cemetery in Port-Au-Prince

This weeks haunted location is the City Cemetery in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, is frequented by ghastly apparitions of the cities dead and cursed souls of voodoo believers. The past few years, the cemetery has been plundered by grave robbers who sell casket handles, shoes, and anything else they can salvage from the tombs of the departed. The grave robbing has upset the rest of those buried here and as a result many are now roaming about stuck in between this world and the next because of voodoo magic.

When most of us think of “voodoo”, we imagine dark forces and scary dolls, but in reality, voodoo is essentially a religion based upon the foundation that all of Creation is “divine”, and thus infused with divine energy that can be “tapped in to” by its practitioners; this power can be used for good or for evil. However in most cases in Haiti only the evil side is practiced and therefore a virtual army of the dead haunt this cemetery in order to protect it and scare off grave robbers.

As a result of a voodoo ritual the most vocal spirit is bound to this location forever to prevent it from possessing anyone in the future as it had done so in the past. The spirit of Ezili Dantar will try to harm you posses you or do anything possible in an attempt to escape the voodoo binding ceremony performed here in 1798.

I would say this is in my opinion one of the 10 most haunted locations in the world and warn you not to visit this location alone.


Sep 16, 2009 Posted in haunted location by admin

Haunted Location of the week The Birdcage Theatre

After much thought I’ve decided to revive a former tradition of mine and try to bring you a new haunted location each and every week. The honor of being the first new haunted location I list goes to The Birdcage Theatre in Tombstone Arizona.


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The Birdcage Theatre is a really interesting location in the “Town to tough to die” with documented 26 murdersand there are 145 documented bullet holes. This was the happening place back in the 1800’s with all night faro games, bluff poker and exotic ladies who loved to show the men a good time.

If you have the gift of “sight” this probably isn’t the place for you as even though it may just be a not so crowded museum for the living on any given night this place is packed with nearly 100 or so ghosts looking to recreate past events and have a bit of fun. I remember when I visited The Birdcage I nearly ran out screaming not realizing that the guys shooting guns were actually the ghosts of Curly Bill and Doc Holliday and they were just having a handkerchief fight. Now I probably looked like a complete nut job but this was way before I learned I had the gift of sight and how to control it.


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When you first enter the room of the Bircage with the stage most people are actually greeted by the ghost of Morgan Earp. He’s a real friendly guy however he seems to be a bit over protective of a particular pool table found inside the room.  On some nights you’ll actually see the entire Earp clan and on those nights you can feel the detest 99% of the towns folk feel for them.

If your wondering why this place is so hunted, in my opinion it is because it contains so many objects that these people were fond of in the past plus it has one of the main hearse coaches used to take a lot of these people to their graves on Boothill.


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May 14, 2009 Posted in haunted location by admin

Ghosts of Disney World

What pops into your head of when someone says the words “Disney World”? Do you think of Mickey Mouse, Epcot Center, or maybe Cinderella’s Castle? One thing you in all likelihood you do not tend to think of are ghosts… other than perhaps the Haunted Mansion, that is. You might believe it is impossible that Disney World, of all places, can be haunted. Nevertheless accounts of Disney World hauntings do exist. Here are a a couple of ghosts who have been reportedly encountered at the Park:

You could encounter many Disney World ghosts at Spaceship Earth. One ghost is a little girl with long, blond hair who’s been spotted riding in a car. Another is a young boy who loves to hang around the girl. He will run in front of her and disappear into thin air. This occurs outside during daylight hours because he is afraid of the dark.

At the Tower of Terror, there is  a ghost that walks around during closed hours when visitors are not around. Whenever  he is seen, he is always walking in the wrong direction. Whenever employee’s call him he doesn’t respond because he’s deaf. If he discovers he is noticed he’ll just disappear.

At the Pirates Of the Caribbean ride, the ghost of a former employee named George hangs out daily. When it was being built in the early 1970s, he was a welder who welded different pieces of the Pirates attraction. George was killed at the park when a beam fell on him during construction.

Pirates of the Carribian ghosts

Every morning and evening  before the ride opens and before the employees head home after closing, they say hello and good night over the PA system. There is  a beleif that if they do not do that, the ride will shut itself down (it’s actually done so occasionally). Ask almost anyone who has worked at this ride and they’ll probably tell you that they’ve had an encounter with George or know somebody who has.

The next time you take a trip to the happiest place on earth and would like to go on the Pirates Of the Caribbean, the Tower of Terror, Spaceship Earth, or you are simply walking down in front of Cinderella’s castle where shadowpeople frequent, keep an eye out and ask some employee about any Disney World ghost stories they’ve heard. Perhaps you will get lucky (or unlucky) and experience one of these Disney World hauntings yourself on your next trip to the happiest place on earth.



May 11, 2009 Posted in haunted location by admin

Old Cuchillo Bar

The onetime proprietor of a one hundred eighty year-old adobe brick building hears the door of a potbellied cooking stove opening and wood being piled inside, but nobody  is there.

Mystical rustlings echo in the latest proprietors ear. Things fall off shelves for no obvious reason.

These are merely a couple of of the unusual goings-on that artist Josh Bond, proprietor of the Old Cuchillo Bar in the southern New Mexico ghost town of the same name, has called for the West Coast Ghost and Paranormal Society to look into on his property.

“The creepiest I had was a voice whisper in my ear,” Bond said. “When things fall in the house, I just sort of write it off.”

When he came across an ad about WCGAPS, a Phoenix-based nonprofit organization, Bond believed the group may at least explain what was happening.

Andy Rice, who started WCGAPS about 2 years ago after investigating more than two hundred alleged hauntings and ghosts over more than thirteen years, said the group tries to explain the enigmas their customers relate to them applying science or common sense.

Only around five percent of the group’s investigations can not be explained by electromagnetic radiation, thin walls, defective wiring, lights from passing automobiles or other natural explanations, said Rice, who titled his investigators not ghost hunters, but ghost debunkers.

WCGAPS is booked through July with investigations, primarily in the southwestern United States. Rice said the historic value of the Cuchillo property caused it to stick out amidst the places calling for the group’s services.

The Old Cuchillo Bar dates to 1830 when it was a stage stop. Once, cargo was offloaded and driven by wagon to nearby mines in Winston or Chloride.

The five thousand sq ft complex has housed a general store, horse barn, mercantile, post office, hotel and bar over the years.

“It just has a lot of history, that place does,” said Gayle Shepperd, who owned the property with her husband, Harold, from 1978 to 2006. “I’ve heard tales of poker parties and a lot things like that going on.”

In modern years, the facility was utilized for wedding and baby showers and the trading post was where visitors stopped to inquire which residents were still amidst the town’s tapering population.

At one time it was home to 2,000 people and the hub of the county, Cuchillo has about thirty-five occupants, Bond said.

Like Bond, Shepperd also recalled peculiar things, like hearing the sound of somebody starting the wood cooking stove.

“I distinctly heard somebody putting wood into the fire. I looked in there and there was nobody,” she said. “We said, ‘Well, our ghosts are at play.’ We just discounted it.”

Shepperd put to rest at least one mystery: a trio of guns Bond had found wrapped in a sack in an empty grain bin.

“My mother put those there,” she said, explaining that her mother used the empty bins for storage.

Bond, thirty-six, an artist who builds metal sculptures and home furnishings, purchased the complex in 2006 and has finished up refurbishing the old hotel into a 3-bedroom vacation rental or artist hideaway. He hopes to open a microbrewery in the old bar.

Bond seemed ambivalent about whether the property is haunted.

“These people claim to debunk it scientifically. I write it off to coincidence many times in my mind, but I’d like to see it proved scientifically,” he said.

Rice said he’s not out to sway people to believe in the paranormal.

“Till they have a individual experience, I cannot change someone’s belief,” he said. “I don’t take the time to try to convince them, because it is a useless argument.”

Rice, a business analyst, said he became involved in investigating reports of hauntings after researching a deserted house with acquaintances.

At the top of a staircase while his friends were on the steps below him, he said, someone or something pushed him down the stairs, lifting him off the floor and leaving scratch marks on his back.

The experience led Rice to work about forty to sixty hours per week for WCGAPS, looking into hauntings for free and seeking donations. He hopes in a lot of instances he can put customers’ anxiety to rest.

“I’m hoping to go out and calm their fears. Other than my first experience, I have never experienced anything that’s harmful. I want to explain what’s there, whether there’s something or nothing,” Rice said.

For the investigation at Cuchillo, Rice says he will research area construction codes and the site’s history, talk with occupants, review the property’s title history and look at photos of the original constructions.

He and 7 other investigators will bring cameras and video and audio equipment to record noises or anything discovered in the constructions. Opposed to some other “ghost hunters,” Rice said he does not employ psychics to find ghosts.

WCGAPS’s internet site contains audio links to alleged paranormal phenomena, like voices, which Rice says do not fall under the normal frequency for human voices.

Other than the push down the stairway, Rice said he’s heard or seen a couple of unusual things, like the “full-body apparition” of a adult female he saw move across Monti’s La Casa Vieja restaurant in Tempe, Arizona, which is housed in the city’s original pioneer home.

Did he capture the image?

“It was exactly where we didn’t have a camera placed,” Rice said, but a camera did record his and the other investigator’s reactions to the figure.

Frequently hotels or restaurants hope WCGAPS will substantiate something paranormal because it is good for business, but proprietors of private houses commonly are relieved when their haunting is explained, Rice said.

As for Bond, “I’ve really kind of lived in denial of the fact, but I’m curious to know.”

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May 10, 2009 Posted in haunted location by admin

Reader submited: The Queen Mary

One Sunday afternoon my family decided to take a day trip to Long Beach and i, being the ghost fanatic and all, suggested the Queen Mary. So we decided to go there. When we got there we went to the counter and purchased tickets for the Ghost Encounters Tour. We were informed that the tour allows you to visit the swimming pool area and the lowest and deepest parts of the ship and the tour itself is about a little over an hour long. So my family and i met the tour guide along with all the other people taking the tour and we began our journey to the bottom of the ship. Let me first start off by saying that i am a BIG ghost fanatic…but i never expected to witness or experience anything because i thought only the lucky ones could have experiences. Anyways continuing on…our tour gets to the part where the boiler and ship gadgets and machinery are and the tour guide begins to tell us of a tragic incident that happened way back when the ship was sailing and functioning. He tells us about this young man who was doing his duties and managing the machinery, when suddenly the young man was walking through these steel doors from the ship and he was crushed to death horizontally as he tried to walk through this door labeled door 13. So in my head i was thinking of the helplessness this man must have experienced and such a sudden death. So anyways as the tour guide finished his story my dad and i were the last ones to exit the machinery room…when from out of nowhere i saw this black solid figure of a man standing to my right behind the machinery. I stared at it for a good 10 seconds or so and then i quickly turned away in disbelief. When i looked back in that direction the figure was no longer there. I could’nt believe what i had just seen..it was so unexpected and completely incredible…i witnessed for the very first time a ghost. So with that being said..i encourage anyone, if you are in the area of Long Beach, go and take a visit at the Queen Mary and go explore the ship for yourself.

Apr 29, 2009 Posted in haunted location by admin

World Trade Center Ghosts

I know it might seem a bit tacky or in bad taste to talk about but The World Trade Center and “investigating “ground zero” but it is a hot bed of paranormal activity and has many ghosts. The ghost are crawling all over the place because of the tragic and sudden way they passed.

When I even just think about the World Trade Center my mind gets heavy with feeling and after a few minutes I am almost to the point of passing out. I can just imagine what would happen if I were to actually visit the ghosts at ground zero. I hope the day never comes where a ghost hunting show is granted permission to investigate the site because I believe some spirits deserve a break and we should respect those who died on September 11th 2001 because it’s the right thing to do.

I’ve heard stories about Chip Coffey, John Edward and other medium’s taking money to do readings for family members who lost loved ones on that day and I think any medium who charges anybody especially these people money should be flogged. Please respect the spirits and more importantly have respect for the living loved ones the left behind.

Apr 9, 2009 Posted in haunted location by admin

The Equinox, Manchester Vt.

Escaping the heat of Washington, DC, Mary Todd Lincoln and her children
spent twο sυmmers аt Thө Equinox іn Manchester Village, VT. Tһe familү planned
to retuгn the summer οf 1865, bυt plans changed following the assassination
of Abraһam Lincoln. The family’s tieѕ tο the areа continued аnd strengthened
with ѕon RoЬert Todd Lincoln’s purchase of neighЬoring eѕtate Hildene.
Employeөs аt the һotel report seeing images on thө third flοor οf а woman
and а child that aгe consiѕtent with
descriptions οf Marү Todd Linсoln and one
of hөr sons. Perhaps tһrough theіr visits theү aгe trying tο recapture the
are fгee days of those summers.

The Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washingtοn, DC hosted its first
Inaugural Ball, honoring Calvіn Coolidge, on March 4, 1925, just twο weeks after the
hotel opened. Mourning hiѕ sixteen-year-old son’s tragiс deatһ from blood
poisoning, the president did not attend the ball. In 1937, Inauguration Day was
changed to Janυary 20. Tһe hotel has sіnce experienced unυsual occurrenсes on
January 20. In tһe Grand BaΙlroom, the lights sөem to dim and flickөr around 10:00 p.m.
It was аt thiѕ hoυr
thаt the fanfare announced tһe guests of honoг at President Coolidge’s
Inaugural Ball. The electricaΙ circuіts һave been cһecked bү expertѕ who can find nothing
wrong. Hotel staff һave reported finding a plate of exqυisite һors d’oeυvres along with
a gΙass of fine wine left іn tһe Grand Ballroom balcony.

Strangely, neither itөm waѕ served аt аny functіon on that day. One elevator
refuses to move from the eightһ floor to thө lobby level untіl 10:15 p.m.
This iѕ tһe aрproximate timө the Presidөnt ωould һave arrived from his
holding room to the bаll. Knowing that һe missed his Inauguгal BaΙl аt tһe
Renaissance Mayflowөr, peгhaps “Silent Cal” Coolidge iѕ maĸing up for that
historical evenіng and attending, іn spirіt, eaсh January 20.

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Dec 15, 2008 Posted in haunted location by admin

Haunted Star of India ship

The Star of India,(originally known as The Euterpe) is the oldest, working sailing ship in the world. The strongest ghost is a young man by the name of John Campbell. In 1884, John Campbell, a teen-aged boy seeking adventure, stowed away on The Euterpe. He was eventually discovered and put to work to earn his keep. While tending to the masts, about 100 feet above the deck, his foot slipped and he fell to the deck below, breaking both legs. He died 3 days later in great pain. He now haunts the mast where he fell off.

The other main ghost on the ship goes by Captain. He is always working on his logs and charts and barking orders to a non-exsistant crew.

The Star of India sailing ship is docked at the Maritime Museum of San Diego. 1492 North Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101.

Nov 24, 2008 Posted in ghostsingle haunted location by admin

The Haunted White House

That’s right, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. is not only home to the current President of the United States, it also is home of several former presidents who occasionally decide to make their presences known there, despite the fact that they are dead.

President Harrison is said to be heard rummaging around in the attic of the White House, looking for who knows what. President Andrew Jackson is thought to haunt his White House bedroom. And the ghost of First Lady Abigail Adams was seen floating through one of the White House hallways, as if carrying something.

The most frequently sighted presidential ghost has been that of Abraham Lincoln. Eleanor Roosevelt once stated she believed she felt the presence of Lincoln watching her as she worked in the Lincoln bedroom. Also during the Roosevelt administration, a young clerk claimed to have actually seen the ghost of Lincoln sitting on a bed pulling off his boots. On another occasion, while spending a night at the White House during the Roosevelt presidency, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was awakened by a knock on the bedroom door. Answering it, she was confronted with the ghost of Abe Lincoln staring at her from the hallway. Calvin Coolidge’s wife reported seeing on several occasions the ghost of Lincoln standing with his hands clasped behind his back, at a window in the Oval Office, staring out in deep contemplation toward the bloody battlefields across the Potomac.