A number of cleaning ladies that work the overnight shift at a factory near Holy Cross Church in Basildon, England have claimed to have seen a phantom monk on several occasions and conveyed their story to us. The women usually get off work around 4 AM, and it is as they are leaving the factory and walking past the old church that they often see the ghost. They all agree the ghost is definitely a monk, and it walks across the Church Road before it disappears among the graves in the churchyard.

The Baghdad Theater located at 3702 SE Hawthorne in Portland, Oregon is this weeks haunted location. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Baghdad theater is one of the many Arabian knights style theaters that were built in the late 1920s after fantasy classics like Douglas Fairbanks  Thief of Baghdad. This particular theater is actually pretty good size seating over 700 people in its auditorium and large balcony.

Usually for a location to be worthy of being called the haunted location of the week it would have to have many active spirits within it but the Baghdad theater actually only has one. The poor soul who haunts this location is actually a bit loony and is a little much to handle for first-time hunters.

Apparently during his live he was a theater worker who had felt betrayed in love after finding his new wife in bed with a relative of his and being distraught he actually committed suicide behind the screen of the theater. Ever since he’s decided to stay at the only place he felt happy which was the theater. As far as haunting goes he mostly seems to bother young couples who break the theater’s rules or the little far with the public displays of affection.

Before visiting the Baghdad theater with ghost hunting on your mind please be sure to seek permission from the theater owners and as always any ghost hunting is done at your own risk.

Atlanta, Georgia is widly known for being the home to Gone With the Wind but today is probably best known as the buisness capitol of the southeastern United States.However around a century and a half ago the entire city laid in ruins after being burned to the ground during the Civil War.

Reminders of that destruction can still be seen across southwestern Georgia and some of which has a direct link to the supernatural. From the spirits of plantation owners, civil war solders and even the loved onesthey left behind are still walking across the earth and frequinting spots they did in life.

This weeks haunted location is the 1848 house which is locted in nearby Marietta, Georgia. It is one of the only buildings to survive the war intact because owner William King allowed General Sherman to stay in the house during his march through Georgia.

John Glover the first mayor of Marietta is probably one of the most powerful ghosts to still be here. He tends to frequant the upstairs dinning room which at one time served as a hospital. He tends to spend most of his time in that room or out on the front porch rocking in rocking chairs with some of his spirit friends.

The Scarlet Room is the other spot that gets visited by powerful spirtits. It is frequented by a ghost named Julia who hates flowers and for some reason children. She lived in the house in the 1800′s and fiance died in a horriable train accident near the home. If you hear a wistle from the train station she can be seen at times looking for her lost love.

Unfortunaly the 1848 house is currently not open to the public but that is expected to change soon. Hope you enjoyed a brief history and please remember to let us know if you experiance anything paranormal. Keep it spooky.

This week’s haunted location is the Crescent Hotel located in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. The hotel also called “Grand Old Lady Of the Ozarks” has been many things over the years including a cancer hospital, mental institution, a gangster’s summer home and its current manifestation hotel. Built near a natural spring at the crest of West Mountain between 1884 and 1886 it was once thought this hotel was a prime location to help heal the sick due to the Hot Springs.

Over the years many deaths have occurred at the hotel starting as far back as its construction when a worker fell to his death from the roof. There are about a dozen other documented suspicious deaths which are partially responsible for the hauntings. The most powerful spirit here is that of Dr. Norman Baker who ran the hospital back in the 30s. Dr. Baker loves to knock on doors and approach sleepy hotel guests and ask for directions before he vanishes. An interesting side note is while Dr. Baker was in charge of the hospital in the 1930s he had no actual medical training and many patients were put through very bizarre treatments in an attempt to cure them.

If you’re sensitive to spirits then you should probably avoid rooms 218, 202 and 404 since these have the most activity because of the deaths that occurred in the rooms. Also be on the lookout for obs when you visit the Crystal Dinning Room.

After a long absence and much debate I decided to bring back the haunted location of the week feature on this site. If you visit one of the listed haunted locations please be respectful and always make sure you have permission before conducting any ghost hunting activities.

It stands to reason that a good place to look for ghosts would be an actual ghost town.

The small town of Wayne in Alberta’s Badlands isn’t a ghost town yet, but it’s not very far off from becoming one. A one-time Wayne boasted population of nearly 2500 people but once the coal mine shut down the population plummeted to 27.

The majority of the town’s residents pulled up stakes during the Great Depression when the mine closed. Building material during the Great Depression was something most people could not afford so town residents simply picked up their shacks and moved them to other nearby communities. As a result of this there’s not very many buildings to remind visitors of Wayne’s good old days with the exception of the Rosedeer hotel.

This building at first glance reminds you of something you’d see in the Westerns of yesteryear with its beige, false fronted exterior located next to rest and how railroad tracks.

Today, the hotel has become a popular destination for folks seeking out remnants of the old West and for ghost hunters. You read that right, ghost hunters not ghost town hunters. Many people believe that the old Rosedeer Hotel is haunted.

Legend has it that the third-floor of the three-story hotel is where the ghosts live which is why it is now closed and off-limits to tourists. Locals claim that the Ku Klux Klan were actually hired by mine officials to mingle with the hotel’s clientele and weed out communists, which is what anybody would attempt to unionize the coal mine would be called.

Multiple times, KKK members would take those labeled as communists up to a room on the third floor and beat them up thoroughly. However, the thugs on one occasion at least went too far and a union organizer was killed.

There have been many reports of paranormal activity on the third-floor by hotel guests and even its proprietor Fred Dayman. While it is possible that multiple spirits haunt the hotel and attached Last Chance Saloon the only one I can attest to with certainty of being there is the spirit of that slain union organizer Thomas Ruby.

The ghost and Mr. Ruby tends to mainly stay on the third-floor however as the weather gets colder in late fall and early winter he visits the attached saloon as if he is in search of a nightcap to fight off the nippy weather.

Unlike a lot of the other locations we discussed on this site this location is open to the public. To contact the hotel for reservations or other information, please call (403)823-9189. Have fun and remember if you visit please share your spirit is with us.

The Bell Witch of  Tennessee is probably one of the most popular ghost stories ever in the United States. Now because of all that’s been documented on this story I will not go into great detail because if I did it would take hundreds of pages just to cover all the information that is known about this haunting. To make a long story short basically the back in the early 1800′s a farmer named John Bell and his  family were tormented and traumatized by demon for almost 4 years. The haunting was the result of a curse placed on the Bell family by a Ba’al worshiper and this allowed Ba’al to unleash his demonic legion to assist in the tormenting and persecution of the entire Bell family until the curse was fulfilled with the death of John Bell.

A little ways from the site of the old Bell farm near Red River is a cave called the Bell Witch Cave. Now legend has it that this cave is where the spirit went to hide after the death of John Bell until it is able to find it’s next victim. However like most time’s legend gets mixed with anything legend is wrong. Don’t get me wrong this cave is a very bad place but not because of what’s inside of it but it’s a bad place because what is able to come out. You see upon making her deal with Ba’al the eccentric woman who unleashed Ba’al’s legion on the world created a doorway in which they may enter by drawing the symbol of Ba’al on the cave wall using  the blood of 7 people and the ground up horn of a ram. This created a Hellmouth for the lack of a better term allowing Ba’al’s legions to enter our world at will while John Bell was alive and once every 12 years during fall harvest season for no more than 12 days.

So if you do visit this area it’s best to avoid it during October because thats when your at risk if your in the right numbered year. I hope you enjoyed some added in site to the Bell Witch story. Keep it spooky.

I thought I’d bring up a not so well known Haunted location today and cover the screaming tunnel at Niagara Falls. The Screaming Tunnel is an abandoned Grand Trunk railway structure  located in the Northwest section of Niagara Falls at the end of an empty road only accessible off  Queen Elizabeth Highway. The tunnel was constructed by Grand Trunk with hopes of making a railway line from Niagara Falls to New York City but then world war 1 broke out and Grand Trunk had a lot of financial problems so the railway was never finished.

This tunnel is haunted by the ghosts of two small girls. The first was named Sarah. Here family were nearby farmers and one night their farmhouse caught fire. Sarah ran from the home but her clothes caught fire and she burned to death at the center of the tunnel. The other girl named Jean who was 8 years old when she died was taken to the tunnel by her father who raped his own child then burned her alive to cover up all traces of his crime.

If you’ve watched The Dead Zone by Christopher Walken and remember him going into a tunnel for refuge then you’ve seen the Screaming tunnel before.

I found a video on Youtube of a group investigating the tunnel so I decided to share it here because it gives you a good look at the tunnel. But if you do visit the Screaming Tunnel of Niagara Falls to look for ghosts I do ask that you be respectful and do not try to anger the ghosts to get them to reveal them selfs because the ghosts here were both little girls when they passed so if there was a time and place to have some respect for the ghosts of the dead it would be at the Screaming Tunnel.

With a history of beheadings, murders, torture and hangings, as well as being a prison to Nobles it is no wonder The Tower of London has developed a reputation as being one of the most haunted places in Britain. Grim, grey and awe-inspiring, the Tower has dominated the London landscape and the pages of history, since its construction by William the Conqueror in 1078 and today on ghostmap not only are we going to cover who haunts this location but more importantly I’ve decided to cover a why this spot is haunted as well and when you read this your going to be a bit shocked.

***Most powerful Ghosts***

Anne Boleyn— King Henry VIII, after learning the baby Anne carried for nine months was a boy and still born, accused by her of infidelity.  She was taken to TOWER GREEN and was beheaded on May 19, 1536. Queen Anne appears near the Queen’s House, close to the site where her execution was carried out. She can be seen leading a ghostly procession of Lords and Ladies down the aisle of the Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula her head tucked under her arm.

Sir Walter Raleigh—Was condemned to be executed by King James I. He frequents his rooms in the tower and is rater displeased by the tours of people who now visit his still furnished rooms. He has on occasion pinched, bit and scratched a few of the more disrespectful tourists.

Margaret Pole Countess of Salisbury—King Henry VIII had her executed for political reasons. The Countess refused to put her head on the block like a common traitor. When her executioner came after her she ran, but was pursued by him, with his axe in hand hacking at her until he had chopped the Countess to death. Her ghost is in a state of shock still reliving this  gruesome death each and everyday.

Lady Jane Grey–The granddaughter of Mary (Henry VIII younger sister) and Louis XII of France. The Duke of Northumberland would lose everything if Henry VIII’s son was to die and Mary, who was Catholic, would become queen. He and her father arranged her marriage to his son and persuaded her cousin Edward VI to name her his successor in case of his death instead of his two half-sisters. When Edward VI died she was crowned Queen of England, but the supporters of Mary overthrew her.

Her own father got scared and in hopes to save his own skin, left the Tower of London and went to Tower Hill to proclaim Mary I, as the Queen of England, Lady Jane never left the tower; she and her husband were immediately imprisoned and sentenced to death. Queen Mary carried out the execution of Lady Jane’s father-in-law but set both Jane and her husband free.

Her father was involved in a rebellion against Mary I, Lady Jane and her husband were again placed in the tower. Lady Jane watched as her husband was taken to Tower Hill where he was beheaded. She saw his body being carried back to the chapel, after which she was taken to Tower Green where she was beheaded. She was only 17 years old. Her ghost is most active on February 12th the anniversary of her death. She is protected by other spirits here due to her young age and the fact that her death was due to the result of the selfishness of others.

Cathrine Howard–She is one of the scariest ghosts in my opinion because of the fact that she has black void where her face should be.  Her ghost can be seen wearing a veil reliving her trip in a funeral carriage.

Ok, now that we covered the “major” ghosts at The Tower of London let me tell you a bit about the two reasons this place is so haunted. The first reason is that the Salt Tower is actually built upon a “hellmouth” or gateway to the afterlife. Due to this fact anyone who died within it’s general area were unable to pass on because of residual energy. The second reason is the stones that were used to construct part of the tower were taken from a Druid ritual location in which human sacrifices were carried out on these very stones.

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.

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.