Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans– Marie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801 – June 15, 1881) was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II, (1827 — c. 1862) also practiced rootwork, conjure, Native American and African spiritualism and Catholicism as well as Louisiana or ...

Alicia’s Pillow is a scary fictional story about a young girl who is struck down by a mysterious illness. It is inspired by an old horror story from Uruguay written by Horacio Quiroga. There was a young girl named Alicia who moved, with her parents, to a new town. They rented a big, old house that ...

According to legend tear bottles were prevalent in ancient Roman times, when mourners filled small glass vials or cups with tears and placed them in burial tombs as symbols of love and respect. Sometimes women were even paid to cry into “cups”, as they walked along the mourning procession. Those crying the loudest and producing ...

Lost in time, this story is told, about a woman, dark and bold. She walks the streets on a foggy night, with a hood on her head to hide from sight. Her story starts one summer’s eve, beside the lake an evil deed. A thief stole her daughter’s life, and filled her soul with pain and strife. On a ...

Waverly Hills was originally a two-story wooden building that was opened in 1910, however, the building you see today was constructed in 1926. It served as a tuberculosis hospital throughout the early to mid 20th Century, a time when the disease was at its worst. It is believed that as many as 63,000 patients died ...

Has only 82 plots, but that certainly hasn’t stopped it from becoming one of the most haunted cemeteries in the United States. Established in 1840, the small area surrounding the cemetery was soon abandoned by the English homesteaders who relocated from Chicago to New England, leaving the graves behind. Originally named the Everdon Cemetery, the property ...

Commonly known as one of America’s most haunted homes, the Myrtles Plantation started off as a working mansion during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It’s an extravagant example of the grandeur that characterized plantations during that time period; the French chandelier in the mansion’s foyer is Baccarat crystal and weighs over 300 pounds. ...

El Paso High School in Texas is said to be haunted by the ghost of a young girl who took her own life. There is a ghost photograph that, according to the legend, shows a ghost girl appearing in the high school class photo , not sure how legit the picture is but its an ...

Mount Misery and Sweet Hollow Road are famous scary roads near the town of Melville in Long Island. They say the place is haunted and there are lots of scary stories, legends and myths associated with the area. According to legend, Sweet Hollow Road and Mount Misery have been haunted as long as anyone can remember. ...

The USS Lexington Has had a very long history of service to our great Nation. It was one of the major aircrafts carriers during WW11. Many times it was target of kamikazes and torpedo attacks. It got the nickname of “the blue ghost” because Tokyo rose radio broadcasters made constant claims the Lexington had been destroyed. ...

Mother of twins This is a short but creepy and very thought-provoking story about twins. I found this version on the Swedish podcast Paranormalia, issued on the 25th of January 2016 . I am the mother of six year old twin girls. Yesterday, a beautiful springday, I took them to the lake for a picnic. On the ...

Legend of the House of Aramberri : Legend of the House of Aramberri , this is a scary urban legend about a haunted house in Mexico and the horrible murders that occurred there. There is a haunted house in Monterrey, Mexico that locals call La Casa de Aramberri or The House of Aramberri. It has been visited ...

Urban Legend : Mooney Mansion The Mooney Mansion in Columbus, Ohio is a legendary haunted house called “Mooney’s Mansion” where a brutal mass murder is believed to have taken place years ago. Back in the 1950s, Dr. Mooney lived with his wife and three children in one of the old homes in Columbus, Ohio. The family was ...

The Tombstone of William Henry “Harry” Thornton. William Henry “Harry” Thornton, was a classical pianist who played for the troops in World War I but sadly succumbed to the worldwide flu pandemic of 1918 at age 35. His family had a grand piano, lid open, carved in stone and engraved with his name just over the ...

The Ominous Fog The Ominous Fog is a scary campfire story told in the movie The Fog about the legend of the ghosts of Antonio Bay and a shipwreck at Spivey Point. 11:55… Almost midnight. Enough time for one more story. One more story before 12:00, just to keep us warm. In five minutes, it will be ...

The Mysterious Skeleton The Mysterious Skeleton is a creepy short story about a man who is chased by another man who wants to kill him. It is based on an old ghost story called “The Man of Science” by Jerome K Jerome. This story begins with a small man and a tall man. The two men were ...

The Inherited Mansion In this scary horror story, a young family learns that something terrifying lives within their inherited mansion. I have always hated the cold. Too many cold winter nights spent alone while my father, an unemployed butcher, blew our welfare benefits on booze and took his frustrations out on me with his belt. I left ...

Urban Legend from Montana : The Bleeding Sink I found it extremely annoying that one of the bathrooms on my dorm was permanently closed. Especially since the cause was an urban legend. An urban legend, I tell you! According to the story, years and years ago some guy got himself massively drunk at a bar in ...

Basement Freezer: Basement Freezer is a scary story about a man who murders his wife and hides her body parts in the freezer. It is based on part of an old 1970s horror movie. William Kemp hated his wife. They had been married for 20 years and he was tired of hearing her nagging voice. He was ...

The East End Ghouls Historic Parkersburg, West Virginia, is best remembered today for the Blennerhassett Island plot, in which Aaron Burr and wealthy Parkersburg patrician Harman Blennerhassett were accused by President Thomas Jefferson of conspiring to create a private empire west of the Ohio River. Many claim that Blennerhassett Island is now haunted because of all ...

The Glowing Maggot The Glowing Maggot is a scary story about a man who sees a huge glowing worm emerge from a grave in a cemetery. It is supposedly a true story that happened years ago in England and a version of the story appeared as “The Glowing Maggot Of Doom” in Ghosts, Ghouls and Other ...

RIP actor Scott Wilson, who played Hershel Greene in the AMC series The Walking dead, who has sadly passed away today at the age of 76 from cancer. He had more than 50 film credits, including parts in the Heat of the Night, In Cold Blood, The Great Gatsby, Dead Man Walking, Young Guns 2, ...

Creepy Doll Movies and TV shows Here’s a list of some of the creepiest doll movies and TV shows, including films with creepy ventriloquist dummies, killer puppets and evil toys. In real life, a doll is a cute plaything and a lovable childhood companion, but in horror movies dolls are always crazed… More Source

The Mortician The Mortician is a creepy story about a man who owns a funeral parlor in a small town. Bernard Sloane had the perfect family. They were always there, waiting for him when he finished work. Every evening at seven o’clock, he turned out the lights, locked the front door and went downstairs to the basement ...

Fort Gaines Phantoms : Fort Gaines was established in 1821 and is best known for its role in the Battle of Mobile Bay during the Civil War, a Union victory which helped bolster President Lincoln’s bid for re-election just three months later. Despite erosion from intense storms in recent years, the site is one of the ...