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Haunted Places in America II
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The town of Gettysburg has its share of haunted history. No wonder: Approximately 7,000 people died -- both Union and Confederate soldiers -- during the Battle of Gettysburg at the heart of the Civil War. (About another 3,500 died in the weeks and months following the battle.)
Buell, founder of the Paranormal Research Society and host of A&E's "Paranormal State," remembers getting shot there.
Except he never was.
"We were taking a ghost tour of Gettysburg (National Military Park) and suddenly I was having trouble breathing ... I was wheezing and I was having trouble breathing and the pain, it got worse," Buell said.
Buell went to the hospital, and the doctors ran some tests.
"Long story short, suddenly they come running back and they tear off my shirt and they said something like, 'Where's the exit wound?' " Buell said. But no exit wound ever appeared on his body.
If you go: There are several Gettysburg ghost tours, including Gettysburg Ghost Tours and Ghosts of Gettysburg (which is hosted by a former park ranger).
Charleston and Savannah
Older cities such as Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, remind tourists that they just might be walking on bones. Savannah is "literally built on its dead," Hawes said. "When they're going to put up buildings, they have to do tests, core samples, to see if they find any bones."
Robert Edgerly, founder of one of the city's popular walking ghost tours and author of "Savannah Hauntings," said that the 17hundred90 Inn is one of his favorite local spots.
The 17hundred90 Inn, first built in the 1800s, is proud of its paranormal history, with an entire section of the website devoted to people's experiences. The inn's most famous resident is Anne Powell, who reportedly fell from a window to her death, though the event is clouded with rumor.
Charleston is no less spooky -- especially the Old City Jail, which is famous for the prisoners kept locked behind its bars, including Lavinia Fisher, often thought of as America's first female mass murderer.
If you go: Savannah visitors can book a room at the 17hundred90 Inn. Charleston features many tours, with the Ghost & Dungeon Walking Tour, Charleston's Ghost Hunt and Ghosts of the South among the options.
Gilliland's Ranch, Trout Lake, Washington
Gilliland's Ranch, in Trout Lake is fairly new as a paranormal hotspot, at least measured against the decades- or centuries-plus history of some of the other locales on our list.
Owned and operated by James Gilliland -- whose resume includes minister, counselor, author and radio host -- the ranch distinguishes itself in other ways: Buell said he was "guaranteed" to experience activity on his first visit, a rare and rarely true claim.
Gilliland "claimed he was being visited by aliens, all the time, and that there were supernatural beings on his property," Buell said. So a friend, another paranormal aficionado, took up the claim and reported back.
"He's like, 'I swear to you, all night long we had experiences in this place ... Every night, something happened,' " Buell said. A big ball of light would appear and then split up into triangles and then regroup -- circling and darting unnaturally, according to Buell's friend.
Many people claim to have experienced contact with extraterrestrial life at the ranch, with anecdotes spread across the Web.
If you go: Contact the ranch to schedule a private tour. (Reservations are required.)
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
West Virginia's Point Pleasant is synonymous with the story of the Mothman, an extraterrestrial creature sighted throughout the town in the late 1960s and made famous by the book "The Mothman Prophecies," later adapted as a film starring Richard Gere.
The town boasts several landmarks, including the Mothman Statue, which depicts the creature as a silvery humanoid, with teeth bared.
The Lowe Hotel is nearby, offering an easy second stop on any personalized ghost tour. Not only does it house the Mothman Museum, the hotel is home to a small coterie of otherworldly figures.
Many people assume the experiences in the town have stopped. Not so. While he was visiting, Buell had some "really crazy experiences," including a brush with the Mothman that involved an underground munitions bunker, a voice-activated tape recorder and a psychic.
"You want to talk about something right out of 'The X-Files' -- here's Point Pleasant," he said.
If you go: Book a room at the Lowe Hotel and take a tour of the hotel museum.
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| October 25, 2013, 03:42 |
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sybianwatcher1
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Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Re: Haunted Places in America II
We have a place in the Deadman River Valley called the Ghost Ranch.
Built in the early 1900's from dovetail log construction, it lies completley abandoned, ..and even creepier ,fully furnished.
It is so far out that it is now only accesable by ATV, horses,or on foot.In the trees the Native Indians tie talismans made from roots and deer bones, that chime against each other in the wind....but I've never heard of one native who walked into the house..
The story goes that the first cabin was built around 1895, and burned down with all the children inside, leaving the parents to survive them.
They built the ranch over the next ten years, even after having yearly skirmishes with the local Indians, and one of them taking several bullet wounds....After a decade with renegade Indian attacks the North West Mounted Police, negotiated a truce, they then learned that the Natives believed the site was haunted....and believed that no living thing should live there. In the 1930's a pioneer was in the bottom valley below the ranch, and found that everything that layed down or landed on the ground was dead..and they lay like they were sleeping... deer, coyotes, every kind of bird imaginable, even insects....in the 1980's a leaking pocket of methane gas was detected , that suffocated everything 24 inches above the ground if there wasn't a breeze.
By the 1920's the family tried farming a few other things other than native grasses, and due to the low level of methane...most crops failed,...and it was eventually abandoned.
I've been there, and walked in the house...tables are set for dinner, boots still sit inside the front door from the 20's...everything is untouched.
And it's about the creepiest thing you'd ever see when you walk into the barn and the horse skeletons are still laying in their stalls...from what I see, they didn't leave, they either ran for their lives, or vanished..
The local cowboys don't go there, the natives won't even talk about it, and the local government say they don't know of it's existence when you inquire about graze lease, or private property purchase..it's like it doesn't exist or got stuck in time.
I was there in spring time...and the talismans hang in a rough circle around the homestead...and I sat there and studied it for some time...not one bird crossed that imaginary line, and realizing that, I noticed that no grass grew around the house,..and no moss on the roof...when I went into the house, no packrat damage, no moths had eaten the drapes or textiles,...no mouse droppings..it's as if everything alive,or wanted to live.. was driven away...and that included me.
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