Shadowlands Haunted Places Index - California. Manteca - Sequoia elementary - Tthere. A night. janitors hear the intercom turn on and hear children talking on it but. There has also been a report. Marin - Camp Bothin - The camp used to be an old tuberculosis Hospital and. Indian residence before it was made into a girl scout camp. The locations and legends listed are reader submitted and Haunted Indiana.com is NOT responsible for their validity nor do we claim them to be true. Over 100 recorded locations in the state! Comprehensive list of the most haunted places in Kentucky, each with a history of its ghosts, photos, maps, GPS coordinates and much more. It is. said that at night you can hear and see the ghost of a nurse pushing. It is also been said that Indian spirits have made. Marina Del Rey - Buy. The Haunted United States Top 10 Haunted Hotels are reputed to have uninvited ghost guests, Haunting's, and Paranormal occurrences in.Cheap. Software. com. The ghost of a man is seen walking around the. Rumor has it that the man was murdered. But if you look back, she disappears along with the street lamp. Menlo Park - Coleman. Mansion currently Peninsula private school - It. Students and faculty have seen her in. Merced - Applegate Skate. Park - Reports of a headless skater appearing. The daughter had fallen into a whirlpool and the suction. After the mother died. Merced - The Tower Theater. Be wary of the characters at the Honeymoon Express (Tram Barn) – Frankenstein is there with his bride plus his mad scientist friend. Wear your dancing shoes and be part of the fun on Hill Street as several times a night a. Haunted prisons, camps, mansions, and more: these are the best haunted places in every state. A nationwide index of haunted places, brief descriptions of ghostly places. The Tower Theater is said to be haunted by the. People have said they have seen the women in the theater. A mother had taken her two kids swimming and were. The kids had drowned from hitting shallow. The bodies were never found. Every night the mother would drive. She had past away and. Also, a very horrible feeling of foreboding often. One couple, just using the. The sound and. feelings were very alarming in the fact that they seemed to be all. It was a very frightening. Modesto - Ambulance. Station on Granger - The building that now. It is said that back in the 6. Also, as recently as. Indian man died in the house alone while praying. This room, where the old man died is avoided by. The. employees of the ambulance service have witnessed; doors and windows. The house is not hard to find, it's at the. Mc. Henry and Granger right next door to a skateboard shop. Some say that the. Indian is watching over the joggers who run the trail. There is also the. Clause Road. It was. About 1/4 mile north. Johanson High School. It seems to be male and has a desire to make. After closing, he will activate battery. When all trailer tapes have stopped running and the satellite. TV display has been shut off, the ghost has been known to say things. This scared both people so much that they didn't investigate. The boxes were stacked in a corner of the store. In the early. 1. 98. This could be related to the . There are also reports of. Modesto - Red Lion Hotel. Holiday Inn) - Sounds of people. Loud crashing of. According to an employee who has. There are also rumors of more than one person. Also while on in the parking lot. Rooms. 4. 20, 2. 06, and 1. Especially in room 1. The room has been checked many. Mokelumne Hill - Hotel. Leger - Hotel owned by George Leger in 1. He. met an untimely death, shot in gambling argument. Anyway odor of fresh. Owners always happy. Monrovia - Azteca Building. Supposed noises are heard there, and an. This place is located on Foothill Blvd. Most of the activity occurs around theatres 8 and 9. Theatre 9. is always eerily cold, even with the heaters on. Upstairs in the. projection booth above #9, lights turned off by employees sometimes. It is also said you can see a figure's. Montebello - Cantwell High. School - while working on the second floor of. Montebello - Double. Tree. Hotel - If you turn off the lights in the room. Many employees claim when they are working at the. Park Rangers have. The source of. the haunting has not been determined, but two parks and recreation. The office was once. Do not attempt to trespass, you will be. It is said he drowned. Mysterious. fogs roll in and out here a lot as well. Three. children have been known to cross the hallways from one door to another. It was once said that three. The Lady in Black is. Monterey County - San. Lucas - Salinas River - Every Halloween night. She is mistaken as La. Llarona. Each year the kids go on dares to walk the river past the. One year, the kid never came back. One year the first girl ever. She was walking too close to. If she would have fallen it. It's supposedly because ghost of children. There were no survivors. It is now said that. UP over the. overpass. This only works when going South. In addition, baby powder. Sometimes laughter and. Moreno Valley - Old. Hospital/Elementary School - In Moreno Valley. Nason, there is the old hospital. When the new hospital was. The story goes that a deranged man came into the school with a. In the back, there. It is said that he took his hostages. The. old school is now closed and many have been inside since. Inside. people have said they see figures of children and hear the cries. Building used to be a speak- easy. A woman who worked at the establishment was. When the. husband returned from Alaska and found out, he then murdered her on the. The Blue Lady is a friendly and mischievous spirit. Mount Baldy - Ski Lifts - has a ghost of a man wearing all white. He seems to be. from back in the mining days. He is wearing a white suit, with a white. He has a mustache as well. Montebello - Montebello. Now if you walk by C building late at night it. In the auditorium when. One is the old infirmary. When the base was still operated by the. Navy, Security Police Officers would check the building at night and. Also, in the woman's. If you are there alone in the restroom, you can. In the clean. room, items coming out of the bio machine have been thrown straight. Murrieta - KEA Milling - March 2. Update/Correction: This has been boarded up. It is also belived this is turning into an urben. There is no proof of any certain trauma at this this place.- All the windows and doors on ground level are cemented. If you look. up at her a feeling of sadness comes over you and your eyes get a. There is one spat in the last theater room in the. Nevada City - The National. Hotel - Apparent hauntings occur here. Built in. the late 1. Lights flicker, cold spots and creepy feeling in this. The hotel has hosted miners and tourists who come. Newberry Park - Stage. Coach Inn - The Stagecoach Inn is an original. Pierre was killed in the original Inn. When the. Inn burned to the ground in 1. It seems Pierre moved with the. Inn. Pierre's room is colder than the rest of the upstairs, the docents. Inn in the morning to find the upstairs runner rugs. Several docents refuse to work upstairs; they. A man has been seen several times. There have been several reports of. It is said she is the cause for many. Newark - Newpark Mall - In the TILT arcade doors won't unlock and appear to be. At night when workers used to turn off all the games in the. One of the workers. Always having the feeling of being watched. Some of people that have been there say they have seen a. Newark - Newpark Mall - . Anchor Blue - There is a ghost in the stockroom. It would push things. When in the office, we would hear. When in the stock room, you can hear the fitting. In the mornings, we. Later on, the beeping would start up again, but in a completely. At night, strange sounds are heard and. Newport Beach - Coronado. Apartments - An apartment on the first floor of. M building is haunted by the spirit of a woman. Muffled voices are. The third boy left without telling anyone and. One can experience. Several maintenance. Mrs. Wayne have seen the spirit if the actor. Riding in a horse drawn carriage near the way stop of. Scott's Corners, (between Pleasanton and Sunol, CA. Area is now Highway. After she was. thrown the 2nd car struck her. Miss Lowerey became the first person to. Many have seen a woman in. According to the first journalist. Niles Canyon. There was, in the early 5. Halloween. He scared someone so bad that. The young man was almost shot. The. Niles ghost is most commonly said to hitchhike to one of the bridges in. There is no cemetery. Sunol, which is at the top of Niles Canyon Rd. Morrison Canyon road is a. There's even. a radar- testing facility up there somewhere, complete with life- size. Now, on the. OTHER side of the coin, there ARE photographs of orbs in Mission San. Jose's church and in the graveyard, though the investigator does not. The church, the cemetery and the grounds are VERY active. Narth fork - the old. The town was. once the stop for the Yosemite stagecoach. The church sets on a hill. At night you can see a light in the bell tower. This has been happening for so long the residents. The only problem is the bell hasn't been in the. It still. continues to this day. For more info go to http: //www. There is a ghost. Ethal. Moore Hall. For more info go to http: //www. This house was home to. California's Governor (George Pardee 1. Pictures showing orb's. The rest of the park is. Pictures coming soon. AMERICA'S MOST HAUNTED: MYRTLES PLANTATIONHandprints in the mirrors, footsteps on the stairs. Myrtles Plantation in the West Feliciana town of St. But what. could be more dubious than the honor itself - - perhaps some of the. Long perceived as one of the most haunted house in America, the Myrtles. It is not our purpose here to do anything to. The purpose. of this article is to question the “facts” as they have been presented by. Myrtles owners and guides - - facts and history that. We have no wish to try and debunk the. The. Myrtles, according to hundreds of people who have encountered the. But why go to the trouble to debunk the myths that have been created over. Surely, they aren’t hurting anyone, so why. To that, we can. only say that no dedicated ghost hunter should be afraid to seek the truth. It has often been recommended to sift. This is exactly what we did in the article that follows - -- we have. It might not. be as glamorous as the legends of the Myrtles Plantation that we have all. The real history of the plantation. That question will likely never. In truth, only one person was. But as you will soon see, the plantation has an unusual history that. David Bradford was born in America to Irish immigrants and was one of five. He purchased a tract of land and a small stone house near. Washington County, Pennsylvania. He became a successful attorney. Deputy Attorney General for the county. His first attempt to. Elizabeth Porter in 1. As his family and business grew, Bradford needed a larger home and built a. Washington. The house became well known in the region. England. Many of the items had to be transported from. Pennsylvania mountains at great expense. In October 1. 79. Bradford became. involved in the infamous Whiskey Rebellion and legend has it that President. George Washington placed a price on the man’s head for his role in the. The Whiskey Rebellion took place in western Pennsylvania and really. The complaints eventually erupted. In the months that followed, residents resisted a tax that had. Washington mobilized a militia and sends them into suppress the rebellion. After leaving Washington, Bradford first went to Pittsburgh. Leaving his. family in safety, he traveled down the Ohio River to the Mississippi. He. eventually settled near Bayou Sara, near what is now St. Francisville. Louisiana. Bradford was no stranger to this area. He had originally traveled. Spain. When he returned in. Laurel Grove”. He lived there alone until. Whiskey Rebellion from. President John Adams. He was given the pardon for his. Ellicott’s Line” between Spain and the United States. After receiving the pardon, Bradford returned to Pennsylvania to bring his. Louisiana. He returned again to Pennsylvania. Bayou Sarah. At the time, New. Orleans was suffering from a shortage of flour and he thought he could sell. However. until the day that he died in 1. One of them, Clark Woodrooff, not only earned a. Sarah Mathilda, and. He arrived in 1. 81. Feliciana parish rose up in revolt against the Spanish. Baton Rouge. They overthrew the Spanish and then set up a new. St. The territory extended. Mississippi River to as far east as the Perdido River near Mobile. Francisville newspaper, the Time Piece , in the summer of 1. He. informed the public that . The academy was apparently short- lived for in 1. Colonel Hide's cavalry regiment from the Feliciana parish to fight. Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. When the smoke. cleared and the War of 1. Woodrooff returned to St. Their romance blossomed under the shade of the crape myrtles that. The young couple was married on. November 1. 9, 1. Woodrooff took his new bride to. Hermitage, the Tennessee home of his friend, Andrew Jackson. After the death of David Bradford, Woodrooff managed Laurel Grove for his. Elizabeth. He expanded the holdings of the plantation and. Together, he and Sarah. Mathilda had three children, Cornelia Gale, James, and Mary Octavia. The. disease was spread through a number of epidemics that swept through. Louisiana in those days. Hardly a family in the region went untouched by. Although heartbroken, Woodrooff continued to manage the. Elizabeth. But the. Woodrooff's life would never be the same but he managed to purchase the farm. She was quite elderly by this time and was. She continued to live at Laurel Grove. Octavia until her death in 1. After Elizabeth died, Woodrooff turned his attentions away from farming to. He and Octavia moved away from Laurel Grove and he left. He was appointed to a. District D in Covington, Louisiana and he served in. April 1. 83. 5. On January 1, 1. Laurel Grove to. Ruffin Grey Stirling. By this time, Woodrooff was living on Rampart Street in New Orleans and had. He had also been. During this period. Octavia was sent to a finishing school in New Haven, Connecticut but she. Two years later, she married. Colonel Lorenzo Augustus Besancon and moved to his plantation, Oaklawn, five. New Orleans. In 1. Louisiana governor, Isaac Johnson, appointed Woodruff to the. Auditor of Public Works and he served for one term. He devoted the remainder of his life to the study. November 2. 5, 1. He was buried in the. Girod Street Cemetery in New Orleans. An interesting side note to the story concerns this cemetery. The graveyard. fell into great disrepair and was eventually abandoned. In the 1. 96. 0's, the. Canal. Street. The bodies that were not claimed were gathered and placed in large. Hope Mausoleum. Clark Woodruff. The old Girod Street Cemetery was once. New Orleans Superdome. In 1. 83. 4, Laurel Grove was purchased by Ruffin Grey Stirling. The Stirling's. were a very wealthy family who owned several plantations on both sides of. Mississippi River. On January 1, Ruffin Grey Stirling and his wife, Mary. Catherine Cobb, took over the house, land, buildings and all of the slaves. Elizabeth Bradford by her son- in- law. Since the Stirling's were so well thought of in the community, they needed a. They decided to remodel Laurel. Grove. Stirling added the broad central hallway of the house and the entire. The walls of the original house were removed and. Year- long. trips to Europe to purchase fine furnishings resulted in the importation of. Elaborate plaster cornices were created for many. Spanish moss and cattle hair. On. the outside of the house, Stirling added a 1. The original roof of. The addition had higher ceilings than the. The completed. project nearby doubled the size of David Bradford's house and in keeping. He left his vast holdings in the care of his wife, Mary. Cobb, who most referred to as a remarkable woman. Many other plantation. In spite of this, the family was often visited by tragedy. Of nine children. The oldest son, Lewis. Sarah Mulford's husband was. Civil War. The. war itself wreaked on the Myrtles and the Stirling family. Many of the. family's personal belongings were looted and destroyed by Federal soldiers. Confederate currency. To make matters worse, Mary Cobb had been invested. She. eventually lost all of her property. She never let the tragedies of the war. Myrtles until her death in August 1. She is buried next to her husband in. Grace Church in St. Francisville. On December 5, 1. Mary Cobb hired, William Drew Winter, the husband of. Sarah Mulford, to act as her agent and attorney and to help. As part of the deal, she gave Sarah and. William the Myrtles as their home. William Winter had been born to Captain Samuel Winter and Sarah Bowman on. October 2. 8, 1. 82. Bath, Maine. Little is known about his life or how he. Sarah Mulford Stirling. However, they were married on June. Myrtles and together, they had six children, Mary, Sarah. Kate, Ruffin, William and Francis. Kate died from typhoid at the age of. The Winter's first lived at Gantmore plantation, near Clinton. Louisiana and then bought a plantation on the west side of the Mississippi. Arbroath. Twelve years after the death of Ruffin Stirling, and after the Civil War. William was named as agent and attorney by Mary Stirling to help her with. Ingleside, Crescent Park, Botany Bay and the. Myrtles. In return, Mary gave William the use of the Myrtles as his home. By. December 1. 86. Myrtles was sold by the. U. S. Marshal to the New York Warehouse & Security Company on April 1. It is unknown. just what occurred to cause this reversal of fortune but it seemed as though. But soon after, tragedy struck the Myrtles once more. According to the. January 1. 87. 1 issue of the Point Coupee Democrat newspaper, Winter was. Sunday School lesson in the gentlemen's parlor of the house when. After the stranger called. Winter went out. onto the side gallery of the house and was shot. He collapsed onto the porch. Those inside of the house, stunned by the sound of gunfire and the. Winter died on. January 2. Grace Church. The. E. S. Webber was to stand trial for. Winter's murder but no outcome of the case was ever recorded. As far as is. known, Winter's killer remains unidentified and unpunished. Sarah was devastated by the incident and never remarried. She remained at. the Myrtles with her mother and brothers until her death in April 1. After the death of Mary Cobb Stirling in 1. Myrtles was purchased by. Stephen Stirling, one of her sons. He bought out his brothers but only. March 1. 88. 6. There are some who say. He sold the Myrtles to Oran D. Brooks, ending his family's. Brooks kept it until January 1. Harrison Milton Williams, a Mississippi. Fannie Lintot Haralson. Injured during the Civil War, in which he began service as a 1. Confederate cavalry courier, Williams planted cotton and gained a reputation. He and his family, which grew to. Myrtles going during the hard. South. But tragedy was soon to strike the Myrtles. During a storm, the Williams' oldest son, Harry, was trying to gather up. Mississippi and drowned. Shattered with. grief, Harrison and Fannie turned over management of the property to their. Surget Minor Williams, who married a local girl named Jessie Folkes and. Myrtles for his spinster sister and maiden aunt. Katie. Eccentric and kind, but with a gruff exterior, she kept. By the 1. 95. 0's, the property surrounding the house had been divided among the.
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