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This is a video being recorded by a man which shows objects being flung around his house giving the appearance of a haunted house. A reason for belief in this video is simplicity, same as explained in the last video. Another reason for belief is the unexplained. The things going on in this video are very hard to explain so people will rationalize it as a haunted house which has also not yet been explained. As explained in the last object, video's can be easily edited to make it look like an invisible being is causing these items to move, therefore this is not a creditable source.

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'I could feel someone looking at me': Man shares scary footage of objects flying off shelves in his kitchen as he gets to grips with his 'haunted' house

Rusty Johnson has been filming the strange occurrences in his home recently

He caught several objects in the kitchen flying off the counters when he was out

He shared the footage online and said the whole experience was freaking him out and he might consider moving if it continues

Things that go bump in the night are usually blamed on a freak breeze or a family pet.

But this footage seems to show something sinister afoot, and has been released after a man returned to his apartment to find a 'few things out of place'.

Objects appear to fall off kitchen counters at Rusty Johnson's home in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

The footage, shot last week, shows kitchenware and pieces of paper flying off the counters.

Rusty posted the video with the comment: 'I came home to find a few things out of place and decided to review the footage.

'It scared the absolute hell out of me watching it, I was probably being paranoid, but it felt like I could feel someone or something looking at me.

'Like I could feel its presence, and it did give me chills. Shortly after I had the most horrible feeling and I had this intense wave of anger running through me for over half an hour that I can't explain. I had nothing to be angry about.

'This freaked me out and has kind of pushed me to my limit. I'm seriously considering breaking my lease to move.

'I'll continue to record my apartment for evidence as long as I'm here, but if this keeps up I'm moving out.'

The poster explained he had lived in the apartment for almost a year but the strange activity had started nearly two months ago.

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Rusty Johnson has been filming the strange occurrences in his home recently He caught several objects in the kitchen flying off the counters when he was out He shared the footage online and said the whole experience was freaking him out and he might consider moving if it continues Things that go bump in the night are usually blamed on a freak breeze or a family pet.

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This is a video of a woman recording a ghost haunting her house and moving objects in her house. A reason for belief in this video is agenticity. She believes that there is an invisible agent in her house, a demon, who is moving stuff around. There is also the reason for belief of simplicity. When watching this video, there are explanations other than it being a ghost; however, it being a ghost is the simplest explanation so it is the one that people will believe. Another explanation is that this lady has the light attached to a string and someone is swinging it without them being in the view of the camera. She could have made it appear as if there is a ghost haunting her house for internet fame. Video's can be easily manipulated which makes them not be a reputable source for information on this topic.

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'We have a guest in our home': Terrifying video shows 'poltergeist' in a kitchen as the ceiling light swings and a bin is hurled across the room

A woman has captured eerie footage of a 'ghost' terrorising her home

Ashy Murphy, from Cork, shared the footage claiming she 'had a guest'

Video shows light swaying, plates smashing and cupboard doors opening

An Irish woman has captured terrifying footage of 'paranormal activity' occurring in her home, after inanimate objects began flying around her kitchen.

Loud crashes can be heard as the video shows metal bowls clattering to the floor, cupboard doors swinging open and a red bucket sliding across the room, appearing to be heading straight for her.

'We have a guest in our home,' Ashy Murphy said after she shared the disturbing footage from Cork, Ireland, on Tuesday.

At the outset, the footage appears to show a standard kitchen with nothing untoward occurring.

However, it doesn't take long for the peculiar activity to begin, as the ceiling lamp slowly begin to sway before gaining momentum and violently move back and forth.

Underneath, a loud crash can be heard, as two broom sticks clatter to the floor.

The camera then quickly pans to the sink, where metal pots make a piercing crash as they collide before settling on the bench.

Strange things then begin to happen on the other side of the room where the bread box slides forward and the cupboard swings open.

Perhaps the most concerning, is at the end of the video when a red plastic bucket slides across the floor, right in the direction of Ms Murphy.

Ms Murphy said: 'It's getting way worse I defo have to move house.'

While many have dubbed the footage as fake and merely a trick 'with a piece of string,' most viewers were genuinely disturbed by the activity.

'Oh hell no I'd be out in a minute,' one concerned viewer wrote.

'I guess it didn't like the music' another jokingly wrote.

Nearly four million people have watched the footage on Facebook.

One viewer offered a logical explanation when they wrote: 'You can clearly see the wire being pulled at 1.05.'

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A woman has captured eerie footage of a 'ghost' terrorising her home Ashy Murphy, from Cork, shared the footage claiming she 'had a guest' Video shows light swaying, plates smashing and cupboard doors opening An Irish woman has captured terrifying footage of 'paranormal activity' occurring in her home, after inanimate objects began flying around her kitchen.

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This object is a video of a film crew that went into a haunted house that they had heard about and got attacked by a ghost. The lady that owns the house also talks about her ghost encounters while living there. A reason for belief in this video is perception and observation. The man in the video could have had the scratch before he went into the house without noticing but then just notice it after the home owner said that the ghost had scratched her. Another reason for belief is patternicity. the shadows could have easily been from anything but gave the appearance of it being a ghost. also the orbs they saw by the stairs could've just been dust particles or blurs on the camera itself. This video isn't a great source to believe because, with today's technology, it could have easily been manipulated to show ghost like shadows.

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A Pennsylvania family claims their house is haunted and has the pictures to prove it. CNN affiliate WPMT reports.

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This object is an article talking about why people believe in ghosts and haunting houses, and why ghosts are not real. it states that almost 40% of Americans believe in haunted houses. This article brings up some reasons for belief. One being  an emotional connection. People believe in ghosts and haunted houses because they do not want to believe that their beloved and deceased family and friends are gone. A red flag that this article brings up is that the idea of ghosts came from an ancient time and this alone makes people believe in them. This red flag is ancient wisdom; however, it is illogical to think that ancients had more knowledge than we do now. This article also talked about how "ghost hunters" use scientific equipment to see or catch ghosts; however, this equipment has not once proven to be effective in catching a ghost in a haunted house.

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Do you believe in ghosts?

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If you believe in ghosts, you're not alone. Cultures all around the world believe in spirits that survive death to live in another realm. In fact, ghosts are among the most widely believed of paranormal phenomena: Millions of people are interested in ghosts, and a 2005 Gallup poll found that 37 percent of Americans believe in haunted houses - and nearly half believe in ghosts.

Ghosts have been a popular subject for millennia, appearing in countless stories, from the Bible to "Macbeth," and even spawning their own folklore genre: ghost stories. Part of the reason is that belief in ghosts is part of a larger web of related paranormal beliefs, including near-death experience, life after death and spirit communication.

People have tried to (or claimed to) communicate with spirits for ages; in Victorian England, for example, it was fashionable for upper-crust ladies to hold séances in their parlors after tea and crumpets with friends. In America during the late 1800s, many psychic mediums claimed to speak to the dead - but were exposed as frauds by skeptical investigators such as Harry Houdini.

It wasn't until the past decade that ghost hunting became a widespread interest around the world. Much of this is due to Syfy cable TV's hit series "Ghost Hunters," now in its 10th season of not finding good evidence for ghosts. The show spawned several spin-offs, including "Ghost Hunters International" and "Ghost Hunters Academy," and it's not hard to see why the show is so popular: the premise is that anyone can look for ghosts. The two original stars were ordinary guys (plumbers, in fact) who decided to look for evidence of spirits. Their message: You don't need to be an egghead scientist, or even have any training in science or investigation. All you need is some free time, a dark place and maybe a few gadgets from an electronics store. If you look long enough, any unexplained light or noise might be evidence of ghosts.

The idea that the dead remain with us in spirit is an ancient one, and one that offers many people comfort; who doesn't want to believe that our beloved but deceased family members aren't looking out for us, or with us in our times of need? Most people believe in ghosts because of personal experience; they have seen or sensed some unexplained presence.

Personal experience is one thing, but scientific evidence is another matter. Part of the difficulty in investigating ghosts is that there is not one universally agreed-upon definition of what a ghost is. Some believe that they are spirits of the dead who for whatever reason get "lost" on their way to The Other Side; others claim that ghosts are instead telepathic entities projected into the world from our minds.

Still others create their own special categories for different types of ghosts, such as poltergeists, residual hauntings, intelligent spirits and shadow people. Of course, it's all made up, like speculating on the different races of fairies or dragons: there are as many types of ghosts as you want there to be.

There are many contradictions inherent in ideas about ghosts. For example, are ghosts material or not? Either they can move through solid objects without disturbing them, or they can slam doors shut and throw objects across the room. Logically and physically, it's one or the other. If ghosts are human souls, why do they appear clothed and with (presumably soulless) inanimate objects like hats, canes and dresses - not to mention the many reports of ghost trains, cars and carriages?

If ghosts are the spirits of those whose deaths were unavenged, why are there unsolved murders, since ghosts are said to communicate with psychic mediums, and should be able to identify their killers for the police. And so on; just about any claim about ghosts raises logical reasons to doubt it.

Ghost hunters use many creative (and dubious) methods to detect the spirits' presences, often including psychics. Virtually all ghost hunters claim to be scientific, and most give that appearance because they use high-tech scientific equipment such as Geiger counters, electromagnetic field (EMF) detectors, ion detectors, infrared cameras and sensitive microphones. Yet none of this equipment has ever been shown to actually detect ghosts.

Other people take exactly the opposite approach, claiming that the reason that ghosts haven't been proven to exist is that we simply don't have the right technology to find or detect the spirit world. But this, too, can't be correct: Either ghosts exist and appear in our ordinary physical world (and can therefore be detected and recorded in photographs, film, video and audio recordings), or they don't. If ghosts exist and can be scientifically detected or recorded, then we should find hard evidence of that - yet we don't. If ghosts exist and cannot be scientifically detected or recorded, then all the photos, videos and other recordings claimed to be evidence of ghosts cannot be ghosts. With so many basic contradictory theories - and so little science brought to bear on the topic - it's not surprising that despite the efforts of thousands of ghost hunters on television and elsewhere for decades, not a single piece of hard evidence of ghosts has been found.

Many people believe that support for the existence of ghosts can be found in no less a hard science than modern physics. It is widely claimed that Albert Einstein suggested a scientific basis for the reality of ghosts; if energy cannot be created or destroyed but only change form, what happens to our body's energy when we die? Could that somehow be manifested as a ghost?

Carol Anne: Hello? What do you look like? Talk louder, I can't hear you! Poltergeist helped define a paranormal culture in the United States.

It seems like a reasonable assumption - unless you understand basic physics. The answer is very simple, and not at all mysterious. After a person dies, the energy in his or her body goes where all organisms' energy goes after death: into the environment. The energy is released in the form of heat, and transferred into the animals that eat us (i.e., wild animals if we are left unburied, or worms and bacteria if we are interred), and the plants that absorb us. There is no bodily "energy" that survives death to be detected with popular ghost-hunting devices.

While amateur ghost hunters like to imagine themselves on the cutting edge of ghost research, they are really engaging in what folklorists call ostension, or legend tripping. It's basically a form of playacting in which people "act out" a legend, often involving ghosts or supernatural elements. In his book " Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live" (University Press of Mississippi, 2003) folklorist Bill Ellis points out that ghost hunters themselves often take the search seriously and "venture out to challenge supernatural beings, confront them in consciously dramatized form, then return to safety. ... The stated purpose of such activities is not entertainment but a sincere effort to test and define boundaries of the 'real' world.'"

If ghosts are real, and are some sort of as-yet-unknown energy or entity, then their existence will (like all other scientific discoveries) be verified by scientists through controlled experiments - not by weekend ghost hunters wandering around abandoned houses in the dark late at night with cameras and flashlights.

In the end (and despite mountains of ambiguous photos, sounds and videos), the evidence for ghosts is no better today than it was a year ago, a decade ago or a century ago. There are two possible reasons for the failure of ghost hunters to find good evidence. The first is that ghosts don't exist, and that reports of ghosts can be explained by psychology, misperceptions, mistakes and hoaxes. The second option is that ghosts do exist, but that ghost hunters are simply incompetent. Ultimately, ghost hunting is not about the evidence (if it was, the search would have been abandoned long ago). Instead, it's about having fun with friends, telling stories, and the enjoyment of pretending to be searching the edge of the unknown. After all, everyone loves a good ghost story.

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry promotes scientific inquiry, critical investigation and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims.

Experiments suggest that children can distinguish fantasy from reality, but are tempted to believe in the existence of imaginary creatures, according to an article published in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology.

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Are Ghosts Real? | The Pseudoscience of Ghost Hunting

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If you believe in ghosts, you're not alone. Cultures all around the world believe in spirits that survive death to live in another realm. In fact, ghosts are among the most widely believed of paranormal phenomena: Millions of people are interested in ghosts, and a 2005 Gallup poll found that 37 percent of Americans believe in haunted houses - and nearly half believe in ghosts.

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This website has an article that someone wrote about their experience in a haunted house that they had lived in. A reason for belief for this is the unexplained. Haunted houses have not been scientifically proven to be true. For this reason, the things that were happening to this person must be rationalized as a ghost haunting the house because society doesn't know what they can actually do, or if they even do exist. This article isn't a very reputable source because it is just a story of ones experience being told over the internet. This experience could very well be made up or heavily exaggerated. There is no proof of what the person is describing. The person who wrote this article could have just made it up to gain some sort of internet fame. One cannot believe that haunted houses are real from this one article because there is nothing backing it up.

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It was around august in 2007, and my mom and I just bought a beautiful, two bedroom house that had been around since the late 1800's, she insisted on moving in, but something about the house just put a shiver down my spine.

I remember the day she showed me the house, yes, it was very beautiful, it was white, with a red door, and blue shudders. As soon as I stepped on the lawn, my conscious was telling me to turn back.

So I just stayed still, not moving and my mom said, "Honey, come on!" But still yet I didn't move, she then came up to me and shook my shoulder a little and I just fell to the ground, then my mom kneeled down and asked me if I was alright, I nodded my head yes, and told her that I wasn't feeling to hot, so we just went home. I didn't even step into the house, and I knew that it was evil.

I tried telling my mom about my feelings toward the house, but her heart was set on it, I kept on telling her, not to, and not to, but she just ignored me and told me I was just being silly, and letting my imagination get to me.

So she finally bought the house, and my heart just sank. It was moving day, and the ride to the house only took a good 30 minutes. As soon as we parked in the driveway, I felt that feeling in my stomach, that feeling you get before you're about to ride a roller costar, but instead of the excitement part, I felt the fear.

My mom walked to the front door, the key in her hands. She just couldn't wait to get in the house. We reached the door, and she pulled her hand out, the key going in the lock, then she thrust herself toward the door, but just ended up, running into it, she said, "hmp, that's funny?" I just ignored her and then suddenly the door creaked open by itself. My moms eyes got a little big, then she shook her head lightly and said, "Just the wind."

I remember walking in, and feeling the cold breeze from inside the house hit my face. My mom shivered and said something about how cold it was, and I just stood there, my bags cringed in my hands.

She then walked to a hallway near the right of us, where a bathroom lay on one side, and my room lay on the other. She grabbed the door knob, and opened the door. I followed quickly not wanting to be in one room alone. She looked around the room, me now in the door way, it was even colder in this room. She smiled and said, "Oh, It's cute! Perfect for friends and hanging out!" I sighed and think I said something like, "if I make any friends," or something like that. She looked at me, and gave me her, Kit, just try and get used to it, look. I just looked away, and she closed the door, leaving me all alone, in that cold room that gave me nightmares for months.

The months flew by and I wasn't making any friends. Schoolwork was getting unfinished, and I began to get stuck in the same, old rut. I remember crying almost every night. It was like hell for me; every night lying too my mom and telling her things at school were great and hiding detention slips. I had only lived in the house for a month or so and already felt depressed. I kept on complaining to my mom of what the house was doing, but she just normally tuned me out, not seeing any of the changes. I just felt like there was nothing I could do.

I remember this night vividly, I was sitting in my room, listening to music, and then I heard a slight scratch from somewhere. I looked around the room, and just continued what I was doing, and then I herd it again. So I just got up and turned my music even up even louder. I sat down on my bed and out of no where, my stereo, pushed to the side of my dresser and fell to the floor all by itself. I screamed and called for my mom, but when she tried to open the door, it became stuck, and there was no way for her to get in.

She started yelling about something, but I couldn't hear her, I was too busy screaming and crying. It was like the devil himself was doing this just to amuse himself. Then the door flung open and my mom came in looking at me with wide eyes. I was on the floor, my back against the side of my bed, crying in my arms. She just held me and I kept on repeating, "We have to get out of this house!" over and over again. She just kept me in her arms and told me that it was alright, her eyes then narrowed toward my stereo, that was smashed on the ground, then she screamed, "What the hell happened here?" I just lay there on the floor not moving and then she just came up to me and we sat there for about an hour, sitting in the cold room.

Later on that night I was about to take a shower when I saw a red mark, near the side of my arm. I turned around and looked at my back, where scratches took over, there were six or seven big scratches that looked new, fresh. I then called for my mom and she came in the bathroom, one of her hands covering part on her mouth, she then told me to get dressed and grab my stuff. I did as I was told and packed up my things quickly, only grabbing a few things. She then opened the front door, and we left the house.

We stayed with my aunt for the rest of the week, and left the house, which was fine by me, but from this day, whenever I think about the house it sends shivers down my spine! I never want to set foot, in that house again.

A few months after we moved out we learned that there was a family of devil worshipers that lived there years before us. There was a little girl that had came up to the house one day, asking providence for her church and the family went mad and hung the little girl in their living room, putting candles around her hanging corpse. The family then left the country after that. I myself find this story, very interesting, and I wonder if it was the little girl's spirit haunting me, through those past months.

Contributed by "revengeXgurl" and Copyright © 2008 True Ghost Tales all rights reserved. No part of this story may be used without permission.

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Americans love to be scared and the haunted house is a Halloween season staple. But these real-life haunted houses in the U.S. aren't just fleeting autumn pop-ups. These haunted homes, located in towns across the U.S., are the crime scenes for true tales of ax murders and massacres, lost children, and angry demons and ghosts-they're guaranteed to give you more shivers than even the best Halloween movies, especially if you're brave enough to stay the night at one of these frightening abodes. (We also know about some haunted Airbnbs, if you're into that sort of thing.) Staying in this Halloween? Embark on a virtual ghost tour of the most haunted places in the U.S. from the safety of your home.
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Haunted houses in the U.S.

Legend has it that the cause of all the mayhem at one of the most disturbing haunted houses in America stems from a little girl who was the victim of a botched appendectomy during a house call at the turn of the century. A family who lived in the Sallie House in the 1990s documented their experience on the TV show Sightings, which talked of flying objects, frequent apparitions and scratching, and gouging and shoving, mainly directed at the male owner. The home is now vacant but is a popular pick for paranormal researchers, and anyone can book the house to stay the night ... if you dare.

3. New Orleans, LA: LaLaurie House

American Horror Story: Coven reignited interest in this famous French Quarter haunt. In the series, Kathy Bates plays real-life socialite and serial killer Madame Delphine LaLaurie, who orchestrated a torture chamber for slaves at the Royal Street mansion from 1831 until 1834, when responders to a fire uncovered her dark secret. LaLaurie's victims are said to haunt the property to this day-passersby say they can hear shouts, moans and weeping, and some say they have seen ghostly faces from the upstairs windows. Yet, the house's ghastly history hasn't stopped wealthy buyers. Before losing the home to foreclosure in 2009, actor Nicolas Cage owned the house and today a wealthy oil tycoon is said to hold the deed.

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A total of 11 reported spirits have been known to haunt the grounds of this Southern plantation, including passengers of a ship wrecked ferry, a former slave and Grace Sherwood, a woman who was accused of being a witch and was tried by ducking in the 1700s. These days, when you visit the historic house-museum to admire the Federal-style architecture, listen carefully and you might hear Grace yelling at her dead dog, Tobias.

10. New York, NY: House of Death

The city that never sleeps is probably just too afraid of the House of Death to close its eyes-the famous brownstone off of Fifth Avenue is reportedly terrorized by a whopping 22 ghosts. The most famous is writer Mark Twain, who lived here from 1900-1901; the most heartbreaking is the six-year-old girl beaten to death by her father, criminal prosecutor Joel Steinberg, in 1987. In addition to sightings of Twain and the young girl, residents say they have seen visions of a lady in white and a gray cat.

12. Southington, CT: Snedeker House

The drama the Snedeker family experienced in the 1980s living in this haunted house (and former funeral home) was crazy enough to be turned into a popular horror flick in 2009 called The Haunting in Connecticut. During a two-year span, both of the Snedeker parents claimed to have been physically assaulted and sodomized by demonic spirits, and said their son Philip was often visited by a creepy man with long black hair.

13. Los Angeles, CA: Los Feliz Murder Mansion

In 1959, Dr. Harold Perelson beat his wife to death with a hammer in this L.A. mansion, severely wounded his daughter and then drank a glass of acid to off himself. The Enriquez family bought the dilapidated structure at auction years ago and used it only for storage purposes. In the spring of 2016, the house was finally cleared of the clutter-much of it dating back to the mid-20th century-and put up for auction. It was sold later that year, and in 2019 was put back on the market for the cool price of $3.5 million. As for paranormal activity, occasional trespassers found items-including wrapped Christmas presents-that appeared to have been left behind by onetime residents.

On Cleveland's Franklin Boulevard, locals still whisper rumors about the original owner of the 20-plus-room 19th century dwelling. In just a few short years in the 1890s, the mansion became the place of death for four of Hannes Tiedemann's adolescent children and his wife. Though Tiedemann was never found guilty of any wrongdoing, today some people claim he hung his 13-year-old illegitimate daughter and made it appear like a suicide and that he killed his mistress in a secret passage. Known as "the most haunted house in Ohio," the castle is rumored to be visited by ghosts.

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Legend has it that the cause of all the mayhem at one of the most disturbing haunted houses in America stems from a little girl who was the victim of a botched appendectomy during a house call at the turn of the century. A family who lived in the Sallie House in the 1990s documented their experience on the TV show Sightings, which talked of flying objects, frequent apparitions and scratching, and gouging and shoving, mainly directed at the male owner. The home is now vacant but is a popular pick for paranormal researchers, and anyone can book the house to stay the night ... if you dare.

3. New Orleans, LA: LaLaurie House

American Horror Story: Coven reignited interest in this famous French Quarter haunt. In the series, Kathy Bates plays real-life socialite and serial killer Madame Delphine LaLaurie, who orchestrated a torture chamber for slaves at the Royal Street mansion from 1831 until 1834, when responders to a fire uncovered her dark secret. LaLaurie's victims are said to haunt the property to this day-passersby say they can hear shouts, moans and weeping, and some say they have seen ghostly faces from the upstairs windows. Yet, the house's ghastly history hasn't stopped wealthy buyers. Before losing the home to foreclosure in 2009, actor Nicolas Cage owned the house and today a wealthy oil tycoon is said to hold the deed.

Note: This venue is temporarily closed
A total of 11 reported spirits have been known to haunt the grounds of this Southern plantation, including passengers of a ship wrecked ferry, a former slave and Grace Sherwood, a woman who was accused of being a witch and was tried by ducking in the 1700s. These days, when you visit the historic house-museum to admire the Federal-style architecture, listen carefully and you might hear Grace yelling at her dead dog, Tobias.

10. New York, NY: House of Death

The city that never sleeps is probably just too afraid of the House of Death to close its eyes-the famous brownstone off of Fifth Avenue is reportedly terrorized by a whopping 22 ghosts. The most famous is writer Mark Twain, who lived here from 1900-1901; the most heartbreaking is the six-year-old girl beaten to death by her father, criminal prosecutor Joel Steinberg, in 1987. In addition to sightings of Twain and the young girl, residents say they have seen visions of a lady in white and a gray cat.

12. Southington, CT: Snedeker House

The drama the Snedeker family experienced in the 1980s living in this haunted house (and former funeral home) was crazy enough to be turned into a popular horror flick in 2009 called The Haunting in Connecticut. During a two-year span, both of the Snedeker parents claimed to have been physically assaulted and sodomized by demonic spirits, and said their son Philip was often visited by a creepy man with long black hair.

13. Los Angeles, CA: Los Feliz Murder Mansion

In 1959, Dr. Harold Perelson beat his wife to death with a hammer in this L.A. mansion, severely wounded his daughter and then drank a glass of acid to off himself. The Enriquez family bought the dilapidated structure at auction years ago and used it only for storage purposes. In the spring of 2016, the house was finally cleared of the clutter-much of it dating back to the mid-20th century-and put up for auction. It was sold later that year, and in 2019 was put back on the market for the cool price of $3.5 million. As for paranormal activity, occasional trespassers found items-including wrapped Christmas presents-that appeared to have been left behind by onetime residents.

On Cleveland's Franklin Boulevard, locals still whisper rumors about the original owner of the 20-plus-room 19th century dwelling. In just a few short years in the 1890s, the mansion became the place of death for four of Hannes Tiedemann's adolescent children and his wife. Though Tiedemann was never found guilty of any wrongdoing, today some people claim he hung his 13-year-old illegitimate daughter and made it appear like a suicide and that he killed his mistress in a secret passage. Known as "the most haunted house in Ohio," the castle is rumored to be visited by ghosts.

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Americans love to be scared and the haunted house is a Halloween season staple. But these real-life haunted houses in the U.S. aren't just fleeting autumn pop-ups.

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Tessa Wright, working individually

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This is an image of a restaurant called Jesters Court in Port Perry, the town I live in, that many believe is haunted. This place has apparently been haunted for years and there are lots of stories about it. A reason for belief that this place is haunted is the unexplained. People hear noises and see figures that are not explainable which causes them to believe. There is no scientific proof of haunted houses being real, so people try to explain it themselves. I am unsure of a red flag that is demonstrated with this object other than ideological support which has already been explained in Image 1. People believe that this restaurant is haunted because of their culture and religion. It is very hard to prove that this place is haunted because only a few people claim to have witnessed the ghosts and they tell their story. There is no way of knowing if they are just making it up or exaggerating a creek in the floor from an old building. This makes the source of the information pretty unreliable.

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This is a photograph taken in the inside of a building that shows a blurring figure that some believe to be is a ghost in a haunted place (in the red circle). A reason for belief for this image could be simplicity. There could be a rational scientific explanation for why there looks to be a figure in the back, however, it is easier to rationalize it as a ghost. A red flag would be ideological support as explained in the other images. A limitation with this image is that it could have been easily manipulated to make the appearance of a ghost haunting the building. Another limitation is that it could just be a smudge on the lens of the camera. It is very hard to prove that images of hauntings are real due to today's technology.

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This object is an image of an apparent ghost looking at a couple dancing. Looking at this image skeptically, one could say that this image was Photoshopped to make the appearance of the place being haunted; however; many belief that it is authentic proof. A reason for belief for this image of a haunted house is patternicity. The ghost in this image could just be a few objects, dust particles, and a smudge on the camera making it look like there is a pattern of a ghost. A red flag for this image is ideological support. Many believe in haunted houses and ghosts because of their religious beliefs, making this image appear real to them. As said above, it is hard to know for sure about this image because it could have easily been edited to appear this way.