Haunting Hollows

The new film "The Haunting in Connecticut" tells the story of the Snedeker family, who in 1986 rented an old house in Southington, Connecticut. Allen and Carmen Snedeker moved in with their daughter and three young sons. While exploring their new home, Carmen found strange items in the basement: tools used by morticians.

The Stanley Hotel is infamous among the paranormal circles, but another Estes Park inn has it’s share of ghosts as well. Newlyweds Gordon and Ethel Mace visited Estes Park in 1911 on their honeymoon and fell in love with the area. So much they decided to build a homestead on the property. Initially only a small cabin was built on the land and rhubarb was planted to fulfill the requirements of the Homestead Act.

They all begin with a death. And they always end in a cloudy-haze of a mystery.



Airtight Bridge, located between Bushton and Ashmore along Route Two in rural Coles County, was built in 1914 and designed by Claude L. James.

The bridge was said to have been a local drinking spot for Eastern students and local teens, but after the discovery of a mutilated body on the morning of Oct.

High on a huge hill sits the ruins of a 19th century Victorian mansion tainted by the blood of four people. The Labadie family traveled to the Indian Territory of Oklahoma in the mid 1800s pursuing agricultural ventures. Frank Labadie was educated at the Osage Mission, starting out in life independently.

The Burnett Arms Hotel In Kemnay

A mechanic has claimed his garage is haunted by a ghost who likes to throw stones and coins at staff.

Waverly mansion was built in 1852 by Colonel George Hampton Young and situated upon his 2,000 acre plantation. The remarkable structure sits just of Highway 50 between Columbus and West Point. Waverly is the epitome of classic antebellum architecture. The Snow family purchased the house in the early '60s and refurbished it after being abandoned for 50 years.

The ghosts of eight monks dressed in white
robes are seen walking somberly across the fairway of this tranquil golf course. Witnesses say the monks heads are clean shaven and their faces frozen in agonized expressions of pain. Some believe they are Dominican friars tortured to death by rival Franciscans in the early 1500's. The Spanish Franciscans were notorious for their cruel treatment of local Indians, the Dominicans often hid the natives to protect them.

In Western Kentucky, there is a national recreation area situated between the Kentucky and Barkley Lakes known as "The Land between Lakes" or LBL for short. This piece of land consists of 300 miles of shoreline, 170,000 acres of forest and 200 miles of walking trails.

At midnight, if you walk up the stairs on the grassy side of the cemetery, there are graves dating back to the 1860s all around. On one's way up you count the steps. When you reach the top, you must turn toward the open field and the ghost of the cemetery's first undertaker will appear. Without saying anything he will reveal the climbers own death to them in a vision.

The mighty Mississippi River, known as the ‘spinal cord’ of the Confederacy, was crucial to the survival of the Rebels in the western theatre. General Ulysses S. Grant knew that to insure victory, the river must be in control of the Federals. Without it, the enemy could easily transport troops and goods up and down the river at will.

The Story: If you are brave enough, you can stop at the top of the last hill and look back down toward the 2nd one. If you are lucky, most nights a lone lantern light can be seen swinging through the woods, letting us know why this hill is known as ‘Spook Light Hill’. The following story tells why the light is there……

It was a cool October evening in 1894. Old man Lawry was waiting up for his daughter, his only child, to return home. Didn’t she notice the storm moving in? Where was she! He ponders that he should have never let her go.

S. E. Schlosser

The old storage sheds along the tracks were abandoned shortly after the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was built, and it wasn't long before the poor folk of the area moved in. The sheds provided shelter - of a sort - although the winter wind still pierced through every crevice, and the small fireplaces that the poor constructed did little to keep the cold at bay.

In 1876, 18 year old Flora Sommerton, a San Francisco debutante left her parents home because she refused to be a part of an arranged marriage. She didn’t come back, and was never found. She died in 1926 in a flophouse in Montana.

Hannah House was built in 1858 by Alexander m.

It was August, 1971 when Maria Gomez noticed a stain on her kitchen floor. Several weeks later that stain, despite attempts to remove it, transformed into the image of a face. Nothing Maria did made the face disappear, including repeated scrubbings and cleanings.Terrified by the image, the floor was torn out and replaced with new concrete. Unfortunately all that served to do was intensify matters and the face quickly evolved into other faces. Then it evolved into images of entire bodies.