The Borden Family was a normal American family living in Massachusetts until one day something tragic happened. There was a series of murders at the Borden house that to this day no one know for sure who committed. Mr. and Mrs. Borden’s daughter was not home at the time of the murders. Her alibi is that she was in the barn. Yet, many suppose that she could in fact be responsible for the murders of her parents. And, many actually speculate that Lizzie planned these murders with her sister Bridget.

However, there are others who have conducted research and seem to think that Emma Borden is responsible, not Lizzie. Apparently, Emma’s alibi was also suspicious. Yet, despite both having suspicious alibis, there is not enough evidence to suggest for sure that either of them committed the murders against their parents.

For this reason, many people wonder whether the Borden household was haunted. It might be possible given the fact that after all this time, no evidence has been brought forth to convict a murderer. As of right now, this answer seems to make the most sense. It explains the random circumstances that led to the murders during that time. Although we may never know for sure, for now, this is a good explanation.

Throughout history, many people have been known to hunt and seek out the supernatural. This quest provides many with adventure and excitement that is unmatched by other pursuits. The world of ghost hunting is full of renowned hunters who are known for their findings. However, one ghost hunter in particular is undoubtedly the most famous. His name is Harry Price.

Harry Price spent his career as a salesman, journalist, and researcher. He was born and lived in London. His interest in the supernatural began at an early age (some estimate 8 years old). He was particularly fascinated with magic and loved to watch magicians performed and began collecting many books on magic. When Price was 15, him and a group of friends spent the night in a house that was said to be haunted. That experience sparked Price’s further involvement with spirits and ghosts.

After college, Price became apart of the Society for Psychical Research. As apart of the society he was credited for his success as a ghost hunter. Much of his work is seen in photographs taken by William Hope. Price pursued many of his ambitions throughout his career and lived a fascinating life. You can read about many of his stories today.

Churches are about as different from each other as the people who attend them, but the Sedlec Ossuary is different from just about any other church building you will ever witness. It is a small Roman Catholic chapel situated on the grounds of the Cemetery Church of all Saints in the Czech Republic. The point that is so interesting is not the soaring ceilings, nor the sculptures. The attention-grabber of this chapel is the fact that it is built and decorated with 40,000 to 70,000 human skeletons.

From murals on the walls, to statues of saints and gardeners, to chandeliers, sconces, and statuary around the interior of the chapel, human bones are the main material used for construction and decoration. The chandelier in the entry contains at least one of every single bone in the human body. It is a masterpiece of construction and is beautiful even in its somewhat macabre fashion.

Exhuming the skeletons began around 1511, and the organization and construction using the bones began in 1870 by a woodcarver named Frantisek Rint, hired by the Schwarzenberg family to bring order to the massive heaps of exhumed bones. Though morbid in its use of material, the chapel is a thing of beauty and one has to see it in order to truly appreciate its masterpiece.

Ghost stories are a favorite pastime around dancing campfires and on dark stormy nights, but the ghost stories surrounding the prison on Alcatraz Island may exceed them all in pure realistic possibility. Many people have seen shady apparitions or fuzzy shadows where they don’t belong, but the events at Alcatraz have drawn attention from those interested in paranormal activities for decades.

Al Capone, one of the most infamous residents of Alcatraz, played the banjo in the prison band and was given permission to practice in the shower room due to security concerns if he were exposed to other inmates. Sounds of banjo music have been reported to be heard emanating from the area of the shower room, even though the prison is now unoccupied and no explanation for the sound can be found. Is it the ghost of Al Capone?

The utility corridor and Cell 41D are two other portions of the prison where frequent paranormal activities have been reported, including sounds of moaning, crying, scuffling, and general conversation sounding like men talking. The utility corridor is the area where three men were shot to death during an attempted escape, and Cell 14D was a part of “the hole”, or solitary confinement where men were sent for punishment. Are these sounds the ghosts of these men occupying the prison to this day, wandering the prison that once held them prisoner? No one knows for certain, but the sheer numbers of reports of ghostly activity are impossible to ignore.

If you really want to experience something otherworldly and unexplainable, the Winchester Mystery House is the place to visit. It is located in San Jose, California, and there are guided tours that you can take. It was build at the request of the Winchester Rifle heiress, Sarah Winchester. It is said that Ms. Winchester, and the house, was haunted by the spirits of those people the Winchester Rifle had killed. In order to appease the spirits, construction on the house had to continue around the clock. In fact, the construction went on continuously for 38 years.

It has over one hundred and fifty rooms, almost fifty fireplaces, and modern conveniences like heating and a sewer system. There are also three working elevators and gas lights that would operate when you pressed a button.

There are so many different things in the house that it’s almost unexplainable, but it’s certainly a marvel of creativity, ingenuity, and engineering. You can find stairs that lead to the ceiling, parquet floors, Tiffany art glass windows and much more. It consumed the lives of many carpenters for almost forty years until Sarah Winchester finally passed away.

The house was preserved, and now remains for all to see the intricacies and the creativity that took place there, as well as the money that was spent and the sheer size of the project.

Ghost hunting is actually becoming very popular today. It’s a lot more mainstream than it used to be, and a lot more accepted. Some people do it for a living, but most people just do it for fun. If you’re looking for some spirit activity and an eerie place to visit that gives you the feel of days gone by, there are some towns you should visit.

Centralia, Pennsylvania should be your first stop. A coal mine caught fire there, and the town was destroyed from underneath.

Bodie, California is another great place to go. It’s deserted, desolate, and pretty much just like it was when everyone left, except for the ravages of time. Money, alcohol, and gold were the killers of this town.

Tombstone, Arizona is a quintessential ghost town and the subject of a lot of films, too. People still live there, but that doesn’t make it less eerie.

Calico, California has tours and gold-panning, among other things. It’s a great place to go, like most old mining towns.

Last but not least, go and see Belmont, Nevada. There are saloons still there, and it’s a working ghost town full of history and maybe something more.

Michigan is one of the best states to live in or visit if you are interested in scary attractions to visit for Halloween. Erebus is in the Guinness Book of World Records, as the largest walk through haunted house. This huge house offers a bloody mass of monsters, dinosaurs and mutant creatures.

The famous charitable Detroit’s Urban Legends is filled with freaky stuff created by volunteers. Another scary Detroit place is Deadly Intentions which offers 6,500 square feet of bloody hallways, crazy clowns, and prisoners in chains.

Now Michigan also boasts the home of one of the most unique concepts around with the Haunted Farm of Terror. Not just the usual hayride here. The story is the farm was bought by an undertaker that was also a pig farmer. He needed help with the farm so he started using pig parts to conjure up helpers for the farm. Mutant pig farmers…and no one has made this movie yet? In addition, Michigan offers the Haunted Fountains, Night Terrors, The Lab or Haunted Hill Acres that is more family friendly.

Masks are not just for costumes any more. At least not for one Virginia woman, that is opening her own store to exhibit her detailed monster masks she has created.

For the past three years, after being asked to created a haunted hall at a University, she has been busy creating these awesome masks out of spray foam. Georgette Gaynor was making wedding decorations for a living when the University asked her to help them. While she was working on the haunted hall, she discovered spray foam that swells to three times its normal size that is used for insulating cracks around windows and doors.

Since then she has made over fifty large monster masks that she will exhibit as a fundraiser to collect nonperishable food items for a local food bank. The monsters have been used in the past for school fundraisers and special events. The monsters are very time consuming to make with the stages of hardening of the foam. Gaynor takes a lot of time to name them and even goes so far as to sometimes dress the monster if she feels it is necessary.

If you are tired of the same old trick or treating for Halloween, try visiting one of the real haunted houses that are popping up as Halloween attractions. Owners of homes that have been reported as being haunted, have begun to take advantage of the haunted status and turn them into a real haunted house attraction for Halloween.

Many of these locations, will include with the haunted house, a detailed story describing the original haunting of the home and how it has manifested since the haunting came about.

Many of these houses are very old and tend to look rather scary at night on their own and by adding a few decorations and scary looking people, it is quite easy to believe that the homes are actually haunted. Some of these haunted houses have added other attractions to make it a whole evening of fun with the actual haunted house, haunted trails around the property, haunted cemeteries and hayrides filled with spooks that jump out at you. Many even include an area for the faint of heart to sit out the actual hauntings but watch them on a big screen television.

The world is a scary place and getting scarier every day. This is unfortunate for today’s kids that can’t go wander around trick or treating for hours that one night of the year.

Most of us spent Halloween’s walking all over town with a friend, getting as much candy as humanly possible before we had to get home, which was usually well after dark. This is not the world we live in today.

Zoos all over the country have stepped up and filled a need for a fun, safe alternative on Halloween. Zoos are drawing huge crowds of families for Halloween events that offer rides, hayrides, the animals and, of course, lots of candy. Often the zoo offers costume contests and special displays like letting the animals smash pumpkins.

Special zoo sleepovers are becoming popular also. The haunted houses are quite child friendly as well and not filled with lots of blood and gore.