Haunted House Tours
Taking a real tour through a actual 100% haunted house this Halloween might be the most terryfing experience you might ever have!
By David Graham
KAREN JEFFRIES ~ NEW ORLEANS BEST AND MOST SOUGHT AFTER TOUR GUIDE And Most Haunted B&B IN nEW oRLEANS
THE DAUPHINE HOUSE
AS MANY MANY WILL CERTAINLY ATTEST THE BEST HAUNTED GHOST TOUR GUIDE IN NEW ORLEANS IS KAREN JEFFRIES!
Karen Jeffries moved to New Orleans from Phoenix in 1993, and purchased Dauphine House in 1997. It is also a very haunted B&B and worth the stay if your into hunting ghosts. Jeffries the most respected and sought after licensed tour guide in the city today for private tours, And as many will attest the best in the city. Today Jeffreies does many private tours through out the city and is the most knowledgeable about where the real haunted locations and their sorted histories.
Karen Jeffries also owns the most haunted B&B. Built in 1860, Dauphine House is located just one and a half blocks from the French Quarter in a quiet neighborhood, near Bourbon Street and Esplanade Avenue. Each room has a private bath, as well as many other amenities.
Consider this charming bed and breakfast, with its hardwood floors and 12-foot ceilings, your home away from home as you explore the historic and romantic French Quarter. Guests can easily walk to all of our world-renowned restaurants and entertainment. Your hostess lives on site, and is always happy to recommend restaurants, tours, and music clubs. As well as take you on a privte very real haunted tour of New Orleans most paranormal active locations.
Visit the official Dauphine House web site www.dauphinehouse.com
The Laularie Mansion The Ultimate Haunted House
DESTREHAN PLANTATION
For over 12 years the house sat abandoned. Vandals broke in and stole everything of value. Because of legends of hidden treasurer, interior walls were ripped out. The house was in jeopardy of being totally destroyed. Local citizens formed the River Road Historical Society to save the house. In 1971, the house and 4 acres of ground were deeded to the Society. Since that time the house has been completely restored and filled with a fine collection of early to mid-19th century furnishings and decorative arts, including Louisiana armoires, tables, desks, and items once belonging to Destrehan family members.
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The Ghosts of Stranahan house are widely known in Fort Lauderdale since Frank is considered one of the founding fathers. News coverage of the ghosts are mentioned in the Sun-Sentinel News and have been featured on radio programs. Investigations happen from time to time, and reports from employees, guests are more then very common.
Haunted Fort Lauderdale Ghost Tour
In one tour, local paranormal enthusiast John Carr leads his 60-90-minute walking tours that can spook even the most jaded non-believers.
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There have been a number of strange events reported at the totally unique Winchester House for many years and they still continue to be reported today. This Haunting makes the top ten in the USA , Number 4 Haunted House in America.
In 1884, a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester began a construction project of such magnitude that it was to occupy the lives of carpenters and craftsmen until her death thirty-eight years later. The Victorian mansion, designed and built by the Winchester Rifle heiress, is filled with so many unexplained oddities, that it has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House.
Sarah Winchester built a home that is an architectural marvel. Unlike most homes of its era, this 160-room Victorian mansion had modern heating and sewer systems, gas lights that operated by pressing a button, three working elevators, and 47 fireplaces. From rambling roofs and exquisite hand inlaid parquet floors to the gold and silver chandeliers and Tiffany art glass windows, you will be impressed by the staggering amount of creativity, energy, and expense poured into each and every detail.
Many many psychics have visited the Haunted house, most have come away actually convinced, that Sarah Winchester and many other tormented spirits still wander the Great maze of rooms.
In the years that the house has been open to the public, employees and visitors alike have had one to many unusual encounters with ghost. There have been the sounds of haunted footsteps; etheral music and many a banging doors; too often one hears mysterious echoing ghostly voices; several unexplainable cold spots; strange moving lights and orbs in ghost photos; witnesses have seen doorknobs that turn by themselves... and don’t forget the scores of people who have their own claims of phenomena to report but just are to afraid to do it.
Tour through 110 of the 160 rooms and look for the bizarre phenomena that gave the mansion its name; a window built into the floor, staircases leading to nowhere, a chimney that rises four floors, doors that open onto blank walls, and upside down posts! No one has been able to explain the mysteries that exist within the Winchester Mansion, or why Sarah Winchester kept the carpenters' hammers pounding 24 hours a day for 38 years. It is believed that after the untimely deaths of her baby daughter and husband, son of the Winchester Rifle manufacturer, Mrs. Winchester was convinced by a medium that continuous building would appease the evil spirits of those killed by the famous "Gun that Won the West" and help her attain eternal life. Certainly her $20,000,000 inheritance was sufficient to support her obsession until her death at 82!
The Behind-the-Scenes Tour is a guided tour which takes guests into areas which had been unexplored for over 75 years. On tour you will learn how Mrs. Winchester's 160-acre estate functioned. You will go into the stables, dehydrator, Plumber's workshop, the unfinished Ballroom, and one of the basements.
You will also learn about Victorian architecture as your guide points out the many features used in the building of the Winchester mansion. Safety hats will be worn on the tour. The Behind-the-Scenes Tour is limited to those 10 and older. Sorry, due to safety concerns, children 9 and under and babies are not permitted.
The Winchester Firearms Museum
The "Gun that Won the West" is the main attraction in the Firearms Museum, one of the largest Winchester Rifle collections on the West Coast. See the collection of guns that preceded the famous Winchester Rifle, including B. Tyler Henry's 1860 repeating rifle that Oliver Winchester adapted and improved upon to produce his first repeating rifle, the Winchester Model 1866. Learn about the Model 1873 which came to be called the "Gun that Won the West." See a collection of the Limited Edition Winchester Commemorative Rifles including the Centennial '66, the Theodore Roosevelt, and the renowned John Wayne.
The Winchester Antique Products Museum
This museum contains a rare collection of antique products once manufactured by the Winchester Products Company, a subsidiary of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. In the years following World War I, the parent company launched a Post-war Program, aimed at expanding the manufacture of new products in order to fill the factory space previously used for military production. At one time there were 6,300 individually owned Winchester stores carrying these products, which made it the largest hardware chain store organization in the world! The museum now displays items produced in the 1920's ranging from Winchester cutlery, flashlights, lawn-mowers, boy's wagons, fishing tackle and roller skates, to food choppers, electric irons, and farm and garden tools.
For more information about the Mystery House, see the rather longer review of it in my magazine, Emerald City. There is also a review of Tim Powers's excellent book, Earthquake Weather, which uses the Mystery House and various other spooky Bay Area buildings for settings.
More info and links on the Winchester Mystery House
525 South Winchester Boulevard
San Jose, California
http://www.hauntedamericatours.com/hauntedhouses/winchesterhouse/
http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/
MANY HAVE SAID THE LALAURIE HOUSE IS THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED REAL HAUNTED HOUSE IN THE WORLD!
Lalaurie haunted house picture
The ultimate haunted house. Lalaurie House, New Orleans Most Famous Haunted House ghost pictures visit Haunted New Orleans Tours here now.
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READ ABOUT THE ROYAL STREET COURTYARD B&B GHOST PHOTOS AND STORY HERE!
Haunted B&B's seem to be all then more just a passing rage for both amateur and professional ghost hunters, and also serious haunted paranormal investigations now a days. Here you will find many of Haunted America Tours visitors submitted reported real haunted ghost photos for you to see, and scrutinize from The Royal Street Courtyard B&B.
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Haunted History of the Pope - Walton House
Anthony's Fine Dining restaurant has been an institution in the Atlanta, Georgia area since 1967 when the authentic Southern plantation home was moved to Buckhead from Wilkes County, Georgia. The house is charming, elegant and unique, as there are not very many authentic antebellum homes within the city limits of Atlanta. Atlanta is rich with Civil War history; Union General William T. Sherman, made camp on the current grounds of the Georgia State Capitol and burned down most of the homes before making his way to Savannah. Therefore Atlanta is not rich with authentic antebellum architecture. However, you can still experience the beauty and charm of the Old South today at Anthony's Fine Dining.
And it's haunted!
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The Eldred House in Eldred, Ill., about 65 miles north of St. Louis. is one of the houses featured on the haunted house tour by American Hauntings, a Decatur, Ill., company that conducts tours and overnight stays at a variety of sites.
The Myrtles Plantation
VISIT OFFICAL MYRTLES PLANTATION WEBSITE
www.myrtlesplantation.com
HISTORIC TOURS DAILY: 9 AM TO 5:00 PM, EVERY HOUR AND HALF HOUR; $8 PER PERSON, $4 CHILDREN 12 & UNDER MYSTERY TOURS: FRIDAY & SATURDAY EVENINGS AT 6, 7 & 8 PM; $10 PER PERSON, RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED
The Myrtles Plantation is located off US 61 North, in St.Francisville. It is open daily for tours 9:00am to 5: 00pm, with mystery tours at 8:00pm Friday and Saturday evenings; there is a fee for admission. The Myrtles also offers bed and breakfast
accomodations, and a restaurant (closed Monday and Tuesday). Please call 225-635-6277 for further information.
THE HAUNTED GHOST MIRROR AT THE MYRTLES PLANTATION.
Americas' Most Haunted Houses
In Stambovsky v. Ackley, the Supreme Court of New York ruled that a seller does not need to disclose the fact that a house is haunted unless there is a fiduciary relationship or in cases of fraud or misrepresentation. Stambovsky v. Ackley, 169 A.D.2d 254 (NY App. Div. 1991), is a notable New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division case that held that a house, which the owner had previously advertised to the public as haunted by ghosts, was legally haunted for the purpose of an action for rescission brought by a subsequent purchaser of the house. It is sometimes called the "Ghostbusters case", a reference to the author rhetorically asking "who you gonna call" to resolve a haunting. Because of the case's unique holding, it has been regularly printed in textbooks on the subject of contract law and widely taught in U.S. law school classes, if not often cited or followed by other courts.
During the course of her ownership of the property at issue, which was located in Nyack, New York, Helen Ackley and members of her family had reported seeing numerous poltergeists in the house. Ackley had reported the existence of ghosts in the house to both Reader's Digest and a local newspaper on three occasions between 1977 and 1989, when the house was included on a five-home walking tour of the city. Neither Ackley nor her realtor, Ellis Realty, revealed the haunting to Jeffrey Stambovsky before he entered a contract to purchase the house in 1989 or 1990. Stambovsky was from New York City and was not aware of the folklore of Nyack, including the widely known haunting story.
When Stambovsky learned of the haunting story, he filed an action requesting rescission of the contract of sale and for damages for fraudulent misrepresentation by Ackley and Ellis Realty. A New York Supreme Court (trial court) dismissed the action, and Stambovsky appealed.
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Winchester Mystery House
This rambling old Victorian mansion was the home of a very rich and very eccentric widow. Mr. Winchester had been the head of the company that made the Winchester rifle, the "Gun that Won the West".
In 1884, a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester began a construction project of such magnitude that it was to occupy the lives of carpenters and craftsmen until her death thirty-eight years later. The Victorian mansion, designed and built by the Winchester Rifle heiress, is filled with so many unexplained oddities, that it has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House. And the most famous haunted house in america.
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OAK ALLEY PLANTATION
Old buildings appear to be particularly attractive to ghosts. These last are often alleged to be souls of former residents whose earthly mission was tragically cut short, leaving a frustrated spirit grasping at bizarre means to capture the attention and support of the living in order to resolve personal unfinished business. Of course, the older the building the longer the list of resident souls and the greater the possibility of drama. No antebellum plantation home is without at least one ghost, running the gamut from wispy shadows to an assortment of aggressive, howling poltergeists. Oak Alley is no exception.
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THE DISAPEARRING HOUSE
In the burgeoning early days of the "Age of Aquarius" it seemed that everyone was tuning in and turning on to the occult and paranormal. Unlikely advocates were found and unlikely devotees, along with some who were at the time, shall we say, less than willing ...
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HOUMAS HOUSE
A worker from the electrician's crew was the first to report that he had seen a young girl descending the freestanding stairway, and later in the large central hall. His concern expressed to co-workers: the house was a construction zone and unsafe for children, especially a girl of 7-10 years.
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Lemp Mansion
The Lemp Mansion is located in St. Louis, Missouri, a short distance away from the Mississippi River. Take Broadway from Interstate 55 and follow that to Cherokee Street. Go west on Cherokee and turn right onto De Menil Place. The address of the mansion is 3322. The Pointer Family has owned and operated the Lemp Mansion since 1975.
When John Adam Lemp arrived in St. Louis from Eschwege, Germany in 1838, he seemed no different from the thousands of other immigrants who poured into the Gateway to the West during the first half of the 19th century. Lemp originally sought his fortune as a grocer. But his store was unique for its ability to supply an item sold by none of his competitors - lager beer. Lemp had learned the art of brewing the effervescent beverage under the tutelage of his father in Eschwege, and the natural cave system under St. Louis provided the perfect temperature for aging beer. Lemp soon realized that the future of lager beer in America was as golden as the brew itself, and in 1840 he abandoned the grocery business to build a modest brewery at 112 S. Second Street. A St. Louis industry was born. The brewery enjoyed marvelous success and John Adam Lemp died a millionaire.
The Lemp Mansion was built in the early 1860's and was subsequently purchased by William J. Lemp as a residence and auxiliary brewery office. Although it was already an impressive structure, Lemp used his massive brewery fortune to turn the thirty-three room house into a Victorian showplace.
The radiator system was installed in 1884, five years after radiant heat was patented. The grand staircase was removed to accommodate an open-air lift that ran the gamut of the house. The decorative iron gates in the basement restaurant are all that remain of the elevator. In 1904 the house was completely renovated. To the left of the main entrance is the former brewery office, where William Jr. committed suicide. The decorative mantle is Italian marble.
To the right is the parlor, with its hand-painted ceiling and intricately carved mantles of African mahogany. Behind the parlor is an atrium where the Lemps kept exotic plants and birds. The main bathroom is dominated by a unique glass-enclosed, free-standing shower that Lemp discovered in an Italian hotel and brought back to St. Louis for his personal use. Other unusual fixtures in the room are a barber chair and a sink with glass legs. At the rear of the house are three massive vaults that the Lemps built to store great quantities of art objects. The Lemps were such avid art collectors that they could not display all of their acquisitions. Each vault is fifteen feet wide, twenty-five feet deep, and thirteen feet high.
The bedrooms were on the second floor. The main bathroom has a white granite shower stall and a marble and cast-iron mantle. The servants' quarters were located on the third floor, which boasts cedar walk-in closets, a skylight and an observation deck. The mansion does not have a ballroom in the traditional sense because the Lemps built an auditorium, ballroom and swimming pool in a natural underground cavern that could be reached from a now-sealed tunnel in the basement. Another tunnel led from the house to the brewery.
The wine and beer cellars, laundry and kitchen were located in the basement. The huge kitchen that once served the elite of St. Louis society has been completely modernized and now serves the honored guest of the historic Lemp Mansion Restaurant.
1980, Life Magazine called the Lemp Mansion "one of the ten most haunted places in America". The Lemp family line died out with him and the family's resting place can now be found in beautiful Bellefontaine Cemetery. But while no one remains in the Lemp family today, it certainly doesn't mean that some of them are not still around.
After the death of Charles Lemp, the mansion was sold and turned into a boarding house. Shortly after that, it fell on hard times and began to deteriorate, along with the nearby neighborhood. In later years, stories began to emerge that residents of the boarding house often complained of ghostly knocks and phantom footsteps in the house. As these tales spread, it became increasingly hard to find tenants to occupy the rooms and because of this, the old Lemp Mansion was rarely filled.
The decline of the house continued until 1975, when Dick Pointer and his family purchased it. The Pointer's began remodeling and renovating the place, working for many years to turn it into a restaurant and an inn. But the Pointer's were soon to find out that they were not alone in the house...
The bulk of the remodeling was done in the 1970's and during this time, workers reported strange things happening in the house, leading many to believe the place was haunted. Reports often varied between feelings of being watched, vanishing tools and strange sounds. Many of the workers actually left the job site and never came back.
Since the restaurant has opened, staff members also have had their own odd experiences. Glasses have been seen to lift off the bar and fly through the air; sounds are often heard that do not have explanation and some have even glimpsed actual apparitions who appear and vanish at will. In addition, many customers and visitors to the house report some pretty weird incidents. It is said that doors lock and unlock on their own; the piano in the bar plays by itself; voices and sounds come from nowhere; and even the spirit of the "Lavender Lady" has been spotted on occasion.
The house has also attracted ghost hunters from around the country, who have come partly due to a November 1980 LIFE magazine article, which named the Lemp Mansion as "one of the most haunted houses in America". It remains a popular place for dinner and spirits today.
The current owner of the house, Paul Pointer, maintains the place as a wonderful eating and lodging establishment and takes the ghosts as just another part of the strange mansion. "People come here expecting to experience weird things," he said, " and fortunately for us, they are rarely disappointed."
http://www.lempmansion.com/
http://www.prairieghosts.com/lemp.html
A Very Real Paranormal Experiment: "CALLING UP THE LIVE GHOST OF LISA LEE HARP WAUGH!"
LISA LEE HARP WAUGH SET TO DOCUMENT THE NEXT GREATEST PARANOMAL EXPEIREMENT TO DATE! THIS PARANOMAL SPECIAL EVENT IS SET TO TAKE PLACE ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT AT 12:AM EST LEARN MORE HERE NOW!
Waugh the American Necromancer has in recent year made specific attempts to send her living spirit or ghost around the world to be documented by those that call upon her to appear.
Many people in past years have said to either witnessed or felt the presence of Waugh as she astral projects around the world on Halloween night in past years. Many believe they have either photographed her spirit or captured her words on EVP's. a certain few maintain that they have actually seen her full body apparition before them.
If you wish to try to participate in this exciting experiment this year please visit here for details. LEARN MORE HERE NOW!
Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp
Join a Seance table in Cassadaga, Florida
- Mediums give spiritual readings by day and
lead seances by night (not every night, though,
call for details and reservations). The spirits
communicate by turning the seance table or
rapping the wood, indicating a "yes"
or "no" answer. The community's
popular B&B, the Ann Stevens House offers
a seance package (includes tour, dinner and
seance) for $69.95 per person. Room charges
and taxes are extra. Room rates range from
$175 for single occupancy to $290 for triple
occupancy. For more information or reservations
at the B&B (between Daytona and Orlando),
call (800) 228-0310. For information on readings
($50-$80), seances or events at Cassadaga,
call (386) 228-2880.
Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp is a 115 year old community of spiritually-minded people located in Central Florida. We invite you to learn about the history, the religion, and the people of Cassadaga on the pages that follow. And be sure to include us on your next visit to the Orlando/Daytona Beach area.
