Top 5 most intriguing paranormal locations in the U.S.
Chances are you have a friend, relative, or perhaps maybe a local transient, that has briefly discussed a paranormal experience with you. Each year, thousands of eye-witness accounts are documented in a variety of different locations spread throughout the United States. Today, the The Paranoid Gamer covers 5 of the most intriguing paranormal locations, and let’s you decide if they are actually haunted.
5.) Lemp Mansion
Most people won’t be familiar with our #5 pick, which is the historical Lemp Mansion, located in St. Louis, Missouri. There’s been a startling amount of death and suicides documented within the confines of the Lemp Mansion, which is enough to make some skeptics turn their head and wonder whether there’s really some legitimate paranormal activity present.
Shrouded in suicide, tragedy, and even a bit of scandal, the Lemp family made its fortune becoming America’s first brewers of lager beer. With success, sometimes follows misfortune (typical in the paranormal field) which included five deaths by suicide. It’s enough to make you think whether something paranormal is truly happening. Like most locations now, the current owners of the now Restaurant & Inn has made any reported phenomena into a relatively successful business model. Haunted tours are among some of the most popular tourist destinations in St. Louis, and some of the biggest paranormal investigators have visited the location. Makes you think, doesn’t it?
Claims of paranormal activity:
- Full body apparitions.
- Voices and footsteps.
4.) Lizzie Borden House
Unlike our previously mentioned pick, anyone familiar with paranormal locations has no-doubt heard about the Lizzie Borden house. The name alone is enough to send shivers down your spine, ignoring the fact that she allegedly murdered her family with an axe; yes you saw it the first time. While she was tried and eventually acquitted of the murder, people to this day still argue she was the one that murdered her father and stepmother. I mean, if O.J can get away with it, so can she, right?
Whether or not Lizzie Borden actually committed murder will probably be debated until the end of time, however it is hard to disprove the large amount of eye-witness testimony coming out of the Lizzie Borden house.
Claims of paranormal activity:
- Full body apparitions.
- Voices and footsteps.
- Poltergeist-like activity.
- Shadows.
3.) Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery
Located in Chicago, Illinois, Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery has been reported to have ghostly apparitions, phantom vehicles, and even some satanic rituals. Originally founded in 1844, the now inactive cemetery was also rumored to be a favorite dumping ground for gangstas; gotta love the class of those guys.
Unfortunately, with a growth in popularity, this cemetery has been the target of thugs and worse, paranormal groups looking to make a quick buck. Be that as it may, it’s difficult at first glance to dismiss all the paranormal accounts this cemetery has garnered over the years, despite the lack of definitive evidence. At least it’s not the Bohemian Grove, right?
Claims of paranormal activity:
- Full body apparitions.
- Voices.
- Poltergeist-like activity.
- Shadows.
- Phantom Objects, including vehicles and houses (seems far-fetched)
2.) Alcatraz
While the prison no longer holds inmates, it’s certainly theorized to hold tons of paranormal activity. Deemed “Hellcatraz” by some of the prisoners, it was a desolate, barren, and unforgiving prison, that apparently spirits have latched onto. With so much negative emotion and death centered in one place it’s not surprising why Alcatraz is widely considered, next to Waverly Hills, one of the most haunted prisons in the U.S.
Claims of paranormal activity:
- Full body apparitions.
- Voices.
- Shadows.
- Cold Spots.
- Poltergeist Activity.
1.) Winchester Mystery House
Out of all the allegedly haunted places, the Winchester Mystery House might not have the most activity, but it certainly has the most intriguing and perplexing. Once the residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun maker William Winchester, the house was continuously under construction for 38 years before her death.
After the death of her husband, distraught, she allegedly sought out a medium for some guidance. This medium told her that the ‘spirits’ wanted her to never stop building the house otherwise she would wind up with the same fate as her husband and child. The Winchester house is interesting due to the fact that there are trap-doors, places that are nothing but dead-ends, and a host of totally bizarre design decisions across the house.
You can check out an example below:
Claims of paranormal activity:
- Full body apparitions.
- Voices.
- Shadows.
Honorable mention:
- Gettysberg – Covered in another article here.
- Myrtle Plantation
- Shanghai Tunnels
- Stanley Hotel
Did you have any locations worth mentioning? Have you experienced anything paranormal? Begin the discussion in our comment section. Feel free to vote in our poll below:
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synopsis
July 8, 2012 @ 8:54 pm
Isn’t the Winchester house the one that supposedly changes its floor design randomly while your in it? Or am i thinking of something else?
brooklyn1nyc
August 14, 2012 @ 1:24 pm
Hello. Please go to this site for your answer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_house
Thanks…………
bleachorange
July 9, 2012 @ 1:23 pm
I’ve been to Alcatraz. While the place isn’t nice, I sure didn’t get any ‘ghost’ vibes. No one escaped from Alcatrraz, right? Wrong. Someone did in WW2, but they were caught very soon after. The prisoners did the laundry for the Army base and one of them stole a uniform and posed as a serviceman one day to escape on the boat that ferried laundry to the prison and servicemen on liberty to San Francisco. The boat dropped off the laundry, then the servicemen. However, on that single day out of the entire war, the boat dropped off the servicemen first, and then the laundry. The escapee, trying to make small talk to blend in, actually exposed himself by asking what the other guys had planned for liberty. He was caught, tried, and re-imprisoned. However, he did make it off the island and onto the mainland. I can’t remember the man’s name, though.
Robert Strick
July 9, 2012 @ 1:29 pm
We’re hoping as the site evolves to travel to some of these places and do actual paranormal investigations.
bleachorange
July 9, 2012 @ 2:02 pm
That sounds neat.
Robert Strick
July 9, 2012 @ 2:49 pm
It would be very neat 😀
lostinthecoffin
December 18, 2012 @ 11:56 am
What about the bodies in rivers or lakes? What about the people sent to sleep with the fishes in Chicago, NY and other places? No one of them haunts the shores or nobody taked the time to investigate that?