Jane Addams’ Hull House was meant to be a place of refuge for new immigrants. Built in 1856 by Charles Hull, it served many new arrivals and grew to a campus of 13 buildings by the mid-1910s. Jane Addams was a very good person and she tried her best to help those adjusting to…
On June 8th, Ghostly Activities will investigate the Hector Forrester haunting at a private residence in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Maria, a proud grandmother, found the perfect home for her family in the Ashburn neighborhood on Chicago’s South side. A few weeks after she moved in, the activity picked up. It got worse when her granddaughter would visit.
“Old Hag Syndrome” has been around since the Middle Ages. It was thought that witches, or hags, would sit on a person’s chest at night and cause exhaustion, leaving you very fatigued the next day.
We mapped out the recurrent hauntings in Chicago and its surrounding counties to test if ley lines exist. We did find 3 ley lines where hauntings cluster. Jake would like to note that all the lines follow a major body of water.
Urban legends and hauntings have a lot in common. They usually involve a tragic and untimely death. Unrequited love leads to a suicide. Children die and return to say goodbye or warn you of danger. There are differences between them. Urban legends almost always involve drama or danger, while most hauntings are fairly mundane…
You know her: You love her. This axe-wielding psycho has inspired plenty of horror movies and nightmares. She also really lived and breathed, unlike the Bloody Mary urban legend.
Our brains are wired to take in our environment and try to make something we can understand. That’s called matrixing. All of our lives, we train it to make ‘sense’ of a bunch of chaotic sensory elements. It keeps us sane for the most part. But, it’s a hassle for ghost hunting. Here’s why.
Suffering. That’s the only way to describe life in Alcatraz, an islet in San Francisco Bay. It housed the most notorious prisoners in the US, including Al Capone, in the 1940s. The prison closed in 1963 and became a tourist destination shortly afterwards. Life was hell here. Guards routinely beat prisoners. After all, the…
A trip to the movies ends with a ghostly message Ryan and a buddy, Tom, decided to kill some time at the movies on a very cold day in January 2010. He didn’t know a visitor – with an urgent message – would soon change his world. “We went to see a big budget,…