Mcpike Mansion, Illinois.

Alton is an old small city in Madison County, Illinois. Alton was a home to native Americans for hundreds of years before the 19th century after which European Americans started settling in the city.

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For a small town, Alton has seen a lot of deaths due to its long unreported history. About 1400 confederate soldiers died during the civil war because of smallpox outbreak and many unreported deaths later Alton became one of the most haunted cities in the whole country.

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The whole town is haunted but there are some locations that really stand out. One such location is the Mcpike mansion. Famous all over the country for its 11 or so ghost residents. The house was built between 1869 and 1871 on the highest point in Alton. Henry Mcgike a prominent member of the society and the Three time Mayor of the town moved into the house along with his family. They lived at the house till 1936 but the house was sold to Paul Laichinger who lived at the house till 1951. The house remained abandoned for years and fell in decay during those years due to vandalism. In 1994 Sharon and George Luedke bought the house in order to convert it into a hotel but they could not do so as they were unable to acquire any grant money for that purpose. But even with all those hindrances they managed to complete the renovations of the house through donations and opened the home for tours instead. They still host several ghost tours as well as historical tours. Although renovations around the house are still going on.

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During the earlier renovations the first paranormal activity took place. Sharon was working on the garden one day and she saw a man staring at her from the second floor window. Later after doing some research about the house she found a picture of Paul Laichinger and quickly realized that it was the same person that she saw on the window.

Another spirit that has been spotted inside the house is believed to be Sarah. She used to be a servant in the house and is now a friendly ghost. Sharon often spots her inside the house and she doesn’t feel scared around her. Her spirit roams around in the attic.

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The wine cellar is the most active place in the house. People hear footsteps and witness shadows and apparitions infront of their eyes. Often people feel sick around in the cellar although that might be due to the fact that people only visit the cellar during tours and it might get really congested during those tours. People have seen shadowy mist form in the cellar and follow them around. The heavy metal gate at the end of stairs usually takes a little bit of strength to open and close but people have seen it open on its own.


The above “enhanced” pictures were captured by Tom Halstead of PTF during the
(Saturday) July 19, 2008 Workshop. The above enhancements were done by Bruce
Halliday of Paranormal Investigating Team (P.I.T.). Bruce’s website can be visited
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Other ghosts residing in the house include that of Mrs and Mr Mcpike and people have heard voices and footsteps of small children in the house, infact when Paul Laichinger used to live in the house and rented some of the rooms, his tenants often complained about hearing kids playing inside the house even when there were no kids present. The child spirits are believed to be the kids of Mcpikes who died young.

Mcpike mansion official

Up till now no one has ever witnessed any sort of evil entity inside the house. All the ghosts are friendly and welcoming.

The house is still under repair but people can still book tours and visit the house.

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Mcpike mansion official

Wikipedia

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Napier Prison, New Zealand

Napier Prison is a former prison in New Zealand. It was built in 1862 and housed both male and female prisoners. Although not as violent as other prisons might be, it was still one of the most violent prisons by New Zealand standards. The prison has witnessed a lot of murders, deaths and suicides. The prison had also seen at least four hangings during its operation. Later the prison was also used as an orphanage as well as a psychiatric unit.

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The prison was decommissioned in 1992 but was opened 10 years later as a backpackers hostel offering cheap stays to people. Although it acted as a hostel for a short period of time, it was during that time when people started experiencing paranormal activities inside the oldest prison.

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People staying there would hear footsteps, disembodied voices, doors opening and closing on their own and a supposedly evil entity of a former prisoner and a serial killer Roland Edwards. It is reported that the paranormal activity intensifies on the day of his death. Places that witness deaths and psychologically tormented people often develop a sort of negative atmosphere.

Robyn Gallagher( Napier and Bay)

The prison now acts as a tourist attraction providing guided and unguided tours to the people interested. People can also see the path of the 1931 Hawkes bay earthquake which is one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country. The prison also hosts escape room experiences.

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Al- Jazirah Al- Hamra (U.A.E.)

Al- Jazirah Al- Hamra Is a ghost town to the south of the city of Ras Alla Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. The town became abandoned during the 1930s when the business of pearl hunting became depleted and the inhabitants moved to some other place in search for new ways of income.

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The town is considered to be a hotspot for djinn activity. There have been reports of strange noises, chilling screams/wails and many unexplainable sightings.

Sanjana Biju

It is believed that once the sun sets, the town comes to life with plenty of unexplainable noises that are not of this world. That is one of the main reasons that people choose to stay away from this place especially at night. Djinns can shapeshift and can appear/disappear at their will. Some locals that still live near the town believe that people who visit the village in the hope of a paranormal encounter are just wasting their time because djinns can only be spotted when they want to be seen.

Clémence Jacqueri

There are also other spirits in the town. Those spirits are said to never cause any harm to people except frightening them just for fun. Haunted sites include ‘the haunted Mansion of Al Dhait and Dhaga graveyard in Ras al khaimah. Thrill seekers have become regular visitors in the town. New Al Jazirah Al Hamra was built near the old town in 1980 and some of the locals live there. People living there are still reluctant to talk about the supernatural occurences.

The Whaley house, San Diego

The Whaley house was a residential location of the Whaley family. Thomas Whaley himself designed the two story Greek revival house and even the bricks used in building the house were created in Thomas whaley’s own brickyard. The house was completed in 1857 and it was the finest home in San Diego during that time.

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Besides being the Whaley family home, it was also San Diego’s first commercial theater, the second county courthouse, and a bilingual general store. The San Diego County government was also renting a part of the house for its offices.

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS CAL,37-OLTO,5–7

While the house was in itself one of the most magnificent homes during that time and is still a national treasure to this day, the house brought a lot of bad luck to the Whaley family. The part of the house that acted as a general Store caught fire and was burnt down leaving the family in shambles. The first son died of illness when he was 18 months old and his daughter committed suicide later on in the life. Due to the suicide there was a massive scandal and the engagement of his other daughter was broken off by her fiance. All of these things forced him to move his family to a different house. During their stay away from home the house fell into a state of decay. After almost 3 decades and after Thomas Whaley had passed away his son Francis started restoration work and turned the house into a tourist attraction and a museum.

(Whaley house rear) Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division HABS: HABS CAL,37-OLTO,5–3

Even during their stay in the house, the Whaley family had reported on paranormal activity taking place inside the house. They believed that they saw the ghost of a thief who was hanged within the property. They would hear footsteps inside the house and even those watching the house from the outside claimed to have seen shadows moving inside the house at night. The house was also said to have been built on an old cemetery.

(Courthouse ) Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division HABS: HABS CAL,37-OLTO,5–6

Today the house acts as a museum and people can still take a tour. Those who have visited the house claimed to have felt the presence of an angry entity that is believed to be of the thief that was hanged at the property before the house was built. People feel sadness and despair inside the house. Other entities include the ghost of a toddler whose crying, giggling and small footsteps can be heard within the house from a distance. This entity is believed to be of Thomas Jr. The spirits of violet and Anna Whaley have also been spotted in misty form accompanied by the smell of their perfume. Thomas Whaley is sometimes seen standing on top of the stairs watching the house.

( Living room ) Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division HABS: HABS CAL,37-OLTO,5–5

People have witnessed things moving inside the house on their own. Lights turn on and off and even a very nasty smell that is associated with an evil entity.

The Whaley house provides both guided and unguided tours of the house and the museum. It has also featured on several tv shows like ghost adventures and holzer files.

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Whaley house, San Diego

Redditors describe the creepiest urban legends from their area?

r/RaveninTheSky


Makcik keropok. Its a legend about a lady going around door to door selling keropok. (a type of cracker) If you refuse to buy any, she releases a Pontianak (a vengeful ghost) into your house. Best solution is not to open the door.

r/Tower-Educational



there used to be an insane asylum by my house in the 70s. It is probably five minutes away from my house if that. But, they tore it down in the 90s because it was just a giant eye sore, and had a dark history of mistreating patients. There is a cemetery on the property with hundreds of unnamed people who died there.

In the early 2000s, Walmart bought the land and wanted to build a walmart there since you would be able to see it from the highway. They excavated and such, and the day before they were set to start construction a huge landslide happened in the middle of the night that blocked the high way for days. If it would have happened at rush hour tons of people would have died.

Ultimately, it was deemed unsafe territory to build on, so it remains empty. Except for all the bike trails through the area. But no one ever rides during night time lol. I guess the people who died there didn’t want to be chilling underneath a walmart’s aisle 10.

r/KTsDefacement

We have a chair that’s been untouched since the 1960s in our schools boiler room. The janitor swears that a boy got locked down there by these other kids the day before summer break and died from the heat. He claims that the chair moves and that the door handle moves like he’s still there trying to get out.

r/rocket_goblin



its not really a known creepy urban legend, but in the 1800s in the owyhee mountains in idaho there was a group of hunters staying in a cabin and after failing to come back to their families a search party was sent out to look for them, they found the cabin, locked from the inside, with the window also locked from the inside. and they found all of the hunters dead with their heads crushed. no one knows who did it or how. but the incident repeated itself in like the 1970s or something.

r/Numerous_Emus



Black Shucks; big, black, ghostly/demonic dogs with glowing red eyes that are supposed to be omens of death. They generally appear on roads at night. There’s apparently a few around town and some drag chains too. Also one is actually a bear, but I have no idea why we have a ghostly demonic bear because we don’t even have normal bears in this country.

r/mikeynbn

I live in Romania and as a kid the most common legend was the “black ambulance” that would steal kids and harvest their organs and that kids’ bodies were to be found a few days later abandoned on a field with some money for the funeral. Also, in my town our parents would never let us go to the cinema because there was this legend about a man who wound put AIDS infected needles on the seats.

r/ninjasoul534


We have 3 mysterious men in a car called The Gaurdians (yes that’s what we call them) along Montana highway 464.
People have told experiences where they have car trouble and three men in a car drive up and help them out. Other people talk about headlights that disappear in places where they shouldn’t disappear. We also have a Native American in a jean jacket and jeans who materializes in front of cars before they can swerve out of the way. When the driver checks for a victim, no body is found.

r/OSmallTownMortician


We have little people (like 6in tall) that live in our forests. They stay well hidden unless you’re all by yourself and vulnerable, then they like to mess with you for fun.

r/FlameSamurai63

Not really creepy, but there’s one house in my hometown that is said to be haunted. There’s a tray with a golden teapot on it, and the tray has scratch marks on it. That tray has been sitting in the same location for years, remaining completely untouched, and still, to this day no one has touched it. Some of my friends insist that it’s haunted. There’s also an urban legend abut how an electrician (or someone with a similar job) fell off ofa ladder while setting up one of the light in the middle school gym. His ghost is said to haunt the gym at night whenever the lights are turned

Redditors describe a very interesting or odd psychological phenomena or fact?

The truth is that our brain works in mysterious ways and experts still have a lot to figure out about our brain. There are many psychological phenomena that we have some kind of knowledge about and yet new facts and odd things are discovered on a daily basis. We encounter a lot of things on our day to day activities that leave us completely perplexed. Redditors share their knowledge about some of those weird occurrences that can be attributed to a psychological phenomena.

r/jakeyb01

Blindsight-blind people who have an awareness of their surroundings. Their brains still process data from their eyes at a certain level, they just can’t consciously see anything.

r/BillFroman

I’m not sure how true this is but a woman was diagnosed through voices she had heard telling her exactly where to go and where the tumor was. If anything its a good read.

r/weddinglion
Your brain kind of defrags irrelevant information. If you go on a long, uneventful drive, you might only remember the first and last ten minutes (or something unusual in between), but your brain deems it pointless.

r/TheBassMeister


The Frequency Illusion/Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

The frequency illusion is when you start noticing something for the first time and suddenly it appears that this something suddenly crops up everywhere. In reality this is not true. A good example is a (not currently trending) word you heard for the first time. Suddenly you read and hear this word all the time.

r/Satures

I had a customer who “knew” that her entire family had been replaced by actors. Those had gone through extensive surgery and training to mimic their body language, way of speaking and such while all memories of the relative they replaced had been transferred to them with a chip in the arm. She told me she was a nurse and had witnessed this in other cases. “It’s really crazy! This actor lives in the house of your relative, looks like him, speaks like him, knows everything that happened 20 years ago. But this isn’t your relative!”

She was 100% convinced of this, not the smallest doubt. Her main concern was what happened to her real family. Only years later I learnt this is called Capgras delusion. I hope she got help, and that she could ‘reunite’ with her family.

r/illit3

People can be made to remember things that never happened.

This is a large part of what caused the “satanic panic”

r/puppy_amuser

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. When I was a little girl lying in bed I would sometimes feel like I was gigantic, like my body was taking up the entire room, or microscopically small. Winds up this is an actual thing that happens to a fairly large amount of people, although normally just a few fleeting instances in their lifetime.

r/kingbane2

placebo effect is the one that is the strangest to me. it’s so wild, like fake thing that causes a real effect. what’s even more wild is the placebo effect works on animals, AND it works on humans when you TELL them they’re getting a placebo and show them it’s a placebo. it’s so weird.

r/Warpmind

I don’t recall the scientific term with any certainty, but Doorway Syndrome.

Basically, you think of one thing, then walk through a doorway, and it’s gone, filed away into matters relevant to the room you just left. This is why you often forget why you just walked into the kitchen.

Aokigahara forest- (Japan)


The Aokigahara forest is located in the northwestern flank of Japan’s Mount Fuji. It has been a popular tourist destination for years.


The forest has a historical reputation as a home to “yurei”, ghouls of the dead in Japanese mythology. In recent years Aokigahara has been tainted by the name of ” Suicide forest” because of the large number of suicides happening there throughout the year.


Every year more and more bodies are found there. In 2003, 105 bodies were found in the forest. In 2010, police recorded more than 200 people having attempted suicide in the forest that year. Suicides are said to increase during March, the end of fiscal year in Japan. The increasing number of suicides has led the officials to place signs at the forest’s entry urging people of suicidal nature to seek help.

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Moreover, a lot of people believe that in old times when there were famines, people used to take the oldest members of their family and leave them in the forest to die. Although many believe this to be a hoax and an urban legend that has gained popularity over time because of the internet. The paranormal activities are sometimes attributed to these events as well because the forest is ancient.

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The traditional belief was that if the bodies of the dead were not cleared immediately, their souls would linger there forever.
People travelling in the forest often find clothing and sometimes even a body.
Due to the vastness of the forests, people who enter the forests carry a string along tape so that they can find their way back out. It’s very easy to get lost in the forest and gps and mobile phones do not work properly inside the forest. Many times these tapes have been purposefully cut off by someone and due to that people have got lost there.

A Suicide warning sign @Davide Mauro


People have reported hearing blood curdling screams while wandering in the forests. A reporter heard a scream from somewhere in the forest, he went to investigate the source of sound but found a dead body which looked like it had been there for a long time and could not be the source of the sound. There have been alleged ghost sightings and people have seen white figures drifting in between the trees. People have found curses and sometimes they feel they are being followed. The atmosphere inside the forest is in itself very eerie. Trees grow in twisted turning shapes and the roots are spread all around the floor making movement difficult, these trees are closely knit and packed blocking any kind of air and sound making the forest eerily silent where you can even hear your breath. People often have difficulty breathing and they fall sick during their visit to the forest.

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Aokigahara has seen a fair share of death and paranormal. It is believed that the forest is one of the most if not the most haunted places in the world. However, this does not stop people from entering the forests.
It still attracts a lot of tourists, travellers, youtubers and paranoramal fanatics hoping to get a glimpse of the paranoramal.

Parents of Reddit describe the creepiest thing their kid has ever come out with that has given them the heebies?

r/stocky_stegasaurus

Let me start this off by saying I don’t have kids. My coworker at an old job invited me over for dinner one night. I went over, they had a little girl who was like 4 or 5 at the time. So we have dinner, she goes to bed, we’re all sitting around talking about business, having a few cocktails, whatever. It’s like 11 oclock, and the little girl comes down the stairs, half awake and says “mommy the no-no man is here.” And she’s just staring right through her dad. Like you can tell, it’s not directly at him, it’s through him. And all of a sudden we hear this bang, and the window right behind him, had slammed shut. It wasn’t a traditional window, it was one of those ones that you crank the arm to prop it open. Left the whiskey, got in the car and hauled ass the fuck outta there.
Few months later, another coworker was arrested for aggravated assault and stalking in relation to the family. But I know for a fact we looked at the window, like we looked outside, no one was there. Got super spooked out by that one.

Marisa Howenstine

r/OUPnorth Camping


My daughter laughing in her bed. then asking if tickled her feet
Its been years and it still makes me shiver.

r/rehilda


It wasnt something he came out with. But about a year ago, my then 2.5 year old son and i were playing. Sitting on the bed, laughing, him facing me. All of a sudden he looked behind me and his smile fades to a look of horror, like he was about to cry but couldnt move or make a sound. I whipped around ready to fight and there was nothing there. I looked back at him and asked him what he was looking at, and he just ignored me and started playing again

Brian McMahon

R/dorkingwed·

When my youngest daughter was 4 we were watching TV and something about aliens came on and there was a drawing of a Grey. She looked at the screen and announced “He looks like the man who sees me in the night”.

Tanya trofymchuk

r/TMZombies Not a parent, but I was babysitting this kid across the street about a year ago. It was about 10 pm. The kid was in bed and was watching some TV show when saw something out of the corner of my eye. I looked and it was the kid just kinda staring at me. I asked if he was ok and all he said was –

“The shadow man won’t leave us alone.” Needless to say damn near shat bricks

r/de1732

There’s a man in my bedroom. 4 year old daughter, would say every once in a while.

r/DjangoVanTango

My 3 year old daughter having a conversation with the ghost of my recently deceased dad. Why I told my mum about it, she told me did the same when was 3 and my gran died.

Reuben Hustler

r/allupinspace

Stayed with a family member for a few months while we were moving houses. My daughter was a little under two, and would always look at this one spot on the stairs that you could see from the living room (the stairs would go one direction, had a landing and go in another direction at a 90 degree angle). She would watch it and smile, or point at it. Anywhere picked her up, she would be fixated on this one spot. My family member mentioned one day it was the favorite napping place of her beloved cat that died happily and peacefully of old age.

Ancient Ram Inn

The Ancient Ram Inn is a former pub located in Wotton-under-Edge, a market town within the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England. It was built in 1145 to house the masons and other builders employed to construct the neighbouring church. After some years a Reverend started residing in the house. In the 1000 years of its existence the ownership and residency have changed many times. After the priest the history of the inn is not well known but during the 1960s the inn was used as a pub. In the late 1960s the property was bought by John Humpries who protected it from vandalism.

Brian Robert Marshall

Legend has it that before construction the site was a 5000 year old pagan burial ground. The hauntings and paranormal activity makes sense when a property is built on a pagan burial ground. During the construction of a church near the property, several constructions were also done around the inn that may have led to ,according to what many paranormal researchers believe, as the opening of the portal of dark energy.

Brian Robert Marshall

When John Humpries moved to the property, on the first night itself the spirits made themselves known. They reportedly dragged him in the house. People believe that the spirits that haunt the inn are not some normal ghosts and entities but rather they are demonic entities because when one enters the property they can feel the maliciousness inside. They can sense the air becoming thicker, difficulty in breathing as if they are not wanted there. Paranormal researchers believe that the presence of the portal of dark energy allows these entities to come and go at will.

Brian Robert Marshall

During his residence at the property, John Humpries recovered many peculiar things from inside the house. Skeletal remains of children, evidence of devil worship rituals.

The paranormal activities were so intense that his wife and children refused to live there and moved out of the property, but John Humpries did not leave the property. In 2016, John Humpries broke his leg and at 87 years old he could not look after himself and his daughter tried to find a carer but nobody agreed to work there. In the end they had to hire two carers because everyone was scared to work there alone. Even then the carers would sometimes be seen on the cctv running scared and screaming.

The staircase

There are several spirits that are known to haunt the inn. The most famous among them are-

A 16th century Witch that was supposedly killed during the witch trials.

The children that were ritualistically killed in the place that the inn was built or maybe after it was built.

The Innkeepers daughter hung herself in the attic.

A baby’s wail can be heard in the kitchen.

The Bishop’s room

The Bishop’s room is said to be the most haunted room where even John Humpries did not enter without knocking. Dark and evil spirits are said to haunt this room where bishops used to stay.

The ancient building is a hub for paranormal activity and the spirits are believed to pass through from there at will. Nowadays the inn hosts tours for those interested in creating a contact with other-worldly. Visitors are said to have been sick, pushed and even scratched while alone inside the inn. The ancient Ram’s inn has featured in several tv shows, most famous of them being the ghost adventures.

Whether one believes in the paranormal or not, those who have visited or stayed in the inn agree that there is something terribly wrong with that place.

Pocatello high school (Idaho)

Pocatello is one of the largest cities in Idaho with a rich history. In the early 19th century traders moved to the region in numbers because of the riches of the region. During the 1860s after the gold rush even more and more people started settling in Pocatello. In the later years people who had permanently settled there turned to agriculture. Because of its history Pocatello is considered to be one of the most haunted cities in the whole of the USA.

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One of the most haunted locations in Pocatello is the Pocatello high school.
This school was built in 1892 and was one of the most majestic buildings of that time occasionally hosting concerts and athletic events. The school was completely burnt down in 1914 due to a fire in the boiler room and was rebuilt again.

Taken from- Idaho State University blog

The paranormal activity was first reported at the school in the 1940s. There is a story about two girls who made a suicide pact. One girl hung herself while the other girl backed out. The spirit of that girl was sighted by many people after that and sometimes people have an encounter with the spirit even to this day. After her death, people would smell her favourite perfume out of nowhere, other hauntings include a piano being played at night when no one is inside the school, apparitions seen standing looking at people through the library window when people are standing outside and from outside of the library window when people are standing inside. People believe the apparition to be the spirit of a young boy that died after drowning in the school’s swimming pool. The staff would hear continuous whispering inside the building even at night when nobody should have been inside the building.

Nearly everybody at the school knows about it being haunted. The staff and the students all agree that there’s something off about the building. Toilets randomly flush, doors mysteriously close, and some have reported either seeing or feeling the presence of an apparition.

However, there came a lot more evidence for those who were still skeptical about the hauntings. In 2014,a video was captured by the school’s security camera in which a dark mass can be seen walking in the school towards the bathroom. The video went viral and paranormal investigators believe that the video is one of the most authentic pieces of evidence proving the existence of the supernatural.

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Pocatello high school ghost