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Haunted sites, anomalous zones, places with a reputation, and placed fiction.

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Folklore
The Blarney Stone
A limestone block set into the battlements at Blarney Castle near Cork, Ireland, which visitors kiss in the belief that it gives them a gift for persuasive speech.
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Folklore
The Boyington Oak
Charles Boyington was hanged on 20 February 1835 for the murder of his roommate Frost. Before his death he said an oak would grow from his grave as proof of his innocence.
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Disputed
The Bélmez faces
María Gómez Cámara said that on 23 August 1971 a human face formed on the concrete floor of her kitchen in Bélmez. More faces followed.
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Folklore
The Cecil Hotel
A downtown Los Angeles hotel known above all for the 2013 death of guest Elisa Lam, which the coroner ruled an accidental drowning.
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Folklore
The Cocoanut Grove fire and its ghost stories
The Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston on 28 November 1942 killed 492 people. Later ghost stories about the site are told as local legend.
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Claimed sighting
The Conjuring House
A farmhouse outside Burrillville, Rhode Island, where the Perron family said they lived with apparitions and physical attacks from 1970 or 1971. Ed and Lorraine Warren's investigation of it became the basis for the film The Conjuring.
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Folklore
The Culloden anniversary ghosts
The Battle of Culloden was fought on 16 April 1746 on Culloden Moor, and press accounts say reenacting ghosts gather there each anniversary. Reports also describe a Highlander who whispers "defeated".
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Folklore
The Devil Baby of Hull-House
A rumour of a hoofed, tailed, talking Devil Baby that brought crowds of women to Hull-House in Chicago, recorded by Jane Addams in her 1916 book The Long Road of Woman's Memory.
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Claimed sighting
The Diplomat Hotel, Baguio
A former Dominican retreat house on Dominican Hill in Baguio City, known as the Diplomat Hotel, which paranormal believers say is haunted because of its Second World War history.
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Folklore
The Dragon's Triangle (Devil's Sea)
A supposed danger zone near Japan, also called the Devil's Sea, promoted by the writer Berlitz in his 1989 book The Dragon's Triangle. Larry Kusche traced the legend to a 1955 New York Times article and found nothing unusual behind the losses.
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Disputed
The Dyatlov Pass incident
Nine experienced ski hikers lost their lives in the northern Ural Mountains in early February 1959. In 2020 a Russian prosecutor announced that an avalanche caused the deaths, though Kommersant reported that his statements had not been agreed with the Prosecutor General's Office.
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Folklore
The Exorcist house
A house in Bel-Nor, a suburb of St. Louis, widely said to be where a boy's exorcism began. Mount Rainier has a competing local story, and Opsasnick places the boy's home in Cottage City.
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Folklore
The German Girl of Pulau Ubin
A shrine on Pulau Ubin, Singapore, to a German girl said to have died in a quarry in August 1914; William L. Gibson found no evidence her family lived on the island and traced the story to a man named Chia, first in print in 1987.
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Claimed sighting
The Gettysburg hauntings
Ghost stories told about Gettysburg, where Union and Confederate armies fought for three days in July 1863, and the ghost-tour trade built on them.
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Claimed sighting
The Hellfire Caves
Chalk tunnels at West Wycombe that Sir Francis Dashwood had dug, which tradition links to the Hell Fire Club. A local legend says a ghost called Sukie haunts them.
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Claimed sighting
The Hessdalen lights
Lights reported over a 12-kilometre section of Norway's Hessdalen valley, in the rural centre of the country. Sightings peaked between 1981 and 1985.
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Claimed sighting
The Hollywood Sign and Peg Entwistle
The Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles, where British actress Peg Entwistle died by suicide in 1932. Hikers and others have since said they saw her ghost near it.
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Folklore
The Island of the Dolls
A small island in the Xochimilco canals just outside Mexico City where Julian Santana Barrera hung dolls by the hundreds. Many people say it is haunted.
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Folklore
The KiMo Theatre ghost
A ghost story told about the KiMo Theatre on Central Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico, built around a six-year-old boy who died there in a 1951 explosion.
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Folklore
The Molebka anomalous zone
An area near the village of Molyobka in Perm Krai, Russia, built up by the tabloid press in 1989 and 1990. Ufologists say paranormal events happen there and visitors can make contact with aliens.
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Folklore
The Moran gang garage shooting, Chicago
Seven men were shot dead in a Chicago garage on 14 February 1929. After the building came down in 1967, stories grew up around its bricks.
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Disputed
The Naga fireballs of the Mekong
The Naga fireballs are glowing balls said to rise from the Mekong River, between Thailand and Laos, on the night Buddhist Lent ends. Many believers hold them sacred, and they draw tourists every year.
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Folklore
The Nazca Lines
The Nazca Lines are huge figures and lines scratched into the desert of southern Peru by pre-Inca people, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Archaeologists tie them to ritual and pilgrimage; Wikipedia says Joe Nickell refuted Erich von Däniken's ancient-astronaut claim by reproducing figures.
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Folklore
The Palatine Light of Block Island
A ship carrying emigrants from Rotterdam wrecked on Block Island, Rhode Island, in December 1738. A ghost-ship legend grew from the wreck, and tellers say a burning ship appears each year.
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Claimed sighting
The Sallie House
A house in Atchison, Kansas, where tenants Tony and Debra Pickman reported strange events after moving in during 1993. A local story links it to a 6-year-old girl called Sallie.
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Claimed sighting
The Stanley Hotel
A hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, opened in 1909, where guests say they sense a former housekeeper in room 217. Mental Floss ties a 1974 night Stephen King spent there to The Shining.
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Claimed sighting
The Stratford knockings
From 10 March 1850, the house of Eliakim Phelps in Stratford, Connecticut, was the scene of disturbances that his family reported for eight months.
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Claimed sighting
The Sunnyvale Toys "R" Us ghost
A Toys "R" Us store in Sunnyvale, California, where staff told of items flying off shelves and taps running on their own. Psychic Sylvia Browne said she contacted a farmhand's ghost there.
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Disputed
The Syderstone Parsonage knockings
Knocking in the dead of night at Syderstone Parsonage, home of the Rev. Mr. Stewart, grew so violent over six weeks that one servant left in terror.
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Claimed sighting
The Tower of London ghosts
Ghost reports from the Tower of London, centred on the Jewel House, where the Keeper of the Crown Jewels described an apparition in 1817 and a sentry is said to have died after seeing a bear-like figure.
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Disputed
The Wem farm disturbances
At the Woods, a farm near Wem in Shropshire, in November 1883, a pan of eggs leapt off the fire, crockery smashed and clothes caught fire.
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Folklore
The White Lady of Balete Drive
A woman in white said to appear to drivers on Balete Drive in Metro Manila. Accounts date the first stories to 1949 or 1952, and where the story began is disputed.
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Disputed
The birds of Jatinga
A village in Assam where birds fly into the lights on dark autumn nights and many die. The place is called a bird suicide spot; ornithologists offer other explanations.
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Folklore
The burning of Lady Glamis
Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis, died by burning for treason on Castle Hill, Edinburgh, on 17 July 1537. A ghost tradition at Glamis Castle links her name to a Black Lady.
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Folklore
The death of Blackbeard at Ocracoke
The pirate Blackbeard was killed at Ocracoke Inlet on 22 November 1718. Legend says his headless body swam around the ship.
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Folklore
The demon-fires of Dan-no-ura
On dark nights pale lights drift over the beach and the sea at Dan-no-ura, and the fishermen call them demon-fires. When the wind rises, a noise like battle comes off the water.
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Folklore
The disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst
British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst vanished at Perleberg on 25 November 1809 while changing horses on the road between Berlin and Hamburg.
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Folklore
The ghosts of Bloody Meadow, Tewkesbury
Tewkesbury's battle took place on 4 May 1471. Local stories place ghosts around the battlefield, the abbey and a pub.
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Religious tradition
The jinn of Feroz Shah Kotla
At a ruined fort in Delhi, visitors write letters to the jinn believed to live there, and a crowd gathers every Thursday.
Provenance · Living tradition
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Folklore
The mujina of Kii-no-kuni-zaka
A man tries to comfort a young woman weeping near Kii-no-kuni-zaka hill and finds she has no eyes, nose or mouth. Lafcadio Hearn puts it down to a mujina.
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Folklore
The wreck of the SS Valencia
The passenger liner SS Valencia grounded on a reef off Vancouver Island's southwest coast on 22 January 1906, and scores of people drowned.
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Folklore
Wadi al-Jinn
Wadi al-Baida, known as Wadi al-Jinn, is a valley in al-Baida Park about 30 km northwest of Medina, Saudi Arabia, where cars left out of gear seem to roll uphill. Many people credit jinn, Arab News reported; Wikipedia calls it an optical illusion.
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Claimed sighting
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
A former tuberculosis hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, now run as a tour site that offers history tours alongside paranormal tours and ghost investigations.
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Folklore
Winchester Mystery House
Sarah Winchester's house, the subject of lasting stories that she believed in Spiritualism and consulted mediums. Her biographer found no record of a seance, and a later researcher found no evidence she had consulted a medium.
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