07/22/13

Ghost Picture of the Day: Hull House Horror

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A tourist snapped this photo at Chicago’s infamous Hull House. Founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, the Hull House was a settlement home for recent European immigrants and is now reportedly haunted by a number of ghosts. Some say the home also  harbored a “devil child,” though the story is just a rumor.

See also: “Paranormal Activity at the Pride House

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08/7/12

Creepy Photo of the Day: The Faces at the Door

Ghost faces behind screen door, Chicago, IL

This well-known photo from Chicago, IL shows a mother and child smiling for the camera while two eerie faces look on from inside the screen door. Are they truly faces or just a trick of shadow and light?

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06/28/12

Reader Submissions: 4 True Ghost Stories to Keep You Up at Night

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Here are four more true ghost stories submitted from Ghost And Ghouls’ readers. We’ve got a haunted water tower, a haunted duplex, and two spirits that wander quiet homes in the dead of night.

 The Haunted Apartment

“I once lived in an apartment that I am sure was haunted. I lived on an end apartment in a row of duplexes. It was actually my next door neighbor, a senior citizen, who came and told me she thought there was a ghost there. The ghost made noises that were completely unexplainable, that were so loud she could hear them too. It got so bad she had her son come and stay with her. (He was an ex-con, 6’2″, big, tough, and scary himself).

One morning, after a very bad night with the noises, he came over to actually check if I was okay. He was literally as white as a sheet and scared badly. He said he couldn’t take it anymore and his mother was too scared. They moved within a month.

I stayed and it got so bad I actually put my toddler son in the room with me at night. He would keep saying he saw someone coming out of the closet. Every time I would go in his room, I swear I would always see something black, out of the corner of my eye around his closet.

I felt it was beginning to affect us both, physically and mentally. Every time you would walk into the apartment it felt as if something was very wrong. We finally moved. I have since noticed that no one lives in that apartment for very long. I never really believed in ghosts until I lived there.”

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