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Everyone loves a good scary story every once in awhile, and even better when those scary stories are true. They may be a bit embellished for dramatic effect, but these life haunted houses either have a creepy story behind them, or continue to have ghosts to this day…
1. Villisca Ax Marauder House
(Villisca, Iowa)
In 1912 an entire family of two adults and six children were murdered in their home. According to many, the ghosts of the murdered family never left. Voices and footsteps have been heard, and apparitions have been seen. The house is open for daytime tours and it is even possible to book for an overnighter! So that’s creepy!
2. William Kehoe House
(Savannah, Georgia)
At one point in time, the Kehoe family owned this home and never seemed to have left. Used as a school, then a funeral home, it is now run as a historic inn. Apparently all of the members of the former family can be seen from time to time going about their business as if it was still their home.
3. Lizzie Borden House
(Fall River, Massachusetts)
Lizzie Borden’s parents were brutally murdered, chopped forty times with an axe. Lizzie was suspected of the murders which were never solved. Now her ghost can be seen and heard laughing and the ghosts of her parents have also been seen, as well as a maid asking for help.
4. Manresa Castle
(Port Townsend, Washington State)
The Manresa Hotel was a former residence as well as a Jesuit school until strange things started to happen throughout the entire home. Lights spontaneously turn on and off. On the third floor there is a woman ghost who often rifles through the belongings of guests. She has also been heard singing in the bathroom of room 306.
5. Ann Starrett Mansion
(Port Townsend, Washington State)
Haunted not by the former owners of the home, but by their nanny, who is known to knock people on the head for saying something offensive. The rest of the time she turns lights off, turns the pages of books, and sometimes knocks photos off the walls.
6. Morris-Jumel Mansion
(New York City, New York)
The mansion is so full of paranormal activity that one guest literally had a heart attack after seeing a ghost, and another fainted. The house was very active during the Revolutionary War, even George Washington stayed there.
7. The Sallie House
(Atchison, Kansas 1990)
When a family moved into the home the ghost of a middle aged woman appeared to violently have it in for the male owner. She reportedly not only moved things around but scratched the man to the point of bleeding and even shoved him so hard that he almost went over the second floor railing finally sending the family running for their lives.
8. LaLaurie House
(New Orleans, Louisiana 1831)
Marie Delphine LaLaurie and her husband apparently had a flair for the sadistic. Madame LaLaurie cruelly tortured her slaves there until one of them started a fire that led to the chained up slaves being discovered. Screams are often heard, and some people have reported being attacked by the Madame herself.
9. Ferry Plantation House
(Virginia Beach, Virginia 1642)
Back when it was a ferry crossing there was a fatal shipwreck, and supposedly 11 different ghosts now haunt the house. Some of the passengers some past owners, and a couple slaves who lived there at points throughout its history.
10. Lemp Mansion
(St. Louis, Missouri)
No less than four members of the Lemp family committed suicide there, and even more people just happened to die there. The building is now a hotel and people not only report occurrences like knocking on doors and footsteps, but also seeing the ghost of a boy with a mental disability asking people to play with him.
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