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Anyone interested in ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night will appreciate the following five haunted locations around the world. All are readily visitable and spooky to boot. Probably all the legends should be taken with a great big pinch of salt, but it would be fun to visit anyway.
We head to Australia to visit The Haunted Bookshop, avoid touching a haunted pillar in Augusta, USA, stay in a guest house where the devil got married, stroll on Haunted Lane or visit Halcyon House, considered to be the most haunted in Washington, DC. Happy haunted travels!
The Haunted Bookshop, 15 Mackillop Street Melbourne, Australia
While the bookshop itself isn’t haunted, it is full of obscure and occult books on topics such as witchcraft, magic, Satanism, tarot, vampires, ghosts and aliens. Also the owner of the shop, Drew Sinton, is the host of “Haunted Australia” on Foxtel TV and has been organising ghost tours in Melbourne for 20 years. He has also researched ghosts in Australia for more than 30 years.
The Haunted Pillar, 5th and Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia, USA
A farmer’s market once stood here in the 1800s. Legend says a street preacher, who had been banned from preaching in front of the market, swore the building would one day be destroyed by great winds. This would leave only one pillar standing. To make things eerier, he said anyone that touched the pillar would die. As it happened the market was, indeed, destroyed by a tornado, leaving nothing but the pillar. The pillar was destroyed in December 2016 by a car crash, but it will be rebuilt.
Haunted Guest House, Rataskaevu 16, Tallinn, Estonia
According to legend, the landlord at the Old House Guest House fell on hard times. He rented the entire house to a cloaked stranger for just one night, with the condition of complete privacy. Legend says someone peeped through the keyhole into a room on the third floor where a party was being held. The next day that person was found to be grey-haired and pale. As he died, the Peeping Tom said he saw the Devil getting married.
Haunted Lane, Bensalem, Pennsylvania, USA
In the 1800s, a family erected a two-story mansion in Bensalem but by the 1900s the house was dilapidated and deserted. According to neighbours, they heard rattling chains and other ghostly sounds coming from the house. There was also the legend of a child who drowned in a creek nearby and when her mother died, people claimed they saw her ghostly apparition in the lane, searching for her child. The town tried changing the name to Totem Road, but villagers insisted the original name stick.
Haunted Halcyon House, 3400 Prospect Street NW, Washington, DC, USA
Halcyon House was built in 1787 by America’s first Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Stoddert and has had many owners along the way, leaving their ghosts behind them. Among them was Albert Clemens, Mark Twain’s nephew, who believed by expanding the property he could somehow escape death. He built strange staircases leading nowhere, tiny rooms and secret trap doors. However, this didn’t stop him dying in 1938. The building is considered to be Washington’s most haunted house.
