Scariest Haunted Houses in U.S.
Chambers Mansion, in San Francisco, Calif., was built in 1887. The mansion's first owner Richard Chambers had two nieces who lived with him. One of them named Claudia is said to be haunting it to this day. Why? It could have something to do with her death. She reportedly died when a piece of farm equipment nearly cut her in in half.
Today the home is the Mansion Hotel. Many guests have reported strange occurrences while staying there.
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Franklin Castle
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Amity House
A family bought the home and said they experienced many supernatural events there, including slime oozing down walls, strange odors, moving furniture, swarms of flies in the dead of winter, and slamming doors.
Their accounts spawned the book, "The Amityville Horror: A True Story" and nine movies.
But what about those stories? Turns out it was a fictional story. Others who have lived in the home have not experienced any supernatural occurrences.
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Lalaurie Mansion
Stories of torture and abuse inflicted on slaves who worked in this house were reported in the 1830s. The abuser was said to be Madame Delphine LaLaurie, a socialite of great wealth and prominence in New Orleans.
Since then, reports of ghosts in the home have flooded in.
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Lizzie Borden House
Lizzie was indicted for the crime, and then acquitted by a jury. It was the trial of the century. She and her sister eventually moved to a home on French Street, and the murder home is now a bed-and-breakfast.
Andrew and Abby are said to still roam the home more than a hundred years after their deaths. Could they still be looking for justice?
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Myrtles Plantation
The house is now a bed-and-breakfast. Want to visit?
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Sprague Mansion
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Stranan House
When Stranan's prosperous businesses were devastated by a hurricane and the Great Depression, he committed suicide by strapping himself to an iron gate and throwing himself into New River. Some say they've seen him, his wife and a servant walking the home's grounds.
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The White House
Abigail Adams, wife of second president John Adams, is considered to be the "oldest" ghost in the White House. She's been spotted hanging her laundry in the East Room of the house.
President Abraham Lincoln is also said to be a spirit inhabiting the house. According to some reports, many former presidents, residents and heads of state, including British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, have seen Lincoln or felt his presence throughout the White House. The queen fainted at the sight of him.
Other notable ghosts include Dolley Madison, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson and William Henry Harrison.
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Whaley House
After moving in, he heard the heavy footsteps "by the boots of a large man." Whaley reportedly said it was Yankee Jim.
Tragedies also mark the home's history. The Whaleys' second child, Thomas, Jr, died at 18 months of scarlet fever and their fifth child, Violet, committed suicide in 1885.
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Winchester House
Winchester held nightly seances to gain guidance from spirits and her dead husband for the home's design.
The home was constructed like a maze, with twisting hallways, dead-ends, and secret panels, all to ward off and confuse evil spirits. But did it really invite some in?
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Jennie Wade House
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