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Story Of Haunted Monte Cristo Homestead, Australia

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If it is a Victorian manor, mob boss home, inner city cottage or other luxury residences they all have a spooky past which still make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. For the people who like a bit of a fright, or even the open minded non-believers, there are a number of haunted houses across NSW to test your nerve. The most well-known eerie spot is the Monte Cristo Homestead in Junee, which has had a ghost tour running for more than 10 years. The manor’s long and dark history includes a stable boy who was killed from his injuries after having his mattress set on fire when he called in sick for work; a mentally handicapped boy being chained to the cottage for 30 years; or the ever lingering spirit of Mrs Crawley, whose husband built the home in 1880s. “We don’t have a week go by without someone having a reaction to the house by either fainting, asthma attacks, hearing things or seeing full body apparitions,” Lawrence Ryan, whose family own the house and run the gho...
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Story Of Haunted Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, West Virginia

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Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, previously known as The Weston State Hospital, or the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane would be intimidating even without the ghosts. Its monumental main structure, the largest hand-cut stone masonry building in North America, divides 242,000 square feet over four floors, is a staggering 1,296 ft long, and is outfitted with 921 windows and 906 doors. A 200-foot tall clock tower stretches up from the center like a hand reaching to God. The walls are two-and-a-half feet thick, dense enough to muffle the screams of even the most tormented soul, alive or dead. Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum In the wake of a reformist wave propelled across the land by remarkable mental health crusader Dorothea Dix, the Virginia General Assembly allocated the princely sum of $125,000 to build the T rans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum  in the early 1850s, purchasing 269 acres along the West Fork River opposite downtown Weston. Dr. Thomas Kirkbride, whose thi...
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Location: 71 Asylum Dr, Weston, WV 26452, USA
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Story Of Haunted LaLaurie Mansion, New Orleans, Louisiana

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IS THIS HOUSE WHERE SLAVES WERE TORTURED AT THE HANDS OF DELPHINE LALAURIE? If you've read anything about the ghosts and hauntings in New Orleans, there's no doubt that you've heard about the LaLaurie Mansion. It is one of the most popular stops on our  New Orleans Ghost Tours . Sometimes, people in the city won't even call it that, choosing to refer to 1140 Royal Street as "the Haunted House" instead. Fact is, in New Orleans the two are one and the same. Shows like American Horror Story have made an already infamous location that much more notorious. (Spoiler: be warned that producers took great creative liberties, as Hollywood tends to do.) The majority of filming was done at the Hermann-Grima House on St. Louis Street--probably for the best, honestly, as the mansion is rumored to be cursed. So, why are so many people intrigued by the LaLaurie Mansion? Why is it that on any given night people can be spotted standing around snapping photos of the buil...
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Location: 1140 Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70116, USA
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