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Ouija Board · 12 min

The Board That Named Itself: A History of Spirit Boards and the Men They Destroyed

On the evening of April 25, 1890, three people sat around a table in a Baltimore boarding house and asked a piece…

Literary Ghosts · 10 min

The Locked Chest of Emily Dickinson

The Locked Chest of Emily Dickinson: Letters, Ghosts, and the Poet Who Haunted Herself By The Archivist | The Haunted Record* —…

New Orleans · 11 min

The Dark History of the LaLaurie Mansion: New Orleans’ Most Haunted House

At 1140 Royal Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter, a three-story Empire-style mansion stands behind ornate wrought-iron balconies, its pale facade unremarkable…

Massachusetts · 13 min

Dr. Minot’s Operating Room: The Real Ghosts of Concord’s Colonial Inn

The Colonial Inn sits at 48 Monument Square in Concord, Massachusetts — half a mile from the North Bridge where the first…

Massachusetts · 8 min

The Ghost Who Never Left: Jerusha Howe and the Secrets of America’s Oldest Inn

The Wayside Inn: Three Centuries of Guests, Grief, and the Ghost Who Never Left Along the Old Boston Post Road in Sudbury,…