Category: Ghosts

First Serial Killer Of Ohio

Return Jonathon Meigs Ward

Serial Killer | A person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior patter. Must have three kills or more to be considered a serial killer.

“I had been very careful to burn all the bones till they would crumble in the hand, and then put them in my coat pocket and distributed them in the fields, or threw them in the creek.

Abandoned Cemeteries

Prospect Hill Cemetery/Cheesman Park

Location | Downing ST, York ST, Colfax AVE, 8th AVE | Denver, Colorado

Founded | 1875
Current State | Abandoned, Currently Cheesman Park

 

In the late 19th century, the land that is now Cheesman Park was Prospect Hill Cemetery, which also included the land that is now the Denver Botanical Garden and Congress Park further east.

Gibbs Bridge

Haunted Bridges

Tower Bridge/Dead Mans Hole

Constructed 1894 | London Dead Man’s Hole actually refers to a mortuary that at one time was housed beneath the north tower of the bridge.

 

As you’ll probably be aware, the Thames is tidal, and for one reason or another, corpses that found their way in to the river; either suicide, by accident or dumped, those executed at the Tower of London, only a stone’s throw away, were also transferred to Dead Man’s Hole. 

Origins of Bloody Mary

What is Bloody Mary?

The participant enters a darkened room with a lit candle. She or he looks into a mirror while chanting Bloody Mary's name or a phrase a specific number of times. If the ritual is performed correctly, Bloody Mary might either appear in the mirror, reach out of the mirror and scratch the participant's face, or be released from the afterlife to haunt him or her forever.