Category: Origins

Halloween & Haunted Houses

Haunted Hydro

Located in a former 1910 hydroelectric power plant, it is known for being a one-of-a-kind haunted house.

The attraction is housed within an old hydro plant in Fremont, Ohio. In 2019, the original owners of 30 years put the 6.5-acre property up for sale before it was taken over by new management.

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn

  • Blicking Hall

  • The story goes that Anne’s ghost rides up to Blickling Hall in a coach driven by a headless horseman on the night of her death anniversary
    She is dressed in white and carrying her own severed head.

 

Tower Of London

  • Anne’s ghost is said to haunt the site of her execution on Tower Green. 

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.