Ships, mansions, old unfinished houses and even airplanes! If you believe in ghosts and spirits, you know they’re everywhere. And now, here’s 5 of the most haunted locations in the world. These locations contains the most troublesome, widely reported and fearsome spirits that have scared a lot of people for years and centuries.

Some of these places seem to have links with people who have died or with traumatic events. While the other locations doesn’t have obvious reasons why disturbances from the other side occurs there.

5.Winchester Mansion

Located in San Jose, California, the Winchester Mansion was owned by William Winchester, famed as creator of rifles. William Winchester was married to Sarah Pardee an September 30, 1862. And on July 25, 1866, she gave birth to a daughter whom they named Annie Pardee Winchester. But after a while, her daughter contracted an illness known as “murasmus”, a children’s disease in which the body wastes away. Annie Died in July 24. Not long after that, William got struck by Pulmonary Tuberculosis and died on March 7, 1881 leaving Sarah with $20,000,000 and shares with the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.

Sarah grieved deeply for her husband and lost child that she went to a psychic. The psychic told her that the disasters that had fallen her is a curse. A curse that has been set to her family because of the rifles that her husband made and the ghosts of the people that died from the rifles are the ones who killed her husband and child. The psychic also told her that to be able to protect herself, she must build a home for her and for the spirits and that she must continue building and never stop building or else, she dies. The psychic also told her that she must confuse the spirits so that they will not find her.

Sarah began the construction immediately and for 38 years, 24 hrs a day, the construction was never ending until she died on September 5, 1922.

The mansion today has an estimated 160 rooms, 10,000 windows, 3 elevators, 47 fireplaces and 47 bathrooms. It also has stairways that crisscross one another, some leading nowhere or to the ceiling, trap doors, hidden chimneys, doors that open to brick walls and doors that open to a four storey drop.

The visitors and tour guides of the mansion frequently reports footsteps, the famous cold spots and banging of doors. They also believe that even the ghost of Sarah Winchester herself haunts the mansion.

4. The Belmez faces

In August 23, 1971 an unexplained paranormal phenomenon occurred in the small village called Belmez in Spain particularly in the house of Maria Gomez Pereira. An image of a human face appeared suddenly at the floor of her kitchen. The image upsets her so much that she had the section of the floor removed and then re-laid with cement six days later. But another face reappeared on the same spot one week later. Of course, they wanted the image to be removed and destroyed but then, the local authorities came in, removed the cement and preserved it.

After an investigation, the authorities found out that a graveyard was once where the home is standing. The authorities began an excavation and found a number of human remains nine feet under the exact location where the faces appeared. Everyone was certain that the source of the phenomenon was discovered and remedied. But after 2 weeks, more faces of different sizes began to appear again including the faces of a man and a woman surrounded by 9-10 tiny faces.

Hundreds and thousands of spectators began lining up to see the faces. Some faces appears before the spectators eyes and disappear again after a couple of hours. Sounds of Wailing and sobbing was even recorded coming from the floor.

3. The Queen Mary

The Queen Mary was built as a revolutionary cruise ship in May 27, 1936. She served as a troopship known as “The Grey Ghost” in the British Navy during World War II before she returned as a cruise liner. And finally, in 1967 she was sold for $3.45 million to the city of Long Beach, California , to be used as a maritime museum and a luxury hotel.

The Queen Mary is popular for ghost sightings and unexplained paranormal activities.

Located 50 ft below water level is the engine room where the infamous “Door 13″ is. It is said that this door crushed at least 2 men to death during her history. The latest was during a watertight door drill in 1966 where it crushed an 18-yr old crew member. The crew member’s ghost is said to be wearing blue coveralls. The young man has often seen walking the length of Shaft Alley before disappearing by Door #13.

(the famous Door #13)

Another interestingly scary site aboard Queen Mary are the 1st and 2nd class swimming pools. In the 1st class swimming pool, ghosts of a women dressed in old fashioned bathing suits have been regularly sighted. They believe one of them is a woman who drowned there in the 1930’s and the other drowned in 1960’s. They could be seen at the pool deck walking around and sometimes at the balcony looking at the pool activities. Trails of wet footsteps have also been seen going from the deck to the changing rooms, but then again, the pools have been drained. Another sighting occurs at the 2nd class poolroom. It is a little girl named Jackie who drowned and refused to move on for they can hear her voice and her laughter.

(Queen Mary’s Pool room)

And finally, Queen Mary’s salon where visitors are entertained by the ghost of a beautiful young woman dressed in an elegant white evening gown dancing alone in the shadows in the cornerof the room.

The psychic Peter James, the former ghost tour guide, identified over 150 separate entities in the ship. This explains why the ship has very active paranormal activities.

2. Flight 401

December 29, 1972. At around 23:42 pm, Eastern Airlines Tri-star Jetliner, Flight 401 was nearing Miami Airport and the captain, Bob Loft and the flight engineer, Don Repo, were getting ready for their landing when suddenly, something went very wrong. The aircraft crashed into the Everglades. The captain died in the wreckage while Repo died the next day. The plane salvaged much of the wreckage but the undamaged parts were distributed among the similar crafts.

Since then, many crews, pilots and even passengers testifies seeing the ghosts from flight 401 especially Repo and Loft’s ghosts. The sightings are more often experienced on the planes where the salvaged parts of 401 have been installed.

Repo’s ghost is more of a hands-on kind of ghost. It doesn’t mean that he’s the kind of ghost that hurts the living… He’s concerned about the safety of the flights and he personally seen to it that everything is in good condition. Here are some of the reported sightings of repo’s ghost.

• A woman was sitting next to an Eastern Airlines pilot who looked ill so she called a stewardess. The pilot disappeared before her and others. The woman identified Repo from a photograph.
• Another woman called a stewardess because she was concerned about the unresponsive man in an Eastern Airlines uniform in the seat next to her. The man disappeared in front of both of them and several other passengers leaving the woman hysterical. When later shown a sheet of photos depicting Eastern flight engineers, she identified Repo as the officer she had seen..
• A stewardess saw a man in a flight engineer’s uniform fixing an oven. But the plane’s flight engineer insisted he hadn’t repaired it. When she saw Repo’s picture, she recognized him.
•  Stewardess Faye Merryweather saw Repo’s face looking out at her from an oven in the galley. She fetched two co-workers, one of whom had been a friend of Repo’s. He recognized him. All three heard Repo warn them to watch for fire. Later, the airplane had serious engine problems and the last leg of the flight was canceled. It was learned that the galley had been salvaged from Flight 401.
•  A flight engineer was mid-way through performing the routine pre-flight inspection when Repo appeared to him and told him he’d already done the job.
• Loft on the other hand is different from Repo. Loft simply likes to appear, talk to people and disappear. Here are some of the encounters with Loft:
•  A stewardess confronted Loft, asking him why he was on the plane because he wasn’t on the passenger list. She reported this to the Captain who walked back with her and instantly recognized Loft who vanished in front of a dozen witnesses.
•  A Captain and two flight attendants claimed to have seen and spoken to Loft before take-off and watched him vanish. This experience left the three of them totally shaken that they had cancelled the flight.
• One of the vice-presidents of Eastern Airlines spoke to a uniformed captain sitting in first class. Suddenly, he recognized Loft, at which time the apparition vanished.

The ghosts sightings of Loft And Repo seems to be proving that they mean what Repo said once to a Captain he talked to before vanishing. Repo said to the Captain that there will never be another crash and that they will not let it happen.

1. Woodchester Mansion

Originally built as a Gregorian country house called the Spring Park at the beginning of the 17th century, the Woodchester Mansion was converted by the freemason William Leigh who bought the property for £100,000 in 1845. William Leigh’s cash ran out before the mansion was finished and then later died in 1873.The mansion was never complete and was never actually lived in.

According to the legends, Sir Rupert de Lansigny, the man who inherited Spring Park after he killed his cousin, once owned the estate. Several locals have reported seeing a headless horseman who they believed to be Sir Rupert near one of the park lakes. A coffin has also been sighted floating above one of the estate’s lakes. They said that the coffin belonged to a Dominican friar who killed himself by drowning! And in 1902 a local vicar saw a strange apparition at the gates to the mansion and few years later a phantom horseman was also seen on the drive dressed in civil war clothing. But it was the Mansion itself that was the epicenter of the haunting.

The present mansion is effectively a Victorian building site. With its amazing sight of fireplaces suspended in mid-air, doorways leading nowhere and the strange undulating floor which is in fact the vaulted ceiling of the cellar below, visitors wonder why it is that the building was never finished. Some of the rooms still have the abandoned workman’s tools and equipment. During the building work there were seven deaths six from accidents and a reported murder.

The mansion has its very own chapel lit by two large stained glass windows. This chapel is said to be involved in “Satanic Rituals” during the 1890’s. There is also a small chapel on the left of the main chapel which is said to be intended for Leigh’s personal use. These two rooms are connected by an arch passageway. Guests and visitors have reported seeing stones and other bits of masonry being thrown across the chapel. On more than one occasion, the visitors of the chapel have witnessed a ghost of a small man standing in the doorway, gazing up at the two huge ornate stained glass windows, as if he is concerned for the poor state of repair, for most of the glass panels are now missing or cracked.

A number of sightings of an unknown ‘tall man’ was reported at one of the corridors of the mansion. The apparition has been seen standing at one end, beside the door leading to the laundry room. This figure doesn’t just stand in the one area, but has been seen walking along the corridor, which leads to the chapel, although he is never actually seen entering it.

These are not the only ghosts that resides in Woodchester Mansion, including these are a woman who sings in an Irish folk song at the scullery, the clock that chimes but is not working, the spirit of a young girl who is playing and running at the first floor stairs, the spirits of two men standing at the landing of the stairs, the Woodchester Park Angel, the spirits in military uniform, demonic presence, the “ragged Dwarf”, the floating head of a man in the bathroom, and a woman who attacks women in the dark.