Five Most Haunted Locations in the World

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.