Historical American Horror
Some of the scariest places in America reviewed.
An hour outside Denver in Estes, Colorado you can find one of the scariest hotels in American history, The Stanley Hotel. The real life hotel was the basis for Steven King’s “The Shining.”
After a very interesting stay in the hotel King decided to write his third book based upon his experience. The hotel was built by F.O. Stanley, the designer of the “Stanley Steam” engines. There are numerous reports that he and his wife still room the hotel, where he frequents the front desk and she can be heard playing the piano in the lobby. There have been thousands of reports of children playing in the fourth floor hall, even when no children are in the hotel.
A visit Decatur, Illinois will bring you to the Lincoln Theatre, considered the most haunted theatre in America.
The Lincoln was built in the 1916 in classic horror film style, on top of a Native American burial ground. Worse yet, the site was built over the scene of a large hotel fire only a year before the theatre opened. Here many people report seeing people across the open auditorium, which has long been closed for safety reasons. behind the stage people believe the have been followed up a spiral staircase. Literally hundreds of accounts of unexplained incidents make the Lincoln the most haunted theatre in America.
The scariest real haunted house in America can be found in a small Iowa town called Villisca. Here the fomre home of J. Moore is simply know as “The Villisca Axe Murder House”.
The Moores came home from a church function with two house guests in June, 1912. Somewhere between midnight and 5am, J.Moore, his wife, their four children and the two house guest were brutally axe murdered by unknown assailants believed to have been hiding in the attic. All 8 were found dead the next morning. The case was never solved. The house was bought in 1994, and restored to the historical state of the 1912 axe murders. The owners here say they constantly find childrens rubber ball rolling in the hall, and though they remove them they always come back. The door opening to the hall opens and closes by itself, usually around dinner time.
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Yovita Siswati
On January 12, 2009 at 2:56 am
really scarry!
denus
On January 12, 2009 at 3:44 am
thye lloook creeeeeepy!
cheers,
denus
Patrick Bernauw
On January 12, 2009 at 7:56 am
“The Shining”, both the book and the film, is one of my All Time Favorites!
Poetic Angel
On January 12, 2009 at 8:08 am
Ok, I think I pretty much imagined these while reading, very scary. I haven’t heard of that Stephen King’s book. I was in Denver in 07 but I doubt I would have wanted to go visit that hotel. I probably would be like I want to check it out then say no that’s ok. lol. I don’t think I should have read this article but then again it only have one hotel in it. I said this because I pratically live in hotels and the thought of a scary hotel freaks me out.lol. I stayed at a Days Inn before and was hearing little noises at night and was like am I trippin or is it just that I’m wide awake, and laying down and maybe that’s why I can hear every sound of anything and would tell myslef ok, you need to go to sleep. The sounds seemed to be coming from inside the wall like maybe a rat or something in the wall, I don’t know, but I don’t want to hear anything, thats not people or normal sounds or usual.esp. at night.lol.
Tina Smith
On January 27, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Did you also know TAPPS investigated the Stanly Hotel, and found it to be haunted as well, check out the Ghost Hunters every wed, night on the SCFI channel, this was a great artical, keep up the good work!!
Lyz(+_+)ma
On January 30, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Hopefully one day I will be able to visit those places! I am addicted to haunted houses and places.I recently visited a couple of haunted places at Gettysburg , very interesting! Wish i had seen something supernatural but just being able to spend time in a place so rich with history is worth the trip! Thanks for the article, because of it i now have one more place to visit on my list
AAA1
On February 17, 2009 at 5:09 am
Not bad
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