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and none are more chilling than those that occur in a home.
What's usually a place of safety for a family,
sometimes turns into a horror story
but when murder is involved,
sometimes the spirits of the dead have unfinished business.
Here are the 10 most haunted homes
with disturbing backstories.
Number one is the Villisca Axe Murder House.
The Villisca Axe Murder House in Villisca, Iowa
got its name when it became the site
of a brutal murder on June 9th, 1912.
In the early morning hours, Josiah Moore and his wife Sarah,
their four children and two of their children's friends,
were all bludgeoned to death in their beds.
Since those events, those who studied the house
have noticed odd phenomenon such as falling lamps,
flying objects and mysterious voices causing many to believe
that the Moore family are still haunting it.
The house has since become a tourist attraction
at $10 per adult and $5 per child,
you too can walk through this house of horrors
in hopes of spotting a real ghost.
However, if you have $428 to spare,
you and five brave souls can spend the night.
Just don't follow the sound
of giggling children into the cellar.
Number two is the Sallie House.
From the outside, this simple white house
in Atchison, Kansas, looks innocent
but inside, a different story is told.
Built in the mid-1800s, the house has had many owners
who have all experienced strange phenomenon.
There have been reports of flying objects,
disembodied voices and burnt finger marks
on candles just to name a few.
Some owners have even reported ghosts or spirits
of some kind leaving scratches and burn marks on them,
quickly turning them into former tenants.
Numerous paranormal investigators
and psychics have investigated the house over the years,
revealing EVP recordings from what sounds like a child.
This led to the belief that a young girl
is still haunting the house.
That young girl is Sallie,
the daughter of one of the original owners
who died in the house during an appendicitis surgery.
Between the recordings and more that was revealed
in a documentary in the 1990s,
it's not surprising that the Sallie House
is considered the most haunted house in Kansas.
Number three is Blickling Hall.
Blickling Hall is an estate located in Norfolk, England
and also happens to be considered
the most haunted home in the country.
Blickling Hall is believed to have a famous permanent guest,
Anne Boleyn, the former Queen of England.
People have reported seeing an effigy of the former Queen
every night on the anniversary of her execution.
She was beheaded on May 19th, 1536,
after her husband, King Henry VIII,
accused her of being unfaithful
when it was later discovered he just wanted to divorce her
since she wasn't able to bear him a son.
Today, you can visit the mansion and even spend the night
and do some ghost-hunting of your own
and who knows, the lady of the house might just grace you
with her presence, just watch your head.
Number four is Akershus Castle.
Built in the early 1300s, Akershus Castle
in Oslo, Norway was designed as a fortress,
to protect the city from invading armies
and was also used as a prison.
Over the centuries, many people were executed
within its walls, especially over the course
of World War I and World War II.
Both staff and guests alike, have claimed
to have heard whispers in dark corridors,
screams and rattling chains at night, as well as experienced
strange, invisible forces pushing them.
The castle is said to be haunted by the ghosts
of a number of prisoners who were executed there
as well as the ghosts of guards, so dedicated,
that they had never left their posts.
There are even some non-human ghostly residents
including a black dog named Malcanisen
who is said to roam the grounds as well as a horse
that can be heard trotting near the front entrance.
Legend has it that anyone who actually sees the horse
will die before the end of the year.
Visit at your own risk.
Number five is the Amityville House.
On Ocean Avenue in Amityville, Long Island, New York
is a house that's become a pop culture icon
over the last three decades but not for happy reasons.
On November 13th, 1974, 23 year old Ronald Defeo Jr.,
shot and killed his mother, his father
and his four younger siblings.
He was arrested and claimed he murdered them
because he heard voices plotting against him.
One year later, the Lutz family moved in
but fled after only 28 days,
leaving all of their possessions behind.
They claimed that they had been terrorized
by paranormal phenomenon during their stay,
including moving furniture, disembodied voices
and strange noises every night at exactly 3:15am,
which was the exact time that the murders had occurred.
They tried having the house blessed multiple times
but without any luck.
The Lutzes always maintained that they were telling
the truth despite opposition from skeptics
and even took a lie detector test,
which they all passed.
The houses are still there today
with a new address but the same evil within.
Number six is the Whaley House.
In 1856, businessman Thomas Whaley
built his family a home in San Diego, California
on land that had been a graveyard
and a spot for public executions.
His youngest daughter, Lillian, regularly claimed
that she heard the sounds of boots throughout the house
and believed it to be the ghost of Jim Robinson
who had been hanged on the property
before the house was built.
It seemed like the house was doomed from the start
as his other daughter, Violet, committed suicide there
in 1885, after being humiliated when her husband
turned out to be a con artist and left her.
There have been countless sightings of spirits
roaming the house since the family moved out
and due to reports of the paranormal,
nobody chose to live there
and it was instead converted into a museum.
Thomas' ghost is regularly spotted
at the top of the staircase while his wife, Anna,
can usually be found downstairs or in the garden.
There have also been reports of the smell of perfume
and cigar smoke, seemingly coming from nowhere.
Even TV legend Regis Philbin once claimed
he saw the ghost of Anna Whaley there.
He also claimed that he would never go back.
Number seven is the Borley Rectory.
Built in 1862 in Sudbury, England, the Borley Rectory
was home to several families over the years.
All of them claimed to experience strange sounds,
spirit sightings, moving objects
and messages written on the walls.
The mansion was originally built
for the Borley Church Parish priest and his family
who were first to report hearing mysterious footsteps
and to see the ghosts of nuns and headless horsemen.
After years of some pretty intense hauntings,
the house was left vacant until 1937
when Harry Price, a paranormal researcher,
who had been investigating the home,
moved in for a whole year.
During his time there, a spirit apparently warned him
that the mansion would burn to the ground
and the remains of a nun
who had been murdered there would be found.
Sure enough, in 1939, a new resident
accidentally caused a fire and in the cellar,
the bones of a young woman was discovered.
Whether or not they were actually the remains
of a nun remains unknown but once the house was destroyed,
and the bones given a proper burial,
the reports of hauntings ended.
Number eight is Rose Hall.
Located in Montego Bay, Jamaica,
the ghostly tales that surround Rose Hall
still frighten local children.
Built in 1770, this former sugar cane plantation
was the home of John and Annie Palmer.
Legend has it that Annie was born in Haiti
to English-Irish parents who died of typhoid fever
when she was only 10 years old.
She was then raised by a nanny
who taught her voodoo and witchcraft.
Shortly after, she murdered her husband John
and took over Rose Hall before killing
another three husbands and countless slaves,
many of which she was having affairs with.
She eventually met a grisly end
when she was murdered by one of her slaves in retaliation.
As her reputation as a murder happy voodoo lady spread,
she became known as the White Witch.
The spirits of many of her victims
are said to still haunt the grounds
along with Annie, who is often called forth during seances.
In 1965, the house turned into a museum and to this day,
guests and staff alike report hearing slammed doors
and the screams of men throughout the halls.
Number nine is Chaonei No. 81.
This three story house in Beijin, China
has been left abandoned for years and for good reason.
The origins of the house are a bit of a mystery
but most believe hauntings began in the last 1940s.
In 1949, a woman hung herself from the rafters
and has been reported to have haunted the house ever since.
During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s,
the Government's Red Guards, a ruthless militant army,
were stationed at the house
but they barely lasted a few days before leaving in fear.
There have also been stories of people going inside
to explore, only to disappear, never to be seen again.
The house has been vacant for years
and even locals won't go inside
but there are still some brave folks
who break in, hoping to get a glimpse of a ghost.
You can do it too, if you're brave enough.
And number 10 is the LaLaurie House.
Built in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1800s,
this French Quarter mansion was home to one of America's
worst serial killers, Madame Delphine LaLaurie.
LaLaurie was a respected socialite but behind closed doors,
she was an evil and sadistic murderer.
She was known for keeping slaves,
which was common then, but she would also starve them,
torture them, and also kill them.
She even chased one of the slave's children with a whip
onto the roof, where the child fell to her death.
In 1834, after a fire was started by one of the slaves,
authorities found a number of slaves
hidden, starving and chained up.
Over the years, the house has been bought
and sold many times due to residents being scared
of the bumps they hear in the night.
There have even been reports of the sound
of shuffling feet and moaning throughout the house
and just stepping inside
can cause intense feelings of dread.
The mansion has since been converted
into a high-end apartment building
but recently one of LaLaurie's hidden graveyards
was found under the floorboards of one of the apartments.
Enjoy your time there.
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