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Several years ago my grandmother was traveling home to see her love for Valentine's Day on this train. She told me about the people she met on the train, many young couples. The conductor however, complained a lot and seemed to be very...
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Over the summer, I was walking along a beach in Massachusetts when I noticed an old lighthouse in the distance. The battery power on my camera was running low, so this is the only shot I snapped as I approached the structure. I didn’t...
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So, I went sailing with my family last summer around mid-July. I was bored and the scenery was beautiful so I decided to take this photo. When I got the picture enlarged I was ready to put it up on my wall until I saw what looked like the...
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My grandparents have lived on an island in the Florida Keys for many years, and for as long as I can remember they've told me the story of the guardian osprey. The fishing house in the picture is one of the oldest buildings on the island,...
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This past summer my good friends and I went on a vacation to Savannah Georgia. Savannah is beautiful old city and my friends and wanted lots of photo documentation of our trip. When I came across an old gazebo I thought it almost looked...
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My friends and I were out taking pictures to have a good time. The next day we were looking at the pictures we took from the other night; lo and behold there were creepy shadows of figures in the right upper hand corner. Spirits? or just...
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Every year, my family gets our picture taken together in front of the woods, behind our house. This past year, grandma died so this was the first picture without her. When I went to get these pictures developed, I sat in the store and...
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Two summers ago, my friends and I were wondering around the grounds of an old abandoned mental institution about 5 miles from my house. We used to go up there about once a month and go through all the old buildings and see all the old...
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I live out in the country and several of the back roads have old condemned houses along them. I've always been particularly fascinated by this one, so I decided I'd like to have a photo of it. So one day on my way home I pulled over and...
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Mount Vernon Post
Sunday, February 21, 2009
A 1979 Kentucky New Era article by Sam Hartz tells the story of nine months of strange, chilling sounds coming from the woods near Mount Vernon and the adjacent neighborhood. Former Fairfax...
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Last weekend when I was visiting my grandmother in Connecticut, I was walking around her yard and decided to take some pictures. I wandered out back to where her guest house is and took a couple black and white shots of the old house....
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My friends and I were taking a day road trip to visit some friends who go to school somewhere in the middle of nowhere Massachusetts. One of my friends had to go to the bathroom so we stopped at one of those rest areas that are...
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I took this photo back in high school when I visited some old house in Fredericksburg, VA. The house is known for its haunting appearance and creepy story. According to the tour guide for this place, a man who lived here practiced in...
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This past summer my friends and I decided to get together and have a cook out and bonfire. We chose to have it at my friend Eric’s house because he lives on top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere. He has a huge backyard, complete...
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As the story goes, every day people venture to the top of the island and watch the sunset at the highest point. As the sun sets, Ben appears in the fading light as the sun is going down. He was once a inhabitant of the island. People say...
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I don’t believe in ghosts. I’ve never believed in ghosts. Ghosts don’t exist. Ghosts will never exist. They are only products of the imagination, narratives devised to manipulate the feeble-minded masses, not so different from the...
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Last Christmas, my mom and I went to Charleston, SC for vacation. Charleston is a gorgeous city with tons of history, old legends and stories. It is also the most haunted city in America. Researching the city’s ghosts stories and legends,...
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In middle school, I usually hosted the sleepovers because I live in a subdivision known as Sleepy Hollow Woods. We would watch scary movies and stay up late and if we were really daring, we would go to the local park. This park was built...
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One late night when the moon was full in mid-November there was a home basketball game in Washington D.C.the game was the Wizards against the Cavaliers. It was the third quarter and the Cavaliers were in a twenty point lead, the score was...
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My friend Meredith and I went to my lake house over the summer, which is located on the outskirts of Lynchburg, Virginia. Meredith recently moved from Lynchburg to Houston, Texas and had never been to my lake house, so, I figured since she...
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While studying abroad in Bath, England, we made a week-long trip to Oxford to continue our studies. We stayed at Oxford University College, one of the 38 Oxford Colleges, and the oldest. We learned a little bit about the University,...
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It all started in 8th grade when my father came into my room and threw a book onto my bed entitled "The Montauk Project". Seeing the word Montauk on the cover of a book was intriguing because I just so happened to live 15 minutes away. I...
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A few weeks ago I went home to Virginia Beach to visit my parents and see my childhood home one last time before my parents retired and sold the property. I went on a walk to all of my favorite places, including the pier on the Chesapeake...
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This is one of the most ornate buildings that I have ever seen. As soon as I passed it I knew I had to take a picture of it immediately. I was with my family walking around in Boston. The building itself is located right off Boston Harbor...
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Everyone at my high school knew the story of Sarah Whitman, and it went something like this....
Sarah went to Gloucester High School back in the 1980's. She was a very gifted student and popular with her classmates. Sarah had one dream--to...
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The 1970s seemed like a perfect time to visit Japan, or so thought Nathaniel Menter. The story goes that after the end of the revolutions and movements that were so prevalent in the Psychedelic Sixties, Menter--aged 25 by the time 1972...
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I was fourteen years old and ready to take on the responsibility of a job. My mom asked her good friend, Mrs. Gembitsky, to let me babysit their little girl as a favor. To my surprise, Mrs. Gembitsky said yes! I was anxious all week to...
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Last summer I decided to visit one of my friends from Mary Washington who lives in Yorktown, Virginia. Yorktown is famous for being the location where the Revolutionary War ended by the British surrendering. One of the places that we...
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My boyfriend and I traveled down to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for winter break. We wanted to explore all the marvelous light houses that are located along the coast. The Outer Banks is nicknamed the, “graveyard of the Atlantic...
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Two years back me and my friend, Alyssa decided that on all hallows eve we would finally take the annual haunted Hope Hospital tour. Being premed and all we thought it was just fitting that we go there for Halloween. During the tour we...
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So I was studying abroad in Paris this past semester, and we frequently rode the underground metro system back and forth from many events around the city. One night we stayed out pretty late, and we were far away from where we were staying...
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After a long night of partying, Greg and his girlfriend Ashley were the last two left to clean up their house before Ashley's room mate was to return from fall break. As Greg and Ashley were cleaning up they decided to take some pictures...
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I was at my cousins house the other day and I took a picture of the new playground that she had just set up in the backyard and this is what showed up in the picture. Then I started to remember how a couple of weeks back she told me that...
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Couple days ago, I visited my best friend’s family using the weekend.
Due to the unexpectedly long snow days, and horrible road condition,
I happened to stay at her house for couple of days. For the first two
days, we followed our...
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At the Zoo in Washington D.C. it has been a very strange past couple of weeks. The Zoo's Turtles and other animals have been struggling to get any rest at night, and many Zoo-goers have been making very strange complaints. It has been...
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For as long as you live you always hear “ghost” stories. People come up with stories that are very out of the ordinary but just believable enough so that you are not sure weather to actually believe it or not. I was always one of those...
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It was a cold and sunny November afternoon when a young girl does not return for dinner. She had been sent out early on in that afternoon, as she often was, with the task of watching her two younger brothers so that her mother could...
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I was walking around London when I took this picture of a clock tower. As I walked by the clock tower, I had a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach, kind of like somebody was watching me. When I turned around I didn't find anyone,...
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