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Urban Legends Investigated: The Dancing Mania

History is filled with strange, bizarre happenings, but perhaps none is as bizarre as the Dancing Mania. The Dancing Mania appeared at random every few centuries, only to disappear as swiftly as it had appeared, with no cause or reason and most importantly – no apparent cure. Between the 14th and 17th centuries, entire villages […]

Majanka 2 years agoJanuary 1, 2022

Articles Real Haunted Houses

Real Haunted Houses: Kenworthy Hall

Kenworthy Hall, also known as the Carlisle-Martin House, Carlisle Hall and Edward Kenworthy Carlisle House, is a plantation house built between 1858 and 1860. It has a massive four-story tower, brownstone trim, windows of varibale size and shape. It was constructed for – as the name suggests – Edward Kenworthy Carlisle, as his primary family […]

Majanka 2 years agoDecember 30, 2021

Articles Urban Legends Investigated

Urban Legends Investigated: The Burning of Bridget Cleary

Believing in the supernatural is often harmless. If you believe in ghosts, witches, or even faeries, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless that belief causes you to do the unthinkable. Fear of the unknown, belief in things we do not understand, it can cause people to do horrific things. Think about the widespread belief in […]

Majanka 2 years agoJanuary 1, 2022

Articles Real Haunted Houses

Real Haunted Houses: Gaineswood

Gaineswood is a plantation house in Demopolis, Alabama. It reportedly took nearly twenty years to build it to completion, and it was finished just before the Civil War – talk about bad timing. Nevertheless, it is the grandest plantation house ever built in Marengo County, and one of the most significant remaining examples of Greek […]

Majanka 2 years agoDecember 30, 2021

Articles Urban Legends Investigated

Urban Legends Investigated: Clown Sightings of 2016

Some people are terrified of clowns. They don’t usually do much for me, but I’m pretty sure if I would run into a creepy-looking clown in an abandoned parking lot, that I would run the other way too. Considering a lot of people’s fear of clowns, it is no wonder that a lot of scary […]

Majanka 2 years agoDecember 31, 2021

Articles Real Haunted Houses

Real Haunted Houses: Cedarhurst Mansion

The Cedarhurst Mansion was built in 1823 by Stephen Ewing. It is a two-story, brick-walled construction. Just a little over a decade after the mansion was built, in 1837, a relative of Ewing, Sally Carter, died of illness at the age of 16 while she was staying at the mansion. Her spirit is said to […]

Majanka 2 years agoDecember 30, 2021

Articles Urban Legends Investigated

Urban Legends Investigated: The 67 Exorcisms of Anneliese Michel

If you’ve watched The Exorcist, then you know that exorcisms can be scary. But in real life, they’re about a thousand times as frightening as in movies, especially when they have disastrous consequences, like in the case of Anneliese Michel. Who was Anneliese Michel? Anna Elisabeth “Annaliese” Michel was born on 21 September 1952 in […]

Majanka 2 years agoDecember 31, 2021

Articles Real Haunted Houses

Real Haunted Houses: Jemison – Van De Graaff Mansion

The Jemison – Van De Graaff Mansion is one of the most beautiful homes in the state of Alabama. It was built between 1859 and 1862 by Senator Robert Jemison Jr. The mansion was still unfinished when the Civil War started, causing many of the finishing touches to be left undone. The majority of the […]

Majanka 2 years agoDecember 30, 2021

Articles Real Haunted Houses

Real Haunted Houses: Redmont Hotel

Perhaps not an actual house, but rather a hotel, but the Redmont Hotel is alledgedly one of the most haunted buildings in the state of Alabama. It opened in 1925 and is one of the oldest operating hotels in the region. The original hotel counted some 200-rooms, with private baths which was quite unusual at […]

Majanka 2 years agoDecember 30, 2021

Articles Urban Legends Investigated

Urban Legends Investigated: The Ghosts of Versailles

Have you ever been to Versailles? I visited the famous Palace of Versailles and its magnificent gardens a few years ago. While it was amazing to wander through the Palace and imagine how the Kings and Queens of old lived in the sprawling estate, it was the gardens that really drew my interest. Which is […]

Majanka 2 years agoDecember 31, 2021

Majanka Verstraete

Urban Legends Investigated: The Dancing Mania

Real Haunted Houses: Kenworthy Hall

Urban Legends Investigated: The Burning of Bridget Cleary

Real Haunted Houses: Gaineswood

Urban Legends Investigated: Clown Sightings of 2016

Real Haunted Houses: Cedarhurst Mansion

Urban Legends Investigated: The 67 Exorcisms of Anneliese Michel

Real Haunted Houses: Jemison – Van De Graaff Mansion

Real Haunted Houses: Redmont Hotel

Urban Legends Investigated: The Ghosts of Versailles

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