Five haunted places and where to find them.

                                        First up on the list, The Stanley Hotel:

Location: Estes Park, Colorado

It is was opened in 1907 by Freelan Oscar Stanley, the inventor of America’s Stanley Steamer automobiles. Supernatural have gone on since its opening and the hotel is widely considered the most haunted hotel in the U.S. Another interesting thing about this hotel is that its what inspired Stephan King to write The Shining, the hotel living it up by playing Kubrick's film rendition of the book on an infinite loop.

One of the most common ghosts is that of a former housekeeper Elisabeth Wilson, who died at the hotel four years after its opening (1911). She is said to stay in room 217 making herself known by helping guests, by unpacking their belongings and then putting them away for them. 

Children running and giggling can be heard on the fourth floor especially around room 418, the most haunted in the hotel, with impressions of bodies being found on the beds when no one is occupying the room. 

Mr and Mrs. Stanley can be seen and heard in some of the public areas. Mr. Stanley is also seen from time to time in the Administrations Office while Mrs. Stanley has been heard playing the grand piano a popular haunt for her when she was alive.

A young child calling out for his nanny, this one was also reported by one Stephan King.

Along with these sightings staff and costumers report hearing disembodied voices, unseen hands yanking at their clothing, and guests waking to find that their blankets have been taken from their beds and neatly folded.

The hotel also has a resident psychic, Madame Vera. (Look here if you would like to take a glance at their site.)

Second, Gettysburg Battlefield:

Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

One of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, with roughly 8,000 Union and Confederate soldiers killed and tens of thousands more injured, it makes perfect sense for it to be a haunted place.

Ghost sightings usually consist of phantoms being seen with some people having conversations with them before they vanish.

Screams, moans, cannon, and gunfire are all sounds heard around this land are occasionally heard and even in a few rare cases recorded.

There is one rather compelling video shot at Triangular Field in 2001, with pale ghost like figures moving amongst the trees.

Sightings also occur in the buildings dating back to  this time period, Farnsworth House Inn and Gettysburg College to name a couple, with all these different experiences still being reported to this day. (Take a gander at the National Military Park site here.)

Third, The White House:

Located: Washington, D.C.

This is probably one you wouldn't expect to see on a list like this but even the big WH isn't impervious to hauntings.

President Harrison is heard moving in the attic looking for god knows what, President Andrew Jackson is believed to haunt his White House bedroom, and First Lady Abigail Adams is occasionally seen floating down a hallway seeming to carry something.

The most common presidential sighting is however Abraham Lincoln. With Eleanor Roosevelt once stating that she believed she felt the presence of Lincoln watching her as she worked in the Lincoln bedroom. Another during the Roosevelt administration was a young clerk claiming to have actually seen the ghost of Lincoln sitting on a bed pulling off his boots. On another occasion, while spending a night at the White House during the Roosevelt presidency, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was awakened by a knock on the bedroom door. when answered, she was confronted with the ghost of President Lincoln staring at her from the hallway. Calvin Coolidge's wife also reported seeing Lincoln, several times, standing with his hands clasped behind his back, at a window in the Oval Office, staring out in deep contemplation toward the bloody battlefields across the Potomac.(Okay, so for this one I can't really give the White House's site but I can give y'all the HISTORY.com article on it so go here if you'd like to know more.)

Fourth, Eastern State Penitentiary:

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Once upon a time ESP was the most expensive and famous prison in the world, known for its lavish architecture and extremely strict discipline, it was the worlds first true "penitentiary," designed to inspire penitence, or true regret, in the hearts of the inmates. While it was originally designed, and built in 1829, to only hold around 250 inmates in solitary confinement at its height of use it housed over 1,700, going 1,450+ over its original intended number.

One of its most famous inmates, Al Capone, was incarcerated there on illegal weapons possession in 1929. During his stay, it is believed that Capone was tormented by the ghost of James Clark, one of the men Capone had murdered in the infamous St. Valentine's Day massacre.

Other reported hauntings include a shadowy figure that quickly scoots away from people as soon as they come near, a figure standing in a guard tower, an evil cackling is heard from cellblock 12, in cellblock 6 another shadowy figure can be seen sliding down a wall, and mysterious faces are reportedly seen in cellblock 4.

While the ESP is open for tours sadly, or thankfully depending on how you feel about these things, aren't open to the public. (You can visit the site here.)

Fifth, Wicklow Gaol
Location: Wicklow, Ireland

Locally known as "The Gates of Hell," the original Wicklow Gaol (Jail) was built in 1702, where the conditions were appalling inmates were treated extremely harshly. During the great Irish potato famine during the 1840s and early '50s, the number of inmates was to 780 with many prisoners to a cell. An addition was completed by 1843. The building was closed as a prison in 1900, then reopened in 1918 during the Irish War for Independence. It closed again in 1924 and was partially demolished in 1954.

Hauntings consist of being touched by unseen hands;some people have had their hair pulled, a staff member was once physically shoved out of the gates, a mist has been reported to settle on the walkway of the second floor, a woman saw a apparition and when shown a picture of Mary Morris, a matron in Wicklow, she said "That's her, only younger," a little girls ghost haunts the schoolroom materializing from time to time, sometimes just to poke visitors thighs or pull on their clothes. (To discover more go here.)

Do you guys believe in the supernatural? And, if so how do you feel about these hauntings? If you don't then how do you feel about these things?