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True Apparitions: The World's Most Haunted Places
This book chronicles ten most haunted places, scattered throughout the world. Their histories are life-like and engaging, tragically wrought with hidden truths, and all too close to us.
This is more than visible in the story of the Paris Catacombs, which not only hold in their power the bones of approximately 6 million Parisians buried there centuries ago, but they continue to be insatiable in their hunger for more, as not all urban explorers who enter their depths make it out alive. Then, the focus is switched towards The Myrtles Plantation and the sad story of an ill-starred slave girl, Chloe who makes a tragic blunder and is doomed to forever roam her earthly abode. The Eastern State Penitentiary, The Waverly Hills Sanatorium and the lovely but murderous Poveglia Island all share the same epic mistake of their residents tampering with human lives. In all three places doctors, who were supposed to help people, ended up taking the lives of those who trusted them, and now, their souls are intertwined in the vortex between this world and the next, haunting their last known dwelling. Not many will recognize Sweden's haunted vicarage in Borgvattnet, but after hearing its haunted story, no one will remain indifferent. Naturally, no list of haunted places would be complete without the historically relevant Tower of London, housing within its walls ghosts of extreme importance, such as Anne Boleyn and others. Indonesia's Lawang Sewu weaves its own story of ghosts, while Mexico's Island of Dolls remembers the sad and lonely man who decorated a little island with dolls in remembrance of a drowned girl whose ghost he kept seeing. In addition, Americans seem to be wonderfully apt at making a profit out of haunted places, and the Queen Mary Hotel is no stranger to this idea. Haunted by several ghosts, this fancy war-time liner saw its fair share of bloody murders. Last but not least, there are several places deserving honorable mention, such as the White House, Amidaji Temple, Akershus Fortress and Kirchlengen forest.
Whether we believe in the supernatural or not, these places truly are haunted. Perhaps not by actual ghosts, but definitely by the spirits of tragic events that took place there and the stain in the memory they left for posterity.
This is more than visible in the story of the Paris Catacombs, which not only hold in their power the bones of approximately 6 million Parisians buried there centuries ago, but they continue to be insatiable in their hunger for more, as not all urban explorers who enter their depths make it out alive. Then, the focus is switched towards The Myrtles Plantation and the sad story of an ill-starred slave girl, Chloe who makes a tragic blunder and is doomed to forever roam her earthly abode. The Eastern State Penitentiary, The Waverly Hills Sanatorium and the lovely but murderous Poveglia Island all share the same epic mistake of their residents tampering with human lives. In all three places doctors, who were supposed to help people, ended up taking the lives of those who trusted them, and now, their souls are intertwined in the vortex between this world and the next, haunting their last known dwelling. Not many will recognize Sweden's haunted vicarage in Borgvattnet, but after hearing its haunted story, no one will remain indifferent. Naturally, no list of haunted places would be complete without the historically relevant Tower of London, housing within its walls ghosts of extreme importance, such as Anne Boleyn and others. Indonesia's Lawang Sewu weaves its own story of ghosts, while Mexico's Island of Dolls remembers the sad and lonely man who decorated a little island with dolls in remembrance of a drowned girl whose ghost he kept seeing. In addition, Americans seem to be wonderfully apt at making a profit out of haunted places, and the Queen Mary Hotel is no stranger to this idea. Haunted by several ghosts, this fancy war-time liner saw its fair share of bloody murders. Last but not least, there are several places deserving honorable mention, such as the White House, Amidaji Temple, Akershus Fortress and Kirchlengen forest.
Whether we believe in the supernatural or not, these places truly are haunted. Perhaps not by actual ghosts, but definitely by the spirits of tragic events that took place there and the stain in the memory they left for posterity.
35 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 20, 2015
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