Dark Destinations: Dark Destination of the Day

Rebecca Nurse Homestead

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Rebecca Nurse - This is the former home of Rebecca Nurse, one of the victims of the Salem Witch Trials. She was executed by hanging in July of 1692. Danvers Alarm List Company - This historical reenactment society preserves the homestead as a museum and use it as a staging ground for their various reenactments....

The Old State House Museum

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The Old State House - Construction was officially completed in 1842�on this then-capitol building in Little Rock, Arkansas, but government officials moved into in 1836 when Arkansas was declared a state.� It served as the state capitol until 1911, when a new building completed construction nearby.� It served a variet...

Old Tennessee State Prison

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Ghosts of the Tennessee State Prison - This gothic structure was the home of the Tennessee State Prison from 1898 to 1992.� As years passed, overcrowding, prison break attempts, and riots gave the penitentiary a somewhat notorious reputation.� The years took its toll on the structure as well, until it was ultimately ...

The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

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The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre - This address is the former location of the SMC Cartage Company, site of the infamous Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929 members of mobster Al Capone's gang executed members of fellow mobster Bugs Moran's gang in the garage that stood here. A total of five gang me...

Disneyland Paris - Phantom Manor

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The Newest Incarnation of Disney's Haunted Mansion - Opened in 1992, Phantom Manor is the youngest of the Disney Haunted Mansion dark rides. The facade and grounds vary from the regular Disney trend in that it was purposely made to look like a rundown and unkempt haunted house. Phantom Manor also boasts a stronger st...

Crater Lake National Park

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Mount Mazama and Crater Lake - At a depth of 1,943 feet in one area, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States of America and the seventh deepest in the world. It was formed out of the eruption of Mount Mazama approximately 7,700 years ago, which is estimated to have been 42 times greater than the 1980 er...

South Pioneer Street, Ashland, OR

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The Hunchback on South Pioneer Street - This street borders the famous Lithia Park and the Elizabethan Stage/Allen Pavilion, one of the theaters used for Ashland's popular Oregon Shakespeare Festival. It is also the spot that many people have spotted the ghost of a hairy, hunchbacked young boy. He is believed to be...

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

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Multnomah Falls, Oregon - Though these falls are one of the more popular tourist stops alongside the Columbia River Gorge and were recently featured in the 2008 movie Twilight, they are also the source of legends, a reputed haunting, and even a Bigfoot sighting. The falls are actually two separate falls known as, si...

Halloween (2007): The Strode House

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The Strode House - This private residence in South Pasadena, California made appearances in two major films within the first decade of the new century; including a rather ominous role in the 2007 remake of Rob Zombie's Halloween. Before it took a turn in the horror genre however, it appeared in a much different conte...

The A.L. Luetgert Sausage & Packing Company

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The Sausage Vat Murder - In 1897, Adolph Luetgert, owner of the A.L. Luetgert Sausage & Packing Company, murdered his wife Louisa. After murdering her in his factory, Adolph disposed of the body by boiling it in acid inside one of the sausage vats. All that was ever found of her was a skull fragment and her weddi...

Hell's Half Acre, Hot Springs, AR

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Hell's Half Acre - The area of land (allegedly more around one to two acres) is a bit of a mystery to residents in nearby Hot Springs, Arkansas.� Despite being completely surrounded by forest and vegetation, this section is completely composed of sharp jagged rocks and no vegetation (aside from the few trees that app...

Horrorfind Weekend - Maryland

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Horrorfind Weekend - The HorrorFind Weekend is a typically twice yearly horror convention hosted by HorrorFind.com. The convention is usually held in the Baltimore vicinity in the months of March and August. There have been additional HorrorFind Weekends held in states other than Maryland in past years though. Ho...

The Gurdon Light

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The Gurdon Light - One of the best-known phenomena in the state of Arkansas happens in this location.� The Gurdon Light has fascinated people for years and baffled experts as to its possible cause.� In this section of railroad tracks between Highway 53 and the interchange of Sticky Road and Highway 30, a strange ligh...

The Museum of Mourning Photography

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The Museum of Mourning Photography & Memorial Practice - Founded by Anthony Vizzari, this museum is dedicated to the anthropological study of funerary memorials and mostly outdated practice of photographing the deceased as a memorial keepsake. A common practice in Nineteenth Century, post-mortem portraits faded o...

Spellbound Museum & Tours

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The Spellbound Museum - This museum displays unusual sideshow objects like a Fiji Mermaid and items of occult interest like an antique vampire hunter's kit and voodoo altars. It also features ghost stories told by ghost hunter, Mollie Stewart. Spellbound Tours - The museum also offers two different walking�tours...

Hotel Ben Lomond

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Hotel Ben Lomond - This historic hotel in Ogden, Utah reportedly has more than a few "permanent" guests for its relatively short history. It was originally built in 1927 and replaced the 1891 Reed Hotel that had formerly stood on its grounds. The idea was to build a new luxury, modern, first-class hotel i...

Bloody Bridge, Auglaize County, OH

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Bloody Bridge - Bloody Bridge is located on the old Miami-Erie canal between St. Marys and Spencerville Ohio on Route 66. It got its name from the bloodstain that was left after a murder took place on the bridge. Local legend says that the blood would not even come out of the wood when it rained (only after the murde...

Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park

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Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park - This park is composed of natural rock formations caused by the San Andreas Fault. In the 1870s the rocks served as a hideout for notorious bandito Tiburcio Vasquez for whom the park is named. These days the park is mainly recognizable for its heavy usage as a film set for movies, TV ...

Harrah's Laughlin Casino, Laughlin, Nevada

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Harrah's Laughlin - Harrah's Laughlin is part of a chain of casino/hotels that are in 12 states within the US as well as Ontario, Canada and Uruguay. The casino in Laughlin features gambling, dining, lodging and entertainment. There are two performance stages at the casino; a 280 seat indoor showroom and an outdoor a...

Frankie Baker Home

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Home of Frankie Baker - Based on historical maps of Portland, Oregon in 1950, this appears to be the previous location of a house that Frankie Baker called home at the former address of 22 North Clackamas Street. Haunted By a Song - Frankie Baker moved to Portland after a short stint in Omaha, Nebraska trying to...