Dark Destinations: Dark Destination of the Day

Angelica of the Angels

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Angelica of the Angels - One of the many spiritualist stores in Salem, Massachusetts. The store offers aura photography and psychic readings as well as candles, incense, books and other spiritualist merchandise. The store made national news because of an incident in May of 2007. Someone defaced Angelica of the An...

Twilight Saga: Forks Community Hospital

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Forks Community Hospital - The Forks Community Hospital opened on November 5, 1952. It was originally called the Olympic Clinic and only had one doctor (Dr. Edwin F. Leibold) to serve the community. At times the doctor's work took him out into the field and away from the hospital to perform jobs that would be handled...

Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, MO

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The Exorcist Connection - The Jesuit Priest section of the Calvary Cemetery in Saint Louis, Missouri is the final resting place for Father William Bowdern.� In 1949, Bowdern allegedly took place in a series of exorcisms to remove a demon from a small boy from the Washington D.C. area.� It was reportedly Bowdern who w...

Frankie and Johnny Apartment

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212 Targee Street - This spot marks the relative location of an apartment complex that stood at 212 Targee Street�in Saint Louis, Missouri.� It was at this location that Frankie Baker shot and killed 17-year old Allen Britt on October 16, 1899.� The murder was one of two crimes thought to be the basis for the murder ...

Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park

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The Amazing Criswell - Charles Criswell King (AKA: The Amazing Criswell) is interred at this cemetery. Criswell was a TV personality in the Los Angeles area during the 1950s. He claimed to be a psychic and fostered attention by making extremely ridiculous claims about future events. Criswell went on to have roles in ...

Elizabethan Stage/Allen Pavilion

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Elizabethan Stage/Allen Pavilion - The Oregon Shakespeare Festival got its start in 1935 after a man by the name of Angus Bowmer suggested using the old walls of the Chautauqua building to surround a new stage and performing on two plays over the course of Ashland's Fourth of July celebration. It was an immediate su...

Reynolds Arcade

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Jack the Ripper? - Jack the Ripper suspect, Dr. Francis Tumuelty, was known to perform back-alley abortions�in the rear�of the old Reynolds Arcade building. The office�building was torn down years later and rebuilt as it is now. Around the same time across the street from Reynolds Arcade is the Talman Building. Fr...

The 3D Loch Ness Experience

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The 3D Loch Ness Experience - This attraction opened in 2005 and brings the water and mysteries of Loch Ness directly to capital of Scotland and is located right on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. The 3D Loch Ness Experience treats visitors to a virtual reality exploration of the myths, facts, and legends behinds Scotl...

The Exorcist (1973): The MacNeil House

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The MacNeil House - Though this private residence may appear much smaller than its cinematic self these days, this was indeed the infamous home of Chris (Ellen Burstyn) and Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) in the 1973 horror film, The Exorcist. The house was used solely for the exterior shots, while the interiors (and th...

Point Wilson Lighthouse

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Point Wilson Lighthouse - Located on Point Wilson on the grounds of Fort Worden State Park in Washington, this lighthouse has witnessed tragedy in its over-a-century of service, as well as more than a few ghost tales. The light first shown on December 15, 1879, though the original light tower was first built on the e...

Drish House

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The Drish House - The Drish House is an old plantation home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Dr. John Drish constructed it for his wife Sarah. When Dr. Drish died, Sarah burned candles in the upper room as he lay in state. After the ceremony, Sarah put the candles away and requested that the same ones be used at her funera...

Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, TN

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Old Gray Cemetery - Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Old Gray Cemetery is located in Knoxville, Tennessee.� It was established in 1852 and named after English poet, Thomas Gray in honor of his poem, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."� It is widely renowned for its Victorian-styl...

Marblehead, Massachusetts

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The City in the Mists - Marblehead, Massachusetts was the model used by author H.P. Lovecraft for his fictional city of Kingsport. Lovecraft stories featuring Kingsport - The Terrible Old Man The Festival The Dream Quest of Unknown Kaddath The Silver Key The Strange High House in the Mist The Case of Charl...

Atchison, Kansas

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The Most Haunted Town in Kansas - The town of Atchison's claim to fame is being home to more ghostly sightings than anywhere else in the state. There are a large number of haunted houses, a haunted street, a haunted park, a haunted church, a haunted college, and�a haunted freight depot. Tours - Haunted Atchison ...

Sing Sing Prison Museum

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Sing Sing Prison Museum - Housed in the Caputo Community Center in Ossining, NY, the Sing Sing Prison Museum stands less than half a mile from the infamous Sing Sing prison. The prison has such a reputation that it spawned both the phrases "Sent up the river" (a reference to the Hudson River) and "The ...

Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco

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Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco - This private camp borders Sand Pond near Hardwick Township, New Jersey and has provided entertainment to countless Boy Scouts over its history, but is best known to horror fans as the setting of the infamous Camp Crystal Lake in the 1980 film, Friday the 13th. It was established in 1927 and is pri...

Hawaii's Plantation Village

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Hawaii's Plantation Village - This museum in Waipahu on the island of Oahu in Hawaii may be dedicated to preserving Hawaii's past, but according to reports of paranormal activity, the past may still makes itself known from time to time. The outdoor museum is located at the Waipahu Cultural Garden Park on a 50-acre pl...

Jack the Ripper and the East End

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Jack the Ripper and the East End - The Museum in Docklands in London, England was the setting for this exhibit that explored the history and legends that surround the city's most infamous resident, Jack the Ripper. The exhibit incorporated police files, photographs, and letters that ranged from those written by the ...

Maplecroft

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Maplecroft - Located at 306 French Street in Fall River. Maplecroft is the home that Lizzie always wanted and was finally able to have once she was acquitted of the murders and gained her inheritance. Lizzie and Emma lived there together for a time after the murders. Lizzie resided there until the time of her death. ...

Evans City Cemetery, Evans City, PA

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Evans City Cemetery - This cemetery on Franklin Road in Evans City, Pennsylvania is known to horror movie fans for its use in the opening scene of the horror film Night of the Living Dead (1968). Parts of the the cemetery are still recognizable from the film more than 40 years later despite a natural disaster that de...