Now a huge marketplace with over 500 businesses, the Pike Place Market is a staple tourist destination in the American Pacific Northwest. But did you know that it also offers ghost tours?
In Siskiyou County, California, they speak of the legend of a lost civilization living inside of Mt. Shasta. The Lemurians. Witnesses claim to have seen the descendants of the first human civilization on Earth performing ceremonies and even shopping in nearby towns.
Hollywood is a place of ghosts. In it, lies one of the most iconic hotels of its time, The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where guests and employees have said still serves as a hotspot for ghosts of the celebrities that used to frequent it.
A girl named Lurancy Vennum started experiencing strange fits and upon getting help from Dr. E.W. Stevens, she was able to let a spirit to live in her body. Countless witnesses were able to prove time and time again that they knew who this spirit was. It was Mary Roff… but she had died twelve years before Lurancy was born.
In the 80s, Steven Spielberg brought us the movie, Poltergeist, about an entity tormenting a family. The inspiration behind the movie came from the true events of the Herrmann Family household in Long Island, New York. Also known as The Seaford Poltergeist, the phenomenon shook the nation in 1958. It was investigated by the county’s police department, and even by scientists from a research laboratory at Duke University.
The most famous ghost story in Chicago, Illinois, is that of a ghost woman that appears wearing an old white dress. It sounds like such a familiar story. However, few tales out there have as many witness accounts and documentation as this one.
