The Bela Lugosi Mirror: Hollywood History or Cursed Object?
A Las Vegas museum draws crowds to Dracula's haunted mirror, but the paper trail tells a very different story.
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Garfield’s Predicted Fate: Séances, Prophecy, and the Chessboard of the Dead
A president who chased his dead father through séance circles left behind a haunted castle and a ghost story about moving tombstones
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Sailing to the Indefinite Shore: The Dreams That Foretold Lincoln’s Fate
How a melancholy president read his own nightmares as maps of what was coming, and why history still argues about them
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The Echoing ‘No!’: John Quincy Adams’s Unyielding Ghost at the U.S. Capitol
The U.S. Capitol keeps a strange roster of ghosts. Legend fills its marble halls with phantom soldiers, workers who died raising its walls, and a…
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Loosen the Waistcoat: The Genial Dining Room Ghost of Martin Van Buren
Most presidential ghosts brood. They mourn, they wander, they replay old defeats in dim corridors. The ghost of Martin Van Buren does something almost unhe...
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The Ghostly Housekeeper: Why Lucretia Garfield Still Tends Her Mentor Home
Construction crews at Lawnfield learned to expect a small miracle. They would leave a room dusty and cluttered at the end of a workday, then…
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The General’s Undying Routine: The Cigar-Scented Ghost of Ulysses S. Grant
The Willard Hotel bans smoking everywhere, on every floor, in every corner. So when the lobby suddenly fills with the rich aroma of a burning…
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Inside the Gothic Cage: The Confused Spirit of President James Monroe
Imagine dying in one city, resting in peace for twenty-seven years, then being dug up and shipped hundreds of miles to a strange new grave.
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Get Your Horses: Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Rider Ghost at the Menger Hotel
A janitor once quit the Menger Hotel on the spot, mid-shift, without collecting his final pay. He had seen a man materialize at the old…
Read More →Satanic Panic and Paranormal Rumors: How Fear Turns Into Folklore
In 1983, a parent in Manhattan Beach, California, accused an employee of McMartin Preschool of abusing her child in a Satanic ritual. Local police sent…
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