The Dead Children’s Playground: Huntsville’s Swing Set That Moves Itself
Two very different tragedies compete to explain the same haunted swing set. Neither one is comforting.
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The Boyington Oak: The Tree a Dying Man Promised Would Prove Him Innocent
Two other people confessed to the murder on their deathbeds. The man Alabama hanged for it never got to hear either one.
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Sturdivant Hall: The Banker Who Vowed Never to Leave Selma
He swore he would clear his name or never leave the house. He never cleared his name.
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Cry Baby Hollow: The Alabama Bridge With Three Ghost Stories and No Answers
Investigators brought cameras and microphones to this Hartselle bridge. They left with nothing they could prove and nothing they could explain away either.
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Cashtown, Pennsylvania: The Field Hospital and the Photographic Ghost
The famous porch photo is real, but the date attached to it rarely is.
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Pawleys Island, South Carolina: The Hurricane Warning of the Gray Man
Two different men get credit for the legend, and neither one's timeline actually holds up.
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Alton, Illinois: Smallpox Island and the Tragedies of the Mississippi
The death toll here depends entirely on which sign you happen to read.
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St. Elmo, Colorado: Annie Stark’s Eternal Vigil
A reclusive shopkeeper who chased children away with a shotgun still watches over the town she refused to leave.
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Calico, California: The Mojave Mine Guard and Lucy Bell’s Stroll
A dead silver town got a second life from a cereal executive, and its ghosts never got the memo.
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Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia: Pirate Executioners and the Randolph Mansion
One of America's most haunted houses shares its street with the country's first psychiatric hospital.
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