THE MANSFIELD REFORMATORY, OhioI love to be spooked and the world has no shortage of ghost stories and tales from beyond. Whenever I travel I like to find out about any local legends or haunts that I can visit. It seems that seeking out departed spirits has its way of making us in the living feel more alive.
Winchester Mystery House located in San Jose California is one of the most bizarre haunted places I have ever heard about. The house is a creation of Sarah Winchester, the widow of the gun master William Winchester. After Williams death she is believed to have taken the word from a local psychic that told her she must build on her house continuously to confuse the evil spirits that also lived in the house. If she stopped building her life would also stop. Sarah became obsessed with the house, she began building doors that led to nowhere, windows into walls that didn't open and stairs that lead into the ceiling. After working on it for 38 years and until her death in 1937 this house was a true piece of work built essentially by madness. Much of the work done was believed to have been inspired by the guilt she felt for the people that died at the shot of the Winchester gun.http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/sarahwinchester.cfm
ROBERT THE DOLL: Key West, Florida
Robert is not the kind of doll you want to take home to your child. He is said to be a haunted spirit uncertain with misbehavior. A man named Eugene that lived in Key West was given Robert in 1904 from a Bahamian servant that was into voodoo and black magic and wasn't fond of the family. After inheriting the doll, Eugene began talking about Robert as if he were real and acting very strange around those that knew him. Those actions would carry on with him until his death in 1974. After his death new owners moved into the house under one condition. Robert was to remain in the house, in his room upstairs that overlooked the street. Passerby's began to say they would see Robert move from window to window in his room watching them from above. Today you can find him in the East Martello Museum in Key West. His antics haven't let up in the museum and he is known to disappear from the locked glass case he is held in only to reappear days later. The one thing I have learned is to always ask him before taking his picture. I didn't ask him my first time I went to see him and my camera stopped working after attempting to take a picture of him.
www.robertthedoll.org
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