98 Fun Facts About Haunted Places

Which Estes Park, Colorado, hotel inspired the Overlook in Stephen King's The Shining?

The Stanley hosted King and his wife Tabitha for a single night in 1974 while they were living in Boulder; it later hosted filming of the 1997 TV miniseries.

Which 1910 Louisville tuberculosis hospital is billed as one of the world's most haunted?

Waverly Hills Sanatorium opened in 1910 as a two-storey wooden building for 40 to 50 tuberculosis patients and closed in 1961 after streptomycin made such hospitals largely unnecessary.

What wartime nickname did the liner at Long Beach since 1967 earn for evading U-boats?

Her speed and zigzag courses made her almost impossible for U-boats to catch; on one 1943 crossing she carried more than 16,600 people.

Which San Jose mansion did a wealthy widow keep enlarging for decades, reportedly on a medium's advice to appease spirits?

Winchester Mystery House legend says a Boston medium told Sarah Winchester to build for the ghosts of rifle victims; she often paused work for months, but did reportedly rebuild one tower 16 times.

Which former liner and WWII troopship, docked in Long Beach, is called one of the world's most haunted ships?

RMS Queen Mary was retired by Cunard in 1967 and bought by Long Beach as a hotel and museum; Time magazine put her on its 'Top 10 Haunted Places' list in 2008.

Which Philadelphia prison, whose 'Pennsylvania System' used separate confinement as rehabilitation, became a museum in 1994?

Eastern State Penitentiary, John Haviland's radial design, isolated each inmate in a cell with running water and central heating; overcrowding ended the solitary system by 1913 and the prison closed in 1971.

Which Chicago gangster was moved into Philadelphia's landmark 1829 penitentiary in August 1929?

Al Capone was moved to Eastern State Penitentiary in August 1929 to serve a concealed-weapon sentence; his cell had rugs, fine furniture and a radio, and he was released in March 1930.

In which numbered cellblock of Eastern State Penitentiary did a locksmith report tormented faces in the 1990s?

Ghost-hunters assign each block its own speciality: faces in Cellblock 4, darting shadows in 6 and cackling voices in 12; the site itself runs a Halloween attraction once called Terror Behind the Walls.

Which former federal prison in San Francisco Bay is rumoured to be haunted, with apparitions in its D-Block cells?

D-Block was converted into isolation cells in a 1939-41 refit; its corridor was nicknamed Sunset Strip, and the prison library sat at its far end.

What nickname was given to the punishment cells 9 to 14 at the end of Alcatraz's D-Block?

Cells 9 to 14 of D-Block were called The Hole: solid-doored solitary cells kept dark, and the last one, the Strip Cell or Oriental, had only a hole in the floor for a toilet.

Which Tower of London tower, built as a water-gate, was originally known as the Garden Tower?

The Bloody Tower, first called the Garden Tower, gained its grim name in the 16th century as the supposed murder site of Edward V and his brother; built as a water-gate, it lost that role to St Thomas's Tower.

How many days did the Lutz family last in the Amityville house before fleeing in January 1976?

The Lutzes moved in on 18 December 1975 and fled after 28 days, on 14 January 1976; Ronald DeFeo Jr. had shot six family members there in 1974, and the Lutzes paid a bargain $80,000.

Whose 1929 Daily Mirror visit made Borley Rectory 'the most haunted house in England'?

Psychic researcher Harry Price first visited Borley Rectory in June 1929 at the Daily Mirror's invitation and later dubbed it the most haunted house in England; it burned in 1939 and was demolished in 1944.

The Edinburgh Vaults, a ghost-tour fixture, lie beneath which structure completed in 1788?

The vaults are the 120 or so chambers inside the arches of Edinburgh's South Bridge, completed in 1788; former rugby international Norrie Rowan rediscovered them in the 1980s, complete with signs of habitation.

Poveglia, the notorious island in the Venetian lagoon, served for over a century from 1776 as what?

It later housed a psychiatric hospital that closed in 1968; in 2014 Italy auctioned a 99-year lease on the island.

Aokigahara, the forest reputed to be haunted by yūrei, grows on the lava flank of which mountain?

Mount Fuji's northwestern flank holds the 'Sea of Trees', whose porous lava absorbs sound and can throw off compasses, adding to the eerie atmosphere.

Bhangarh Fort, often called India's most haunted place, stands in which state?

Bhangarh Fort stands in Rajasthan's Alwar district, on the edge of the Sariska tiger reserve in the Aravalli hills; it was built for Madho Singh, younger son of Raja Bhagwant Das of Amber.

Which queen's art collection is displayed at Bran Castle, Romania's so-called Dracula's Castle?

Bran Castle was given to Queen Marie of Romania in 1920 and became a favourite royal residence; returned to her heirs in 2009, it displays her art and furniture collection as a museum.

The Catacombs of Paris hold the remains of roughly how many people?

The Paris Catacombs hold the bones of more than six million people, moved by night from overflowing cemeteries such as the Holy Innocents beginning in the 1780s; regular public visits began in 1874.

The Island of the Dolls lies in the Xochimilco canals of which capital?

The Island of the Dolls sits in the Xochimilco canals of Mexico City; caretaker Julián Santana Barrera hung dolls there for decades until his death in 2001, and visitors arrive by trajinera boat.

The Myrtles Plantation, billed as one of America's most haunted homes, is in which state?

The Myrtles Plantation is in St Francisville, Louisiana; General David Bradford built the Creole cottage in 1796, and its 125-foot veranda runs the full length of the facade.

Lizzie Borden's Fall River home, site of the 1892 hatchet murders, is in which state?

Fall River is in Massachusetts; Lizzie Borden was acquitted in June 1893 of the August 1892 hatchet murders of her father and stepmother and lived in the town until her death in 1927.

The Whaley House in San Diego, a celebrated haunted site, holds what architectural distinction?

Oldest brick building in Southern California: completed in 1857 for over $10,000, it was a battleground in the Old Town versus New Town rivalry.

Which of Henry VIII's wives reportedly ran screaming through Hampton Court's Haunted Gallery?

Catherine Howard is said to have broken from her guards and run screaming down the gallery to reach Henry, who was at Mass in the chapel, in November 1541; she was beheaded in February 1542.

The Bell Witch, which tormented a Tennessee farming family from 1817, answered to what name?

The spirit called itself Kate, after neighbour Kate Batts; it focused on daughter Betsy and father John Bell, and disapproved of Betsy's engagement to Joshua Gardner.

Monte Cristo Homestead, long billed as Australia's most haunted house, stands in Junee in which state?

Monte Cristo Homestead is in Junee, New South Wales; Christopher Crawley completed the Victorian manor in 1885, and the Ryan family, who bought it in 1963, restored it and opened it to visitors.

Before becoming a notorious penal colony, Port Arthur in Tasmania began in 1830 as what kind of settlement?

A timber station came first; from 1833 Port Arthur held the empire's most hardened re-offenders, and in 1996 it was the scene of a massacre in which a gunman killed 35 people.

The Ancient Ram Inn, billed as England's most haunted building, reputedly hosts how many ghosts?

Around twenty ghosts are claimed at the Ancient Ram Inn in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, including a witch and an incubus; John Humphries bought the building in 1968 and ran it until his death in 2017.

Which Kent village entered the 1989 Guinness Book of Records as Britain's most haunted, with 12 reported ghosts?

Pluckley's spooks include the Red Lady in the churchyard, a phantom highwayman at Fright Corner and the 'Screaming Woods'; the ITV series The Darling Buds of May was filmed in the village.

The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield was the main location for which 1994 film?

The Shawshank Redemption used the reformatory for most of its scenes; built between 1886 and 1910 in a castle-like Romanesque style, it closed by court order in 1990.

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, designed for 250 patients, held how many by the 1950s?

By the 1950s the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia, held about 2,400 patients in a Kirkbride Plan building designed for 250; it closed in 1994.

The 1834 fire that exposed Delphine LaLaurie's torture of enslaved people was at her mansion on which street?

A mob sacked the house and she fled to Paris; the rebuilt mansion at 1140 Royal is a French Quarter ghost-tour staple.

The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, home of a famous ghostly bride, was opened in 1888 by which company?

The Canadian Pacific Railway opened the Banff Springs Hotel in 1888 under general manager William Cornelius Van Horne; the wooden original was progressively rebuilt in stone, and a 1926 fire destroyed its last wooden wing.

The Hotel del Coronado stood in for the 'Seminole Ritz' in which 1959 film?

Some Like It Hot (1959) used the Hotel del Coronado near San Diego as the Florida 'Seminole Ritz', with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon; the hotel opened in 1888 as the world's largest resort hotel.

How many victims died in the 1912 axe murders at the house in Villisca, Iowa?

Eight people were killed on 10 June 1912: Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children and two visiting Stillinger sisters, after a church Children's Day programme; the case was never solved.

The Sallie House, whose ghost is nicknamed 'The Man Hating Ghost', is in which Kansas town?

The Sallie House stands on North Second Street in Atchison, Kansas; tenant Tony Pickman reported being scratched until he bled in the 1990s, and there is no record of any Sallie living or dying there.

Which serial killer stayed at Los Angeles's notorious Cecil Hotel during his 1985 spree?

Richard Ramirez stayed at the Cecil Hotel during his 1985 killing spree; the 1924 hotel became infamous again in 2013 with the death of student Elisa Lam and reopened as affordable housing in 2021.

Chillingham Castle's most famous ghost, said to haunt the Pink Room, is known as what?

The Blue Boy, said to appear in a blue halo of light in the Pink Room, is Chillingham's best-known ghost; Sir Humphry Wakefield bought the Northumberland castle in 1982 and restored it.

What is Leap Castle's room where one O'Carroll brother killed his priest brother called?

The Bloody Chapel takes its name from the killing of a priest, one O'Carroll brother, by another during Mass in the 16th century; the castle is also said to house an 'Elemental' spirit.

Glamis Castle, famed for its legends of a hidden monster, was the childhood home of which royal?

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother grew up at Glamis as Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore; Lady Glamis was burned for witchcraft in 1537, and Shakespeare made Macbeth its thane.

Which husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, died a prisoner at Denmark's Dragsholm Castle?

James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, Mary's third husband, died at Dragsholm in 1578 after years as a prisoner there; the castle-hotel claims his ghost along with a Grey Lady and a White Lady.

Folklore says Houska Castle in Bohemia was built over what?

Legend holds Houska was built to seal a gateway to Hell: its chapel sits over a supposedly bottomless pit, and locals believed the Nazis used the castle for occult experiments during the occupation.

How many people were hanged in the Salem witch trials of 1692–93?

Nineteen people were hanged between June and September 1692; Giles Corey was pressed to death for refusing to plead, and researchers pinpointed the execution site at Proctor's Ledge in 2016.

The Enfield poltergeist case of 1977–79, dramatised in The Conjuring 2, centred on which family?

Sisters Janet and Margaret were the focus; investigators Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair believed it, sceptics found the girls faked some of it.

Which philosopher's Grade I listed tomb is the most famous monument in London's Highgate Cemetery?

Karl Marx's tomb, with its 1956 bronze bust by Laurence Bradshaw, was upgraded to Grade I in 1999; Highgate opened in 1839 as one of the 'Magnificent Seven' cemeteries and saw a 1970s 'vampire' panic.

The Javanese nickname of Semarang's reputedly haunted Lawang Sewu building means what?

Lawang Sewu means 'a thousand doors' in Javanese; the former Dutch East Indies Railway Company headquarters actually has about 600 large windows, and a 2007 horror film cemented its ghost stories nationally.

How many people were executed in the Zaubererjackl witch trials run from Austria's Moosham Castle?

Unusually, most of the 139 people executed were male, and 39 of them were children aged 10 to 14.

Ballygally Castle, called one of the most haunted places in Ulster, was built in 1625 by a settler from where?

James Shaw, from Greenock in Scotland, built Ballygally in 1625, renting the land from the Earl of Antrim for £24 a year; textile millionaire Cyril Lord turned it into a hotel in the 1950s.

Edinburgh's Mary King's Close was partly buried in 1753 to build what?

The Royal Exchange (now Edinburgh's City Chambers) was built from 1753 over the close, whose lower floors became its foundations; the sealed street bred plague legends, and its last resident, Andrew Chesney, left in 1902.

Mobile's Boyington Oak supposedly grew from a hanged man's grave in 1835 as proof of what?

Charles Boyington, hanged in 1835 for stabbing his roommate Nathaniel Frost, swore an oak would grow from his grave to prove his innocence; one really did rise from the potter's field by Church Street Graveyard.

Who is said to have imprisoned Margaret Pomeroy, Berry Pomeroy Castle's White Lady?

Legend says Margaret Pomeroy was starved to death in the dungeon by her jealous sister Eleanor, who envied her beauty; the Devon ruin also has a Blue Lady who beckons passers-by to her tower.

Drury Lane's 'Man in Grey' ghost is tied to a skeleton found in 1848 where?

Workmen in 1848 found a skeleton with a dagger in its ribs in a walled-up passage of the Theatre Royal; the Man in Grey wears a tricorne, cloak and sword, and his appearance is considered good luck.

Which prime minister once lived at 50 Berkeley Square, London's 'most haunted house'?

George Canning, prime minister for four months in 1827, lived at 50 Berkeley Square; the attic ghost was blamed for frightening people to death, yet nothing was reported during Maggs Brothers booksellers' tenancy from 1938 to 2015.

At Ireland's Loftus Hall, what revealed a card-playing stranger as the devil?

Anne Tottenham dropped a card, bent to retrieve it and saw the stranger's cloven foot; he shot through the roof in a ball of flame, and she was shut in the Tapestry Room until her death in 1775.

Which national treasure was kept at Cornwall's Bodmin Jail in 1918–19?

The Domesday Book was moved from London to Bodmin Jail for safekeeping in 1918-19; the jail, built by prisoners of war in 1779, saw more than 50 hangings and reopened as a visitor attraction with ghost-hunting tours.

Two Englishwomen claimed in 1901 to have seen Marie Antoinette's ghost where?

Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain visited the Petit Trianon at Versailles on 10 August 1901 and published their 'time slip' as An Adventure in 1911; one later theory is a costume party thrown by Robert de Montesquiou.

William Larnach, whose Otago castle is said to be haunted, died in 1898 where?

William Larnach shot himself in a committee room of Parliament Buildings in Wellington in October 1898, facing financial ruin; visitors to his castle report cigar smoke and a bearded Victorian gentleman presumed to be him.

Okiku, the ghost said to rise from a well at Himeji Castle, is heard counting what?

Okiku counts plates, one to nine, then shrieks for the missing tenth dish she was accused of losing; in one version the haunting ended when a neighbour shouted 'ten'.

At Pune's Shaniwar Wada, the ghost of Peshwa Narayanrao is said to cry for help when?

Legend says Narayanrao's cries of 'Kaka, mala vachva' ('Uncle, save me') echo on full moon nights; he was killed by guards in 1773 on his uncle Raghunathrao's orders, and the fort was gutted by fire in 1828.

Workers who died building the Manila Film Center in 1981 were buried under what?

Scaffolding collapsed on 17 November 1981 and workers were buried in quick-drying cement; the Marcos government kept the site sealed for hours before rescuers were admitted, the brutalist building being rushed up for a film festival.

Along which road is Chicago's vanishing hitchhiker 'Resurrection Mary' picked up?

Drivers on Archer Avenue pick up a young woman in a white dress who asks to be dropped near Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, and fades as the car approaches the gates.

Visitors to which Roman arena report phantom crowd roars and gladiators in its vaults?

The Colosseum's hypogeum, where beasts and condemned prisoners once waited, draws reports of cold touches, animal sounds and phantom crowd roars from staff and tourists alike.

Bobby Mackey's Music World, 'America's most haunted nightclub', opened in 1978 in which state?

Bobby Mackey's Music World opened in 1978 in Wilder, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati; legend makes its basement well a 'portal to hell', and the Ghost Adventures TV series investigated it repeatedly.

The Gothic West Virginia Penitentiary, a ghost-tour fixture, stands in which town?

The West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville opened in 1876; its turrets and battlements were modelled, at half the size, on the Joliet prison in Illinois, and the original electric chair is part of the tour.

Missouri State Penitentiary opened in March 1836, the same month as which event?

Inmates over the years included James Earl Ray and boxer Sonny Liston. It was the oldest working prison west of the Mississippi when it closed in 2004.

The reputedly haunted St. Augustine Lighthouse stands at the north end of what?

The lighthouse stands at the north end of Anastasia Island, across the Matanzas River from St. Augustine; the site held a Spanish watchtower from the late 1500s, and the current tower went up between 1871 and 1874.

Which royal reportedly fainted on seeing Lincoln's ghost at the White House in 1942?

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, a White House guest in 1942, answered a knock at her door to find a top-hatted figure and fainted; Churchill is said to have met the same ghost stepping from the bath.

The Marfa lights, often blamed on ghosts, glow near a town in which US state?

Marfa is in far west Texas; in 2004 physics students from UT Dallas watched for four nights and traced every light they saw to car headlights on U.S. 67 between Marfa and Presidio.

Kuldhara, a cursed ghost village near Jaisalmer, was settled by which community?

Paliwal Brahmins settled Kuldhara in the 13th century; legend says they fled overnight to save a girl from the lecherous minister Salim Singh and cursed the site, while a 2017 study blamed an earthquake.

The Lemp Mansion in St. Louis, site of three family suicides, was built on what fortune?

The Lemp fortune came from brewing (Falstaff was a Lemp brand); the empire collapsed with Prohibition, the brewery was auctioned to the International Shoe Company in 1922, and the house became a restaurant and inn.

Franklin Castle, called the most haunted house in Ohio, is in which city?

Franklin Castle stands on Franklin Boulevard in Cleveland's Ohio City neighbourhood; the Queen Anne stone house was built in 1881-83 for German immigrant Hannes Tiedemann on what was then the city's grandest avenue.

The Sorrel-Weed House, probed on Ghost Hunters' 2005 Halloween special, is in which city?

The Sorrel-Weed House stands on Madison Square in Savannah, Georgia; the Greek Revival mansion, built around 1840, was one of the first two houses in Georgia named a state landmark, in 1954.

Which actor bought a pyramid tomb in New Orleans' St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in 2010?

Nicolas Cage bought the nine-foot white pyramid tomb, inscribed 'Omnia Ab Uno', in 2010; he will share the cemetery with voodoo priestess Marie Laveau, believed to lie in the Glapion family crypt.

Austin's haunted Driskill Hotel was built in 1886 by a baron of which trade?

Cattle baron Jesse Driskill built the hotel in 1886; a separate women's entrance let guests skip the lobby's cigar smoke, and its best-known ghost is Samantha, a child said to have fallen on the Grand Staircase.

The Hollywood Roosevelt, said to be haunted by Marilyn Monroe, hosted which first in 1929?

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in the Roosevelt's Blossom Room on 16 May 1929; Marilyn Monroe lived at the hotel for two years early in her career and posed for her first commercial shoot by its pool.

Teddy Roosevelt recruited Rough Riders in the bar of which hotel beside the Alamo?

The Menger Hotel opened in 1859 beside the Alamo; Roosevelt recruited Rough Riders in its bar in 1898, cattlemen traded herds in its lobby, and it became a staple of San Antonio ghost tours.

Rufina Cambaceres, the ghost of Buenos Aires' Recoleta Cemetery, met what fate in 1902?

Rufina Cambaceres is said to have been buried alive in 1902 after a cataleptic collapse at 19 was mistaken for death; scratch marks were reportedly found inside the coffin lid.

Who recorded a ballad about Annie Palmer, the 'White Witch' of Jamaica's Rose Hall?

Johnny Cash, who owned a house near Rose Hall, recorded 'The Ballad of Annie Palmer' in 1973; legend says she murdered three husbands before being killed by an enslaved man named Takoo, though historians consider most of it fiction.

Legend says 180 criminals were hanged from a beam inside which Welsh inn?

The Skirrid Mountain Inn at Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire, claims 180 hangings from a beam above its staircase, where rope marks are pointed out; it also claims to be the oldest pub in Wales.

Dublin's Hell Fire Club lodge was built around 1725 with stones taken from what?

When a storm tore off the slate roof soon after, locals blamed the Devil's revenge. William Conolly replaced it with an arched stone roof.

Scotland's Overtoun Bridge earned its 'Bridge of Death' nickname for what leaping from it?

Dozens of dogs have leapt from the 1895 bridge near Dumbarton since the 1950s, some repeatedly; theories range from the scent of mink below the parapet to the ghostly.

The Gray Man of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, is said to appear just before what?

Residents who see him supposedly find their homes spared. A couple interviewed on Unsolved Mysteries reported him before Hurricane Hugo in 1989.

Which prime minister, who died there in 1951, is said to haunt Canberra's Hotel Kurrajong?

Ben Chifley, prime minister 1945-49, preferred the modest Hotel Kurrajong to The Lodge and died of a heart attack in his room there on 13 June 1951 after skipping the Jubilee Ball.

Federici, the Princess Theatre ghost in Melbourne, died in 1888 while singing which role?

Frederick Federici had a heart attack as a trapdoor lowered him, as Mephistopheles, into 'hell' at the end of Gounod's Faust on 3 March 1888; the cast swore he still took his bow with them.

The Jersey Devil, said to be a cursed 13th child born in 1735, haunts which landscape?

The Jersey Devil haunts the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey; Mother Leeds supposedly cried 'May it be the devil!' and the newborn flew up the chimney, with Leeds Point claiming the birthplace.

The Chase Vault, famed for its 'moving coffins' in the early 1800s, is on which island?

The Chase Vault stands in Christ Church parish churchyard at Oistins, Barbados; each time the sealed vault was opened between 1812 and 1820 the heavy lead coffins had reportedly shifted, though sceptics call the tale historically dubious.

São Paulo's Joelma Building is said to be haunted after a 1974 disaster of what kind?

The Joelma fire of 1 February 1974 began with an overheated air conditioner on the twelfth floor and killed more than 170 people; the 'Thirteen Souls' legend centres on thirteen who died trapped in an elevator.

Harriet, the child ghost of Ireland's Charleville Castle, is said to have died how?

Harriet, an eight-year-old daughter of the house, is said to have died in 1861 sliding down the banister and falling from the grand staircase; the Gothic castle near Tullamore featured on Most Haunted.

Puck, a ghost said to show up in visitors' photos at Malahide Castle, was what in life?

Puck was the castle jester, found stabbed one snowy night still in his cap and bells; he is said to have sworn to haunt Malahide until a Talbot lord married a commoner.

Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel is said to be haunted by a girl who died in 1791 of what?

Mary Masters lived in the row of houses that once stood on the site. The hotel later hosted the drafting of the Irish Free State constitution in 1922.

Whispers at Dublin's St. Michan's Church are blamed on what kept in its vaults?

The mummies in St Michan's vaults were preserved by the dry limestone walls; they include an 800-year-old 'Crusader' whose head was stolen in 2019 and whose remains were destroyed in a 2024 fire.

Kellie's Castle in Malaysia was left unfinished when planter William Kellie-Smith died of what on a 1926 trip to Lisbon?

Pneumonia killed Kellie-Smith at 56 in Lisbon; he had begun the Moorish-style castle after his son was born in 1915, and workers who died during construction are said to haunt it.

Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital, 'Korea's most haunted place', was demolished in which year?

Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, was demolished in 2018, the same year the found-footage horror film Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum drew more than 2.6 million viewers.

The Palace of Linares, by legend Spain's most haunted place, stands in which city?

The Palace of Linares stands on Madrid's Plaza de Cibeles; built for the Marquis of Linares in the late 19th century, it houses the Casa de América cultural centre, and ghost-voice recordings in 1990 revived its haunted reputation.

Borgvattnet's haunted 1876 vicarage, where visitors can sleep over, is in which country?

Borgvattnet is a tiny village in Jämtland, Sweden; reports at the vicarage began in the 1920s, and chaplain Erik Lindgren's 1947 account of being thrown from a rocking chair made it briefly famous; it is run as a guesthouse.

Taiwan's abandoned Sanzhi 'UFO houses' were said to be cursed after workers split what?

Bisecting a Chinese dragon sculpture at the site entrance to widen the road was blamed for the curse; the pod-shaped resort was abandoned in 1980 after deaths during construction and demolished from December 2008.

Aradale asylum, where an estimated 13,000 people died, is in which Australian state?

Aradale stands at Ararat in Victoria; opened in 1867 alongside sister asylums at Kew and Beechworth, it closed in 1998 and hosts regular paranormal investigations.

Manhattan's haunted Morris–Jumel Mansion was home to Eliza Jumel, ex-wife of whom?

Eliza Jumel married former vice-president Aaron Burr in the mansion's parlour in 1833 and divorced him in 1836; the 1765 house is Manhattan's oldest and was Washington's headquarters for a month in 1776.