It may come as a surprise to hear that there are many important people who say they witnessed the ghost of former President Abraham Lincoln in the White House.
Avid paranormal fans know there are certain items that are supposedly haunted — like dolls, maybe. But paintings, like The Anguished Man, can be just as scary.
Though Queen Victoria is known for not being easily "amused," she was likely terrified after seeing a "green mist" float in one of the rooms at Crathes Castle.
Zak Bagans, the host of Ghost Adventures, is no stranger to the paranormal. He claims to have had encounters with ghosts and spirits from the other realm.
Zak Bagans of Ghost Adventures has nerves of steel. He and the Ghost Adventures crew have investigated some of the creepiest possibly haunted places on earth.
One of the more recent fatalities put the shabby old Skid Row Cecil Hotel on the internet's map in 2013, when Elisa Lam mysteriously disappeared there.
Like so many supposedly haunted places, the Hotel del Salto near Bogotá, Colombia, had grand beginnings, built in 1923 by architect Carlos Arturo Tapias.
Broadway, considered this way, seems utterly primed for ghosts. Indeed, if the stories are to be believed, theaters up and down are packed full of spirits.
Aykroyd not only believes in the paranormal, he finds the whole idea "entertaining." He grew up with ghost stories that put most campfire tales to shame.
Black Sabbath transformed the music world with their dark and haunting aesthetic, but a prodigious pace in the early days left the band's creative well a bit dry. It turns out all they needed was something dark and haunting to turn things around.
Real ghostbusters -- sorry, "ghost hunters" -- stay within budget and don't filch the petty cash while phantasmagorically engaged. These ghost hunters, on their show Ghost Hunters, use some pretty low-tech tech to measure the movements of the unliving.
Many people believe Alcatraz is one of the most haunted places in the United States -- it's featured in several haunted San Francisco tours. The Rock, as it's sometimes called, has seen death and violence in its long history, so it wouldn't be a surprise if restless spirits remained on the island.
You probably expect that Disney parks' staff members deal with a lot of strange things. But there is one thing people have been doing in Disney World and Disneyland that's just not befitting the happiest place on Earth. Here's the strange thing that occurs at Disney World's Haunted Mansion.
With a horror movie, you can always click the television off if you creep yourself out. You can't do that when the paranormal intrudes on the real world.
Sightings of ghost pirates have been recorded all over the world. Ready to have your timbers shivered? Read on for some of the scariest pirate ghost stories.