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myhauntedsalem · 27 days
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The Haunted Wedding Dress
Although most people associate hauntings with buildings spirits can also attach to objects. In past posts I wrote about: Haunted Mirrors, a Haunted Doll called Annabelle, a haunted portrait at Shirley Plantation and recently, The Scorched Bed.
In 1849, Anna Baker was the third child of a wealthy family who lived in Altoona, Pennsylvania. She had the misfortune to fall in love with a worker without means. Her father Elias Baker, who made his fortune as an ironmaster refused to give his consent for the two to marry. He then used his power and influence to have this man kicked out of Altoona.
Anna angry refused to marry anyone else. As the years passed she became a bitter old maid. When she died in 1914 she was still living in the family home.
Before her father’s refusal, in happier times Anna had picked out a beautiful wedding gown that she intended to wear at her wedding. Within the year another Altoona debutante, Elizabeth Dysart then bought this gown. She gloated for she knew Anna had hoped to wear it.
Years later this wedding dress was given to the Blair County Historical Society who eventually donated it to a local museum. This museum is housed in what was once the Baker home.
This wedding gown is displayed in a large glass case in a second floor room that once was the dressing room off Anna Baker’s bedroom.
Witnesses have seen this dress move of its own accord--especially during full moons.
This gown has been seen swaying from side to side. One witness stated it is as if a bride is holding this gown out in front of them as they admire it in a mirror.
The dress also has been seen shaking violently to the point where staff feared the glass case would shatter harming the dress.
Investigators have searched for a draft in this room or any other possible cause but nothing has been found to explain why this dress moves.
Some feel this dress moves because Anna Baker has just reclaimed what was supposed to be hers.
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thesehauntedhills · 6 months
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cryptonature · 5 months
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It's worth remembering that if ghosts are real,
then you already are one.
In 1,000 years you'll be dancing in churchyard rain
on some shaggy hillside
and you'll think of the body you once had
as a strange, short phase.
Like a bad haircut.
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behindthescreamz · 3 months
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victoria pedretti in the bent neck lady makeup and costume on the set of “the haunting of hill house” (2018)
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billiennn · 7 months
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Northern State Hospital in Sedro Woolley, WA
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mushroom1134 · 24 days
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I put down my book,
The Meaning of Zen,
and see the cat smiling
into her fur
as she delicately combs it
with her rough pink tongue.
"Cat, I would lend you this
book to study
but it appears that you have
already read it."
She looks up and gives me
her full gaze.
"Don't be ridiculous," she purrs.
"I wrote it."
Hollingsworth Art 🎨🎭🖌️🖍️ 🎨❤️
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the-ghost-king17 · 11 months
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I've done it, I've made it to the peak of my existence!
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explorearound · 2 years
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Fear of the dark
by arbebuk
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scheunensohn · 11 months
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If we are wet, we don’t need to sweat
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Audio on. My husband and I were watching The Nun II when my husband elevated this climatic moment
I looked at him and said “oh my god this is going on tumblr”
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theprofmoth · 30 days
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The creature may have many eyes, but they are all watching over you. Sleep well.
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myhauntedsalem · 17 days
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Dingess Tunnel
Hidden deep within the coal filled Appalachian Mountains of Southern West Virginia rests a forgotten land that is older than time itself. Its valleys are deep, its waters polluted and its terrain is as rough as the rugged men and women who have occupied these centuries old plats for thousands of years.
The region is known as “Bloody Mingo” and for decades the area has been regarded as one of the most murderous areas in all of American history.
The haunted mountains of this territory have been the stage of blood baths too numerous to number, including those of the famed Hatfield’s and McCoy’s, Matewan Massacre and the Battle of Blair Mountain. Even the county’s sheriff was murdered this past spring, while eating lunch in his vehicle.
Tucked away in a dark corner of this remote area is an even greater anomaly – a town, whose primary entrance is a deserted one lane train tunnel nearly 4/5 of a mile long.
The story of this town’s unique entrance dates back nearly a century and a half ago, back to an era when coal mining in West Virginia was first becoming profitable.
For generations, the people of what is now Mingo County, West Virginia, had lived quiet and peaceable lives, enjoying the fruits of the land, living secluded within the tall and unforgiving mountains surrounding them.
All of this changed, however, with the industrial revolution, as the demand for coal soared to record highs.
Soon outside capital began flowing into “Bloody Mingo” and within a decade railroads had linked the previously isolated communities of southern West Virginia to the outside world.
The most notorious of these new railways was Norfolk & Western’s line between Lenore and Wayne County – a railroad that split through the hazardous and lawless region known as “Twelve Pole Creek.”
At the heart of Twelve Pole Creek, railroad workers forged a 3,300 foot long railroad tunnel just south of the community of Dingess.
As new mines began to open, destitute families poured into Mingo County in search of labor in the coal mines. Among the population of workers were large numbers of both African-Americans and Chinese emigrants.
Despising outsiders, and particularly the thought of dark skinned people moving into what had long been viewed as a region exclusively all their own, residents of Dingess, West Virginia, are said to have hid along the hillsides just outside of the tunnel’s entrance, shooting any dark skinned travelers riding aboard the train.
Though no official numbers were ever kept, it has been estimated that hundreds of black and Chinese workers were killed at the entrance and exits of this tunnel.
Norfolk & Western soon afterward abandonment the Twelve Pole line. Within months two forces of workmen began removing the tracks, ties, and accessory facilities.
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thesehauntedhills · 2 months
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𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘖𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭
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cryptonature · 5 months
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Why do we associate skeletons
with autumn and Halloween?
It's simple.
Some people, like trees, are deciduous,
shedding all their flesh in the Fall
only to regrow it again in the spring.
A strong wind and suddenly you're bare bones
standing in the pale, October sunlight.
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its-off-to-hell-we-go · 9 months
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👻🎃Halloween in Salem 🎃👻
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somesaiyanarts · 8 months
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I really enjoyed the new haunted mansion movie, and I loved the idea of the hatbox ghost being a villain I think it was great! So far there hasn’t been really any Contant fan wise, so I thought I would add some of my own!  I am a sucker for family mysteries and stories with dark family secrets, so I wanted to add that into the plot of the movie. So I figured I make my own character with that premise. Jane Lewis is a direct descendent of Alistair Crump from his third wife, who he had a daughter with, but he died when she was very young. I will be designing her in the future, but even so it doesn’t look like they were on the best of terms, so her and her mother left to California to escape the scandal surrounding the crump family. 
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