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Visit even the smallest of towns in the U.S. and you’re likely to hear some local ghost stories and discover a few haunted houses. But some American cities have gained the reputation for being particularly ghost-ridden thanks to their rich and often bizarre historical backgrounds. The following are ten of the most haunted cities to [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under All, Bizarre, Travel · Tagged Alcatraz, Alcatraz Island, architecture, Athens Lunatic Asylum, Bachelor Grove Cemetery, cities, Dock Street Theater, Evil, ghosts, gothic, halloween, hampton Lillibridge House, haunted, haunted cities, haunted houses, haunting, horror, horror stories, Joshua Ward House, lalaurie house, legend, Robert the Doll, Shanghai Tunnels, terror, The Devil's Den, top 10 haunted cities, vampire, witchcraft, witches
Spooks, spirits and specters – the stuff of folklore and films for centuries. Don’t be afraid of this list, there are friendly ghosts and frightening spirits who are more famous in this life than in the afterlife. This list brings you the most famous fictional and non-fictional ghoulies we love to get scared by.
10. Casper [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Friday, May 1, 2009 at 1:34 am
Filed under All, Bizarre · Tagged abraham lincoln, amityville, Bloody Mary, Brown Lady, Casper, Casper McFadden, Casper the Friendly Ghost, christina ricci, famous ghosts, friendly ghost, ghostly trio, ghosts, ghosts spirits, ghoulies, Gost of the Seven Gables, haunted, haunting, horror, jacob marley, Lincoln, poltergeist, scary, seven gables, South Shields Poltergeist, specters, SS Watertown, terror, tombstone, western folklore
Okay, I admit, I am a bit of a nerd. I don’t do pocket protectors, tape on glasses or plaid pants, so I am a cool nerd, but a nerd none the less. One of the ways that this nerdiness manifests itself is in my unabashed admiration of the LOTR trilogy. If you don’t see [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Monday, April 20, 2009 at 5:46 am
Filed under All, Movies · Tagged aragorn, arwen, denathor, Elves, eowyn, Frodo, Hobbits, horror, legolas, lord of the rings, LOTR, Merry, movie, movie scenes, Movies, nazgul, Pippin, Return of the King, Samwise, tolkien, two towers, violence
Stephen King is quite prolific, having penned over 40 novels and 166 works of short fiction. Therefore, for this Top Tenz list, we couldn’t narrow it down to just novels or short stories. Any reader of King’s knows that he threads many of his works together, but the purpose of this list is to praise [...]
Posted by Elizabeth Downing Johnson on Friday, April 3, 2009 at 6:39 am
Filed under Literature, People · Tagged 14 dark tales, Annie Wilkes, Books, Carrie, crazy, crimes, dark tales, Everything's Eventual, horror, horror books, horror stories, Literature, Low Men in Yellow Coats, mad, Misery, People, Rage, Richard Bachman, Shawshank Redemption, Short Story, Stephen King, stephen king books, the gunslinger, The Long Walk, The Stand, villain, weird books, Wizard and Glass