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In the Philippines, it is believed that spirits love to hang out in the basement. Frustratingly enough, the only way to make sure they don’t enter the house is by building them an exit that is lower than the basement itself. (Source)

Summerwind Mansion, Wisconsin’s Most Haunted House 

With a terrifying history of dark apparitions, disappearing corpses, attempted suicides, and demonic possessions, the infamous Summerwind Mansion is easily one of the most haunted places in Wisconsin and for good reason.

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Haunted Places: Wilson Hall, Ohio University 

The Ohio University in Athens, Ohio is perhaps the most haunted campus in the world. The place was established in 1804, a year after the statehood. Wilson Hall is the most famous haunted place on the campus. The building is apparently located in the middle of an immense pentagram consisting of five cemeteries situated in the region. 

The graveyards are scattered around the area and, when looked at on a map, they form a pentagram. A pentagram is the ancient occult symbol of power and magic. According to the pagan tradition, a pentagram might create safe areas free from any paranormal activity. The center is extremely important and it’s no wonder that Wilson Hall resides in the middle of this cemetery pentagram.

Wilson Hall is said to be the home of a ghost that died in a mysterious way in the 1970s. He died in room 428 and years after that students residing in that room have said to hear strange sounds and hear footsteps as well as witnessing several objects moving by themselves on their own. Since these occurences the room has been closed off and was not given to any new students again.

This is perhaps the only university room in the world that is sealed and closed. The school officials have proclaimed the room uninhabitable. The story says that the female student died in a violent way in that room after practicing occult.

It is said that the girl made use of the room’s energy to practice a method where the human spirit travels on its own after separating from the body. This technique is known as astral projection. The student was also rumored to have repeatedly attempted to contact the dead and that she often dabbled in sorcery practices. (Source) 

The last meal is based on a superstition from pre-modern Europe. By accepting the last meal, the condemned was believed to forgive the executioner, the judge, and any witnesses. This would prevent the condemned from returning as a ghost to haunt those responsible for their killing. (Source) 

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Specter of Newby Church

This picture — one of the more famous, and more controversial, pictures of potential ghosts — was taken in 1963 by Reverend K. F. Lord in Newby Church in North Yorkshire, England. Allegedly, some photo experts who have examined the photo say that the startling image is not the result of double exposure.

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Woman at Corroboree Rock, Australia

This picture, taken in 1959, seems to show a semi-transparent woman in a long gown standing at the edge of a group of trees, holding what might be a camera or pair of binoculars.

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Worstead Church

A picture taken in 1975 of Diane Berthelot sitting in the pews at Worstead Church in Norfolk, England, appears to show a creepy white figure sitting just behind here, though nobody else was present at the time the picture was taken by Diane’s husband Peter. 

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Grandpa’s Ghost

This picture, taken of the photographer’s grandmother shortly after she moved into a nursing home in 1997, shows an older man standing behind her. However, the photographer reports that there was no man there while the picture was being taken — and that, years later, members of the family realized he looked a lot like the grandmother’s husband, then deceased for three years. (Source)