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Our own write-ups of haunted places in the news, famous cases and the science of feeling haunted — every claim attributed, every source linked, and the skeptical view alongside the witness accounts.

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ANNIVERSARY · KENTUCKY · Oct 18, 2026

Waverly Hills turns 100: the hospital behind the haunted legend

Louisville’s Waverly Hills Sanatorium opened its Tudor Gothic hospital in October 1926. A century on, its ghost stories often outshine its real history.

RESEARCH · USA · Oct 17, 2026

Who believes in ghosts in 2026? What two new surveys really show

A study links ghost belief to churchgoers who trust science; a YouGov poll finds 45% of Americans think ghosts exist. What the numbers do and don’t mean.

NEWS · MISSOURI · Oct 16, 2026

The Lemp Mansion is for sale, but its ghost tours carry on

St. Louis’s most famous haunted house is on the market for the first time in 51 years, but its Halloween ghost hunts go on. A look at the history.

NEWS · HALLOWEEN 2026 · Oct 14, 2026

Halloween 2026 at three of America’s famous haunted landmarks

Eastern State Penitentiary, the Queen Mary and the Stanley Hotel are deep in Halloween season. What’s on, what’s new and where the ghost stories come from.

FIELD REPORT · LOUISIANA · Oct 12, 2026

HBO’s ‘Pet Cemetery Murders’ and the ghost said to reopen a case

HBO revisits a 1985 killing in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, where witnesses said the victim’s ghost urged them to talk. Here is what the record shows.

INVESTIGATION · LOUISIANA · Oct 11, 2026

The Myrtles Plantation’s ‘Chloe’: the legend against the record

Louisiana’s Myrtles owes much of its haunted fame to the ghost of an enslaved woman named Chloe. The historical record tells a very different story.

EXPLAINER · SCIENCE · Oct 8, 2026

Infrasound, carbon monoxide and the science of feeling haunted

A faulty furnace in 1921, a humming fan in a Coventry lab, volunteers at Hampton Court: what a century of research says about why some places feel haunted.

EXPLAINER · GHOST-HUNTING GEAR · Oct 5, 2026

What ghost-hunting gear really measures, and what it can’t

EMF meters, spirit boxes and EVP recorders are the props of every ghost hunt. Here is what each one actually detects, and what experiments say about them.

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