Phantasmal Crime

The Plains of Abraham have known death. This is a historic area inside Battlefields Park in Quebec City, Canada. Quebec City had been the capital of New France and was a strategic location in the colony. The French and English would fight for control here in a battle that took place on September 13, 1759. The Plains of Abraham were named for Abraham Martin who had owned the fields. The battle lasted 30 minutes and the French were defeated. This had been a very bloody battle. The British had 658 casualties and the French had 716. Stories of the ghosts of dead soldiers roaming the plain have traversed the years even up into our modern era with the Plains of Abraham now serving as an urban park. Before the park, this was a place few would wander as it had a reputation for being a hiding place for criminals. Then it became a spot for executions to be carried out. And that is why there is a female ghost that roams the Plains of Abraham. Everyone calls her La Corriveau. The legend behind La

Asheville is a smaller city in North Carolina where I had the pleasure of experiencing one of my favorite ghost tours. While on that tour, I heard about a mass shooting involving a man named Will Harris. This happened many years ago and the violence and the residue of that event seems to have left an energy that still traverses the same area where the crimes took place to this day. Join me as we explore the crimes of Will Harris and the ghostly aftermath. Asheville is known as an artsy and bohemian city, nestled in the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountain Range. Thoughts of murderous rampages are incongruous with the community that dwells here, but 112 years ago, a man named Will Harris broke the calm during a night of mass murder. Will Harris was a bad guy. He had a long rap sheet having been busted for stealing and assault many times in Charlotte, North Carolina. He had spent time in jail in Charlotte and was assigned to a chain gang of black felons from which he escaped. Char

(Suggested by: Joanne Maio) The Amityville Horror caused people to question whether a home could be possessed and cause a person to kill nearly their entire family, as Ronnie Defeo did in 1974. He killed his father and mother and four siblings. A family who moved in after the massacre, claimed to experience some intense haunting activity in the home that paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren judged to be demonic. Regardless of what one may personally believe about the case, the question of whether someone could be possessed or influenced into committing murder is real. This theory becomes more complicated when associated with an entire island. Is there a curse on the Palmyra Atoll and did it have anything to do with the murder of Muff and Mac Graham?  Palmyra Atoll is a territory owned by the United States and is located around 1000 miles south of Hawaii. The tranquil island is beautiful with blue lagoons and white sand beaches. The island received its name in 1807 from Capta

This subject was suggested by listener: Stefanie Pettiford A man was on a simple afternoon stroll on December 9, 1909 in his Savannah, Georgia neighborhood when he heard moaning coming from 401 W. Perry Street. What he found inside the small wooden house would horrify the city. One woman lay dying and two more were already dead. An axe had been used and the murders were brutal. As to who committed the crime, that remains a mystery, although the husband of one of the women was convicted and served some time in prison before being pardoned. Perhaps that is why the location where the murders happened has stories of hauntings.  Old Town Trolleys has locations in several historic cities and Savannah is one of those cities. The barn where the fleet was stored in the city was at 234 Martin Luther King, Jr. This is a warehouse that was erected in 1944 and came under ownership of Old Town Trolleys in 1995. Prior to that, there were several homes here, a saloon, stores and former slave quarters

Love triangles are never a good thing. Someone always gets hurt. And sometimes, someone gets dead. In the case of this story, that someone was a man named Stanley Goodside. He became friends with two former flower children and when things got complicated, Goodside was murdered. This is a tale of a pot bust, a love triangle, a murder, a body that was dismembered and had parts ending up in different places and a haunting left in the wake. My Dad spent his early childhood living in a converted chicken coop. It was something that families of lesser means had to do to put a roof over their heads. Lani and Rodger Aldridge moved to Quincy, Illinois in 1974 and moved into a property at 1631 N. 24th Street that had two houses. The couple lived in a smaller two-story house that was in the back of the property with their six-year-old son. That house was a converted chicken coop. Another house at the front of the property, they rented out. This area of Quincy was quiet and remote in the 1970s and

We often wonder why spirits stay behind in haunted locations. Many times the answer is that some sort of trauma was experienced. And digging even deeper, we sometimes find that a spirit is at unrest because their case hasn't been solved or even perhaps that their body hasn't been discovered. I've been collecting ghost stories from around the world for years. I found this one out of India that happened not too many years ago. This is the story about a murdered couple who wouldn't rest until their bodies were found.  Pune (poo nuh) is located in Western India and is one of the largest hubs for IT and manufacturing in the country. Nicknamed the "Oxford of the East," many residents are highly educated and this is a major cultural center. A major settlement here dates to 858 AD when the Rashtrakuta dynasty ruled. Many dynasties followed along with British rule and several temples were built in the city. Pune became a center of social reform and even Ghandi spent ti

Not too far from Malabar Farm State Park in Ohio sits Pleasant Valley Cemetery. One marble grave marker stands a bit higher than the rest of the headstones around it and across the top is embossed the family name Rose. This marks the final resting place of three members of the Rose family who all died within a thirty day time frame. The cause of death was not some hideous plague that swept through town. The family was murdered. That revelation is horrific enough, but what makes this story truly chilling is that they were murdered by one of their own. David S. Rose was born in 1829. He married Rebecca Easter in 1855 and they had two children, Walter and Celia. When the Civil War broke out, David enlisted with the Union Army at the age of 32. He served with distinguished honor in the 63rd Infantry Regiment Ohio. He mustered out in 1865. Walter had been born in 1857, before the war, but Celia came much later. She wasn't born until 1873. Celia, or Ceely as everybody call