Phantasmal Crime

The historic Doheny Greystone Estate is more commonly known as the Greystone Mansion and was even once known as the Hearst Castle. This glorious and grand home was built in the future home of the Trousdale Estates overlooking Beverly Hills. The mansion has been the set for several movies, music videos and television shows, but it was also the setting for a murder/suicide. The heir to one of the great financial empires, Edward "Ned" Doheny, Jr., the man who owned the house, was dead. For decades, visitors and staff have claimed that paranormal experiences have occurred at the Greystone.  Edward Laurence Doheny bought the land that the Greystone Mansion would eventually be built upon. He had come to California from Wisconsin where he was born. Doheny was dreaming of gold, but he found something better, black gold. Doheny and his friend Charles A. Canfield struck oil in Los Angeles in 1892. Their interests traveled further south to Mexico and before long, the two men were the la

The Toronto Grand Opera House was the scene of a haunting that was connected to a crime that was once dubbed the "Crime of the Century." Ambrose Small was a wealthy theater producer who mysteriously disappeared in 1919, on the same day he acquired one million dollars. He was never seen again and eventually declared dead. Could this be why he is not at rest in the afterlife? Ambrose Joseph Small was born on January 11, 1866 in Bradford, Upper Canada. His father, Daniel Small, was an Irish Catholic who opened a hotel/saloon in Toronto. In 1880, he became the proprietor of the Grand Hotel, which was adjacent to Alexander Henderson Manning's Grand Opera House on Adelaide Street West. Ambrose went to school in Toronto at St Michael’s College and De La Salle Institute. He eventually went to work at the Grand Opera House, as an usher and bartender. He learned the theater trade and stayed there until 1889 when he got in a fight with the manager Oliver Barton Sheppar

Georgetown is a picturesque small town in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. My family visited often when I was a kid because my dad enjoyed fishing in Georgetown Lake. He never failed to reel in a few rainbow trout. Unbeknownst to us, Georgetown was the scene of a murder over oysters and the lynching of the perpetrator back in the mid-1800s. That murderer was Edward Bainbridge and his spirit is believed to still haunt Georgetown. Reconstruction America was a very difficult time for black people. Formerly enslaved people were trying to find their place in this new society and much of what they found was discrimination, even in the North. Some of these individuals looked to the West to start a new life and that is where Edward Bainbridge set his sights. His first stop West was St. Louis. He immediately ran into trouble here losing all of his traveling money to gambling and women. One positive experience he had in St. Louis was getting his first taste of Atlantic oysters here and he loved