Phantasmal Crime

Anne Boleyn was the second wife of Henry VIII and she probably is the wife that most people are familiar with of his six wives. She was executed, but she was innocent, so this was murder. A schism was created when Henry tried to annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. The King had to wait seven years before he could marry Anne, but his love waned just three years into that marriage. He stood by as she was executed. This kind of betrayal and unjust death can lead to hauntings and in the case of Anne Boleyn, it would seem that her spirit is at unrest. The controversy and mystery that surrounds the life and death of Anne Boleyn began at her birth. Trying to pin down her date of birth is impossible. Historians have argued for centuries and eventually they agreed on two separate years: 1501 and 1507. Her father was Thomas Boleyn, who became Earl of Wiltshire and Ormonde and he was a member of the Privy Council. Her mother was Lady Elizabeth Howard who was the ...

Is it possible that some kind of great evil could whisper in the ear of a man and compel him to kill? That is what Matthias Schambacher claimed. The German Schambacher had immigrated to America and eventually opened an inn with his wife in 1851. The couple would use the cover of their inn to murder people and do away with their bodies. Those murders left behind ghosts and Schambacher may have even gotten a final strike from God, when lightning hit his tombstone as he was lowered into the ground. The natural and the supernatural seem to occupy the same place here. The Blue Ridge Mountains are gorgeous with their tree covered peaks and blue-green hue. I've driven the Blue Ridge Parkway and spent time in the Crown Jewel of the range, Asheville. The entire range is just amazing with many peaks, all identified with individual names. One of these peaks is Hawk Mountain, which rises to 1,521 feet. Many take advantage of several of the hiking trails that traverse the 2600 acre Hawk Mo...