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Documentation archive — ratings measure evidence volume, not truth.

113 published50 regions259 evidence & media

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Battersea Poltergeist

Historic · Rating B · Battersea, England · 20 January 1956

The Battersea Poltergeist case (1956–1968) stands as one of the longest-running, most extensively publicized poltergeist investigations in British history. Centered on 15-year-old…

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Hammond Castle

Active · Rating C · Gloucester, Massachusetts

Perched on the rocky cliffs of Gloucester, Massachusetts, overlooking Atlantic waters, Hammond Castle (originally named Abbadia Mare, or "Abbey by the Sea") is a unique fusion of m…

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Charlesgate Hotel

Active · Rating C · Boston, Massachusetts

Situated at 4 Charlesgate East overlooking the Muddy River and Back Bay Fens in Boston, Massachusetts, the Charlesgate Hotel is one of the city’s most architectural and paranormal…

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Houghton Mansion

Active · Rating C · North Adams, Massachusetts · 1 August 1914

Located on Church Street in North Adams, Massachusetts, the Houghton Mansion stands as a prominent late 19th-century Neo-Classical residence bound to one of New England's most hear…

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Lizzie Borden House

Active · Rating C · Fall River, Massachusetts · 4 August 1892

Located at 230 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts, the Lizzie Borden House was the site of one of the most famous unsolved double homicides in American history. On the morn…

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The Hoosac Tunnel

Active · Rating C · Massachusetts · 20 March 1865

The Hoosac Tunnel in western Massachusetts is one of New England's most enduring haunted-location legends. Constructed between 1851 and 1875, the tunnel claimed the lives of numero…

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Nelly Butler Apparition Case

Historic · Rating B · Sullivan & Franklin, Maine · 2 January 1800

Between August 1799 and August 1800, the coastal town of Sullivan, Maine, experienced what historians recognize as the first fully documented, multi-witness ghost story in post-Rev…

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New London Ledge Light

Historic · Rating B · New London Ledge Light, Connecticut

Situated at the mouth of the Thames River in Groton, Connecticut, New London Ledge Light is a three-story, French Second Empire style lighthouse constructed in 1909. According to l…

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Seguin Island Lighthouse

Active · Rating C · Seguin Island, Maine

Located at the mouth of the Kennebec River in Maine, Seguin Island Light—commissioned by George Washington in 1795—is one of the oldest and most isolated lighthouses in New England…

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Amityville House

Historic · Rating B · Amityville, New York · 13 November 1974

On 13 November 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr., 23, shot and killed his parents, two brothers, and two sisters in their beds at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, on the south shore of Long Isla…

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Villisca Axe Murder House

Active · Rating A · Villisca, Iowa · 9 June 1912

Sometime after midnight on 10 June 1912, eight people were killed with an axe as they slept in a house at 508 East Second Street in Villisca, Iowa. They were Josiah B. Moore, 43, h…

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Gardner-Pingree House

Active · Rating C · Salem, Massachusetts · 6 April 1830

On the night of 6 April 1830, Capt. Joseph White — an elderly Salem merchant then living at what is now the Gardner-Pingree House (128 Essex Street) — was killed in his bed: skull…