Random Notorious Ghosts And Their Intensely Horrific Origin Stories (17 items)

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  (#12) Grace Brown's Ghost Appears At Big Moose Lake

  Grace Brown was 19 when she worked at the Gillette skirt factory in 1905. There, she met the handsome nephew of the owner, Chester Gillette. The two dated, but Gillette would not commit, often being seen with other young women. When Brown became pregnant, Gillette's time had run out and he took Brown on a trip to upstate New York.

  Brown assumed the trip to Big Moose Lake in the Adirondack Mountains was a wedding trip. The two rented a rowboat from a man named Robert Morrison and went out alone onto the lake. When the two did not return, Morrison organized a search party. They found the rowboat capsized, and nearby, Brown's remains. Two days later, police found Gillette in a nearby hotel.

  Gillette claimed that Brown had drowned herself after he told her that he didn't love her. The jury did not believe the story and convicted Gillette. In 1908, he met his end via the electric chair. As for Brown, her ghost can allegedly still be seen from time to time on the shores of Big Moose Lake.
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  (#1) Marion Parker's Spirit Wanders Her Childhood Home

  The sad story of 12-year-old Marion Parker began when 19-year-old William Edward Hickman her from her Los Angeles, CA school in 1927. His intention was to ransom her back to her wealthy father, banker Perry Parker. Hickman sent a series of cryptic notes to the Parkers, demanding gold certificates in exchange for Marion. Despite Parker's attempts to get his daughter back safely, Hickman choked Marion and mutilated her body.

  Still intent on getting his ransom, Hickman doctored Marion's face so that she appeared to be alive. He put Marion's remains in the back seat of his car, covered it up to the neck with a blanket. Hickman then drove to the rendezvous and quickly made the handoff, but Parker soon discovered that what he had paid for was not his daughter, but her corpse.

  Hickman was eventually caught and convicted, hanging in 1928. According to some, however, Marion lingers on. Her presence has been reported multiple times at her childhood home at 1631 S. Wilton Place in Los Angeles
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  (#11) One Little Ghost Girl Has Lingered Since The Black Plague

  In the town of York, England, in the time of the Bubonic Plague, a little girl lived with her family in an unassuming house behind the cathedral. The girl's parents began to show signs of the plague, and as per custom, the house was bolted up to contain the illness and stop it from spreading.

  It was assumed that the girl also had the plague, and the three became trapped in the house together. The plague took her parents' lives, but the little girl never contracted the disease. Despite this, she was still locked in the house with her deceased parents. She pressed her face up against the window, screaming at passersby for help, but to no avail. Eventually, she starved.

  If you look closely, some say you can still see the ghost of that poor little girl peering out the window, hoping desperately for someone to set her free.
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  (#9) La Llorona Looks For Children

  Many years ago, near the shores of the Santa Fe River, there lived a beautiful peasant woman named Maria. She married a wealthy man and bore him two sons. As the years went on, however, the husband grew tired of Maria. He would leave for days to go womanizing, drinking, and gambling, only returning to see his sons. After a while, he began openly talking about leaving Maria for a woman of higher class and taking the two boys with him.

  One fateful day, Maria was walking with her sons when she saw her husband riding in a coach with an elegant young woman. He stopped to say hello to the boys, paying Maria no mind. As the carriage rolled away, Maria lost her mind. She grabbed her children and dragged them to the banks of the Santa Fe, where she preceded to drown them.

  When she realized what she had done, she was overcome with grief. She started crying out for her boys, walking up and down the river to find them. She searched for days, eventually becoming emaciated from hunger, but she still would not stop. Eventually, she passed from exposure.

  To this day, a ghostly woman - referred to as La Llorona, or "Weeping Woman" - is said to wander the shores of the Santa Fe River wearing the same white dress she wore on the fateful day she ended her children. If she catches a child out alone, she'll drag them into the water to join her lost boys.
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  (#8) The Walls Of Clifford's Tower Drip With Blood

  The year 1190 was a dark one in York, England. Antisemitism was rampant, and the local Jewish community found themselves deeply imperiled. Fearing for their lives, many of them barricaded themselves inside Clifford's Tower, which at the time was merely a wooden structure.

  The authorities tried to retake the castle, but the scene turned into pure mob violence. The trapped people decided to end their own lives rather than face the mob.

  These ghosts are said to make appearances at the castle on occasion. According to local lore, the very walls of the castle bleed red every year on the anniversary of the bloodshed.
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  (#15) A Spirit Known As Chloe Appears In Photographs At The Myrtles Plantation

  Located in St. Francisville, LA, the Myrtles Plantation was once home to many enslaved people, one of whom is believed to have been named Chloe. Chloe had a habit of eavesdropping on conversations through keyholes. After catching her in the act on several occasions, the then-master of the plantation, Judge Clarke Woodruff, cut off her ear and banished her back to fieldwork as a punishment.

  Chloe, however, was determined to regain her position. She volunteered to bake a birthday cake for Woodruff's 9-year-old daughter. She laced the cake with poisonous oleander leaves. She intended to later cure the victim "miraculously," earning the family's devotion, but instead, Woodruff's wife and two of his daughters passed. Upon discovering the scene and learning of Chloe's plot from the other slaves, Woodruff had her hanged. Then he filled her pockets with rocks and threw her body in the river.

  In 1992, Chloe's image was captured standing between two of the buildings on the plantation. It is one of the most convincing spirit photographs in existence.

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