Cheer! Flashlight tours are back.Follow

Every Halloween (and Friday the 13th) the Winchester Mystery House does nightly flashlight tours. It’s spooky as hell. For those who don't know, the Winchester Mystery House was the home of Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune. She believed she was haunted by the ghosts of those killed by Winchester rifles. She continuously built onto the house twists and turns and stairs that lead nowhere to confuse the ghost. Construction was continuous over 38 years until her death. It’s pretty cool, especially in the middle of the night with nothing but a flashlight. If you like eerie thing and are in the area of San Jose, CA check it out.

Any haunted areas in your neck of the woods?

We have abandoned factories and Mental Institutions around here in New Jersey. I have not been to them and probably never will. I used to go to random "haunted" places when I was in college, like abandoned roads and half burnt down high schools. Never saw any ghosts

That kind of stuff is fun as hell I feel that I may be too old for it. Besides I can not think of anyone that would want to tag along.
For info on bizarre and spooky places in New Jersey CHECK OUT Weird nj. They have been publishing zines of all the jersey hot spots for years. They have a book out now and a show on TLC or AMC or Bravo....

Edited, Tue Oct 4 07:21:39 2005 by Soracloud

I'm calling you a fat black man with a gastric bypass, ya douche.

The guy has coined the term "what's in your neck of the woods?" He probably says it to his wife as he goes down on her.

Edited, Tue Oct 4 07:40:03 2005 by Chand

Edited, Tue Oct 4 08:07:33 2005 by ProofsockXXII

You're a hater

Legend has it, that somewhere around here a school bus full of elementary children was hit by a train while stalled out on a set of train tracks back in the 50's. Since then, if you parked your car on the spot in the right direction and left it in nuetral, a mysterious force would push you off the tracks even though it was uphill. Some people even claimed that if you sprinkled some powder on the back bumper you could see where the small hands had been. It's now somewhat of a tradition to go out and try it on Halloween. However, the police patrol the area regulary and keep people moving along or it becomes a nuisance for the people that live in the neighborhood.

No love for Bachelor's Grove?

I remember a place like that back in Anchorage. Called gravity hill IIRC. A girl whose name I am shamed I cannot recall took me out there one night. The car did roll "uphill" but it's an optical illusion created by the opposing slope of the hills beside the road. I coulda whipped out some string and a level to prove it, but there was more important business on the agenda. She had such a sparkling personality. Don't you hate it when you can't remember someone you actually LIKED?

As was written in an earlier post, in NJ we have Weird New Jersey, a book/magazine that highlights all of these haunted places.

The closest, and most well known one in my area, is Spy House.

http://www.mythmission.com/Haunted/SpyHouse.htm

No, not going to make fun of you at all. I cant seeing as how I think my house is haunted.

This site has all the haunted stuff in my area. The page I linked being the closest.