Welcome to day 3 of our 3 part series entitled “Top scary places to visit: Traveling on borrowed time” Seems I’ve been catching some flak for expressing my joy of being a proud Sagittarian. Crazy how this blog was my love child and I can’t say what the heck I want to say, Once again grow a sense of humor dude seriously! Well if you naysayers can do a better job by all means I’ll present you the opportunity. Soon I will be hosting a contest or sweepstakes where the winner will be able to take the helm for a week or so, sounds good, great! Till then if I’ve offended anyone accepted my humblest apologies.
So far I’ve covered 10 of the world scariest place and I’m having so much fun I’m thinking about extending to a fourth day. If you share my sentiments, please let a brother know by leaving comments. So far we covered some of the popular destinations; you know the ones you see in all the documentaries and Ghost Hunter style TV shows. Today we will cover some of the lesser known paranormal hot spots.
Take a look at what we have explored so far:
http://www.scarystuffthatmakesyoujump.com/top-scary-places-to-visit-day-1-to-3/
http://www.scarystuffthatmakesyoujump.com/top-scary-places-to-visit-day-2-to-3/
Today’s batch is by no means the runt of the litter. They are lesser known location, in part because these locations don’t share the same publicity of the much celebrated location, but none the less are pretty up there in the scary department.
- Bannerman’s Castle- The Haunted Isle or Pollepel Island: is an island in the Hudson River. Also known as Pollopel Island, Pollopel’s Island, and Bannerman Island, it is the site of Bannerman’s Castle the name is from the Dutch word pollepel ‘ladle’.
The principal feature on the island is Bannerman’s Castle, an abandoned military surplus warehouse. It was built in the style of a castle by businessman Francis Bannerman VI (1851–1918). Pollepel Island is sometimes referred to as Bannerman’s Island. One side of the castle carries the words “Bannerman’s Island Arsenal”.
- The Shanghai Tunnels: less commonly known as the Portland Underground, are a group of passages running underneath Old Town/Chinatown down to the central downtown section of Portland, Oregon, United States. The tunnels connected the basements of many downtown hotels and bars, to the waterfront of the Willamette River. They were built to move goods from the ships docked on the Willamette to the basement storage areas, which allowed businesses to avoid streetcar and train traffic on the streets when delivering their goods.
In 1990, Bill Naito was quoted in The Oregonian that the tunnels are underneath “Northwest Couch, Davis and Everett streets.”
According to a popular, but historically questionable legend, from the 1850s to the early 20th century, they were used to kidnap or “shanghai” unsuspecting laborers and sell them as slaves to waiting ships at the waterfront. According to folklore, as many as 1500 people per year were shanghaied out of Portland through the tunnels. However, there are no records to support this number. Allegedly, victims were drugged or knocked out, taken through one of the trap doors (or deadfalls), and held in a prison cell while they waited to be shipped off. Later, during Prohibition, the tunnels were inhabited by bars that literally went underground to sell alcohol.
- Franklin Castle: The house was built in 1865 by architects Cudell & Richardson for Hannes Tiedemann, a German immigrant. On January 16, 1881, Tiedemann’s fifteen-year-old daughter Emma succumbed to diabetes. The house saw its second death not long afterwards when Tiedemann’s elderly mother, Wiebeka, died. During the next three years the Tiedemanns would bury three more children, giving rise to speculation that there was more to the deaths than met the eye.
To distract his wife, Luise, from these tragedies, Tiedemann began extensive construction on the home, adding a ballroom which runs the length of the house in the fourth floor of the manor. Also during this building, turrets and gargoyles were added to the edifice’s facade, giving the house an even more pronounced “castle” appearance.
- Rookwood Cemetery: (officially named Rookwood Necropolis) is the largest multicultural necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere, located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Rookwood is also considered to be a suburb, close to Lidcombe railway station about 17 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district.
Rookwood Cemetery is divided into denominational and operational areas with individual offices, staff, and equipment to run different parts of the entire area. The cemetery is now managed by five denominational Trusts, each of which is responsible for the care and maintenance of a number of burial sections catering to various ethnic and cultural groups within the community. The following individual Trusts manage the cemetery on behalf of the NSW State Government: Anglican & General Cemetery Trusts, the Catholic Cemeteries Board, The Independent Cemetery Trust, Jewish Cemetery, Muslim Cemetery Trust, and, importantly, The NSW Cremation Company, which founded and operates The Rookwood Crematorium, the oldest operating crematorium in the country. The NSW Cremation Company is the only private company operating a ‘cemetery’ section within the necropolis grounds, today the company is part of the Invocare company, with links to Service Corporation International of the USA. Rookwood also contains a number of memorial shrines including those dedicated to victims of the Holocaust and to members of the merchant marine killed in wartime. The Sydney War Cemetery is located in the eastern section of the necropolis. The Circle of Love is a shrine dedicated to stillborn children or those who died in young infancy.
- Voodoo Village, Memphis TN: The hoodoo empire of Walsh Harris’ Voodoo Village, (a fenced compound of brightly colored houses and signs in deep South Memphis) Home to a variety of artistic and intellectual practitioners. Rumors of Animal Sacrifices and Strange Masonic Rituals Make Voodoo Village One of the Most Enduring Legends of Haunted Memphis
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You can also find more on these interesting locations by visiting Wikipedia.org and simply doing a name search. Thanks to the good folks at Wikipedia for putting together such an awesome research.
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