Places Featured on the Lore Podcast

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

A number of gruesome unsolved murders have turned this simple home into a morbid tourist trap.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

The strange behavior of a tween led to allegations of witchcraft and a curse being placed on anybody within earshot.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

The Home and murder site of the witch of Rehmeyers Hollow.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

Memorializing the bravery of one young woman facing the monster of her age.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A small town hallucinates en masse - Bad bread, or CIA science project?

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.