Ghost stories are not uncommon. True, people who were guests from the other world are often limited to simple and general descriptions of their visions, without specifics. And also, rarely is the identity of this ghost known. Even more often, these stories turn out to be fiction or joke. And, nevertheless, there are cases when people who actually lived on Earth are alive after their death.
Mamie Thurman
This happened in the summer of 1932 in the US state of West Virginia in the city of Logan. 32-year-old Mamie Thurman was both the wife of an honest police officer and a liquor dealer, which was then prohibited. In addition, there were rumors that she was having a secret affair with a local entrepreneur. On June 21, a boy picking berries found Mamie's body twenty meters from the road. Cut throat, gunshot wound to the head, bruises on the body.
The police suspected several people, but the killer was never found. After a while, the ghost of Mamie was repeatedly seen on the track, where the body was found. They tell stories about drivers who saw a young woman in rags there, they gave her a lift, but at some point on the way she simply disappeared from the car. We saw Mamie even on the passenger buses.
Karen Gregory
Karen, 36, has moved into the home of a longtime friend in Gulfport, Florida. Once Karen stayed at home alone for several days. On the night of May 24, 1984, neighbors heard women's screams, but the police were not called for unknown reasons.
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A few days later, Karen's friend called the police to visit his house, as Karen did not answer phone calls. The police arrived and saw a terrible picture: the woman was raped and killed with a knife.
Karen's killer was quickly found, it turned out to be firefighter George Lewis, who argued that he was not guilty. And, nevertheless, his fingerprints were found at the crime scene. George Lewis was sentenced to life in prison.
The house where Karen Gregory was killed was bought by a woman a few years later. She argued that the bloody stain in the room where the body of the murdered woman had been lying for two days could not be erased. The window through which the killer entered the house is broken upon any attempt to open it. The new mistress assured that several times she saw a terrible face in the mirror and heard heavy footsteps in the house.
Mildred Ann Reynolds
On March 15, 1956, 23-year-old Mildred Ann Reynolds was going to visit her husband at work, who worked as a physical education teacher at the Avard school in Oklahoma. Ann didn't show up at school. Her burned-out car was found near her house. The girl's body was in the front seat. Then they decided that it was a tragic accident.
However, later the police found the girl's right shoe two hundred meters from the burnt-out car. The girl's jacket was also found nearby. It turned out that the girl was killed and the car was set on fire. The killer could not be found.
Anne's ghost appeared after a long time at a local eatery in 1996. The diner is located where in 1956 there was a school where the husband of the murdered woman worked. Once, the owner of the cafe noticed a young girl in an old-fashioned green dress at the table. When the hostess approached to receive the order, the girl disappeared. Sometimes diners complain about the smell of burnt hair and skin.
Miles Fawceth
It happened on December 31, 1887 in Carlin, Nevada. Spouses Joseph and Elizabeth Potts invited Miles Fawcett to their house for a New Year's party. Since then, no one has ever seen Fawcett again. Almost all the townspeople suspected the Potts, but the police had no evidence that the Potts were involved in Fawcett's disappearance.
Unable to withstand the pressure of others, the couple sold their house and moved to another city. The house was bought by the Brewer family. Mrs. Brewer began to hear a strange tapping noise in the house. This noise came from the basement of the house. Every day this tapping became stronger and stronger. Then the owners decided to explore the basement. Under the floor, digging a little, they found human remains. It was a burnt body. Police identified the body as Miles Fawcett. The Potts were arrested the same day. The court sentenced them to death. The killers were hanged nearby. It is worth noting that Elizabeth Potts is the only executed woman in the history of Nevada.
The Cannock Chase murders
From 1963 to 1966, several young girls aged six to eight were kidnapped and killed in Great Britain. The girls were strangled and the bodies were thrown in the Cannock Chase Cemetery in Staffordshire. The killings rocked the entire country, and the largest hunt for men was launched. The killer was found, it turned out to be forty-year-old Raymond Leslie Morris. Morris was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
William Skito
1864, the American Civil War is about to end. In Newton, Alabama, Minister Bill Skito was killed. Political opponents brought Skito to the Choktotochi River and hanged him. There was no investigation or trial.
It is said that before his execution, Bill Skito prayed fervently to God that he would forgive his killers. When the executioners knocked the chair out from under the minister's feet, it turned out that the rope was not tied well to the branch, it bent and Bill touched the ground with his feet. Then the killers dug a hole under Skito, and he suffocated. It goes without saying that the death was long and painful.
After the execution, each of the killers died under very strange circumstances. The first was struck by lightning, the second shot himself, and the third killer went missing. And the hole dug under Skito's feet was never filled. The pit was repeatedly covered with earth, but it formed again.
The Manson murders
In August 1969, one of the most brutal murders in the United States occurred. In the town of Cielo Drive, eight people were brutally murdered in a house rented by renowned filmmaker Roman Polanski. The director's wife, who was eight months pregnant, was also killed. The killers were quickly found, they turned out to be the Mansons' spouses, who claimed that they had nothing to do with that massacre. And, nevertheless, the court sentenced them to life imprisonment.
In 1994, the house was demolished and a new one was built there. David Oman, the owner of the house, since 1999 began to hear terrible voices and heavy steps in the house. Mr. Oman claims that he was awakened late one night by a woman standing by his bed, pointing in the direction of the murders. Oman saw a photograph of Polanski and identified it as the ghost he saw.
David Oman's testimonies later formed the basis for the film “House at the End of the Street”.
Lisa Poslance
It happened on November 2, 2002 in Toronto. 36-year-old real estate agent, Lisa Poslance, stayed late at the office. When she left the building of the business center, she was attacked and taken to a utility room. There, she was tied up and raped, and then killed by cutting her throat. The body was found the very next day.
First, the police questioned the security guard of the business center, Rui Marquez. During interrogation, Marquez said that that night he had a vision: the ghost of a woman pointed in the direction of an office in which a strange young man named Nelson Desus worked. The police, of course, did not believe the words of the guard, but just in case they decided to check the guy. As it turned out, Desus pursued Lisa for three months before the murder. His DNA matched samples taken from the victim's clothes. The police have fully proven the guilt of Nelson DeSus.
Ella Maud Cropsey
In the small town of Elizabeth City, North Carolina in 1898, fifteen-year-old Ella Cropsey began dating the sheriff's son Jim Wilcox. Two years later, young people's relationships began to deteriorate. On November 20, 1900, Watkins went to Cropsey's house and called Ella out on the porch to "talk." Since then, no one has brought the girl alive. It goes without saying that Wilcox was the prime suspect. He insisted that he did not know anything, that day they broke off relations, and he left Ella on the porch of the Cropsey house.
Ella's body was found a month and a half later on the bank of the river with a head injury. Jim Wilcox was sent to prison. However, he did not stay there for a long time, he was pardoned, most likely, his father contributed to this. And yet, Wilcox's life did not work out. He could not find a job, he drank a lot, and his life ended in a mental hospital, where he hanged himself.
After Ella's death, several people stated that they saw her ghost on the same porch where they parted with Jim Wilcox. And a couple of times the girl's ghost was seen by the river, at the very place where her body was found.
Grace Brown
In 1905, 17-year-old Grace Brown worked in a garment factory in Cortland, New York. There, she met the factory owner's nephew, 22-year-old Chester Gillette. The young people began an affair. And after a while, Grace became pregnant.
Chester did not want children, he offered to pay for the abortion, but the girl did not agree. She wanted a child and married Chester. He promised to marry. Two weeks later, Chester brought Gray to Big Moose for a vacation. The next day, the guy rented a boat, which was later found overturned. The girl's body was pulled from the bottom of the lake, and bruises were found on her forehead. Chester was detained two days later at another resort. The guy claimed that his beloved committed suicide, but the police claimed that it was Chester who hit the pregnant Grace on the head with a stick and left her to drown. Chester was found guilty and executed in 1908.
The ghost of Grace Brown is sometimes seen near Big Moose Lake, most often it appears against the background of fog that descends on the lake. It is also curious that Chester Vest was convicted only on circumstantial evidence. The prison in which Chester awaited his execution is also haunted by his ghost.