Parapsychologists say that the greatest paranormal activity occurs in places where people have died violent deaths. The souls of those whose life was interrupted suddenly often cannot find peace for themselves. This is especially true for those who have become victims of crime. They are irresistibly drawn to the scene of the murder or to the place where the body is buried.
Basement noise
On New Year's Eve, 1888, Miles Fawcett of Carlin, Nevada, went to a party at the home of his friends, Joseph and Elizabeth Potts. No one saw him again. Fawcett's neighbors watched on several occasions as the Potts entered his house and even used the missing man's car. But everyone decided that perhaps they were just trying to find out where their friend had gone.
After the Potts moved to Wyoming in September 1888, some Brewers moved into their former home. Mrs Brewer was a journalist and appeared in a local newspaper. On January 5, 1889, she published a note stating that ghosts live in her house. The inhabitants of the house constantly heard some kind of tapping, and something else was making noise in the basement where cans were kept …
On January 19, there was so much noise in the basement that the owners decided to go down and examine it. Having dug a little the dirt floor, they stumbled upon … human remains! The corpse was dismembered and partially burned. The investigation revealed that these are the remains of the missing Miles Fawcett.
The Potts were sentenced to the gallows. Just think - if not for the strange noise from the basement, the murderers, most likely, would have gone unpunished!
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Woman in green
On March 13, 1956, a resident of the city of Avard (Oklahoma), 23-year-old Mildred Ann Reynolds, during her lunch break, decided to stop by her husband, who worked as a coach at a local high school. But soon her burning car was found in a ditch on a country road, about halfway to the school. Millie's dead body was in the driver's seat.
At first it was decided that an accident had occurred. But after examining the scene, the police noticed some oddities. So, the woman's right shoe, covered in blood, lay in front of the car at a distance of 230 meters. The victim's coat was lying behind, 30 meters from the car. It also gave the impression that someone had deliberately doused the car with a flammable substance to set it on fire.
As it turned out, a second car was seen near the accident site. Traces of his protectors have also been preserved. In addition, several bullet casings were found near the car.
Alas, the investigation did not lead to anything: no suspects were found. In 1996, a new restaurant was opened on the site of the gym where Mildred's husband worked. One day his employees saw a young woman dressed in green sitting at one of the tables. But when the waiter approached the table, it turned out that the visitor had disappeared somewhere. This was repeated many times. In addition, the restaurant smells of burnt hair from time to time …
House on Cielo Drive
On August 9, 1969, members of the famous Charlie Manson sect brutally stabbed several people in this rented Hollywood mansion. Among them were the pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski, actress Sharon Tate, as well as her friends stylist Jay Sibring, Wojciech Frykowski and Abigail Forgers.
In 1994 the mansion was demolished. A new building was erected in its place. However, according to legend, the ghosts of the innocent victims continue to live here. So, in 1999, David Oman, who built a house here, said that during construction, workers heard someone's voices and steps.
One night Oman woke up in his bedroom and saw that a man was standing by his bed and pointing somewhere to the side. Oman was later identified by a photograph of Jay Seabring. And he pointed directly to the scene of the crime.
Other eyewitnesses claimed that they were the ghost of a bleeding naked woman … All these testimonies later formed the basis of the film "House at the End of the Street".
Black table
On the night of November 2, 2002, 38-year-old Lisa Poslance, who worked as a real estate agent, was attacked as she left her office in Toronto. She was dragged into a back room, handcuffed, raped and her throat cut.
Police initially suspected a security guard named Rui Marquez. But he turned out to be innocent. However, during interrogation, Marquez recalled that on the night of the murder, a ghostly vision appeared in front of him for several seconds, pointing to a black table, which he was polishing at that time. For some reason, the guard immediately recalled an employee named Nelson de Jesus, who used to always wear black …
Subsequently, it turned out that De Jesus had been pursuing Lisa Poslance for several months. They took him for DNA analysis, and the sample matched those found on the clothes of the murdered woman. So the culprit was exposed.