The Wizard Clip was a ghost said to have clipped articles of clothing and visitor's hair at a home in Middleway, WV after a Catholic traveler died there in 1794 without receiving Last rites or other Catholic Sacrament.The Bell Witch partly inspired The Blair Witch Project and the events of her story were depicted in the film An American Haunting. Eventually the ghost was blamed for John Bell's death after it was said it left a poison disguised as medicine. It was also said to have tormented the family violently but seemed to have a fondness for daughter Betsy as she grew older until she fell in love with a man the witch despised. The spirit was said to have been witnessed by Andrew Jackson although this is highly unlikely and has manifested itself as various animals and a disembodied voice mocking John and citing scripture from the Bible. The Bell Witch was a poltergeist said to haunt the family of John Bell near the town of Adams, Tennessee starting in 1817.The stepfather hanged himself in his cell so the case never made it to the justice system. The mother of the 3 children was found dead at the bottom of the bannister a month before their death but it was ruled an accident since there was never any proof of evidence otherwise. There have also been stories of residents waking up and finding small shadowy forms standing beside the bed but disappearing right away. Stories have been told of apparitions being seen walking the upstairs hall throughout the night going in and out of the bedrooms as if looking for something or someone. Two were found in upstairs bathroom and third was found in the attic. Blood House, located in Orlando Florida where 3 children were killed by their evil stepfather.The bridge is dubbed 'Emily's Bridge' and she is said to be seen only at midnight. Emily, the ghost of a high school age girl who supposedly haunts a covered bridge in Stowe, Vermont.In a court trial, the woman's mother claimed that her daughter's ghost told her she had been murdered. Greenbrier Ghost, the alleged ghost of a young woman in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.Slag Pile Annie, a ghost said to appear as an elderly woman working in a remote and hard-to-access location in the former Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The Ridgeway Ghost of Wisconsin Folklore, is believed to terrorize people along a 25-mile stretch of old mining road.The Red Lady of Huntingdon College is a ghost believed to haunt the former Pratt Hall dormitory at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama.Old Book is the name given to a ghost or spirit which allegedly haunts a cemetery at Peoria State Hospital in Bartonville, Illinois.Minnie Quay, a legendary ghost of Michigan.Kate Morgan, a ghost which is said to haunt the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California.President Abraham Lincoln's ghost has been reported in the White House numerous times, many of those by prominent people such as President Theodore Roosevelt, First Lady Grace Coolidge, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill.Ghost of Queen Esther, the ghost of an Iroquois woman who allegedly mourns the massacre of her village in Pennsylvania.He is said to leave wet, bare footprints on the decks of the dredge, cause lights to flicker, and doors to open and close. Joe Bush, a legendary ghost that allegedly haunts the Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge in Sumpter, Oregon.Alleged encounters with the Hurruytiner's ghost, as well as that of a cat that would have been killed in his house, have been reported there. Pedro Benedit Horruytiner, colonial governor of Florida.See also: Chindi, Ghost sickness, and Ghost Dance

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