6 Places To Have A Paranormal Experience (PHOTOS)

Whether they're ghost hunters, investigators of the unexplained or just X-Files junkies getting their David Duchovny on, a surprising number of people believe in the possibility of ghosts, aliens, cryptids and other unexplained phenomena. After all, it only takes one UFO or Big Foot sighting to turn someone into a believer for life.

If you want to do a little more paranormal travel, these destinations are some of the top places to investigate or experience something from another world or dimension.

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For more on haunted and mystical places, read:

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• 5 of the World's Most Haunted Places

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[jal6641]

02:04 PM on 10/31/2011

How about Gettysberg, and the site of the Sand Creek massacre and Wounded Knee.

[Steamboater]

01:18 PM on 10/31/2011

Well, Washington D.C. couldn't possibly with this. It's the only place where the president, the congress and senate can't see dead people or refuse to see them and in this miserable war in Afghanistan.

[floodberg]

12:50 PM on 10/31/2011

I had my own experience with the paranormal when I bought my first house 25 years ago.  Built after WWII, no one had owned it for more than 4 years (very odd), nice light, great neighborhood, sure to accrue in value, price was quite low but they couldn't sell it.  The big closet under the stairs (first floor) was painted black (I couldn't figure out why they didn't repaint it) but I bought it anyway.

That winter I moved in and had no big issues except I needed that closet to put coats and my snow shovel.  I started painting; when I turned around I couldn't see the lamp I'd placed outside the door.  Something about the size and shape of a hot water heater was outside the doorway; filled with dark curling smoke, and it was really p*ssed off.  I was furious; I had every dime in this house and now I knew why it was so cheap.  I told it to go away (that didn't work) and decided I'd just paint until it finally left.  I went to bed trying to figure out who to call.

I didn't need it investigated and didn't want publicity; I needed it gone.  I had done a closing where I'd really liked the seller, a well-known priest (retired) and activist.  He walked in and looked around, then told me to go away.  When I returned the house felt different and the only thing he said is 'call me if it comes back.' (I didn't ask.)   I took him out for dinner, told him if he ever needed a lawyer I'd do it for free and talked about his activism.

About a month later I was talking to my neighbors (husband/wife and 9yo boy); who were finally rehabbing their kitchen.   Something was bothering them and the little boy finally asked 'did you see the big smoky thing?' and his parents asked if I had gotten rid of it.  Apparently it moved into their kitchen (on the other side of our common wall.)  I couldn't expose my friend, so I just suggested they call their priest. 

A few years later I married and moved in with my wife, sold the house and made a good profit.  One of her friends (well-known realtor) asked me where I had lived.  She knew the house; there were 8 houses in our area that 'had problems,' and that was one of them. (I knew 2; horrid murder scenes.)  Apparently there's a real need for folks who can 'cure' this problem; but I couldn't give away my friend.  (True story.)

[Steamboater]

01:32 PM on 10/31/2011

It's happened to me a few times. When I was young I was working as an apprentice at a summer stock theater in Kennebunkport, Maine. The theater was an old barn. Apprentices were housed in the main house sharing rooms together. The house and everything had once been owned by singer Jane Morgan and her family. I saw a woman every now and then and during the day in a long dress, something that looked like a period piece. When I asked everyone who she was no one knew. I kept seeing her and she would just pass by the bedroom door every once in a while Finally someone told me about the ghost that haunted the house, some woman during the 19th century. The theater owner told me she had been seen before and was harmless but being young, it really scared me. When I dated one of the gypsies from one of the road tours during one week (that's a dancer) we would meet in town and I would have to walk by the cemetary late at night to get there, one of those Stephen Kink New England graveyards. I walked very fast as you can imagine. Years later, my sister was at my apartment and when she left I had a bad feeling and just knew she would get hit by a car. I heard a pounding, loud like a crash, and ran outside and sure enough, she was hit by a car crossing the street.

[Dogma]

01:48 PM on 10/31/2011

Great story... that thing was obviously "living" in that closet. But why was it painted black, I wonder? Did your neighbors ever rid themselves of that thing?

[doctorjay48]

12:44 PM on 10/31/2011

All experience is normal. If you think it's paranormal, you haven't had much experience or you just don't understand.

[glockman]

11:30 AM on 10/31/2011

#7: My bathroom after some good Mexican food.

[pjmqone05]

11:26 AM on 10/31/2011

In 1990 I lived in the old Will Rogers Hospital in Saranac Lake New York. It was under renovation and only 8 of us lived in this huge mansion. We could all be together and some of the sounds you would hear would make your hair stand on edge. I am not talking about house or plumbing sounds Im talking slamming doors, screams, spots that were hot and then spots that were cold. Very weird stuff. I moved after 8 months.

[rushmc]

11:24 AM on 10/31/2011

Stop promoting woo to profit off of the credulous! One can have a "paranormal experience" anywhere--because it is a sign of mental illness.

[Dogma]

01:55 PM on 10/31/2011

When you learn to write correctly, THEN you can give lessons on credulity. Not before.

[AbstractImp]

11:24 AM on 10/31/2011

If you can find a
PAIR OF NORMAL
friends to enjoy it with.

[csmomo]

11:19 AM on 10/31/2011

And just supposing (humor me!) that someone finds a specimen of "Bigfoot." What then?
In the face of all the problems the world faces today, "Bigfoot" rates less than 10 seconds of consideration.

[imonlyhereforthelaughs]

01:10 PM on 10/31/2011

What if Bigfoot gets a reality show?

[Sulk]

11:17 AM on 10/31/2011

If Bigfoot like tromping around a smoking volcano they may have to change his name to Hotfoot.

[bigmovieman]

11:16 AM on 10/31/2011

I've been to the Winchester house, what a maze it is. Look out for the man in overalls that haunts the basement cellar....

[FrancisFredrick]

10:50 AM on 10/31/2011

I wonder what it's like in area 51

[LRAdams]

10:39 AM on 10/31/2011

They left out two of the most *Paranormal* Locations in the World. The United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C. and the *Whitehouse. These building have been occupied by some of the most magical witches and warlocks ever assembled.

[floodberg]

12:54 PM on 10/31/2011

I've lived near Wash. DC most of my life.  Try the Octagon, Monticello for houses; Ford's Theatre (I had a weird experience there).  At night, go down to the water at Point Lookout (former civil war POW camp, right on the bay) at night.  St. Mary's College is another one; very old residents that never moved.

[oliver clothesov]

10:32 AM on 10/31/2011

how about the Fukashima powerplant and all the nuclear radioactive waste it released into the air and water... bet you could and will have some paranormal happenings when the plumes reach the US.... you would think Fukashima would be front page news.... ?

[nicenissey]

10:50 AM on 10/31/2011

It will be haunted once you can spell it right.

[gx5000]

10:22 AM on 10/31/2011

Replace Paranormal with Meta Physical and I'm with ya....