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The Richmond Vampire (also called locally the Hollywood Vampire) is a recent urban legend from Richmond, Virginia. Local residents claim that the mausoleum of W. W. Pool (Dated 1913) in Hollywood Cemetery holds the remains of a vampire. Supposedly Pool was run out of England in the 19th century for being a vampire.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is said to have a few ghosts, including dead soldiers from the Battle of Ball's Bluff fought during the American Civil War haunting near the 33–34 mile mark, [72] a lady ghost on the 2 mile level at Catoctin (between locks 28 and 29), [72] a headless man haunting the Paw Paw Tunnel, [73] and a ghost of a robber at ...
Church Hill Tunnel was completed in 1873 for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O), [2] [3] which was seeking to extend its trackage (of the former Virginia Central Railroad) from a terminus in the Shockoe Valley section of downtown Richmond to connect with their new Peninsula Subdivision extending approximately 75 miles (120 km) southeast down the Virginia Peninsula to reach Collis Potter ...
On 2 December 1947, Bishop Torsten Bohlin revealed plans to "order a scientific investigation of the vicarage after several years of ghosts". The Church of Sweden confirmed ghosts and Borgvattnet immediately became world famous. Today, the rectory is open to the public in summer, and people can spend nights in the house for a small fee (which ...
Richmond sat nearby to the west of the tract. It is widely accepted that the premise behind the work was to serve as a decoy for German or Japanese bombers on night raids. In theory, when reports would come from the eastern Virginia cities that enemy bombers were flying overhead, the city would cut power to its residents and businesses.
The Cohoke Light is a reported ghost light in King William County, Virginia near West Point.The light has been frequently sighted along a stretch of Virginia State Route 632, where Mt. Olive Cohoke Road crosses the Norfolk Southern Railway.
Banff Springs Hotel in Banff National Park is a reported location of multiple hauntings, including the ghosts of a young bride, bellman and a Haunted room no.873 (now sealed and combined with room no.875, but underlines of the door and lights above the door place remain visible and a ghost still supposedly haunts the room). [1] [2] [3] [4]
Haunts of the Very Rich is a 1972 made-for-TV horror thriller film, broadcast as an ABC Movie of the Week. Plot. A group of rich tourists and business people fly to a ...