The best places to experience paranormal activity

Many people are skeptical of paranormal activity because they have not personally come into contact with spirits or unexplained encounters first hand. However, those who dare to be more open-minded can take a vacation to a hotspot known for paranormal spirits. While there is no guarantee that the spirits will manifest, research shows that some places are more popular for ghosts than others. In this article, you will read about the best places in the United States to experience paranormal phenomena.

More than 10,000 US soldiers died in the Battle of Gettysburg, making this Pennsylvania spot an ideal place to experience paranormal phenomena. Many tourists report meeting “Civil War reenactors,” even though there are no hired professionals at the park. During an investigation, West Virginia ghost hunters captured several photos of an apparition in overalls in a field.

Another frequent appearance is a sentinel who stands guard, pacing up and down the dome at the top of Pennsylvania Hall at Gettysburg College. White smoke and orbs often feature in photographs and tourists report that they sometimes smell of lilac, which was used to cover the smell of death and decay after battles.

Many apparitions of soldiers have been seen at Devil’s Den, the site of a particularly bloody battle, where bodies were moved by war mail for better photographs. As Union Major General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said in 1889: “In great works, something remains. In great fields, something remains. Shapes change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits remain, to consecrate the ground for the place of vision of the souls”.

The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado is the inspiration for Stephen King’s “The Shining.” In fact, King wrote the book while he was staying at The Stanley one empty night before it closed for renovations. The Paranormal Society of the Atlantic has filmed several incredible episodes of Ghost Hunters there, where closet doors are thrown open, beds are torn in half, apparitions run down the halls, and tables are blown up. Witnesses have seen apparitions of children and objects moving across the room, heard piano playing or a ghostly party in the ballroom, lost items, and seen ghosts walking through rooms in the middle of the night. Even those who didn’t get a chance to experience paranormal events here say they had trouble sleeping just thinking about “The Shining.”

Unfortunately, not all ghost stories stem from true stories. Amityville in New York is said to be one of the best places in the country to experience paranormal entities, thanks to being the site of a brutal family murder committed by 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr., who shot his parents and four siblings little ones on November 14, 1974. The next owners, George and Kathy Lutz and their four children, claim the place was incredibly haunted. They experienced banging noises, footsteps, mysterious smells, gelatinous substances escaping from the walls, and swarms of insects inside the house.

George got sick, going days without bathing and losing weight, while the children fought non-stop and Kathy had nightmares. Paranormal investigator Dr. Stephen Kaplan later discovered that Lutz’s story must have been a hoax stemming from his knowledge of the house’s history and his pre-existing obsession with mysterious paranormal stories. How could there be “demonic footprints in the snow” if weather records show that there was, in fact, no snow on that date? Why did the family say they called the police if there are no police records of the calls? Why would they say that parts of the house were damaged when they remain intact? Perhaps it is amateur ghost hunters who haunt the current residents of Amityville the most.