Your next trip might just take a turn for the paranormal.
These days, it seems like every historic U.S. city has a ghost tour to feed our appetite for real-life paranormal thrills. The most intrepid travelers plan an entire trip around the possibility of a spine-tingling encounter. Tragic past events have allegedly caused spirits to linger in hotels, restaurants, parks, and airports, but even if you don’t see or hear anything at these haunted places, you’ll have a memorable time learning about the area’s dark history.
“Haunted locations can often seem like cliches, even to those uninvolved in the field. And who can blame them – a creepy old mansion, a derelict asylum, a tattered hospital. Most anyone in the general public could guess at their histories and come out at least half accurate. What intrigues me are the stories that nobody could possibly conceive; the locations none of us saw coming,” said Conner Gossel, paranormal investigator and historian, in an interview with Travel + Leisure. To Gossel, it’s those unique narratives that make a haunted place really stand out.
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