• Blood in the Garage, Footsteps in the Hall: A Real-Life Haunted House Tale

    Imagine moving into a new home, only to discover it was the scene of a shocking unsolved murder. Earlier this year, Mortis Media’s YouTube channel covered a Reddit post in which a woman discussed strange activity in her east Ohio home, and the real murder case she believed it was tied to. The Reddit user,

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  • Abandoned America: Prisons and Asylums

    Visiting a former prison or asylum is an eerie experience, knowing you are free to explore where hundreds were once trapped. Has so much suffering and loneliness left something intangible behind? Most people avoid ending up in a prison or asylum, opting instead to experience it vicariously through television, movies, or books. When these institutions

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  • America’s Haunted Roads

    An isolated stretch of pavement where not even high beams penetrate the darkness is ready-made for ghost stories. Sharp curves, a canopy of trees, isolated homes set far back from the road: it’s enough to rattle the spine of the most sober driver. Ghostly children, phantom automobiles, vanishing hitchhikers, bloody brides, and even a headless

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  • America’s Haunted Houses

    These storied homes are valued for their architecture or their role in historical events, but many visitors and residents report that something otherworldly lingers… The Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast Museum in Fall River, Massachusetts was the scene of a gruesome unsolved double murder, perhaps among the most infamous in the U.S. Thirty-two-year-old Lizzy Borden became the chief

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  • Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio

    Built between 1896 and 1910, the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield served as a detention center for young, petty criminals. The first inmates were admitted in 1896, and they helped construct the Romanesque Revival building. The reformatory closed in 1990 and was used most famously in the filming of The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Today it

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