The Mystic Mysterium

The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall is a famous ghost that haunts Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England, and it became one of the most popular hauntings in the United Kingdom due to the above photograph that Captain Hubert C. Provand took. The photo was first published in the Country Life magazine in 1936. Raynham Hall itself was a grand estate with roots that stretched back centuries, and for 400 years the Raynham Hall had been the seat of the Townshend family. According to the legend, the apparition of the Brown Lady is Dorothy Walpole. She was born on September 18th, 1686 at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England. She was the thirteenth child born into the illustrious Walpole family. Her parents were Robert Walpole, who was a member of the Parliament, and Mary Burwell. She was the sister of Robert Walpole, who is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. But the family is best known because of her nephew, Horace Walpole, who was a author and wrote the gothic novel The Castle...

  This one is close to my hometown and one of the few haunted locations I've been to. It's known as one of the most haunted cemeteries in Minnesota. Lakeview Cemetery is located in Buhl, Minnesota. It opened in 1913 and still exists today. Open to the public, the cemetery is still a paranormal hotspot of sorts with many visitors reporting supernatural occurrences.  But first, a little history lesson… Burials in Lakeview Cemetery first began in 1913 around the same time Shaw Hospital was built. The hospital housed people who were sick with mental illnesses and tuberculosis. Eventually, these patients died at the hospital and a new problem arose, there was no budget to use to bury them properly. The hospital decided then to bury them in what's called Potter's Field. The majority of these people buried in Potter's Field died in the first two decades of the past century. Most of the dead contained early immigrant miners or the very young who died during one of the two i...