The Mystic Mysterium

  There've been multiple claims over the centuries of the phenomena that are known as the Devil's footprints. There've been claims of such mysterious hoof-like prints in multiple parts of the world, with many different variations of stories and just as many theories on what they could really be. Because there's so many different stories I'm going to stick to the more common, well known stories that I could find information on. While each of these legends share the similarities of the 'hoof-prints', each one defers in their own way. Some a little more crazy then the previous. Exe Estuary England: The Devil's Snow Tracks In February 1855, somewhere around Exe Estuary in East and South Devon, England after a heavy snowfall, trails of hoof-like prints appeared overnight in the snow covering a distance of 40 to 100 miles. The hoof-prints were suggested to be the tracks of the Devil with multiple theories circling the incident. The hoof-prints measured about f...

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...

The Winchester mystery house is home to some of the most famous ghost sightings. It's an architectural wonder and historic landmark in San Jose, California that once was the residence of Sarah Lockwood Pardee Winchester, the widow of William Wirt Winchester and heiress to a large portion of the Winchester Repeating Arms fortune. The house itself took 38 years to build, and the lore is that it was built under the guidance of ghosts. Sounds like the perfect home… But before building the mystery house, tragedy struck Sarah. Her infant daughter, Annie Pardee Winchester, died from marasmus, a severe form of malnutrition due to the body's inability to metabolize proteins. Annie, unfortunately, passed away only 40 days after her birth in 1866. In 1881, Sarah lost her mother, her father-in-law (Oliver Winchester), and her husband, William. William passed from tuberculosis at 43 years old, leaving Sarah an inheritance and ownership in half of the arms company, making her one of the weal...