The Baker's Dozen Anything Game Thread

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13 Spookiest Places on Earth

1. What was once The Murder Castle in Chicago is now a post office.

13 Spookiest Places on Earth

1. What was once The Murder Castle in Chicago is now a post office.
2. LaLaurie Mansion


Home of Delphine LaLaurie who tortured and killed a dozen of her slaves, considered the most haunted place in New Orleans.

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13 Spookiest Places on Earth

1. What was once The Murder Castle in Chicago is now a post office.
2. LaLaurie Mansion
3. The Amityville Horror house


At 112 (108) Ocean Avenue, Amityville, NY, On November 13, 1974 at 3AM, Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his parents and four siblings while they slept.

Great idea Mesmerized.

13 Spookiest Places on Earth

1. What was once The Murder Castle in Chicago is now a post office.
2. LaLaurie Mansion
3. The Amityville Horror house
4. Hoia-Baciu Forest, Romania




UFO sightings, portals, and illness plague the "Bermuda Triangle of Transylvania"

13 Spookiest Places on Earth

1. What was once The Murder Castle in Chicago is now a post office.
2. LaLaurie Mansion
3. The Amityville Horror house
4. Hoia-Baciu Forest, Romania
5. The Gettysburg Orphanage


After the Civil War, Rosa J. Carmichael became the headmistress of the Gettysburg Orphanage where she tortured children in the basement dungeon.

13 Spookiest Places on Earth

1. What was once The Murder Castle in Chicago is now a post office.
2. LaLaurie Mansion
3. The Amityville Horror house
4. Hoia-Baciu Forest, Romania
5. The Gettysburg Orphanage
6. Aokigahara Forest, Japan




Sometimes referred to as the most popular site for suicide in Japan, hundreds of suicides have occurred there over many decades and the forest is said to be haunted by the spirits of the dead.

I was thinking about posting this! You got to it first.

13 Spookiest Places on Earth

1. What was once The Murder Castle in Chicago is now a post office.
2. LaLaurie Mansion
3. The Amityville Horror house
4. Hoia-Baciu Forest, Romania
5. The Gettysburg Orphanage
6. Aokigahara Forest, Japan
7. Lizzie Borden house


Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and, despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at the age of 66, just days before the death of her older sister, Emma.

13 Spookiest Places on Earth

1. What was once The Murder Castle in Chicago is now a post office.
2. LaLaurie Mansion
3. The Amityville Horror house
4. Hoia-Baciu Forest, Romania
5. The Gettysburg Orphanage
6. Aokigahara Forest, Japan
7. Lizzie Borden house
8. Winchester House



Sarah L. Winchester, wife of rifle manufacturer William Wirt Winchester. Mrs. Winchester, upset at the deaths of her husband and daughter, reportedly consulted a spiritualist. This medium informed Mrs. Winchester that the victims killed by the Winchester rifles her family manufactured were seeking revenge by taking the lives of her family. The spiritualist also conveyed to Mrs. Winchester that the spirits had placed a curse on her, and that if she wished to live, she must appease them by moving out west and constantly, without ceasing, build a house for them night and day. . It wasn't until she died at the age of 85 in 1922 that she finally stopped.

13 Spookiest Places on Earth:

1. What was once The Murder Castle in Chicago is now a post office.
2. LaLaurie Mansion
3. The Amityville Horror house
4. Hoia-Baciu Forest, Romania
5. The Gettysburg Orphanage
6. Aokigahara Forest, Japan
7. Lizzie Borden house
8. Doherty Hotel, Clare MI.




"The Doherty family has owned and operated the hotel since it opened in the 1920s. The Doherty men were and remain the business managers. However, as Jim Doherty (a current owner) tells it, it was the Doherty women who were the heart and soul of the business. The hotel has a colorful history. During prohibition, it was a speakeasy, a place for backroom gambling, and adult entertainment. It was also a meeting place for the Mafia and Purple Gang. Here they worked out their differences. In 1938 the hotel was the site of one of Michigan’s most notorious murders. Isaiah Leebove, former Purple Gang attorney turned Purple Gang businessman, was murdered in the bar. He was shot dead by his cousin and business partner Jack Livingston.

Over the years there have been numerous yet vague accounts of its haunting. Some believe Isaiah Leebove may remain along with family matriarch, Helen “grandma” Doherty. The evidence we collected was startling. Perhaps the most surprising evidence was recorded in a back room where Grandma Pemble’s body was placed after her death. In this area, the voice of a woman was recorded. It was soft and feeble as if she were either very old or very sick. The words were in response to questions asked. We believe it was the voice of Helen “grandma” Doherty."

Cool thread idea.

They made a movie about this with Helen Mirren.

I was wondering if anyone had. Was it any good?

I would say it's OK. I liked it. I'm not good at doing movie reviews.

But it got 3 stars on the Roger Ebert website.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/winchester-2018

13 Spookiest Places on Earth:

1. What was once The Murder Castle in Chicago is now a post office.
2. LaLaurie Mansion
3. The Amityville Horror house
4. Hoia-Baciu Forest, Romania
5. The Gettysburg Orphanage
6. Aokigahara Forest, Japan
7. Lizzie Borden house
8. Doherty Hotel, Clare MI.
9. Resurrection Mary


Resurrection Mary is a well-known Chicago area ghost story, or urban legend, of the "vanishing hitchhiker" type, a type of folklore that is known in many cultures. According to the story, the ghost resides in Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, a few miles southwest of Chicago. Resurrection Mary is considered to be Chicago's most famous ghost.

Since the 1930s, several men driving northeast along Archer Avenue between the Willowbrook Ballroom and Resurrection Cemetery have reported picking up a young female hitchhiker. This young woman is dressed somewhat formally in a white party dress and is said to have light blond hair and blue eyes. There are other reports that she wears a thin shawl, dancing shoes, carries a small clutch purse, and possibly that she is very quiet. As the driver nears Resurrection Cemetery, she disappears into it. According to the Chicago Tribune, "full-time ghost hunter" Richard Crowe has collected "three dozen … substantiated" reports of Mary from the 1930s to the present.

The story goes that Mary had spent the evening dancing with a boyfriend at the Oh Henry Ballroom. At some point, they got into an argument and Mary stormed out. She left the ballroom and started walking up Archer Avenue.

She had not gotten very far when she was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver, who fled the scene leaving Mary to die. Her parents found her and were grief-stricken at the sight of her dead body. They buried her in Resurrection Cemetery, wearing a beautiful white dancing dress and matching dancing shoes. The hit-and-run driver was never found.

13 Spookiest Places on Earth:

1. What was once The Murder Castle in Chicago is now a post office.
2. LaLaurie Mansion
3. The Amityville Horror house
4. Hoia-Baciu Forest, Romania
5. The Gettysburg Orphanage
6. Aokigahara Forest, Japan
7. Lizzie Borden house
8. Doherty Hotel, Clare MI.
9. Resurrection Mary
10. Centralia, PA


A fire in the mine beneath the city that started in 1962 forced most of the residents to leave. The fire continues burning today, making the city uninhabitable and a risk to even approach due to potential carbon monoxide poisoning or ground collapse. Centralia inspired the Silent Hill games and movie.

13 Spookiest Places on Earth:

1. What was once The Murder Castle in Chicago is now a post office.
2. LaLaurie Mansion
3. The Amityville Horror house
4. Hoia-Baciu Forest, Romania
5. The Gettysburg Orphanage
6. Aokigahara Forest, Japan
7. Lizzie Borden house
8. Doherty Hotel, Clare MI.
9. Resurrection Mary
10. Centralia, PA
11. The Catacombs of Paris


During the Gallo-Roman period many cemeteries within the city limits had become filled to overflowing, resulting in unsanitary and unpleasant living conditions for those dwelling adjacent to them. The problem grew so acute that by 1786, these cemeteries were being emptied for reasons of public safety. With the remains of some six million people requiring reburial, the only location with sufficient room to inter them all was the former mine tunnels twenty metres beneath the city. Thus, the former limestone mines of Paris became a municipal ossuary referred to as the ‘catacombs’, as they bore a similarity to the subterranean necropolis of ancient Rome, even though the tunnels were not originally intended to serve as a tomb.

13 Spookiest Places on Earth:

1. What was once The Murder Castle in Chicago is now a post office.
2. LaLaurie Mansion
3. The Amityville Horror house
4. Hoia-Baciu Forest, Romania
5. The Gettysburg Orphanage
6. Aokigahara Forest, Japan
7. Lizzie Borden house
8. Doherty Hotel, Clare MI.
9. Resurrection Mary
10. Centralia, PA
11. The Catacombs of Paris
12. Petra, Jordan




Known to westerners as the location that served as the entrance to the catacombs that housed the Holy Grail in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. But this ancient structure is said to be haunted.

I've always wanted to visit here

Ahem.