Living in a haunted house or a haunted town isn’t an enviable situation, except on Halloween. When October 31 rolls around, it suddenly becomes a point of pride to live in an area with legends of grisly murders, ghosts of long-lost sailors, a mysterious forest, and street lamps that flicker ominously.
If you haven’t had a run-in with the supernatural yourself, chances are you know someone who has. There are thousands of ghostly encounters reported each year all across the US, and we usually tend to shrug it off until Halloween comes — then we seek it out.