The year is 1990. A young couple venture to the Singapore shoreline, out on a date after being an official couple for just two days. The pair stop for a short break, sitting to rest and talk upon the stairs of a now-infamous landmark, the Amber Beacon Tower. This brightly colored beacon exhumes a radiant light and makes for a convenient resting place, positioned right on the beachfront. The unsuspecting couple was to sit peacefully […]
Northern California’s vast landscape is scattered with ghost towns, an omen to past prosperous times. The Black Diamond Mines Preserve is one of these towns, which boomed due to coal mining from 1850 through to the early 1900s. The flourishing town’s success would ultimately come to end, as other means of energy were discovered and cheaper alternatives to California’s coal became accessible. Though these towns are long forgotten, there are still some remnants that display […]
Singapore’s Bukit Brown Cemetery is a unique and beautiful location. Not only is it the resting place for over 100,000 people, nestled snugly amongst dense rainforest, it also functions as a biodiversity park. The cemetery is spread through some 233 hectares of jungle-like forest with graves dating back to 1833. There are many prominent figures from Singapore’s history buried here. These graves lie right alongside those who were poor or met unfortunate ends during WWII. […]
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sitting calmly in the center of Melbourne is one of the most historic and supposedly haunted hotels in the city. The Young & Jackson Hotel was established back in 1861 as the Princes Bridge Hotel and got its name change in 1875 to pay homage to its new Irish owners. Though the Young & Jackson Hotel and pub is steeped in history and existed for a very long time, its haunting actually occurs just outside […]
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Jack the Ripper is one of the first documented serial killers our modern world can remember. They were responsible for murdering a number of women in gruesome ways within Whitechapel, London in the late 1880s. The Ripper remains unidentified to this day, though many have speculated who the mystery killer may be. One Jack the Ripper theory suggests that Frederick Bailey Deeming may have been this infamous killer. Deeming was born in England and lived a […]
Ballarat is a historic Australian town that was once consumed by a gold rush. It is a place many people from different walks of life have visited. For this reason, one of the oldest hotels in town has seen many people pass through its doors. The Eastern Station Hotel was established in 1862 and has had a long and impactful history. Some of this history has dark elements and there are rumored to be more […]
San Francisco, California, USA
Stow Lake is a beloved area of Golden Gate Park. It makes up a crucial part of many San Franciscan’s favorite inner-city escape. The lake does have some darker stories attached to it that have been passed down through generations since the infamous 1906 earthquake that rocked the city from its foundations. Some people say that Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake is haunted by a mysterious woman. Whilst the legitimacy of her backstory has been […]
Corregidor Island, Philippines
The beautiful, ghostly Mile-long Barracks rest on Corregidor Island, just off the coast of Manila in the Philippines. Though the old barracks do not stretch for a full mile (coming in at just one third) they are still an impressive sight to see. The structure is currently unsafe and has sustained extensive damage from enduring bombing during WWII. Before it was destroyed, the building functioned as housing for many soldiers and officials that were stationed […]
