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FAMOUS GHOSTS HAUNTINGS THEIR OLD STOMPING GROUNDS!!

   Many important and famous individuals have been born and died within the boundries of the United States.  These ghosts seem to haunt locations that had great meaning for the individual.  Throughout the United States there have been many sitings of famous ghosts.  Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home  General Robert E. Lee     Alexandria, Virginia is where the family home of Robert E. Lee stands.  This Revolutionary War hero accomplished many great act throughout his life.  He was offered the Union Army command but declined.  Instead he became the commander of the Confederate Army and saw many great battles.  A child General Lee haunts his childhood home.  He is very playful and enjoys playing pranks.  Sometimes he's seen with his two sisters and a black dog.  Aaron Burr  "One if by Land, Two if by Sea" Restaurant     Aaron Burr, U.S. Vice President from 1801 to 1805, is said to haunt the "One if by Lan

SQUIRE CASTLE AND THE GHOST OF REBECCA SQUIRE

Squire Castle    Having the title of the lady of the house takes on a whole new concept when it isn't actually just a house, and the man of the house spends more time in the city at festive gatherings while conducting business rather than spending quiet evenings with his new wife.  Yet through constant separation due to obligations they still remained somewhat happily married by name until the Mrs. met with an untimely death in the very house that she feared once daylight was met by the dark and the noises of the night began to set in.  This is when the nightmares began for Rebecca Squire as her inner-most fears were challenged nightly by what it brought to her relinquishing sanity.  Her evident fear of the country was often mentioned at parties and among other socialites during gala events and gatherings.  She would share with the women that her agitated feelings toward the beautiful castle along with the hours spent alone were playing with  her mind and that she was lonely mo

HUNEDOARA: VLADE THE IMPALERS CASTLE OF IMPRISONMENT

Huendoara Castle    Hunedoara is not a name that frequently pops up in conversations about vampires and especially Dracula.  Few people know that Hunedoara is actually the castle where Vlad the Impaler, the man who gave inspiration to Hollywood's Dracula, was imprisoned during the fifteenth century.    Located in Transylvania, Romania, the castle pretty much stands the way it looked back then during Vlad's time.  The castle is Gotic in style and has both round and square shaped turrets with a red roof, perched over a cliff near the Hungarian border.  Vlad the Impaler     Hunedoara, or Hunyadi as it is more properly known, has a rich background in Eastern European history.  Because of its close location to Hungary, at one point it was claimed as part of Hungarian territory when the nation was part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire until the end of World War 1.  As with any other castle, Hunedoara, also contains grand rooms for those who once owned it; a knight's