GIBRALTAR POINT LIGHTHOUSE
A grim chapter shadows the lighthouse on the Toronto Islands. In 1815 lighthouse keeper J. P. Radan Muller was murdered and buried by drunken soldiers. Muller’s dismembered body lay in a coffin in the sand until 1893, when the lighthouse keeper at the time found it, leaving only Muller’s jawbone. Today the site is said to host his restless presence. Visitors report glimpses of a shadowy figure near the beacon and hear mournful wails carried across the water on windy nights.
GRAND FORKS
Grand Forks in North Dakota holds a steady stream of campus legends. At the University of North Dakota, spirits are said to linger long after the crowds disperse. In 1962 a female student slipped on ice on her way to the dining hall and froze to death, and her spirit haunts the grounds, revisiting the routes she once walked. Another apparition is a young girl with short dark hair, standing about 5 feet 5 inches tall and wearing a nightgown, who glides through the school’s tunnels with no legs, drifting between the world of the living and the afterlife.
GRAVEYARDS
Haunted graveyards often star in films and music videos, and Pleasant Ridge Cemetery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is a vivid real life example. People report orbs and recordings of an old man coughing and his sinister laughter, alongside tales of a phantom house. The house appears and disappears over a faded patch of grass, as if a forgotten building once stood there. Photographers have captured the phenomenon, and when the images are developed, an eerie illuminated outline of a house seems to hover in the air above the ground.
GRAY LADIES
Gray ladies are the pale presences of women who spent their final days waiting for the loves they lost, often sailors at sea. Grief and heartbreak are common threads in these stories, though some tell of women who took their own lives. Gray ladies are said to linger across many corners of the world, especially in Europe, hoping to reunite with their true loves on the horizon of memory and mood.
GREMLIN
Gremlins are tiny beings believed to haunt aircraft, particularly military planes. In the eras of World War I and World War II, pilots reported encounters with these creatures. They can be helpful at times, but they have also been said to drink fuel, bore holes in aircraft, bite through cables, sever fuel lines, and pinch gunners as targets are lined up in their sights. The idea of gremlins even found its way into popular culture, including a segment of The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror IV where a gremlin dismantles a school bus.
GUTHRIE THEATER
In February 1967 a young man named Richard Miller took his own life while serving as an usher at the Guthrie Theater in Minnesota. After his death, theatergoers began reporting an usher who walked back and forth through Row 18, the very row linked to Miller. The witnesses describe a silent specter who follows the patrons with his head or eyes but never speaks, moving with the rhythm of the audience as if counting every entrance and exit.
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