​​​​Below is a list of some of the most notorious haunted locations in Lenox, Massachusetts. To view my full list of ghost stories and haunted locations in Massachusetts, Click Here. And if you liked this list, be sure to check out my new book, The Folklore & Haunted Locations Guide: Massachusetts, available on Amazon!!
​
​And be sure to also check out my spooky YouTube Video I made to go along with this blog:
​​

Coordinates: 42.330989°, -73.282019°
Location Address: 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, Massachusetts, 01240
The Mount is a historic home in Lenox, Massachusetts constructed in 1902 by the famous American novelist, short story writer, and playwright, Edith Wharton, whose spirit is said to haunt the location along with two other unidentified male specters. After Mrs. Wharton's death in 1937 The Mount was purchased by Foxhollow School For Girls, at which point students and faculty members began to report witnessing apparitions dressed in clothing from the early 1900's, as well as experiencing strange disembodied voices and other sounds. In 2009, The Mount was featured on an episode of the popular television show Ghost Hunters, and was investigated by members of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (also known as T.A.P.S.) over the course of several days. The team returned to the location in 2015 to perform another investigation, at which point the crew became convinced of the location's haunted reputation.


​

Coordinates: 42.352843°, -73.280008°
Location Address: 104 Walker Street, Lenox, Massachusetts, 01240
Constructed in 1893 as the George & Sarah Morgan family home, the Ventfort Hall Mansion & Gilded Age Museum in Lenox, Massachusetts contains over 50 rooms and spans over 28,000 square feet. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in March of 1993, and in 1997 it was renovated and opened as a museum by a nonprofit organization called the Ventfort Hall Association. The location is said to be haunted by the spirit of its first owners, George and Sarah Morgan, sister of the wealthy American banker and financier J.P. Morgan. Visitors at the historic museum report witnessing the apparition of a man and woman believed to be Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, as well as heavy wooden doors closing by themselves, and others report hearing the disembodied sounds of voices, whispering, footsteps, and screams. Employees working at Ventfort Hall Mansion also report being touched by an unseen entity, as well as witnessing the face of a spectral woman that appears to float down the hallways and staircases. In 2012 the Ventford Hall Mansion was featured on the popular television show, Ghost Hunters, where crew members experienced a variety of paranormal phenomena and allegedly supernatural activity.


​

Coordinates: 42.362908°, -73.282984°
Location Address: 5 Greenwood Street, Lenox, Massachusetts, 01240
Constructed in 1870 as the Ross & Theo Whistler Family Home, the Whistler's Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts is said to be haunted by the spirits of several unidentified men and women whose apparitions are seen by employees and guests at night. Many also claim to experience other unexplained paranormal phenomena, such as disembodied voices and whispers, lights flickering, and electronic devices turning on and off by themselves. Additionally, guests staying in Room 12 report being woken in the middle of the night by a tall, shadowy figure standing above the bed. The historic Whistler's Inn has been featured in numerous television series, magazines, and other publications such as National Geographic Traveler, and Yankee Magazine.

​​
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​For additional information, or to see my complete list of folklore tales and haunted locations in Massachusetts, click here.

​If you liked this post, be sure to click like and leave a comment below, and be sure to follow GhostQuest.net on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr for more creepy content and posts! You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel to see my future creepy videos, and be sure to say hi if you do! Subscribers to the GhostQuest.net Monthly Newsletter will also receive a free copy of my eBook, Top 5 American Monsters!!  GhostQuest.net is one of the largest free online resources for paranormal investigators and enthusiasts, and it would mean so much to me if you'd consider supporting me by making a pledge on patreon! Once I reach 25 patrons, I'll begin doing a monthly giveaway, where you can win awesome prizes like gift cards, event tickets, equipment, apparel, and more!!​ Plus, get early access to my new blogs, YouTube videos, and more!

​Thanks so much for reading, and be sure to like, share, and comment below!!!

If you allow yourself to sit back and think about ghost stories, many people would paint a picture of listening to one around a campfire keeping them warm with a group of their closest friends. There’s nothing but pitch-black darkness all around, with only the sounds of the crackling logs and the nature around breaking the silence.

Ghost stories often tell the tale of urban legends, ones that hark back to times of yesteryear. Poker was a game played back in the times of the cowboys, miners, and farmers in the time of the stagecoaches, saloons and six-shooters, arguably making it just as much of a part of U.S. culture as the Wild West or the old riverboats of the era. So let's up the ante a little and tell some stories of old…..
​

Farmer John Morris was walking home late one evening when a well-dressed man approached him. The conversation happened to come upon where John had been that evening, Morris told the man he’d been playing poker at a friend’s, and he was happy as he’d won a lot of money. The stranger immediately perked up, challenging Morris to a game to which he declined.

After walking a little further, they reached a bridge; the stranger revealed some gold playing cards and began to deal with them. Morris couldn’t refuse, but it proved the stranger was a much better player. But he’d repeatedly deal the cards then asked Morris if he’d consider betting his soul? Suddenly, a card dropped from Morris’ grasp, the ace of spades dropped into the river below. They looked over the bridge to see it floating down the river, and Morris caught a glimpse of his opponent’s reflection.

He had two horns, glowing red eyes, and a forked tongue sticking out from his mouth. Morris turned quickly, but the stranger vanished, as a ball of flame flashed away into the night sky.
​

Back in 1876, the legendary Wild Bill Hickok was playing poker, it was a deadly game played by professional gamblers and crooks. The old lawman sat at the table in Deadwood; the dealer dealt his first four cards. Just as he turned them over, there was the crack of a gun. Hickok slumped onto the table, his head hung forward, left resting beside his left hand, which held his cards. He had an 8 of spades and ace of spades, an 8 of clubs and the ace of clubs…. The 8th letter of the alphabet is H, followed by an A, H, and an A.

The cards were laughing at him. Anyone with a basic grasp of poker hand rankings knows that a hand comprises of five cards, but that’s not the case with the Dead Man’s Hand – you die before you get the fifth card. So remember, if you’re ever playing poker and the dealer turns over an 8, then an ace, then another 8, beware, because if your next card is to be an ace..... you’ll never play again.

Over in the UK, in Liverpool, Alexander McKenzie was a civil engineer on the Leeds to Liverpool canal in the 1811’s and achieved as much success in his work as he did in gambling. It’s said he was fortunate at the poker table in particular. He was known to almost read people’s minds, but it was rumored McKenzie had struck a deal with the devil. To have the world’s greatest lucky streak, he would have to hand over his soul the moment he was buried in exchange for this. McKenzie hatched a plan to save himself.

Although he saved himself from Lucifer’s grasp when he was entombed in 1851, sitting upright at a card table clutching a royal flush, it also kept him from heaven too. The large man renowned for wearing a cloak and top hat can still often be heard wailing and wandering around Rodney Street in Liverpool’s city center, leaving him as a lost soul with nowhere to go for the rest of eternity.


Alright folks, thanks for reading!! Be sure to leave a comment if you enjoyed this post, or if you want to find some real haunted places, and maybe create some ghost stories of your own, check out my guide to some of these spooky, haunted locations near you by clicking here.
​

​Hey everyone! It's November already, which means it's time for the next GhostQuest.net monthly newsletter!! I hope you all had a safe and happy Halloween!! For some of us though, spooky season is just beginning as the days begin to grow shorter, and the trees grow bare...

For those of you who are just recently becoming part of the community - welcome aboard, and thank you for subscribing to my newsletter! I'm Brian Weaver and I run GhostQuest.net, the internet's largest online database for haunted locations and paranormal hotspots throughout the USA - it's one of the best free resources for paranormal researchers, investigators, legend trippers, history nerds, and folklore enthusiasts!! If you haven't received your FREE copy of my eBook, Top 5 American Monsters, you can click the link here to download it as a special gift just for signing up for this newsletter! For those of you reading this on the GhostQuest.net Blog, sorry, this offer is only for subscribers to the GhostQuest.net Monthly Newsletter. But don't worry!! You can sign up and get a free copy by clicking Here.


​

​
​First off, I just want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone reading this email, and everyone who takes the time to share my posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! I do all of the writing, research, web development, video editing, and content creation for GhostQuest.net myself, and I appreciate your support so much!!

So what's new at GhostQuest.net this month? As I mentioned in my last few newsletters, over the next several months (or maybe even longer) I'll be going through some of the older pages on GhostQuest.net that are still blank or in need of an update in order to deliver a more consistent experience for readers. For example, if you were to click my Haunted Pennsylvania page, you'd notice that there's nothing more than a bulleted list of locations there, whereas pages like Michigan and Massachusetts have much more detailed information. Then there are some states like California and Texas which are somewhere in between.

Over the last month I've added over 275 completely new haunted locations to my Haunted Virginia page, which brings the total number listed on GhostQuest.net to 12,909. Virginia is full of interesting history and amazing haunted locations, and I can't even say how much I enjoyed learning and writing about some of these fascinating, spooky stories!! If you're a Virginia native, I know you'll love reading about them too!! There's a little bit of something for everyone, including stories about Civil War battlefields, Native American folklore, prohibition era stories... and even a legend about the ghost of Blackbeard The Pirate, whose decapitated head was displayed on a post in the town of Hampton for years after his death, in a location now appropriately named "Blackbeard's Point."

If you haven't checked out my list of haunted locations in your state, what are you waiting for!! I'd love to know if you've been to some, or if I've missed any!! You can also leave a comment, suggest a new location, or submit pictures and videos in the User Comments & Submissions section! I'd love to hear from you!!

​I also record new episodes for my YouTube Channel and post new blogs early for all my $1+ Patreon Subscribers to enjoy before everyone else!! My next video about the Top 3 Most Haunted Places In Lenox, Massachusetts is already up, along with a corresponding Early Access Blog Post, and I can't wait for you guys to see it! If you haven't checked out my Patreon Page, I have a bunch of other cool stuff on there too like blogs, polls, contests, giveaways, videos, and more! My $5 patrons also get free copies of all my upcoming eBooks, and for $15 you get free signed copies of all my upcoming paperback books as well!! To those of you guys who do support me on Patreon, I just want to say a special THANK YOU for helping out, especially in these trying times! I work really hard to put out the amount of content I do on GhostQuest.net, and your contributions toward my hosting and production costs help out so much!!

And last but not least, if you haven't checked out my book series, The Folklore & Haunted Locations Guide: USA, be sure to click the link below!! I'll eventually be releasing a new book for each state, so be sure to keep an eye out when I get to yours!!

​
​Well, that's it for the GhostQuest.net November, 2021 newsletter! Thank you all again so much for subscribing and supporting GhostQuest.net! Have a spooky November!

Thanks,
Brian Weaver,
GhostQuest.net