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Haunted Boston and Cambridge
The Boston Common is the site of two ghostly women dressed in nineteenth century tea dresses who kindly smile at passersby, but vanish when approached.
Boston Conservatory Dorms, a hospital in the 1800s, boasts footsteps, slamming doors, audible voices, missing items, and doors mysteriously flying open.
Boston University's Shelton Hall, once a Sheraton Hotel, is now a residence hall. Playwright Eugene O'Neill, who lived in room 401 and died there in 1953, now haunts that floor, which is reserved for students majoring in writing.
Charlesgate was originally a hotel of ill repute, then a dorm for Emerson College. It's haunted by flappers,drug-addicted dandies, and an old man with a beard. Parapsychologists filmed ghostly horses in the lower basement, which once served as the stables.
The Emerson Majestic Theatre, built in 1903, is known as one of the most haunted theatres in the district. A Boston mayor died in the theatre during a performance and today he is still seen in his seat. A little girl and a married couple dressed in turn-of-the-century clothes also haunt the now-unused balcony.
In the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School's War Memorial Pool Hall the ghost of an old man pushes a book cart up and down the hallway where the names of WWII soldiers are inscribed. In the basemenet of Verna's Donut Shop at 2344 Mass Ave. in Cambridge, supplies are kept for the shop and the adjacent cake decorating store. Several employees and a few customers have reported seeing shadowy figures crouching behind boxes. The granddaughter of Verna, who recently passed away, refuses to go unescorted to the basement-level bathroom.
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