The Enfield Monster
In 1973, a man in Enfield, Illinois told reporters that he saw a weird little creature lurking in his yard. Per the Mt. Vernon Register-News, resident Henry McDaniel stated:
It had three legs on it, a short body, two little short arms, and two pink eyes as big as flashlights.
The police later found scratches on the door screen and footprints that looked like a dogs but with six toes. "If they do find it,” McDaniel said in the newspaper, "they will find more than one and they won’t be from this planet, I can tell you that.” To this day, no explanation has ever been found.
The Suicide Hotel
In Colombia, the Hotel Del Salto has more stories as one of the most haunted places on Earth more than it does actual tenants. Turned into a museum, the hotel was designed by designed by architect Carlos Arturo Tapias back in 1923, overlooking the Tequendama Falls. The views were said to be spectacular, but guests kept getting a little too close to the falls. Translated to "Hotel of the Leap," the Hotel Del Salto is full of stories of people leaping to their deaths. According to local legend, the Indigenous Muisca tribe escaped from Spanish colonizers by leaping off the cliffs some centuries before.
The Axe Murder House
The Villisca Axe Murder House in Villisca, Iowa is a well-known tourist attraction for ghost hunters and horror lovers alike. The site of a gruesome unsolved 1912 murder, in which six children and two adults had their skulls completely crushed by the axe of an unknown perpetrator, was purchased in 1994, restored to its 1912 condition, and converted into a tourist destination. It costs $428 a night to stay at the old haunted home, where visitors always report strange paranormal experiences, such as visions of a man with an axe roaming the halls or the faint screams of children.
But in November of 2014, the haunting took a darker turn. Robert Steven Laursen Jr., 37, of Rhinelander, Wisconsin was on a regular recreational paranormal visit with friends when true horror struck. Per VICE:
His companions found him stabbed in the chest—an apparently self-inflicted wound—called 9-1-1, and Laursen was brought to a nearby hospital before being helicoptered to Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said Laursen suffered the self-inflicted injury at about 12:45 a.m., which is around the same time the 1912 axe murders in the house began.
Laursen recovered from his injuries, but has never spoken publicly about what occurred that day. For Martha Linn, the owner of the home, the incident was very upsetting. "It's publicity, but it's not exactly the kind of publicity you desire to have. I don't want people thinking that when they come to the Villisca Axe Murder House something's going to happen that's going to make them do something like that.” The house remains open for tourist visits and overnight stays today.
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