Many of us grew up on a steady diet of haunted corn mazes and episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and therefore the supernatural seems like nothing more than a harmless form of amusement. Ghost tours and haunted bed and breakfasts are just ways to part a fool and his money… or are they?

Some say the spirits of the deceased imprint themselves on the house in which they lived and died. The energy left by the dead manifests itself in strange noises, objects moving by themselves, shadowy figures, and other phenomena associated with haunting. Could the terrible events that took place in these houses have left a "spiritual residue" behind?

Above: The Lizzie Borden House