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Dark Destinations is an online travel guide to macabre locations around the world. We cover Halloween events and attractions, paranormal hotspots, horror movie locations, gruesome museums, cryptozoology, sites of dark moments in history and more!
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She Cries by the Light of the Moon
In honor of the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 touching down on the lunar surface, we thought we would throw together our own little tribute to the Moon.Our first stop is on the Earth's surface and at just one of many legends that the Moon is said to ...
St. Louis Exorcism: 60 Years Later
Today marks 60 years since the third and final exorcism of a young boy from Washington D.C. The exorcism of this unnamed child would later serve as the inspiration for William Peter Blatty's novel The Exorcist which in turn led to the 1973 movie star...
The Lemp Family Curse
On December 29, 1922, 55-year-old William J. Lemp Jr. held a revolver to his chest and fired two shots in his office (and family home) of the Lemp Brewery in St. Louis, Missouri. He had been recently in ill health and was in the process of slowly li...
Stagger Lee Shot Billy
The night was clear and the moon was yellow, And the leaves came tumbling down. I was standing on the corner, when I heard my bulldog bark. He was barking at the two men, who were gambling in the dark. It was Stagger Lee and Billy, tw...
The Resurrected (and Haunted) Landers Theatre
The Landers Theatre today is a historic landmark in the city of Springfield, Missouri, but an incident in its early years almost sealed its fate. The theater was constructed in 1909 and hosted a variety of vaudeville acts. Then, on December 17, 192...
A Trip Into The Darkness
For today, we are going to head to the Gateway City itself, Saint Louis, Missouri, and one of the world's most famous Halloween haunted attractions. The Darkness is the brainchild of Larry Kirchner and Jim Kelly of Halloween Productions, Inc. It go...
