This one's a regular murder mystery turned ghost story, according to Atlas Obscura. Sloss even hosts a fright night every year around Halloween that's based heavily on the Slag story. While there, you might just hear the voice of Slag telling his employees to 'get back to work' along with other paranormal occurrences. You can still tour the grounds today, if you dare. Allegedly, in retaliation, his workers tossed him into the furnace in 1906. As a result, nearly 50 employees died on-site and many were involved in terrible accidents during his tenure. According to Reader's Digest, Wormwood took dangerous risks in order to increase production. That danger was soon realized as many workers started being incinerated in the furnaces and falling to their deaths.Ĭonditions only worsened in the early 1900s after a cruel foreman, James 'Slag' Wormwood, took a job at Sloss. Working on blast furnaces was an advanced job, and it was also dangerous.

A year later, the company opened its doors to hundreds of employees, according to its official website. To satisfy the demand, Colonel James Withers Sloss started construction on Sloss Furnaces.

Scroll through these scary stories (preferably during the day!) to really get in the spirit this Halloween.īirmingham, AL, was founded in 1871, five years after the Civil War, and with it, the need for tons of pig iron to fix America's crumbling infrastructure. That's just a preview of the terrifying tales listed here, but there's plenty more to read. Francisville, Louisiana, a ghost named Chloe apparently haunts Myrtles Plantation to this very day. (We likely won't be booking our stay there anytime soon!) And in St. In Eureka Springs, Arkansas, there's a property called the Crescent Hotel that's allegedly haunted by a number of ghosts. Huggin' Molly, a haunted figure in Abbeville, Alabama, reportedly chases-and embraces-people around the town. For those living in the Southern part of the United States, there are a handful of stories that originated there. John Lennon himself claims he saw the ghost roaming the halls of his residence. If you live on the East Coast, you'll be especially interested in the Crying Lady in the Dakota, a famous apartment building located in New York City.

And after reading through this roundup, you might be inspired to visit one of the spooky ghost towns talked about here. Even people who get a thrill from Halloween movies and love to curl up with frightening books about witches or vampires will get some goosebumps from these creepy tales! You may even live near one of the haunted places that inspired these stories after all, they're set all over the country. Super-scary ghost stories aren't for everyone.

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