The Wicked Stepmother | M.P. Pellicer

Mary Hoge's slashed body was found stuffed in a steamer trunk, and the suspect was none other than her stepson.

Jacob Hoge, 48, a baggage manager for the Pennsylvania Railroad told police that his son Joseph, 21, sat on a steamer struck while waiting for an express man to remove it. He thought it was odd, but not as odd as the fact that he couldn't find his wife. He'd only been married 10 months, and he hurried home from work like the newlywed he was. His first wife Sarah, mother of his children, had died in 1929.

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The Lonely Ghost at St. Michael's Orphanage | M.P. Pellicer

The Belvedere Orphanage in Newfoundland was slated for demolition after it was damaged by fire in April, 2017. The question is: what happens to the spirits that are said to haunt this centuries-old orphanage, school and convent when it is repurposed as an apartment building?

NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA
Hugh Alexander Emerson, a politician built a Second Empire style house in 1826. When Emerson's wife died in the 1840s he sold it to Bishop Michael Anthony Fleming (1792-1850). The bishop died within its walls, but he is not one of its purported ghosts. This house became part of the group of buildings that would include the Belvedere Orphanage.

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The Mirror in Suite 72 | M.P. Pellicer

On October 24, 1905 Mary Jane Caley was staying in Suite 72 at The Aberdeen Hotel; the same one she had rented several times in the past. That day she had already bought her ticket to return by train to her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Then for some unfathomable reason she shot herself in the temple. Why would a wealthy, 21-year-old woman do this?

Manhattan, New York, 1901
Penn Station was under construction, and Macy's had opened on 34th St. Around the corner from Tiffany, B. Altman and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, plans were underway to build a new Beaux-Arts hotel. A style called apartment hotels, which were the latest thing for out-of-towners who needed a pied-a-terre, without the need to hire servants or worry about maintenance. Residents dined in a communal dining room or restaurant, and hotel staff catered to their needs.

 

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The Spirit of the Bartender | M.P. Pellicer

Bars, taverns, lounges or even man caves could be the places with the best memories, or perhaps the ugliest and bloodiest ones. There are spirits, and then there are Spirits; these are some of those stories.

The following is a story of a haunted bartender picture. This style of print is very common, in other words this is not tied to an original artist. Perhaps what this person experienced is what happened around this print while it hung on a wall.

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