Moon Mausoleum
An online magazine about the paranormal, haunted and macabre. We collect the ghost stories from all around the world as well as review horror and gothic media.
Who said that ghost stories only happen around Halloween? Summer horror can be just as chilling. Here is a list of horror short stories found in the public domain that are free to read, perfect for a hot summer day.
There is a ghost girl hitchhiking on the Arrabassada road in Spain. On a sharp turn in the road people claim to have picked up a vanishing hitchhiker that keeps reminding them to slow down on the dangerous road before disappearing when they have safely passed the bend.
In 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades killing most of the passengers. Years after the crash, people talked about seeing the ghosts of the crew, not only around the crash site, but on other flights of Eastern Airlines.
The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews was written in 1884 and published in the collection Mystic-Humorous Stories. It tells the story about a group of passengers crossing the transatlantic by ship and debating if Europe or the States have the best ghost stories. They gather around one that has tales about both with a humorous twist.
Deep in the D’Souza Chawl there is a well that had to be sealed after a woman fell out and drowned in it. Her ghostly screams trying to get out of the well are still heard, and residents in the chawls claim to have seen a ghostly silhouette around the neighborhood.
From the Dakota prairie a legend of a wailing woman is said to haunt the area known as the Badlands. It is said that the Badlands Banshee will find those staying in her barren domain after dark.
Smugglers, Pirates, Fairies and ghosts, they all linger in the shallow water at Rosses Point. A place where the Irish writer Yeats even claimed had to be one of the […]
In a dark mansion on sunny Tenerife, there is a legend of a ghost haunting the grounds. Catalina, the daughter of the man of the manor supposedly threw herself down the well when she was forced to marry someone she didn’t want to. Now she wanders her afterlife like a ghost.
A woman jumping over the Borim Bridge in Goa is said to haunt the area where the ghost is said to latch onto the closest it will encounter. But what really happened when the woman decided to jump from the bridge down to the Suari River?
“The Wood of the Dead” is a story written by Algernon Blackwood. It appeared in his first collection, The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, in 1906. The story is set during a summer where a person is making a solo summer walking tour of England’s west country and has stopped for a meal at a village inn. A local man tells the traveler to meet him at midnight in “The Wood of the Dead”. According to local lore when a person entered the nearby wood singing, he knew that person would soon die. Instead of continuing on his journey, the traveler decides to have a closer look at The Woods of the Dead.
Down the ancient stepwell under Delhi, it is said that the water of Agrasen Ki Baoli turned black and called people to jump in to die. Visitors and locals claim to have seen and heard strange things down at the bottom and people think that it might be cursed.
In a former summer house for the rich and wealthy in Maine, the Ledgelawn Summer Estate has long been thought to be haunted by the ghost of Mary Margaret, the jilted bride haunting the house wearing her wedding dress.
After the Spanish Armada were set ablaze in the North Sea, some of the soldiers sought refuge at Staad Abbey in Sligo, Ireland. However, many of them met a haunting […]
“The Dead Valley” by Ralph Adams Cram from 1895 is a chilling tale that unfolds amidst the haunting landscape of rural New England. Set in the secluded valley of a decaying village, the story follows a young traveler who stumbles upon the eerie remnants of a once-thriving community. As he delves deeper into the desolate surroundings, he uncovers dark secrets and encounters malevolent forces that lurk in the shadows. Through vivid imagery and evocative prose, “The Dead Valley” explores themes of isolation, decay, and the supernatural, leaving readers captivated by its unsettling portrayal of a world teetering on the brink of madness.
On a white beach in Alicante, Santa Barbara Castle sits atop a rocky hill as it has done for centuries. There are legends of princesses and her forbidden love as well as ghosts haunting its ancient halls.
Right in the middle of the road at night at Baytakhol Road in India it is said that the ghost of a girl is haunting this stretch, screaming at the […]