Q 01/05

Which Estes Park, Colorado, hotel inspired the Overlook in Stephen King's The Shining?

A) The Crescent

B) The Cecil

C) The Stanley

D) The Queen Mary

Answer · why

C) The Stanley

The Stanley: the Kings checked in on the eve of its winter closure and found themselves the only guests in the echoing hotel, the night that gave him ...

Q 02/05

Which 1910 Louisville tuberculosis hospital is billed as one of the world's most haunted?

A) Waverly Hills

B) Pennhurst Asylum

C) Trans-Allegheny Asylum

D) Preston Castle

Answer · why

A) Waverly Hills

Waverly Hills Sanatorium began as a two-storey hospital for 40 to 50 patients and closed in 1961, once the antibiotic streptomycin had made tuberculos...

Q 03/05

What nickname did the ocean liner now moored at Long Beach earn as a fast WWII troopship?

A) The Grey Ghost

B) The Silent Lady

C) The Iron Shadow

D) The Pale Rider

Answer · why

A) The Grey Ghost

The Grey Ghost: repainted a dull wartime grey, she was quick enough to sail without a convoy, and her speed and zigzag courses made her almost impossi...

Q 04/05

Which San Jose mansion did a wealthy widow keep enlarging for decades, reportedly on a medium's advice to appease spirits?

A) Winchester Mystery House

B) The Whaley House

C) The Myrtles Plantation

D) Rose Hall Great House

Answer · why

A) Winchester Mystery House

Winchester Mystery House legend has a Boston medium telling Sarah Winchester to build for the ghosts of rifle victims, yet her own letters show she of...

Q 05/05

Which former liner and WWII troopship, docked in Long Beach, is called one of the world's most haunted ships?

A) RMS Queen Elizabeth

B) RMS Queen Mary

C) SS United States

D) SS Normandie

Answer · why

B) RMS Queen Mary

RMS Queen Mary sliced through her own escort cruiser, HMS Curacoa, in 1942 and, under orders never to stop, steamed on; Long Beach bought the retired ...