A Florida lighthouse where, during construction in 1873, the contractor's two daughters and another girl were killed: the handcart they were riding on the rails to the water ran into the bay. Keepers and visitors have reported children's laughter in the tower and a girl in a blue dress ever since. The place is well enough known that television crews come regularly, and the lighthouse staff keep a log of incidents of their own.

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Myasnoy Bor

The Myasnoy Bor tract in the Novgorod Region, grimly known as the "Valley of Death," is a dense, swampy forest that became the site of one of the most harrowing tragedies of the Great Patriotic War. In 1942, during an attempt to break the Siege of Leningrad, brutal fighting unfolded here, claiming the lives of tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers.