Random Most Haunted Museums From Around World You Can Visit Today (13 items)

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  (#12) A Cursed Mummy Coffin Transfixes Guests At The British Museum

  The British Museum houses one of the most reportedly potent cursed artifacts in history: the stunning, hand-painted coffin cover belonging to a priestess of Amen-Ra.

  The Egyptian artifact's deadly reputation preceded its arrival to the museum. It was purchased by a man named Thomas Douglas Murray in 1889, but he didn't keep it for long. After a string of horrific tragedies - including the loss of Murray's arm to gangrene - he gave it to the museum. Once there, the coffin continued to wreak havoc, inflicting terrible luck on anyone who came into contact with it. It was even supposedly connected to the sinking of the Titanic.

  Museum employees claim that the artifact has rarely left its collection, and that the stories about it are untrue. But the piece is still known as "The Unlucky Mummy."
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  (#11) Ghosts Flock To Stratford Hall

  Stratford Hall is an imposing brick fortress that stands tall above a river in the Northern Neck of Virginia. It was home to the Lee family, who produced two signers of the Declaration of Independence, a famous Revolutionary War general, and Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Today, it is a museum and working farm open to the public.

  It's also rumored to house ghosts. One of these is supposedly Elizabeth McCarthy Storke, who reportedly had an affair with Henry Lee at age 14. To this day, she defends her virtue. A medium who visited the site claimed Elizabeth told her, "I didn't do it!"

  Another paranormal expert detected activity in the basement. Supposedly, the spirits of slaves who witnessed a murder remain there. Another spirit, that of a nanny named Madeleine, is said to linger in the nursery.
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  (#8) Angry Spirits Lurk In the Bell Tower At The San Francisco Art Institute

  Beware the bell tower at the San Francisco Art Institute. It's been a center of paranormal activities since the 1940s, when a frightened watchman first reported hearing phantom footsteps on the stairs.

  Workers started renovating the tower in 1968, and all hell broke loose. Strange accidents started occurring on the site, and the construction crew was beset by setbacks and personal tragedies. The vengeful spirits even began destroying furniture.

  All the strange activity did not go unnoticed by students and visitors, and some of these decided to hold an official seance to contact the spirits. Supposedly, they discovered that the source of the negative energy was generations of frustrated art students.
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  (#5) A Murdered Teenager Haunts The Museum Of The Albemarle

  The Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City, NC, moved to a new building in 2005, but its antique contents seemed to have relocated spirits, too. Staff have reported so many strange sightings and noises that paranormal experts were called in to investigate.

  Some of the items on display include the belongings of 19-year-old Nell Cropsey, who was murdered in 1901 and dumped in a river. The culprit was never found; her boyfriend spent years in jail for her murder, but he was pardoned and later committed suicide. Her spirit might still linger by her old possessions.

  Another ghost said to haunt the museum is Fred Fearing, a local historian who donated a number of items to the collection. Staff members have claimed to have seen and identified his ghost, and even those who had never met him accurately described his appearance.
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  (#2) Disembodied Voices Echo Through The Fremantle Arts Centre

  The Fremantle Arts Centre, just outside of Perth, Western Australia, is one of the most haunted museums in the Southern Hemisphere. And no wonder: the building was once an insane asylum.

  For years, visitors have reported feeling a sense of unease upon entering the building. Others have felt the touch of ghostly hands - and even lips. Photographs in certain galleries reportedly change, with figures appearing and disappearing at random. Ghostly voices intoning "those are chains," and "it's not cold" have also been heard.
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  (#7) A Ghostly Scent Wafts Through The Hunter Museum

  According to museum staff, Chattanooga's Hunter Museum of American Art is home to at least five ghosts. Employees regularly sense that someone - or something - is watching them, and night shift security guards have spotted moving shadows within the galleries.

  While that's a fair bit of paranormal activity, only one of the ghosts has been identified to date. Her name was Augusta Hoffman, and she was the poor and unhappy relation to the Bennett family, who lived just next door to the Hunter Museum. Apparently, Augusta's spirit preferred not to stay at the site of her misery, and moved right into the museum galleries. Visitors and staff have reported seeing her move about the building and look out of windows. If they don't see her, they sometimes catch a whiff of her strange perfume.

  Augusta's life was tragic. She disappeared in 1915, leaving behind her belongings and even her last paycheck. The Bennett family claimed that Augusta had eloped with a secret lover. However, that wasn't the case. In 1924, some work was being done on the Bennett home, and a carpenter made a grisly discovery under the floorboards. He uncovered a skeleton, still wearing shoes, spectacles, and and false teeth, which were later identified by a local dentist as belonging to poor Augusta. Local officials and the state Attorney General arrested Mr. and Mrs. Bennett for her murder.

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