McRaven Tour Home in Vicksburg, Mississippi

McRaven Tour Home is Mississippi's most haunted house. It's strictly a tour home built in 1797 by highwayman Andrew Glass as a hideout. It was added on in 1836 and again in 1849, but the original portion of the house remains 1797. Civil War buffs will love learning about how McRaven was used as a field camp and later field hospital during the Siege of Vicksburg.

Open daily for history tours,…

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Room 404: What happened when we stayed in an unlucky hotel room in Japan

There’s a reason hotels don’t use this number for their rooms. In Japan, the numbers “4” (“shi”) and “9” (“ku”) are associated with death and suffering, due to the way the word “shi” can also be used to mean “death” and “ku” can mean “suffering“. The belief is so widespread that hospitals and hotels avoid […]

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