11 terrifying, real haunted houses in America
Working under a pseudonym, photographer Seph Lawless is known for his dark and foreboding pictures of abandoned buildings.
The images he captures have an eerie, surreal quality.
In support of his new photo book, "Autopsy of America," Lawless has provided us with photos of real haunted houses across America.
Some of the homes, like this one in Arkansas, are creepy from the outside.
Lawless also shows us inside the houses to reveal the creepy rot within.
They allow the imagination to run wild with thoughts of what might have happened before in the very same place.
Franklin's Castle in Cleveland, Ohio, has been rumored to be haunted ever since neighbors noticed that the family living there in the late 1800s seemed to be burying a lot of their children.
Source: Cleveland Historical Society
This Texarkana, Arkansas, house sits in front of the road where the "Phantom Killer" took his victims, Lawless said. The crimes are often called the "Moonlight Killings."
According to Lawless, this abandoned home is one of three surrounding a garage where a serial killer dumped his victims' bodies, which were found in 2013.
Source: ABC News
Three female victims were found in the house. The killer had put one of the women in the fetal position and wrapped her in plastic bags.
Many of the mansions Lawless captured have a certain Old-World, yet dilapidated, charm to them.
Looking at how dark and ominous the photos appear, it's easy to understand how urban legends spread.
It's a race against time to photograph these structures before they collapse.
This house in Ruggles Township, Ohio, is known as the Nova House. Local legend claims the house was the sight of a murder-suicide, when a father accidentally killed his son with a gun in 1958. There are no official records to support this, however.
Source: Mansfield News Journal
A fire destroyed the house in December of last year. It was ruled arson by authorities.
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