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Written by Mary Fetzer

“We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.” ~Stephen King

Spine-tingling ghost stories herald from all over the world. Many have dedicated their lives to encounter a ghost and prove its existence. But how many would dedicate their child’s name to a famous ghost?

12 Famous ghosts

Would you give your child a haunting name that pays tribute to one of these well-known ghosts?

Abraham Lincoln – The assassinated President is said to be just one of many ghosts that haunt the White House.
Anne Boleyn – The second wife of Henry VIII was beheaded after being accused of adultery, incest and witchcraft. She is spotted most often at the Tower of London – with and without her head.
Bloody Mary – Call her three times and you’re sure to see her in the bathroom mirror.
Captain Hendrik van der Decken – The captain’s name may not be well-known but his vessel is. The Flying Dutchman was destined to sail past the Cape of Good Hope but never made it.
Casper – The legal last name of the beloved comic strip character is “The Friendly Ghost.”
Chloe – A slave on the Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana, Chloe unintentionally poisoned the wife and daughters of her Master.
Jacob Marley – The deceased business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge comes back on Christmas Eve to teach the greedy old man a lesson in charity.
Kate Morgan – The beautiful pregnant woman supposedly committed suicide after checking into the Hotel del Coronado.
King Hamlet – Shakespeare gave us the ghost of Hamlet’s father. King Hamlet, murdered by his brother Claudius, haunts his son to avenge his death.
Lady Dorothy Walpole – The wife of Charles, 2^nd Viscount Townshend died under mysterious circumstanced in 1726. She has since haunted Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England, and is known as the Brown Lady.
Resurrection Mary – The blue-eyed blonde in a white party dress is the vanishing hitchhiker found on Archer lane between the Willowbrook Ballroom and Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois.
The Ghost of Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne and his sonJulian are forever cursed due to their ancestors’ involvement in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.