Oklahoma – Hex House, Tulsa
A woman named Carol Ann Smith (this was one of several names she went by) kept “religious slaves” in 1944. She had convinced them, somehow, to go live in cages in the basement, without heat or light, and let them out to go to work and then they came back. They came back. They even gave Carol their paychecks.
Carol also lived off of some dubiously collected life insurance policies of her late husband, dad and maid, who all died mysteriously. Carol was eventually jailed and fled the state upon her release, but the shocking case, including why these people came back. Witchcraft? Probably. Most locals still believe it was a hex.
You missed the boat on New Jersey! THE JERSEY DEVIL is most definitely the official haunting creature of the Garden State. Long before NJ was even a state, the legend of the Jersey Devil began. It was the 13th child of Mrs Leeds, who had no desire for another baby. According to legend, she cursed the baby even before it was born. At its birth, the creature assumed otherworldly dimension and flew up the chimney of the home. Since then, the Devil regularly haunts the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, frightening all it encounters. On the eve of a National tragedy, the Devil is said to appear at many varied places in the state to warn of evils to come (most notably in December 1941, just before Pearl Harbor.)