Idaho – Murder House, Boise
There is a house in Boise known to most as the “Murder House” or occasionally the “Chop Chop House” where, as you might already suspect, a gruesome murder happened. It all started with a fight between three men. A man named Preston Murr was shot in the shoulder as a result, and ran to the neighbor’s house for help. The neighbor didn’t let him in, but called the police.
The next morning, that same neighbor called the police again, because there was blood smeared across their door and trails of blood in the street. The other two men had dragged Murr back to the house, shot him fatally, and then dismembered him. They found pieces of Murr in the reservoir a few days later.
Over the last 30 years the house has been in use, even being a fraternity house at one point, and people have reported seeing shadows out of the corners of their eyes, a dark oily presence, and the basement has a “creepy feel” that few want to experience.
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.)