Forget about those hokey attractions at amusement parks. There are real haunted houses spread across America.
We're talking about the true-blue, creepy-as-can-be haunted houses.
The houses where local residents claim they hear voices and where serial killers dumped their victims. The places that carry legends of entire families vanishing into thin air and serve as a backdrop for murders and suicides.
Photographer Seph Lawless braved these stories and dilapidated buildings for his new photo book "13: An American Horror Story" to show us just how creepy these places really are.
Benjamin Albright accidentally shot and killed his son in 1958 in this house in Youngstown, Ohio. He was so wracked with guilt after the incident that he then killed himself and his wife soon after. The home, called the The Nova House, has stood abandoned ever since with some of Albright's original belongings still inside.
The local sheriff, Donald Caters, shot himself in 1968 after his Buffalo, New York home went into foreclosure. The vacant house has been rumored to now be haunted. Locals claim they hear voices coming from it regularly.
A former Texas bed and breakfast called the Hooley Mansion was turned into a haunted house after it became the site of a few unexplained deaths in the 1970s.
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