Birdee’s House in Small-Town Texas is where the 1998 romantic drama Hope Floats, Sandra Bullock played Birdee Pruitt, a woman who’s publicly humiliated on national TV when her best friend announces she’s having an affair with Birdee’s husband. Birdee takes her young daughter Bernice and flees Chicago, returning to her mother’s house in a small Texas town. It’s known as the McCollum-Chapman-Trousdale House, in Smithville, Texas. It’s a Neoclassical-style home built in 1908.

Blarney Castle in Ireland -> Most people associate Blarney Castle in County Cork in Ireland with the Blarney stone, which when kissed gives people “the gift of gab.” But this castle is also believed to have a real curse. The Legend Comac MacCarthy, one of Ireland’s great chieftains built Blarney Castle around 1446. Despite the fact Comac fought with the English-- against the local FitzGeralds, Queen Elizabeth l sent an envoy, the Earl of Leicester to claim his lands and rights. Legend states Comac lacking the ability to speak with finesse, feared he was not capable of convincing the queen to change her mind. He then met an old woman--said to be actually the goddess Clíodhna-- that told him anyone who kissed the Blarney stone located on the parapet at his castle would be given the gift of eloquent speech. * Comac did exactly this and then was able to wine and dine, flatter and deceive Leicester who delayed the queen’s decision. This worked for Comac was allowed to keep his family’s traditional land. The queen afterwards stated with irritation that all of the earl’s reports about his progress were “blarney.” * Part of this gift of gab is wit and the art of persuasion.

Dracula’s Daughter (1936) The mysterious Countess Marya Zaleska is indeed Dracula’s daughter, she is faithfully accompanied by her attendant Sandor. They burn her vampiric father’s body during a Black Mass. Though Dracula has been reduced to ashes, Zaleska is is still not free of her father’s curse. She is still bewitched with his blood lust, and a sexual longing, which is only hinted at as an artistic murmur, yet the story never quite rhapsodizes the true nature of her sapphic proclivities.

Summerwind mansion - Wisconsin Originally renovated in 1916 by US Secretary of Commerce Robert Lamont, the Summerwind, AKA Lamont Mansion, was rumored to be haunted before anyone had the chance to live in it. With a terrifying history of dark apparitions, disappearing corpses, attempted suicides, and demonic possessions, the infamous Summerwind Mansion is easily one of the most haunted places in Wisconsin,,,,

Bishops Palace , Galveston Texas

~ Patience is not always a virtue ~

Bodiam Castle is a 14th-century moated castle near Roberts bridge in East Sussex.