Firehouse13

Now a hipster haven, an art gallery and music venue, Firehouse13 was, as recently as the early 1970s, an actual firehouse. Ironically, or crudely, or obviously, the attached stable caught fire in 1895 during a governor's ball to which all of the firemen had been invited as honored guests. 30 horses died in the fire.

Guests at the current Firehouse13 report hearing the stamping, neighing, whinnying, and, sometimes, pained screaming of a group of horses, along with smells of manure and hay. No reported harm to the living.

Wyndham Hayward Garden

According to police reports and all official school and city documentation, Brown University freshman Wyndham Hayward committed suicide by jumping from his dorm room window in 1920. Yet if this is true, why was his body found in a second-floor bathroom? And why was his memorial garden sponsored and planted by the Providence Historical Society, widely known as a cover organization? And why does nothing grow there?

Jennie Goncalves

Picture taken 1918, in Paris, France, by Richard Goncalves, the famous photojournalist from Providence whose photography during World War I is credited with helping to create modern war journalism.



The girl in the window is Jennie Goncalves, his daughter, who had died in Providence, Rhode Island that day. She was raped; her throat slit. Her murderer was not found, but was presumed to be a drifter.

The Gingerbread House

Caroline Willikens and her daughter Leanne strangled and cannibalized fourteen children in their home between 1988 and 2005, when 14-year-old Jason Stark, their oldest (attempted) victim, managed to escape.

When asked why they did it, Leanne once answered that it was "because children taste better."