Setting off on a South Carolina getaway and have a hankering to visit some of the most haunted places near Myrtle Beach? Sure, Myrtle Beach boasts its share of “manufactured scares” at highly entertaining haunted attractions ranging from Ripley’s Haunted Adventure and Nightmare Haunted House to Outbreak: Dread the Undead and several others (each of which comes highly recommended, by the way!). “It was haunted but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally they have to do with the menace of memory.” – Anne Rice Westgate Myrtle Beach Oceanfront Resort.River Terrace Resort and Convention Center.Westgate Smoky Mountain Resort & Water Park."But there is not one family, whether old or young, within the limits named which cannot have its wandering spirit or cannot sit beneath the rooftree, and, pointing through the window, either to the shore or to the woodland, designate some spot round which lingers memory of a crime, and perhaps about which, according to local tradition, there wanders the uneasy ghost of some victim of the murderer's hand or of the mania which leads one to self-destruction. Now it is barely possible that there are some families living between North Evanston and the furthermost bounds of Winnetka which are not 'old' enough to have a family spook," according to a grandiloquent 1896 Chicago Daily Tribune report. "No well-regulated country house is complete without its ghost, or at least without the shadow of a story beneath its eaves. However, a professional ghost hunter toured locations associated with Lambert's death a decade ago and found no evidence of anything supernatural, the Chicago Tribune reported.Īccording to newspaper archives, Sheridan Road south of Lake Forest had acquired a ghostly reputation well before Lambert and Orpet's ill-fated romance. Motorists on Sheridan Road have reported sightings of ghostly apparitions, including one strikingly detailed story of a young girl with a damaged mouth. Following five hours of deliberations, the jury found that Orpet did not administer the poison.Ī key piece of evidence: experts testified the form of cyanide that killed Lambert was potassium cyanide powder - the type kept at the Deerfield High School science lab, where Lambert had been the day before her death, in violation of school rules - and not the type that Orpet had access to, of which Lambert would have had to either drink two quarts or eaten two pounds. (Photo credit: Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News Collection, Chicago History Museum, DN-0066823)īut it was the physical evidence of the cyanide that appears to have been decisive at trial. Orpet was accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Marion Lambert and was acquitted at trial. One of the prosecution's key witnesses, a friend of Lambert, changed her story and testified that Lambert had been depressed and discussed committing suicide if Orpet broke up with her.Įlevated view of the courtroom in Waukegan, Illinois, during the trial of William Orpet. "The State was unable to persuade any witness to come from Wisconsin, and repeatedly hinted that a sinister influence of the defense was at the bottom of it," according to the Times. The defense argued that Lambert had taken cyanide herself, either to kill herself or as an accident intended to win Orpet's affection. The prosecution's theory held that Orpet killed Lambert because of her perceived pregnancy after producing a cyanide solution at the estate. He told a series of conflicting stories about what happened and relied heavily on the response "I don't remember" during three days of cross-examination, according to the Times. Orpet headed back to Madison but was soon tracked down by reporters and police. Then a kind of fog came into my brain, and I don't remember much after that except that on reaching the road I threw away the 'medicine' and made my way on foot to Highland Park, caught a train and that evening arrived back at Madison." I noticed the moist powder in the lines of her hand. "I returned, knelt over her for maybe a minute. "Something made me look around - I don't know what - and I saw Marion lying in the snow," Orpet testified.
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