154 Haunted Places in United States
Every case file on record in United States — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
17Hundred90 — Anna's Room
B · Savannah, Georgia, United States — An inn among Savannah's oldest buildings — its name is its birth-year — where the resident ghost has a street address: room 204. Anna, by the telling a servant of the household abandoned by her sailor…
Alcatraz Island
A · San Francisco, CA, United States — The island prison, 1934–1963: the 1946 battle, the isolation of Cellblock D, and the utility corridor that sealed the escapees' fate.…
Alton — America's Most Haunted Small Town
B · Alton, Madison County, Illinois, United States — The Mississippi river town that made haunting its civic brand: Alton — bluffs, penitentiary ruins, the Civil War's prison across the river and its own Confederate jail dead, a linotype manufacturing p…
112 Ocean Avenue — The Amityville Horror House
A · Amityville, New York, United States — The Dutch Colonial where Ronald DeFeo murdered his family in 1974 — and where the next family fled after 28 days, launching America's most famous haunted-house story and its most famous debunking.…
Aurora — The Airship That Never Crashed
B · Aurora, Wise County, Texas, United States — The archive's oldest saucer story, filed as the newspaper ghost it was: on 17 April 1897, in the middle of America's great airship-scare spring, the Dallas Morning News carried a dispatch from this de…
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery
B · Chicago, IL, United States — Chicago's small abandoned cemetery, famous for the 1991 'ghost snapshot' and a woman in white sometimes seen with a child.…
Bedford County — The Beale Ciphers and the Unclaimed Ton of Gold
B · Bedford County, Virginia, United States — The treasure that entered history as a pamphlet: in 1885 a Lynchburg stationer published 'The Beale Papers', telling how in the 1820s a Thomas Beale party buried a ton and a half of gold and silver — …
The Bell Witch — Adams, Tennessee
A · Adams, Tennessee, United States — America's most documented poltergeist case — a four-year entity siege (1817–1821) endorsed by a future president.…
Glastenbury Mountain — The Bennington Triangle
B · Glastenbury Mountain, Bennington County, Vermont, United States — Five disappearances in five years on one Vermont mountainside: between 1945 and 1950 — including Paula Welden, the Bennington College sophomore who walked the Long Trail on 1 December 1946 and was nev…
Bluff Creek — Bigfoot and the Fifty-Nine Seconds that Started Fifty Years
A · Bluff Creek, Six Rivers National Forest, Del Norte County, California, United States — The world's most famous wildman, anchored at the creek where the famous film was shot: on 20 October 1967, at Bluff Creek in northern California, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin returned with fifty-nin…
Bird Cage Theatre
B · Tombstone, AZ, United States — Tombstone, 1881: 'the wildest nightspot between New Orleans and San Francisco' — 26 bullet holes still in the walls.…
Bobby Mackey's Music World — The World's Most Haunted Nightclub
B · Wilder, Kentucky, United States — A country music bar on the Licking Pike that turned its own building into the headliner — slaughterhouse, speakeasy, a headless murder victim and a poisoned girl, all sworn on the wall of a club that …
Bodie — The Town That Curses Thieves
A · Mono County, California, United States — A gold-rush town preserved in arrested decay by the State of California — and famous for the letters that come back: visitors who pocketed its relics mailing them home with apologies, asking the town …
Bonaventure Cemetery
B · Savannah, GA, United States — The moss-draped Savannah necropolis made famous by Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; the statue of young Gracie Watson is its best-known stop.…
The Bridgewater Triangle — Hockomock, Place Where Spirits Dwell
B · Hockomock Swamp, Bridgewater/Freetown, southeastern Massachusetts, United States — Two hundred square miles of southeastern Massachusetts — anchored on the great Hockomock Swamp whose Wampanoag name is glossed 'place where spirits dwell' — carrying New England's densest file of unex…
The Brown Mountain Lights — Appalachia's Light Phenomenon
A · Morganton, North Carolina, United States — Glowing orbs reported over a low Blue Ridge ridge since the nineteenth century, investigated by the USGS in 1922 and the origin of the 1962 bluegrass standard 'Brown Mountain Lights' — one of America'…
The Ghost Janitor of the Grand Street Theatre
B · Helena, Montana, United States — A converted Helena building keeps a resident janitor-ghost whose contributions — cold spots, moved tools, names called in empty rooms — are treated by its occupants as company rather than haunting.…
Huffman — Cash-Landrum, the Object and the Helicopters
B · FM 1485 corridor near Huffman, Harris County, Texas, United States — The case filed in a hospital: on the evening of 29 December 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and her seven-year-old grandson, driving the dark road near Huffman, met a diamond-shaped, flame-bottomed o…
Castillo de San Marcos
B · St. Augustine, FL, United States — The oldest masonry fort in the continental US (1672), never taken by force; the legend of an unjustly hanged colonel's wife endures.…
The Cecil Hotel — Main Street's Dark Address
A · Los Angeles, California, United States — A 1927 downtown hotel whose guest ledger reads like a true-crime anthology — the 'Suicide Hotel' where Elisa Lam's body was found in a rooftop water tank in 2013.…
Centralia — The Town on Fire Beneath
B · Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States — A Pennsylvania coal town that has burned beneath the ground since 1962, when a landfill fire lit an exposed seam — the fire outlived the town: condemned by eminent domain in 1992, its zip code revoked…
Port Henry — Champ, the Lake Champlain Monster
B · Port Henry, Essex County, New York, United States — America's lake monster, on the hundred-mile lake between New York and Vermont: a serpentine being in the file since Samuel de Champlain's own era, the town of Port Henry as its self-declared home, and…
Canóvanas — Where the Chupacabra Was Born
B · Canóvanas, Puerto Rico (fold: United States), United States — The town where the world's most famous modern monster began: in March 1995, eight sheep died near Canóvanas with puncture wounds and no blood, and within three months the reports had grown to thirty-f…
10050 Cielo Drive — The House on the Hill Above Benedict Canyon
B · Cielo Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California, United States — The address of the Manson Family's 1969 murders of Sharon Tate and four others — a house whose afterlife outgrew the crime: a decade of uneasy tenants and rumours of the dead, then Trent Reznor's 'Le …
Clinton Road — America's Most Haunted Road
A · West Milford, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States — The ten dark miles of Clinton Road in West Milford, New Jersey — haunted by a ghost boy who returns coins thrown from the Dead Man's Curve bridge, hellhounds, phantom trucks and the ruins of Cross Cas…
Congress Plaza Hotel
B · Chicago, IL, United States — Chicago's 1893 'most haunted hotel': Peg Leg Johnny, a self-operating elevator, and an unnerving 12th floor.…
The Conjuring House — The Arnold Estate
A · Harrisville (Burrillville), Rhode Island, United States — The 1736 Rhode Island farmhouse where the Perron family lived ten years of what they called hauntings, investigated by the Warrens — and turned by Hollywood into the most valuable haunted house in Ame…
Copper Queen Hotel
B · Bisbee, AZ, United States — Bisbee's 1902 hotel: three resident ghosts, including Julia, a woman said to wave from a third-floor window.…
Coral Castle — The Sweet Sixteen Stones
B · 28655 South Dixie Highway, Homestead, Florida, United States — The loneliest engineering mystery in America: Edward Leedskalnin, a five-foot, hundred-pound Latvian immigrant, alone and mostly at night over twenty-eight years (1923-1951), quarried, moved and set s…
1886 Crescent Hotel
A · Eureka Springs, AR, United States — Eureka Springs' 1886 hotel, later a fake cancer hospital run by 'Dr.' Norman Baker — the morgue is now a tour stop.…
Danvers State Hospital — The Kirkbride on the Hill
A · Danvers, Massachusetts, United States — The 1878 Kirkbride asylum said to have inspired Lovecraft's Arkham and filmed for Session 9 — a Gothic hilltop complex where tens of thousands were confined, now half-demolished condos with a patient …
Tina Bar — D.B. Cooper and the Ransom in the River
A · Columbia riverbank at Tina Bar (Washougal), Washington, United States — The only unsolved air piracy in American history: on 24 November 1971 a quiet man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Seattle-bound airliner, collected $200,000 and four parachutes, and jumped into …
Deadwood historic district
B · Deadwood, SD, United States — The lawless boomtown: Wild Bill Hickok shot mid-poker, Calamity Jane buried beside him, and the Bullock Hotel's namesake still on patrol.…
Demon Cat (US Capitol)
C · Washington, DC, United States — The Capitol's Demon Cat: a black cat said to appear in the basement before national tragedies — sightings date to the 1800s.…
DeSoto House Hotel
C · Galena, IL, United States — Galena's 1855 hotel, Illinois' oldest still operating: Lincoln and Grant stayed; guests add their own quieter reports.…
Devil's Den
A · Gettysburg, PA, United States — Gettysburg's boulder field, a snipers' nest in 1863: camera failures and phantom soldiers reported by visitors for decades.…
Devil's Kettle — The Waterfall Solved
B · Judge C. R. Magney State Park, Cook County, Minnesota, United States — The mystery the archive keeps as its closed case: at Devil's Kettle Falls on the Brule River, half the river vanishes into a pothole in the rock — for decades a genuine geological puzzle where ping-po…
The Devil's Tramping Ground — The Circle That Stays Bare
B · Harper's Crossroads, Chatham County, North Carolina, United States — A bare circle forty feet across in the North Carolina pine woods, on a spot where nothing has grown for as long as anyone has kept track: the Devil's Tramping Ground, the legend's name — the devil pac…
Dover, Massachusetts — Twenty-Five Hours of the Dover Demon
B · Dover, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States — Over twenty-five hours in April 1977, four Dover teenagers in three separate encounters reported a hairless creature with a watermelon-shaped head and glowing eyes — a case built on named witnesses wh…
The Drake — Opening Night's Woman in Red
B · Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois, United States — The pink-neoned 1920 grand hotel at the top of Michigan Avenue — haunted from its first night: a woman in a red dress who, at the New Year's Eve opening gala, found her fiancé with another woman and w…
The Driskill — The Cattle King's Hotel
B · Austin, Texas, United States — Austin's 1886 Romanesque landmark, built by a cattle baron who lost it within two years — and who, guests still say, never moved out.…
Dudleytown — The Village of the Damned
B · Cornwall, Connecticut, United States — A vanished hamlet in the Connecticut woods, closed to all visitors — cursed, said the legend, since a Tudor baron's blood, and famous enough that the New York Times came to ask a town how it lives wit…
Eastern State Penitentiary
S · Philadelphia, PA, United States — The world's first penitentiary (1829). Solitary confinement was designed to inspire repentance; visitors and guards still report shadowy figures in Cellblock 12.…
Eloise — The Poorhouse City of Westland
B · Westland, Michigan, United States — A 902-acre complex that was once a city unto itself — poorhouse, asylum, tuberculosis sanatorium, 10,000 residents at its 1920s peak — now reduced to a few buildings and a fenced field of numbered mar…
Emily's Bridge — The Covered Bridge That Keeps Its Dead
B · Stowe, Vermont, United States — A fifty-foot covered bridge from 1844 carries Vermont's best-known bridge ghost — a woman said to have hanged herself in 1852 after being stood up at an elopement, whose scratches on passing cars are …
Estes Park downtown
C · Estes Park, CO, United States — The mountain town at the Stanley's gate — where Stephen King spent one snowy night and dreamed up The Shining.…
Civil War Exchange Hotel — Gordonsville's Hospital Ghosts
B · Gordonsville, Virginia, United States — An 1860 railroad hotel that became one of the Civil War's largest receiving hospitals — processing thousands of wounded — now a museum whose ghost reports track its hospital years, not its hotel years…
Exeter, New Hampshire — The Incident at Exeter
B · Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States — In the small hours of 3 September 1965, a terrified hitchhiker brought the Exeter police to a Kensington field, and two patrolmen watched with him as a silent glowing craft hovered a hundred feet over…
Flatwoods — The Braxton County Monster
B · Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia, United States — On the evening of 12 September 1952, seven named witnesses — the brothers May, their mother Kathleen, a National Guardsman and the neighbourhood children — climbed a Flatwoods hillside after a fiery o…
Ford's Theatre — The House of the Assassination
A · 511 10th Street NW, Washington, DC, United States — The theatre where the republic's wound was dealt: on 14 April 1865 John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in the presidential box, the president dying across the street in Petersen House — and the bui…
Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island — The Moat of the Departed
B · Delaware City, Delaware, United States — A granite Civil War fort in the Delaware River held thousands of Confederate prisoners in 1863; its moated walls now host tours where visitors report voices, cold zones and figures on the ramparts.…
Fort Mifflin
A · Philadelphia, PA, United States — The 1771 mud fort that held the line for Washington: casemate reports of a screaming woman and an officer seen on the walls.…
Fort Warren — The Lady in Black
B · Georges Island, Boston Harbor, United States — The granite Civil War fort in Boston harbour that held Confederate prisoners — including the Confederacy's vice-president — and keeps the Lady in Black: a hooded figure reported on the ramparts for ov…
Hydesville Cottage — Where the Rappings Began
A · Hydesville, Newark, Wayne County, New York, United States — The bedroom of two young girls where, in March 1848, unexplained rapping noises launched modern Spiritualism — a movement that numbered its followers in millions and ended with one of history's most f…
Franklin Castle — Ohio's Most Haunted House
A · Cleveland, Ohio, United States — The 1883 Queen Anne stone pile at 4308 Franklin Boulevard — the Tiedemann House — carries a century of Cleveland ghost canon: a family's run of child deaths, a banned 'murder room', planted bones, and…
Garita del Diablo — The Devil's Sentry Box
B · Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States — On the wind-battered cliff edge of Castillo San Cristobal — the largest Spanish fortress in the Americas, begun in the 1600s and rebuilt 1766-1783 — stands the loneliest sentry box in Old San Juan, wh…
Gettysburg Battlefield
S · Gettysburg, PA, United States — Three days in July 1863 left more than 50,000 casualties. Devil's Den and Pickett's Charge are among the most consistently reported apparition sites in America.…
Grand Hotel, Mackinac — The Somewhere in Time Hotel
B · Mackinac Island, Michigan, United States — The world's largest summer hotel and the island the cars never reached: Mackinac's Grand Hotel — the 1887 white veranda palace of the Michigan trade — is better documented for its film than its phanto…
The Gray Man of Pawleys Island
B · Pawleys Island, South Carolina, United States — A figure in a gray coat who walks the beach before hurricanes — a ghost South Carolina has been sighting for two centuries, and whose appearances the island counts the way other towns count sirens.…
Hannah House — The cellar of the lost passage
B · Indianapolis, Indiana, United States — An 1850s Italianate farmhouse south of downtown Indianapolis, tied to Underground Railroad lore of men who died in a fire in the cellar and buried secretly on the property — Indiana's best-known stop …
Boston Township — 'Helltown', the Valley the Legends Took
B · Boston Township, Cuyahoga Valley, Summit County, Ohio, United States — The Ohio valley that American folklore renamed: from 1974 the National Park Service used eminent domain to buy out the farms of Boston Township for the new Cuyahoga Valley park, houses emptied and wer…
Hermitage Hotel
C · Nashville, TN, United States — Nashville's 1910 beaux-arts landmark: society-era legends and repeated reports of a woman on the mezzanine stairs.…
The White Mountains — Betty and Barney Hill's Interrupted Journey
B · Lancaster (Route 3 corridor), New Hampshire, United States — The case that wrote the vocabulary of alien abduction: on the night of 19-20 September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill — an interracial couple from Portsmouth, driving home through the White Mountains — r…
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
B · Los Angeles, CA, United States — The 1927 hotel of the first Academy Awards: Marilyn Monroe's poolside mirror and Montgomery Clift's ninth-floor hallway.…
H.H. Holmes' Murder Castle Site — Englewood's PlainFacade Legacy
A · Chicago, Illinois, United States — The corner of 63rd and Wallace where America's first serial killer ran a murder hotel during the 1893 World's Fair — the castle is long gone, but a New Deal post office stands over part of its foundat…
Kelly–Hopkinsville — The Night the Goblins Came
B · Kelly, Christian County, Kentucky, United States — On the night of 21 August 1955, at a farmhouse outside the hamlet of Kelly, eleven people — the Sutton family and their visiting relations — spent five hours besieged by small, glowing, floating figur…
Hotel Castañeda — Fred Harvey's Haunted Queen
B · Las Vegas, New Mexico, United States — The oldest surviving Fred Harvey hotel in the West, built by the railroad in 1898 beside the tracks in Las Vegas, New Mexico — restored in the 2010s with its ghost file intact: a cowboy, a little girl…
Hotel Chelsea — New York's Bohemian Ghost Hotel
A · New York City, New York, United States — The hotel where Dylan Thomas fell ill, Sid Vicious's Nancy died, and a century of artists left presences behind.…
Hotel del Coronado — The Beautiful Stranger
A · Coronado, California, United States — The giant red Victorian on the San Diego sand — the world's best-documented hotel ghost story, starring a 24-year-old stranger who checked in in 1892 and never checked out.…
Hotel Galvez
B · Galveston, TX, United States — Galveston's 1911 queen: a ghost bride on the fifth floor and hurricane-era guests who never checked out.…
Hotel Monte Vista
B · Flagstaff, AZ, United States — Flagstaff, 1927, on Route 66: a bank robber in Room 210 and the long-term resident known as 'Meat Man'.…
Hotel Monteleone — The Carousel and the Thirteenth Floor
B · French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States — The grand family hotel of the French Quarter, opened in 1886 by a Sicilian shoemaker's son and still run by his descendants — home of the revolving Carousel Bar where Faulkner, Hemingway and Tennessee…
House of Death — 14 West 10th Street
B · Greenwich Village, New York City, United States — A Greek Revival brownstone in Greenwich Village where Mark Twain once lived and a six-year-old girl was killed — New York's most literary address of dread, nicknamed for the deaths accumulated behind …
Hull House — The Devil Baby of Halsted Street
A · Near West Side, Chicago, Illinois, United States — The settlement house Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr founded in 1889, the birthplace of American social work — where in the autumn of 1913, for six weeks, thousands of Chicagoans besieged the doors …
Hummel Park — The Morphing Woods of North Omaha
B · Omaha, Nebraska, United States — A city park whose folklore changes shape by decade — hanging trees, an albino colony, staircases that renumber themselves, and the raw fact of a landscape steeped in the area's darkest history.…
Jerome Grand Hotel
B · Jerome, AZ, United States — The former company hospital above Jerome: thousands of deaths on record, wheelchairs that move, an elevator that runs at night.…
Joshua Ward House
B · Salem, MA, United States — Salem house built on the former home of Sheriff George Corwin, the witch-trials magistrate; his deathbed grievances are its central legend.…
Kancamagus Highway — Ruth Colbath's Lantern
B · Passaconaway, Albany, New Hampshire, United States — New Hampshire's 34-mile scenic stretch of Route 112 through the White Mountain National Forest carries the region's purest legend: in September 1891 Thomas Colbath stepped out of his farmhouse saying …
Kecksburg — The Space Acorn and the Court-Ordered Search
B · Kecksburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States — The village that says something fell: on 9 December 1965, the night a brilliant fireball crossed six states, residents near this Pennsylvania hamlet reported an object coming down in the woods — some …
Kennecott Mill Town — The Company That Left
B · Kennecott, Alaska, United States — Five giant red mills stand at the foot of a glacier, abandoned mid-shift in 1938 when the company simply walked away — and rangers still log footsteps and voices in buildings no living person occupies…
Langley — Kryptos, the CIA's Unsolved Sculpture
A · George Bush Center for Intelligence (CIA HQ), Langley, Virginia, United States — In the courtyard of the CIA's headquarters stands Kryptos, Jim Sanborn's 1990 sculpture of copper, granite and wood bearing nearly two thousand letters of cipher — the first three sections of which we…
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar
B · New Orleans, LA, United States — Claimed to be America's oldest bar (1722): pirate-era legends, duels, and a corner that never warms.…
LaLaurie Mansion
S · New Orleans, LA, United States — New Orleans' darkest address: an 1834 fire exposed the attic of Madame LaLaurie — the city's most documented case of cruelty, and its most consistently reported apparitions.…
Leeds Point — The Leeds Devil's Birthplace
A · Galloway Township, New Jersey, United States — The Pine Barrens hamlet where, by New Jersey's official state legend, Mother Leeds's thirteenth child was born in 1735 — and flew up the chimney as the Jersey Devil.…
Lemp Mansion
A · St. Louis, MO, United States — St. Louis' brewing dynasty undone by four suicides — the mansion is now an inn with a child spirit said to play pranks.…
Lizzie Borden House
A · Fall River, MA, United States — 1892: Andrew and Abby Borden were axed to death; Lizzie was acquitted and no one else was ever tried. The house now takes overnight guests.…
Loveland, Ohio — The Frogman of the Little Miami
B · Loveland, Clermont/Hamilton/Warren counties, Ohio, United States — Ohio's beloved river cryptid: the legend of the four-foot frog-faced men of the Little Miami — first reported by a motorist in 1955 — made canonical in 1972 when two Loveland police officers, in separ…
Mammoth Cave's TB Huts — The 1842 Underground Hospital
A · Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, United States — In 1842 a doctor moved sixteen tuberculosis patients into the world's longest cave to breathe its constant air — five died underground in the stone huts that National Park Service rangers now point ou…
The Manhattan Well — Elma Sands' 1799 Murder
A · New York, New York, United States — A sealed well beneath a Spring Street shop where Elma Sands' body was found on New Year's Eve 1799 — the case that put Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr on the same defense table in America's first gr…
Marfa Lights — The Viewing Area Phenomenon
A · Marfa, Texas, United States — Nine miles east of Marfa, a roadside viewing area faces the Mitchell Flats where globes of light have been reported since the first print mention in 1957 — the most famous unexplained-light phenomenon…
Marshall House
B · Savannah, GA, United States — Savannah's 1851 hotel used as a Civil War hospital: reports of faucets running on their own and wounded soldiers in the corridors.…
The McTaggart Mound — Ennis, Mississippi
B · Ennis, Mississippi, United States — A rural cemetery mound outside the Ennis crossroads, where a woman said to have died in 1917 is reported walking at dusk with a lantern — a printed and persistent local legend.…
Menger Hotel
B · San Antonio, TX, United States — San Antonio, next door to the Alamo: Teddy Roosevelt recruited Rough Riders in the bar; staff still report Sallie White, a chambermaid killed in 1876.…
Mercer Williams House — The Shooting That Would Not Close
B · Monterey Square, Savannah, Georgia, United States — The 1860s Italianate mansion on Monterey Square, restored in the 1960s by antiques dealer Jim Williams — where on 2 May 1981 Williams shot his young employee and lover Danny Hansford dead in the study…
Merchant's House Museum
B · New York, NY, United States — Manhattan's intact 1832 family home, preserved with original belongings; Gertrude Tredwell, the last resident, is said to have never left.…
Missouri State Penitentiary — The Bloodiest 47 Acres
A · Jefferson City, Missouri, United States — A prison Time called “the bloodiest 47 acres in America” — open 1836 to 2004, site of a 1954 riot and 40 executions, now running official ghost hunts through the cellblocks its own state tourism board…
Moon River Brewing Co. — Savannah's Most Violent Haunting
B · Savannah, Georgia, United States — Savannah's 1821 City Hotel, abandoned for a century and now a brewery — where bottles fly, staff are grabbed in the basement, and the local paper reports on the ghosts like a beat.…
Morgan's Corner — The Bend at Old Pali Road
B · Nuuanu, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States — A sharp bend on the old Pali Road where Oahu's teenagers have tested their nerve since the 1920s — a hanging-murder legend, a cursed stone wall, and vines said to reach for cars parked after dark.…
Point Pleasant — Thirteen Months of the Mothman
A · Main Street, Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, United States — For thirteen months between November 1966 and December 1967 the Ohio river town of Point Pleasant saw America's biggest cryptid sighting wave — a seven-foot winged figure with glowing red eyes, seen b…
Mount Shasta — The Mountain with a City Inside
A · Mount Shasta / Weed, Siskiyou County, California, United States — The volcano California agreed to believe in: the 14,179-foot cone of the southern Cascades — sacred from the beginning (the Winnemem Wintu emerged from its spring in the beginning; the Modoc held it t…
The Myrtles Plantation
A · St. Francisville, LA, United States — A 1796 plantation called 'one of America's most haunted homes': the legend of Chloe and a mirror said to hold handprints.…
Nagel-Schwartz Mansion — Cheyenne's Cattle-Boom House
B · Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States — An 1889 red-sandstone cattle-baron mansion in Cheyenne, kept as a house museum with a ghost file — footsteps on the stairs, a woman at an upper window, and the smell of cigars — collected and printed …
Ohio State Reformatory
A · Mansfield, OH, United States — Mansfield's 1886 prison, filmed as The Shawshank Redemption: the solitary hole and the warden's quarters anchor its reports.…
Old Charleston Jail
A · Charleston, SC, United States — Operated 1802–1939: pirates, deserters, and Lavinia Fisher — often called America's first female serial killer — were held and hanged here.…
Old Idaho Penitentiary — Siberia and the Gallows Room
A · Boise, Idaho, United States — A territorial prison of 1870 that grew into 101 years of confinement — now a state historic site whose own official FAQ page asks “Is the Old Idaho Penitentiary haunted?” and answers carefully, while …
Omni Parker House
B · Boston, MA, United States — Boston's 1855 grande dame: founder Harvey Parker is said to still check on guests, and the elevator makes unrequested stops.…
The Palatine Light — Ocean-Borne Helen of the Isle of Shoals
B · Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States — A ghost ship revisits the Isles of Shoals each autumn — a burning vessel lost in 1751 whose apparition, by tradition, once paid for its own rescue attempt.…
Pennhurst — Suffer the Little Children
A · Spring City, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States — The institution a 1968 television exposé turned into a national scandal — decades of documented neglect ended by a landmark civil-rights ruling, its campus now split between a memorial archive and a h…
Philadelphia Navy Yard — The Teleportation That Never Happened
B · Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States — The legend that the USS Eldridge, at this navy yard in October 1943, was made invisible — and teleported to Norfolk and back — by a secret experiment that drove sailors mad and welded men into the shi…
Phoenix, 13 March 1997 — The Lights the Governor Saw
B · Phoenix, Arizona, United States — The largest mass-witness light event in American history: on the evening of 13 March 1997 a V-formation of lights crossed the state from Paulden to Phoenix, and after 8 p.m. a second phenomenon — a gr…
Pioneer Square Underground Tour
B · Seattle, WA, United States — After the 1889 fire, Seattle rebuilt one story higher and buried its storefronts — the sidewalks below are now walkable on tour.…
Point Lookout Lighthouse — The Camp's Keeper
A · Scotland, Maryland, United States — The 1830 lighthouse on Maryland's windswept bay tip, next to the Civil War's largest Northern prison camp — billed for decades as America's most haunted lighthouse.…
RMS Queen Mary
A · Long Beach, CA, United States — The 1936 ocean liner, now a hotel, with dozens of recorded deaths aboard. The engine room and the former third-class pool area are its most active spots.…
Resurrection Mary — Archer Avenue's Vanishing Hitchhiker
A · Justice, Illinois, United States — Chicago's most famous ghost — a young woman in a white dress who dances at the ballroom, takes a ride down Archer Avenue, and steps out at the cemetery gate, leaving no footprints and no past.…
Fort Raleigh — Roanoke, the Lost Colony
A · Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, Roanoke Island, North Carolina, United States — America's oldest mystery and its first English town: in July 1587, 117 settlers under Governor John White landed on Roanoke Island — among them Eleanor Dare, whose daughter Virginia was the first Engl…
Robert the Doll (Fort East Martello)
A · Key West, FL, United States — Key West's most famous cursed object: a century-old doll in Fort East Martello — letters of apology from visitors who photographed it line the walls.…
Corona — Roswell, 1947: The Press Release Heard Round the World
A · Foster Ranch country, near Corona, New Mexico, United States — The event that wrote the vocabulary of the flying saucer age: in July 1947 a rancher near Corona cleared debris from a New Mexico pasture, the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release saying it h…
The Screaming Bridges of Saco — A Mill Girl's Drowned Ghost
B · Saco, Maine, United States — An 1847 legend of a drowned mill girl whose stolen-and-returned skull is said to scream from beneath Saco's bridges — a tale printed while its tellers were alive.…
Salem Witch Trials sites
S · Salem, MA, United States — The 1692 trials: 20 executions and a town permanently haunted by its own past — Gallows Hill, the Witch House, and the Old Burying Point.…
Sallie House
B · Atchison, KS, United States — Atchison's modest house with a violent reputation: attacks targeting male visitors and knives found sealed in the walls.…
San Haven Sanatorium — North Dakota's Curing Institution
B · Dunseith, North Dakota, United States — A 1909 tuberculosis sanatorium on the Turtle Mountains, abandoned in 1987 and demolished in 2015-16 — its decades of ruination made it the state's premier abandoned-place legend before the bulldozers …
Shades of Death Road — Ghost Lake, New Jersey
B · Great Meadows, Independence Township, Warren County, New Jersey, United States — The most ominously named road in America: a two-lane country road through the Great Meadows of north-western New Jersey, whose very name — by rival legends the shade of malaria-killing fevers, of fore…
Shanghai Tunnels — The Old Portland Underground
A · Portland, Oregon (Old Town Chinatown), United States — Beneath Old Town Portland runs a claimed network of 'Shanghai tunnels' through which men were supposedly drugged and smuggled to ships — a legend born of 1930s newspaper romance, fixed by ghost tours …
Skinwalker Ranch — Utah's Paranormal Ground Zero
A · Ballard, Uintah County, Utah, United States — A 512-acre cattle ranch in the Uintah Basin that became the most investigated paranormal site in America — UFOs, impossible animals, cattle mutilations and poltergeist weather, studied for years by a …
Skirvin Hotel — The Ninth Floor and the NBA
A · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States — Oklahoma City's 1911 flagship hotel, closed for nineteen years and reborn in 2007 next to the NBA arena — whose visiting teams credit the ghost of a chambermaid with sleepless nights, making her the o…
Sleepy Hollow — The Headless Horseman's Home Ground
A · Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States — The village Washington Irving made immortal in 1820: the Old Dutch Church of 1685, its haunted churchyard, and the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery where Irving himself lies buried — ground zero for America's m…
Sloss Furnaces — The Ironmaker's Ghost
A · Birmingham, Alabama, United States — A blast-furnace complex where 47 workers died — and where 'Slag', the dead supervisor, is said to still drive his night shift.…
Fayetteville — The Sodder Children of 1945
B · Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia, United States — Five children who went into a house fire on Christmas Eve 1945 and were never found: when the Sodder home in Fayetteville burned in the small hours, George and Jennie Sodder and four of their children…
Sorrel-Weed House
B · Savannah, GA, United States — Savannah's most-investigated mansion, tied to a mistress's death and stories of voodoo practice among the enslaved staff — featured on nearly every ghost TV series.…
Split Rock — The Edmund Fitzgerald, the Lake That Keeps Its Dead
A · Split Rock Lighthouse, Two Harbors, Minnesota, United States — The Great Lakes' defining wreck: on 10 November 1975 the 729-foot ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, loaded with taconite, went down in a Lake Superior storm with all twenty-nine hands and no distress cal…
St. Augustine Lighthouse
A · St. Augustine, FL, United States — Florida's 1874 lighthouse: two sisters drowned here in 1873 and a keeper fell to his death — all three are still reported by visitors and staff.…
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — The Tomb of the Voodoo Queen
A · French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States — New Orleans' oldest surviving cemetery, opened in 1789 — a walled city of above-ground vaults and oven tombs where the dead are stacked because the water table pushes caskets back up; and the destinat…
St. Louis, 1949 — The Exorcism that Became The Exorcist
A · Alexian Brothers Hospital site, 3933 South Broadway, St. Louis, Missouri, United States — The real case behind the most famous horror story ever filmed: in the spring of 1949, Jesuit priests of St. Louis conducted a six-week rite of exorcism on a thirteen-year-old boy — the Church's own di…
The Stanley Hotel
S · Estes Park, CO, United States — The mountain resort that gave Stephen King The Shining. Guests report ghostly children in the halls and music from an unoccupied ballroom.…
Stow Lake — The White Lady of the Fog
A · Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, United States — The oldest lake in Golden Gate Park, dug in the 1890s around Strawberry Hill — and home to San Francisco's most durable ghost: a white-clad woman who stops the passer-by on the bridge at night with on…
Stull Cemetery — The Gateway to Hell
C · Stull, Kansas, United States — A tiny prairie graveyard that a hundred articles have called one of the 'seven gateways to hell' — the town has spent decades paying for it.…
Summerwind — The Mansion That Would Not Stay Furnished
A · Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin, United States — A 1920s lakeside mansion in the North Woods, twice abandoned and burned by lightning in 1988 — the most famous 'haunted house' in Wisconsin, whose canon is a 1979 book by the family that lived there.…
Superstition Mountains — The Lost Dutchman and the Thunder God's Ground
A · Lost Dutchman State Park, Apache Junction, Arizona, United States — The jagged wilderness range east of Phoenix that holds America's most famous lost mine — the Lost Dutchman's gold, supposedly found by a German immigrant who died with the secret in 1891 — on ground t…
Taos — The Hum Congress Couldn't Find
B · Taos, Taos County, New Mexico, United States — The sound a town hears and the world cannot measure: from the early 1990s, residents of Taos — the New Mexico art colony — reported a persistent, low-frequency hum, heard by a minority of the town at …
The Alamo — Touch Not These Walls
A · San Antonio, Texas, United States — The mission-fortress where roughly 182 Texian defenders died on 6 March 1836 — and where, days after, the Mexican detachment sent to demolish it was driven off, its officers swearing, by six phantoms …
The Ridges — Athens Lunatic Asylum
A · Athens, Ohio, United States — The 1874 Kirkbride asylum above Ohio University — a self-sufficient city for the mentally ill whose empty wards, numbered cemetery markers, and one famous stain made it the anchor of every “most haunt…
The White House — Lincoln's Bedroom
A · Washington, D.C., United States — The world's most powerful residence has a ghost problem — and the witnesses are presidents, first ladies and prime ministers.…
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
A · Weston, WV, United States — A Gothic asylum built for 250 patients that held 2,400. The ghost of a little girl named Lily is its most famous resident.…
Snowflake — Travis Walton's Five Days
B · Snowflake, Navajo County, Arizona, United States — The logging town at the centre of America's most argued abduction case: on 5 November 1975, in the Apache-Sitgreaves forest, a seven-man crew — including 22-year-old Travis Walton — reported that a gl…
Villisca Axe Murder House
A · Villisca, IA, United States — June 1912, Iowa: eight people murdered in their sleep. The crime was never solved; the house is preserved close to how it was found.…
Virginia City historic district
B · Virginia City, NV, United States — The Comstock boomtown where Mark Twain got his start; the Gold Hill Hotel and the Washoe Club's spiral staircase anchor its reports.…
Wabasha Street Caves — St Paul's Cellar of Ghosts
B · Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States — Sandstone caves carved in 1859 for brewing and storage, reborn as a 1930s speakeasy, whose ghost tours retell three gangland shootings no coroner ever recorded — the most tourist-told ghost story in t…
Washington National Airport — The Saucers Over Washington, 1952
A · Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Arlington, Virginia, United States — The weekend the capital's own radar rooms went strange: on the nights of 19-20 and 26-27 July 1952, controllers at Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base tracked groups of unidentified…
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
A · Louisville, KY, United States — The Louisville tuberculosis sanatorium where thousands died before antibiotics. Room 502 and the 'body chute' are staples of paranormal television.…
Whaley House
B · San Diego, CA, United States — San Diego's 1857 house that a 1960s federal survey listed as haunted — built on the gallows site of Yankee Jim Robinson.…
McMenamins White Eagle
B · Portland, OR, United States — Portland's 1905 saloon-hotel: shanghai-tunnel legends and a woman said to haunt Room 302.…
Winchester Mystery House
A · San Jose, CA, United States — Sarah Winchester built continuously for 38 years — staircases into ceilings, doors into walls — reportedly to appease spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles.…
West Virginia Penitentiary
A · Moundsville, WV, United States — Moundsville's 1876 Gothic fortress: riots, executions, and the shadow-filled recreation hall inmates called the Sugar Shack.…
Zak Bagans' Haunted Museum
B · Las Vegas, NV, United States — Las Vegas: Zak Bagans' 11,000-item collection of haunted artifacts in a 1938 mansion — objects with their own case files.…