121 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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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 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.…
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…
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…
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.…
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 …
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.…
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…
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…
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.…
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 …
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.…
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 …
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…
La Garita del Diablo — The Devil's Sentry Box
B · Castillo San Cristóbal, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico (fold: United States), United States — The isolated sentry box on the seaward wall of Old San Juan's great fortress, where — so the island's best-known military legend runs — a Spanish soldier named Sánchez stood the night watch and vanish…
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.…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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.…