Haunted Hotels You Can Actually Stay In
Book a room, meet a resident — every entry below is a lodging property whose rooms or ghost-hunt stays were verified bookable via its own official site (checked 2026-10). Famous haunted hotels we could not verify current operations for are left off rather than guessed, and temples, tombs, sealed mansions and ruins never belonged on this list.
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.…
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.…
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.…
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'.…
Château de Brissac — The Green Lady
A · Brissac-Quincé, Loire Valley, France — France's tallest castle hides a double murder — and a Green Lady whose groans are said to be heard through the walls.…
Dragsholm Castle — The Earl, the White Lady and the Pillar
B · Odsherred, Zealand, Denmark — Denmark's oldest castle kept a mad earl chained in its tower for decades — and in the 1930s, workmen found a skeleton in the walls.…
Q Station — Sydney's Quarantine Station
B · Manly, North Head, Sydney, Australia — Between 1828 and 1984, every ship suspected of plague or flu unloaded its sick here — 574 people never left.…
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.…
The Skirrid Mountain Inn
B · Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom — A Welsh mountain inn claiming to be the oldest pub in the country — and, by legend, a courtroom whose stair beam hanged as many as 180 condemned men.…
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.…
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.…
Bodmin Jail — The Prison That Never Emptied
B · Bodmin, Cornwall, United Kingdom — Cornwall's 1779 county prison, where more than fifty judicial hangings were carried out before 1909 — now half dark-tourism attraction, half luxury hotel, and by common consent the…
The Mermaid Inn — Rye's Smugglers' Stronghold
A · Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom — Cellars from 1156, a rebuilding of 1420, secret passages and a rocking chair that moves on its own — England's most famous medieval inn, run today as a hotel that rents its ghosts …
Ballygally Castle — The Lady in the Turret
B · Ballygally, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — A 1625 Scottish baronial castle on the Antrim coast road — Northern Ireland's most haunted hotel, whose corner turret is kept as a ghost room for the lady said to be searching for …
Fort Garry Hotel — Room 202's Waiting Bride
A · Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada — Winnipeg's 1913 railway château and National Historic Site, whose own official literature concedes “it is said that the Fort Garry is haunted” — most famously by a bride who died i…
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 nigh…
Savoy Hotel, Mussoorie — The 1911 Poisoning
A · Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India — A 1902 hill-station hotel in the Himalayan foothills, still taking guests, keeps India's best-documented hotel death file: the 1911 strychnine poisoning of a missionary in her room…
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 aba…