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οΌ File placeGhost Alley Espresso is a tiny coffee shop at 1499 Post Alley, in the southwest corner of Seattle's Pike Place Market, a few steps from the famous ...
The Holcomb Creek Trestle, also known as the Dick Road Trestle, is a 1,168-foot wooden railroad bridge spanning Holcomb Creek in Helvetia, Oregon, ...
The Terrence Building is a psychiatric high-rise on Elmwood Avenue, on the southern edge of Rochester, New York. It opened in 1959 as the Medical-S...
Two ghosts are reported at this Episcopal church above the Hudson, and both of them have names that our own catalogue had lost. The first is Isabel...
The A229 road crosses Kent from north to south, linking Rochester with Hawkhurst via Maidstone. Its best-known stretch is Blue Bell Hill, where the...
Mary King's Close is a warren of old streets and dwellings buried beneath the City Chambers on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, in the heart of the Old Town...
Number 50 Berkeley Square is a four-storey Grade II listed townhouse in Mayfair, London, historically occupied between 1859 and the early 1870s by ...
Between 1977 and 1979, a council house in Brimsdown, in the London Borough of Enfield, became the setting for one of Britain's most discussed polte...
Robbins Pond Road, a gravel dead end in the Ottawa National Forest of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is not a forest track: it is the stretch of US-45...
The DurΓ‘n Sanatorium stands at just over 2,335 metres on the flank of the IrazΓΊ volcano, in Potrero Cerrado de Oreamuno, seven kilometres north of ...
On a rise beside the road into Campanillas, on the outskirts of MΓ‘laga, stands Cortijo Jurado, a mid-nineteenth-century bourgeois agricultural esta...
The Mount Baker Theatre is a 1,517-seat performing arts venue and national historic landmark in Bellingham, Washington. Its main stage is the large...
A.D. Oliver Middle School is a working public school in Brockport, New York, and one of the few entries in this atlas where the ghost story can be ...
The Hawthorne Hotel opened in 1925 on Washington Square West in Salem, Massachusetts, and takes its name from the novelist and Salem native Nathani...
Birkwood Castle is a Category B listed Gothic Revival mansion in Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire, built in 1810 as a Georgian manor and greatly expan...
The Fairfield County Infirmary (1840) in Lancaster, Ohio, served as the county poorhouse for over a century. The Greek Revival limestone building h...
The Marysburgh Vortex is a name with a birth date. Hugh F. Cochrane, a Toronto freelance whose publisher billed him as an authority on UFOs and psy...
Hessdalen is a valley some 12 km long in the municipality of HoltΓ₯len, in TrΓΈndelag county in central Norway, where unexplained lights began to be ...
In 1762 a lodging house on Cock Lane, a narrow street beside London's Smithfield market and minutes on foot from St Paul's, produced the best-docum...
The E. H. Harrison House (1857) in Keokuk, Iowa, is a Federal/Greek Revival/Second Empire residence designed by Frederick H. Moore for banker Enos ...
Abbey House, also called Old Abbey House, is a Grade II listed building on Beche Road in Cambridge's Abbey district. Built c.1620 by Alexander Butl...
Cinnamon Hill is a Georgian great house on a former sugar plantation in St James Parish, Jamaica. Built 1734-1784 by the Barrett family. Home to Jo...
Erasmus Castle ('Die Spookhuis') is a c. 1903 sandstone mansion in Erasmuskloof, Pretoria, built for George Dean Erasmus of the prominent Afrikaner...
Begunkodor railway station was established in 1960 to serve villages in Purulia district, West Bengal. In 1967, railway staff fabricated ghost stor...
The Sorrel-Weed House stands on the north-west corner of Madison Square in Savannah, completed in 1840 to a design by Charles B. Cluskey for Franci...
Gibraltar Point Lighthouse has stood near the western end of the Toronto Islands since 1809, and a Heritage Toronto plaque at the site calls it the...
Wat Samian Nari β the temple of the lady clerk β stands in Chatuchak, in northern Bangkok, with the Khlong Prem Prachakon canal along its western w...
The Island of the Dolls is a small chinampa (artificial island) in the canals of Xochimilco, south of Mexico City. Its reclusive former caretaker, ...
Chaonei No. 81 is a two-and-a-half-storey brick house with a mansard roof and stone trim on Chaoyangmen Inner Street, in Beijing's Dongcheng Distri...
The Donaldina Cameron House at 920 Sacramento Street is the 1908 Julia Morganβdesigned successor to the 1874 Occidental Mission House, where Donald...
Jewett House, originally North Hall, is a nine-story Tudor-style dormitory on the campus of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Designed by a...
Rocky Hill Castle was a plantation house between Town Creek and Courtland, Alabama, built from 1858 to 1861 by attorney and planter James Edmonds S...
Inverlochy House is a two-storey Italianate timber mansion at 3 Inverlochy Place, in Te Aro, Wellington, built for the auctioneer and politician Th...
Old Changi Hospital stands empty on a hilltop at 24 Halton Road, above Changi Village in eastern Singapore. It is routinely called the country's mo...
Dudleytown is an abandoned 17th-century colonial settlement in Cornwall, Connecticut, established by Thomas Dudley in 1651. The settlement was depo...
University Heights Center occupies the Mission Revival schoolhouse that Bebb & Mendel finished at University Way and NE 50th Street in December 190...
The Chambers Mansion is a Victorian-era house at 2220 Sacramento Street in San Francisco's Pacific Heights, built in 1887 by architect J.C. Mathews...
The hotel above the Waitomo Caves is two buildings joined at the hip: a timber Edwardian block with an octagonal turret, and a white concrete Spani...
The Cutts-Madison House stands on the north-east corner of Lafayette Square, and it is where Dolley Madison died on 12 July 1849, poor enough that ...
Rising from the hills above Weston, West Virginia, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum opened in 1864, built on the Kirkbride Plan that Victorian ar...
Summerwind was not a famous haunted house until a book made it one. The mansion stood on the shore of West Bay Lake, in Vilas County, Wisconsin, wh...
The oldest hotel in Washington State, as its owners call it, began in 1885 as a farmhouse on a peninsula between the Pacific and Willapa Bay, and o...
It is called The Octagon and it has six sides. The federal landmark file says so outright: "Not an octagon at all, the house is an irregular hexago...
The Hay-Adams stands at 800 16th Street NW, on the corner where the architect H. H. Richardson built joined houses for the statesman John Hay and t...
St. John's has stood a block from the White House since 1816, and every president since James Madison has attended at least one service in it; Pew ...
Shepherdstown sits on the Virginia bank of the Potomac in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, and its own museum advertises itself as "the most...
Ferry Plantation House is a Federal-style brick house on the Western Branch of the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach, owned by the city and run ent...
A two-storey Craftsman house of 1908 in downtown Kalama, Washington, that spent about one year as a bed and breakfast and has carried a haunted rep...
Seattle's undertakers had worked out of borrowed premises until Edgar R. Butterworth had a building put up for the trade alone. E. R. Butterworth &...
Colross is a haunted house whose ghosts were left behind. Built on Oronoco Street in Alexandria, Virginia, from 1800 and enlarged by Thomson Franci...
Bremo is not one house but three, strung along the James River in Fluvanna County, Virginia, and built between about 1803 and 1845 by General John ...
Kay's Cross stood in a wooded ravine above Kaysville, Utah, a few hundred metres from the city cemetery, and for most of a century nobody outside a...
Gadsby's Tavern in Alexandria, Virginia, is two eighteenth-century buildings β a tavern of about 1785 and the City Tavern and Hotel of 1792 β that ...
Lake Drummond is a shallow, tea-coloured lake at the heart of the Great Dismal Swamp, and its ghost has a publication date. In 1806 the Irish poet ...
Three buildings have carried the name Saltair on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, and the ghost story attached to them belongs precisely to ...
Great Salt Lake is the shrunken remnant of Ice Age Lake Bonneville: a terminal lake with no outlet, roughly 1,700 square miles at its long-term ave...
A one-storey Greek Revival house of 1861 at 405 Moseley Street in Jefferson, Texas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Still...
Walburg is a crossroads in Williamson County, Texas, settled by German and Wendish Lutheran farmers and named in 1886 after the German village its ...
Olivewood is the oldest incorporated African American cemetery in Houston: six acres in a bend of White Oak Bayou, laid out in 1875, ten years afte...
The Orpheum stands at Main and Beale, on a plot that has held a theatre since the Grand Opera House opened there in 1890. That house joined the Orp...
Tennessee State Prison opened at Cockrill Bend, west of Nashville, on 12 February 1898. It had 800 cells, each built for one man, and it admitted 1...
The Baker Hotel opened on the evening of 22 November 1929, twenty-four days after Black Tuesday, in a spa town of about 6,000 people. Wyatt C. Hedr...
The Bell Witch remains the most famous haunting in the United States, notable for having a named family, a specific time span (1817-1821), and a pr...
Big Thicket names a region, not a boundary: the National Park Service says the original Big Thicket covered two to three million acres of southeast...
Laid down at Newport News on 1 December 1941 as Bon Homme Richard, this Essex-class carrier was renamed Yorktown on 26 September 1942, three months...
Robert Mills designed this Camden church, dedicated in 1822, and also the white marble obelisk that stands in front of its portico. Under that obel...
The house Nathanael Greene built at Coventry in 1770 and called Spell Hall is a National Historic Landmark, and its ghost story is neither old nor ...
A mile off Newport, reachable only by boat, this 18-acre island in Narragansett Bay carries an unfinished fort, a relit lighthouse and a ghost with...
Beechwood is the Newport mansion whose ghost was on the payroll. For about three decades, until 2010, the Astor summer cottage on Bellevue Avenue r...
The Railroaders Memorial Museum occupies the four-story Master Mechanics Building at 1600 Ninth Avenue in Altoona, Pennsylvania, a structure erecte...
Magnolia is a rice plantation on the Ashley River that survived by turning itself into a garden. Its wealth came from Carolina Gold rice grown by e...
Newport's strangest great house was not built here: it was moved here. In December 1922 The Washington Times announced that the whiskey millionaire...
Fort Adams guards the east passage into Narragansett Bay from a headland in Newport, and its presence in a catalogue of haunted places can be dated...
Richard Morris Hunt built Belcourt between 1891 and 1894 for Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, banker's son, one-term congressman and obsessive horseman...
The Geiser Grand Hotel in Baker City, Oregon, opened in 1889 during the gold rush boom and was known as 'the Queen of the Mines.' After closing in ...
Oregon's state parks tell visitors that Jack London finished The Valley of the Moon in an upstairs room of this 1883 roadside hotel. The state's ow...
Mudhouse Mansion stood on Mud House Road in Pleasant Township, east of Lancaster, Ohio, until it was demolished on 21 September 2015. It was a thre...
Oregon's last surviving gold dredge is not a mine. It is a boat: a 52-by-120-foot hull, engineered by a shipbuilder in 1935 and launched from the b...
Beside a sulphur lake in eastern Oregon that Washington Irving's sources already called "extremely noisome" in 1812 stands a three-storey brick san...
Opened in 1908 as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic, Pennhurst warehoused thousands of disabled childr...
Opened in 1851 as Pennsylvania's first public institution for the mentally ill, the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital was designed by John Havila...
The date 1704 is still painted on the gable at 625 Montgomery Avenue, but the sign underneath it now reads "Chabad Center for Jewish Life". The bui...
Moonville was a coal hamlet in Vinton County, Ohio, and it existed because a farmer named Samuel Coe let the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad cross...
Prospect Place is a 29-room brick mansion at Trinway, Ohio, built in 1856 by the abolitionist George Willison Adams, whose family had left Fauquier...
Franklin Castle is the Hannes Tiedemann House at 4308 Franklin Boulevard, in Cleveland's Ohio City neighbourhood: a rock-faced sandstone mansion wi...
The Attmore-Oliver House stands on lot 102 of the New Bern plan, on the south side of Broad Street in New Bern, North Carolina. Samuel Chapman, cle...
Harry Delos Andrews was officially dead. A cerebrospinal meningitis outbreak at Camp Dix in 1918 sent his records to Washington marked "deceased", ...
Sims was a Northern Pacific coal town that lasted barely a generation: founded in 1883, past 1,000 people by 1884, down to 86 by the 1910 census, a...
Number 29 East Fourth Street was one of six identical brick houses run up in 1831-32 by Joseph Brewster, a Broadway hatter. In 1835 he sold it to t...
Cincinnati Music Hall opened on 14 May 1878 over ground the young city had used as its public burying ground: an 1830 map puts the potter's field u...
The New York State Capitol took more than thirty years, five architects and, by the reckoning of the New York press of the day, over 27 million dol...
On a January morning in 1964 a class of schoolchildren was waiting outside this house in Washington Heights when, several of them said, a woman ste...
The Palace opened at Broadway and 47th Street on 24 March 1913, built for the vaudeville impresario Martin Beck to designs by Kirchhoff & Rose, and...
Clear Comfort is a Gothic Revival cottage on the shore of the Narrows in Staten Island, built around 1690-1700 as a one-room farmhouse and remodell...
At 7:27 on the morning of Friday 15 June 2007, a surveillance camera above the law-enforcement back door of the First Judicial District courthouse ...
David Belasco opened this Broadway house at 111 West 44th Street on 16 October 1907 as the Stuyvesant, and he built it to feel like a home: neo-Geo...
Fifteen miles south of Santa Fe, on State Road 14, stands the building the New Mexico Corrections Department calls "Old Main". It opened in 1956, w...
Goodleburg Cemetery β the Town of Wales spells it Goodleberg β is a village-lot burial ground on a knoll in South Wales, Erie County, New York, hol...
The Union Hotel faces the Flemington courthouse where, between 2 January and 13 February 1935, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was tried for the murder of ...
The KiMo is one of the last surviving examples of Pueblo Deco: a 1927 picture palace on Albuquerque's stretch of Route 66 in which Carl Boller marr...
Horseshoe Las Vegas is the building where the MGM Grand fire killed 85 people on 21 November 1980 β the deadliest disaster in Nevada's history and,...
Clinton Road runs for about ten miles through the Passaic County woods of West Milford, New Jersey, from the traffic light on Route 23 β reported a...
Two houses have stood on this bluff over Hell Gate. The first, Jacob Walton's Belview, was seized by Washington's troops in 1776, fortified, and bu...
The painted sign two storeys high on its flank still says PIGFORD BUILDING, but almost nothing else about this corner block in downtown Meridian, M...
Stuckey's Bridge carries a gravel county road over the Chunky River south of Meridian, Mississippi, and it comes with a story attached: a nineteent...
Kansas City's Epperson House was never a wedding gift, and the woman whose ghost is said to haunt it was not a bride. The insurance underwriter Uri...
The Palmer House opened in 1901 on the corner of Main Street and what is now Sinclair Lewis Avenue, in the Minnesota town that Sinclair Lewis would...
McRaven, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, sells itself as "the most haunted house in Mississippi" β a title it awarded itself, and has advertised on its ...
The Lemp family built their mansion in the Benton Park neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, as both home and showcase for the fortune built by the ...
Big Bay Point Light has stood on a bluff over Lake Superior, about 25 miles northwest of Marquette, since its third-order Fresnel lens was first li...
Eloise began in 1839 as the Wayne County Poor House, when thirty-five people were moved out from Detroit into a log stagecoach inn on the Chicago R...
Avilla is a town of about a hundred people on old Route 66 in Jasper County, Missouri, and its ghost story has an unusually well-documented birthda...
Morrill Hall went up in 1898 as Science Hall, on the knoll that the first students of the Maryland Agricultural College nicknamed the Acropolis, an...
Brennan's occupies a two-storey brick house built at 417 Royal Street in 1795, on a lot left as rubble by the great New Orleans fire of the year be...
Bobby Mackey's Music World was a honky-tonk at 44 Licking Pike in Wilder, Kentucky, and it sold one of the best-documented crime stories of the nin...
Everything written about Stull traces back to one page: the front page of the University Daily Kansan of Tuesday 5 November 1974, five days after H...
Built around 1675 for Judge Jonathan Corwin, who lived there for more than forty years, the Jonathan Corwin House in Salem, Massachusetts is the on...
Edith Wharton did not test her design theories at The Mount β she had already published them. "The Decoration of Houses", written with the Boston a...
Willard Library opened in Evansville, Indiana, on 28 March 1885, endowed by the property speculator Willard Carpenter, who had deeded a fortune int...
Moon River Brewing Company closed for good at 10 p.m. on Sunday 16 June 2024, after twenty-five years at 21 West Bay Street in Savannah, Georgia. T...
Ramsey Cemetery is a working township burial ground in Douglas Township, Effingham County, Illinois, six miles north of Effingham. Alexander Ramsey...
Heady Cemetery is a fenced square of grass on a residential street in Fishers, Indiana, with about a hundred graves in it: the Heady family and the...
A 1907 opera house in Concordia, Kansas, built by Colonel Napoleon Bonaparte Brown and opened with his son's gift of a Napoleon at Austerlitz drop ...
The house that George and Sylvia Stickney began building in 1849 on Cherry Valley Road, in what is now Bull Valley, Illinois, really does have no s...
Nothing is left of the House of Blue Lights. The white-tiled farmhouse that Skiles Edward Test bought off Fall Creek Road in 1913 was razed, with e...
The Peoria State Hospital opened above Bartonville, Illinois, in 1902 as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane, and Dr George A. Zeller took...
Every autumn the residents of Pemberton Hall, at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, hear the same story: that a student was beaten to death...
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery is a small, abandoned burial ground located in Bremen Township, Cook County, Illinois, between the suburbs of Midlothian ...
Gunntown Cemetery lies behind a low fieldstone wall on Gunntown Road in Naugatuck, Connecticut, under a green sign that reads "Circa 1790". Almost ...
The Hotel Colorado opened above the hot springs of Glenwood Springs on 10 June 1893, and for a century its fame rested on its guests: Theodore Roos...
The Riddle House was never meant to be a home. Carpenters from Henry Flagler's hotel sites built it in West Palm Beach on 1 July 1905 out of leftov...
The 165-foot tower on Anastasia Island was built between 1871 and 1874 to replace an older stone watchtower that the sea finally pulled down in 188...
Connecticut's Old State House at 800 Main Street, Hartford, was designed by Charles Bulfinch and first occupied by the General Assembly in May 1796...
Fort Delaware is a pentagonal granite fortress on Pea Patch Island, a mudflat in the middle of the Delaware River, built on nearly five thousand ti...
Sturdivant Hall was finished in 1856 for the cotton planter Edward T. Watts: six thirty-foot Corinthian columns with cast-iron capitals across a si...
Built in 1857 by Thomas Whaley, the Whaley House in San Diego's Old Town stands on the site of the city's old gallows, where convicted horse thief ...
The Gadsden Hotel opened on Thanksgiving Day 1907 in Douglas, Arizona, a smelter town laid out on the Mexican line to process the copper coming dow...
This two-storey adobe in Calabasas is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 1, the first entry on the city's landmark register, declared on 6 ...
Kenworthy Hall, two miles west of Marion, Alabama, is the only surviving house Richard Upjohn designed for the Deep South: an asymmetrical Italiana...
The Bird Cage Theatre opened on Allen Street in the silver boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona, in December 1881 and closed around 1892, sealed with its...
El Adobe de Capistrano is two adobes stuck together, and only the southern one has a story. It held San Juan Capistrano's juzgado β the justice cou...
Stow House was finished in 1873, and the order of what came next matters: the National Register nomination says Sherman P. Stow completed the Carpe...
Just outside Newton, in the Alabama Wiregrass, a concrete bridge carries Highway 123/134 over the Choctawhatchee River. Beneath it is the site of o...
On Tuesday 8 December 1812, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, the first Mass of the day was being said at Mission San Juan Capistrano when an...
Wilderhope Manor is a Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house standing on Wenlock Edge in Shropshire, England, now managed by the National Trust and...
Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum was built in six months in 1883 by C. J. Phipps for two actor-managers, Howard and Wyndham, and opened on 10 September wit...
Goodrich Castle stands in red sandstone above a bend of the River Wye in Herefordshire, and its ruin is the work of a siege that can be followed al...
Edinburgh's biggest theatre keeps a ghost it has never claimed. Staff at the Playhouse have told reporters for decades about Albert, a figure in gr...
Queensberry House stands at the foot of Edinburgh's Canongate, absorbed since 2004 into the Scottish Parliament complex. Its fame rests on a single...
Lauriston Castle is the house almost nobody lived in. A tower house raised for Sir Archibald Napier after 1590, it was bought in 1683 by the goldsm...
On the night of Tuesday 9 May 1911 the illusionist Sigmund Neuberger, billed as The Great Lafayette, was closing his act at Nicolson Street's Empir...
Built into the nineteen arches supporting South Bridge, completed in 1788, the Edinburgh Vaults once housed taverns, cobblers' workshops and storag...
Cahaba - Cahawba on the older maps - was Alabama's first permanent state capital, laid out on empty ground where the Cahaba river meets the Alabama...
Huntingdon College, a private Methodist liberal arts college in Montgomery, Alabama, traces its origins to 1854 and moved to its current campus in ...
The Ringlestone Inn stands alone on a lane over the Kent North Downs, at a crossroads known locally as the Black Post. Its own website has said sin...
Wymering Manor is an Elizabethan house in a Portsmouth suburb that has been sold two things it is not: medieval, and open. The manor of Wymering is...
Bodmin Jail was built in 1779 on a hill above the town of Bodmin β not out on the moor β to a design by the military engineer Sir John Call, follow...
Berry Pomeroy Castle stands above a wooded limestone gorge in South Devon: a late 15th-century artillery fortress with a four-storey Elizabethan ma...
Pluckley, a hilltop village of round-headed Dering windows in the Weald of Kent, is routinely called the most haunted village in England, usually o...
On Christmas Eve 1642, two months after the first pitched battle of the English Civil War was fought below this Warwickshire escarpment, shepherds ...
Chute, in eastern Wiltshire, is a scatter of hamlets on high chalk downland where a Roman road does something Roman roads almost never do: for four...
Beside a moorland lane a mile north-west of Hound Tor, where a green lane strikes off towards Natsworthy, stands a small turf mound with an uninscr...
Northam Bridge is a road bridge across the River Itchen in Southampton, England, linking the suburbs of Northam and Bitterne Manor. The current con...
The Eastgate Hotel is named after a gate that was pulled down in 1771, and it is said to be haunted by soldiers from a battle that was never fought...
New College Lane is a historic medieval street in central Oxford, England, running alongside New College, one of the University of Oxford's oldest ...
Hinton Ampner is the rare Georgian haunting with a first-hand paper trail. Mary Ricketts, who moved into the old Tudor manor in January 1765, spent...
Bursledon is a village on the River Hamble in Hampshire, and its ghost story is younger and narrower than the internet suggests. The one tale that ...
Knighton is a handful of farms under Ashey Down, on the Isle of Wight, and the thing it is famous for is an absence. Two rusticated stone gate pier...
On the night of Monday 14 May 1649, Fairfax and Cromwell rode forty-five miles in a day and fell on Burford at midnight. Between three and four hun...
Netley Abbey is not a ruin of the Reformation, and that is the point everyone misses. Cistercian monks settled here in 1239, on the shore of Southa...
Cut into the chalk hillside above West Wycombe between 1748 and 1752, the Hellfire Caves were commissioned by Sir Francis Dashwood, founder of the ...
Rufford Old Hall in Lancashire keeps one room of the house Thomas Hesketh probably built before he died in 1523: a timber great hall with five bays...
Bramshill House is a vast Jacobean prodigy house in north-east Hampshire, built between 1605 and 1612 for Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, and ...
What stands at Hylton today is one building: a gatehouse-tower raised for Sir William Hylton around 1400, with the arms of the king, Richard II's w...
Beaulieu Abbey was founded by King John in 1204, after a false start at Faringdon in Berkshire the year before, and endowed for thirty Cistercian m...
Halfway up the cliff between King Edward's Bay and the walls of Tynemouth Castle, a blocked doorway in the rock marks Jingling Geordie's Hole, the ...
Furness Abbey was founded in 1123 by Stephen, Count of Boulogne, and grew into the second-wealthiest Cistercian monastery in England before its for...
Lumley Castle stands above the Lumley Park Burn at Chester-le-Street, County Durham: a quadrangular castle with four angle towers, licensed by the ...
Appuldurcombe House is the roofless shell of an English Baroque mansion above Wroxall, on the Isle of Wight, built for the Worsley family from 1702...
Faringdon's ghost is not a Civil War soldier, though the town has the war all over it: Cromwell was beaten off Faringdon House in April 1645, the c...
Ordsall Hall is a timber-framed manor house in Salford, free to visit, whose Great Hall was under construction in 1512 and whose owners, the Radcly...
Bruce Castle is not a castle, and the museum that occupies it says so itself, on a page headed "When is a castle not a castle?". It is a Tudor mano...
Britain's most famous theatrical ghost walks a route that was first written down in 1945 β by the theatre's own publicist. The Man in Grey, a figur...
Chislehurst Caves are neither caves nor ancient. They are chalk and flint mines under the London Borough of Bromley, and the attraction that runs t...
In June 1866, with the Victorian restoration under way, somebody opened Rahere's tomb from behind. The parish's own historian, E. A. Webb, recorded...
Minsden Chapel is a roofless flint shell in a Hertfordshire wood, and the paper trail behind it is unusually complete: a chapel of ease to Hitchin,...
Raynham Hall, the Townshend seat in Norfolk, is where the most reproduced ghost photograph ever taken was made: on 19 September 1936 Captain Hubert...
Eltham Palace is two buildings sharing a wall: the great hall Edward IV raised in the 1470s, where Erasmus met the boy who became Henry VIII, and t...
Littleport is a fen-edge town four miles north of Ely, and its hauntings are the kind a public hanging leaves behind. In May 1816, with the Napoleo...
The Green Lady of the Golden Lion Hotel is one of the best-travelled ghosts in Cambridgeshire, and very little of what is usually said about her su...
Flitwick Manor is a Grade II* listed country house in Bedfordshire, built in the early seventeenth century and encased in red brick around 1736, wh...
Fort San is a Saskatchewan village named after a building that no longer stands there. The Fort Qu'Appelle Sanatorium opened on the shore of Echo L...
The Cloisters opened on the afternoon of Monday 28 January 1907 in Letchworth, the world's first garden city, built for Β£20,000 by the Quaker heire...
RAF Elsham Wolds is a chalk plateau in North Lincolnshire that the Royal Air Force used twice and abandoned twice. A Home Defence landing ground ap...
The A616 runs from Nottinghamshire to the Pennines, but its ghost story belongs to seven and a half miles of it: the Stocksbridge Bypass, north-wes...
Belgrave Hall is a plain Queen Anne house on the northern edge of Leicester, built for Edmund and Ann Craddock between 1709 and 1713 - a date the b...
Government House was built between 1889 and 1891 on the plain west of Regina: a buff-brick Italianate mansion by Dominion architect Thomas Fuller, ...
RAF East Kirkby opened on 20 August 1943 as a No. 5 Group bomber station and was home to Nos. 57 and 630 Squadrons, whose Lancasters flew until the...
Leicester's Guildhall began around 1390 as the meeting hall of the Guild of Corpus Christi and spent the next five centuries as the town's courtroo...
Althorp has been the Spencer family's Northamptonshire seat since John Spencer bought the estate in 1508, and since 1997 it has held the grave of D...
Dagger Woods is a scatter of houses, woodlots and marsh off Highway 104 in eastern Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, and it is supposed to be haunted...
Tranquille had four lives on the same SecwΓ©pemc flats by Kamloops Lake: a place called Spelemtsin, occupied for at least 7,500 years; the King Edwa...
In January 1922, in a farmhouse on a wooded ridge in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, fires began breaking out on wallpaper, curtains, cushions and ...
The Skirrid Inn, in the village of Llanvihangel Crucorney north of Abergavenny, advertises itself as Wales's oldest pub, over 900 years old, and is...
The Grand Theatre at 471 Richmond Street is a working professional playhouse whose ghost has a name, an owner's deed and a datable paper trail. Amb...
Plas Teg stands back from the A541 between Mold and Wrexham: a square, four-towered Jacobean mansion rebuilt around 1610 by Sir John Trevor I, Surv...
French Fort Cove is a municipal nature park in Miramichi, New Brunswick, and it is named after a gun battery β sixteen guns, according to Robert Co...
Sker House stands alone on a limestone promontory above Swansea Bay, about 4.2 km north of Porthcawl. Cadw lists it Grade I as one of the major Eli...
Dundurn Castle sits on Burlington Heights in Hamilton, Ontario, on ground the British army fortified in 1813 and where eight men convicted at the A...
Newark Tower, a roofless fifteenth-century tower house on the Bowhill estate above the Yarrow Water, is remembered for what happened after the Batt...
Llancaiach Fawr Manor was built to be barred from the inside. Raised in the mid-1500s for Dafydd ap Richard β tree-ring dating puts the roof timber...
Skipness Castle is in this catalogue because of a label, and the label can be dated to the second. At 18:34:43 UTC on 19 July 2011 a Wikipedia edit...
Meggernie Castle sits near the head of Glen Lyon, twenty-two miles west of Aberfeldy: a square tower of five storeys with turrets at its corners, a...
On the Caithness shore of the Pentland Firth, looking across to Orkney, the Castle of Mey was built by George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness, in a...
On the night that made Stirling Castle famous among ghost hunters there was, as far as the record goes, nobody else in the room. Thomas Randolph, E...
Wemyss Castle is a Category A listed multi-period castle perched on sandstone cliffs overlooking the Firth of Forth, between the villages of East a...
On a crag above Knock Bay, on the Sleat coast of Skye, stand the ivy-grown remains of Knock Castle β Caisteal Chamuis, the castle of the bay, built...
Kellie Castle stands below Kellie Law in the East Neuk of Fife: its oldest walls raised about 1360, its east tower dated 1573 for Margaret Hay, and...
Castle Huntly is a fifteenth-century tower house on a volcanic mound in the Carse of Gowrie, seven miles west of Dundee. It is also HMP Castle Hunt...
The Hill House was built in 1902-04 for the Glasgow publisher Walter Blackie, to designs by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackin...
Scotland's first lighthouse did not replace the castle on Kinnaird Head β it was built straight through it. Sir Alexander Fraser founded the tower ...
Huntingtower Castle, five kilometres north-west of Perth, is a rare survival: two medieval tower houses standing only three metres apart, linked by...
Hermitage Castle stands alone in Liddesdale, in the Scottish Borders, and has long been called the most sinister ruin in Scotland. The story attach...
Fyvie Castle, in Aberdeenshire, is a category A listed pile of five towers, each named for a family that held it: Preston, Meldrum, Seton, Gordon a...
Inveraray Castle stands on the shore of Loch Fyne, the seat of the Dukes of Argyll and chiefs of Clan Campbell, who still live in it. Its most pers...
Linlithgow Palace, birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots (1542), preserves Scotland's best-recorded royal omen. In August 1513, as James IV prayed at S...
On the lip of a wooded ravine above the Firth of Clyde at Gourock stand two towers welded at the corner: a keep of the late 14th or 15th century an...
Comlongon Castle stands a kilometre west of Clarencefield in Dumfries and Galloway, and it has been shut since April 2019, when the hotel that occu...
On the south-eastern shore of Loch Ness, above Foyers, stands a low pink-harled house built for Archibald Campbell Fraser of Lovat, whose father, t...
Duntrune Castle stands on a rock above Loch Crinan in Argyll, lived in by the same family since the 1790s, and its owners call their ghost a well-a...
Duns Castle is on lists of haunted Scottish houses because of one unsourced sentence and a Wikipedia category twenty-eight bytes long. The sentence...
Craignethan Castle, above the River Nethan in South Lanarkshire, was built from about 1530 by Sir James Hamilton of Finnart, master of works to Jam...
Borthwick Castle, a twin-towered keep raised on a royal licence dated 2 June 1430, is where Mary, Queen of Scots spent the last free night of her r...
The caves under Culzean Castle are real: two systems in the cliff, one below the house and one below the stables, fortified in the 1660s as strongr...
Craigdarroch, two miles west of Moniaive in Dumfriesshire, is a pink classical house built by William Adam in 1729 for Alexander Fergusson and his ...
Carbisdale Castle sits on a crag above the Kyle of Sutherland, and the crag is a battlefield. On 27 April 1650 the Marquis of Montrose lost his las...
Ballechin House stood near Grandtully in Perthshire until June 1963, when it was pulled down. It is famous not because anything was ever proved the...
Ackergill Tower stands on the shore of Sinclair's Bay, two and a half miles north of Wick in Caithness: a five-storey oblong tower house of about 1...
Bedlay stands on a rocky crag above the Bothlin Burn between Chryston and Moodiesburn, about eight miles north-east of Glasgow, and for most of its...
Balgonie Castle stands above the River Leven at Milton of Balgonie, in Fife, and its ghost has a name: Green Jeanie. Popular ghost books say she wa...
Cumberland College is a University of Otago hall of residence in North Dunedin, opposite Dunedin Hospital, in a building that was a nurses' home be...
Airth Castle is not a haunted hotel any more, and the record suggests it was never a haunted castle. It is a fire-damaged, empty Category A listed ...
Ben Macdui, 1,309 metres of granite at the heart of the Cairngorm plateau, is the highest summit in the Cairngorms and the second highest in Scotla...
The A75 runs about 95 miles across the south of Scotland, from the A74(M) at Gretna to the Cairnryan ferry terminals, and its reputation as a haunt...
St. John's Orphanage in Goulburn, New South Wales, is not a haunted building: it is an empty corner lot. The orphanage that opened there on Sunday ...
Nam Koo Terrace is a two-storey red-brick mansion at No. 55 Ship Street, Wan Chai, standing at the top of a flight of stone steps on the Hong Kong ...
At 12:40 on 1 February 1972 the tanker V. A. Fogg left the Phillips Petroleum terminal at Freeport, Texas, with thirty-four crew and five hired tan...
Melbourne's Princess Theatre had been open barely fifteen months when, on Saturday 3 March 1888, the baritone Frederick Federici died in it. At the...
Hong Kong knows the granite arcade at 2 High Street as the High Street Haunted House, and assumes it was an asylum. It was not. The building was co...
On 2 February 1963 the SS Marine Sulphur Queen, a wartime T2 tanker rebuilt three years earlier to carry 15,260 tons of molten sulphur, sailed from...
Ballygally Castle stands on the Antrim coast road three miles north of Larne, and the date cut over its old doorway settles both its age and its bu...
On the morning of Monday 31 January 1921 the five-masted schooner Carroll A. Deering was found hard aground on Diamond Shoals, off Cape Hatteras, w...
The Sargasso Sea is the only sea on Earth without a coast: some 4.16 million kmΒ² of the North Atlantic, bounded not by land but by four currents tu...
Robert Hall Tinker did not arrive in Rockford rich. He arrived in 1856 as a clerk for the Manny Reaper Company, which was run by Mary Dorr Manny, t...
Camp Chase, the Union training camp and prison that stood four miles west of Columbus, Ohio, from 1861 to 1865, is gone; houses cover it. What rema...
Skinwalker Ranch, a roughly 512-acre property near Ballard in Utah's Uintah Basin, took its current name from the Navajo skin-walker legend after t...
Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire is one of England's best-preserved medieval manor houses, built in 1460 by Sir Thomas Burgh as a statement of...
Yuma Territorial Prison opened on 1 July 1876, when its first seven inmates moved into cells that prisoners had been put to work building, and it c...
Old Joliet Prison β the Joliet Correctional Center when it closed in 2002 β is a sixteen-acre limestone ruin on Collins Street that Illinois convic...
The White House has attracted ghost stories since the nineteenth century. First Lady Abigail Adams is said to appear carrying laundry β an echo of ...
Bermuda was called the Isle of Devils before anyone lived there. Spanish charts carried the name by 1544 β Sebastian Cabot's world map labels the a...
The Skirvin opened in 1911 as Oklahoma City's grand hotel and is still one, at 1 Park Avenue. Its ghost is a chambermaid called Effie, said to have...
Casa Loma is a 98-room castle on the Toronto escarpment, built for the financier Sir Henry Pellatt on land he had bought in his wife Mary's name, a...
Two dates are painted on the stone front of the Old Talbott Tavern in Bardstown, Kentucky, and both of them read 1779. The claims that grew out of ...
The Glen Tavern Inn opened in Santa Paula, California, in 1911, built by a company of local businessmen who wanted a hotel facing the railroad depo...
Hotel Union Square, at 114 Powell Street in San Francisco, was built in 1913 for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition and operated a Prohibi...
Colombia's presidential palace is the rare haunted building where every witness has a name, a face and a dated press appearance. There is no anonym...
The Murphys Hotel opened in the summer of 1856 as the Sperry & Perry Hotel, built to lodge travellers on the road up to the giant sequoias of Calav...
Four miles west of Bedford, Pennsylvania, the old road across the state forks, and a fieldstone tavern stands in the angle. It is dated c. 1762, wh...
The Hotel del Coronado opened its Victorian beachfront halls near San Diego in 1888, and four years later became the site of the resort's most endu...
Built in 1862 for the rector of Borley, Essex, Borley Rectory became known as "the most haunted house in England" after psychic researcher Harry Pr...
In March 1967 a flat tire stopped a touring dancer and her husband at a borax company town on the edge of Death Valley. While the tire was being fi...
The asylum on the hill above Beechworth opened on 24 October 1867 and closed in 1995: 128 years under five successive official names. It was not ca...
Al Jazirah Al Hamra β Ψ§ΩΨ¬Ψ²ΩΨ±Ψ© Ψ§ΩΨΩ Ψ±Ψ§Ψ‘, "the red island" β stands on the coast south of Ras Al Khaimah city, and it is the last substantially intact...
Wat Kudi Dao is the big Ayutthaya ruin that the tour circuit drives past. It stands off the city island to the east, in Phai Ling, directly across ...
Frankenstein Castle is the most famous German ruin that almost certainly has nothing to do with the book it seems to be named after. It stands abov...
Norwich State Hospital opened on the Preston bank of the Thames River in October 1904 with 95 patients in a single building, and closed in October ...
Aradale opened above the town of Ararat, in western Victoria, in October 1867: one of two country asylums begun that decade alongside Beechworth, a...
Chillingham Castle in Northumberland advertises itself as "Britain's most haunted", but the fame is not centuries old: the earliest recorded accoun...
Somerset Hospital in Green Point has been treating Cape Town's poor since Dr Samuel Bailey built the first one at his own expense in 1818, and its ...
St Catherine's School in Germiston has a ghost with a name, a house and a date. Patrick, the story goes, was first seen on the night of 17 August 1...
Government House in Bangkok is the working seat of the Thai prime minister and cabinet, and it began life as a private mansion. Baan Norasingh was ...
Ratchaprasong is the Bangkok crossroads where nine Hindu shrines stand within a few hundred metres, the oldest being the Erawan Shrine: a gilded pl...
On 23 August 1971 MarΓa GΓ³mez CΓ‘mara noticed a face-like stain on the concrete floor of her kitchen in BΓ©lmez de la Moraleda, a small olive-growing...
The Castle of Good Hope has a ghost story, and it is not the one usually told about it. On the morning of Saturday 23 April 1729, four soldiers wer...
Lumphini Park is Bangkok's first public park: 57 hectares of lake and rain trees that King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) set aside for the city in 1925. Eng...
Perched on a rocky spur above the ArgeΘ river and reachable only by climbing 1,480 concrete steps β poured in the 1970s along with the TransfΔgΔrΔΘ...
Khao Lak is a twenty-five kilometre strip of low-lying coast in Takua Pa district, Phang Nga province, on Thailand's Andaman shore. On the morning ...
Manila City Hall is neither a ruin nor an attraction: it is the working seat of the city government of Manila, where the mayor and the city council...
The Manila Central Post Office has stood closed and empty since 21 May 2023, when a fire that began among car batteries in a basement store room bu...
Seacliff Lunatic Asylum was the largest building in New Zealand when its main block was finished in 1884: a Scottish Baronial pile 228 metres long ...
The Manila Film Center was meant to be two things at once: the Parthenon-style showpiece of Imelda Marcos's First Manila International Film Festiva...
Mohatta Palace was built in 1927 as a seaside summer house in Karachi's Clifton district for Shivratan Mohatta, a Marwari ship chandler from Rajast...
Whatipu is the black-sand toe of the WaitΔkere Ranges, on the north side of the Manukau Harbour entrance, and the water offshore is why anyone reme...
The Vulcan Hotel is a mud-brick pub on the main street of St Bathans, a Central Otago gold town with eight permanent residents, and it is routinely...
Fort Santiago guards the mouth of the Pasig River at the corner of Intramuros, the walled city the Spanish founded in 1571 β first as a palisade of...
The University of Santo Tomas keeps two histories at two different addresses, and almost every ghost story about it collapses the two into one. The...
MalacaΓ±ang is not a ruin and not an attraction with a ghost tour: it is the working office and official residence of the President of the Philippin...
Napier Prison opened on Hukarere (Bluff Hill) in June 1862, built for fourteen prisoners, and stayed open for 131 years until the last 56 inmates l...
For thirty-five years this two-room brick building on Hood Street was where the Waikato District Hospital and Charitable Aid Board decided who in t...
Kingseat opened at Karaka, south of Auckland, in 1932, and its grounds had been cleared five years earlier by psychiatric patients brought from Oak...
Begun in 1574 around the town house of the knight Eustachio del Monte and enlarged by the architect Girolamo Cassar, the Grandmaster's Palace has b...
Wellington's St James opened on Boxing Day 1912 as His Majesty's Theatre, built in nine months for the vaudeville firm John Fuller and Sons to a st...
Aokigahara is a forest of roughly 30 square kilometres on the north-western flank of Mount Fuji, between about 900 and 1,300 metres, straddling the...
Pudu Prison no longer exists, and that is its story. Built by the British colonial government between 1891 and 1895 on ten hectares of Kuala Lumpur...
Riccarton is a Christchurch suburb, but the place the name came from is still there: a twelve-hectare reserve at 16 Kahu Road holding PΕ«taringamotu...
Opened in 1848 under its official name, PanteΓ³n de Santa Paula, to a design by the architect Manuel GΓ³mez Ibarra, and closed to new burials in 1896...
Himeji Castle's white ramparts hide one of Japan's most famous ghost stories, the legend of Okiku's well. In the tale a servant was entrusted with ...
Duckett's Grove, in Irish GarrΓ‘n Duckett, rises out of the Carlow countryside as a shell of Gothic towers, empty windows and empty niches. Its core...
Montpelier Hill rises 383 metres over south Dublin, and the squat granite ruin on its summit β known to every Dubliner as the Hell Fire Club β may ...
The Shelbourne has stood on the north side of St Stephen's Green since 1824, when Martin Burke of County Tipperary took three Georgian houses and n...
Charleville Castle, a Gothic house built for the 1st Earl of Charleville to designs by Francis Johnston and finished around 1812, stands in an oak ...
Lying in the Venetian Lagoon between Venice and Lido, the small island of Poveglia has been called "the most haunted island in the world," a reputa...
Beneath the Capuchin monastery in Palermo, Sicily, the Capuchin Catacombs display more than twelve hundred mummified bodies β the "eight thousand" ...
Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin held some of the most consequential prisoners in Irish history, from participants in the 1798 rebellion to, most famously...
Morgan House is a grey stone bungalow, clad in ivy and set on sixteen acres of the Durpin ridge above Kalimpong, in the Himalayan foothills of West...
In the desert district of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, Kuldhara is one of India's most famous abandoned villages, founded around the thirteenth century by...
Thessaloniki's Red House is famous for two things that turn out not to be true. It is not built of red brick: the architects who surveyed it for it...
The ChÒteau de ChÒteaubriant, in Loire-Atlantique, was one of the border strongholds of eastern Brittany, alongside Vitré, Fougères, Ancenis and Cl...
In 1528 a poet who wrote under the name Jamali built a mosque in the old village below the Qutb, and a room beside it to live in. When he died on c...
The ChΓ’teau de TrΓ©cesson sits in its own pond at CampΓ©nΓ©ac, on the edge of the Paimpont forest that Brittany calls BrocΓ©liande, and its schist wall...
In the autumn of 1967 the law office of Sigmund Adam at KΓΆnigstraΓe 13 in Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria, became the most heavily instrumented poltergeis...
Davelis Cave opens at the foot of a vertical marble face on the south-west slope of Mount Penteli, north-east of Athens. The pit around it is the S...
Shaniwar Wada in Pune is not a fort but the walled enclosure of a vanished palace: the seat of the Peshwas of the Maratha confederacy, founded by B...
Rose Hall is a Jamaican Georgian great house above the north coast, midway between Montego Bay and Falmouth, and the story sold at its door is a no...
On 16 June 2007 a teenager filmed one of three swings in Plaza Manuel Belgrano, in the La Patria neighbourhood of Firmat, Santa Fe, arcing steadily...
Lopinot is a mountain village in Trinidad's Northern Range where the ghost story and the history refuse to stay apart. The valley's cocoa estate, L...
RΓΆykkΓ€, in the Finnish municipality of NurmijΓ€rvi, is known for the Jugend castle on its northern edge: Nummela sanatorium, opened on 23 November 1...
Dragsholm Castle stands on the Odsherred coast of Zealand, built around 1215 as a bishop's house and rebuilt in baroque form after the Swedes blew ...
ZvΓkov stands on a granite spur where the Vltava meets the Otava in South Bohemia, a PΕemyslid royal castle begun in the first half of the 13th cen...
Cinco Saltos is a fruit-growing town in the Alto Valle of RΓo Negro that the internet has spent nearly twenty years calling one of the most haunted...
On the rainy morning of Friday 1 February 1974, an air-conditioning unit on the twelfth floor of the Joelma building, at Avenida 9 de Julho 225 in ...
Sprengisandur is not a forest and not a haunted castle. It is the gap between two Icelandic ice caps, HofsjΓΆkull and VatnajΓΆkull: a floor of black ...
The valley in Canada's Northwest Territories that the newspapers called Headless Valley is NahΚΔ DehΓ©, Dene homeland for as much as 10,000 years, a...
For nearly thirty years a cluster of two-storey pods in pink, yellow and blue stood beside the coast road north of Tamsui, in Sanzhi. The internet ...
Under the Selma Plateau in Oman, about 100 kilometres south-east of Muscat, lies one of the largest underground rooms on Earth: a single domed cham...
The Bridgewater Triangle is a magazine coinage, and it has a date. The name was printed for the first time in April 1980, in a Boston Magazine feat...
Broad Haven is a small seaside village on St Bride's Bay, in Pembrokeshire, and its place in mystery writing rests on a single school lunch break. ...
Wadi al-Salam, the Valley of Peace, spreads north-west from the Shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf and is usually called the largest cemetery on earth. It...
The Devil's Sea is a stretch of Pacific south of Japan that got its English name on 16 January 1955, when The New York Times printed a Reuters cabl...
Tuol Sleng was a school, and the Khmer Rouge did not convert it. They emptied Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975 and the classrooms simply stopped. The se...
Donner Pass is named after a disaster, not a family. In the winter of 1846-47 a wagon party of 89 people was stopped by snow a few miles short of t...
The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared ...
Hegra β al-αΈ€ijr in Arabic, MadΔΚΎin αΉ’ΔliαΈ₯, "the cities of Salih" β is the southern city of the Nabataeans: 111 monumental tombs cut into sandstone o...
Theorosa's Bridge is a three-span concrete slab carrying 109th Street North over Jester Creek in Sedgwick County, Kansas, a few hundred metres west...
The Busby Stoop Chair is an oak armchair that hangs out of reach in Thirsk Museum, in North Yorkshire, and it is the reason the pin on this file ma...
Grand Paradi is not a ruin and not a museum: three 28-storey towers built in 1975 at Kemps Corner, in one of the most expensive districts of South ...
The object known as Annabelle is a mass-produced Raggedy Ann cloth doll, not the carved porcelain figure of the films. The haunting story attached ...
CΔlugΔreasca - the monks' wood - is a block of oak and black locust of about two hundred hectares in the BΔrΔgan plain of IalomiΘa County, Romania,...
Loftus Hall stands alone at the tip of the windswept Hook peninsula in County Wexford, and the first surprise is its age: Ireland's National Invent...
The Crown is a Grade II listed pub and hotel at 21 and 23 Market Street, in the old town of Poole, and it is one of the few haunted buildings whose...
Le Manoir de Paris was never a haunted house. It was a horror attraction β a business that staged Parisian legends with paid actors and imported an...
In Key West, Florida, a straw-stuffed doll named Robert has unsettled visitors since the early 1900s. Sailor and painter Robert Eugene Otto receive...
New Zealand's grandest Victorian house stands on a ridge above Otago Harbour, and almost everything the ghost tellings say about it is out by a few...
A Grade II* listed former inn at Potters Pond in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, sold today as ghost hunts at "England's most haunted building"...
Corvin Castle rises on a limestone rock above the Zlasti stream at Hunedoara, and its origins are on parchment: on 18 October 1409 King Sigismund o...
Built in stages between 1886 and 1910 in Mansfield, Ohio, the Ohio State Reformatory operated as a prison for over eighty years, housing young firs...
Leap Castle in County Offaly was the stronghold of the O'Carroll clan, an Irish family whose internal rivalries turned lethal inside its own chapel...
The Canadian Pacific Railway opened the Banff Springs Hotel on 1 June 1888 to give its transcontinental line something to sell, and the castle in t...
Opened in 1839 as one of London's "Magnificent Seven" Victorian cemeteries, Highgate's overgrown Gothic tombs and Egyptian Avenue became the backdr...
Just west of Cluj-Napoca, Hoia Baciu forest earned the nickname "the Bermuda Triangle of Transylvania" after biologist Alexandru Sift began catalog...
Built in 1796 by planter David Bradford on land near St. Francisville, Louisiana, the Myrtles Plantation was worked by enslaved laborers before pas...
Waverly Hills opened in 1910 as a small wooden hospital to treat Jefferson County's tuberculosis patients during an epidemic locals called the "Whi...
Perched on a rocky outcrop between Wallachia and Transylvania, Bran Castle was built by Saxon guildsmen of BraΘov between 1377 and 1388 to guard a ...
When the overflowing Cemetery of the Holy Innocents began collapsing into neighboring basements in the late 18th century, Parisian authorities bega...
Built in 1909 by inventor F.O. Stanley, who moved to Estes Park seeking relief from tuberculosis, the Stanley Hotel earned its reputation for the p...
After the deaths of her infant daughter in 1866 and her husband, rifle magnate William Wirt Winchester, in 1881, Sarah Winchester moved to San Jose...
MontsΓ©gur was the last stronghold of the Cathar church, and the ruin that crowns its Pyrenean peak is not it. After a ten-month siege led by the ki...
Monte Cristo stands on a hill above Junee, in the New South Wales Riverina: two storeys of sandstock brick behind cast-iron lace, built in 1884-85 ...
Perched on the volcanic rock that has anchored Edinburgh since at least the Iron Age, Edinburgh Castle has seen so many sieges, executions, and imp...
Built around 1573 by Bhagwant Das for his son Madho Singh, Bhangarh Fort now stands as a ruin in the Aravalli hills of Rajasthan, and the Archaeolo...
Eastern State Penitentiary, on Fairmount Avenue in Philadelphia, is the most influential prison ever built. Its radial plan β seven cellblocks fann...
Brissac is the tallest chateau in France, seven storeys and 204 rooms, and it is tall by accident: a new house was begun inside the ruins of the ol...
The Tower of London has guarded the Thames since William the Conqueror raised the White Tower in 1078, and its long history of executions, imprison...