π» Haunted places in United States
οΌ File place154 reportedly haunted locations documented in United States, mapped and described one by one.
Ghost 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...
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 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...
The Fairfield County Infirmary (1840) in Lancaster, Ohio, served as the county poorhouse for over a century. The Greek Revival limestone building h...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 object known as Annabelle is a mass-produced Raggedy Ann cloth doll, not the carved porcelain figure of the films. The haunting story attached ...
In Key West, Florida, a straw-stuffed doll named Robert has unsettled visitors since the early 1900s. Sailor and painter Robert Eugene Otto receive...
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...
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...
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...
Eastern State Penitentiary, on Fairmount Avenue in Philadelphia, is the most influential prison ever built. Its radial plan β seven cellblocks fann...