👻 Haunted places in United States

Rimsky-Korsakoffee House is a classical-music-themed coffeehouse in the Buckman neighborhood of southeast Portland, Oregon, opened by Goody Cable i...

Jefferson Davis Hospital operated from 1924 to 1989 as Houston, Texas's first centralized municipal hospital for indigent patients, in the city's H...

Theatre in the Park is a community theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina, long led by executive director Ira David Wood III, known for playing Ebeneze...

The E. H. Harrison House is an 1857 residence in Keokuk, Iowa, built for banker and businessman Enos H. Harrison by local architect Frederick H. Mo...

The Sorrel–Weed House is a Greek Revival and Regency mansion on Madison Square in Savannah, Georgia, built for merchant Francis Sorrel and first op...

The Harvard Exit Theatre was a cinema on Seattle's Capitol Hill, housed in a 1925 building constructed for the Woman's Century Club, which still me...

Spook Bridge is an abandoned open-spandrel arch bridge crossing the Withlacoochee River on a closed stretch of the old U.S. Route 84, on the line b...

Ashmore Estates is a large brick building outside Ashmore, Illinois, built in 1916 as the second almshouse of the Coles County Poor Farm, which ope...

The Donaldina Cameron House is a 1908 building in San Francisco's Chinatown, built as the Occidental Board Presbyterian Mission House to serve as a...

Tai Tung is the oldest surviving Chinese restaurant in Seattle's International District, opened in 1935 by an immigrant from Hong Kong. Nine decade...

Jewett House, formally the Milo Jewett House and once known as North Hall, is a nine-story Tudor-style dormitory on the campus of Vassar College in...

King House stands at 4627 Ocean Street in Mayport, Florida, on land once used as a Spanish graveyard. An earlier building on the site burned down i...

Rocky Hill Castle was a plantation house between Town Creek and Courtland, Alabama, prized for its striking mix of neoclassical and picturesque arc...

Dudleytown is an abandoned settlement in the Dark Entry Forest of northwestern Connecticut, largely reclaimed by woodland since a land trust began ...

Market Street Cinema was a historic theater on Market Street in San Francisco's Mid-Market district, opened in 1912 by David and Sid Grauman as the...

University Heights Center is a former public school building at University Way and 50th Street in Seattle's University District, opened in 1903 as ...

The Old Washoe Club is a three-story brick building on C Street in the Virginia City Historic District, Nevada, built during the town's Comstock Lo...

Pioneer Park, also known as the Henry Webber House or Webber–Paepcke House, is a brick residence built in the 1880s on West Bleeker Street in Aspen...

The Chambers Mansion is a Victorian-era house built in 1887 at 2220 Sacramento Street in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, Califor...

Dolley Madison, one of early Washington's most beloved hostesses, spent her last years at this Federal-style house on H Street overlooking Lafayett...

Opened in 1930 near Rock Creek Park, the Omni Shoreham Hotel has hosted presidential inaugural balls and decades of Washington power brokering in i...

Rising from the hills above Weston, West Virginia, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum opened in 1864, built on the Kirkbride Plan that Victorian ar...

Built around 1916 as a summer residence for Chicago businessman and later U.S. assistant secretary of commerce Robert W. Lamont, Summerwind stood o...

Washington State's oldest resort hotel, built in 1889 on a peninsula between the Pacific and Willapa Bay, carries a specific and often-told ghost s...

Built in 1799-1801 for planter John Tayloe III to a hexagonal-turned-octagonal design attributed to William Thornton, architect of the U.S. Capitol...

The Hay-Adams opened in 1928 on the site of two adjoining mansions once home to statesman John Hay and historian Henry Adams, but its central ghost...

Boy Scout Lane, a narrow dirt road outside Stevens Point, Wisconsin, has circulated as an urban legend since at least the 1970s, most versions hold...

Known as the "Church of the Presidents" since James Madison first worshipped there in 1816, St. John's sits one block from the White House on Lafay...

Founded in 1762 along the Potomac River, Shepherdstown claims to be West Virginia's oldest town and has long promoted itself as one of the state's ...

Ferry Plantation House stands near the site where, on July 10, 1706, colonial authorities subjected Grace Sherwood, the so-called "Witch of Pungo,"...

Built in 1908 on land that had belonged to the Cowlitz people, this two-story Craftsman house in the timber town of Kalama, Washington, passed thro...

Built in 1903 for the Butterworth & Sons mortuary, one of Seattle's most prominent funeral homes of the era, this steeply stepped building on First...

Built around 1800 in Alexandria, Virginia, Colross carried its ghosts across state lines when the entire mansion was dismantled brick by brick and ...

Bremo is not one house but three, built between 1815 and 1820 on the James River by planter and reformer John Hartwell Cocke. The smallest of them,...

Kay's Cross stood in a wooded ravine known as Kay's Hollow above Kaysville, Utah, a large stone-and-mortar cross of uncertain origin that some acco...

Gadsby's Tavern, run by English innkeeper John Gadsby from 1796, hosted George Washington's last birthday ball in 1798 and was a hub of Alexandria'...

Lake Drummond, a shallow tea-colored lake of unexplained origin at the heart of the Great Dismal Swamp, has been haunted in verse since Irish poet ...

The first Saltair Pavilion opened on the Great Salt Lake's southern shore in 1893, a Moorish-domed resort built on pilings so Mormon-backed develop...

Utah's Great Salt Lake, the largest remnant of the vast Ice Age Lake Bonneville, has carried monster lore since Mormon pioneers arrived in the 1840...

Built around 1861 as the Stilley-Young House, The Grove has been called "the most haunted house in Texas" since paranormal investigators began docu...

Walburg is a tiny German farming settlement founded in the 1880s northeast of Austin, better known today for its dance hall than for scares — yet l...

Founded in 1875 as one of the first cemeteries organized by and for Houston's African American community after emancipation, Olivewood sits on six ...

Seth Bullock, Deadwood's first sheriff and a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, built this brick hotel with business partner Sol Star in 1895 afte...

The current Orpheum Theatre opened in 1928 on Beale Street after fire destroyed the original 1907 vaudeville house. Staff and performers have long ...

Tennessee State Prison opened in 1898 on a bluff above the Cumberland River west of Nashville, its castle-like Gothic facade designed to intimidate...

The Baker Hotel opened on November 22, 1929, a seven-story Spanish Colonial Revival tower built by hotelier T.B. Baker to draw visitors to Mineral ...

Between 1817 and 1821, the family of farmer John Bell in Robertson County, Tennessee, reported being tormented by an invisible entity that scratche...

Naturalists have called this tangled mix of pine forest, swamp and prairie in Southeast Texas "the biological crossroads of North America," and the...

Commissioned in April 1943 as a replacement for the Yorktown sunk at Midway, this Essex-class carrier earned 11 battle stars fighting across the Pa...

Robert Mills, the architect later responsible for the Washington Monument, designed this Camden church, completed in 1822 in a restrained Greek Rev...

Nathanael Greene, who rose from a Rhode Island Quaker family to become George Washington's most trusted general in the Revolutionary War, built thi...

This 18-acre island in Narragansett Bay took its name, tradition says, from its rose-like shape at low tide, and by 1870 the U.S. government had bu...

William Backhouse Astor Jr. bought this Bellevue Avenue estate in 1880 for his wife Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, known simply as "the Mrs. Astor," ...

The museum occupies the Master Mechanics Building, raised by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1882 at the heart of the Altoona Works, once the largest ...

Thomas and Ann Drayton established a rice plantation on this site along the Ashley River in 1679, and ten generations of the Drayton family have ma...

Completed in 1925 as one of the last great Newport "summer cottages," this Châteauesque mansion was built for Edson Bradley and later became known ...

During King Philip's War, on March 26, 1676, a company of colonial soldiers under Captain Michael Pierce was ambushed by Narragansett warriors near...

Named for President John Adams and dedicated on July 4, 1799, the fort was rebuilt on a much larger scale between 1824 and 1857 as one of the large...

Richard Morris Hunt designed this roughly 60-room "cottage" for Gilded Age heir Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, completed in 1894 with stables built i...

Opened in 1889 during Baker City's gold rush boom, the Geiser Grand was advertised as "the Queen of the Mines" and the finest hotel between Portlan...

Built in 1883 along the stagecoach road between Sacramento and Portland, the Wolf Creek Tavern is one of the oldest continuously operating inns in ...

Built in the Second Empire style sometime around the 1870s near Lancaster, Ohio, this Rugh family farmhouse acquired one of the state's darkest loc...

Gold drew miners to Sumpter Valley in 1862, and by the early twentieth century three giant dredges chewed through the riverbed searching for it. Th...

A resort grew beside this thermal spring in eastern Oregon from the 1860s, but the hotel's grandest era began in 1907 when Dr. William Phy expanded...

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 the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, this Harrisburg campus was the state's first public institution for the mentally ill, de...

A tavern opened along the road to Philadelphia around 1704, later named for Revolutionary War general "Mad Anthony" Wayne, who reportedly drank the...

Little survives of Moonville, a coal-mining hamlet founded around 1856 in Vinton County along the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, beyond scattere...

Built in 1856 by abolitionist George Willison Adams, this 29-room Italianate mansion in Trinway is said to have hidden fugitive slaves in a tunnel ...

In 1881, German immigrant banker Hannes Tiedemann began raising this Gothic stone mansion on Franklin Boulevard, adding turrets, gargoyles and a ma...

Built in 1790 and enlarged around 1834, the Attmore–Oliver House on Broad Street in New Bern, North Carolina, served as a Confederate and later Uni...

World War I veteran and Boy Scout troop leader Harry Andrews began building this stone castle above the Little Miami River near Loveland, Ohio, by ...

Sims began as a booming coal town in 1883, but as the mines emptied and the town emptied with them, only the Scandinavian Lutheran church and its p...

Hatter Joseph Brewster built this Federal-and-Greek-Revival townhouse at 29 East Fourth Street in 1832, and merchant Seabury Tredwell's family live...

Cincinnati Music Hall opened in 1878 on a site that had previously served as a potter's field, the city's burial ground for the poor, orphans and t...

Completed in 1899 after nearly three decades of construction and roughly $25 million spent — an enormous sum for a government building at the time ...

Built in 1765 by British officer Roger Morris on a hilltop overlooking the Hudson and Harlem rivers, this is the oldest surviving house in Manhatta...

Deep in a stand of North Carolina pines near Bear Creek, a bare circle of ground roughly 40 feet across has resisted plant growth for as long as lo...

The Palace Theatre opened at 1564 Broadway in 1913 and quickly became vaudeville's ultimate proving ground — performers who "played the Palace" had...

Clear Comfort, the Victorian Gothic cottage on Staten Island where photographer Alice Austen lived and worked for most of her life, was believed by...

On June 15, 2007, a security camera at a Santa Fe, New Mexico, courthouse recorded a blurry, glowing shape drifting across a hallway after hours, f...

David Belasco built this Broadway house at 111 West 44th Street in 1907 as his personal theatrical showcase, complete with a private apartment abov...

The Penitentiary of New Mexico, south of Santa Fe, became the site of the deadliest prison riot in U.S. history on February 2-3, 1980, when inmates...

Active from 1811 to 1927, this small cemetery in South Wales, near Buffalo, held over a century of quiet burials before ghost stories began circula...

The Union Hotel has anchored Main Street in Flemington, New Jersey, since Neal Hart first built it in 1814, though the ornate Victorian facade stan...

Albuquerque's KiMo Theatre opened in 1927 in a lavish Pueblo Deco style blending Art Deco lines with Puebloan and Navajo motifs, and it carries one...

This Strip casino tower opened as the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino on December 4, 1973, and for a few years stood among the largest hotels on Earth. ...

Clinton Road winds ten lonely miles through the Passaic County woods of West Milford, New Jersey, and by the 1970s had already become the state's s...

Built in 1799 by shipping merchant Archibald Gracie on a bluff overlooking Hell Gate, this Federal-style house has served as the official residence...

Built in 1914 for the Knights of Pythias, this three-story brick landmark in downtown Meridian later took the name of its owner, Pigford Realty, an...

Stuckey's Bridge crosses the Chunky River just outside Meridian, Mississippi, on a spot locals have tied for generations to a 19th-century highwaym...

Kansas City lumber baron Uriah Epperson completed this sprawling Tudor-Gothic mansion in 1923 as a wedding gift for his daughter Harriet, hiring an...

Elmwood Cemetery has held Kansas City's dead since 1872, its 43 rolling acres now shading roughly 35,000 graves beneath elaborate Victorian statuar...

The Palmer House opened in 1901 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the small prairie town Sinclair Lewis later mocked and immortalized in his novel "Main S...

Built in stages beginning around 1797 by Andrew Glass in what was then Walnut Hills — now Vicksburg, Mississippi — McRaven grew through the antebel...

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 ...

Perched on a bluff above Lake Superior roughly 24 miles northwest of Marquette, the Big Bay Point Light began operating in 1896 to guide freighters...

Named after Eloise Dickerson Davock, daughter of a Detroit postmaster, the Eloise complex in Westland, Michigan grew from a 19th-century poorhouse ...

Once a stop on Route 66, Avilla is now a near-ghost town in Jasper County with barely a hundred residents — and a Civil War legend that refuses to ...

Completed in 1898 for $24,000 in the Second Empire style, Morrill Hall — originally called Science Hall — is the oldest continuously used academic ...

Founded in 1946 by Owen Edward Brennan in New Orleans' French Quarter, Brennan's restaurant became a Creole culinary institution, credited with inv...

The honky-tonk that country singer Bobby Mackey ran in Wilder, Kentucky, built its reputation on a genuinely dark local history: the site sits near...

Stull, an unincorporated Douglas County community founded in 1857 as "Deer Creek" by Pennsylvania Dutch settlers before being renamed for postmaste...

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...

Author Edith Wharton designed and built The Mount in 1902 on a hillside in Lenox, Massachusetts, calling it her "first real home" and using its lay...

Commissioned in 1949 as the last of the Des Moines-class heavy cruisers, USS Salem (CA-139) patrolled the Atlantic and Mediterranean during the ten...

Incorporated in 1881 and opened to the public in 1885 in Evansville, Indiana, Willard Library is the oldest public library building in the state st...

The three-story brick building at 21 West Bay Street in Savannah, Georgia, was constructed in 1821 as the City Hotel, one of the first hotels in a ...

Founded in 1851 with the burial of Alexander Ramsey, this Effingham County cemetery near Shumway sits beside a set of sandstone rock shelters carve...

This small family burial ground in Fishers, Indiana dates to 1812 and holds Hamilton County's oldest known grave marker. Its ghost story centers on...

Opened in 1907 in Concordia, Kansas, and once billed as "the most elegant theater between Kansas City and Denver," the Brown Grand Theatre has host...

Built around 1849 in the small village of Bull Valley, McHenry County, Illinois, the George Stickney House reflects its original owners' devotion t...

On the far northeast side of Indianapolis stood the home of Skiles Edward Test, an eccentric millionaire who, beginning in the 1940s and continuing...

Operated by the State of Illinois from 1902 to 1973 in Bartonville, near Peoria, the hospital was built under Dr. George A. Zeller on the progressi...

Built in 1909 as the first women's residence hall on an Illinois state university campus, Pemberton Hall at Eastern Illinois University in Charlest...

Hidden inside the Rubio Woods forest preserve in Bremen Township, Cook County, Illinois, Bachelor's Grove Cemetery has been called the most haunted...

Laid out beside the Stepney Green in 1794, Stepney Cemetery in Monroe, Connecticut holds the graves of the area's earliest settlers, its oldest sto...

Tucked off a quiet road in Naugatuck, Connecticut, Gunntown Cemetery has been used for burials since 1790, when Congregational families and Revolut...

Dating to the 18th century near Easton, Connecticut, Union Cemetery became one of America's most investigated haunted sites largely through the wor...

Opened in 1893 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, modeled on Italian Renaissance villas and built beside the town's famous hot springs, the Hotel Color...

Built in 1909 in an unusual Second Empire mansard style more fitting a mainland house than a lighthouse, New London Ledge Light sits on a stone pie...

Built in 1905 in West Palm Beach using materials left over from Henry Flagler's hotel construction, the Riddle House began life as the "Gatekeeper'...

The current St. Augustine Light Station, built between 1871 and 1874 on Anastasia Island, replaced an earlier tower and stands where Spanish and Br...

Completed in 1796, Hartford's Old State House carries more than two centuries of reported hauntings. Staff and visitors trace much of the activity ...

Built on marshy Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River and designed by engineer Joseph Gilbert Totten, Fort Delaware became one of the Union's larg...

Completed in 1856 for cotton planter Colonel Edward Watts in Selma, Alabama, Sturdivant Hall later passed to banker John McGee Parkman, whose story...

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 ...

Opened in 1907 in the border town of Douglas, Arizona, the Gadsden Hotel became famous for its grand lobby staircase of Italian marble beneath a 42...

Built in 1844, this Calabasas adobe was home to rancher Miguel Leonis until his death in 1889. Reports of a haunting began in the 1920s, when new r...

Built between 1858 and 1860 for planter Edward Kenworthy Carlisle in architect Richard Upjohn's asymmetrical Italianate style, Kenworthy Hall — als...

Operating from December 1881 to 1889 in the booming silver town of Tombstone, Arizona, the Bird Cage Theatre earned its reputation as one of the wi...

El Adobe de Capistrano occupies two joined 19th-century adobe buildings near the mission, one of which once served as the town's jail and courtroom...

The 1873 Carpenter Gothic home Sherman Stow built for his bride Ida Hollister on the former Rancho La Patera is now run as a museum by the Goleta V...

On the edge of Newton, near a bridge over the Choctawhatchee River, stands the site remembered as "the hole that will not stay filled." In December...

Founded on 1 November 1776 by Franciscan friar Junípero Serra, Mission San Juan Capistrano suffered its darkest hour on 8 December 1812, when a pow...

Alabama's first permanent state capital, Cahaba flourished briefly at the confluence of the Alabama and Cahaba rivers after 1820 before repeated fl...

Huntingdon College, a Methodist liberal arts school in Montgomery, Alabama, traces its origins to 1854 and moved to its current campus in 1909. Gen...

The SS V.A. Fogg, a T2 tanker originally launched in 1943 as the Four Lakes, was carrying benzene and other chemicals when she exploded and sank in...

The SS Marine Sulphur Queen, a T2 tanker converted to haul molten sulphur, left Beaumont, Texas, on February 2, 1963, bound for Norfolk, Virginia, ...

The five-masted schooner Carroll A. Deering, launched in 1919, was found run hard aground on Diamond Shoals off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on J...

Robert Hall Tinker, a wealthy Rockford industrialist, built his Swiss Cottage between 1865 and 1870 after touring Europe and falling in love with A...

Camp Chase opened in Columbus, Ohio, in May 1861 as a Union training camp and later held thousands of Confederate prisoners of war; more than 2,260...

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 July 1, 1876, in the Arizona desert and quickly earned the nickname 'Hell Hole' for its brutal summer heat, cramp...

Built in 1858 to replace an overcrowded facility in Alton, Joliet Correctional Center held some of Illinois's most notorious inmates for nearly a c...

The White House has hosted ghost stories since well before it burned in the War of 1812. First Lady Abigail Adams reportedly saw her own laundry-ha...

Opened in 1911 by oil baron W. B. Skirvin, the Skirvin Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City built its ghost story around a chambermaid named Effie, said...

The Old Talbott Tavern has served travelers in Bardstown, Kentucky since 1779, claiming the title of the state's oldest still-standing building and...

The Glen Tavern Inn opened in Santa Paula, California in 1911 and quickly became a stop for silent-film crews shooting westerns in the surrounding ...

Hotel Union Square opened at 114 Powell Street in San Francisco in 1908, later running a Prohibition-era speakeasy in its basement that counted cri...

Murphys Hotel has operated in the Sierra foothills town of Murphys, California since 1856, when it served Gold Rush miners and later hosted guests ...

The Jean Bonnet Tavern has stood at a rural crossroads outside Bedford, Pennsylvania since around 1762, serving travelers on what became U.S. Route...

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...

Marta Becket arrived at the crumbling Corkhill Hall in Death Valley Junction in 1967 after a flat tire stranded her nearby, and she spent the next ...

Norwich State Hospital opened in October 1904 on the banks of the Thames River in Connecticut and grew to more than 30 buildings across 900 acres b...

Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman coined the name Bridgewater Triangle in the 1970s for a roughly 200-square-mile area of southeastern Massachusetts ce...

The Sierra Nevada's most infamous ghost story traces back to the Donner Party, a group of 87 California-bound pioneers who became trapped by heavy ...

West of Sedgwick, Kansas, a modest bridge over Jester Creek has carried the name Theorosa's Bridge since at least the mid-20th century, its wooden ...

Annabelle is not the porcelain-faced doll of horror films but a soft Raggedy Ann toy, given to a nursing student in Hartford, Connecticut, by her m...

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 opened its cellblocks in Philadelphia in 1829 as a radical experiment: total solitary confinement meant to force inmates...