Haunted places in the United States
172 documented places
American ghost stories are young, and you can often see where they came from. Many of the places on this list are buildings living a second life, from prisons turned into museums to former asylums open for night tours and a liner moored as a hotel. Many of their legends took shape in the last few decades, helped along by guidebooks, ghost tours and television investigators.
The famous names are all here: the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, the RMS Queen Mary at Long Beach, Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Waverly Hills in Louisville, and the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, which inspired The Shining.
So are the awkward truths. The Chloe legend at Myrtles Plantation has no known historical basis, and the National Park Service does not endorse the ghost lore of Alcatraz. Each page keeps the record and the legend apart, and lists its sources.
Every place, most famous first
RMS Queen Mary
California, United States
The 1936 Cunard liner moored as a hotel in Long Beach, California, famed for tales of a girl at the pool, a crewman at Door 13 and a haunted cabin, B340.
Winchester Mystery House
California, United States
Sarah Winchester's 160-room San Jose mansion, built for decades until 1922: the facts behind the rifle-ghost legend, the TV visits and the tours today.
Eastern State Penitentiary
Pennsylvania, United States
Philadelphia's 1829 solitary-confinement prison, once home to Al Capone, now a ruined museum whose cellblocks are tied to faces, shadows and voices.
Great Salt Lake
Utah, United States
Utah's Great Salt Lake: water babies, a horse-headed monster, the whale hoax, Fremont Island's exiled grave robber and the Saltair resort ghost stories.
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Kentucky, United States
Louisville's Waverly Hills, a 1926 tuberculosis hospital, is famed for Timmy, the Room 502 nurse and a 'body chute', though skeptics dispute the legends.
The Stanley Hotel
Colorado, United States
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado: F.O. Stanley's 1909 resort that inspired The Shining, with tales of a tidy maid in Room 217 and children's laughter.
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
West Virginia, United States
Weston, West Virginia's vast sandstone Kirkbride asylum (1864-1994), now a museum whose ghost hunts center on a girl called Lily and the fourth floor.
Hotel del Coronado
California, United States
The Del, Coronado's huge 1888 wooden beach resort near San Diego, where Kate Morgan, found shot on a beach stair in 1892, is said to haunt her old room.
Jerome (Arizona, USA)
Yavapai, Arizona, United States
Arizona copper town on Cleopatra Hill, nearly abandoned in 1953. Its old miners' hospital, now the Jerome Grand Hotel, anchors the 'Ghost City' lore.
Myrtles Plantation
Louisiana, United States
Myrtles Plantation, St. Francisville, Louisiana: a 1796 house sold as one of America's most haunted, whose famous Chloe legend has no known historical basis.
St. Augustine Light
Florida, United States
St. Augustine's 1874 lighthouse in Florida, a working light and museum where two drowned girls and former keepers are said to linger. Ghost Hunters filmed here.
The Octagon House
District Of Columbia, United States
The Octagon, Washington, D.C.: the 1800 Tayloe house where Madison signed the Treaty of Ghent, linked to ghostly bells, Dolley Madison and a debunked legend.
Whaley House
California, United States
Old Town San Diego's 1857 Whaley House, built on the ground where 'Yankee Jim' Robinson was hanged, is known for heavy footsteps and Whaley family ghosts.
Crescent Hotel
Arkansas, United States
1886 Ozark resort in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, once Norman Baker's fake cancer clinic; Michael the stonemason and Theodora are said to haunt it.
Gracie Mansion
New York, United States
Gracie Mansion, the 1799 home of New York's mayors in Manhattan, where two recent residents described ghosts, though no historical record backs the stories.
Lizzie Borden House
Massachusetts, United States
The Fall River, Massachusetts, house where Andrew and Abby Borden were killed in 1892, now a museum and B&B with ghost tours and plenty of TV investigations.
The Mount
Massachusetts, United States
The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts: Edith Wharton's 1902 country house, where schoolgirls, actors and Ghost Hunters reported footsteps, voices and figures.
Cincinnati Music Hall
Ohio, United States
Cincinnati's 1878 Gothic concert hall, built over a Potter's Field whose bones keep resurfacing; staff describe friendly spirits and Ghost Hunters visited.
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
California, United States
The San Francisco Bay island prison (1934-1963), whose ghost lore of cell 14-D and Capone's banjo comes from books and TV. The Park Service doesn't endorse it.
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
California, United States
1927 Hollywood hotel, host of the first Oscars, said to keep Marilyn Monroe in a mirror, Montgomery Clift on the 9th floor and a girl in blue by the pool.
Hotel Alex Johnson
South Dakota, United States
Rapid City's 1928 Hotel Alex Johnson, where the Lady in White of Room 812, a giggling girl and the founder himself feature in staff and guest stories.
Mizpah Hotel
Nevada, United States
Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah, Nevada: a 1908 silver-boom hotel, once a hub of the state's elite, where guests report the Lady in Red on the fifth floor.
Morris–Jumel Mansion
New York, United States
Morris-Jumel Mansion, Manhattan's oldest house: Washington's 1776 headquarters, later Eliza Jumel's home, where her ghost is said to hush visitors.
The White House
District Of Columbia, United States
The presidential residence in Washington, DC. The oldest press report we read of its best-known ghost, Lincoln, dates from 1934. Interior by booking only.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
West Virginia, United States
One of West Virginia's two oldest towns, on the Potomac, branded America's most haunted town by a 2016 TV series; its Entler Hotel museum hosts ghost nights.
Belasco Theatre
New York, United States
Broadway's 1907 Belasco Theatre in Manhattan, where actors say impresario David Belasco watches from a box on opening nights, joined by a misty Blue Lady.
Leonis Adobe
California, United States
An 1840s ranch house in Calabasas, California, now a museum, where Basque rancher Miguel Leonis is said to drop his boots upstairs and leave a scent of soap.
Burlington County Prison
New Jersey, United States
Mount Holly's 1811 stone jail, used until 1965 and now a museum: Robert Mills's reform design, the Joel Clough legend and the 2008 Ghost Hunters visit.
Dumas Brothel
Montana, United States
Butte, Montana's Dumas Brothel operated from 1890 to 1982; guides say a madam who died there in 1955 still walks its halls carrying a packed suitcase.
Fort Adams
Rhode Island, United States
Newport, Rhode Island's huge granite coastal fort, built 1824-1857, where TV ghost hunters reported footsteps, touches and a child's voice in the tunnels.
Franklin Castle
Ohio, United States
Franklin Castle, an 1880s Queen Anne mansion in Cleveland's Ohio City, billed as Ohio's most haunted house, though its ghost lore only dates to the late 1960s.
Goldfield Hotel
Nevada, United States
Goldfield Hotel, a 1908 gold-rush landmark in Goldfield, Nevada, empty since 1945 and made famous by Ghost Adventures and the legend of 'Elizabeth' of Room 109.
Hay–Adams Hotel
District Of Columbia, United States
1928 luxury hotel facing the White House in Washington, D.C., where staff tales of almond scent and soft weeping are pinned on Clover Adams, who died in 1885.
Hotel Colorado
Colorado, United States
Glenwood Springs' 1893 Hotel Colorado, a former Navy hospital where guests report a girl with a ball, a screaming maid and cigar smoke tied to its founder.
Mordecai House
North Carolina, United States
Mordecai House, Raleigh: the city's oldest home on its original site, now a city museum where a lady on the balcony and a self-playing piano are reported.
Peoria State Hospital
Illinois, United States
Illinois asylum at Bartonville (1902-1973), where a superintendent reportedly wrote mourners saw the patient Old Book weeping at his own funeral by the elm.
St. Ignatius Hospital
Washington, United States
A vacant 1894 Catholic hospital in Colfax, Washington, whose shadow figures and footsteps fueled ghost tours since 2015 and shows like Ghost Adventures.
The Palmer House
Minnesota, United States
The Palmer House in Sauk Centre, Minnesota: a 1901 salesmen's hotel where Sinclair Lewis clerked, now known for ghost tours and paranormal TV episodes.
Thomas House Hotel
Tennessee, United States
Thomas House Hotel in Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee: a 1927 mineral-spring resort hotel whose Room 37 is tied to a girl named Sarah and to TV ghost hunts.
Brennan's
Louisiana, United States
A famed Creole restaurant in a 1795 Royal Street mansion, New Orleans, home of Paul Morphy, with a "haunted" Red Room that TAPS probed in 2005.
Baker Hotel
Texas, United States
The Baker Hotel, a 1929 spa tower in Mineral Wells, Texas, closed since 1972 and famed for its lavender-scented seventh-floor lady, now under restoration.
Rose Island
Rhode Island, United States
A small Narragansett Bay island near Newport, Rhode Island, whose 1870 lighthouse and old fort are said to be haunted by keeper Charles Curtis and others.
St. John's Episcopal Church
District Of Columbia, United States
The 1816 "Church of the Presidents" near the White House, where lore says six white-robed figures fill the President's Pew when its bell tolls.
The Farnsworth House Inn
Pennsylvania, United States
The Farnsworth House Inn in Gettysburg: a house the inn dates to 1810, scarred by Civil War bullets; its owners say up to 16 spirits roam its rooms and cellar.
Yuma Territorial Prison
Arizona, United States
Arizona's Yuma Territorial Prison (1876-1909), now a state park: the real history, the pinching girl, Cell 14, the Dark Cell and its TV visits.
Amargosa Opera House and Hotel
California, United States
A 1920s borax company hotel and theater in Death Valley Junction, revived by dancer Marta Becket, where guests report voices, a ghost cat and a crying child.
Bobby Mackey's Music World
Kentucky, United States
Former honky-tonk in Wilder, Kentucky, known for a 'gateway to hell' tied to an 1896 murder. We found no document linking them. Demolished 10 December 2024.
Moon River Brewing Company
Georgia, United States
Moon River Brewing Company, Savannah: an 1821 hotel turned brewpub, closed in 2024, tied to a shot gambler, a glaring lady and ghost children.
Norwich State Hospital (Connecticut, USA)
New London, Connecticut, United States
A Connecticut asylum open from 1904 to 1996, later famous for Ghost Hunters' 2010 visit and tales of child apparitions. Mostly demolished and off-limits.
Saltair
Utah, United States
The Great Salt Lake resort near Magna, Utah: two lost pavilions, a 1981 concert hall where staff report a woman in white, children's laughter and a soldier.
Ashmore Estates
Illinois, United States
Ashmore Estates, a 1916 county almshouse and later care home in rural Coles County, Illinois, turned haunted attraction and fixture of TV ghost-hunting shows.
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery (Illinois, USA)
Cook, Illinois, United States
Bachelor's Grove, a small 19th-century cemetery near Chicago: the Madonna, the 1991 'woman on the tombstone' photo, the phantom farmhouse and skeptic views.
Bell Witch Cave
Tennessee, United States
Bell Witch Cave, a show cave near Adams, Tennessee, on the old Bell farm, where the spirit of the famous Bell Witch legend is said to have retreated.
Ferry Plantation House
Virginia, United States
A c. 1830 brick house on a 1642 ferry site in Virginia Beach, now a volunteer museum that counts 11 spirits, from a kneeling old man to ghostly children.
McPike Mansion
Illinois, United States
McPike Mansion in Alton, Illinois: an 1869 hilltop house left derelict for decades, now said to host Henry McPike, a servant named Sarah and a dozen spirits.
Old Charleston Jail
South Carolina, United States
Charleston's jail of 1802-1939, once home to pirates, Lavinia Fisher and Civil War POWs, now toured nightly as one of South Carolina's most haunted sites.
Bonnie Springs Ranch
Nevada, United States
Bonnie Springs Ranch, a former Old West attraction near Las Vegas on an 1840s wagon-trail spring, where staff claimed trail ghosts haunted the opera house.
Mission San Juan Capistrano
California, United States
Mission San Juan Capistrano (1776), Orange County: the 1812 church collapse, Magdalena's candlelit face, the faceless monk and a 2013 Ghost Hunters visit.
Omni Shoreham Hotel
District Of Columbia, United States
Washington's 1930 Shoreham hotel, whose Suite 870 "Ghost Suite" is tied to a housekeeper who died there in the night; a famous suicide tale is false.
Penitentiary of New Mexico
New Mexico, United States
Old Main at the Penitentiary of New Mexico, scene of the 1980 riot that left 33 inmates dead, where visitors report shadows, voices and slamming doors.
Providence City Hall
Rhode Island, United States
Providence's 1878 Second Empire city hall, where staff report cigar smoke, footsteps and a top-hatted man, investigated by Ghost Hunters in 2012.
Railroaders Memorial Museum
Pennsylvania, United States
Altoona, Pennsylvania's railroad museum in an 1882 Pennsylvania Railroad building, marketed as haunted since 2003; Ghost Hunters found nothing in 2004.
Arnold's Bar and Grill
Ohio, United States
Arnold's Bar and Grill, Cincinnati's oldest continuously operating bar, where staff report a late cook, a bootlegger and phantom children on the upper floors.
Glen Tavern Inn
California, United States
The Glen Tavern Inn, a 1911 Tudor-style hotel in Santa Paula, California, seen on Ghost Adventures, though its brothel and murder legends appear to be invented.
Hot Lake Hotel
Oregon, United States
Hot Lake Hotel near La Grande, Oregon, a 1906 hot springs sanatorium abandoned in 1991 and restored, with tales of screams, a gardener's ghost and a piano.
Madison Seminary
Ohio, United States
A 19th-century school in Madison, Ohio, later a home for Union Army nurses and widows, now a private ghost-tour venue featured on Ghost Hunters and others.
Wolf Creek Inn State Heritage Site
Oregon, United States
Wolf Creek Inn, a historic inn on the old stage road in Josephine County, Oregon, where Jack London stayed and whose ghosts drew a 2017 Ghost Adventures lockdown.
Dude Rancher Lodge
Montana, United States
1950 western-themed motel in downtown Billings, Montana, where co-founder Annabel Goan is said to watch over Room 226 and unlock stuck doors.
Hawthorne Hotel
Massachusetts, United States
Salem's 1925 Hawthorne Hotel, where stories of a woman on the sixth floor and odd events in Room 325 meet Ghost Hunters findings and a skeptical manager.
Horseshoe Las Vegas
Nevada, United States
Strip casino-hotel, the former MGM Grand where a 1980 fire killed 85 people; staff stories of fire victims in its halls remain thin, unverified folklore.
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
South Carolina, United States
A Drayton family plantation and famous garden on the Ashley River near Charleston, investigated by Ghost Hunters in 2012 over a relative killed while hunting.
Omni Parker House
Massachusetts, United States
Boston hotel founded in 1855, birthplace of the Parker House roll, where tour guides say founder Harvey Parker still roams and Room 303 has an odd reputation.
Overholser Mansion
Oklahoma, United States
Oklahoma City's first mansion (1903), a house museum where staff tell of a woman in white in the tower, rose perfume and whistling credited to the Overholsers.
The Grove
Texas, United States
The Grove in Jefferson, Texas: an 1861 Greek Revival house tied to a Reconstruction-era killing, where a woman in white is said to walk through a wall.
Tokeland Hotel
Washington, United States
Tokeland Hotel on Willapa Bay, Washington: an 1885 farmhouse turned seaside inn, said to be haunted by Charley, a stowaway who died hidden behind the fireplace.
Willard Library
Indiana, United States
Evansville's 1885 Victorian Gothic Willard Library is home to the Grey Lady, a veiled ghost first seen in 1937 and watched today on the library's ghost cams.
Bird Cage Theatre
Arizona, United States
The Bird Cage Theatre, Tombstone, Arizona's bullet-scarred 1881 saloon and variety hall, now a museum where staff and TV crews report a Lady in White.
Bridgewater Triangle
Massachusetts, United States
A label first dated to a 1980 article for about 200 square miles of southeastern Massachusetts, collecting UFO, creature and later ghost stories.
Bullock Hotel
South Dakota, United States
Deadwood's oldest hotel, built by frontier sheriff Seth Bullock in the 1890s, where staff say his ghost still checks that no one is slacking off.
Gadsden Hotel
Arizona, United States
The Gadsden Hotel in Douglas, Arizona: a 1929 border-town grand hotel with a marble lobby, a cowboy ghost said to haunt the basement and a storied Room 333.
McRaven House
Mississippi, United States
McRaven House in Vicksburg, Mississippi: an antebellum home shelled in the 1863 siege, billed as the state's most haunted house and probed by parapsychologists.
Ohio State Reformatory
Richland, Ohio, United States
Victorian Gothic prison in Mansfield, Ohio, closed 1990 and best known as a Shawshank Redemption location. We traced no ghost story before its 1995 takeover.
Summerwind
Wisconsin, United States
A lakeside Wisconsin summer house destroyed by lightning in 1988. Its haunting story traces back to a 1979 book; we found nothing earlier.
Yankee Pedlar Inn
Connecticut, United States
Torrington, Connecticut's 1891 Yankee Pedlar Inn, said to be haunted by founder Alice Conley, inspired the film The Innkeepers. It has been shut since 2015.
Jean Bonnet Tavern
Pennsylvania, United States
1760s stone tavern near Bedford, Pennsylvania, a Whiskey Rebellion meeting place where a hanged horse thief and Jean Bonnet himself are said to linger.
King's Tavern
Mississippi, United States
Often called the oldest building in Natchez, Mississippi, this Natchez Trace tavern is tied to the legend of Madeline, a murdered mistress, and a crying baby.
Old Washoe Club
Nevada, United States
A Comstock-era millionaires' club in Virginia City, Nevada, where Lena is said to haunt the spiral stair; Zak Bagans shot his first ghost documentary here.
George Stickney House
Illinois, United States
The Stickney Mansion in Bull Valley, Illinois: a spiritualist couple's house famed for lacking square corners, now a police station with reports of ghosts.
Heathman Hotel
Oregon, United States
Portland's 1927 Heathman Hotel, whose rooms ending in 03 became a 'Haunted Stack' after staff reports in 1999 of moving chairs and glasses in Room 703.
Jefferson Davis Hospital
Texas, United States
Houston's 1924 charity hospital, built over the old City Cemetery whose graves were never all moved, and a fixture of local ghost lore. Now artist lofts.
Kenworthy Hall
Alabama, United States
An 1860 Upjohn Italian villa near Marion, Alabama, where legend says a young woman still waits in the tower room for a lover who went off to the Civil War.
KiMo Theater
New Mexico, United States
A 1927 Pueblo Deco movie palace on Route 66 in Albuquerque, said to be haunted by a boy killed in a 1951 lobby explosion, a tale a skeptic has picked apart.
Merchant's House Museum
New York, United States
Merchant's House Museum, Manhattan: an 1832 NoHo townhouse kept intact by the Tredwells for a century, said to be haunted by Gertrude, who died there in 1933.
Murphys Hotel
California, United States
Murphys Hotel, a Gold Rush inn in Calaveras County, California, opened in 1856; staff call Room 9 its most active room, but the ghost lore is thin.
Roseland Theater
Oregon, United States
A 1922 church turned concert hall in Portland, Oregon, where a young promoter was murdered in 1990 and is said to haunt the building, his body never found.
Union Hotel
New Jersey, United States
Flemington's 1814 Union Hotel housed the press at the 1935 Lindbergh kidnapping trial; staff told of a ghost girl on the stairs and shoes climbing alone.
Cosmopolitan Hotel and Restaurant
California, United States
Restored 1820s Bandini adobe turned stagecoach hotel in Old Town San Diego, where Ysidora Bandini is said to haunt Room 11 alongside a ghostly cat.
Huntingdon College
Alabama, United States
Methodist college campus in Montgomery, Alabama, home to the Red Lady story. Oldest written trace found: a 1969 book. We found no record of a student death.
Old State House
Connecticut, United States
Bulfinch's 1796 capitol in Hartford, scene of the Amistad case, where staff tell of voices and Ghost Hunters taped a doorknob turning and a woman's sigh.
Skinwalker Ranch
Utah, United States
Private Utah ranch whose UFO and creature stories surface in print in 1996, resting mainly on one family's account; we found no published proof. Now a TV brand.
Skirvin Hilton Hotel
Oklahoma, United States
Oklahoma City's oldest hotel (1911), where NBA teams blamed lost games on the ghost of "Effie," a maid historians find no record of. Legend, facts, visiting.
Stull, Kansas
Kansas, United States
A tiny Kansas settlement whose cemetery became a famous "gateway to Hell" after a 1974 student newspaper article. The true story, the myths, and why not to go.
Woodside Store
California, United States
The 1854 redwood Woodside Store in San Mateo County, California, a pioneer store turned museum, said to be haunted by the ghost of Doc Tripp's giant dog.
Abram's Delight
Virginia, United States
Winchester, Virginia's oldest house, a 1754 Quaker stone home turned museum, said to be haunted by Mary Hollingsworth (died 1917) and a man in Quaker dress.
Big Bay Point Light
Michigan, United States
Big Bay Point Light, an 1896 Lake Superior lighthouse and B&B in Michigan, said to be haunted by its first keeper, who vanished in grief in 1901.
Camp Chase
Ohio, United States
The last trace of Camp Chase, a Civil War prison in Columbus, Ohio: a cemetery of some 2,200 Confederates, haunted, legend says, by a Lady in Gray.
Fort Delaware
Delaware, United States
Granite Civil War fort and Union prison on Pea Patch Island, Delaware. Its prison deaths are documented; we traced no ghost story to before 2008.
Pennhurst State School and Hospital
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Former Pennsylvania institution for disabled people near Spring City, closed 1987. Its documented history outweighs its ghost lore, tied to a Halloween show.
Sturdivant Hall
Alabama, United States
An 1856 Greek Revival mansion in Selma, Alabama, now a museum, said to be haunted by John Parkman, the ruined banker who died escaping jail in 1867.
Berkeley Faculty Club
California, United States
UC Berkeley's 1902 Faculty Club by Bernard Maybeck, where a long-resident history professor is said to recite poetry and a gentlemanly ghost keeps watch.
Brown Grand Theatre
Kansas, United States
A restored 1907 opera house in Concordia, Kansas, where Earl Brown, the founder's son who built it and died in 1910, is said to return each season.
Cahaba, Alabama
Alabama, United States
Cahaba, Alabama's first permanent capital, was drowned by floods and deserted by 1900; its ruins hold a Civil War prison site and a ghostly orb in a vanished maze.
Chateau Laroche
Ohio, United States
Hand-built medieval castle near Loveland, Ohio, raised over 50 years by Harry Andrews, whose spirit his scout knights say still hides their things.
Dr. John R. Drish House
Alabama, United States
1837 Greek Revival and Italianate mansion in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, whose tower is said to glow as if on fire with the funeral candles of Sarah Drish.
Geiser Grand Hotel
Oregon, United States
The Geiser Grand Hotel, an 1889 gold-rush hotel in Baker City, Oregon, where staff tell of Granny Anabelle and phantom dinner parties.
Harrisburg State Hospital
Pennsylvania, United States
Pennsylvania's first public asylum (1851-2006) in Harrisburg, known for tales of a haunted morgue and tunnels and visits by Ghost Lab and Ghost Nation.
Wood County Museum
Ohio, United States
The 1868 Wood County Infirmary near Bowling Green, Ohio, now a history museum. Ghost tales of Bert and Agnes exist, but the museum rejects and bans ghost hunts.
Clinton Road
New Jersey, United States
A remote public road in West Milford, New Jersey, known from Weird NJ lore. One documented case, a body found in 1983, and many legends we could not date.
El Adobe de Capistrano
California, United States
A San Juan Capistrano restaurant in two Spanish-era adobes, including an 1812 jail whose cell, now a wine cellar, is said to be haunted, plus a headless friar.
General Nathanael Greene Homestead
Rhode Island, United States
Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene's Coventry, Rhode Island home, now a museum where staff report a disapproving lady, baking smells and crying girls.
General Wayne Inn
Pennsylvania, United States
The General Wayne Inn in Merion Station, Pennsylvania: a tavern founded in 1704, famous for a Hessian ghost named Wilhelm, and a synagogue since 2005.
Lake Drummond
Virginia, United States
A tea-dark lake in the heart of Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp, home of the Phantom Lovers tale and of Wicked John, said to roam the swamp with a burning coal.
New York State Capitol
New York, United States
New York State Capitol, Albany: a vast 1899 statehouse where night watchman Samuel Abbott died in the 1911 fire and is said to still make his rounds.
Tennessee State Prison
Tennessee, United States
Tennessee State Prison in Nashville: an 1898 penitentiary and execution site, closed in 1992, with ghost stories of clanking bars, screams and footsteps.
Alice Austen House
New York, United States
Clear Comfort, photographer Alice Austen's harborside Staten Island home, where an 1895 article recorded tales of cellar chains and a British soldier's spurs.
Broadway Cemetery Historic District
Texas, United States
Seven historic cemeteries on Broadway in Galveston, Texas, said to be haunted by Nicaragua Smith, a Union turncoat shot by Confederates in 1863.
Epperson House
Missouri, United States
A 54-room 1923 Tudor-Gothic mansion on the UMKC campus in Kansas City, said to be haunted by an organist who died before its organ was finished.
Olivewood Cemetery
Texas, United States
Houston's first Black cemetery inside city limits (1875), resting place of freed slaves, where one investigator claims she filmed the ghost of Mary White.
Cherokee Plantation
Louisiana, United States
Creole raised cottage on Louisiana's Cane River, site of a deadly 1839 duel; the victim's spirit and a Shirley MacLaine encounter fuel its ghost lore.
Gadsby's Tavern
Virginia, United States
Gadsby's Tavern in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia: a tavern George Washington knew, linked to the 1816 death of the 'Female Stranger' and the legend of Room 8.
Palace Theatre
Ohio, United States
Canton's 1926 Palace Theatre, a John Eberson atmospheric movie palace in Ohio, said to be haunted by a young woman murdered in the 1930s; hosts ghost hunts.
Phillips' Folly
Kentucky, United States
An 1831 mansion in Maysville, Kentucky, tied to a gambling mayor, an Underground Railroad tradition and ghosts made famous by Ghost Adventures in 2011.
Bragg Road Ghost Light
Texas, United States
A light reported on a county dirt road near Saratoga, Texas, once a railroad bed. The oldest dated trace we found is a 1960 newspaper story, known second-hand.
Cliveden
Pennsylvania, United States
Georgian mansion in Philadelphia's Germantown where British troops held off Washington's army in 1777; legend says slain soldiers and a headless woman remain.
Sallie House
Kansas, United States
A private house in Atchison, Kansas, said to be haunted by a girl called Sallie. We found no record of her; the first trace is a 1990s tenants' account.
Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge
Oregon, United States
Oregon's last gold dredge (1935) at Sumpter, now a state heritage site, said to be haunted by "Joe Bush," a ghost its own crew admitted began as a joke.
Sweetwater Mansion
Alabama, United States
An 1835 plantation house in Florence, Alabama, home of post-Civil War governor Robert Patton, with long-told but poorly documented tales of apparitions.
University Heights Center
Washington, United States
A 1903 wooden schoolhouse in Seattle's University District, now a community center, linked to amateur ghost hunts and a boy called Brian, an urban legend.
Briarcliff
Georgia, United States
The boarded-up 1920s mansion of Coca-Cola heir Asa Candler Jr. in Druid Hills, Atlanta, later an alcohol clinic and psychiatric campus, with vague ghost tales.
Elmwood Cemetery
Missouri, United States
Kansas City's 1872 rural cemetery, resting place of mayors and Civil War soldiers, where a 2009 ghost book reported orbs and shadows among the graves.
Falcon Rest
Tennessee, United States
An 1896 Queen Anne mansion near McMinnville, Tennessee, later a hospital, where guides tell of its builder's footsteps, cigar smoke and a falling mirror.
New London Ledge Light
Connecticut, United States
A brick lighthouse on a reef at the mouth of New London harbor, Connecticut, said to be haunted by a keeper named Ernie who is on no keeper list we read.
Newton, Alabama
Alabama, United States
Newton, Alabama, where the Home Guard hanged minister Bill Sketoe in 1864 and legend says the hole dug beneath his feet refused to stay filled for decades.
Pioneer Park
Colorado, United States
An 1885 Second Empire house in Aspen, Colorado, said to be haunted by Harriet Webber, whose 1881 strychnine death was ruled an accident amid rumors.
E. H. Harrison House
Iowa, United States
An 1857 mansion in Keokuk, Iowa, with possibly the state's first mansard roof; its 1984 federal listing records a friendly ghost that drove out a tenant.
English Building
Illinois, United States
The 1905 English Building at the University of Illinois, built as the Woman's Building, whose ghost of a drowned student was debunked by university archivists.
Stow House
California, United States
An 1873 Carpenter Gothic ranch house in Goleta, California, now a history museum, whose ghost story rests almost entirely on a 2023 Ghost Adventures episode.
Stuckey's Bridge
Mississippi, United States
A rare 1901 iron truss bridge over the Chunky River near Meridian, Mississippi, said to be haunted by a hanged killer innkeeper, a legend history can't support.
The Smurl Haunting
Pennsylvania, United States
A 1986 media case in West Pittston, Pennsylvania: a family said a demon lived in their duplex. We found no independent witness; skeptics called it a hoax.
USS Yorktown
South Carolina, United States
The USS Yorktown, a WWII Essex-class carrier moored at Patriots Point near Charleston, SC, hosts official after-hours ghost tours on its decks and passageways.
Victor Hotel
Colorado, United States
The Victor Hotel, an 1899 bank block in Colorado's gold camp of Victor, is said to host Eddy, a miner who stepped into an empty elevator shaft from room 301.
Bethesda Presbyterian Church
South Carolina, United States
Robert Mills's 1822 Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Camden, South Carolina, linked by folklore to Agnes of Glasgow, though her grave likely lies elsewhere.
Boulder Hot Springs Hotel
Montana, United States
A Mission-style hot springs hotel near Boulder, Montana, dating to the 1860s, where a murdered prostitute called "Simone" is said to linger.
Bremo Historic District
Virginia, United States
A Jeffersonian plantation of three houses on the James River in Fluvanna County, Virginia, where Anne Cocke, who died in 1816, is said to walk Bremo Recess.
Central Unit
Texas, United States
Former Texas prison farm in Sugar Land built on a convict-leasing sugar plantation, closed in 2011 and probed by Ghost Adventures for inmate spirits.
Fleur-de-lys Studios
Rhode Island, United States
An 1885 Arts and Crafts studio in Providence, mocked by Lovecraft and said to be haunted by Angela O'Leary, an artist overcome by gas there in 1921.
Old Joliet Prison
Will, Illinois, United States
A limestone penitentiary begun in 1858, closed in 2002; a singing-ghost scare hit its graveyard in 1932, and tales from inside the walls date from 2018.
Powel House
Pennsylvania, United States
A 1765 Georgian townhouse in Philadelphia's Society Hill, home of the Patriot Mayor, now a museum, rumored in recent books to host Peggy Shippen's ghost.
Resurrection Mary
Illinois, United States
Chicago-area vanishing-hitchhiker legend tied to a road and cemetery; the oldest dated account is from 1939 and the ghost’s identity is unproven.
The Amityville Horror
New York, United States
A real 1974 mass killing on Long Island, then a 1975-76 haunting claim a lawyer reportedly later called invented; the 1977 book and the films spread it.
Villisca Axe Murder House
Iowa, United States
Iowa house where eight people were killed in June 1912, a case never solved; we found no haunting reports before the 1960s, and the ghost tourism is recent.
Artillery Company of Newport
Rhode Island, United States
The 1835 stone armory of the Artillery Company of Newport, Rhode Island, a militia chartered in 1741, now a museum with ghost tours and EVP fundraising hunts.
The Gurdon Light
Arkansas, United States
A bobbing light reported near old rail tracks outside Gurdon, Arkansas, tied by tradition to a 1931 killing; the oldest dated item we saw on it is from 1985.
Lemp Mansion
Illinois, United States
St. Louis brewing family home tied to Lemp deaths between 1901 and 1949; its ghost tales are undated, and we found no dated source from before 1975.
Eloise
Michigan, United States
A Michigan county poorhouse and psychiatric hospital, 1832 to the 1980s; the ghost reputation we could trace is 21st-century and largely commercial.
Waldschmidt Hall
Oregon, United States
Waldschmidt Hall, the 1891 Romanesque founding building of the University of Portland, Oregon, is said to be haunted by a student who drowned in 1911.
Butterworth Building
Washington, United States
Seattle's first purpose-built mortuary, beside Pike Place Market, now home to Kells Irish pub, whose ghost stories hinge on a disputed embalming room.
Orpheum Theatre, Memphis
Tennessee, United States
Working 1928 theater in downtown Memphis whose ghost girl Mary is famous through media, but we found no source for her before the late 1970s.
Whittier Mansion
California, United States
A sandstone 1896 mansion in San Francisco's Pacific Heights that briefly served Nazi Germany in 1941; its haunted reputation rests on one 1989 book.
Moonville Tunnel
Vinton, Ohio, United States
Disused railroad tunnel in Vinton County, Ohio, tied to an 1880 collision. The oldest ghost trace we know is an 1895 newspaper item, seen second-hand.
Coates House Hotel
Missouri, United States
Grand 1891 hotel in Kansas City's Quality Hill, scene of the city's deadliest fire in 1978; its haunted reputation rests on a single 2010 article.
Centralia (Pennsylvania, USA)
Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
A Pennsylvania coal town emptied by a mine fire burning under it since 1962. No ghosts, but a priest's curse legend and the real-life model for Silent Hill.
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