Haunted Places in United States (9460)

Explore 9460 haunted places in United States — castles, hotels, churches, ruins and more. Every location includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 👻 Amityville Horror House (112 Ocean Avenue) New York In 1974 Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered six family members — the following year the Lutz family fled after 28 days.
• 🏗️ Bell Witch Cave Tennessee The cave where the 'Bell Witch' is said to have fled in 1821 after haunting the Bell family for four years.
• ⚔️ Eastern State Penitentiary Pennsylvania In the abandoned prison shadow figures flit along the cellblocks — a locksmith told of a force that seized him. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏯 LaLaurie Mansion Louisiana The 1834 fire revealed enslaved people tortured in the attic — owner Delphine LaLaurie fled to France.
• 👻 Lizzie Borden House Massachusetts The site of the 1892 axe double murder — today a B&B where guests can sleep in the murder rooms. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 The Conjuring House Rhode Island
• 🏥 Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum West Virginia Mental hospital operating 1864-1994 — today a museum offering tours, the location of "Paranormal Lockdown".
• 🏗️ North Brother Island – Typhoid Mary's Prison Isle New York The burned bodies of the General Slocum washed ashore here in 1904, and Typhoid Mary was confined here for 26 years until her death – now the herons and the dead own the island.
• 👻 Villisca Axe Murder House Iowa Eight people — six of them children — were axed to death in their sleep in 1912. The murder is still unsolved. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏥 Waverly Hills Sanatorium Kentucky Through the "death tunnel" thousands of bodies were lowered in secret — and in Room 502 a voice is said to scream "Get out!". 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚔️ West Virginia Penitentiary West Virginia Built on an Adena burial mound — 94 executions and the notorious “Shadow Man”. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚔️ Alcatraz California Cell 14D is ten degrees colder than the rest, and cold spots move through the block in human form. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Athens Lunatic Asylum (The Ridges) Ohio A patient was found dead after 42 days, and the imprint of her body is still visible in the floor.
• ⚰️ Bachelor's Grove Cemetery Illinois One of the most haunted cemeteries in America. The White Madonna is said to wander among the graves.
• 🎭 Bird Cage Theatre Arizona 26 deaths and bullet holes still in the walls, the wildest and wickedest night spot in the Wild West. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Bobby Mackeys Music World Kentucky A blood well called the gateway to hell and the headless spirit of Pearl Bryan, the most haunted nightclub in America.
• 🏯 Carnton Mansion Tennessee The largest field hospital of the Civil War in 1864 — four dead generals were laid out on the back porch.
• 🛎️ Cecil Hotel California The Night Stalker lived here and Elisa Lam was found dead in the water tank. 80 deaths, 16 unexplained. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ Congress Plaza Hotel Illinois One of the most haunted buildings in Chicago. Room 441 has an unexplained shadow figure. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 The Conjuring House Rhode Island The 1736 farmhouse that inspired the horror film The Conjuring, and the haunting of the Perron family. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ Crescent Hotel Arkansas Marketed as "America's most haunted hotel" — once a fake cancer clinic under the swindler Norman Baker. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ Goldfield Hotel Nevada Once the most spectacular hotel in Nevada, now derelict. Elizabeth is said to have been chained in room 109. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ Hotel del Coronado California Kate Morgan's mysterious death in 1892 — Room 502 is the hotel's most requested room. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏯 Myrtles Plantation Louisiana Legend tells of the enslaved woman Chloe, who lost an ear and is said to walk in her green turban — though historians doubt the tale. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚔️ Ohio State Reformatory Ohio The film location for The Shawshank Redemption, and one of the most haunted prisons in the world. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚔️ Old Charleston Jail South Carolina A jail where pirates and Lavinia Fisher awaited the gallows. She is said to haunt it still.
• 👻 Old South Pittsburg Hospital Tennessee Held by many to be Tennessee's most haunted place — children's screams, shadow people and equipment switching itself on. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Pennhurst State School Pennsylvania An institution notorious for neglect — “The King” is said to throttle visitors in the boiler room. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🔦 Point Lookout Lighthouse Maryland The lighthouse stands on the Civil War’s largest prison camp — a keeper’s wife and a Confederate soldier are said to walk. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Preston Castle California An old reform school where the housekeeping matron was beaten to death in 1950. The murder was never solved.
• 🛎️ RMS Queen Mary California The Atlantic giant from 1936 — today a floating hotel with a reputation as one of the world's most haunted ships. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏛️ Robert the Doll (Fort East Martello) Florida The world's most notorious haunted doll, said to curse anyone who photographs him without asking first. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏥 Rolling Hills Asylum New York An old poor farm where more than 1,700 people are said to have died. Many lie in unmarked graves.
• 👻 Sallie House Kansas A girl died during surgery before the anaesthetic took hold — her spirit is said to scratch men until they bleed. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🚇 Shanghai Tunnels Oregon Drunken men were carried off to sea through the passages — and Nina's ghost was thrown down a lift shaft. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Sloss Furnaces Alabama The founder who fell into molten iron swore never to leave the furnaces — over a hundred hauntings are logged with the police. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ The Stanley Hotel Colorado The hotel that inspired The Shining — in room 217 the housekeeper Elizabeth Wilson is said to linger after a 1911 explosion. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🚇 The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel – World's Oldest Subway Tunnel New York Sealed in 1861 with tales of murdered laborers, pirate caches and a forgotten steam locomotive in the dark – beneath Atlantic Avenue, the world's oldest subway tunnel lies waiting.
• ⚰️ Hart Island – Million Graves of the Poor New York Over a million nameless dead lie in trench graves on the island no mourners could visit – Hart Island is America's largest potter's field, and boaters shun its shores at dusk.
• 🚇 The Manhattan Well – The Murder of Elma Sands New York In the basement of a Spring Street clothing store stands the well where Elma Sands was found dead in 1800 – her accused killer was acquitted by Hamilton and Burr, and she has never rested since.
• 🏛️ Gardner-Pingree House Massachusetts Captain Joseph White was murdered in his bed here in 1830 — and a pale face is still said to appear at a second-floor window of the empty house.
• 👻 Gloucester's Old Town Green Massachusetts In the summer of 1692 Gloucester was besieged for a fortnight by men in white waistcoats that bullets passed straight through — Ebenezer Babson saw them first.
• ⚰️ Howard Street Cemetery Massachusetts Giles Corey was pressed to death on this field in 1692 — and his figure is still said to appear among the stones just before disaster strikes Salem.
• 🌲 Ipswich Bar Massachusetts Harry Main is said to be chained to the sandbar, condemned to coil a cable of sand — and when it breaks his roar carries for miles.
• 👻 Pickman House Massachusetts A small girl stands at the second-floor window and is gone when you look again — and children's voices are heard inside the empty house after dark.
• 🌲 Screeching Lady Beach (Lovis Cove) Massachusetts An English woman was murdered by pirates for her rings at Lovis Cove — and her screams are said to return across the water every year on the night.
• 🏛️ Whaley House California "America's most supernatural home" according to the Travel Channel — built in 1857 on the site where Yankee Jim was hanged.
• 🏯 Winchester Mystery House California The widow Sarah Winchester built for 36 years a house with stairs that end at the ceiling — by legend, to confuse the ghosts of the rifle’s victims. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏛️ The Witch House (Jonathan Corwin House) Massachusetts Judge Jonathan Corwin's house from 1675 — the only building still standing in Salem with a direct connection to the witch trials.
• 👻 14 West 10th Street, "The House of Death" New York This 1856 brownstone row house is known locally as The House of Death, and it is one of New York's most notorious buildings.
• ⚰️ African Burial Ground: The Forgotten Builders New York Beneath a federal office building at 290 Broadway, New York's oldest and largest burial ground for free and enslaved Africans was uncovered in 1991.
• 👻 Blackwell House: The Farm That Gave the Island Its Name New York Blackwell House is one of the oldest surviving farmhouses in New York, built around 1796 by the Blackwell family who owned the island and gave it its old name.
• 🛎️ Bourbon Orleans Hotel Louisiana Children and nuns from a former orphanage, and a lone dancer beneath the ballroom chandelier. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Castillo de San Marcos Florida The oldest masonry fort in the United States. An officer's wife is said to have been walled in alive.
• ⛪ Chapel of the Good Shepherd: The Inmates' Church New York At the centre of the island stands the Chapel of the Good Shepherd, a stone church completed in 1889 and designed by Frederick Clarke Withers.
• ⚔️ City Hall Park: The Common, the Gallows and the Almshouse New York The tidy park in front of City Hall was the city common during the colonial period.
• 🚇 Collect Pond and Five Points: The Lake That Became a Slum New York Where Collect Pond Park lies today there was once Manhattan's most important source of fresh water, a deep pond that supplied the young city.
• 🛎️ 1886 Crescent Hotel Arkansas The quack Norman Baker's fake cancer clinic, with a morgue, a corpse cooler and ghostly nurses. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ The Driskill Hotel Texas Cigar smoke from a dead baron and a bride in room 525, the most haunted hotel in Austin. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🚇 Edgar Allan Poe in Greenwich Village (85 West 3rd Street) New York Edgar Allan Poe lived in Greenwich Village for several short periods, and at 85 West 3rd Street, around 1844, he is said to have written parts of The Raven.
• 🗡️ Fort Delaware Delaware At the island fort that held Civil War prisoners some 2,500 men died — cold spots and figures are said to linger. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Fort Mifflin Pennsylvania The screaming woman screams loudly enough for the police to be called, and the blacksmith Jacob still argues with his commander. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Franklin Castle Ohio The most haunted house in Ohio. Human bones in a closet and a family weighed down by death.
• 👻 Franklin Castle Ohio Ohio’s most haunted house — where the banker Tiedemann saw several of his family die, and crying is said to seep from the walls. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Gardette-LePrete House, "The Sultan's Palace", 716 Dauphine Street Louisiana This house from 1836 is one of the most photographed in the Vieux Carré, known for its beautiful Spanish style wrought iron balconies.
• 🛎️ The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel California The hotel that hosted the first Academy Awards. Marilyn Monroe is said to appear in a mirror. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🚇 Hollywood Sign (the ghost of Peg Entwistle) California The sign where 24-year-old actress Peg Entwistle leapt from the "H" in 1932 — said to walk Mount Lee to this day.
• 🛎️ Hotel Chelsea: The Dylan Thomas Room New York We end at the Hotel Chelsea, opened in 1884 and perhaps the most legend haunted building in all of New York. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ Hotel Galvez Texas A hotel built after the hurricane of 1900. A grieving bride is said to haunt room 501. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ Hotel Monteleone Louisiana Little Maurice died in the 1890s and appeared to his mother, on the notorious fourteenth floor. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏯 House of the Seven Gables Massachusetts The timber house behind Hawthorne's novel. A boy is said to appear in the windows.
• 👻 Hull House Illinois Thousands crowded in to see the devil baby in the attic, and a White Lady walks here still.
• 👻 Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar Louisiana The low building on the corner is one of the oldest in the whole Mississippi valley, probably raised in the 1720s and one of the few to survive both of the city's great fires.
• 🏯 Lemp Mansion Missouri Four members of the Lemp brewing family took their own lives, three of them inside these walls. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🚇 The Tramway and Blackwell's Island: Arriving on the Island New York Roosevelt Island is a narrow strip of land in the East River, barely three kilometres long.
• 🛎️ The Marshall House Georgia Amputated limbs were hidden under the floor in 1864, and soldiers' spirits still search the corridors for a surgeon. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏛️ Merchant's House Museum New York This red brick row house from 1832 is one of the best preserved nineteenth century homes on Manhattan.
• 🛎️ Mizpah Hotel Nevada A desert hotel haunted by the Lady in Red. Guests find pearls left on the pillow. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏯 Morris-Jumel Mansion New York The oldest house on Manhattan, once Washington's headquarters. A woman in a purple dress is said to walk the halls.
• 🏛️ New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, 514 Chartres Street Louisiana This building from 1823 once housed the first licensed pharmacist in Louisiana, in a state that was the first in the country to require training of its pharmacists.
• 🛎️ Palmer House Hotel Minnesota Ghost children in the corridor, a ghost cat on the bed, and a dancing snowman that isn't plugged in. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Pirates Alley & Faulkner House Books Louisiana The narrow cobbled alley is called Pirates Alley, but no evidence says pirates were ever here. William Faulkner, however, was.
• 👻 The Pirates House Georgia Sailors were shanghaied through the tunnel to the sea — screams are still reported from the boarded-up passages. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Pythian Castle Missouri A stone castle built for orphans, later a military club with prisoners of war in the basement.
• 🏥 Renwick Smallpox Hospital: the quarantine ruin New York The Gothic ruin of the Smallpox Hospital, designed by James Renwick Jr., where the city quarantined its poor.
• 👻 Riddle House Florida A former funeral chapel where Joseph hanged himself in the attic — and is now said to attack men. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ Sleepy Hollow Cemetery New York The cemetery behind the legend of the Headless Horseman. Washington Irving rests here.
• 🏯 Sorrel-Weed House Georgia Two women are said to walk here: the wife Matilda, and the enslaved girl Molly, found hanged in the carriage house. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🚇 South Street Seaport: the harbour that took its dead New York Where New York began as a port city — and where drownings, wrecks and disease were constant.
• 🚇 Southpoint Park and the Strecker Laboratory New York The Strecker Memorial Laboratory of 1892, where the island's dead were studied. The end of the chain.
• 🔦 St. Augustine Lighthouse Florida The girls who drowned during the lighthouse construction are still heard laughing in the tower — and tying visitors' shoelaces together. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⛪ St. Louis Cathedral & Père Antoine's Garden Louisiana The oldest continuously operating Catholic cathedral in the United States, and the garden where Père Antoine is said to still walk at sunrise.
• ⚰️ St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — Marie Laveau's tomb, from outside Louisiana The city of the dead, laid out in 1789 — and the tomb said to hold Marie Laveau, the voodoo queen.
• ⛪ St. Paul's Chapel: the oldest room and its graves New York Manhattan's oldest surviving church, where George Washington prayed — and which came through 11 September without a broken pane.
• 👻 Stonewall Inn New York Not a ghost stop, but a place you need to know to understand Greenwich Village.
• 👻 The Dakota New York The luxury building where John Lennon was murdered in 1980. His figure is said to be seen at the entrance.
• 🏥 The Octagon: the city's first asylum New York The octagonal tower was the entrance to New York's first municipal asylum, where Nellie Bly had herself committed in 1887.
• 👻 Triangle Shirtwaist-fabriken (Brown Building) New York On 25 March 1911 the exits were locked when fire broke out. 146 died, at least 62 by jumping onto the street below.
• ⛪ Trinity Church: where New York's oldest dead lie New York Where New York's oldest dead finally have names, stones and preserved records. Alexander Hamilton rests here.
• 🏫 Beechfork Elementary School Kentucky Reported haunted location in Helton, Kentucky, USA.
• 👻 Covina High School California Reported haunted location in Covina, California, USA.
• ⚰️ Haunted train tracks, northeast Missouri Missouri Reported haunted location in Dumas, Missouri, USA.
• 🛣️ Mays Canyon Road California Reported haunted location in Guerneville, California, USA.
• 👻 12 Gay Street – The Phantom in the Top Hat New York In the mayor's old speakeasy house on crooked Gay Street, a figure in evening dress and top hat walks through walls – and the puppeteer who lived there heard footsteps that never ceased.
• 🎭 Belasco Theatre – The Bishop of Broadway New York "The Bishop of Broadway" David Belasco still watches opening nights from his private box – accompanied by the Blue Lady, the actress who fell down his elevator shaft. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Bridge Café – Gallus Mag's Hole-in-the-Wall New York Gallus Mag bit the ears off unruly patrons and kept them pickled in a jar behind the bar – in the little red house on Water Street, the waterfront's most fearsome woman is said to stand guard still.
• 🗡️ Fort Totten – Sentry of the Casemates New York In the black Civil War casemates of the granite fort, boots and coughing echo from soldiers the fevers took – and in the tunnels beneath the water battery, flashlights insist on dying.
• 🛎️ The Jane Hotel – Refuge of the Titanic's Crew New York The Titanic's surviving crew were lodged here in April 1912 and held a memorial for their dead – guests still wake to weeping and figures in old-fashioned seamen's uniforms. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Landmark Tavern New York A Confederate soldier bled out in the upstairs bathtub, an Irish girl died of cholera in the next room – at the Landmark Tavern the dead still drink on credit.
• 🏛️ The Old Stone House – The Maryland 400 New York Here the Maryland 400 threw themselves into suicidal charge after charge to save Washington's army in 1776 – the fallen lie in unmarked ground, and soldiers appear in the dawn mist.
• 👻 One if by Land, Two if by Sea – Aaron Burr's Carriage House New York In Aaron Burr's old carriage house, unseen hands tear earrings from women's ears – the vice president who killed Hamilton never seems to have left.
• 🎭 Palace Theatre – Stage of a Hundred Ghosts New York The acrobat who plunged from his high wire in 1935 still swings from the rafters and screams – the Palace is said to hold over a hundred ghosts, with Judy Garland guarding her private door. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Poe Cottage – Where Virginia Died New York In the little white cottage in the Bronx, Poe's young wife Virginia died of consumption wrapped in his old army coat – visitors see a woman in white in the chamber where the bed still stands.
• 🏛️ Sailors' Snug Harbor – The Matron's Chains New York In the matron's house at the sailors' home, she is said to have kept her son chained in the basement until he stabbed her in 1863 – the chains still rattle, and old seamen walk their rounds among the temple facades.
• 👻 Split Rock – Anne Hutchinson's Cloven Stone New York When Anne Hutchinson's settlement was attacked in 1643, legend says her daughter hid inside the cloven boulder – at Split Rock in Pelham Bay, the heretic prophet's spirit is said to walk beside the river that bears her name.
• ⛪ St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery – Stuyvesant's Wooden Leg New York Beneath the church floor lies Peter Stuyvesant, last governor of New Amsterdam – but since the 1600s his wooden leg has been heard stamping down the aisles, and the bells ring with no hand on the rope.
• 🏯 Van Cortlandt House – The Hessian's Deathbed New York In the Bronx's oldest house, Hessian captain Rau died in an upstairs bedroom with his fiancée at his side – on the anniversary he returns, and the nursery dolls change places on their own.
• 👻 Pennhurst State Hospital Complex Pennsylvania Reported haunted location in Spring City, Pennsylvania, USA.
• 🏫 Selysions Private School Indiana Reported haunted location in Cedar Lake, Indiana, USA.
• 🔦 Bakers Island Light Massachusetts The fog bell on Bakers Island was destroyed by lightning — yet it is still said to sound out over the water at night, and never by day.
• 👻 John Balch House Massachusetts Eighteen-year-old David Balch lay ill in the chamber and said figures at the foot of his bed were tormenting him — two years before the Salem trials.
• 🏗️ Dogtown Common Massachusetts The abandoned upland village was home to Tammy Younger, called queen of the witches — ox carts were said to stall of their own accord at her window.
• 👻 Site of the Elizabeth Morse Homestead Massachusetts Stones struck the walls night after night in 1679 and pots slid across the room on their own — and Elizabeth Morse was made to pay for it.
• 👻 Jabesh Sweet House Massachusetts Harry Maine's ghost is said to have haunted the Water Street house until the town's ministers were finally called in to pray him out.
• 👻 Lyceum Hall (Turner's Seafood) Massachusetts The building stands on Bridget Bishop's old apple lot — guests watch a woman in white glide up the stairs, and the scent of apple blossom drifts through.
• 👻 Col. Nathaniel Wade House Massachusetts A man in colonial dress stands at the bedside holding a wreath, and is gone before the sleeper can sit up.
• ⚰️ Old Burying Point (Charter Street Cemetery) Massachusetts Salem's oldest burying ground — where Judge John Hathorne is said to walk, and a woman in white vanishes the moment anyone raises a camera.
• 👻 Polly Dole–John Updike House Massachusetts Three figures share the house: a woman in white upstairs, a Revolutionary soldier on the stairs, and a girl in a Victorian dress.
• ⚔️ Proctor's Ledge Memorial Massachusetts Nineteen innocent people were executed here in 1692. George Burroughs recited the Lord's Prayer flawlessly at the gallows — thought impossible for the accused.
• 🏯 Ropes Mansion Massachusetts Nabby Ropes's dress caught fire at the hearth in 1839 — and the smell of smoke and a stifled scream are still said to drift through the Georgian house.
• 🌲 Swallow Cave Massachusetts The fortune teller they called Witch Wonderful foretold her own death — and is still said to walk the rocks above the cave where she lies buried.
• ⚰️ Wadsworth Cemetery, Danvers Massachusetts George Burroughs's two wives lie here in unmarked graves — and it was their shrouded shapes that witnesses claimed to see rise in the courtroom in 1692.
• ⚰️ Soules Chapel Kentucky Reported haunted location in Somerset, Kentucky, USA.
• 🛎️ Spook Hill Inn Maryland Reported haunted location in Boonsboro, Maryland, USA. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ The Old Silver Springs Shores Hotel Florida Reported haunted location in Ocala, Florida, USA. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏛️ USS Hornet California On the haunted aircraft carrier over 300 men died — and a sailor in white dress uniform is said to still appear aboard. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 USS Lexington Texas “The Blue Ghost” — the carrier whose dead sailor Charlie is said to still guide visitors through the engine rooms. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🚇 Washington Square Arch & the Hanging Elm New York The park with its triumphal arch hides one of Manhattan's great secrets: twenty thousand forgotten dead beneath the grass.
• 👻 White Horse Tavern New York Where Dylan Thomas drank on his last visit to New York. Regulars say he never quite checked out.
• 🏛️ Molly Brown House Colorado Titanic survivor Molly Brown’s home — where the scent of J.J. Brown’s pipe lingers and furniture rearranges itself. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏛️ Bowne House – The Quakers' Guardian New York John Bowne was hauled off in irons by Stuyvesant for letting Quakers pray in his kitchen in 1662 – he won, came home, and is said never to have left the house since.
• 👻 The Ear Inn – Haunt of Mickey the Sailor New York The sailor Mickey died outside the door but refuses to leave the bar – he drains patrons' beers, lights candles and pinches the waitresses.
• 🏛️ Garibaldi-Meucci Museum – Esther's Cough New York Meucci built his first telephone to hear his bedridden wife Esther a floor below – she was buried in the yard, and in the museum her coughing and groans are heard still. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ Green-Wood Cemetery – Obelisk of the Nameless New York Beneath a granite obelisk inside the gate lie 103 nameless victims of the 1876 Brooklyn Theatre fire in a common grave – on the December anniversary, shadows are said to gather at the stone.
• ⚰️ Houdini's Grave – Machpelah Cemetery New York Houdini died on Halloween, promising his wife he would break back from the other side with a secret code word – at his Queens grave, they have waited for him every Halloween since 1926.
• 👻 The Hendrick I. Lott House – Farmhouse with the Hidden Closet New York Behind a false closet under the attic stairs, freedom-seekers escaping slavery were hidden, and archaeologists found spirit bundles laid beneath the floor – the Lott family, it's said, never moved out.
• 👻 McSorley's Old Ale House New York "Be Good or Be Gone" – in New York's oldest Irish saloon Houdini's handcuffs still hang from the bar rail, and founder John McSorley is said to keep watch over the sawdust.
• 🎭 The Public Theater – The Ghost of the Astor Library New York In 1860, librarian Cogswell saw a recently deceased physician leafing through occult volumes in the stacks – three times he addressed the ghost of the Astor Library, three times it dissolved. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏛️ The Players – Edwin Booth's Club New York America's greatest Hamlet died in the top-floor room, in the shadow of his brother's crime. At The Players, Edwin Booth's bedroom stands untouched – and pipe smoke still drifts down the stairs.
• 👻 Shoreborne Wilson–Samuel Appleton House Massachusetts Sarah Appleton has never moved out, say the people who live here — rocking chairs start up, lamps switch on, someone moves about upstairs.
• 👻 The Daniels House Massachusetts A grey cat brushes past your legs and dissolves into the air — and on the stairs stands a man in Puritan dress guests take for Stephen Daniels himself. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ Garrison Inn Massachusetts Room 408 belongs to Sarah White Banister — and down in the tavern's brick archways the builder Moses Brown is said to still walk. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🌲 Gloucester Harbor Massachusetts In the summer of 1817 an eighty-foot serpent was seen coiling through Gloucester harbour — sworn to under oath by dozens of named witnesses.
• 🗼 High Rock Tower Massachusetts Moll Pitcher told fortunes at the foot of High Rock — and if she said a voyage would end badly, whole crews refused to sign on.
• 🌲 Redd's Pond, Marblehead Massachusetts The pond still carries Wilmot Redd's name — the woman her neighbours blamed when milk soured and butter turned to blue wool.
• 👻 The Salem Inn (West House) Massachusetts The staff call her Katherine: a cold rush of air that passes you on the main staircase — and a black cat is said to cross the parlour and vanish. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏯 Turner Hill Massachusetts At the hilltop estate, staff and guests keep meeting Mrs Rice — the same woman, the same house, in accounts spanning decades.
• 🌉 10 penny bridge Indiana Reported haunted location in Charlestown, Indiana, USA.
• 🏯 100 Center Indiana Reported haunted location in Mishawaka, Indiana, USA.
• 🛣️ 101 Freeway Near Las Virgines Road California Reported haunted location in Agoura, California, USA.
• 👻 118 Freeway eastbound California Reported haunted location in Granada Hills, California, USA.
• 👻 13 bends Pennsylvania Reported haunted location in Coulterville, Pennsylvania, USA.
• 👻 13 Bends Pennsylvania Reported haunted location in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, USA.
• 👻 13 bends Pennsylvania Reported haunted location in Harmarville, Pennsylvania, USA.
• 🛣️ 13 curves New York Reported haunted location in Marcellus, New York, USA.
• 👻 "13 curves" New York Reported haunted location in Syracuse, New York, USA.
• 🛣️ 13th Street New Jersey Reported haunted location in South Brigantine, New Jersey, USA.
• 🎭 13th Street Plaza Theater Florida Reported haunted location in Gainesville, Florida, USA.
• 🛣️ 13th Street Wal-Mart Florida Reported haunted location in Gainesville, Florida, USA.
• 🏯 145 Main ST Connecticut Reported haunted location in Somers, Connecticut, USA.
• 🛎️ The 1790 Inn and Tavern Georgia Savannah's oldest inn keeps the story of Anna, a seventeen year old who watched her sailor's ship leave and never came down from the third floor. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ 18 mile road and Hayes Michigan Reported haunted location in Clinton Township, Michigan, USA.
• 👻 1880 Train South Dakota Reported haunted location in Hill City, South Dakota, USA.
• ⛏️ 1915 Abandoned Mine West Virginia Reported haunted location in Logan County, West Virginia, USA.
• ⚰️ The overpass at 1960 Texas The overpass was built over a cemetery. The graves were dug up and moved into the woods beside it.
• 👻 The corner at 19th and Northern Arizona Several older buildings stood dark and empty here for years before the shopping centre replaced them. Phoenix teenagers used them for exactly what you.
• ⛪ The Red Brick Playhouse Missouri One of the oldest buildings in the town, in poor condition, used for a while as a community theatre. The old caretaker did not want to share it with.
• 👻 20 miles south of Baird Texas on HWY 283 Texas Reported haunted location in Belle Plain, Texas, USA.
• 👻 22 CR 510 Mississippi Reported haunted location in Corinth, Mississippi, USA.
• ⛏️ 22 Mine Road West Virginia Reported haunted location in Logan, West Virginia, USA.
• 👻 23rd and 24th St off State Oregon Reported haunted location in Salem, Oregon, USA.
• 🛣️ 2nd Street Orphanage Kentucky Reported haunted location in Berry, Kentucky, USA.
• 🌉 3 legged lady road Mississippi Reported haunted location in Columbus, Mississippi, USA.
• 🌉 3 Mile Bridge Oklahoma Reported haunted location in Sentinel, Oklahoma, USA.
• ⚰️ 3 miles East of Pauline NE Nebraska Reported haunted location in Spring Ranch, Nebraska, USA.
• 🌉 31e  bridge Kentucky Reported haunted location in Scottsville, Kentucky, USA.
• ⚰️ 36th Street Cemetery Utah Reported haunted location in Ogden, Utah, USA.
• 🛣️ 393 Ants Hill Road Pennsylvania Reported haunted location in Madison Township, Pennsylvania, USA.
• 👻 4-H Camp Ohio Reported haunted location in Kelly 92s Island, Ohio, USA.
• 👻 4 Peaks Home Entertainment Arizona Reported haunted location in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
• ⚔️ 400th Avenue Bridge Illinois Reported haunted location in Middletown, Illinois, USA.
• 👻 41 Area California Reported haunted location in Camp Pendleton, California, USA.
• 🛣️ 477 Congress Street Maine Reported haunted location in Portland, Maine, USA.
• 🏫 4th St. School Elementary California Reported haunted location in East Los Angeles, California, USA.
• 🏫 51st Avenue and Indian School Road Arizona Reported haunted location in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
• ⚰️ The graveyard at 55th and Northern Arizona Some years ago a group of teenagers were playing hide and seek among the graves.
• 🛣️ 5th Ave Arizona Reported haunted location in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
• 👻 629 Grove St. -Industrial Building New Jersey Reported haunted location in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
• 🌉 7 Bridge Road Wisconsin Reported haunted location in Boltonville, Wisconsin, USA.
• ⛪ 7 churches (Hardup dr.) Georgia Reported haunted location in Albany, Georgia, USA.

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How many haunted places are there in United States?

Haunted Places lists 9460 haunted locations in United States, each with its story and GPS coordinates.

What are the most haunted places in United States?

Among the most notable in United States: Amityville Horror House (112 Ocean Avenue), Bell Witch Cave and Eastern State Penitentiary.

Can you stay overnight at haunted places in United States?

Yes — 47 of the haunted places in United States are hotels or inns you can book for an overnight stay. The rest are public sites you can visit.

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