Haunted Hotels You Can Actually Stay In

Haunted Hotels You Can Actually Stay In: 30 legendary haunted hotels, inns and castles where the ghost stories are part of the stay. Read the legends and book a night if you dare.

• 👻 Ancient Ram Inn Gloucestershire One of Britain’s most haunted houses — in the "Witch’s Room" a witch burned in the 1500s is said to linger. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Chillingham Castle Northumberland The radiant Blue Boy cried at midnight in the Pink Room — and a renovation uncovered a child’s bones walled up in blue cloth. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Dragsholm Castle Sjælland, Odsherred In 1910 they broke open the old wall and found a skeleton in a sealed niche. The noblewoman Celestine had vanished around 1550. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Hammershus, Bornholm Bornholm The watchman sat on the wall to learn who built by night. By morning the wall had grown three ells around him. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Rosenholm Castle Østjylland, Hornslet The white lady had walked the corridors for centuries — until builders opened a tower wall and found the skeleton of a young woman inside. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚔️ 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
• 🗡️ Edinburgh Castle Edinburgh, Scotland "Britain's most besieged place" — 26 sieges in 1,100 years, today known for paranormal phenomena. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Château de Tiffauges Pays de la Loire In Bluebeard's castle, children's cries are still said to echo at night — this was the lair of Gilles de Rais. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Glamis Castle Angus, Scotland Earl Beardie is said to play cards with the Devil in a secret room — and the castle hides the legend of the Monster of Glamis. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏛️ Lawang Sewu Centrala Java In the dark basement of this colonial palace, the screams of prisoners from the Japanese occupation are said never to have fallen silent. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Skryne Castle Meath Lilith Palmerston runs screaming through the upper floor clutching her throat — as on the night Phelim Sellers choked her to death there. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Palazzo Cenci Rome On the night of 11 September, Beatrice Cenci climbs the stairs of her childhood home — carrying her severed head in her hands. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 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
• 🛎️ Diplomat Hotel (Dominican Hill) Baguio, Benguet In the abandoned mountain hotel on Dominican Hill, beheaded priests and nuns are said to roam the corridors. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 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
• 👻 Al Qasimi Palace Ras al-Khaimah The sheikh's family is said to have fled the grand palace after a single night – ever since, children's faces peer out from behind the cracked window panes. 🛏 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
• 🏰 Ängsö Castle Västmanland On an island in Lake Mälaren, Karl XII's court jester is still said to walk — nearly 300 years after his death. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🛎️ Gran Hotel Viena Córdoba Room 106 of the flood-ravaged giant hotel on Mar Chiquita is called the most haunted spot in South America. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 The Lion's Bride of Neugebäude Palace Vienna Four-year-old Berta led an escaped lion back to its cage and was named the Lion's Bride. On her wedding day she stepped inside one last time. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 The White Lady of the Theresianum Vienna The white lady stepped in to a fevered pupil — he died soon after. The gatekeeper who merely glimpsed her fell into nervous fever himself. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🗡️ Fort de la Chartreuse Vallonien – provinsen Liège In this abandoned fort above Liège – monastery, prison and war hospital in one – the spirit of a dead nurse is said to still make her rounds. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🎭 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
• 🛎️ 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
• 🛎️ Hotel del Salto (Tequendama Falls) Cundinamarca Above the abyss of Tequendama Falls stands the hotel to which those who jumped are said to return out of the mist. 🛏 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

FAQ

Haunted Hotels You Can Actually Stay In — which places are included?

The list has 30 places, among them Ancient Ram Inn, Chillingham Castle and Dragsholm Castle.

Can you stay overnight at these places?

28 of the places on the list are hotels or inns where you can book a night. The rest are places you can visit.

Where are these places?

You will find them in United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Austria, France and Indonesia.

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