The Most Haunted Places in the USA

The Most Haunted Places in the USA: 30 hand-picked locations. Each 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.

FAQ

The Most Haunted Places in the USA — which places are included?

The list has 30 places, among them Amityville Horror House (112 Ocean Avenue), Bell Witch Cave and Eastern State Penitentiary.

Can you stay overnight at these places?

15 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.

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