Haunted Battlefields
36 haunted locations across America
Open fields gone quiet, where the dead of a single afternoon are still heard at dusk.
All Haunted Battlefields
Antietam National Battlefield
On a school trip to Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg, Maryland…
Burnside Bridge
Burnside Bridge crosses Antietam Creek at the south end of the battlefield near Sharpsburg, Maryland…
Castillo de San Marcos
The Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida has a story that everyone tells and no record will back.
Chalmette Battlefield
At Chalmette Battlefield, on the flat ground southeast of New Orleans, people keep reporting soldiers who shouldn't be…
Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park
The most documented entity at Chickamauga is not a soldier. It's a thing called Old Green Eyes…
Cowpens National Battlefield
A school group walked the trail at Cowpens National Battlefield, near Gaffney in upstate South Carolina…
Devil's Den
At Devil's Den in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a woman climbing the boulders alone looked up and found a man standing…
Droop Mountain Battlefield
In 1920, logger Edgar Walton built a campfire near the Confederate cemetery on Droop Mountain.
Fort McHenry
At Fort McHenry in Baltimore, visitors keep walking up to the desk to ask about the soldier they saw on the ramparts.
Fort Mifflin
The story at Fort Mifflin, on a narrow spit of land near the Philadelphia airport where the Delaware and Schuylkill…
Fort Monroe
On the night of May 23, 1861, Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory, and James Townsend stole a small boat at Sewell's Point and…
Fort Nathan Hale
At Fort Nathan Hale in New Haven, Connecticut, the thing people report most is a green glowing orb that drifts across…
Fort Negley
Between 600 and 800 men died building Fort Negley. The Union Army pressed roughly 2,768 Black laborers into the work…
Fort Phantom Hill
Fort Phantom Hill, located in Jones County 11 miles north of Abilene, is one of the most pristine and haunted historic…
Fort Pickens
In the brick corridors of Fort Pickens, on a barrier island at the western edge of Florida…
Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, three miles north of Manteo on Roanoke Island, North Carolina…
Fort Stevens State Park
At Fort Stevens State Park, on the Oregon coast where the Columbia River meets the sea…
Fort Ticonderoga
The ghost everyone at Fort Ticonderoga tells you about is a woman named Nancy Coates…
Fredericksburg Battlefield
Seven Union divisions launched fourteen separate charges at a four-foot stone wall on December 13, 1862.
Iverson's Pits
At Iverson's Pits, a stretch of Oak Ridge in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the men who farmed the land after the war would…
Jockey Hollow
On the trails at Jockey Hollow in Morristown, New Jersey, in the quiet months of winter…
Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield
At Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park near Kennesaw, Georgia, hikers keep seeing soldiers on the field.
Kings Mountain National Military Park
At Kings Mountain National Military Park, near Blacksburg, South Carolina…
Little Round Top
On Little Round Top, the granite hill on the southern end of the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania…
Lookout Mountain Battlefield
On the morning of November 24, 1863, fog rolled up the side of Lookout Mountain so thick that soldiers fighting on it…
Pea Ridge National Military Park
Drive out to the Pea Ridge battlefield near Garfield, Arkansas after dark…
Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site
At Perryville Battlefield in Boyle County, Kentucky, people walking the open fields at dusk keep hearing a horse.
Point Lookout State Park
At the Point Lookout Lighthouse in Maryland, a famous ghost hunter spent part of 1980 recording the voices of people…
Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park
At Prairie Grove Battlefield in Washington County, Arkansas, people say the field never went quiet.
Shiloh National Military Park
The pond at Shiloh National Military Park turns red for a few weeks every spring…
Stone Bridge at Chickamauga
The Stone Bridge at Chickamauga sits in the part of the battlefield where Old Green Eyes has been seen most often…
Stones River National Battlefield
The headless horseman of Stones River National Battlefield rides on documented history.
The Alamo
Mere days after the 1836 battle ended, General Santa Anna ordered the Alamo chapel demolished.
The Presidio
At the Presidio Officers' Club in San Francisco, the story goes that a woman dances alone in the ballroom.
The Slaughter Pen
At the Slaughter Pen on the Gettysburg battlefield, people walking the boulders report a man who shouldn't be there.
Triangular Field
Bring a camera into the Triangular Field at Gettysburg and the story goes that it will quit on you.