Haunted Cemeteries
108 haunted locations across America
Graveyards with wandering apparitions and unexplained phenomena
All Haunted Cemeteries
All Saints Cemetery
Church records say Alice Flagg isn't even buried here. The marble slab bearing only the name ALICE, with no dates…
All Saints Church Cemetery
There's a hand-painted sign at the gate of All Saints Church on Pawleys Island.
Antietam National Cemetery
Blue lights float over the headstones. Visitors to Antietam National Cemetery at dusk have described small orbs of blue…
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery
On August 10, 1991, Ghost Research Society member Mari Huff loaded infrared film into her camera and pointed it at an…
Bascom Hill
Two brass plaques reading "W. N." and "S. W." sit embedded in the esplanade walkway southwest of the Lincoln statue on…
Bellefontaine Cemetery
Drivers on the roads near Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis have been picking up the same hitchhiker since the 1940s.
Black Diamond Cemetery
On November 6, 1910, an explosion ripped through the Lawson Mine at Black Diamond. Sixteen coal miners died.
Bonaventure Cemetery
If you take one of the toys left at Gracie Watson's grave, her statue will cry tears of blood.
Burial Hill
Burial Hill rises above Plymouth, Massachusetts, a cemetery in use since the 1620s when the first Pilgrims began laying…
Cave Hill Cemetery
Cave Hill Cemetery doesn't allow ghost tours. No costumed photoshoots, no paranormal investigations…
Central Burying Ground
The Central Burying Ground was established in 1756 as Boston's fourth cemetery…
Cheesman Park
There are roughly 2,000 bodies still buried under the lawns at Cheesman Park…
Christ Church Cemetery
The arch at Christ Church Cemetery in New Bern cries when funerals pass through it.
Cole's Hill
Cole's Hill rises above Plymouth Rock, a grassy bluff overlooking the harbor where the Mayflower anchored in December…
Colonial Park Cemetery
One headstone in Colonial Park Cemetery says the man buried beneath it lived to be 544 years old.
Comet Lodge Cemetery
On November 2, 1987, the Day of the Dead, Seattle city crews bulldozed grave markers at Comet Lodge Cemetery on Beacon…
Concordia Cemetery
Concordia Cemetery spreads across 52 acres of El Paso's northeast, earning its reputation as "El Paso's Boot Hill" for…
Copp's Hill Burying Ground
When cosmic horror master H.P. Lovecraft set one of his stories in a Boston cemetery, he chose Copp's Hill.
Crown Hill Cemetery
John Dillinger is buried at Crown Hill, and people keep trying to take pieces of his grave home.
Dartford Cemetery
Sit on the Jackson Walker mausoleum and something pushes you off.
El Campo Santo Cemetery
There are graves under the street. That's not a metaphor. In 1889, when San Diego wanted to run a horsecar line through…
Elmira Civil War Prison Camp
The prisoners called it Hellmira. Nearly 3,000 of them never left. Elmira Prison Camp operated for exactly one year…
Elmwood Cemetery
By the first week of September 1855, gravediggers at Elmwood Cemetery were burying 400 people. In seven days.
Elmwood Cemetery
Shepherdstown's five-man police department started getting 911 calls they couldn't close.
Eugene Pioneer Cemetery
Eugene Pioneer Cemetery has the rarest sort of haunting: a cheerful one.
Evergreen Cemetery
A film crew aimed a camera at the heavy wooden crypt door in Evergreen Cemetery's chapel…
Evergreen Cemetery
The cemetery's own map marks her grave as "resident ghost." That's not a joke by the maintenance crew or a Halloween…
Fayetteville Confederate Cemetery
In 1973, a Fayetteville resident told the Northwest Arkansas Times that during a thunderstorm…
Forest Home Cemetery
Sixty-four people are buried in a single grave at Forest Home Cemetery, and most of them have no names.
Frankfort Cemetery
Daniel Boone is buried in Frankfort Cemetery. Probably. Maybe.
Graceland Cemetery
During thunderstorms, the glass case around Inez Clarke's statue turns up empty.
Granary Burying Ground
They call it the "Westminster Abbey of Boston" -- but unlike its London counterpart…
Graniteville Cemetery
The headstone just says "The Little Boy, October 1855." Nobody ever found out his name. In October of that year…
Greenwood Cemetery
Greenwood Cemetery, established in 1880 by eight prominent Orlando founders including Boone, Livingston, Delaney…
Greenwood Cemetery
A visitor once encountered a man in a tattered military uniform near the War Memorial section…
Grove Street Cemetery
On the night of January 11, 1824, someone dug up nineteen-year-old Bathsheba Smith from West Haven and carted her body…
Gunntown Cemetery
"We're all alone." That's what the voice recorder picked up. A little girl, clear as day…
Hollywood Cemetery
A life-sized cast-iron Newfoundland sits along Cedar Avenue on what's called Black Dog Hill…
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Every August 23, someone dressed in black leaves a single red rose at the Cathedral Mausoleum, in front of Crypt 1205.
Howard Street Cemetery
"More weight." Those were the last words of Giles Corey, an 81-year-old farmer who became the only person in American…
Huguenot Cemetery
The Huguenot Cemetery was established in 1821 as St. Augustine's first non-Catholic burial ground…
Keller's Chapel Cemetery
Joshua visited Keller's Chapel Cemetery in December 2014 and couldn't get his car to start when he tried to leave.
Key West Cemetery
The Key West Cemetery was established in 1847 after a severe hurricane disinterred bodies from the original beach…
King's Chapel Burying Ground
Boston's first cemetery holds its first secrets. King's Chapel Burying Ground was established in 1630…
Lafayette Pioneer Cemetery
The legend at Lafayette Pioneer Cemetery is that a woman accused of witchcraft was hanged by the townspeople…
Lake Helen-Cassadaga Cemetery
The Lake Helen-Cassadaga Cemetery, established near the Spiritualist Camp founded by George P.
Lake View Cemetery
The black tears showed up on their own. Nobody painted them. The Haserot Angel…
Laurel Hill Cemetery
Laurel Hill opened in 1836 because Philadelphia's cemeteries had become unbearable.
Lexington Cemetery
The mausoleum at Lexington Cemetery has a reputation that most cemeteries don't…
Lincoln's Tomb
Abraham Lincoln's coffin was moved 17 times between 1865 and 1901. His casket was opened five times.
Lone Fir Cemetery
In July 1948, Multnomah County workers exhumed 265 bodies from Block 14 of Lone Fir Cemetery…
Lorimier Cemetery
Something in Lorimier Cemetery taps people on the shoulder. One tap, then two, then three.
Maple Hill Cemetery
Pedro was an Irish Setter who sat on his master's grave for two years.
Marietta National Cemetery
Henry Greene Cole turned down $50,000 from the Confederate States of America for the 23 acres of Marietta hillside that…
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts is the first rural or garden cemetery in the United…
Mount Holly Cemetery
David Owen Dodd was 17 when the Union army hanged him. The rope was new and too stretchy…
New Haven Green
In 2012, Hurricane Sandy ripped a 103-year-old oak tree out of the New Haven Green.
Oakland Cemetery
Bobby Jones's grave always has golf balls on it. Visitors leave them, sometimes with notes…
Oakwood Cemetery
Walk the path past Etta Ratcliffe's grave in Oakwood Cemetery at night, and local tradition says the angel will turn to…
Oakwood Cemetery
In 2012, the caretaker at Oakwood Cemetery found a grave pried open and a skull missing.
Old Burying Ground
The Old Burying Ground of Cambridge stands just steps from Harvard Square…
Old Burying Ground
At the back of Beaufort's Old Burying Ground, in a shaded plot under live oaks draped with Spanish moss…
Old Burying Point Cemetery
The ghost of Giles Corey — pressed to death under stones for refusing to enter a plea — haunts the Old Burying Point…
Old Gray Cemetery
The Lady in White at Old Gray Cemetery has a specific biography.
Old Hill Burying Ground
Old Hill Burying Ground rises on a hillside overlooking Concord's town center…
Old Quaker Cemetery
In 1759, a Quaker named Samuel Wyly signed over four acres of land in Camden for a period of 999 years.
Old White Marsh Church
Two grave robbers cut into Hannah Maynadier's finger to steal her wedding ring, and she sat up screaming.
Pioneer Cemetery at Peninsula State Park
Huey Melvin's white headstone features a carved lamb, and it sits in a lonely corner of Pioneer Cemetery…
Point of Graves Burial Ground
Point of Graves, in the heart of old Portsmouth, holds a tomb that keeps glowing in photographs.
Post Cemetery
Mary Ella Cowles buried two babies in the back corner of this cemetery before her thirty-fifth birthday.
Princeton Cemetery
Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton on a cliff in Weehawken on July 11, 1804.
Red Mountain - Emma Crawford's Grave
On August 4, 1929, two boys climbing on Red Mountain in Manitou Springs found a human skull. Marshal David S.
Resurrection Cemetery
Jerry Palus danced with a dead woman at Liberty Grove Hall in 1939 and didn't realize it until she vanished through the…
Riverside Cemetery
Silas Soule is buried in Section 27, and most of the time somebody has left something on his stone. A coin. A flower.
Riverside Cemetery
People leave pencils on Thomas Wolfe's grave. The reason is simple.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord is one of Massachusetts' most haunted locations…
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Washington Irving is buried here, about 200 yards from the churchyard where he set the most famous chase scene in…
Spider Gates Cemetery
Spider Gates Cemetery -- officially known as Friends Cemetery -- is a small…
Springwood Cemetery
In 1889, twenty-five-year-old Fannie Heldmann slipped out of her bedroom, walked down to what is now Falls Park…
St. James Episcopal Cemetery
If you run around the statue thirteen times and ask "Oh Mary, oh Mary, what happened to your babies?" she will start…
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
Visitors to Marie Laveau's tomb at St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 have left offerings there for over a century. Coins.
St. Louis Cemetery No. 2
Taxi drivers working the edge of St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 have picked up the same phantom bride for decades.
St. Louis Cemetery No. 3
St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 sits on ground that killed people twice.
The Devil's Chair
The Devil's Chair is a red-brick bench located within the Lake Helen-Cassadaga Cemetery in Volusia County, Florida…
The Greenbrier Ghost Grave
Zona Heaster Shue was found dead at the bottom of her staircase on January 23, 1897.
Tolomato Cemetery
Tolomato Cemetery is the oldest extant planned cemetery in Florida, with burials beginning during the First Spanish…
Union Cemetery
In 1993, an off-duty fireman was driving down Route 59 past Union Cemetery when he hit a woman.
Unitarian Church Cemetery
A young woman named Anna Ravenel, from one of Charleston's most prominent families…
Westminster Hall and Burying Ground
For over 70 years, a figure in black visited Edgar Allan Poe's grave at Westminster Hall on January 19th…
White Oak Flats Cemetery
White Oak Flats Cemetery sits behind a Fannie Farkle's tourist shop in downtown Gatlinburg…
Woodland Cemetery
A woman researching genealogy at Woodland Cemetery looked up from her notebook and saw a blonde girl sitting on a…
Woodland Cemetery Chapel
Don't swear near Woodland Cemetery Chapel. That is the rule everyone in Keene knows…
Woodlawn Cemetery
A woman in a white dress walks the grounds of Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo…
100 Steps Cemetery
The ritual is simple enough to remember and specific enough to be a dare: go to the cemetery at midnight…
Avon Cemetery
Drive 2.7 miles north of DeQueen on Highway 71, pull off near the old Avon community in Sevier County…
Central City Cemetery
John Edward Cameron died on November 1, 1885, and within a year a woman in black satin was walking up to his grave on…
Gilson Road Cemetery
There's a drilled hole in the headstone of five-year-old Walter Gilson at Gilson Road Cemetery in Nashua…
Jacksonville Cemetery
Among the 5,600 graves at Jacksonville Cemetery, 133 of them are in a section called the potter's field…
Maltby Cemetery
Two teenagers in the mid-1990s stumbled onto a group of people dressed entirely in black…
Miller's Church
A local who graduated from North Hagerstown High School in 1992 finally debunked the phantom hearse.
Peace Church Cemetery
Billy Cook had "HARD LUCK" tattooed across his knuckles and a right eyelid that wouldn't close.
Pine Hill Cemetery
Abel Blood was buried at Pine Hill Cemetery in Hollis in 1867, and for more than a century…
Pioneer Cemetery
John Fitch used to be buried here. Then he wasn't. Fitch built a working steamboat years before Robert Fulton got…
Riverside Cemetery
Her name was Kate Marcia "Kitty" Blood Miller, and she didn't kill anyone.
Riverview Cemetery
The Weeping Woman statue at Riverview Cemetery has been blamed for pulling visitors' hair, unbuttoning their clothes…
Stepp Cemetery
The Lady in Black sits on a tree stump at the edge of a twenty-five-grave cemetery deep in the Morgan-Monroe State…
Union Cemetery
Matilda "Tillie" Smith was 18 years old, working as a kitchen maid at Centenary Collegiate Institute…
Vale End Cemetery
Vale End Cemetery in Wilton is where a column of blue light rises out of Mary Ritter Spaulding's grave and stops six…