All Haunted Hospitals

Agnews State Hospital Site

Agnews State Hospital Site

Santa Clara, California

The industrial freezer doors in the old Agnews kitchens don't just pop open.

Army-Navy Hospital

Army-Navy Hospital

Hot Springs, Arkansas

Walk Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs and you'll probably miss it. Most tourists do.

Athens Lunatic Asylum (The Ridges)

Athens Lunatic Asylum (The Ridges)

Athens, Ohio

On December 1, 1978, a patient named Margaret Schilling vanished from the Athens Mental Health Center.

Austin State Hospital

Austin State Hospital

Austin, Texas

The Austin State Hospital, established in 1856 as the Texas State Lunatic Asylum…

Booth Memorial Hospital (Former)

Booth Memorial Hospital (Former)

Covington, Kentucky

Two or three residents of the Governors Point condos on East Second Street in Covington have told the same story.

Camarillo State Mental Hospital Site

Camarillo State Mental Hospital Site

Camarillo, California

There's a woman in white on the bell tower stairs. Students at Cal State Channel Islands have been reporting her for…

Central State Hospital

Central State Hospital

Indianapolis, Indiana

There is a cemetery behind the campus where the patients were buried under numbered plaques instead of headstones.

Danvers State Hospital Site

Danvers State Hospital Site

Danvers, Massachusetts

The land where Danvers State Hospital once loomed has been steeped in darkness since the 17th century.

Dorothea Dix Park

Dorothea Dix Park

Raleigh, North Carolina

More than nine hundred people are buried on the grounds of Dorothea Dix Park…

Elgin State Hospital

Elgin State Hospital

Elgin, Illinois

Emanuel Bronner, the man who would later found Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, was committed to Elgin State Hospital against…

Eloise Asylum

Eloise Asylum

Westland, Michigan

Seventy-one hundred people are buried in a field behind the Eloise Asylum grounds, and almost none of them have names.

Essex County Hospital Center (Overbrook)

Essex County Hospital Center (Overbrook)

Cedar Grove, New Jersey

Twenty-four patients froze to death in their beds over twenty days in December 1917.

Fairfield Hills State Hospital

Fairfield Hills State Hospital

Newtown, Connecticut

NewSylum Brewing Company pours craft beer in Stratford Hall, the former staff dining room and library of a psychiatric…

Fort Steilacoom Park

Fort Steilacoom Park

Lakewood, Washington

A tour guide named Jeff was walking the Fort Steilacoom grounds at midnight when he heard what sounded like a group of…

Glenn Dale Hospital

Glenn Dale Hospital

Glenn Dale, Maryland

Each of Glenn Dale Hospital's 23 buildings had its own morgue.

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital

Morris Plains, New Jersey

Greystone was built to hold 350 patients. By 1953 it held 7,674.

Highland Hospital Site

Highland Hospital Site

Asheville, North Carolina

On the night of March 10, 1948, the central building of Highland Hospital in Asheville caught fire.

Hill View Manor

Hill View Manor

New Castle, Pennsylvania

The ghost most investigators come to Hill View Manor looking for is a little boy named Jeffrey.

Hudson River State Hospital

Hudson River State Hospital

Poughkeepsie, New York

On May 31, 2007, lightning struck the south male housing wing of the Hudson River State Hospital.

Indiana State Sanatorium

Indiana State Sanatorium

Rockville, Indiana

Mike Culwell had a personal connection to Mary before he ever set foot in the nursing home wing of the Indiana State…

Kings Park Psychiatric Center

Kings Park Psychiatric Center

Kings Park, New York

In 1954, Kings Park Psychiatric Center held 9,303 patients. The facility was built for a fraction of that number.

Linda Vista Community Hospital

Linda Vista Community Hospital

Los Angeles, California

The little girl in the old surgical room is the one film crews remember.

New Hampshire State Hospital

New Hampshire State Hospital

Concord, New Hampshire

State employees at the New Hampshire State Hospital campus in Concord have stopped being surprised by the elevators.

Northern State Hospital

Northern State Hospital

Sedro-Woolley, Washington

Over 1,400 people are buried in a 1.5-acre field at Northern State Hospital.

Norwich State Hospital

Norwich State Hospital

Norwich, Connecticut

The beeping comes from the lobotomy rooms. Visitors hear it on the upper floors of the Salmon Building…

Old Candler Hospital

Old Candler Hospital

Savannah, Georgia

The underground morgue at Old Candler Hospital had a plaque on the wall that read "De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum." Speak no…

Oregon State Hospital

Oregon State Hospital

Salem, Oregon

In 2004, Senator Peter Courtney walked into a storage room at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem and found 3,500 dead…

Pennhurst Asylum

Pennhurst Asylum

Spring City, Pennsylvania

In 1968, NBC reporter Bill Baldini spent five days filming inside Pennhurst State School and Hospital and came out with…

Peoria State Hospital (Bartonville Asylum)

Peoria State Hospital (Bartonville Asylum)

Bartonville, Illinois

When Manual A. Bookbinder died in 1910, his casket felt empty. Four men lifted it for the burial at the potter's field…

Public Hospital of 1773

Public Hospital of 1773

Williamsburg, Virginia

On May 18, 1862, Dr. John Minson Galt II died in his house on the grounds of the Public Hospital from a laudanum…

Randolph County Asylum

Randolph County Asylum

Winchester, Indiana

In the preserved bedroom of Doris, a kitchen worker who spent her later years as a resident of the Randolph County…

Rolling Hills Asylum

Rolling Hills Asylum

East Bethany, New York

The owner found a dead rat on the stairs with a giant bloody handprint smeared on the wall above it.

San Antonio State Hospital

San Antonio State Hospital

San Antonio, Texas

The San Antonio State Hospital, originally the Southwestern Insane Asylum established in 1892…

Seaside Sanatorium

Seaside Sanatorium

Waterford, Connecticut

The children at Seaside Sanatorium spent their days on the beach. That was the treatment.

South Carolina State Hospital (Bull Street)

South Carolina State Hospital (Bull Street)

Columbia, South Carolina

For generations, "I'll send you to Bull Street" was the threat South Carolina parents used on misbehaving children.

Spanish Military Hospital

Spanish Military Hospital

St. Augustine, Florida

The Spanish Military Hospital, now a museum at 3 Aviles Street, was originally known as Our Lady of Guadalupe during…

St. Ignatius Hospital

St. Ignatius Hospital

Colfax, Washington

Zak Bagans woke up with scratches on his neck after spending a night in St. Ignatius Hospital.

Starvation Heights Sanitarium

Starvation Heights Sanitarium

Olalla, Washington

Claire Williamson weighed less than fifty pounds when she died at Starvation Heights on May 19, 1911. Dr.

Sunland Hospital Site

Sunland Hospital Site

Orlando, Florida

Sunland Hospital was part of a chain of W.T. Edwards Tuberculosis Hospitals built across Florida from 1952-1969.

Taunton State Hospital

Taunton State Hospital

Taunton, Massachusetts

They call it "America's Most Haunted Asylum" -- a place where some say the Devil himself checked in.

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

Weston, West Virginia

Lily steals candy. That's how the tour guides at Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum introduce the ghost of a little girl on…

Traverse City State Hospital

Traverse City State Hospital

Traverse City, Michigan

Building 50 at the Traverse City State Hospital is a quarter mile long.

Trenton Psychiatric Hospital

Trenton Psychiatric Hospital

Trenton, New Jersey

Dr. Henry Cotton pulled more than 11,000 teeth from patients at the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital…

Utica State Hospital

Utica State Hospital

Utica, New York

Patients at Utica State Hospital could be committed for "sadness due to grief," "bumps on the head," or "religious…

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Louisville, Kentucky

The Body Chute is a 500-foot enclosed tunnel that runs from the basement of Waverly Hills Sanatorium down through the…

Yorktown Memorial Hospital

Yorktown Memorial Hospital

Yorktown, Texas

Yorktown Memorial Hospital opened in 1951, built by the Felician nuns of the Roman Catholic Church with grants and…

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Edwin Shaw Hospital

Lakemore, Ohio

The cafeteria at Edwin Shaw Hospital had been empty for years, but people kept hearing lunch.

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Greenville Tuberculosis Hospital

Greenville, South Carolina

They built a playground on top of the basement. The basement door remains, sealed shut…

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Wood County Asylum

Marshfield, Wisconsin

Two patients were killed in the tunnel between the main building and the farm.