Haunted Hospitals
49 haunted locations across America
Medical facilities haunted by patients who never left
All Haunted Hospitals
Agnews State Hospital Site
The industrial freezer doors in the old Agnews kitchens don't just pop open.
Army-Navy Hospital
Walk Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs and you'll probably miss it. Most tourists do.
Athens Lunatic Asylum (The Ridges)
On December 1, 1978, a patient named Margaret Schilling vanished from the Athens Mental Health Center.
Austin State Hospital
The Austin State Hospital, established in 1856 as the Texas State Lunatic Asylum…
Booth Memorial Hospital (Former)
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
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
There is a cemetery behind the campus where the patients were buried under numbered plaques instead of headstones.
Danvers State Hospital Site
The land where Danvers State Hospital once loomed has been steeped in darkness since the 17th century.
Dorothea Dix Park
More than nine hundred people are buried on the grounds of Dorothea Dix Park…
Elgin State Hospital
Emanuel Bronner, the man who would later found Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, was committed to Elgin State Hospital against…
Eloise Asylum
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)
Twenty-four patients froze to death in their beds over twenty days in December 1917.
Fairfield Hills State Hospital
NewSylum Brewing Company pours craft beer in Stratford Hall, the former staff dining room and library of a psychiatric…
Fort Steilacoom Park
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
Each of Glenn Dale Hospital's 23 buildings had its own morgue.
Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital
Greystone was built to hold 350 patients. By 1953 it held 7,674.
Highland Hospital Site
On the night of March 10, 1948, the central building of Highland Hospital in Asheville caught fire.
Hill View Manor
The ghost most investigators come to Hill View Manor looking for is a little boy named Jeffrey.
Hudson River State Hospital
On May 31, 2007, lightning struck the south male housing wing of the Hudson River State Hospital.
Indiana State Sanatorium
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
In 1954, Kings Park Psychiatric Center held 9,303 patients. The facility was built for a fraction of that number.
Linda Vista Community Hospital
The little girl in the old surgical room is the one film crews remember.
New Hampshire State Hospital
State employees at the New Hampshire State Hospital campus in Concord have stopped being surprised by the elevators.
Northern State Hospital
Over 1,400 people are buried in a 1.5-acre field at Northern State Hospital.
Norwich State Hospital
The beeping comes from the lobotomy rooms. Visitors hear it on the upper floors of the Salmon Building…
Old Candler Hospital
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
In 2004, Senator Peter Courtney walked into a storage room at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem and found 3,500 dead…
Pennhurst Asylum
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)
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
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
In the preserved bedroom of Doris, a kitchen worker who spent her later years as a resident of the Randolph County…
Rolling Hills Asylum
The owner found a dead rat on the stairs with a giant bloody handprint smeared on the wall above it.
San Antonio State Hospital
The San Antonio State Hospital, originally the Southwestern Insane Asylum established in 1892…
Seaside Sanatorium
The children at Seaside Sanatorium spent their days on the beach. That was the treatment.
South Carolina State Hospital (Bull Street)
For generations, "I'll send you to Bull Street" was the threat South Carolina parents used on misbehaving children.
Spanish Military Hospital
The Spanish Military Hospital, now a museum at 3 Aviles Street, was originally known as Our Lady of Guadalupe during…
St. Ignatius Hospital
Zak Bagans woke up with scratches on his neck after spending a night in St. Ignatius Hospital.
Starvation Heights Sanitarium
Claire Williamson weighed less than fifty pounds when she died at Starvation Heights on May 19, 1911. Dr.
Sunland Hospital Site
Sunland Hospital was part of a chain of W.T. Edwards Tuberculosis Hospitals built across Florida from 1952-1969.
Taunton State Hospital
They call it "America's Most Haunted Asylum" -- a place where some say the Devil himself checked in.
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
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
Building 50 at the Traverse City State Hospital is a quarter mile long.
Trenton Psychiatric Hospital
Dr. Henry Cotton pulled more than 11,000 teeth from patients at the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital…
Utica State Hospital
Patients at Utica State Hospital could be committed for "sadness due to grief," "bumps on the head," or "religious…
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
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 opened in 1951, built by the Felician nuns of the Roman Catholic Church with grants and…
Edwin Shaw Hospital
The cafeteria at Edwin Shaw Hospital had been empty for years, but people kept hearing lunch.
Greenville Tuberculosis Hospital
They built a playground on top of the basement. The basement door remains, sealed shut…
Wood County Asylum
Two patients were killed in the tunnel between the main building and the farm.