All Haunted Hotels

17Hundred90 Inn

17Hundred90 Inn

Savannah, Georgia

Two women staying in Room 204 woke up one morning to find their underwear missing from their suitcases.

1886 Crescent Hotel

1886 Crescent Hotel

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

On February 5, 2019, a landscape gardener at the 1886 Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs was expanding a parking pad with…

Admiral Fell Inn

Admiral Fell Inn

Baltimore, Maryland

An elderly woman walks into your room uninvited, sits on the edge of your bed, and waits for you to wake up.

Amway Grand Plaza Hotel

Amway Grand Plaza Hotel

Grand Rapids, Michigan

The elevator that killed Mary Monko in 1914 remains the best-known ghost story at the Amway Grand Plaza…

Andrew Jackson Hotel

Andrew Jackson Hotel

New Orleans, Louisiana

Guests at the Andrew Jackson Hotel keep waking up on the floor.

Angel of the Sea B&B

Angel of the Sea B&B

Cape May, New Jersey

In the late 1960s, Sarah Brown locked herself out of her room at what's now the Angel of the Sea.

Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa

Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa

Hot Springs, Arkansas

Room 443 still smells like cigars. The Capone Suite earned its name honestly.

Baker Hotel

Baker Hotel

Mineral Wells, Texas

The Baker Hotel opened in 1929 in Mineral Wells--just weeks before the stock market crash that ushered in the Great…

Balsam Mountain Inn

Balsam Mountain Inn

Balsam, North Carolina

Former employees of Balsam Mountain Inn tell the same story about closing the place for winter.

Basin Park Hotel

Basin Park Hotel

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

A doctor staying in Room 310 of the Basin Park Hotel woke up to a six-foot cowboy in a long white duster walking a…

Battery Carriage House Inn

Battery Carriage House Inn

Charleston, South Carolina

In 1993, a self-described skeptic staying in Room 8 woke up to find a headless torso floating beside his bed.

Battery Park Apartments (Former Hotel)

Battery Park Apartments (Former Hotel)

Asheville, North Carolina

Helen Clevenger was 19 years old, a freshman at NYU visiting the South for the first time with her uncle William…

Belhurst Castle

Belhurst Castle

Geneva, New York

Staff at Belhurst Castle have walked into the bar to find tablecloths tied to the chandeliers.

Biltmore Hotel

Biltmore Hotel

Miami, Florida

The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables was built in 1926 by developer George Merrick and hotelier John McEntee Bowman.

Blackberry River Inn

Blackberry River Inn

Norfolk, Connecticut

The basement has tunnels. Not small crawlspaces or root cellar extensions…

Boardman House Inn

Boardman House Inn

East Haddam, Connecticut

The cigar smell is the part that gets people. Guests walk into the library at the Boardman House Inn and catch it…

Bourbon Orleans Hotel

Bourbon Orleans Hotel

New Orleans, Louisiana

Room 644 at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel is the one people ask for and the one people try to leave.

Broadway Hotel and Tavern

Broadway Hotel and Tavern

Madison, Indiana

The most persistent ghost at the Broadway Hotel and Tavern has a name, a rap sheet…

Brookdale Lodge

Brookdale Lodge

Brookdale, California

The Brookdale Lodge built its dining room over a creek on purpose.

Brown Palace Hotel

Brown Palace Hotel

Denver, Colorado

Room 904 kept calling the front desk. Empty room, locked door, no guests. Just static when the switchboard picked up.

Burn Brae Mansion

Burn Brae Mansion

Glen Spey, New York

The Ghost Nation team tore down a wall at Burn Brae Mansion and found a hidden room.

Camino Real Hotel

Camino Real Hotel

El Paso, Texas

The Camino Real Hotel, originally the Hotel Paso Del Norte built in 1912, stands as El Paso's most elegant repository…

Capital Hotel

Capital Hotel

Little Rock, Arkansas

The Capital Hotel's official line on its ghosts is "we have no official word." Staff are told not to discuss it.

Captain Grant's 1754 Inn

Captain Grant's 1754 Inn

Preston, Connecticut

Captain William Grant sailed out of Poquetanuck and never came back.

Casa Monica Resort & Spa

Casa Monica Resort & Spa

St. Augustine, Florida

Casa Monica Resort opened on New Year's Day 1888, built by Boston hardware merchant Franklin W. Smith.

Casablanca Inn on the Bay

Casablanca Inn on the Bay

St. Augustine, Florida

The Casablanca Inn, built in 1914 as a luxury resort with Moroccan-inspired design, was originally the Matanzas Hotel.

Cashtown Inn

Cashtown Inn

Cashtown, Pennsylvania

A.P. Hill slept on the second floor. He had chronic kidney disease, probably gonorrhea-related…

Cassadaga Hotel

Cassadaga Hotel

Cassadaga, Florida

The Cassadaga Hotel doesn't hide its ghosts. It sells them. Seances, tarot, past-life regression…

Cecil Hotel (Stay on Main)

Cecil Hotel (Stay on Main)

Los Angeles, California

In February 2013, maintenance workers at the Cecil Hotel climbed onto the roof to check the water tanks because guests…

Charlesgate Hotel

Charlesgate Hotel

Boston, Massachusetts

The Charlesgate Hotel stands as one of Boston's most notoriously haunted buildings…

Chase Park Plaza Hotel

Chase Park Plaza Hotel

St. Louis, Missouri

A hotel worker at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel showed up to his shift late one morning with a broken arm and shattered…

Chester Inn

Chester Inn

Jonesborough, Tennessee

A worker at the Chester Inn hears her name called from the back stairs. She goes to look.

Claremont Club & Spa

Claremont Club & Spa

Berkeley, California

Room 422 is the one that keeps coming up. Guests in that room at the Claremont have reported a little girl sitting on…

Concord's Colonial Inn

Concord's Colonial Inn

Concord, Massachusetts

Concord's Colonial Inn stands at 48 Monument Square, one of America's oldest continuously operating hotels…

Congress Hall

Congress Hall

Cape May, New Jersey

In the summer of 1891, while electricians were running the White House's first wiring…

Congress Plaza Hotel

Congress Plaza Hotel

Chicago, Illinois

Two Marines fled Room 441B at three in the morning in 1989, wearing nothing but boxer shorts.

Cosmopolitan Hotel

Cosmopolitan Hotel

San Diego, California

Room 11 is the one they'll warn you about when you check in. Guests sleeping in 11 at the Cosmopolitan (formerly Casa…

Crater Lake Lodge

Crater Lake Lodge

Crater Lake, Oregon

Crater Lake Lodge sits on the rim of a volcanic caldera, almost a thousand feet above the deepest lake in the United…

Crockett Hotel

Crockett Hotel

San Antonio, Texas

The front desk manager watched curtains in a vacant room open and shut, over and over.

Curtis House Inn (1754 House)

Curtis House Inn (1754 House)

Woodbury, Connecticut

Lucius Foot won big at poker one winter night in the 1850s. He owned the Curtis House Inn in Woodbury at the time…

Daniels House

Daniels House

Salem, Massachusetts

A gray tabby cat walks the halls of the Daniels House. Guests see it, reach down, and it is gone.

Dauphine Orleans Hotel

Dauphine Orleans Hotel

New Orleans, Louisiana

Guests at the Dauphine Orleans Hotel describe a woman in a lace wedding gown pacing the courtyard near May Baily's…

Delta King Riverboat Hotel

Delta King Riverboat Hotel

Sacramento, California

The Delta King doesn't go anywhere. She's been tied to the Old Sacramento waterfront since 1984…

DeSoto House Hotel

DeSoto House Hotel

Galena, Illinois

During the 2011 Galena flood, workers tearing out damaged drywall in the lower level of the DeSoto House Hotel found a…

Detroit-Leland Hotel

Detroit-Leland Hotel

Detroit, Michigan

On the fourth floor of the Detroit-Leland Hotel, behind a padlocked iron door pocked with bullet holes…

Doubleday Inn

Doubleday Inn

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

The smell hits first. Gunpowder, sharp and unmistakable, in an upstairs bedroom of a bed and breakfast where nobody is…

DuPont Mansion Bed and Breakfast

DuPont Mansion Bed and Breakfast

Louisville, Kentucky

Alfred Victor du Pont was shot to death by his mistress Maggie Payne in Louisville on May 16, 1893.

Emily Morgan Hotel

Emily Morgan Hotel

San Antonio, Texas

On the upper floors, guests open their doors and see hospital patients standing in the hallway. They look again.

Excelsior House Hotel

Excelsior House Hotel

Jefferson, Texas

The Excelsior House Hotel, standing proudly in Jefferson, Texas since the 1850s…

Exchange Hotel

Exchange Hotel

Gordonsville, Virginia

"Anna the cook has been seen and recorded," Christopher Stephens told C-VILLE Weekly in 2011.

Fainting Goat Island Inn

Fainting Goat Island Inn

Nichols, New York

Two women sit in the Fainting Room drinking tea. Guests see them clearly enough to describe the scene.

Farnsworth House Inn

Farnsworth House Inn

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

The attic at the Farnsworth House Inn has bullet holes in the walls.

Forsyth Park Inn

Forsyth Park Inn

Savannah, Georgia

Captain Aaron Flint Churchill warned his close friend, Titanic captain Edward Smith, not to make that maiden voyage.

French Lick Springs Hotel

French Lick Springs Hotel

French Lick, Indiana

Housekeepers on the sixth floor of French Lick Springs Hotel keep smelling cigar smoke where nobody's smoking one.

Gage Hotel

Gage Hotel

Marathon, Texas

The Gage Hotel in Marathon, Texas, stands as a refined oasis in the vast emptiness of the Trans-Pecos region…

Geiser Grand Hotel

Geiser Grand Hotel

Baker City, Oregon

If you check into Room 302 at the Geiser Grand Hotel and lay your wedding ring on the nightstand…

Gettysburg Hotel

Gettysburg Hotel

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

A dining cart in the basement of the Gettysburg Hotel rolled twelve feet across the concrete, turned completely around…

Glen Ferris Inn

Glen Ferris Inn

Glen Ferris, West Virginia

Staff call him the Colonel. He's tall, skinny, white-bearded, and dressed in Confederate gray.

Governor Calvert House

Governor Calvert House

Annapolis, Maryland

The sitting room at the Governor Calvert House has a glass floor, and the faces looking back at you through it aren't…

Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel

Mackinac Island, Michigan

The construction crew digging the foundations of the Grand Hotel in 1886 kept pulling up human remains.

Grand Imperial Hotel

Grand Imperial Hotel

Silverton, Colorado

Housekeeping refuses to enter Room 314 alone. They go in pairs or they don't go in at all…

Gratz Park Inn

Gratz Park Inn

Lexington, Kentucky

The Gratz Park Inn keeps a paranormal ledger at the front desk.

Green Park Inn

Green Park Inn

Blowing Rock, North Carolina

Room 318 of the Green Park Inn has a ghost log. The hotel keeps it in the lobby.

Hamilton-Turner Inn

Hamilton-Turner Inn

Savannah, Georgia

Spectators gathered outside 330 Abercorn Street in 1883 to watch Samuel Pugh Hamilton turn on the lights.

Hawthorne Hotel

Hawthorne Hotel

Salem, Massachusetts

Room 325 is where it starts for most guests. They wake in the dark to the sound of a baby crying — frantic…

Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center

Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

The Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center has been smoke-free since its 2006 reopening.

Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza

Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza

Cincinnati, Ohio

A server stepped into the elevator and found himself face to face with an African-American woman in a green formal…

Historic Roads Hotel

Historic Roads Hotel

Atlanta, Indiana

Everett Roads was eighteen when tuberculosis confined him to a room in his parents' hotel. He died there in 1909.

Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel

Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel

Los Angeles, California

On Halloween night 1936, Bess Houdini held a séance on the roof of the Knickerbocker Hotel.

Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

Los Angeles, California

Somebody on the ninth floor keeps practicing the bugle. Guests have complained about it for decades…

Hot Lake Hotel

Hot Lake Hotel

La Grande, Oregon

During one brutal typhoid epidemic in eastern Oregon, the Hot Lake Hotel served as a temporary morgue.

Hotel 24 South

Hotel 24 South

Staunton, Virginia

The hotel almost wasn't called Stonewall Jackson at all. In late 1923, Alexander Tobie Moore opened a contest for…

Hotel Aiken

Hotel Aiken

Aiken, South Carolina

The TV in Room 225 turns itself on when nobody is staying there.

Hotel Baker

Hotel Baker

St. Charles, Illinois

The sixth-floor penthouse at Hotel Baker has a weeping problem.

Hotel Bardo Savannah

Hotel Bardo Savannah

Savannah, Georgia

The restaurant at 700 Drayton Street serves dinner in the exact room where Savannah held its funerals for fifty years.

Hotel Bothwell

Hotel Bothwell

Sedalia, Missouri

Harry Truman was sitting in the Hotel Bothwell in 1934 when he got the call that changed American politics.

Hotel Boulderado

Hotel Boulderado

Boulder, Colorado

A couple checked into the Hotel Boulderado not long after it opened and made a double suicide pact.

Hotel Chelsea

Hotel Chelsea

New York, New York

Actor Michael Imperioli was staying at the Hotel Chelsea in 1996 when he saw a woman dressed in 19th-century clothing…

Hotel Chequamegon

Hotel Chequamegon

Ashland, Wisconsin

A liquor bottle behind the bar at Molly Cooper's cracked open on its own one night.

Hotel Colorado

Hotel Colorado

Glenwood Springs, Colorado

In 1993, a houseman named Dave walked out of a basement storage area at the Hotel Colorado and found an old woman…

Hotel de Haro

Hotel de Haro

Roche Harbor, Washington

Local historian Robin Jacobson has studied the spirits at Hotel de Haro and reached a conclusion that complicates the…

Hotel del Coronado

Hotel del Coronado

San Diego, California

On Thanksgiving Day 1892, a 24-year-old woman checked into the Hotel del Coronado under the name Lottie A. Bernard.

Hotel Galvez (Grand Galvez)

Hotel Galvez (Grand Galvez)

Galveston, Texas

In the mid-1950s, a 25-year-old woman named Audra rented Room 501 at the Hotel Galvez whenever her fiancé sailed from…

Hotel Gibbs

Hotel Gibbs

San Antonio, Texas

The historic elevators no longer operate. Guests have watched them move between floors anyway…

Hotel Jerome

Hotel Jerome

Aspen, Colorado

The housekeepers at the Hotel Jerome know what to do about the wet footprints.

Hotel Macomber

Hotel Macomber

Cape May, New Jersey

Irene Wright checked into Room 10 every June and checked out every November…

Hotel Mead

Hotel Mead

Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin

Rose worked the overnight laundry shift at Hotel Mead, 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.

Hotel Monteleone

Hotel Monteleone

New Orleans, Louisiana

The Hotel Monteleone has one line its ghost has been repeating for more than a century: "Mommy, don't cry.

Hotel Provincial

Hotel Provincial

New Orleans, Louisiana

A guest at Hotel Provincial rode the elevator to the second floor of Building 5 and the doors slid open on a Civil War…

Hotel Savoy

Hotel Savoy

Kansas City, Missouri

Room 505 at the Hotel Savoy has a problem it can't renovate away. Doors open and close on their own.

Hotel Sorrento

Hotel Sorrento

Seattle, Washington

The most famous ghost at Hotel Sorrento never actually set foot inside the building. Alice B.

Indianapolis Athletic Club

Indianapolis Athletic Club

Indianapolis, Indiana

The Indianapolis Athletic Club fire started with a faulty refrigerator wire on the third floor on February 5, 1992.

Jekyll Island Club Hotel

Jekyll Island Club Hotel

Jekyll Island, Georgia

In November 1910, six men boarded a private train car in New Jersey under fake names…

Karsten Inn

Karsten Inn

Kewaunee, Wisconsin

Children who stay at the Karsten Inn sometimes come downstairs and tell their parents about the boy they played with in…

Kemp House Inn

Kemp House Inn

St. Michaels, Maryland

A blue ball of light races up the staircase of the Kemp House Inn, and every time it reaches the top…

Kennesaw House

Kennesaw House

Marietta, Georgia

A visitor stepped off the elevator into the basement and walked into a Civil War hospital.

La Concha Hotel

La Concha Hotel

Key West, Florida

La Concha Hotel towers six stories above Duval Street, making it the tallest building in Key West--a distinction that…

Lafayette Hotel

Lafayette Hotel

Marietta, Ohio

A guest returned to their room at the Lafayette Hotel to find their sandwich missing.

Le Pavillon Hotel

Le Pavillon Hotel

New Orleans, Louisiana

A young woman in black keeps walking up to guests in the lobby of Le Pavillon Hotel and asking them the same thing.

Linden Row Inn

Linden Row Inn

Richmond, Virginia

The Eliza Poe ghost at Linden Row Inn is the one that cannot possibly be there. Travel listicles love repeating it…

Lord Baltimore Hotel

Lord Baltimore Hotel

Baltimore, Maryland

A handprint the size of a small child appeared on a wall in one of the Lord Baltimore Hotel's penthouses.

Louisville Bourbon Inn

Louisville Bourbon Inn

Louisville, Kentucky

A nanny named Annie Whipple tried to save a sick child in the 1880s by calling a doctor from beyond the grave…

Manresa Castle

Manresa Castle

Port Townsend, Washington

A young woman in Room 306 of Manresa Castle learned that her lover's ship had sunk. She threw herself from the window.

Maple Hill Manor Bed and Breakfast

Maple Hill Manor Bed and Breakfast

Springfield, Kentucky

Four of the McElroys' seven children died inside this house before reaching adulthood.

Maribel Caves Hotel

Maribel Caves Hotel

Maribel, Wisconsin

Shine a flashlight at a second-floor window of the Maribel Caves Hotel and something shines a light back at you.

Marrero's Guest Mansion

Marrero's Guest Mansion

Key West, Florida

Marrero's Guest Mansion at 410 Fleming Street in Key West holds the heartbreaking tale of Enriquetta and her eight…

Mayflower Park Hotel

Mayflower Park Hotel

Seattle, Washington

A couple staying in Room 1120 at the Mayflower Park Hotel woke in the middle of the night to find an old man's ghost…

McMenamins Edgefield

McMenamins Edgefield

Troutdale, Oregon

During a paranormal cleansing of Room 215 at McMenamins Edgefield, investigators found animal bones arranged on the…

McMenamins Hotel Oregon

McMenamins Hotel Oregon

McMinnville, Oregon

A guest at McMenamins Hotel Oregon woke up to find a woman in a long black dress going through his luggage.

McMenamins Olympic Club

McMenamins Olympic Club

Centralia, Washington

A bartender watched an ashtray fly across the room with nobody near it.

Menger Hotel

Menger Hotel

San Antonio, Texas

The Menger Hotel opened in 1859, built directly adjacent to the Alamo on land that was once part of the battlefield.

Miami River Inn

Miami River Inn

Miami, Florida

The Miami River Inn, built as private homes and boarding houses in the early 1900s…

Mineral Springs Hotel

Mineral Springs Hotel

Alton, Illinois

Visitors to the Mineral Springs Hotel in Alton leave marbles at the deep end of the old swimming pool.

Miss Molly's Hotel

Miss Molly's Hotel

Fort Worth, Texas

Miss Molly's Hotel in the heart of Fort Worth's Stockyards is the oldest bed and breakfast in Fort Worth--and one of…

Mission Inn Hotel & Spa

Mission Inn Hotel & Spa

Riverside, California

The Alice Room sits on the fourth floor, southeast corner. Alice Richardson, sister of hotel founder Frank Miller…

Montauk Manor

Montauk Manor

Montauk, New York

A woman on the fourth floor woke up five feet above her bed. She wasn't dreaming. She wasn't sleepwalking.

Monterey Hotel

Monterey Hotel

Monterey, California

Fred keeps complaining about the stairs. The staff at the Monterey Hotel will tell you this matter-of-factly…

Nassau Inn

Nassau Inn

Princeton, New Jersey

The Nassau Inn keeps one of the strangest haunted-hotel profiles in the country.

National House Inn

National House Inn

Marshall, Michigan

The Lady in Red at the National House Inn walks the same route every time.

Oceanic Hotel

Oceanic Hotel

Star Island, New Hampshire

The story on Star Island goes that an old man with a white beard was seen floating down the main staircase of the…

Old Town Manor

Old Town Manor

Key West, Florida

Old Town Manor, dating to 1886 when it was known as Eaton Lodge, is a classic three-story Greek Revival structure built…

Omni Grove Park Inn

Omni Grove Park Inn

Asheville, North Carolina

A doctor staying at the Grove Park Inn once left a thank-you note at the front desk on his way out.

Omni Mount Washington Resort

Omni Mount Washington Resort

Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Room 314 at the Omni Mount Washington Resort still holds the same carved wooden bed Princess Carolyn Stickney slept in…

Omni Parker House Hotel

Omni Parker House Hotel

Boston, Massachusetts

The Omni Parker House has been welcoming guests at 60 School Street since 1855…

Omni Royal Orleans

Omni Royal Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana

Guests at the Omni Royal Orleans sometimes wake up with their sheets tucked tight around them…

Omni William Penn Hotel

Omni William Penn Hotel

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

In 1976, two dishwashers at the Omni William Penn were arguing in the 18th-floor locker room over which of them could…

Oregon Caves Chateau

Oregon Caves Chateau

Cave Junction, Oregon

Room 310 at the Oregon Caves Chateau is an attic-style room with a steep dormer window that opens inward…

Palace Hotel

Palace Hotel

Port Townsend, Washington

The Palace Hotel in Port Townsend keeps a guest book that is not for compliments.

Palace Hotel and Bath House

Palace Hotel and Bath House

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

A couple was in the middle of an intimate moment at the Palace Hotel when someone pounded on their door.

Place d'Armes Hotel

Place d'Armes Hotel

New Orleans, Louisiana

Guests at the Place d'Armes Hotel keep hearing children running in the courtyard at three in the morning.

Plant Hall (University of Tampa)

Plant Hall (University of Tampa)

Tampa, Florida

Plant Hall at the University of Tampa was originally the 511-room Tampa Bay Hotel…

Punderson Manor State Park Lodge

Punderson Manor State Park Lodge

Newbury Township, Ohio

Three employees watched a lumberjack swing from the ceiling for three hours.

Queen Anne Hotel

Queen Anne Hotel

San Francisco, California

Request Room 410 at the Queen Anne Hotel and something strange might happen while you sleep.

Queen Anne House Bed & Breakfast

Queen Anne House Bed & Breakfast

Harrison, Arkansas

Every Sunday, Rev. D.D. Shuck climbed the stairs to the upstairs turret and wrote his sermons.

Resorts Casino Hotel

Resorts Casino Hotel

Atlantic City, New Jersey

On November 27, 1943, the U.S. Army leased Haddon Hall on the Atlantic City boardwalk and converted it into Thomas M.

Reynolds Tavern

Reynolds Tavern

Annapolis, Maryland

An employee at Reynolds Tavern was heading for the door with a backpack full of stolen frozen filet mignons when the…

Rider's Inn

Rider's Inn

Painesville, Ohio

Suzanne Rider died weeks after her wedding. The official story is that she fell down the stairs…

Rochester Hotel

Rochester Hotel

Durango, Colorado

Room 204 is the one guests ask for by name. They call it the John Wayne Room because Wayne actually stayed there while…

Ruebel Hotel

Ruebel Hotel

Grafton, Illinois

Small things vanish from guest rooms at the Ruebel Hotel. A phone charger left on the nightstand…

Safety Harbor Resort and Spa

Safety Harbor Resort and Spa

Safety Harbor, Florida

Safety Harbor Resort and Spa sits on land inhabited by Native Americans for at least 10,000 years…

Sainte Claire Hotel

Sainte Claire Hotel

San Jose, California

Guests at The Westin San Jose keep hearing high heels click-clacking down the hallways. That shouldn't be possible.

Saybrook Inn

Saybrook Inn

Old Saybrook, Connecticut

On the night of January 23, 1900, night watchman Arthur Beebe was polishing metalwork on the locomotives inside the…

Shelburne Hotel

Shelburne Hotel

Seaview, Washington

A traveler checked into Room 8 at the Shelburne Hotel, left for a short errand…

Shenanigan's/Shoreham Hotel

Shenanigan's/Shoreham Hotel

Ocean City, Maryland

A paranormal team leader from Pittsburgh deliberately locked himself in the Shoreham Hotel's basement one night.

Six Acres Bed & Breakfast

Six Acres Bed & Breakfast

Cincinnati, Ohio

There's an African healing circle carved into the attic floorboards. The owners don't do ghost tours up there.

Spread Eagle Tavern & Inn

Spread Eagle Tavern & Inn

Hanoverton, Ohio

Olevia Nicholas came home to Hanoverton with a broken heart, moved back into her third-floor bedroom at her family's…

St. Anthony Hotel

St. Anthony Hotel

San Antonio, Texas

The St. Anthony Hotel, located a stone's throw from Travis Park in San Antonio…

St. Francis Inn

St. Francis Inn

St. Augustine, Florida

The St. Francis Inn at 279 St. George Street holds the distinction of being the oldest inn in St.

Stafford's Perry Hotel

Stafford's Perry Hotel

Petoskey, Michigan

Somewhere in the basement of the Perry Hotel, the Noggin Room Pub has a problem with its glassware.

Story Inn

Story Inn

Nashville, Indiana

When Rick Hofstetter bought the Story Inn in 2003, he started reading the guest books.

Strater Hotel

Strater Hotel

Durango, Colorado

The Strater Hotel doesn't promote its ghost stories. The official history skips over them entirely.

T'Frere's House

T'Frere's House

Lafayette, Louisiana

Amelie only speaks French at T'Frere's House. She's the ghost of a young math teacher who moved into the property…

The 1842 Inn

The 1842 Inn

Macon, Georgia

The front desk gets phone calls from vacant rooms. The line connects, holds for a moment, and goes dead.

The Adolphus Hotel

The Adolphus Hotel

Dallas, Texas

The Adolphus Hotel, opened in October 1912 by Adolphus Busch (founder of Anheuser-Busch)…

The Baldpate Inn

The Baldpate Inn

Estes Park, Colorado

Light a cigarette in the Baldpate Inn and something will knock it out of your hand. Smash it. Or take the whole pack.

The Benson Hotel

The Benson Hotel

Portland, Oregon

Simon Benson didn't drink, didn't tolerate drinking, and built his hotel partly so Portland would have a respectable…

The Biltmore Hotel

The Biltmore Hotel

Coral Gables, Florida

The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables rises 315 feet with its distinctive tower modeled after the Giralda in Seville…

The Blennerhassett Hotel

The Blennerhassett Hotel

Parkersburg, West Virginia

A guest at the Blennerhassett Hotel once woke to find someone sitting on the edge of the bed.

The Broadmoor

The Broadmoor

Colorado Springs, Colorado

A guest in an upper-floor suite woke up in the middle of the night to find the covers being peeled back…

The Buxton Inn

The Buxton Inn

Granville, Ohio

In the mid-1980s, a nurse manager staying in Room 7 at the Buxton Inn woke to a woman in an old-fashioned dress with…

The Carolina Inn

The Carolina Inn

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Dr. William Jacocks moved into Suite 252 of the Carolina Inn in 1948 and stayed for seventeen years.

The Carolina Inn - Dr. Jacocks' Room

The Carolina Inn - Dr. Jacocks' Room

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

The guest had just turned out the light in Room 256 of the Carolina Inn when she felt someone sit down on the edge of…

The Cavalier Hotel

The Cavalier Hotel

Virginia Beach, Virginia

On the morning of June 5, 1929, 82-year-old Adolph Coors Sr. went out a sixth-floor window of the Cavalier Hotel and…

The Chalfonte Hotel

The Chalfonte Hotel

Cape May, New Jersey

Room 19 has a guest problem. Whoever checks in tends to call the front desk about banging on the brass bedposts…

The Chamberlin

The Chamberlin

Hampton, Virginia

Esmeralda has haunted the eighth floor of the Chamberlin since the 1920s. The building she haunts opened in 1928.

The Don CeSar Hotel

The Don CeSar Hotel

St. Pete Beach, Florida

The Don CeSar Hotel, known as the "Pink Palace," rises like a fairytale castle on St. Pete Beach.

The Drake Hotel

The Drake Hotel

Chicago, Illinois

Somewhere between the tenth floor and the sidewalk, a woman in a red evening gown became Chicago's most persistent…

The Driskill Hotel

The Driskill Hotel

Austin, Texas

Colonel Jesse Lincoln Driskill was a determined cattleman who made and lost fortunes over his lifetime.

The Ellis Hotel

The Ellis Hotel

Atlanta, Georgia

The smoke alarm goes off at 2:48 a.m. Not every night, but often enough that staff have stopped treating it as a…

The Elms Hotel and Spa

The Elms Hotel and Spa

Excelsior Springs, Missouri

Harry Truman spent election night 1948 at the Elms Hotel in Excelsior Springs, Missouri.

The Fitzpatrick Hotel

The Fitzpatrick Hotel

Washington, Georgia

The gravestones were moved in the 1850s. The bodies were not. When the Fitzpatrick brothers built their hotel…

The Flanders Hotel

The Flanders Hotel

Ocean City, New Jersey

Emily is barefoot. That's one of the first things guests mention.

The Golden Lamb

The Golden Lamb

Lebanon, Ohio

In 1871, defense attorney Clement Vallandigham was staying at the Golden Lamb in Lebanon, Ohio…

The Greenbrier

The Greenbrier

White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia

Arizona Cardinals safety Tony Jefferson heard a little girl whispering in his hotel room the first night.

The Griswold Inn

The Griswold Inn

Essex, Connecticut

They named a cocktail after the ghost. Clarence, whoever he was, knocked so many glasses off tables at the Griswold Inn…

The Haunted Shanley Hotel

The Haunted Shanley Hotel

Napanoch, New York

Three babies, a three-year-old, a pregnant woman, and a bodyguard.

The Heathman Hotel

The Heathman Hotel

Portland, Oregon

A 2008 guest at the Heathman Hotel arrived in Room 703, came back from dinner…

The Hermitage Hotel

The Hermitage Hotel

Nashville, Tennessee

The crying-baby reports from Room 912 at the Hermitage Hotel have been surfacing in Nashville ghost accounts for…

The Inn at Cape May

The Inn at Cape May

Cape May, New Jersey

Guests at The Inn at Cape May come down to the front desk to complain about the children.

The Kehoe House

The Kehoe House

Savannah, Georgia

A couple staying in Room 201 woke up in the middle of the night. The wife felt small hands stroking her hair and cheek.

The Landmark Inn

The Landmark Inn

Marquette, Michigan

The sixth floor of the Landmark Inn is where guests ask for a different room.

The Lighthouse Inn

The Lighthouse Inn

New London, Connecticut

The most popular story at the Lighthouse Inn — and one of the most widely repeated ghost legends in Connecticut — is…

The Lofts Hotel

The Lofts Hotel

Columbus, Ohio

Security guard Kevin was on his afternoon shift at the Lofts Hotel in Columbus when he heard a woman screaming on the…

The Lowe Hotel

The Lowe Hotel

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

Room 316 at the Lowe Hotel has a guest who checks the river every night.

The Marshall House

The Marshall House

Savannah, Georgia

During a 1998 renovation, workers pulled up the floorboards on the fourth floor and found human bones underneath.

The Maryland Inn

The Maryland Inn

Annapolis, Maryland

Guests in Room 405 at the Maryland Inn hear footsteps pacing back and forth on the hardwood floor above them.

The Oxford Hotel

The Oxford Hotel

Denver, Colorado

Single men who book Room 320 at The Oxford Hotel wake up to the covers yanked off the bed and the feeling that somebody…

The Partridge Inn

The Partridge Inn

Augusta, Georgia

Herman Duncan has worked housekeeping at the Partridge Inn for over 25 years.

The Pfister Hotel

The Pfister Hotel

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

"When I woke up in the morning, I swear on everything, the clothes were on the floor and the table was on the opposite…

The Read House Hotel

The Read House Hotel

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Room 311 at the Read House Hotel has a clawfoot bathtub, an antique AM radio…

The Rhett House Inn

The Rhett House Inn

Beaufort, South Carolina

Thomas Smith Rhett was born a Smith, but his childless uncle with the surname Rhett promised to leave his entire…

The Sagamore Resort

The Sagamore Resort

Bolton Landing, New York

A prep cook at Mr. Brown's restaurant inside the Sagamore Resort looked up and saw a tall woman walking toward him.

The Salem Inn

The Salem Inn

Salem, Massachusetts

The Salem Inn occupies three historic houses on Summer Street: the West House, built in 1834 by Captain Nathaniel West…

The Seelbach Hilton Hotel

The Seelbach Hilton Hotel

Louisville, Kentucky

Patricia Wilson came to the Seelbach in July 1936 to meet a man she thought would marry her.

The Shaker Inn

The Shaker Inn

Enfield, New Hampshire

Guests at The Shaker Inn sometimes hear a gunshot outside. There is no gunshot.

The Stanley Hotel

The Stanley Hotel

Estes Park, Colorado

On June 25, 1911, head chambermaid Elizabeth Wilson walked into Room 217 with a lit acetylene lamp.

The Tilton Inn

The Tilton Inn

Tilton, New Hampshire

A male guest checked into the Sanborn Room at the Tilton Inn and woke up to a small figure jumping clean over his head…

The Tremont House

The Tremont House

Galveston, Texas

The Tremont House Hotel has a history spanning three incarnations on Galveston Island.

The Wayside Inn

The Wayside Inn

Ellicott City, Maryland

Every window at the Wayside Inn in Ellicott City glows with candlelight at night.

Thomas House Hotel

Thomas House Hotel

Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee

Room 37 at the Thomas House Hotel is the room ghost-hunting groups book first.

Thornewood Castle

Thornewood Castle

Lakewood, Washington

Deanna Robinson was reading in the Great Hall of Thornewood Castle when the room filled with a cocktail party.

Tokeland Hotel

Tokeland Hotel

Tokeland, Washington

Fishermen dining at the Tokeland Hotel have watched their plates lift off the table, spin in the air…

Union Station Hotel

Union Station Hotel

Nashville, Tennessee

USA Today's readers voted Union Station Hotel the best haunted hotel in America, ahead of the Stanley in Estes Park.

Victor Hotel

Victor Hotel

Victor, Colorado

Eddie McDermott was one of the miners who lived at the Victor Hotel semi-permanently after the Cripple Creek gold rush…

Wentworth by the Sea

Wentworth by the Sea

New Castle, New Hampshire

Pipe tobacco in an empty fourth-floor corridor is the detail guests at the Wentworth by the Sea mention most.

West Baden Springs Hotel

West Baden Springs Hotel

West Baden Springs, Indiana

At the crown of the 200-foot dome at West Baden Springs Hotel, tucked into a drum-shaped chamber that nobody noticed…

Westin Poinsett Hotel

Westin Poinsett Hotel

Greenville, South Carolina

A businessman staying at the Westin Poinsett woke up twice to find his bathroom lights on after he'd shut them off.

Windsor Hotel

Windsor Hotel

Del Norte, Colorado

Sometime in 1906, a woman named Maud shot herself in a room on the upper floor of the Windsor Hotel in Del Norte…

Windsor Hotel

Windsor Hotel

Americus, Georgia

Housekeeper Michelle Maness was vacuuming near Room 401 when she heard a little girl's voice.

Wolf Creek Inn

Wolf Creek Inn

Wolf Creek, Oregon

Jack London finished "The Valley of the Moon" in a second-floor room at the Wolf Creek Inn during the summer of 1911.

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Beal House Inn

Littleton, New Hampshire

Someone at the Beal House Inn likes leaving messages on steamed mirrors.

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Cheyenne Canon Inn

Colorado Springs, Colorado

The Cheyenne Cañon Inn has doors that lead nowhere. Actual interior doors set into walls that open onto blank plaster…

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Colorado Grande Casino

Cripple Creek, Colorado

Red hair piled on top of her head, white shirtwaist, long cotton skirt, high-heeled boots, and an Irish accent.

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General Lewis Inn

Lewisburg, West Virginia

Nobody knows who the woman in the portrait is. The painting hangs in Room 208 of the General Lewis Inn in Lewisburg…

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Hotel St. Nicholas

Cripple Creek, Colorado

The bartenders at the Boiler Room Tavern stopped bothering to hide their cigarettes.

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Lumber Baron Inn

Denver, Colorado

Cara Lee Knoche was 17. Marianne Weaver was 18. On October 13, 1970, both were found dead in a rented attic room of the…

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Morse Mill Hotel

Morse Mill, Missouri

Bertha Gifford nursed her neighbors back to health, and then she killed them.

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Notchland Inn

Harts Location, New Hampshire

The Notchland Inn keeps a tombstone in the parlor. It reads '1778. Nancy Barton.

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Old Baraboo Inn

Baraboo, Wisconsin

A 200-pound griddle moved across the kitchen on its own. Nobody was near it.

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Prosperity School Bed and Breakfast

Joplin, Missouri

Guests at the Prosperity School Bed and Breakfast used to report something climbing into bed with them during the…

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Sise Inn

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

A night clerk at the Sise Inn once followed a trail of ice cubes from the third-floor ice machine to the door of Suite…

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Surf City Hotel

Surf City, New Jersey

Between 250 and 311 German immigrants drowned off Long Beach Island on April 16, 1854…

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Sweet Dreams Inn

Bay Port, Michigan

If William Wallace doesn't like you, he'll whisper "get out" directly into your ear at the Sweet Dreams Inn.

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Tarabino Inn

Trinidad, Colorado

A guest in the West Gable Room on the third floor woke up to feel someone sit down on the edge of her bed…

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Terrace Inn

Petoskey, Michigan

Two workers died building the Terrace Inn. A beam fell on them during construction in the winter of 1910 or 1911…

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The Hawke Inn

Lambertville, New Jersey

The kitchen ghost at the old Inn of the Hawke had a party trick.

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The Nutmeg Inn

Meredith, New Hampshire

The owners of The Nutmeg Inn wanted a new outlet in the Teaberry Room.

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Three Chimneys Inn

Durham, New Hampshire

Hannah Hill got married out of the Three Chimneys Inn in Durham in 1659, and then she vanishes from the record…

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Walnut Street Inn

Springfield, Missouri

"No, this is my room." A man staying at the Walnut Street Inn in Springfield…