All Haunted Mansions

1859 Ashton Villa

1859 Ashton Villa

Galveston, Texas

A caretaker in the carriage house woke to piano music drifting from the Gold Room.

Ace of Clubs House

Ace of Clubs House

Texarkana, Arkansas

The house is shaped like a playing card. Look at it from above and you see the club suit, more or less…

Agecroft Hall

Agecroft Hall

Richmond, Virginia

In 1925, a Tudor manor in the Irwell Valley was taken apart timber by timber, crated, loaded onto a ship…

Alexander Majors House

Alexander Majors House

Kansas City, Missouri

Louisa Johnston bought the Alexander Majors House in 1930 for $2,500, a deteriorating mansion that happened to belong…

Alexander Noble House

Alexander Noble House

Fish Creek, Wisconsin

During her first night as a docent at the Alexander Noble House in 2014, Katelaine Buske stood in the parlor wearing an…

Amityville Horror House

Amityville Horror House

Amityville, New York

Ronald DeFeo Jr.'s defense attorney admitted he helped invent the haunting.

Ann Starrett Mansion

Ann Starrett Mansion

Port Townsend, Washington

Say something rude inside the Ann Starrett Mansion and you might get smacked on the head.

Artist House

Artist House

Key West, Florida

The Artist House at 534 Eaton Street in Key West was built between 1890 and 1898…

Ash Lawn-Highland

Ash Lawn-Highland

Charlottesville, Virginia

For nearly two centuries, the small white building tourists were shown at Highland was not James Monroe's house.

Ashland - The Henry Clay Estate

Ashland - The Henry Clay Estate

Lexington, Kentucky

A white-haired man in a black frock coat, leaning against the fireplace mantel in the old red parlor…

Atalaya Castle

Atalaya Castle

Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Ranger Mike Walker, who leads the ghost tours at Atalaya, is the first to admit the place shouldn't be haunted.

Attmore-Oliver House

Attmore-Oliver House

New Bern, North Carolina

Curator Jim Hodges starts every morning the same way. He walks into the Attmore-Oliver House on Broad Street…

Avery House

Avery House

Fort Collins, Colorado

Twelve days after William Avery died of a stomach ailment in 1890, his widow Mary married the dead man's business…

Baleroy Mansion

Baleroy Mansion

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Paul Kimmons was the curator. He was skeptical. He had toured Baleroy Mansion with a psychic and…

Barnsley Gardens Resort

Barnsley Gardens Resort

Adairsville, Georgia

Godfrey Barnsley built Woodlands for a woman who would never live in it.

Beattie Mansion

Beattie Mansion

St. Joseph, Missouri

Eliza Beattie doesn't like men in her part of the house. Visitors to the Beattie Mansion in St.

Beauregard-Keyes House

Beauregard-Keyes House

New Orleans, Louisiana

General P.G.T. Beauregard was buried in stocking feet. That detail, according to the woman who later owned his former…

Bell Farm Historic Site

Bell Farm Historic Site

Adams, Tennessee

Andrew Jackson rode out to the Bell Farm in 1819 with a wagon full of soldiers and a ghost hunter named Williams…

Bellamy Mansion

Bellamy Mansion

Wilmington, North Carolina

Before Dr. John Dillard Bellamy built his 22-room mansion on Market Street, the lot was Gallows Hill.

Belle Grove Plantation

Belle Grove Plantation

Middletown, Virginia

A visitor walking through Belle Grove once glanced into the room where Confederate Major General Stephen Dodson Ramseur…

Berkeley Springs Castle

Berkeley Springs Castle

Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

In 2000, a group of ghost chasers bought a castle. Not a metaphor.

Biltmore Estate

Biltmore Estate

Asheville, North Carolina

George Vanderbilt had one room he loved above the other 249. It was the library…

Bingham-Waggoner Estate

Bingham-Waggoner Estate

Independence, Missouri

George Caleb Bingham stood in what is now the Bingham-Waggoner Estate and told Union Brigadier General Thomas Ewing…

Bishop's Palace

Bishop's Palace

Galveston, Texas

During storms, Colonel Walter Gresham becomes restless. Witnesses see a figure pacing before the front door and around…

Blandwood Mansion

Blandwood Mansion

Greensboro, North Carolina

Letitia Morehead stood in the tower of her father's house in Greensboro watching the road for a husband who wasn't…

Blennerhassett Island

Blennerhassett Island

Parkersburg, West Virginia

A group of campers set up their tent on Blennerhassett Island one night, lit a fire, and turned in. Rustling woke them.

Bodley-Bullock House

Bodley-Bullock House

Lexington, Kentucky

The day after the board of trustees voted to allow alcohol at events inside the Bodley-Bullock House…

Boone Hall Plantation

Boone Hall Plantation

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

The brickyard at Boone Hall produced roughly four million bricks per year by 1850.

Bothwell Lodge

Bothwell Lodge

Sedalia, Missouri

A wooden box in the storage room beneath the library covers a shaft that drops straight into a cave.

Briarhurst Manor

Briarhurst Manor

Manitou Springs, Colorado

A dining room full of people watched an expensive vase launch itself off a table and shatter.

Burgwin-Wright House

Burgwin-Wright House

Wilmington, North Carolina

When Port City Paranormal set up recording equipment in the subbasement of the Burgwin-Wright House in Wilmington…

Bush House Museum

Bush House Museum

Salem, Oregon

Bush House Museum's headline ghost story is the one that isn't true.

Campbell House

Campbell House

Spokane, Washington

Amasa Campbell's portrait hangs inside his former home in Spokane, and visitors swear his eyes follow them through the…

Carlyle House

Carlyle House

Alexandria, Virginia

In the 1970s, stone mason Jon Battista was restoring the chimney foundation at Carlyle House when he opened a sealed…

Carnton Plantation

Carnton Plantation

Franklin, Tennessee

The bloodstains in the children's bedroom at Carnton Plantation are still visible more than 160 years after the Battle…

Catlin House

Catlin House

Scranton, Pennsylvania

"A horse length. This one goes first." That is what a paranormal investigator's recorder picked up in an empty upstairs…

Chase House

Chase House

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

A little girl runs down the second-floor hallway of the Chase House and disappears before anyone gets close.

Chatham Manor

Chatham Manor

Fredericksburg, Virginia

On December 21, 1862, Walt Whitman walked up to the front of Chatham Manor looking for his wounded brother George.

Clayton (The Frick Mansion)

Clayton (The Frick Mansion)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Martha Frick was five years old when she swallowed a pin in the summer of 1891.

Clayton House

Clayton House

Fort Smith, Arkansas

The porcelain dolls won't stay put. They're America's first ladies in miniature…

Conference House

Conference House

Staten Island, New York

Neighbors still hear it on quiet nights: a man shouting, then a woman screaming…

Conrad-Caldwell House

Conrad-Caldwell House

Louisville, Kentucky

Theophile Conrad died of a heart attack on the main staircase of his own mansion in 1905…

Cragfont

Cragfont

Castalian Springs, Tennessee

The story Cragfont tells about itself opens with Conway Twitty walking out and not coming back.

Croke-Patterson Mansion

Croke-Patterson Mansion

Denver, Colorado

The basement of this Denver mansion has a sealed chamber that nobody has a clean explanation for.

Culbertson Mansion

Culbertson Mansion

New Albany, Indiana

There's a doctor haunting the Culbertson Mansion named Dr. Webb, and he appears to be fiction. Dr.

Curran Hall

Curran Hall

Little Rock, Arkansas

The coffee maker at Curran Hall brews coffee when it's turned off, empty of water, and empty of grounds.

Dana-Thomas House

Dana-Thomas House

Springfield, Illinois

A light sconce ripped itself off the wall of the Dana-Thomas House on the anniversary of Susan Lawrence Dana's death.

Deering Estate

Deering Estate

Miami, Florida

The Deering Estate sprawls across 444 acres in Miami's Palmetto Bay neighborhood…

Dorr House

Dorr House

Pensacola, Florida

The translucent woman in Victorian dress drifts across an upper room and stands on the second-floor balcony.

Dowling House

Dowling House

Galena, Illinois

Photographs taken of the Dowling House since the 1960s keep showing figures in the upper windows and on the porch.

Dr. Josephus Hall House

Dr. Josephus Hall House

Salisbury, North Carolina

"It is not a ghost tour," says Brian M. Davis, the executive director of the Historic Salisbury Foundation.

Emlen Physick Estate

Emlen Physick Estate

Cape May, New Jersey

Aunt Emilie cooked dinner for the dogs in the kitchen. Her sister Frances Ralston…

Enslin Mansion

Enslin Mansion

Troy, New York

Nine ghosts. That's the count, according to Michele Bell, whose family has owned the house at 562 Fifth Avenue in Troy…

Epperson House

Epperson House

Kansas City, Missouri

The organ in the basement of Epperson House was built for a woman who never got to play it.

Exchange Place

Exchange Place

Kingsport, Tennessee

The volunteers at Exchange Place have a name for the ghost in the main farmhouse.

Fair Lane Estate

Fair Lane Estate

Dearborn, Michigan

Henry Ford died at Fair Lane on April 7, 1947, by candlelight.

Faulkner House Books

Faulkner House Books

New Orleans, Louisiana

Every time a pretty young woman has worked the register at Faulkner House Books, she's reported the same thing…

Felt Mansion

Felt Mansion

Holland, Michigan

Agnes Felt died six weeks after her mansion was finished. Dorr followed eighteen months later.

Ferry Plantation House

Ferry Plantation House

Virginia Beach, Virginia

At 10 a.m. on July 10, 2006, Virginia Beach Mayor Meyera Oberndorf stood at Ferry Plantation House and read Governor…

Flavel House Museum

Flavel House Museum

Astoria, Oregon

At the Flavel House Museum, somebody opens Katie Flavel's bedroom curtains.

Ford Mansion (Washington's Headquarters)

Ford Mansion (Washington's Headquarters)

Morristown, New Jersey

"What is your favorite memory?" paranormal investigator Gordon Ward asked, sitting in a room across from the kitchen.

Franklin Castle

Franklin Castle

Cleveland, Ohio

The Romano children kept asking their mother for extra cookies.

Gallier House

Gallier House

New Orleans, Louisiana

James Gallier Jr. built the house at 1132 Royal Street to be the most technologically advanced home in New Orleans…

George Wythe House

George Wythe House

Williamsburg, Virginia

Colonial Williamsburg's official line on the George Wythe House is one sentence long…

Georgetown Castle

Georgetown Castle

Seattle, Washington

Peter Gessner made his money running gambling tables and a brothel out of the Central Tavern in Pioneer Square…

Gimghoul Castle

Gimghoul Castle

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

A rock sits in front of Gimghoul Castle, and the story says it's stained with Peter Dromgoole's blood.

Glenn House

Glenn House

Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Every Christmas, staff at the Glenn House in Cape Girardeau wrapped empty boxes and placed them under the tree as…

Governor's Palace

Governor's Palace

Williamsburg, Virginia

In June 1930, an Egyptologist named Prentice Duell started digging in the west garden of the Governor's Palace in…

Grant-Humphreys Mansion

Grant-Humphreys Mansion

Denver, Colorado

Albert Humphreys was found dead on the third floor of his Denver mansion in May 1927, a gunshot wound to the head…

Hammond Castle

Hammond Castle

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Rising from the rocky cliffs of Gloucester's Magnolia neighborhood, Hammond Castle stands as a monument to one man's…

Hampton Plantation

Hampton Plantation

McClellanville, South Carolina

The rocking chair in John Henry Rutledge's room kept moving on its own.

Hampton-Preston Mansion

Hampton-Preston Mansion

Columbia, South Carolina

During the 1982 Christmas season, a docent at the Hampton-Preston Mansion finished a candlelight tour…

Hannah House

Hannah House

Indianapolis, Indiana

The most famous Hannah House story is that a group of escaped slaves died in a fire in the basement and Alexander…

Harper House

Harper House

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Somewhere in the garden of Harper House, there's money buried in jars.

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Hartford, Connecticut

Harriet Beecher Stowe hosted seances in this house. That's not rumor or legend.

Hay House

Hay House

Macon, Georgia

Confederate gold sat in a hidden room inside this staircase. The largest reserve south of Richmond…

Hearst Castle

Hearst Castle

San Simeon, California

The official story at Hearst Castle is architecture. La Cuesta Encantada, the Enchanted Hill…

Hearthstone Castle

Hearthstone Castle

Danbury, Connecticut

A hiker on the second floor of Hearthstone Castle looked down through a crack in the broken floorboards.

Henderson Castle

Henderson Castle

Kalamazoo, Michigan

One crossbeam in the dining room at Henderson Castle has markings on it that look like a child's handwriting.

Hermann-Grima House

Hermann-Grima House

New Orleans, Louisiana

Staff at the Hermann-Grima House have walked into rooms on cold October mornings to find the fireplaces already lit.

Horace Williams House

Horace Williams House

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Catherine Berryhill Williams was a child when she lived at 610 East Rosemary Street.

Houghton Mansion

Houghton Mansion

North Adams, Massachusetts

The Houghton Mansion stands at 172 Church Street in North Adams, a grand Victorian testament to one man's success and…

House of Death

House of Death

New York, New York

In the 1930s, a mother and daughter living at 14 West 10th Street saw a ghost near the window. It spoke.

Hummelbaugh House

Hummelbaugh House

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

When Confederate Brigadier General William Barksdale was carried off the field at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863…

Hunt-Morgan House

Hunt-Morgan House

Lexington, Kentucky

A nurse fell asleep at the bedside of a sick Morgan child and woke to see a Black woman in a turban and red leather…

Hunt-Phelan Home

Hunt-Phelan Home

Memphis, Tennessee

Yellow fever swept through Memphis in 1873 and the Hunt family fled the city so fast they left their gold behind.

Illinois Executive Mansion

Illinois Executive Mansion

Springfield, Illinois

An Illinois State Trooper once spent four hours trapped in the elevator at the Governor's Mansion in Springfield.

James Allison Mansion

James Allison Mansion

Indianapolis, Indiana

James Allison's house had an indoor swimming pool in the basement, and the crying comes from the drain.

John Paul Jones House

John Paul Jones House

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Sarah Wentworth Purcell has been watching the harbor from an upstairs window at the corner of Middle and State for more…

John Wornall House

John Wornall House

Kansas City, Missouri

The guns inside the John Wornall House move on their own. Staff have found firearms repositioned to aim at the front…

Jonathan Pitney House

Jonathan Pitney House

Absecon, New Jersey

A guest named David Perez was asleep in Caroline's Room at the Jonathan Pitney House when he felt something pressing…

Joshua Ward House

Joshua Ward House

Salem, Massachusetts

The Joshua Ward House at 148 Washington Street sits on some of the most notorious ground in Salem.

Kaminski House Museum

Kaminski House Museum

Georgetown, South Carolina

There is an antique sideboard inside the Kaminski House Museum that staff believe is connected to the ghost of an…

Kelton House Museum

Kelton House Museum

Columbus, Ohio

Neighbors kept calling the Kelton House asking if they were hosting a Civil War reenactment. They were not.

Kenmore Plantation

Kenmore Plantation

Fredericksburg, Virginia

Colonel Fielding Lewis put roughly seven thousand pounds of his own money into making gunpowder for the Continental…

Kentucky Old Governor's Mansion

Kentucky Old Governor's Mansion

Frankfort, Kentucky

Candles that haven't been lit in a century still flicker in the upper windows of Kentucky's Old Governor's Mansion.

Kolb Farm

Kolb Farm

Marietta, Georgia

The ghost learned a code. Jim Tatum, a retired Army officer, told whatever kept ringing the porcelain angel bell in the…

Korner's Folly

Korner's Folly

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

A little girl saying "peek-a-boo." The SPARS paranormal team captured that EVP in the Children's Play Room at Korner's…

LaLaurie Mansion

LaLaurie Mansion

New Orleans, Louisiana

The fire at the LaLaurie Mansion was set by a 70-year-old woman chained to the kitchen stove. It was April 10, 1834.

Lee-Fendall House

Lee-Fendall House

Alexandria, Virginia

Thirty-seven members of the Lee family lived in this house between 1785 and 1903.

Leland Stanford Mansion

Leland Stanford Mansion

Sacramento, California

Jane Lathrop Stanford never really let go. After her only son Leland Jr.

Lemp Mansion

Lemp Mansion

St. Louis, Missouri

Four members of the same family shot themselves in or near the Lemp Mansion in St. Louis between 1904 and 1949.

Liberty Hall

Liberty Hall

Frankfort, Kentucky

Margaretta Varick came to visit her niece in Frankfort in July 1817 and was dead before the week was out.

Lilburn Mansion

Lilburn Mansion

Ellicott City, Maryland

Police in Ellicott City once responded to calls about a woman sitting in her car outside a granite mansion on College…

Lincoln Home

Lincoln Home

Springfield, Illinois

"I kept looking around, but no one was there," said Shirlie Laughlin, a Lincoln Home employee…

Littlefield House

Littlefield House

Austin, Texas

The Littlefield House on the University of Texas campus stands as an ornate Victorian monument to one of Texas' most…

Lizzie Borden House

Lizzie Borden House

Fall River, Massachusetts

The Greek Revival house at 230 Second Street was built in 1845 and became home to Andrew Jackson Borden…

Logan Mansion

Logan Mansion

Shreveport, Louisiana

A wind-up music box sitting in the foyer of the Logan Mansion started playing at 5:30 in the morning.

Longfellow House

Longfellow House

Cambridge, Massachusetts

"All houses wherein men have lived and died are haunted houses." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote those words in 1858…

Longview Mansion

Longview Mansion

Lee's Summit, Missouri

Loula Long Combs died in 1971 at the age of 90, after 65 years of showing horses and winning blue ribbons.

Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House

Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House

Concord, Massachusetts

Orchard House stands on Lexington Road in Concord, Massachusetts, where Louisa May Alcott wrote her beloved classic…

Mabry-Hazen House

Mabry-Hazen House

Knoxville, Tennessee

Evelyn Hazen sat in her bedroom at the Mabry-Hazen House in the 1970s having long conversations with her dead friend…

Madame Sherri Forest Ruins

Madame Sherri Forest Ruins

Chesterfield, New Hampshire

The staircase at Madame Sherri Forest is what gets people. It climbs twenty-some feet out of the forest floor in…

Magnolia Plantation and Gardens

Magnolia Plantation and Gardens

Charleston, South Carolina

There is a room inside the main house at Magnolia Plantation that staff call "the Dying Room." Most employees refuse to…

Malabar Farm State Park

Malabar Farm State Park

Lucas, Ohio

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall got married in this house. May 21, 1945…

Mallory-Neely House

Mallory-Neely House

Memphis, Tennessee

The ghost stories about the Mallory-Neely House all seem to orbit the third floor.

Marie Laveau's House

Marie Laveau's House

New Orleans, Louisiana

Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo sells mojo bags, gris-gris, and Tarot readings to tourists at 628 Bourbon Street…

Mary Todd Lincoln House

Mary Todd Lincoln House

Lexington, Kentucky

The Mary Todd Lincoln House has a haunting problem that most haunted houses don't…

Mary Washington House

Mary Washington House

Fredericksburg, Virginia

George Washington's mother is supposed to be in her garden. It's a strange version of a ghost story.

Maxfield House

Maxfield House

Batesville, Arkansas

The little girl shows up between the aisles of the antique shop. Not on any schedule. Not with any warning.

May-Stringer House

May-Stringer House

Brooksville, Florida

The May-Stringer House in Brooksville is widely known as the most haunted house in Florida…

McCollum-Chidester House

McCollum-Chidester House

Camden, Arkansas

The bullet holes are still in the wall. Upstairs in the McCollum-Chidester House in Camden…

McPike Mansion

McPike Mansion

Alton, Illinois

Nobody has lived in the McPike Mansion since 1954, but the current owners count at least 15 residents.

Meeker Mansion

Meeker Mansion

Puyallup, Washington

Visitors to the Meeker Mansion in Puyallup have heard snoring coming from the master bedroom.

Mercer-Williams House

Mercer-Williams House

Savannah, Georgia

Jim Williams died in the same room where he killed Danny Hansford. Same spot, almost to the foot.

Millermore Mansion

Millermore Mansion

Dallas, Texas

The Millermore Mansion, a towering Greek Revival masterpiece built in 1861…

Missouri Governor's Mansion

Missouri Governor's Mansion

Jefferson City, Missouri

Jesse James once sent a letter to the Missouri Governor's Mansion threatening to kidnap Carrie Crittenden…

Molly Brown House

Molly Brown House

Denver, Colorado

Staff at the Molly Brown House check the lightbulbs. They do this often, because the bulbs at 1340 Pennsylvania Street…

Monticello

Monticello

Charlottesville, Virginia

In 1941, the room where Sally Hemings lived as an enslaved woman at Monticello was converted into a men's bathroom.

Moody Mansion

Moody Mansion

Galveston, Texas

Moody Mansion, a 31-room Romanesque Revival masterpiece built in 1895, served as headquarters for one of Texas's most…

Mordecai House

Mordecai House

Raleigh, North Carolina

The piano in the parlor plays when nobody is sitting at it. Visitors describe a soft…

Morris-Jumel Mansion

Morris-Jumel Mansion

New York, New York

In 1964, a group of schoolchildren waiting on the front lawn of the Morris-Jumel Mansion watched a woman step onto the…

Moses Myers House

Moses Myers House

Norfolk, Virginia

A top-hatted figure paces the garden behind the Moses Myers House. Head bowed, hands clasped behind his back.

Mt. Ida

Mt. Ida

Ellicott City, Maryland

Miss Ida Tyson went deaf and needed a cane to walk, but she carried a big ring of keys with her everywhere she went.

My Old Kentucky Home (Federal Hill)

My Old Kentucky Home (Federal Hill)

Bardstown, Kentucky

On August 14, 1855, John Rowan Jr. was sitting up on a second-floor windowsill at Federal Hill…

Nemacolin Castle

Nemacolin Castle

Brownsville, Pennsylvania

Three generations of the Bowman family lived and died in this castle on the Monongahela…

Nicholson-Rand House

Nicholson-Rand House

Indianapolis, Indiana

In 1997, the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana picked up the Nicholson-Rand House and moved it half a mile south…

Oaklands Mansion

Oaklands Mansion

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

The director of Oaklands Mansion thinks it isn't haunted. James Manning calls it "the anti-haunted house" and runs…

Ocean-Born Mary House

Ocean-Born Mary House

Henniker, New Hampshire

Mary Wilson Wallace, born at sea in 1720 and known for the rest of her life as Ocean-Born Mary…

Octagon Hall Museum

Octagon Hall Museum

Franklin, Kentucky

Mary Elizabeth Caldwell was eight years old when she caught fire inside the house in 1860.

Orna Villa

Orna Villa

Oxford, Georgia

On June 2, 1857, Dr. Alexander Means stood in Atlanta's Old City Hall and ran electric current through a chunk of black…

Paul Revere House

Paul Revere House

Boston, Massachusetts

The Paul Revere House is the oldest remaining structure in downtown Boston…

Peabody-Whitehead Mansion

Peabody-Whitehead Mansion

Denver, Colorado

The chandelier in the Peabody-Whitehead Mansion flickered so often that the owners finally called an electrician to fix…

Peel Mansion

Peel Mansion

Bentonville, Arkansas

In the 1920s, a girl named Margery English had her appendix rupture while playing tennis at the mansion.

Peyton Randolph House

Peyton Randolph House

Williamsburg, Virginia

Firefighters walked into the Peyton Randolph House on a fire alarm in December 2014 and found a fully discharged fire…

Phelps Mansion

Phelps Mansion

Binghamton, New York

Every member of the Phelps family died within twelve years of moving in.

Pittock Mansion

Pittock Mansion

Portland, Oregon

There's a child running around Pittock Mansion who has no business being there. No Pittock kid died young in the house.

Pleasant Hall

Pleasant Hall

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Custodians at LSU's Pleasant Hall will not work the third floor alone, and the reason is room 312.

Poplar Hill Mansion

Poplar Hill Mansion

Salisbury, Maryland

The scorch marks are still on the nursery floor. Sara, an enslaved woman, was 19 years old, unmarried…

Proprietary House

Proprietary House

Perth Amboy, New Jersey

A delivery man once knocked on the front door of the Proprietary House in Perth Amboy and was greeted by a small boy in…

Prospect Place Mansion

Prospect Place Mansion

Trinway, Ohio

George Willison Adams was born on a Virginia plantation. His father freed the family's slaves and moved everyone to…

Rackliffe House

Rackliffe House

Berlin, Maryland

Denise Milko was studying alone in the Rackliffe House one evening in the 1960s when she heard a window shatter…

Ramsay House

Ramsay House

Alexandria, Virginia

The coffee pot turns itself on. At 221 King Street, before the morning shift unlocks the door of Alexandria's Visitor…

Raven's Grin Inn

Raven's Grin Inn

Mount Carroll, Illinois

Jim Warfield once saw a pair of jeans walk into his living room with nobody inside them.

Reitz Home Museum

Reitz Home Museum

Evansville, Indiana

The Reitz Home Museum has the finest silk damask, the most intricate parquet…

Reynolds Mansion

Reynolds Mansion

Asheville, North Carolina

The Reynolds Mansion has one degree of separation from the Hope Diamond.

Rhodes Hall

Rhodes Hall

Atlanta, Georgia

Three enormous stained glass panels hang above the main staircase at 1516 Peachtree Street NW…

Ringwood Manor

Ringwood Manor

Ringwood, New Jersey

People walking the bridge out of the Ringwood Manor cemetery sometimes find themselves followed by a blue ball of…

Robert Mills House

Robert Mills House

Columbia, South Carolina

Staff at 1616 Blanding Street keep finding the bedsheets disturbed in a second-floor bedroom.

Rockcliffe Mansion

Rockcliffe Mansion

Hannibal, Missouri

Every night around 2 a.m., the caretaker at Rockcliffe Mansion heard the servant's entrance door slam shut.

Rodgers House

Rodgers House

Havre de Grace, Maryland

The British burned Havre de Grace on May 3, 1813. Up to 40 buildings went up in flames while 400 troops marched through…

Ropes Mansion

Ropes Mansion

Salem, Massachusetts

The Ropes Mansion stands as one of Salem's most beautiful—and most haunted—historic homes…

Rotherwood Mansion

Rotherwood Mansion

Kingsport, Tennessee

The ghost story at Rotherwood Mansion starts with a woman who, in most tellings, never actually lived there.

Ruthmere Mansion

Ruthmere Mansion

Elkhart, Indiana

Ruth Beardsley died at seven months old, and her parents built her a mansion. They never had another child.

Ryan Mansion

Ryan Mansion

Galena, Illinois

The piano in the music room plays by itself. Soft, melodic, Victorian-era tunes drifting through the first floor of the…

Sam Davis Home

Sam Davis Home

Smyrna, Tennessee

Erica Dahlgren, the volunteer coordinator at the Sam Davis Home, has a routine for the dining room door when it sticks.

Sandford House

Sandford House

Fayetteville, North Carolina

The Lady in Black waits on the main staircase of the Sandford House in Fayetteville.

Sauer Castle

Sauer Castle

Kansas City, Missouri

Most of the ghost stories about Sauer Castle are lies, and the truth is more interesting than any of them. The…

Schenck Mansion

Schenck Mansion

Vevay, Indiana

Male guests at the Schenck Mansion Bed and Breakfast used to wake up to something soft pressing against their cheek.

Shelton McMurphey Johnson House

Shelton McMurphey Johnson House

Eugene, Oregon

Staff at the Shelton McMurphey Johnson House have a habit of talking to the air.

Smithville Mansion

Smithville Mansion

Eastampton, New Jersey

Hezekiah Smith was so afraid his first wife would dig up his body that he had himself buried in an iron casket…

Sorrel-Weed House

Sorrel-Weed House

Savannah, Georgia

The most famous ghost story at the Sorrel-Weed House might not be true.

Southern Mansion

Southern Mansion

Cape May, New Jersey

The wine glasses keep turning up with red lipstick on the rims. Nobody at the Southern Mansion is wearing that shade.

Spanish Governor's Palace

Spanish Governor's Palace

San Antonio, Texas

The Spanish Governor's Palace stands as San Antonio's only surviving example of an aristocratic Spanish Colonial…

Sparrow House

Sparrow House

Plymouth, Massachusetts

The Richard Sparrow House stands as Plymouth's oldest surviving home and one of the oldest structures in all of New…

Squire's Castle

Squire's Castle

Willoughby Hills, Ohio

The most famous ghost at Squire's Castle never actually died there.

Stranahan House

Stranahan House

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

The Stranahan House is the oldest surviving structure in Broward County, built in 1901 by Frank Stranahan as both a…

Summerwind Mansion

Summerwind Mansion

Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin

Arnold Hinshaw played his Hammond organ through the night, every night, the sound carrying across West Bay Lake while…

Swope's Townhouse

Swope's Townhouse

Alexandria, Virginia

An English woman went to tour 210 Prince Street with a realtor and never made it past the staircase.

Taliesin

Taliesin

Spring Green, Wisconsin

"Why mark the spot where desolation ended and began?" Frank Lloyd Wright left Mamah Borthwick's grave unmarked.

Teackle Mansion

Teackle Mansion

Princess Anne, Maryland

Police in Princess Anne keep getting called to Teackle Mansion.

Texas Governor's Mansion

Texas Governor's Mansion

Austin, Texas

In the mid-1980s, Governor Mark White's wife and daughter encountered something in Sam Houston's bedroom.

The Allen House

The Allen House

Monticello, Arkansas

In August 2009, Mark Spencer pried up a floorboard in the attic of his Monticello…

The Barracks

The Barracks

Princeton, New Jersey

Every Christmas Eve at midnight, a young Hessian soldier appears at the fireplace in a stone house on Edgehill Street…

The Carneal House

The Carneal House

Covington, Kentucky

She asked the Marquis de Lafayette for a dance. He said no. She hanged herself that night. The Ghosts of Covington…

The Carter House

The Carter House

Franklin, Tennessee

Captain Tod Carter rode at the Confederate line through his own front yard at the Battle of Franklin.

The Dakota

The Dakota

New York, New York

An electrician working in the Dakota's basement in the 1930s saw a short man in a wig four separate times.

The Duke Mansion

The Duke Mansion

Charlotte, North Carolina

"Dead or alive." The phrase lit up inside her head the night she walked into the Duke Mansion gardens at 11:50 PM…

The Empress of Little Rock

The Empress of Little Rock

Little Rock, Arkansas

A painter working alone in the three-story octagonal tower came down to grab a screwdriver.

The Grove

The Grove

Jefferson, Texas

The Grove, also known as the Stilley-Young House, is an 1861 historic home in Jefferson, Texas…

The Hermitage

The Hermitage

Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey

Mary Elizabeth Rosencrantz was burned by a coal stove she could barely afford to keep running…

The Hermitage

The Hermitage

Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

The marble slab reads only "ALICE." No last name. No dates. Her brother wanted her forgotten. Alice Belin Flagg was…

The House of Seven Gables

The House of Seven Gables

Salem, Massachusetts

Susanna Ingersoll is the spirit people encounter most often. She is the only person documented to have been both born…

The Lotz House

The Lotz House

Franklin, Tennessee

A cannonball came through the second floor of the Lotz House on November 30, 1864…

The Nyack Haunted House

The Nyack Haunted House

Nyack, New York

A New York appellate court ruled in 1991 that this house is, as a matter of law, haunted. That's not a metaphor.

The Pabst Mansion

The Pabst Mansion

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Staff were setting up candelabras for an event at the Pabst Mansion when the candles started popping out on their own.

The Spy House (Seabrook-Wilson House)

The Spy House (Seabrook-Wilson House)

Port Monmouth, New Jersey

The woman at the upstairs window wears a long black skirt and a red blouse with billowy sleeves…

The Sultan's Palace (Gardette-LePrete House)

The Sultan's Palace (Gardette-LePrete House)

New Orleans, Louisiana

The Sultan's Palace massacre never happened. That's not a hot take.

The Wayside

The Wayside

Concord, Massachusetts

The Wayside is one of Concord's most historically significant homes, having been residence to three prominent literary…

The Witch House

The Witch House

Salem, Massachusetts

Four-year-old Dorothy Good told the magistrates that she had "a little Snake that used to Suck on the lowest Joint of…

The Wren's Nest

The Wren's Nest

Atlanta, Georgia

Museum director Melissa Swindell was driving Joel Chandler Harris's typewriter to a new location when her car shut…

Thistle Hill Mansion

Thistle Hill Mansion

Fort Worth, Texas

Thistle Hill, located at 1509 Pennsylvania Avenue, is one of Fort Worth's premier residential landmarks and the most…

Thomas Wolfe Memorial

Thomas Wolfe Memorial

Asheville, North Carolina

In October 1918, in an upstairs bedroom with lace curtains at the Old Kentucky Home boardinghouse on Market Street…

Thurber House

Thurber House

Columbus, Ohio

Thomas Tracy Tress, a Columbus jeweler, wanted to prove to his dinner guests that his .38-caliber revolver was not…

Tippecanoe Place

Tippecanoe Place

South Bend, Indiana

A hostess at Tippecanoe Place was at the top of the grand staircase one night in the early 1990s when she watched a…

Tivoli High House

Tivoli High House

Pensacola, Florida

Tivoli High House is the site of Pensacola's original 1805 entertainment hub--now a historic replica holding echoes of…

Travellers Rest Plantation

Travellers Rest Plantation

Nashville, Tennessee

Travellers Rest started out with a different name: Golgotha, the hill of skulls.

Two Rivers Mansion

Two Rivers Mansion

Nashville, Tennessee

Two Rivers Mansion has a fence story before it has a ghost story. When David H.

Vaile Mansion

Vaile Mansion

Independence, Missouri

After Sophia Vaile died, her husband Harvey tried to bury her in a glass coffin on the grounds of Vaile Mansion so he…

Villa Paula

Villa Paula

Miami, Florida

The back gate at 5811 N. Miami Avenue killed three of Cliff Ensor's cats.

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Miami, Florida

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens was the 1916 estate of industrialist James Deering…

Walker-Ames House

Walker-Ames House

Port Gamble, Washington

Pete Orbea has spent more than 1,100 hours inside the Walker-Ames House in Port Gamble, Washington.

Wampee House

Wampee House

Pineville, South Carolina

A caretaker watched a young Native American woman in buckskin and ribbons staring directly at her through a window.

Whaley House

Whaley House

San Diego, California

James "Yankee Jim" Robinson spent forty-five minutes dying in the spot where the Whaley House parlor now stands.

White Hall State Historic Site

White Hall State Historic Site

Richmond, Kentucky

For years, visitors approaching White Hall from the long driveway could see the face of a woman in an upstairs window.

Whitehall Mansion

Whitehall Mansion

Mystic, Connecticut

Dr. Dudley Woodbridge's headstone reads: "A tender Parent & a kind Friend." The soul effigy carved into the sandstone…

Wickland Mansion

Wickland Mansion

Bardstown, Kentucky

The historian Dixie Hibbs has been leading tours through Wickland since 2009 with a pair of twin mediums…

William Root House

William Root House

Marietta, Georgia

Every morning, museum staff tighten the antique rope bed in the main bedroom.

Winchester Mystery House

Winchester Mystery House

Santa Clara, California

There's a staircase in the Winchester Mystery House that goes straight up into the ceiling and stops.

Wolcott House

Wolcott House

Toledo, Ohio

Visitors to the Wolcott House in Maumee keep feeling a hand on their shoulder. They turn around and nobody is there.

Woodruff-Fontaine House

Woodruff-Fontaine House

Memphis, Tennessee

Mollie Woodruff lost her firstborn the same day the baby was born. Three months later, her husband died too.

Zebulon Latimer House

Zebulon Latimer House

Wilmington, North Carolina

Staff at the Zebulon Latimer House have watched an Emily Dickinson poetry book lift off its display surface…

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Baker Peters House

Knoxville, Tennessee

There are two bullet holes in an interior bedroom door at the Baker Peters House in Knoxville…

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Bell Mansion

Fort Wayne, Indiana

You can get married at the Bell Mansion in the same room where Fort Wayne mourned its dead for nearly a…

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Brumder Mansion

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The mirror in the Gold Suite bathroom lifted itself off the hook and shattered in the bathtub. Nobody was in the room.

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Captain Thompson Phillips House

Plymouth, Massachusetts

The Captain Thompson Phillips House holds a unique place in American paranormal history -- it was legally declared…

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Devil's Tower (Rio Vista)

Alpine, New Jersey

The rumor is that if you walk backwards around the tower six times, Harriet Rionda appears.

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Holmdene Mansion

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Campus locksmith Ryan Wendt saw the green light for himself one night in Holmdene's third-floor window.

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Kendrick House

Carthage, Missouri

During a paranormal investigation at Kendrick House, researchers recorded a child's voice on their equipment.

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Price-Gause House (Wilmington Ghost Walk HQ)

Wilmington, North Carolina

The word HELP appears, written backward, in the frost on the upstairs window of a house in Wilmington that has no…

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Springhill Winery and Plantation B&B

Bloomfield, Kentucky

In June 1864, Confederate guerillas rode up to this house looking for horses and food.

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The Pfeiffer House

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Cigar smoke keeps showing up where nobody's smoking it. The Valentines noticed it the week they bought 434 West Wayne…

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The Shinkle House

Covington, Kentucky

Don Nash had just finished making the bed in Sarah Shinkle's old room. He stepped into the bathroom.

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Whispers Estate

Mitchell, Indiana

The Gibbons family lost three people in the same upstairs bedroom.