Haunted Museums
110 haunted locations across America
Collections guarded by spirits from the past
All Haunted Museums
Amos J. Blake House Museum
Caretaker Terri Harlow counts eleven ghosts in the Amos J. Blake House.
Andrew Johnson Birthplace
A paranormal investigator at the Andrew Johnson Birthplace site in Greeneville once asked the empty room "Were you ever…
Arkansas Air & Military Museum
In March 2000, Sally Ebbrecht was alone inside the White Hangar when a man appeared in front of her.
Armstrong Browning Library
The Armstrong Browning Library on Baylor University's campus houses the world's largest collection of works by English…
Audubon House & Tropical Gardens
Built in 1846 by sea captain and wrecker Captain John Geiger for his family…
B&O Railroad Station Museum
The freight building at the B&O Railroad Station in Ellicott City has a ghost named Charlie…
Batsto Village
People still look for Frank Peck in the Pine Barrens between Indian Mills, Tabernacle, and Batsto. He was a dowser.
Battleship North Carolina
Danny Bradshaw has lived on the USS North Carolina since 1976.
Battleship Texas
The USS Battleship Texas was commissioned in March 1914, becoming the most powerful weapon in the world at the time.
Betsy Ross House
In 1980, two security guards working the Betsy Ross House got into an argument in the basement of the gift shop.
Bigelow House Museum
Susan B. Anthony wrote in her diary on October 18, 1871: "Dine at Judge Bigelow's…
Bodie State Historic Park
The curse of Bodie was invented by a park ranger who was sick of people stealing rocks.
Boothe Memorial Park
Two brothers spent their entire adult lives building miniature buildings on a 32-acre family estate in Stratford.
Boston Athenaeum
The Boston Athenaeum, founded in 1807, is one of America's oldest independent libraries and home to one of literary…
Brookgreen Gardens
The first thing Archer Huntington did when he bought Brookgreen Plantation in 1930 was tear down the barn.
Byrd Park Pump House
The people who spend the most time inside the Byrd Park Pump House say it isn't haunted.
Calico Ghost Town
Lucy Lane is buried in a black lace dress, and according to visitors who've seen her ghost…
Canfield Casino
In 2009, during an exhibition opening at the Canfield Casino, a patron had a glass slapped out of her hand by something…
Canterbury Shaker Village
Canterbury Shaker Village has a contradiction at its heart. The Shakers who lived here believed the supernatural was a…
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
"Sentio Est Hic." Latin for "Judge is Here." Staff at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Oakland have been finding…
Carpenter's Hall
The First Continental Congress met at Carpenter's Hall in September 1774.
Collingwood Arts Center
Performers at the Collingwood Arts Center know to avoid looking at the third row of the balcony, stage left.
Congress Hall
Congress Hall is where George Washington stood on March 4, 1797, and took the oath for his second term.
Coral Castle
Coral Castle is one of the strangest structures in America--and one of the most mysterious.
Dahlonega Gold Museum
The stamp mill in the Dahlonega Gold Museum turns itself on. No one is near the controls.
Deschutes Historical Museum
Staff at the Deschutes Historical Museum have a phrase for it: a George moment. The water tap turns itself on.
Dr Pepper Museum
The Dr Pepper Museum, housed in the 1906 bottling plant where the world's oldest major soft drink was first…
Edgar Allan Poe Museum
Here's the catch that ghost tours tend to skip: Edgar Allan Poe never lived in the building named after him.
Ellis Island Immigration Museum
Security guards at the Ellis Island hospital complex have watched doors open and close on their own in buildings that…
First Bank of the United States
Alexander Hamilton never worked inside the First Bank of the United States.
Flatwoods Monster Museum
A. Lee Stewart Jr., reporter and co-owner of the Braxton Democrat newspaper…
Fort East Martello Museum
Fort East Martello Museum occupies a Civil War-era brick fortress at Key West's eastern shore…
Fort Vancouver
"I lived here before, and I am just looking around." That's what the ghost of General Alfred Sully told a startled…
Fort William Henry Museum
Archaeologists in the 1950s dug up a skeleton with an amputated leg beneath the fort.
Francisco Fort Museum
The floating lady in the white dress turned out to be a tourist with a phone.
Franklin Pierce Manse
Jane Pierce held séances in the White House. She was trying to reach her eleven-year-old son Bennie…
Furnace Town Living Heritage Village
Stray cats have roamed the grounds of Furnace Town for over a century, and the museum keeps them on purpose.
General Lee's Headquarters
Robert E. Lee probably didn't sleep here. The small stone house on Seminary Ridge has been pitched for a century as…
George Eastman Museum
"To my friends, my work is done. Why wait? GE." George Eastman left that note on March 14, 1932…
Glore Psychiatric Museum
A former security guard at the Glore Psychiatric Museum swears he watched a woman materialize in the restraint chair.
Greenfield Village
A father visiting Greenfield Village once found his two young kids talking to a man in an upstairs bedroom at the Noah…
Hamill House Museum
An actress practicing opera in Priscilla Hamill's upstairs bedroom saw a Victorian dress swish past the doorway.
Henry B. Plant Museum
The Henry B. Plant Museum occupies the southeast wing of what was the magnificent Tampa Bay Hotel…
Historic Allaire Village
The ghost at Historic Allaire Village who unsettles people most isn't menacing.
Historic Huguenot Street
Gertrude Deyo's portrait keeps moving. Staff at the Deyo House find it in different rooms…
Historical Society of Saginaw County
A couple climbing the tower stairs at the Historical Society of Saginaw County's Castle Museum in March 2019 both…
Hotel de Paris Museum
Nobody in the building is cooking, but the Hotel de Paris Museum smells like Louis Dupuy's grocery list. Coffee. Bread.
Houdini Museum
Harry Houdini spent his final years trying to prove mediums were frauds.
Independence Hall
A bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin sits in the old American Philosophical Society building across the plaza from…
Indiana Medical History Museum
The amphitheater still has the original wooden chairs. 150 of them, arranged in steep rows facing a dissection table in…
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
In the spring of 1913, busloads of people arrived at Hull-House from as far away as Milwaukee, lined up down the block…
Jennie Wade House
Mary Virginia Wade was kneading dough for Union soldiers when the bullet that killed her came through two closed doors…
Jesse James Home
Bob Ford shot Jesse James in the back of the head on April 3, 1882, inside this small frame house at the Jesse James…
Jonathan Hager House
Forbes named the Jonathan Hager House the most haunted place in Maryland, and the body count supports it.
Kirkman House Museum
William and Isabella Kirkman both died on April 25, years apart.
Koreshan State Park
Koreshan State Park in Estero preserves one of Florida's strangest chapters--the settlement of a utopian cult that…
Lightner Museum
The Lightner Museum occupies the former Hotel Alcazar, commissioned by railroad tycoon Henry Flagler in 1887 to…
MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History
Someone plays piano on the second floor of the Tower Building in MacArthur Park. The piano is not there anymore.
Mark Twain House
Mark Twain smoked roughly twenty-two cigars a day in the billiard room on the third floor. He's been dead since 1910.
Maryland State House
Thomas Dance fell 94 feet onto a marble floor in 1793 and still hasn't been paid. Dance was an English plasterer…
Merchant's House Museum
In 1933, a group of kids were playing on the stoop at 29 East 4th Street when the front door flew open and an elderly…
Michigan Firehouse Museum
Alonzo Miller did not die in the Ypsilanti firehouse. He fought a huge fire in 1936, went home exhausted…
Miramont Castle
Most rooms at Miramont Castle don't have four square corners. The floor plan has pentagons, hexagons, octagons…
Mission Espada
Mission San Francisco de la Espada, the southernmost of San Antonio's chain of Spanish colonial missions…
Mission San Jose
Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, established in 1720 and known as the "Queen of the Missions," stands as the…
Mission San Juan Capistrano
Teofilo ran back into the church when the walls started to come down.
Monroe County History Center
A cleaner at the Monroe County History Center saw a young girl crying on the main staircase.
Mothman Museum
On the night of November 15, 1966, two couples were driving near the TNT area outside Point Pleasant when something…
National Aviary
The National Aviary in Pittsburgh houses 500 birds from 150 species, and almost certainly sits on ground that used to…
New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum has a burglar alarm problem. It goes off in the middle of the night with no one inside…
Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum
The button for Laughing Sal doesn't always work. Visitors press it, nothing happens.
Old Bernardsville Public Library
Captain John Parker ran the Vealtown Tavern during the Revolutionary War. His daughter Phyllis married Dr.
Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon
On August 5, 1776, someone stood on the steps of the Exchange Building at 122 East Bay Street and read the Declaration…
Old Fort Harrod State Park
James Harrod walked into the woods on a hunting trip in the winter of 1792 and never came back.
Old Orange County Courthouse
The janitors thought a judge had hanged himself in the courtroom.
Old South Meeting House
The Old South Meeting House was built in 1729 as a Puritan house of worship…
Old State Capitol Building
A security guard walked past William Goebel's portrait on the anniversary of his assassination…
Old State House
Staff arrived one morning at Connecticut's Old State House and found every desk and chair in the house chamber shoved…
Old State House Museum
On December 4, 1837, Speaker of the House John Wilson drew a bowie knife on the floor of the Arkansas legislature and…
Old Ursuline Convent
The third-floor attic of the Old Ursuline Convent in the French Quarter was nailed shut with 800 silver nails blessed…
Patapsco Female Institute
Dog walkers see her the most. Annie shows up near the treeline at the Patapsco Female Institute ruins…
Peabody Essex Museum
The Peabody Essex Museum traces its origins to 1799, when twenty-two Salem sea captains who had sailed beyond the Cape…
Peshtigo Fire Museum
A driver passing the old church on Oconto Avenue hit the brakes and called the fire department.
Pilgrim Hall Museum
Pilgrim Hall Museum at 75 Court Street in Plymouth is the oldest continuously operating public museum in the United…
Pry House Field Hospital Museum
Firefighters watched a woman in period dress stand at a second-floor window while the floor beneath her had already…
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum in St. Augustine occupies Castle Warden, an 1887 mansion built by William G.
RMS Queen Mary
On October 2, 1942, the RMS Queen Mary rammed her own escort ship and kept going.
Salem Witch Museum
The Salem Witch Museum occupies a Gothic Revival church building on Washington Square that has become the primary…
Schifferstadt Architectural Museum
Neighborhood children in Frederick, Maryland, have been playing with a little boy at Schifferstadt for years.
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
Workers in the tanyard house say something touches their hair. Pleasant Hill is the largest restored Shaker village in…
Single Brothers House
Little Betsy was deaf. She'd been deaf since a childhood illness, and she'd never heard the story of Andreas Kremser…
Soldiers National Museum
The Soldiers National Museum closed its doors in November 2014, but nobody in Gettysburg talks about it in the past…
Speed Art Museum
The security guard woke up to a woman in a white dress looking at him with concern. He'd fallen asleep at his station…
Star of India
A fourteen-year-old Scottish boy fell from the top of the mainmast in 1884 and took three days to die.
Surratt House Museum
Museum director Laurie Verge has worked at the Surratt House for over 25 years. She has one thing she cannot explain.
Taft Museum of Art
A gift shop employee at the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati told a visitor that things had been "flying off the…
The Octagon House
Marlene Hansen was hanging wallpaper in the upstairs bedroom when she turned and saw a woman leaning in the doorframe…
The Powder Magazine
Anne Bonny's ghost has been spotted peeking out from behind museum displays inside Charleston's oldest public building.
Thomas Clarke House
Brigadier General Hugh Mercer was beaten to the ground with musket butts and stabbed seven times with bayonets after…
Uppertown Firefighters Museum
Sometime in the 1920s, a firefighter at Astoria's Uppertown Station Number 2 sleepwalked off something inside the…
USS Constitution
She's never lost a battle, never been captured, and never surrendered.
USS Hornet Museum
"None of our spirits here are evil spirits. They're all heroes." That quote is from Bill Fee…
USS Lexington Museum
The USS Lexington, known as the "Blue Ghost," was commissioned in February 1943 and became one of the most decorated…
USS Yorktown
In 1987, a group of Boy Scouts participating in an overnight camping program aboard the USS Yorktown saw life-like…
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
In 1892, a worker at the Wadsworth Atheneum was about to remove a portrait from the wall when someone warned him…
West Virginia Independence Hall
Employee Bruce Cooey was walking down the second-floor hallway when something shoved him hard in the back.
Witch Dungeon Museum
The Witch Dungeon Museum occupies a Stick Style chapel constructed in 1897 for the East Church on a site where…
Ybor City Museum State Park
The Ybor City Museum State Park, housed in the historic Ferlita Bakery, preserves the unique cultural heritage of what…
Jacoby Arts Center
The basement of the Jacoby Arts Center used to be a morgue. Upstairs, the second floor was a funeral chapel.
Mountain Village 1890
Amanda is eight years old and she has been dead for over a century.