Haunted Museums
113 haunted locations across America
Glass cases and old portraits, holding artifacts that seem to carry more than their provenance.
All Haunted Museums
American Swedish Institute (Turnblad Mansion)
The American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis keeps a ghost on the record.
Amos J. Blake House Museum
The curator of the Amos J. Blake House Museum in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire keeps a count of its ghosts.
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
The Arkansas Air & Military Museum in Fayetteville keeps meeting a pilot who shouldn't be there…
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
A distinguished man stands in the upstairs windows of the Audubon House on Whitehead Street in Key West, watching down…
B&O Railroad Station Museum
At the B&O Railroad Station Museum in Ellicott City, Maryland, the staff have a ghost they call Charlie.
Batsto Village
At Batsto Village in New Jersey, people keep reporting a figure in the highest window of the old mansion…
Battleship North Carolina
The figure people see most often aboard the Battleship North Carolina, the WWII memorial berthed in the Cape Fear River…
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
The most violent thing tied to the Betsy Ross House in Old City Philadelphia has nothing to do with the Revolution.
Bigelow House Museum
Susan B. Anthony wrote in her diary on October 18, 1871: "Dine at Judge Bigelow's…
Bodie State Historic Park
The Bodie ghost town sits at 8,379 feet in the high Sierra, a gold-rush boomtown left exactly as its last residents…
Boothe Memorial Park
At Boothe Memorial Park in Stratford, Connecticut, there's a room upstairs in the old Homestead that volunteers call…
Boston Athenaeum
At the Boston Athenaeum, a private library founded in 1807, the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne once spent weeks watching…
Brookgreen Gardens
Brookgreen Gardens sits on the South Carolina coast near Georgetown, the country's first public sculpture garden…
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
At Calico Ghost Town in San Bernardino County, California, the most-reported ghost is a specific woman in a specific…
Canfield Casino
The Canfield Casino in Saratoga Springs, New York is a museum now, but for years it kept a woman in white who walks the…
Canterbury Shaker Village
At Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire, the footsteps come from the upper floors of the Dwelling House when no…
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
At the Carnegie Library's main branch in Oakland, Pittsburgh, staff say there's a spot high on a wall…
Carpenter's Hall
Most haunted buildings hand you anonymous footsteps. The attic of Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia hands you a name and…
Castle Museum of Saginaw County History
The Castle Museum in Saginaw, Michigan keeps a woman that nobody can name.
Collingwood Arts Center
Performers at the Collingwood Arts Center in Toledo, Ohio learn fast to keep their eyes off the third row of the…
Congress Hall
At Congress Hall, the two-story brick courthouse at 6th and Chestnut in Philadelphia…
Coral Castle
At Coral Castle near Homestead, Florida, a paranormal team left a recorder running in the tower bedroom and walked out.
Dahlonega Gold Museum
The Dahlonega Gold Museum in Dahlonega, Georgia keeps one exhibit that won't stay quiet.
Deschutes Historical Museum
The man who haunts the Deschutes Historical Museum in Bend, Oregon never got to see the building finished.
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
Most people know one Ellis Island, in New York Harbor: the great hall where 12 million immigrants were processed…
First Bank of the United States
The First Bank of the United States, at 120 South Third Street in Old City Philadelphia, has a famous ghost…
Flatwoods Monster Museum
A. Lee Stewart Jr., reporter and co-owner of the Braxton Democrat newspaper…
Fort East Martello Museum
At Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida, there's a 40-inch doll in a child's sailor suit who sits behind…
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
At Fort William Henry in Lake George, New York, the guides heard him for years before they ever named him.
Francisco Fort Museum
At the Francisco Fort Museum in La Veta, Colorado, a woman in white drifts past the windows of the west wing at night.
Furnace Town Living Heritage Village
At Furnace Town near Snow Hill, Maryland, people report a tall Black man walking the old iron village and calling for…
General Lee's Headquarters
The worst story tied to General Lee's Headquarters in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania isn't in the stone house at all.
George Eastman Museum
The George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York keeps a strange exhibit: a four-line suicide note…
Gibbs Farm (Gibbs Museum of Pioneer and Dakotah Life)
At Gibbs Farm in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, the ghost people report is a small boy.
Glore Psychiatric Museum
The man waits by the elevator doors. He's reported most often near the old morgue in the basement of the Glore…
Greenfield Village
At Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, a young girl riding the village train started crying as she passed one…
Hamill House Museum
At the Hamill House Museum in Georgetown, Colorado, the story goes that an actress slipped upstairs to warm up her…
Henry B. Plant Museum
The Henry B. Plant Museum in Tampa, Florida keeps a hotel that no longer takes guests.
Historic Allaire Village
At Historic Allaire Village, a preserved 1830s iron town on the New Jersey shore…
Historic Fort Snelling
At Historic Fort Snelling in St. Paul, the figures people report are soldiers.
Historic Huguenot Street
Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz, New York is a row of seven early-1700s stone houses…
Hotel de Paris Museum
At the Hotel de Paris Museum in Georgetown, Colorado, the rooms keep smelling like food when nobody is cooking.
Houdini Museum
Every Halloween, a small museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania sits a group of people around a table laid with Harry…
Independence Hall
The cheeriest ghost in America belongs to Benjamin Franklin, and the story is told around Independence Hall in…
Indiana Medical History Museum
The Indiana Medical History Museum in Indianapolis keeps a room of human brains on its second floor.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
In the spring of 1913, crowds of Chicagoans came to the door of Hull-House on South Halsted Street…
Jennie Wade House
At the Jennie Wade House in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, people keep smelling bread.
Jesse James Home
A "God Bless Our Home" needlepoint hangs over a bullet hole in the north wall of the Jesse James Home in St.
Jonathan Hager House
There's a room in the Jonathan Hager House in Hagerstown, Maryland that the staff will tell you breaks people.
Kirkman House Museum
William and Isabella Kirkman both died on April 25, years apart.
Koreshan State Park
At Koreshan State Park in Estero, Florida, the buildings stand the way the believers left them…
Lightner Museum
The deep end of the swimming pool at the Lightner Museum in St. Augustine, Florida is a café now.
MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History
The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History in Little Rock keeps hearing a piano that isn't there.
Mark Twain House
The Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut is a no-smoking museum, and the billiard room on the third floor keeps…
Maryland State House
On the dome of the Maryland State House in Annapolis, people keep reporting a man in colonial dress.
Merchant's House Museum
At the Merchant's House Museum on East Fourth Street in Manhattan, the thing people report most often is a woman in a…
Michigan Firehouse Museum
The Michigan Firehouse Museum in Ypsilanti, Michigan still answers to a fire chief who left it decades ago.
Mill City Museum
The Mill City Museum in Minneapolis is built inside the ruins of the place that killed the men ghost tours say still…
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Most museums hush up their ghosts. The Minneapolis Institute of Art put its on the audio tour.
Miramont Castle
At Miramont Castle in Manitou Springs, Colorado, the ghost most people meet is a little girl.
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
At Mission San Juan Capistrano in California, the story goes that on moonlit nights a girl's face appears in the one…
Monroe County History Center
The Monroe County History Center in Bloomington, Indiana is a county museum…
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 on Pittsburgh's North Side is a bird zoo. You go to watch flamingos and free-flying parrots…
National Homestead at Gettysburg
The haunting at the National Homestead at Gettysburg, the brick house at 777 Baltimore Street, is not about soldiers.
New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum sits at 514 Chartres Street in the French Quarter…
Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum
On the second floor of the Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum in Maryland stands a six-foot animatronic doll named…
Old Bernardsville Public Library
The old Bernardsville Public Library in Bernardsville, New Jersey kept a ghost on the books.
Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon
At the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon in Charleston, South Carolina, visitors keep walking toward a man in period…
Old Orange County Courthouse
At the Old Orange County Courthouse in Santa Ana, the story goes that a judge in a long black robe sits in the old…
Old State Capitol Building
At the Old State Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, a security guard once watched a portrait of William Goebel fall off…
Old State House
The Old State House at 800 Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut keeps a museum of two-headed livestock on its third…
Old State House Museum
On December 4, 1837, the Speaker of the Arkansas House killed a fellow representative on the floor of the chamber…
Old Ursuline Convent
At the Old Ursuline Convent on Chartres Street in New Orleans, the third-floor attic stayed sealed for more than two…
Patapsco Female Institute
At the ruins of the Patapsco Female Institute, on the hilltop above Ellicott City, Maryland…
Peabody Essex Museum
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts is a serious institution.
Peshtigo Fire Museum
A driver passing the old church on Oconto Avenue hit the brakes and called the fire department.
Pry House Field Hospital Museum
The Pry House Field Hospital Museum stands on high ground outside Keedysville, Maryland…
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum
At the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum in St. Augustine, Florida, staff and ghost-tour groups say two women never…
RMS Queen Mary
The RMS Queen Mary sits permanently moored in Long Beach, California, a retired Cunard liner turned hotel.
Salem Witch Museum
The Salem Witch Museum in Salem, Massachusetts tells the story of the 1692 witch trials…
Schifferstadt Architectural Museum
The strange part about Schifferstadt, a German colonial stone house in Frederick, Maryland…
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
At Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill in central Kentucky, the people who work there keep coming back to one building.
Single Brothers House
The Single Brothers House in Winston-Salem, North Carolina has a ghost the staff call the Little Red Man — a small…
Speed Art Museum
At the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, the founder is the one people report seeing after the doors lock.
SS William A. Irvin
The SS William A. Irvin, a 610-foot ore freighter moored at Duluth Harbor in Minnesota…
St. Louis County Depot
The St. Louis County Depot in Duluth, Minnesota is a museum now, full of trains and art and school groups…
Star of India
The Star of India is moored at the Maritime Museum of San Diego, and the story its guides tell is that a dead boy still…
State School Orphanage Museum
At the State School Orphanage Museum in Owatonna, Minnesota, people keep hearing children. Laughter down empty halls.
Surratt House Museum
Laurie Verge ran the Surratt House Museum in Clinton, Maryland for more than 25 years…
Taft Museum of Art
The Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati keeps a woman in a long pink gown.
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
The Powder Magazine in Charleston, South Carolina is the oldest public building still standing in the Carolinas…
Thomas Clarke House
The Thomas Clarke House in Princeton, New Jersey keeps one strange report.
Uppertown Firefighters Museum
Staff and visitors at the Uppertown Firefighters Museum in Astoria, Oregon keep hearing someone on the third floor.
USS Constitution
The USS Constitution sits in Boston Harbor, an active U.S. Navy ship with an active-duty crew…
USS Hornet Museum
On the USS Hornet, the aircraft carrier docked in Alameda, California, the most-reported ghost is a sailor in dress…
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
People keep meeting sailors aboard the USS Yorktown who should not be there.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut is the oldest continuously operating public art museum in the country.
Warden's House Museum
The Warden's House Museum in Stillwater, Minnesota keeps a young woman upstairs who moves from room to room.
West Virginia Independence Hall
Employee Bruce Cooey was walking down the second-floor hallway when something shoved him hard in the back.
Jacoby Arts Center
The Jacoby building on Broadway in Alton, Illinois spent most of a century selling furniture upstairs and handling the…
Mountain Village 1890
Mountain Village 1890 in Bull Shoals, Arkansas is a town that was built somewhere else and moved here piece by piece.