Haunted Parks & Wild Places
48 haunted locations across America
Deep woods, dark lakes, and old stone, where the land itself does the remembering.
All Haunted Parks & Wild Places
Arana Gulch (Ghost of Andrew Jackson Sloan)
At Arana Gulch, on the eastern edge of Santa Cruz, people keep seeing the same man.
Bell Witch Cave
A child got stuck headfirst in a hole inside the Bell Witch Cave in the early 1800s, panicked, and screamed for help.
Boggy Creek
On a Saturday night in May 1971, in a house on Rural Route 1 south of Texarkana, Elizabeth Ford saw a hairy…
Boston Common
At Boston Common in the heart of the city, ghost-tour guides will point you toward Frog Pond and tell you people have…
Branch Brook Park
In Newark's Branch Brook Park, the story is about a tree. Not just any tree: one on a sharp curve in the park road…
Brown Mountain Lights
On dry autumn nights near Brown Mountain in Burke County, North Carolina, small red orbs rise over the ridge, hang…
Cameron Park
Cameron Park, Waco's 416-acre crown jewel of urban green space, is also considered the most haunted location in the…
Cathedral Park
Cathedral Park, in Portland, takes its name from the Gothic arches of the St. Johns Bridge that vaults overhead.
Cave of the Winds
On the Haunted Lantern Tour at Cave of the Winds, west of Colorado Springs…
Dead Man's Hollow
In Dead Man's Hollow, a wooded preserve south of McKeesport, Pennsylvania…
Devil's Hopyard State Park
At Devil's Hopyard State Park in East Haddam, Connecticut, the holes at the base of Chapman Falls don't look like…
Devil's Millhopper
Four miles outside Gainesville, Florida, the ground opens into a 120-foot pit…
Devil's Tramping Ground
In the Chatham County woods near Bear Creek, North Carolina, there's a bare ring of dirt about 40 feet across where…
Dogtown Common
Dogtown is an abandoned village in the forest above Gloucester, Massachusetts, five miles inland from the harbor…
Durand Eastman Park
On a roadside at Durand Eastman Park in Rochester, New York, there's an official county historical marker for a ghost.
Estell Manor
Local paranormal investigators say they keep coming back to Estell Manor Park in southern New Jersey…
Falls Park on the Reedy
Falls Park on the Reedy sits in the middle of downtown Greenville, South Carolina…
First Landing State Park
On April 26, 1607, English colonists waded ashore at Cape Henry and got jumped by Chesapeake warriors before sundown.
Freetown-Fall River State Forest
At the heart of Freetown-Fall River State Forest in southeastern Massachusetts there is an old quarry cliff called…
Gallows Hill Park
Gallows Hill Park in Salem, Massachusetts has a baseball diamond, a playground…
Grant Park Seven Bridges Trail
The covered bridge at the entrance has a message carved into it: "Enter this wild wood and view the haunts of nature."…
Griffith Park
The land that became Griffith Park in Los Angeles is supposed to be cursed…
Iron Goat Trail
Park rangers refuse to visit the disaster site after dark. That fact alone tells you something about the Iron Goat…
Lady of White Rock Lake
The Lady of White Rock Lake is Dallas's most enduring ghost legend—a spectral hitchhiker who has haunted the lake's…
Lake Lanier
Lake Lanier, the Army Corps reservoir northeast of Atlanta near Buford, Georgia…
Lake Ronkonkoma
Lake Ronkonkoma, the largest freshwater lake on Long Island, is said to drown one young man every year.
Lakes of the Clouds Hut
Lakes of the Clouds Hut is a stone bunkhouse perched at roughly 5,000 feet on the southern shoulder of Mount Washington…
Leeds Point - Birthplace of the Jersey Devil
The story New Jersey tells about Leeds Point, a marshy sliver of Atlantic County on the Mullica River…
Lincoln Park Zoo
In 1962, workers building a barn at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago dug into the foundation and hit a coffin.
Lithia Park
At Lithia Park in Ashland, Oregon, the figure people keep seeing sits at the edge of the duck pond.
Lost River Cave
At Lost River Cave in Bowling Green, Kentucky, there is a roll call written on the ceiling…
Mammoth Cave National Park
A mile and a half inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, in the dark, two small stone huts still stand.
Mounds State Park
At Mounds State Park near Anderson, Indiana, people keep meeting little gray people in the woods.
Mount Chocorua
The curse tied to Mount Chocorua, the bald granite peak that rises above Albany, New Hampshire…
Multnomah Falls
There is a woman who comes back to Multnomah Falls only in winter.
Murrells Inlet
Off the boardwalk at Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, a low green island sits out in the marsh.
Natural Bridge
The Monacan people called it *Mohomony*, the Bridge of God. Their oral tradition holds that ancestors fleeing an…
Pawleys Island (The Gray Man)
On the beach at Pawleys Island, South Carolina, there is a ghost people hope to see.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
The best-known ghost at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the red-sandstone venue near Morrison, Colorado…
Santa Teresa County Park
There's a pond in Santa Teresa County Park, in the San Jose foothills, that local kids grow up warning each other…
Sauerkraut Cave
At the back of E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Kentucky, behind a fence and a row of keep-out signs…
Seneca Caverns
Two small spheres of light, roughly the size of baseballs, zipped from one side of the Council Room to the other.
Smuttynose Island
On Smuttynose Island, six miles off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the story goes that a man still walks the rocks looking…
Springer's Point Nature Preserve
Springer's Point is a maritime forest on the south end of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina…
Stone Mountain
On the sunrise face of Stone Mountain, the granite dome east of Atlanta, Georgia…
Stow Lake (The White Lady)
At Stow Lake in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the story goes that a woman in a long white dress walks the water's…
The Witch's Castle
The Witch's Castle sits at the bottom of a canyon in Portland, Oregon's Forest Park…
White Point Gardens (The Battery)
At night, people crossing the live oaks of White Point Garden in Charleston, South Carolina…