All Other Haunted Places

22 Mine Road

22 Mine Road

Holden, West Virginia

Coal truck drivers on 22 Mine Road used to stop for a woman in outdated clothing standing at the shoulder.

Airdrie Iron Works Ruins

Airdrie Iron Works Ruins

Paradise, Kentucky

Iron chains dragging down a stone stairway. A prisoner screaming from inside a furnace.

Albright Memorial Library

Albright Memorial Library

Scranton, Pennsylvania

Books fall off the shelves. Staff mention it before anything else, and they don't mean one book knocked askew by a…

ALICO Building

ALICO Building

Waco, Texas

The ALICO Building—Texas' first skyscraper—has towered over downtown Waco since its completion…

Arana Gulch (Ghost of Andrew Jackson Sloan)

Arana Gulch (Ghost of Andrew Jackson Sloan)

Santa Cruz, California

On July 25, 1895, exactly thirty years after Andrew Jackson Sloan was shot dead on the old Arana Bridge…

Ashcroft Ghost Town

Ashcroft Ghost Town

Aspen, Colorado

Horace Tabor and Baby Doe rode into Ashcroft in 1883 and treated the whole town to a banquet, a ball…

Banbury Place Building 13

Banbury Place Building 13

Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Somewhere inside Building 13 at Banbury Place, an air conditioning unit hums. The unit was removed years ago.

Bath Historic District

Bath Historic District

Bath, North Carolina

Bath, North Carolina, was supposed to be the state capital. It had the first library, the first church…

Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine

Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine

Beckley, West Virginia

The temperature inside the Phillips-Sprague Mine is 58 degrees. Every day, every season, year after year since 1889.

Bell Witch Cave

Bell Witch Cave

Adams, Tennessee

A child got stuck headfirst in a hole inside the Bell Witch Cave in the early 1800s, panicked, and screamed for help.

Belle of Louisville

Belle of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

Captain Mark Doty was filling out the captain's log alone in the quarters one night when something tugged firmly on his…

Belvoir Winery

Belvoir Winery

Liberty, Missouri

George has been dead since the 1880s. His skeleton stands in a display case at Belvoir Winery in Liberty, Missouri…

Bobby Mackey's Music World

Bobby Mackey's Music World

Wilder, Kentucky

In 1896, Pearl Bryan's headless body turned up in a field near Fort Thomas, Kentucky.

Boggy Creek

Boggy Creek

Fouke, Arkansas

Bobby Ford ran through his own front door without opening it. He didn't stop to turn the knob.

Boston Common

Boston Common

Boston, Massachusetts

America's oldest public park hides a history of blood, suffering, and restless spirits.

Boston Massacre Site

Boston Massacre Site

Boston, Massachusetts

A circle of cobblestones embedded in the pavement at the intersection of Congress and State Streets marks the exact…

Boy Scout Lane

Boy Scout Lane

Stevens Point, Wisconsin

Nobody agrees on how the Boy Scouts died. In one version, the scoutmaster went insane and killed the boys one by one.

Branch Brook Park

Branch Brook Park

Newark, New Jersey

Kids from Newark's Roseville section used to call her Mary Yoo-Hoo.

Bray Road

Bray Road

Elkhorn, Wisconsin

Lori Endrizzi was driving home along Bray Road around 1:30 AM in the fall of 1989 when she saw what she first thought…

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

New York, New York

People keep calling the police about jumpers on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Brown Mountain Lights

Brown Mountain Lights

Morganton, North Carolina

In 1913, the U.S. Geological Survey had the Brown Mountain Lights figured out.

Bruton Parish Church

Bruton Parish Church

Williamsburg, Virginia

George Washington's name plate is still bolted to a box pew here. So is Thomas Jefferson's.

Buffalo Central Terminal

Buffalo Central Terminal

Buffalo, New York

During a ghost hunt in the baggage claim area, investigators asked "Where are you…

Buffalo Trace Distillery

Buffalo Trace Distillery

Frankfort, Kentucky

Security guard Zack Evans saw the same old man in worker's clothing every day for a week inside Warehouse C at Buffalo…

Butler County Courthouse

Butler County Courthouse

Hamilton, Ohio

Sometime in the 1860s, the night watchman of the old Butler County Courthouse was found dead in the Treasurer's Office.

California's Great America

California's Great America

Santa Clara, California

A haunted amusement park is a weird genre of ghost story because the setting is supposed to be the opposite of scary.

Cameron Park

Cameron Park

Waco, Texas

Cameron Park, Waco's 416-acre crown jewel of urban green space, is also considered the most haunted location in the…

Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp

Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp

Cassadaga, Florida

The Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp, founded in 1894 by trance medium George P.

Cathedral Park

Cathedral Park

Portland, Oregon

Cathedral Park exists today because of a fifteen-year-old girl named Thelma Anne Taylor.

Cave of the Winds

Cave of the Winds

Manitou Springs, Colorado

On the Cave of the Winds Lantern Tour, when a candle goes out, the guides tell you to blame Nellie.

Centralia

Centralia

Centralia, Pennsylvania

Twelve-year-old Todd Domboski was in his grandmother's backyard in February 1981 when the ground opened under him.

Church Hill Tunnel

Church Hill Tunnel

Richmond, Virginia

A 28-year-old fireman named Benjamin Franklin Mosby crawled out of the eastern portal of the Church Hill Tunnel on the…

Clinton Furnace

Clinton Furnace

West Milford, New Jersey

Hikers cutting through the Pequannock Watershed on Clinton Road eventually hit a stone pyramid in the woods that looks…

Clinton Road

Clinton Road

West Milford, New Jersey

Drop a quarter on the bridge over Clinton Brook at midnight and it comes back. Kids from Passaic and Bergen counties…

Cocheco Mills

Cocheco Mills

Dover, New Hampshire

"You mean my girls." That is what the janitor at Cocheco Mill Number 1 said when a new hire asked him about the strange…

Colby Memorial Temple

Colby Memorial Temple

Cassadaga, Florida

Colby Memorial Temple is a Mediterranean Revival auditorium erected in 1923 to replace an earlier 19th century…

Colorado Street Bridge (Suicide Bridge)

Colorado Street Bridge (Suicide Bridge)

Pasadena, California

One of the workers who died building the Colorado Street Bridge fell into a vat of wet concrete.

Colville Covered Bridge

Colville Covered Bridge

Millersburg, Kentucky

When the Bluegrass Ghost Chasers played back their voice recorder inside the Colville Covered Bridge…

Crossett Light

Crossett Light

Crossett, Arkansas

Yale University forestry students stationed in southeast Arkansas during the late 1940s through the 1960s tried to…

Dead Man's Hollow

Dead Man's Hollow

McKeesport, Pennsylvania

In 1874, a group of boys cutting through the woods south of McKeesport found a decomposed body hanging by a rope from a…

Denver Union Station

Denver Union Station

Denver, Colorado

In 2000, a maintenance worker climbed into the Denver Union Station clock tower to adjust the clocks for daylight…

Derby Wharf

Derby Wharf

Salem, Massachusetts

Derby Wharf stretches nearly half a mile into Salem Harbor, built starting in 1762 by merchant Elias Hasket Derby Sr.

Detroit Masonic Temple

Detroit Masonic Temple

Detroit, Michigan

The story the Detroit Masonic Temple tells about itself begins with a suicide that didn't happen. George D.

Devil's Hopyard State Park

Devil's Hopyard State Park

East Haddam, Connecticut

In 1775, the Sons of Liberty tarred and feathered Dr. Abner Beebe, rolled his millstone down Chapman Falls…

Devil's Millhopper

Devil's Millhopper

Gainesville, Florida

Devil's Millhopper is a 120-foot deep, 500-foot wide sinkhole designated a National Natural Landmark and Florida State…

Devil's Tramping Ground

Devil's Tramping Ground

Bear Creek, North Carolina

The Chatham County Deed Book, in a 1784 entry, refers to a piece of land near Harper's Crossroads as "the poison field…

Dogtown Common

Dogtown Common

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Deep in the woods of Cape Ann, where massive glacial boulders rise like monuments to forgotten gods…

Dudleytown

Dudleytown

Cornwall, Connecticut

Police were called to Dudleytown 79 times in a single year. The Dark Entry Forest Association…

Durand Eastman Park

Durand Eastman Park

Rochester, New York

Nobody has ever proven Eelissa existed. That hasn't stopped Rochesterians from spotting her for over a century. The…

Eau Claire Fire Station

Eau Claire Fire Station

Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Eighty percent of firefighters at Eau Claire's Station 10 said they'd seen Alex Blum.

El Paso Main Library

El Paso Main Library

El Paso, Texas

The El Paso Main Library downtown sits atop ground that once served as a cemetery…

Elkmont Ghost Town

Elkmont Ghost Town

Gatlinburg, Tennessee

Elkmont is what happens when the federal government takes your hometown and lets the forest swallow what's left.

Estell Manor

Estell Manor

Estell Manor, New Jersey

A city of 8,000 people appeared in the Pine Barrens in 1918 and disappeared almost as fast.

Everett Covered Bridge

Everett Covered Bridge

Peninsula, Ohio

Road construction workers in 1856 cracked open a hexagonal limestone tomb lined with Hopewell burial artifacts.

Falls Park on the Reedy

Falls Park on the Reedy

Greenville, South Carolina

Fannie Heldmann's father picked out her husband for her. George Heldmann was a prominent Greenville businessman…

Fayette Historic Townsite

Fayette Historic Townsite

Garden, Michigan

The residents of Fayette walked out in 1891 and left the dishes on the tables.

Fenway Park

Fenway Park

Boston, Massachusetts

They called it the Curse of the Bambino -- an 86-year hex that transformed America's oldest ballpark into a monument to…

First Landing State Park

First Landing State Park

Virginia Beach, Virginia

On April 26, 1607, English colonists waded ashore at Cape Henry and got jumped by Chesapeake warriors before sundown.

First Unitarian Church

First Unitarian Church

Alton, Illinois

Phillip Mercer arrived from England at 18 years old, worked for a railroad in St.

First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church

Gatlinburg, Tennessee

The First United Methodist Church in Gatlinburg looks more like a fortress than a sanctuary.

Flinderation Tunnel

Flinderation Tunnel

Salem, West Virginia

In 1927, a reporter from the Sandusky Star Journal wrote about a man who heard voices inside the tunnel.

Fort Chaffee

Fort Chaffee

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Elvis Presley got his military haircut in Building 803 on a spring day in 1958.

Fort Mackinac

Fort Mackinac

Mackinac Island, Michigan

On February 1, 1830, Private James Brown was hanged from a scaffold near Fort Mackinac for the murder of a fellow…

Fort Worden

Fort Worden

Port Townsend, Washington

Three soldiers died inside Battery Kinzie in 1921 when a shell misfired in the underground gun emplacement.

Freetown-Fall River State Forest

Freetown-Fall River State Forest

Freetown, Massachusetts

Deep in southeastern Massachusetts lies 5,441 acres of dense woodland, rocky ledges…

Front Street

Front Street

Natchitoches, Louisiana

The Confederate soldier on Front Street doesn't knock. He presses his face to the shop windows and stares at whatever's…

Gallatin Town Square

Gallatin Town Square

Gallatin, Tennessee

Andrew Jackson's old law office on Gallatin's public square is said to hold the spirits of sixteen Confederate…

Gallows Hill Park

Gallows Hill Park

Salem, Massachusetts

Ghost tour guides used to bring visitors up the steep slopes. Most have stopped.

Georgia Guidestones Site

Georgia Guidestones Site

Elberton, Georgia

At 4:03 a.m. on July 6, 2022, a surveillance camera in Elbert County, Georgia…

Ghost Tracks

Ghost Tracks

San Antonio, Texas

Near the San Juan Mission, at the intersection of Villamain and Shane Road on San Antonio's south side…

Ghost Tree (17-Mile Drive)

Ghost Tree (17-Mile Drive)

Pebble Beach, California

There are two Ghost Trees at Pescadero Point, and both earned the name.

Gold Camp Road

Gold Camp Road

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Drive Gold Camp Road in the fog and pull over near Tunnel 3, the one that collapsed in 1988…

Gore Orphanage Road

Gore Orphanage Road

Vermilion, Ohio

The Gore Orphanage never existed. That has not stopped it from becoming one of the most visited haunted locations in…

Grafton Monster Sighting Area

Grafton Monster Sighting Area

Grafton, West Virginia

The Grafton Sentinel's own explanation was a man pushing a handcart loaded with boxes.

Grand Rapids Public Library

Grand Rapids Public Library

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Samuel Hill Ranck ran the Grand Rapids Public Library for thirty-three years. He appears to still be running it.

Grant Park Seven Bridges Trail

Grant Park Seven Bridges Trail

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The covered bridge at the entrance has a message carved into it: "Enter this wild wood and view the haunts of nature."…

Grave Creek Mound

Grave Creek Mound

Moundsville, West Virginia

The Adena people built Grave Creek Mound as a doorway between worlds. That's not metaphor or modern reinterpretation.

Green Man's Tunnel

Green Man's Tunnel

South Park, Pennsylvania

The real Green Man was a boy named Raymond Robinson, and he was not a ghost.

Griffith Park

Griffith Park

Los Angeles, California

On September 16, 1932, a 24-year-old Welsh-born actress named Peg Entwistle walked up Beachwood Drive…

Gurdon Light

Gurdon Light

Gurdon, Arkansas

On a December night in 1931, a Missouri-Pacific section foreman named Will McClain was walking the Norman Branch tracks…

H.H. Holmes Murder Castle Site

H.H. Holmes Murder Castle Site

Chicago, Illinois

Holmes hired and fired construction crews so frequently that no single worker ever understood the full layout of the…

Hales Bar Dam

Hales Bar Dam

Guild, Tennessee

On the Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures shoot at Hales Bar Dam, the thermal-imaging camera caught a dark mass moving…

Harpers Ferry Historic District

Harpers Ferry Historic District

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

When soldiers found Dangerfield Newby's body on October 17, 1859, they also found a letter from his wife in his pocket.

Hartford Elks Lodge

Hartford Elks Lodge

Hartford, Connecticut

Robert Taylor's body was found on the sidewalk outside Hartford Elks Lodge #19 in 1972.

Haunted Bridge of Avon

Haunted Bridge of Avon

Avon, Indiana

The ghost stories started almost immediately. The Big Four Railroad finished the bridge over White Lick Creek in 1906…

Helen's Bridge

Helen's Bridge

Asheville, North Carolina

Call Helen's name three times from the middle of Helen's Bridge and your car won't start when you try to leave.

Hempfield Tunnel

Hempfield Tunnel

Wheeling, West Virginia

A strange green substance drips from the ceiling of Hempfield Tunnel in Wheeling.

Hicks Road

Hicks Road

San Jose, California

Every South Bay teenager since the 1970s has been told some version of the Hicks Road story…

High Street Historic District

High Street Historic District

Cambridge, Maryland

Eastern Shore ghost tour author Mindie Burgoyne calls High Street in Cambridge "the most haunted street in the…

Highland Road Confederate Ghosts

Highland Road Confederate Ghosts

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Around five in the evening, sometime in late 1999 or early October 2000, several drivers on Highland Road in South…

Historic Fort Wayne

Historic Fort Wayne

Detroit, Michigan

Fort Wayne was built to fight a war that never came. Construction on Detroit's riverfront began in 1842 and dragged on…

Holy Name Cathedral

Holy Name Cathedral

Chicago, Illinois

The bullet holes in the cornerstone won't stay repaired. The cathedral has tried multiple times over the past century…

Hoosac Tunnel

Hoosac Tunnel

North Adams, Massachusetts

The Hoosac Tunnel stretches 4.75 miles through Hoosac Mountain in the Berkshires…

Indiana Statehouse

Indiana Statehouse

Indianapolis, Indiana

The squeaky wheels are the worst part. Staff working late on the upper floors of the Indiana Statehouse hear a mail…

Iron Goat Trail

Iron Goat Trail

Stevens Pass, Washington

Park rangers refuse to visit the disaster site after dark. That fact alone tells you something about the Iron Goat…

Iroquois Theatre Site (Death Alley)

Iroquois Theatre Site (Death Alley)

Chicago, Illinois

Six hundred and two people died inside a theater that had been open for five weeks.

Julia Ideson Building

Julia Ideson Building

Houston, Texas

The Julia Ideson Building, Houston's historic central library constructed in 1926…

Kemper Center

Kemper Center

Kenosha, Wisconsin

On January 8, 1900, two children found a body washed up on the shore of Lake Michigan near Kenosha. It was a nun.

Ladies Literary Club

Ladies Literary Club

Ypsilanti, Michigan

A janitor working alone in the basement of the Ladies Literary Club House in Ypsilanti once reported invisible hands…

Lady of White Rock Lake

Lady of White Rock Lake

Dallas, Texas

The Lady of White Rock Lake is Dallas's most enduring ghost legend—a spectral hitchhiker who has haunted the lake's…

Lake Compounce

Lake Compounce

Bristol, Connecticut

Chief John Compound signed away his lake on December 3, 1684, in exchange for a small amount of money and a large brass…

Lake Lanier

Lake Lanier

Buford, Georgia

Thirteen people died at Lake Lanier in 2023. Three died at Lake Allatoona…

Lake Ronkonkoma

Lake Ronkonkoma

Lake Ronkonkoma, New York

One hundred and sixty-six men have drowned in Lake Ronkonkoma since 1893.

Lake Shawnee Amusement Park

Lake Shawnee Amusement Park

Rock, West Virginia

Archaeologists from Marshall University found approximately 3,000 bodies beneath Lake Shawnee Amusement Park.

Lakes of the Clouds Hut

Lakes of the Clouds Hut

Mount Washington, New Hampshire

There are boots nailed to the walls inside Lakes of the Clouds. Not decoration, not a joke.

Leeds Point - Birthplace of the Jersey Devil

Leeds Point - Birthplace of the Jersey Devil

Leeds Point, New Jersey

The Leeds family named twelve children in Japhet Leeds's 1736 will.

Lily Dale Assembly

Lily Dale Assembly

Lily Dale, New York

Thirty-seven registered mediums live in a village of 275 people.

Lincoln Park Zoo

Lincoln Park Zoo

Chicago, Illinois

Construction workers building a barn for the farm animals at Lincoln Park Zoo in 1962 dug into the ground and found a…

Lithia Park

Lithia Park

Ashland, Oregon

A blue light flickers over the duck pond at Lithia Park after dark, and people who've seen it tend to leave it out of…

Little People's Village

Little People's Village

Middlebury, Connecticut

Sit on the throne and you die within seven years. That's the legend at Little People's Village in Middlebury…

Lohman Building

Lohman Building

Jefferson City, Missouri

In 2013, an archaeological team dug along Water Street in front of the Lohman Building…

Lost River Cave

Lost River Cave

Bowling Green, Kentucky

Somebody scratched their name into the ceiling of Lost River Cave with the smoke of a candle in 1862…

LSU Indian Mounds

LSU Indian Mounds

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

The LSU Indian Mounds are older than the Great Pyramids by roughly seven thousand years.

Maco Light Site

Maco Light Site

Maco, North Carolina

For over a hundred years, people pulled off the road near Maco Station in Brunswick County and waited in the dark for a…

Mammoth Cave National Park

Mammoth Cave National Park

Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

Dr. John Croghan bought Mammoth Cave for $10,000 in 1839. Three years later…

Marfa Lights Viewing Area

Marfa Lights Viewing Area

Marfa, Texas

On a wide shoulder of Highway 90 just east of Marfa in Presidio County, curious visitors gather on clear nights to…

Mark Twain Cave

Mark Twain Cave

Hannibal, Missouri

Tom Rickey was giving a tour through Mark Twain Cave in the late 1990s when he saw a girl standing in McDowell's room.

Marsh Road

Marsh Road

Milpitas, California

Marcy Renee Conrad was fourteen. She was a freshman at Milpitas High School.

McMenamins Crystal Ballroom

McMenamins Crystal Ballroom

Portland, Oregon

A janitor closing up the Crystal Ballroom one night looked across the empty dance floor and saw a couple doing the…

Michigan State Capitol

Michigan State Capitol

Lansing, Michigan

The Michigan State Capitol has a painter in the rotunda who didn't come down when his boom lift broke.

Mission House

Mission House

Mackinac Island, Michigan

The Mission House on Mackinac Island was a boarding school for Native American and Métis children between 1825 and…

Monte Cristo Ghost Town

Monte Cristo Ghost Town

Granite Falls, Washington

Two men in early 1900s mining gear were spotted peeking around the corner of Monte Cristo's old saloon by a hiker on…

Moon River Brewing Company

Moon River Brewing Company

Savannah, Georgia

During renovations in the 1990s, a foreman's wife was pushed down the third-floor stairs by something no one could see.

Moonville Tunnel

Moonville Tunnel

Zaleski, Ohio

Four ghosts haunt a tunnel in the middle of nowhere, and the weird part is they all have names.

Mounds State Park

Mounds State Park

Anderson, Indiana

The Lenape called them Puk-wud-ies. Two to three feet tall, grayish skin that sometimes glowed in the dark…

Mount Chocorua

Mount Chocorua

Albany, New Hampshire

Chocorua raised his arms to the sky and shouted a curse. 'May the Great Spirit curse ye when he speaks in the clouds…

Multnomah Falls

Multnomah Falls

Bridal Veil, Oregon

In winter, when the upper drop of Multnomah Falls slows enough to let the cliff face show through the spray…

Murrells Inlet

Murrells Inlet

Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

In 1849, Dr. Allard Flagg brought his widowed mother and his 16-year-old sister Alice to The Hermitage in Murrells…

Natural Bridge

Natural Bridge

Natural Bridge, Virginia

The Monacan people called it *Mohomony*, the Bridge of God. Their oral tradition holds that ancestors fleeing an…

New River Gorge Bridge

New River Gorge Bridge

Fayetteville, West Virginia

Governor Arch Moore asked his highways commissioner a simple question before construction began in 1974…

New York State Capitol

New York State Capitol

Albany, New York

Samuel Abbott had a key in his pocket. The door it opened was a few paces away.

Norfolk Naval Shipyard

Norfolk Naval Shipyard

Portsmouth, Virginia

The brick wall around the officer's quarters at Norfolk Naval Shipyard has scorched patches and discolored sections…

North Carolina State Capitol

North Carolina State Capitol

Raleigh, North Carolina

Night security at the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh doesn't recommend the third-floor library after hours.

O'Kane Building

O'Kane Building

Bend, Oregon

Bend Ghost Tours co-founder Meg Kehoe says there's something inside the O'Kane Building in downtown Bend that watches…

Oaks Amusement Park

Oaks Amusement Park

Portland, Oregon

Oaks Amusement Park is one of the ten oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the United States.

Ocean Street (The White Lady)

Ocean Street (The White Lady)

Santa Cruz, California

The rumor is that she once threw an ax at a child who got too close.

Old Christ Church

Old Christ Church

Pensacola, Florida

Old Christ Church, the oldest place of worship in Northwest Florida, was established by the Episcopalian congregation…

Old City Hall

Old City Hall

Richmond, Virginia

On the morning of August 23, 1894, Colonel James Monroe Winstead climbed the inside of the clock tower at 1001 East…

Old City Hall

Old City Hall

Tacoma, Washington

A ghost named Gus has a signature move at Old City Hall in Tacoma.

Old City Orphanage

Old City Orphanage

Marquette, Michigan

Marquette's Old City Orphanage ghost story starts with a girl laid outside during a storm as punishment.

Old Sheldon Church Ruins

Old Sheldon Church Ruins

Yemassee, South Carolina

Couples line up to take wedding portraits at Old Sheldon Church.

Old Stone Presbyterian Church

Old Stone Presbyterian Church

Lewisburg, West Virginia

Maud Montague Mathews died of pneumonia on May 30, 1888, a few months shy of her twelfth birthday.

Ong's Hat Ghost Town

Ong's Hat Ghost Town

Pemberton Township, New Jersey

In 1936, a reporter traveling through the Pine Barrens found nothing at Ong's Hat but a clearing, an abandoned shed…

Oregon Vortex

Oregon Vortex

Gold Hill, Oregon

The Oregon Vortex makes brooms balance on their handles, sends bottles rolling uphill…

Pawleys Island (The Gray Man)

Pawleys Island (The Gray Man)

Pawleys Island, South Carolina

In 1989, Jim and Clara Moore were walking the beach on Pawleys Island when they noticed a man heading straight toward…

Peck Building

Peck Building

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Arthur Warren Waite tried to kill his mother-in-law, Hannah Peck, by driving her through a Michigan rainstorm with the…

Pentagon Barracks

Pentagon Barracks

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

A soldier paces the second-floor balcony of the Pentagon Barracks at night.

Phantom Canyon Road

Phantom Canyon Road

Victor, Colorado

In the 1890s, passengers on the Florence and Cripple Creek narrow-gauge line started reporting a man walking the tracks…

Philippi Covered Bridge

Philippi Covered Bridge

Philippi, West Virginia

James Hanger was eighteen years old, a college student, and a brand-new Confederate recruit when a Union cannonball…

Pickering Wharf

Pickering Wharf

Salem, Massachusetts

The staff at Mercy Tavern hear them when the restaurant is empty. Men shouting. Fighting.

Pike Place Market

Pike Place Market

Seattle, Washington

A basket of beads, a pile of pennies, and packets marked in the shop owner's own handwriting turned up behind a wall at…

Poinsett Bridge

Poinsett Bridge

Landrum, South Carolina

Shanna Clippard from Greenville was sitting in a parked car near Poinsett Bridge one night when she felt a man's rough…

Proctor's Ledge Memorial

Proctor's Ledge Memorial

Salem, Massachusetts

Proctor's Ledge is the confirmed site where nineteen innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch trials of 1692…

Pythian Castle

Pythian Castle

Springfield, Missouri

Tamara Finocchiaro, the owner of Pythian Castle, was asleep in her bedroom when two gunshots woke her up.

Quimby Road

Quimby Road

San Jose, California

If you drive up Quimby Road at midnight, watch the shoulder. The legend says you'll see a man running.

Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Morrison, Colorado

Staff at Red Rocks say the miner shows up in restricted backstage areas where no crew member should be.

Remington Arms Factory

Remington Arms Factory

Bridgeport, Connecticut

A nail fell into a box of cartridge primers on March 28, 1942.

River Raisin National Battlefield Park

River Raisin National Battlefield Park

Monroe, Michigan

Of 934 Americans who fought at the River Raisin on January 22, 1813, only 33 escaped death or capture.

Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail

Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail

Gatlinburg, Tennessee

The Roaring Fork ghost story is the classic vanishing-hitchhiker tale, transplanted to a five-and-a-half-mile one-way…

Roebling Suspension Bridge

Roebling Suspension Bridge

Covington, Kentucky

The Ghosts of Covington tour tells this one at the bridge railing. A young woman threw herself from the Roebling.

Roswell Mill Ruins

Roswell Mill Ruins

Roswell, Georgia

General Sherman called them traitors. Their crime was making cloth. On July 7, 1864…

Rush Ghost Town

Rush Ghost Town

Rush, Arkansas

In January 1887, workers fired up a rock smelter along Rush Creek expecting silver.

Russell-Colbath House

Russell-Colbath House

Albany, New Hampshire

Thomas Colbath walked out the door of his Albany farmhouse in 1891 and told his wife he'd be back in a little while.

S.S. Pierce Building

S.S. Pierce Building

Brookline, Massachusetts

The S.S. Pierce Building rises at the heart of Coolidge Corner in Brookline…

Sachs Covered Bridge

Sachs Covered Bridge

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Three Confederate deserters were hanged from the rafters of Sachs Covered Bridge.

San Fernando Cathedral

San Fernando Cathedral

San Antonio, Texas

San Fernando Cathedral, founded in 1731 by King Philip V of Spain, stands as the oldest standing church in Texas and…

Santa Teresa County Park

Santa Teresa County Park

San Jose, California

Don't get too close to Dottie's Pond. That's the warning every generation of San Jose kids has been passing down for at…

Sauerkraut Cave

Sauerkraut Cave

Louisville, Kentucky

The patients tried to crawl out through here. A lot of them didn't make it. Sauerkraut Cave sits inside E.P.

Scull Shoals Ghost Town

Scull Shoals Ghost Town

Greensboro, Georgia

Scull Shoals is named for what the Oconee River kept washing up on the shoal.

Sedamsville Rectory

Sedamsville Rectory

Cincinnati, Ohio

The doors of the basement still have scratch marks from dogs trying to claw their way out.

Seneca Caverns

Seneca Caverns

Riverton, West Virginia

Two small spheres of light, roughly the size of baseballs, zipped from one side of the Council Room to the other.

Shanghai Tunnels

Shanghai Tunnels

Portland, Oregon

Most of what tourists believe about the Shanghai Tunnels is wrong, and that's the interesting part.

Silver Bridge Memorial

Silver Bridge Memorial

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

Forty-six people died in ninety seconds on December 15, 1967, when the Silver Bridge dropped into the Ohio River during…

Six Flags Over Georgia

Six Flags Over Georgia

Austell, Georgia

A blonde nine-year-old in a floral sundress runs up to guests near the parking lot, crying for her mother…

Smith Tower

Smith Tower

Seattle, Washington

In the 1980s, a workman assembling a historical exhibit inside Smith Tower felt someone creep up behind him.

Smuttynose Island

Smuttynose Island

Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire

Smuttynose Island has 25 acres of rock and grass, no trees worth the name…

Sons of Hermann Hall

Sons of Hermann Hall

Dallas, Texas

Sons of Hermann Hall, a Texas Historic Landmark since 1911, dominates Deep Ellum with its ornate German fraternal…

Spook Rock Road

Spook Rock Road

Hudson, New York

Two lovers drowned on a boulder in a flood sent by an angry god, and people still hear a woman crying on the road where…

Springer's Point Nature Preserve

Springer's Point Nature Preserve

Ocracoke, North Carolina

On November 22, 1718, Lieutenant Robert Maynard of the HMS Pearl cornered Blackbeard in a channel just off Ocracoke…

St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church

St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Richard Kerens ordered marble from Italy for a church on an Ozark hillside.

St. Elmo Ghost Town

St. Elmo Ghost Town

Nathrop, Colorado

Annabelle Stark wandered St. Elmo with a shotgun loaded over one shoulder and tangled hair down her back…

St. George's Episcopal Church

St. George's Episcopal Church

Fredericksburg, Virginia

In 1858, seventeen-year-old Ella McCarty climbed to the choir loft for practice and looked down into the empty…

St. Mary's Episcopal Church

St. Mary's Episcopal Church

Kansas City, Missouri

When they found Father Henry David Jardine's body in a St. Louis sacristy on January 6, 1886…

St. Paul Episcopal Church

St. Paul Episcopal Church

Sharpsburg, Maryland

The bloodstains on the floor of St. Paul Episcopal Church in Sharpsburg won't come out.

St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church

St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

"Thank God, I am saved." Those were the last words of a young soldier carried through the doors of St.

St. Valentine's Day Massacre Site

St. Valentine's Day Massacre Site

Chicago, Illinois

John May brought his German shepherd, Highball, to the garage at 2122 North Clark Street on the morning of February 14…

Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain, Georgia

Horses will not go around the sunrise side of Stone Mountain. Dogs tuck their tails and slink the other direction.

Stones Throw

Stones Throw

Eau Claire, Wisconsin

A bartender working the close saw a man sitting at a table. Solid, real-looking, wearing a coat.

Stow Lake (The White Lady)

Stow Lake (The White Lady)

San Francisco, California

On January 6, 1908, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a front-page story headlined "Park Ghost Holds Up Automobile…

Summerville Light

Summerville Light

Summerville, South Carolina

A ball of light floats above the old railroad tracks near Summerville on dark, misty nights. It's small.

Surrency Poltergeist Site

Surrency Poltergeist Site

Surrency, Georgia

A fireplace andiron lifted itself off the hearth, floated across the room, struck one of the Surrency boys on the head…

Tennessee State Capitol

Tennessee State Capitol

Nashville, Tennessee

The Tennessee State Capitol is the only American capitol that doubles as a mausoleum…

Terlingua Ghost Town

Terlingua Ghost Town

Terlingua, Texas

Terlingua Ghost Town rises from the Chihuahuan Desert like a monument to boom-and-bust dreams…

Texas State Capitol

Texas State Capitol

Austin, Texas

Comptroller Robert Marshall Love walks up the promenade to the Capitol building on misty days, dressed in a top hat.

The Art House

The Art House

Eugene, Oregon

The Art House Theater in Eugene used to be a mortuary. Before that, it was a Spanish Colonial Congregational church.

The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum

Indianapolis, Indiana

On October 24, 1911, Dr. Helene Knabe's lab assistant found her dead in her apartment at the Delaware Flats with her…

The Bandage Man of Cannon Beach

The Bandage Man of Cannon Beach

Cannon Beach, Oregon

Locals on Cannon Beach used to call a particular curve of old Highway 101 "Bandage Man Road." The state straightened it…

The Bellin Building

The Bellin Building

Green Bay, Wisconsin

Tenants in the Bellin Building have described a man in his late fifties, gray-haired, wearing a suit…

The Cuban Club

The Cuban Club

Tampa, Florida

The Cuban Club (El Circulo Cubano de Tampa) in Ybor City is considered one of the most haunted buildings in America…

The Devil's Tree

The Devil's Tree

Bernards Township, New Jersey

A solitary oak on Mountain Road in Basking Ridge has a ring of bare earth around its trunk in winter where snow won't…

The Paulding Light

The Paulding Light

Paulding, Michigan

In October 2010, a physics student from Michigan Technological University stood on a stretch of Highway 45 with a car…

The Seven Gates of Hell

The Seven Gates of Hell

Hellam, Pennsylvania

The official Hellam Township website has a page asking people to stop looking for the Seven Gates of Hell.

The Witch's Castle

The Witch's Castle

Portland, Oregon

There's no witch in the Witch's Castle. There's not really a castle, either.

The Witches' Tree

The Witches' Tree

Louisville, Kentucky

The tree at Sixth and Park in Old Louisville is not the one that was there when the curse was placed.

Tilly Willy Bridge

Tilly Willy Bridge

Fayetteville, Arkansas

Park on the bridge. Kill the engine. Wait. After a few minutes, child-sized handprints start appearing on the windows…

TNT Area

TNT Area

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

On November 15, 1966, Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette were driving a black 1957 Chevy through the…

Troy Hill Firehouse

Troy Hill Firehouse

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The firefighters at Engine 39 thought the ghost was on their side.

Tunnelton Tunnel

Tunnelton Tunnel

Tunnelton, Indiana

Henry Dixon was twenty-seven years old when they found him dead about two hundred feet from the east entrance of the…

Turner Hall

Turner Hall

Galena, Illinois

"He acts as theatre critic," the locals say about the ghost of Turner Hall.

Union Station

Union Station

Kansas City, Missouri

On the morning of June 17, 1933, machine gun fire erupted in the parking lot outside Union Station in Kansas City.

USS Edson

USS Edson

Bay City, Michigan

The USS Edson fired her guns in Vietnam. Six gun line deployments, thousands of rounds at coastal targets…

Virginia State Capitol

Virginia State Capitol

Richmond, Virginia

Just before 11 a.m. on April 27, 1870, a girder snapped over a crowded second-floor courtroom in the Virginia State…

War Eagle Mill

War Eagle Mill

Rogers, Arkansas

Lids fly off the tea dispensers and sail across the Bean Palace restaurant on the third floor.

West Virginia State Capitol

West Virginia State Capitol

Charleston, West Virginia

The first West Virginia State Capitol burned down in 1921. The temporary replacement also caught fire, in 1927.

White Point Gardens (The Battery)

White Point Gardens (The Battery)

Charleston, South Carolina

Over five weeks in the autumn of 1718, forty-nine pirates were hanged at gallows erected at White Point…

Whitman Mission

Whitman Mission

Walla Walla, Washington

Visitors to Whitman Mission hear horse hooves galloping across the grounds, followed by children laughing…

Willard Library

Willard Library

Evansville, Indiana

Willard Carpenter left his entire estate to a library instead of his daughter. Louise sued to break the will. She lost.

Wisconsin State Capitol

Wisconsin State Capitol

Madison, Wisconsin

Look closely at the mural above the Assembly chambers in the Wisconsin State Capitol and you'll notice something wrong.

Wolf House

Wolf House

Norfork, Arkansas

Jacob Wolf built the courthouse himself. In October 1829, he pushed legislation through the Arkansas Territory General…

Wrigley Field

Wrigley Field

Chicago, Illinois

"Them Cubs, they ain't gonna win no more." William "Billy Goat" Sianis said it in 1945.

Zuelke Building

Zuelke Building

Appleton, Wisconsin

Late at night, cleaning crews in the Zuelke Building hear piano music drifting from upper floors. Nobody is up there.

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Alhambra Apartments

Detroit, Michigan

Fourteen people from ten Alhambra Apartments families came down violently sick within a single week of January 1905.

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Bara-Hack

Pomfret, Connecticut

In 1971, six seminary students from St. Thomas in Bloomfield hiked more than a mile into the Connecticut woods to reach…

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Burnt Mill Road - The Atco Ghost

Atco, New Jersey

You drive to the end of Burnt Mill Road. It's a dead-end cut through the Pine Barrens in Atco, Camden County…

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Croisan Creek Road

Salem, Oregon

Croisan Creek Road kills people, and not because it's haunted.

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Crybaby Lane

Raleigh, North Carolina

The Crybaby Lane story is that in 1958 a group of escaped patients from Dorothea Dix Hospital…

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Downs Road

Hamden, Connecticut

Something keeps scratching parked cars on Downs Road. Long, thin gouges down the side panels, like claws or branches…

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Gallows Hill Road

Cranford, New Jersey

James Morgan was hanged here on January 29, 1782. An American sentry, he had shot Reverend James Caldwell two months…

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Hornet Spooklight

Joplin, Missouri

Robert Gannon pointed a telescope at the Hornet Spooklight in 1965 and watched it split cleanly into two points of…

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Island Path Road

Hampton, New Hampshire

Eunice Cole is the only woman New Hampshire ever formally convicted of witchcraft…

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Lydia's Bridge

Jamestown, North Carolina

In 1924, an NC State student named Burke Hardison was driving through Jamestown on a wet night when he saw a young…

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Milton Schoolhouse

Alton, Illinois

The most famous student at Milton Schoolhouse was Robert Wadlow, the tallest person in recorded history at 8 feet 11…

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Murphy Funeral Home

Salem, Massachusetts

The sounds come after hours. Footsteps down empty hallways. Weeping in the chapel…

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Old Redfield Road

Sheridan, Arkansas

Floor it. That is the standard advice from Grant County locals about a particular stretch of Old Redfield Road south of…

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Oxford Light

Oxford, Ohio

Flash your headlights three times at the intersection of Oxford-Milford Road and Earhart Road, facing south, and wait.

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Reeder Road

Griffith, Indiana

Reeder Road is not really a road anymore. It's a crumbling asphalt path through the swamp between Griffith and…

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Ridgeway Phantom

Ridgeway, Wisconsin

On December 7, 1902, the New York Times ran a piece called "Some Wisconsin Ghosts." The article described an entity on…

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Riverdale Road

Thornton, Colorado

At 1 a.m. on November 28, 1975, a two-story brick mansion at 9190 Riverdale Road burned to the ground.

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Silver Run Tunnel

Pennsboro, West Virginia

An engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad once refused to stop for the woman in white.

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The Demon House Site

Gary, Indiana

A DCS family case manager named Valerie Washington watched a nine-year-old boy walk backward up a hospital wall and…

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The Exorcist House

Bel-Nor, Missouri

The word "LOUIS" appeared scratched into a fourteen-year-old boy's chest in February 1949.

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Zombie Road

Wildwood, Missouri

The city of Wildwood, Missouri, officially denies that Zombie Road exists.