Changelog

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• Burnside Bridge (MD) rewritten. Balls of blue light drift along Antietam Creek and a phantom drum beats cadence into the dark — where 400 Georgians held the bridge for three hours over a creek shallow enough to wade all along.
• Concord Point Lighthouse (MD) rewritten. Havre de Grace's Perfumed Ghost — seen once in 1889 with eyes like diamonds, then gone, leaving an oil-reeking lantern room smelling like a flower garden. People near the point still catch the scent.

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• Admiral Fell Inn (MD) rewritten. Guests wake to an elderly woman sitting on the edge of the bed — she presses a finger to her lips and tells them to go back to sleep. Staff tie her to the nurses who once cared for dying sailors here.
• Antietam National Battlefield (MD) rewritten. Schoolboys walking near the Bloody Lane began chanting a strange refrain — their teacher recognized the Gaelic war cry of an Irish brigade slaughtered on that exact ground in 1862.
• Antietam National Cemetery (MD) rewritten. 4,776 Union dead from the bloodiest day in American history — and a visitor who watched a wisp of mist rise from the ground and vanish into one of the 1,836 graves that carry no name.
• B&O Railroad Station Museum (MD) rewritten. Ellicott City tour guides named their ghost Charlie before they knew anything about him — then learned the railroad's oldest worker at his death was a Charles. He keeps to the freight house.
• Fort McHenry (MD) rewritten. Visitors keep asking the desk about the soldier they saw on Bastion Three — there were no reenactors that day. He stands where two men died at their cannon in 1814, and he walks through the wall.
• Furnace Town Living Heritage Village (MD) rewritten. Sampson Harmon is still seen walking the abandoned iron village calling for his cats — he stayed alone for decades after everyone else left, and the museum keeps strays on the grounds so he still has them.
• Glenn Dale Hospital (MD) rewritten. An abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium outside Washington, built around sun decks and glass solariums — and the officer who emptied his magazine at something inside, then couldn't say what he'd seen.
• Governor Calvert House (MD) rewritten. A glass floor in the Annapolis sitting room shows off a buried colonial furnace — guests who sit above it report unfamiliar faces looking back up, and reflections of people who aren't in the room.
• High Street Historic District (MD) rewritten. Roughly a dozen hauntings packed into two short blocks of Cambridge — enough that one author calls it the most haunted street in Maryland — and a churchyard yew that hums over a grave its roots have swallowed.
• Jonathan Hager House (MD) rewritten. One room undoes visitors: the nursery — a cradle and a rocking chair that move with no one near them, cold that comes and goes, and a woman who fainted there on a ghost tour.
• Lilburn Mansion (MD) rewritten. The heavy dining-room chandelier swings by itself, and the household never panicked — they addressed the ghost by name, the way you'd quiet a difficult houseguest named Margaret.
• Lord Baltimore Hotel (MD) rewritten. A small handprint keeps returning to a penthouse wall no matter how often staff paint over it — blamed on Molly, the girl who bounces a red ball on the 19th floor and asks guests where her parents went.
• Maryland State House (MD) rewritten. A figure in colonial dress keeps turning up on the dome in Annapolis — said to be Thomas Dance, the plasterer who fell to his death up there in 1793.
• Max's Taphouse (MD) rewritten. A worker once ran up from the Fells Point cellar screaming about headless chickens — and nobody learned why until 23 years later.
• Middleton Tavern (MD) rewritten. Staff have spent years sharing the upstairs Annapolis kitchen with a prankster named Roland — a 1990s seance asked the ghost why he stayed. He liked it, came the answer.
• Miller's Church (MD) rewritten. A phantom hearse chases trespassers off the property outside Hagerstown — a local farmer in a grim reaper costume admitted he was the hearse, and the sightings only got stranger.
• Mt. Ida (MD) rewritten. The ghost isn't a face in a window — it's a sound. A ring of keys jingling room to room, the way deaf Miss Ida Tyson, last of her family, used to walk her rounds.
• Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum (MD) rewritten. A six-foot animatronic doll named Laughing Sal sits on the second floor — press her button and nothing happens. Then she laughs on her own, after hours, with the building empty.
• Old Brick Inn (MD) rewritten. Staff in St. Michaels describe a blue ball of light streaking up the Kemp House staircase — each time it reaches the top, a door slams shut. They say they've watched it happen with the building empty.
• Old Denton Jail (MD) rewritten. A handprint marks the wall by the cell where a 19-year-old was hanged in 1915 — three sheriffs covered it with paint, plaster, and concrete, and it came back through every time.
• Old Princess Anne Jail (MD) rewritten. Locals call the gray-granite jail the Grey Eagle — a child's face keeps appearing in an upstairs window where there's no floor to stand on.
• Old White Marsh Church (MD) rewritten. Hannah Maynadier still walks the road on moonlit nights, clutching her burial shroud, her hand trailing blood — she was buried here once, and the story is she didn't stay buried.
• Patapsco Female Institute (MD) rewritten. Dog walkers keep seeing a girl in a Victorian dress watching from the treeline of the Ellicott City ruins — the girls' school closed in 1891. Somebody apparently forgot to tell the students.
• Point Lookout Lighthouse (MD) rewritten. In 1980 investigators recorded 24 distinct voices inside the empty building — including one near the staircase that simply says: my home.
• Point Lookout State Park (MD) rewritten. The Union prison camp at the tip of the peninsula buried 3,384 prisoners — and the recordings made here caught a voice ordering a soldier to fire.
• Poplar Hill Mansion (MD) rewritten. The nursery floor reportedly still carries scorch marks from the night a young enslaved woman's skirt caught fire — staff say Sara never stopped working, drawers opening and linens folding for children long gone.
• Pry House Field Hospital Museum (MD) rewritten. Firefighters battling a 1976 blaze saw a woman in old-fashioned clothing at a second-floor window — the room where a Union general died. Afterward they found the floor around that window had collapsed.
• Rackliffe House (MD) rewritten. The haunting near Assateague is something you hear, not see — a piano playing by itself, gunshots, breaking glass — and two people in the same room won't hear the same thing.
• Reynolds Tavern (MD) rewritten. A woman's voice sings Christmas carols from an upstairs Annapolis bedroom — in July as readily as December — said to be Mary Reynolds, who ran the tavern until she died in 1785 and never left.
• Rodgers House (MD) rewritten. The British set it on fire three times when they burned Havre de Grace in 1813, and it would not burn — tenants say a woman still keeps the second floor.
• Schifferstadt Architectural Museum (MD) rewritten. When crews began restoring the 1750s German stone house in Frederick, staff started hearing footsteps and voices in German moving through the empty rooms.
• Shoreham Hotel (MD) rewritten. The basement holds the meanest spirit in Ocean City — a visiting ghost hunter shut himself in alone to test it, then begged to be let back out.
• St. Paul Episcopal Church (MD) rewritten. A short walk from Antietam, surgeons filled it with the dying after the bloodiest day in American history — people who pass at night say the screaming never stopped.
• Surratt House Museum (MD) rewritten. The director took the job not believing in ghosts and still doesn't claim to — but a roomful of staff once heard a man's heavy boots come in the front door, cross the hall, and leave by the back.
• Teackle Mansion (MD) rewritten. Police are called again and again for alarms tripping in the empty Princess Anne mansion — sometimes, before they reach the door, a figure crosses the second floor, window to window.
• The Horse You Came In On Saloon (MD) rewritten. Staff leave a glass of cognac on the Fells Point bar at closing for Edgar Allan Poe — skip the ritual, and a glass flies off the bar and shatters.
• The Maryland Inn (MD) rewritten. Two ghosts who never meet — a bride pacing the fourth floor where Room 405 still empties out, and the Navy captain she waited for, sitting alone in the basement taproom, gazing toward the water.
• The Wayside Inn (MD) rewritten. The stone house in Ellicott City with candles in every window — a woman in a white dress walks the halls, opens doors, and trails perfume through empty rooms. No record says who she was.
• Westminster Hall and Burying Ground (MD) rewritten. For over half a century a black-clad figure left cognac and three roses at Poe's grave before dawn on his birthday, then vanished — and the catacombs below have ghosts of their own.
• Boston Athenaeum (MA) rewritten. Nathaniel Hawthorne watched a dead minister read the paper in his usual chair for weeks — and never spoke to him, because talking wasn't allowed in the reading room.
• Boston Common (MA) rewritten. America's oldest park was the city gallows for 175 years — guides say figures still dangle from a hanging-tree limb that fell over a century ago.
• Boston Massacre Site (MA) rewritten. No named ghost at the cobblestone ring where five colonists died in 1770 — just sounds the stones give back, as if the ground remembers what it absorbed.
• Burial Hill (MA) rewritten. The ghosts above Plymouth aren't Pilgrims — they're the General Arnold's sailors, frozen to death in a 1778 blizzard and buried in an unmarked mass grave.
• Captain Thompson Phillips House (MA) rewritten. A drowned sea captain drove tenants out of a Plymouth mansion in 1733 — then the ghost-scorning owner took them to court over the haunting, and lost.
• Central Burying Ground (MA) rewritten. The silent girl in a dirty white dress who kept appearing around a dentist on Boston Common in the 1970s — then an unseen hand grabbed his collar and his keys floated out of his pocket.
• Charlesgate Hotel (MA) rewritten. For half a century students swore a girl named Elsa fell down the elevator shaft and haunted the dorms. The real Elsa never died there.
• Cole's Hill (MA) rewritten. The Plymouth burial ground the Pilgrims tried to hide — dead buried at night, crops planted over the graves — where voices still rise from the ground.
• Concord's Colonial Inn (MA) rewritten. Room 24 is the most requested room in the house — newlyweds slept there in 1966, left after a single night, then mailed the innkeeper a letter about the gray shape at the foot of the bed.
• Copp's Hill Burying Ground (MA) rewritten. A spectral guardian drifts between the North End headstones, checking behind each one — keeping watch over ground British soldiers once shot at for sport.
• Cutler Majestic Theatre (MA) rewritten. Staff name four ghosts and say goodnight to them on the way out — the most-seen is a mayor who died in his seat, except no record shows any mayor ever did.
• Daniels House (MA) rewritten. A gray tabby cat that disappears when you reach for it, in a 1667 Salem house older than the witch trials — its builders cut a charm against evil into the wood.
• Danvers State Hospital (MA) rewritten. Built to heal the mentally ill, it ended as a name people whispered — Hell House on the Hill — and an administrator's daughter says a scowling old woman watched her family from the attic.
• Derby Wharf (MA) rewritten. Half a mile into Salem Harbor, ending at a small white lighthouse — sailor boys no older than 18, and a captain whose shouted orders still carry over the water.
• Dogtown Common (MA) rewritten. An abandoned colonial village gone to cellar holes in the woods behind Gloucester — its last residents were called witches, and a 1921 newspaper blamed their evil power for the hikers who kept getting lost.
• Fenway Park (MA) rewritten. After 37,000 fans go home, the night cleaning crew hear Babe Ruth taking batting practice — the crack of a bat, cheers from empty stands. No one has ever seen him.
• Fort Warren (MA) rewritten. The Lady in Black, a Confederate widow hanged as a spy on Georges Island — first put in print by an author who warned he couldn't promise any of it was true.
• Freetown-Fall River State Forest (MA) rewritten. The southeast corner of the Bridgewater Triangle — Wampanoag warnings of trickster spirits, an 80-foot flooded quarry that pulls at people, and a real killing.
• Gallows Hill Park (MA) rewritten. For three centuries everyone thought the 1692 witches hanged here. In 2016 historians proved otherwise. The hauntings stayed put anyway.
• Granary Burying Ground (MA) rewritten. Paul Revere and three Declaration signers lie here, but the tours give the restless paths to James Otis — the lawyer who wished to die by lightning, and got his wish.
• Hammond Castle (MA) rewritten. Visitors keep reporting a black cat nobody can catch — in a Gloucester castle built by an inventor obsessed with cats and the occult, who said he'd come back.
• Harvard Porcellian Club (MA) rewritten. A young man swore no ghost could frighten him, and died of fright when his friends tested it. The story is real. The haunting was bolted on a century later.
• Harvard Yard (MA) rewritten. Emerson wrote "Cambridge at any time is full of ghosts" as metaphor — four centuries of campus lore took him literally, and the named ghosts keep specific addresses.
• Hawthorne Hotel (MA) rewritten. Room 325 is the one guests request when they want a haunting — they wake to a baby crying somewhere close inside the room, when there is no baby anywhere in it.
• Hoosac Tunnel (MA) rewritten. Workers called it the Bloody Pit — one killed two men with an early blast, vanished, then turned up strangled deep inside, at the exact spot they died.
• Houghton Mansion (MA) rewritten. Haunted by the family that built it — the textile magnate, his daughter, and the chauffeur who blamed himself for the crash that killed them, then shot himself in the barn cellar.
• Howard Street Cemetery (MA) rewritten. The unmarked grave of Giles Corey, the only man pressed to death in American history — who cursed the sheriff as he died, and whose ghost Salem looks for in the days before disaster.
• Joshua Ward House (MA) rewritten. Built over the home of the witch-trials sheriff — in 1981 a real-estate office Polaroid came back showing a gaunt woman in black who was never in the room.
• King's Chapel Burying Ground (MA) rewritten. Around 1810 a superintendent straightened the headstones into tidy rows without moving the dead beneath them — the spirits, cut off from their graves, have wandered ever since.
• Lizzie Borden House (MA) rewritten. You can sleep in the room where Abby Borden was found murdered in 1892 — guests report the weight of someone sitting down on the edge of the bed, and the blankets pulled tight.
• Longfellow House (MA) rewritten. The poet wrote a line about haunted houses in 1858. Three years later his wife burned to death in the library — and the Park Service now leans into the ghost stories.
• Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House (MA) rewritten. Where Little Women was written, the ghosts come in two sets — the real Alcott sisters and the fictional March girls — and locals can't always tell you which ones they mean.
• Lyceum Hall (MA) rewritten. The woman in a long white gown on the main staircase, said to be Bridget Bishop — the first person hanged in the witch trials, on whose orchard the building stands.
• Old Burying Ground (MA) rewritten. A paranormal author propped a church door open with one of its Harvard Square gravestones — the door shut by itself, then a figure in a tricorn hat crossed his eye in an empty building.
• Old Burying Point Cemetery (MA) rewritten. The judges who sent people to the gallows in 1692 are buried here, facing the memorial to their victims — and visitors keep photographing a dark figure at one judge's headstone.
• Old Hill Burying Ground (MA) rewritten. The carved skull in Concord whose empty sockets fill with real eyes that follow you across the slope — among nearly 500 graves, including the one stone that became a scandal across the Atlantic.
• Omni Parker House (MA) rewritten. Elevator Number One keeps traveling to the third floor on its own, empty, with no one waiting — staff say it has done that since Charlotte Cushman died on that floor in 1876.
• Peabody Essex Museum (MA) rewritten. The museum keeps its ghost story off-site, at the Ropes Mansion it owns three blocks down Essex Street — where a caretaker's photograph once caught a pair of hands with no body attached.
• Pickering Wharf (MA) rewritten. The ghosts here aren't witches but sailors — men shouting and fighting under the tavern floor, in tunnels the legend says were used to kidnap young men onto outbound ships.
• Proctor's Ledge Memorial (MA) rewritten. The low rock outcrop where 19 people were hanged in 1692 and left in the crevices, denied burial — a Lady in White wails on the wind, and locals say the grief never lifted.
• Ropes Mansion (MA) rewritten. A Ropes daughter stood too close to the fire in 1839, her dress caught, and she died of the burns — staff say her screams still come from near the hearth of the house most visitors know from Hocus Pocus.
• Salem Witch Museum (MA) rewritten. It sits where Ann Dolliver — the minister's own daughter, accused and jailed — lived out her last broken years. The ghost reports are thin. The ground is not.
• Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (MA) rewritten. No documented ghost in Concord's hollow — just the colder symmetry of the writers who walked it as their evening parlor in life, all buried on the same rise within 30 years.
• Spider Gates Cemetery (MA) rewritten. Locals call the Quaker burial ground outside Worcester the eighth gate to Hell. The legend has no traceable origin — the cemetery is gentle, well-tended, and still in use.
• Taunton State Hospital (MA) rewritten. The old Kirkbride asylum burned in 2006 and is rubble now, but the lore outlived the building — a basement Shadow Man, and a killer nurse who died here paranoid.
• The House of the Seven Gables (MA) rewritten. Visitors report a shadow on a hidden staircase they believe sheltered fugitives in 1692 — the stairs were built two centuries later, for the museum. The house's real ghost predates them all.
• The Salem Inn (MA) rewritten. The inn keeps no cats, but guests meet one anyway — a black shape pawing at the bed, and cat-allergic visitors sneezing in a parlor that holds no living animal.
• The Wayside (MA) rewritten. Thoreau told Hawthorne a previous owner of the Concord house had believed he would never die. The legend gripped Hawthorne for the rest of his life — he died with the novel about it still unfinished.
• The Witch House (MA) rewritten. The last building standing with a direct tie to 1692 — Judge Corwin's own home — where visitors keep hearing a little girl's voice from empty rooms.
• USS Constitution (MA) rewritten. Old Ironsides is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat, still crewed — and the sailors who served aboard her in our own century say the dead crew never left.

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• Mount Auburn Cemetery (MA) removed. America's first garden cemetery is beautiful and historic — but it has no ghost story, and even Boston's own haunted-Cambridge lists leave it out.
• Murphy Funeral Home (MA) removed. The ghost story couldn't be traced to a single credible source.
• Old South Meeting House (MA) removed. The Revolutionary history is real — the ghost story isn't. Its only source is one tour company's boilerplate, and the famous investigation lore belongs to a different meeting house in Lynnfield.
• Paul Revere House (MA) removed. Revere's ghost rides at the Granary Burying Ground, where he's buried — no haunting has ever been reported at his North End house.
• Pilgrim Hall Museum (MA) removed. Plymouth's haunted lore belongs to Burial Hill, the Spooner House, and the John Carver Inn — none of it traces to Pilgrim Hall.
• S.S. Pierce Building (MA) removed. The Brookline landmark with the clock tower has no ghost story — every "haunted Pierce" tale belongs to the S.K. Pierce Mansion in Gardner, a different building in a different town.
• Sparrow House (MA) removed. Plymouth's oldest house is real history, but its haunting never gets past vague shadows and sounds — no named ghost, no backstory, no sightings.
• Witch Dungeon Museum (MA) removed. The dungeon is a 1979 replica inside a former chapel — the weeping and rattling chains belong to Salem's original 1692 jail site, demolished long ago.

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• Andrew Jackson Hotel (LA) rewritten. Room 208 belongs to a boy named Armand — guests pay extra to sleep there, and some get shoved out of bed by something giggling near the ceiling.
• Antoine's Restaurant (LA) rewritten. The waiter who isn't on the schedule, walking toward the hidden Prohibition speakeasy — gone by the time staff follow, the door locked.
• Arnaud's Restaurant (LA) rewritten. The founder died in 1948 and never stopped working the floor — a tall man in an old-fashioned tuxedo nudging the silverware back into line.
• Beauregard-Keyes House (LA) rewritten. The novelist who restored the house said she saw General Beauregard wandering at night, looking for the boots he was buried without.
• Bourbon Orleans Hotel (LA) rewritten. Room 644, where the story says a nun took her life — guests wake to a woman in a habit beside the bed, watching with a kind, thoughtful face.
• Chalmette Battlefield (LA) rewritten. Soldiers in both uniforms still walking the old line — hundreds of British men died here in half an hour, and nobody can say where the bodies went.
• Dauphine Orleans Hotel (LA) rewritten. The city's first licensed brothel, and the woman in a white wedding gown in the courtyard — the madam's sister, who never got to marry.
• Destrehan Plantation (LA) rewritten. The man in white on the oak-lined drive — Stephen Henderson, who buried his young wife in 1830 and never recovered.
• Faulkner House Books (LA) rewritten. Pipe tobacco in a shop where no one smokes — Faulkner finished his first novel in these rooms, and the owner says his ghost kept the man's other vices too.
• Front Street (LA) rewritten. The Natchitoches antique shop where staff say good morning to a ghost girl at opening — forget her, and merchandise flies off the walls and she says your name.
• Gallier House (LA) rewritten. One of the Quarter's most famous haunted addresses, where no staff have ever reported a ghost — the dread is all documented: four deaths in one family in under two years.
• Harris Hall (LA) rewritten. The Lafayette dorm ghost named Lily, seen again and again by the housekeeper who cleaned the building for 26 years and never once managed to see her face.
• Hermann-Grima House (LA) rewritten. The gentlest spirit in the French Quarter, who lights the fireplaces on cold mornings and smells of roses — and the rough one waiting down in the cellar.
• Highland Road Confederate Ghosts (LA) rewritten. Ragged soldiers crossing the road south of LSU who never reach the other side — and the battle people blame was fought miles away.
• Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center (LA) rewritten. Cigar smoke in rooms finished an hour ago, in a hotel smoke-free since 2006 — and a man in the hall dressed the way Huey Long was in the 1920s.
• Hotel Monteleone (LA) rewritten. Maurice Begere, the boy who died in the hotel while his parents were at the opera, and the four words he came back to tell his mother.
• Hotel Provincial (LA) rewritten. The elevator that sometimes opens on a full Civil War hospital — cots, wounded men, a soldier mid-surgery — then closes on a carpeted hallway again.
• Houmas House Plantation (LA) rewritten. The 2003 construction crew who kept seeing a little girl in a blue dress come down the staircase — nobody had told them the place was haunted.
• LSU Campus Mounds (LA) rewritten. Drums rising from thousands-of-years-old ground in the middle of campus, and shadows crossing the crests after dark.
• LaLaurie Mansion (LA) rewritten. The documented 1834 fire is worse than the legend — and the house standing on the corner now isn't even the one it happened in.
• Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar (LA) rewritten. A pirate's treasure said to be walled into the brick, guarded by a pair of red eyes in the fireplace and Lafitte himself watching from the dark.
• Le Pavillon Hotel (LA) rewritten. The young woman in black who tells lobby guests "I am... very lost," then disappears, leaving the smell of lilacs.
• Logan Mansion (LA) rewritten. The overnight recorder that caught a child's voice saying visitors couldn't go up to the attic — and the girl the legend blames almost certainly never fell there at all.
• Madewood Plantation House (LA) rewritten. The woman and the small white dog who wander up from the family cemetery — a mistress of the house nobody can name, and a dog that never got a name at all.
• Magnolia Plantation (LA) rewritten. The archaeologist who left his tools in a brick slave cabin overnight and came back to a deliberate line of yellow powder laid across the doorway.
• Marie Laveau's House (LA) rewritten. The St. Ann Street house where Laveau actually lived and died — guests wake to chanting from the locked living room and find a single feather on the floor.
• Muriel's Jackson Square (LA) rewritten. The standing dinner reservation that never gets cancelled — bread, wine, and fresh white linen set nightly for a man who died on the second floor. Nobody sits there.
• New Orleans Pharmacy Museum (LA) rewritten. The burglar alarm tripping in the dead of night, the door still bolted when police arrive, and the locked second-floor cases rearranged.
• Oak Alley Plantation (LA) rewritten. The candlestick that lifted off a table and flew across the room in front of a tour bus of about 35 people — after years of staff logging stranger things.
• Oakland Plantation (LA) rewritten. The state marker that says Dr. Abel Skannal kept a coffin in his attic, and the two families, generations apart, who describe the same haunting.
• Old Absinthe House (LA) rewritten. The ghosts patrons claim to see after dark — Lafitte, Andrew Jackson, Marie Laveau — are the same ones who really drank here.
• Old Ursuline Convent (LA) rewritten. The third-floor attic sealed for two centuries after the Casket Girls' trunks turned up empty — and the room that finally opened in summer 2025.
• Omni Royal Orleans (LA) rewritten. The 19th-century maid who tucks second-floor guests in at night — the gentle one, on a footprint that held a slave-auction block and a war hospital.
• Pentagon Barracks (LA) rewritten. The black, featureless figure maintenance workers call the Shadow Man, and the legislators who refused to move into their apartments at all.
• Place d'Armes Hotel (LA) rewritten. The bearded man in old-fashioned clothes guests chat with on the next balcony over — before finding out the room beside theirs has nobody in it.
• Pleasant Hall (LA) rewritten. The LSU custodians who won't work the third floor alone, and room 312, where a young woman is said to have shot herself when the building was a hotel.
• Saenger Theatre (LA) rewritten. The whispering voice in the empty balcony that calls longtime employees by name, and the man who sits alone in the 2,600-seat house after everyone's gone.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium (LA) rewritten. The stage launched Elvis, Hank Williams, and Johnny Cash — but the figures still reported are the audience, sitting in the seats, watching nothing.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 (LA) rewritten. The tomb covered in thousands of small Xs — wishes to Marie Laveau. The Archdiocese locked the gates to stop it; the Xs came back anyway.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 (LA) rewritten. The bride in white cab drivers say they picked up near the wall, gone from the seat before they arrived — and residents stranger than the ghost.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 (LA) rewritten. No marquee ghost — just disembodied voices in the rows, figures turning up in photographs, and the heaviest foundation story of the three.
• St. Maurice Plantation (LA) rewritten. The child ghost who flipped calendar pages and rushed past people in empty halls — then the mansion burned, and the legend named who did it.
• Strand Theatre (LA) rewritten. Exactly one ghost, and nobody's afraid of him: Jim Montgomery, the preservationist who died in 2013. When his portrait fell off the wall, the director apologized to it.
• T'Frere's House (LA) rewritten. The Lafayette inn ghost who speaks only French and wears a rose-colored dress — and the woman staff later found had drowned in the very same well.
• The Myrtles Plantation (LA) rewritten. Chloe, the green turban, the poisoned birthday cake — no Chloe in any record, and of the ten murders the tour names, exactly one is real.
• The Sultan's Palace (LA) rewritten. The famous harem massacre has no records in any archive — a 1922 invention — and the house still seems to be occupied by someone.
• Woodland Plantation (LA) rewritten. The mansion drawn on the old Southern Comfort label, the man in a silk hat and striped pants, and the boy who vanishes the moment anyone asks him a question.

Removed

• Magnolia Plantation in Schriever (LA) removed. Every ghost story told about it belongs to a different Magnolia — the one in Natchitoches — and the Schriever house never had one of its own.
• San Francisco Plantation (LA) removed. The house closed to the public in 2022 and now sits fenced off on refinery grounds — no tours, no access, no plans to reopen.

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• Airdrie Iron Works Ruins (KY) rewritten. The furnace that never made a bar of iron, and the convict locals say was thrown alive into the fire and still screams from the stone.
• Ashland - The Henry Clay Estate (KY) rewritten. Clay leaning on the study mantel over his own mementos, in a house his son tore down and rebuilt after he died — a copy he never set foot in.
• Belle of Louisville (KY) rewritten. The woman crew hear singing on an empty deck, and how the boat dug its own archives to find her: Gladys Stamper, who fell overboard in 1936.
• Bobby Mackey's Music World (KY) rewritten. The honky-tonk built over a basement well its lore calls a portal to hell, the 1993 exorcism, and the TV host who left with three scratches down his back.
• Bodley-Bullock House (KY) rewritten. The teetotaler who forbade drinking in her will, and the woman who keeps turning up on the staircase in brides' wedding proofs after the rule got rewritten.
• Booth Memorial Hospital (KY) rewritten. The condos on the old maternity hospital, where residents wake to a 1930s nurse pressing a hand to their forehead, saying it's going to be okay.
• Buffalo Trace Distillery (KY) rewritten. The guard who saw the same grey-bearded man by the elevator every day for a week, and checked the video each time to find no one there.
• Cave Hill Cemetery (KY) rewritten. The grounds that ban ghost tours and say there's nothing to find, where the Lady in Black wanders the old Civil War rows anyway.
• Colville Covered Bridge (KY) rewritten. The headlights that close fast behind you in the dark, and the night an Ovilus named Sarah Mitchell — a name nowhere in its vocabulary.
• Conrad-Caldwell House (KY) rewritten. The man who died on his own back stairs in 1905 and now wags a finger at tourists who wander off the route, in a bowler hat and goatee.
• DuPont Mansion Bed and Breakfast (KY) rewritten. The cigar smoke in a nonsmoking inn, and the man on the stairs with a bullet hole in his chest — a gunpowder heir his family said died of a heart attack.
• Frankfort Cemetery (KY) rewritten. The grave under Daniel Boone's name that may hold the wrong man, the plaster skull cast that raised the doubt, and the restless ghost two states still claim.
• Gratz Park Inn (KY) rewritten. The hotel built over a clinic morgue that keeps a front-desk ledger where guests log their sightings — the same few names filling the book for years.
• Hunt-Morgan House (KY) rewritten. The nursemaid in red shoes seen over sick children's cradles, and the historian who traced the legend to who told it, and why.
• Jailer's Inn Bed and Breakfast (KY) rewritten. The one guest room that's still a real cell, where a man awaiting the gallows died crying out in his fever in 1889, and a door still clanks shut.
• Old Governor's Mansion (KY) rewritten. The Weeping Lady sobbing through the empty halls — a governor's wife grieving a dead child, except no record of who she is matches.
• Lexington Cemetery (KY) rewritten. Aunt Betty under a child-sized stone reading "Ever Faithful," and the angry presence at the mausoleum that belongs to no grave at all.
• Lexington Opera House (KY) rewritten. The Man in Gray who watches rehearsals from the balconies that were boarded up for decades — and came back when the restoration reopened them.
• Liberty Hall (KY) rewritten. The Gray Lady, the oldest documented ghost in the state — an aunt who came to visit in 1817 and was dead three days later, whom the family called "our beloved ghost."
• Lost River Cave (KY) rewritten. The Union soldiers who crawled into the dark and smoked their names onto the cave ceiling in candle soot — a roll call later matched to real military records, written by men who never came home.
• Louisville Bourbon Inn (KY) rewritten. The governess who held a séance to save a sick child, and the answer that came back instead of the dead doctor: "You fool, I'm not the doctor."
• Louisville Palace Theatre (KY) rewritten. The chief engineer who died in the basement in 1965 and never left — restoration crews kept describing a man they'd never met, until his grandson handed them a photo that matched.
• Mammoth Cave National Park (KY) rewritten. The stone huts a mile and a half underground where a doctor tried to cure tuberculosis with cave air, and the five who died on Corpse Rock instead.
• Maple Hill Manor Bed and Breakfast (KY) rewritten. The country inn where guests check out and mail back what found them in the dark — a crying woman, a voice calling "ma'am" — for the owners to add to the pile.
• Mary Todd Lincoln House (KY) rewritten. The house that keeps getting handed a ghost from down the street, and the real haunting Mary carried herself — the séances she held to reach her dead sons.
• My Old Kentucky Home (Federal Hill) (KY) rewritten. The gentle state song, and the dining room where the 1833 cholera dead were laid out, where staff still report shadows that don't belong.
• Octagon Hall Museum (KY) rewritten. The child's voice investigators keep catching in the basement, blamed on a girl who burned at the hearth — and listed alive in two census records.
• Old State Capitol Building (KY) rewritten. The guard who watched Goebel's portrait fall off the wall on the anniversary of his assassination, and the cursed chest with 18 deaths tied to it.
• Old Talbott Tavern (KY) rewritten. The laughing man on the upstairs landing a bookkeeper later recognized on an Old West TV program — Jesse James — and the bullet-holed mural he's blamed for.
• Perryville Battlefield (KY) rewritten. The horse that gallops hard past you at dusk and isn't there — Dixie, killed under a general in 1862 — and the soldier who walks in off the field.
• Pioneer Cemetery (KY) rewritten. The steamboat inventor John Fitch, dug up and moved across town in 1927, and the tour's cliffhanger about caretakers who buried the living that never pays off.
• John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge (KY) rewritten. The woman who jumped from the span — a ghost that lives only on the walking tour, with no name, no date, and no record anywhere else.
• Sauerkraut Cave (KY) rewritten. The cave behind the old Lakeland Asylum, named for the cans the hospital stored there, where a naturalist says an angry man won't let the trapped spirits go.
• Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill (KY) rewritten. The footsteps and the touch on the hair in the empty Tanyard House, and the pond legend of drowned babies that a celibate community could never have had.
• Speed Art Museum (KY) rewritten. The founder who never left — staff smell her rosewater perfume in the galleries after closing and welcome her by name when new work goes up.
• Springhill Winery and Plantation B&B (KY) rewritten. The front door where the owner was shot dead in 1864 and prisoners were executed in the yard — marketed as haunted, with not one sighting on record.
• The Carneal House (KY) rewritten. The Lady in Grey who supposedly hanged herself after Lafayette snubbed her, and the historian who found the ball never happened — and the real woman who was worse.
• The Seelbach Hilton Hotel (KY) rewritten. The Lady in Blue who checked in under a false name in 1936 and died on a service elevator, and the cook who watched her walk through its closed doors.
• The Shinkle House (KY) rewritten. The cleaner who smoothed a bed, stepped out, and came back to a fresh body-shaped dent in the quilt, in the room of a wife who came back to the house she preferred.
• The Witches' Tree (KY) rewritten. The osage orange hung with beads and skeleton keys, said to have grown from a curse — leave an offering for luck, steal one and the curse comes for you.
• Transylvania University - Old Morrison (KY) rewritten. The 1969 fire that left only the crypt, the man firefighters saw in its doorway, and the curse a fired naturalist laid on the campus in 1826.
• Waverly Hills Sanatorium (KY) rewritten. The body chute built so dying patients wouldn't watch the dead go, and the famous "63,000 deaths" figure — wrong, and borrowed from a far worse story.
• Western Kentucky University (KY) rewritten. The Potter Hall ghost who leaves pennies on desks, named three times in fifty years, tracing back to a student who died in basement room 7 in 1979.
• White Hall State Historic Site (KY) rewritten. The woman's face that sat in an upper window for years, until the staff coated the glass with UV blocker in 2007 and she vanished.
• Wickland Mansion (KY) rewritten. The "Home of Three Governors," and the spirit the tours actually keep meeting — Waleta, the cook nobody put on a marker, always in the back kitchen.

Improvements

• The stories read like a magazine now. The text column is capped to a comfortable line length, the body ink is brighter, and every page opens with an In Brief lede before the full story — so the page you came to read actually reads like one, not a database row.
• Honest footer. Removed the newsletter sign-up that quietly went nowhere. When there's a real list to join, there'll be a real form.
• Calmer by default. The headline flicker now settles after the page loads instead of pulsing forever — and the whole site honors your device's "reduce motion" setting. If you've asked for stillness, the flicker, glitch, and the idle jump-scare all stay off.
• Sharper category writing. Rewrote the descriptions on every category page — haunted hotels, cemeteries, theaters, and the rest — so each reads like an editor wrote it, not a template.

Improvements

• Browse a state's haunts by type. Every state page now links straight to its haunted hotels, cemeteries, theaters, prisons, and more — each its own page, like Haunted Hotels in Georgia or Haunted Cemeteries in Ohio. Nothing new to write; it's a sharper way into the places already documented, and a cleaner path for anyone searching for one kind of haunt in one state.
• And by type within a city, too. The same drill-down now works at the city level — Haunted Hotels in New Orleans, Haunted Mansions in Savannah — so the category headings on a city page click straight through to just that kind of haunt.

Content

• 100 Steps Cemetery (IN) rewritten. The midnight dare where the dead caretaker shows you how you'll die — and the staircase that never actually had a hundred steps to count.
• Broadway Hotel and Tavern (IN) rewritten. The ghost named Charles Morgan whose entire Prohibition-bootlegger biography came out of a single 1992 Ouija session, with no record of him anywhere.
• Central State Hospital (IN) rewritten. The Indianapolis asylum where roughly 10,000 died, and the 2006 night three investigators heard a stuck window tell them how to open it.
• Crown Hill Cemetery (IN) rewritten. Section 37, where 699 orphanage children lie under numbers instead of names until an intern found them in old records.
• Crown Point Old Sheriff's House and Jail (IN) rewritten. The cellblock where doors open on their own, women get grabbed in the cells, and John Dillinger broke out in 1934 with a gun nobody can agree was real.
• Crump Theatre (IN) rewritten. The woman in deep Victorian black who appears on the staircase solid enough that workers mistake her for a living visitor — said to be the builder's daughter, dead 700 miles away under a name that wasn't hers.
• Culbertson Mansion (IN) rewritten. The famous ghost "Dr. Webb" that two volunteers invented for a haunted attraction in the early 2000s, the fiction that got loose, and the quieter hauntings nobody made up.
• Earlham College (IN) rewritten. The flickering lights students saw inside the new meetinghouse after dark and called a ghost — really a hungry undergraduate cooking dinner by flashlight.
• Elkhart Civic Theatre (IN) rewritten. Percival, the ghost of an 1897 opera house who grabs actors before their entrances and quits only when called by his full name, and the descendants who later corrected his legend.
• Embassy Theatre (IN) rewritten. Bud Berger, the stage manager who ran the Fort Wayne house from 1936 until he died in 1965 and, by every account, never stopped working — the seats fold down on their own during empty rehearsals.
• French Lick Springs Hotel (IN) rewritten. The cigar smoke sixth-floor housekeepers keep smelling where no one is smoking, said to belong to owner Thomas Taggart, who built the resort and died in 1929.
• Hannah House (IN) rewritten. The porch rocking chair that rocks on its own and the man in a dark suit who walks the upstairs hall — and the most-told ghost story here that historians debunk out loud, leaving something quieter behind.
• Haunted Bridge of Avon (IN) rewritten. The railroad bridge that screams when trains cross it, three legends that explain who died there, and the historian who went looking for the bodies and found none.
• Roads Hotel (IN) rewritten. The second-floor room behind the stairs full of dolls said to move on their own, and the investigator who dared a ghost named Sarah to touch him and got two words back on tape.
• Indiana Medical History Museum (IN) rewritten. America's oldest surviving pathology lab, a room of preserved brains labeled only by case number, and a staff who don't tell ghost stories — their visitors do.
• Indiana Repertory Theatre (IN) rewritten. The ghost who jogs: footsteps said to belong to artistic director Tom Haas, who died in 1991, arriving on the cold, wet days that once kept him running laps indoors.
• Indiana State Sanatorium (IN) rewritten. The abandoned TB hospital where two paranormal teams a year apart kept recording the same two things in the old nursing wing — a woman's name, Mary, and a room number, 120.
• Indiana State University, Burford Hall (IN) rewritten. The dorm where students keep hearing a woman violently throwing up in an empty bathroom at night — distinctive enough that a folklorist published a peer-reviewed study of it.
• Indiana Statehouse (IN) rewritten. The mail cart that staff working late hear rolling across the marble behind them, squeaky wheels and all — one of three building ghosts, none of them written down anywhere.
• Indiana University Bloomington (IN) rewritten. The veiled Woman in Black who first walked into the student newspaper in 1911 and has never once dropped the veil — on the one campus that keeps its ghosts in a filing cabinet.
• Indianapolis Athletic Club (IN) rewritten. The midnight banging on the doors of what are now luxury condos, and a young man's voice telling residents to get out — where two firefighters died trying to do exactly that.
• James Allison Mansion (IN) rewritten. The millionaire who built it and the little girl said to have drowned in the basement pool — people still hear her cry near it, though no record of any drowning has ever surfaced.
• Le Mans Hall, Saint Mary's College (IN) rewritten. The woman with a greenish tint students keep seeing at the edge of their vision on the second floor — they call her Mary, and she only shows up when you're not looking straight at her.
• Monroe County History Center (IN) rewritten. The crying girl on the main staircase a cleaner once reached out to take by the hand — and the girl simply wasn't there.
• Mounds State Park (IN) rewritten. The little gray people the Lenape called Pukwudgies, met in the woods around the ancient earthworks, and the man who met one at age 10 in 1927 and spent his whole life looking for the rest.
• Thrall's Opera House (IN) rewritten. The two ghosts fixed in two spots — Eugene Thrall, whose name is over the door and who never left the stage he restored, and Gus, said to be still working his shift in the dressing room.
• Nicholson-Rand House (IN) rewritten. The abandoned house lifted onto a trailer in 1997 and hauled down Southport Road to save it — and the photograph of the move that shows a blond girl in a blue dress at an upstairs window.
• Old Whitley Jail (IN) rewritten. Charles Butler, hanged on the spot in 1884 before 200 ticket-holders when the drop failed — he strangled for the better part of ten minutes while the crowd watched.
• Randolph County Asylum (IN) rewritten. The preserved bedroom of a kitchen worker named Doris, full of the porcelain dolls she loved — said to turn their heads and shift in their seats between investigations, when no one is touching them.
• Reeder Road (IN) rewritten. The abandoned swamp road and its hitchhiker, Elizabeth Wilson, who rides as far as Ross Cemetery, then vanishes, leaving the seat wet — a 2016 team asked if anyone knew her and a voice answered yes.
• Reitz Home Museum (IN) rewritten. One of Evansville's oldest houses, where the local magazine says plainly nobody has died and nobody has reported a ghost — yet every October it anchors a ghost walk built around spirits it doesn't have.
• Rivoli Theatre (IN) rewritten. The shuttered Indianapolis theater whose haunting keeps coming back to one room — the women's powder room, where faucets open, toilets flush, and stall doors swing in empty stalls.
• Ruthmere Mansion (IN) rewritten. The house named for a baby who died at seven months, built to memorialize a child who never lived in it — visitors report phantom gunshots and alarms that trip with no one near them.
• Schenck Mansion (IN) rewritten. The men sleeping alone who kept waking to a soft kiss on the cheek and a Victorian woman in white standing over the bed — the room always empty by the time they opened their eyes.
• Slippery Noodle Inn (IN) rewritten. The oldest bar in Indiana, open since 1850, and the shadowy cowboy-cut figure seen on the upper floors, tied to a knife fight that closed the brothel here in 1953.
• Stepp Cemetery (IN) rewritten. The woman in black said to sit by a baby's grave deep in the state forest — two folklorists once cataloged 27 versions of her, all over a stillborn infant's grave.
• Story Inn (IN) rewritten. The Blue Lady who appears when the blue nightstand lamp is switched on — and the proof that isn't a sighting but the guest books, where strangers decades apart wrote down the same woman.
• The Athenaeum (IN) rewritten. The 1890s Indianapolis landmark that doesn't hide its ghosts — the foundation calls it one of the most haunted buildings in Indiana and sells tickets to hunt a teacher murdered nearby in 1911.
• The Demon House Site (IN) rewritten. The Gary house where a child services case manager watched a nine-year-old boy glide backward up a wall and across a hospital ceiling, then signed it into the official record nobody can argue away.
• The Pfeiffer House (IN) rewritten. The Fort Wayne house that keeps filling with cigar smoke when no one is smoking, where shakers slide off empty tables and a piano sounds a single note — and the owner who wasn't a believer until ghost hunters called out a name.
• Tippecanoe Place (IN) rewritten. The Woman in White who descends the grand staircase in South Bend, solid above the waist and gone below the knees — reported for decades, matched to no name.
• Tunnelton Tunnel (IN) rewritten. The single lantern-light people watch appear deep in the dark and grow brighter as it drifts toward them — said to be night watchman Henry Dixon, murdered here in 1908 and never putting his lantern down.
• Washington Hall (IN) rewritten. The Notre Dame ghost that started without a name, waking the building's eight residents with a French horn at midnight — until a student gave it the face of George Gipp five years later.
• West Baden Springs Hotel (IN) rewritten. The small round room nobody knew existed until the 1990s, hidden behind a trap door above the dome — its walls hold eleven painted angels whose maker never signed the work or told a soul.
• Whispers Estate (IN) rewritten. The little girl guests swore they heard singing in the parlor for years — an investigator found the source wired into the staircase in 2010, and the rest of the house is still busy at night.
• Willard Library (IN) rewritten. The Grey Lady of the basement, said to be the founder's disinherited daughter — in 1999 the library wired the building with public ghost cams you can watch for her on right now.

Improvements

• Press ⌘K to search anywhere. A command palette finds any of the 1,277 haunted places instantly as you type — by name, city, or state. Arrow keys to move, Enter to open, Esc to close. Also reachable from the search icon in the header.
• Place pages now have a dark-mode map. The location map matches the site's dark theme — a quiet, desaturated map with a single red pin — instead of the bright map that fought the page.
• Cleaner, calmer place pages. Stripped decorative icons from headings and fact rows, removed a redundant sources banner, softened card hover effects, and lifted the muted label text for better readability. The design reads more editorial and less busy.
• Rewrote the About page. Tighter and more editorial — the directory's headline numbers up top, a one-line mission, and "how we work" boiled down to four plain principles instead of dense blocks of text.
• Bigger, photo-first cards on mobile. Browsing on your phone now shows one large card per row with the place's name and city laid over the photo — a magazine-style feed that gives the photography room to breathe instead of cramming two small cards side by side.

Content

• All Illinois pages rewritten in the tighter, plainer voice. Every haunted place in Illinois — 41 pages — now reads shorter and clearer: one story per page, lead with the spook, plain language, source citations kept off the page. Each page was rebuilt from freshly verified sources and ran through an independent fact-check before going live; this batch came back clean, with the corrections baked into the rebuild — Graceland Cemetery's "glass girl" Inez was not killed by lightning (the records dispute that origin entirely), Resurrection Mary's identity has never been pinned to a single woman despite the legend naming one, and Lincoln's Tomb grounds its hauntings in the documented 1876 plot to steal Lincoln's body and the years his coffin lay hidden afterward. The headliners got the full treatment — Bachelor's Grove leads on the 1991 photograph of a woman in white seated on a long-gone monument, Resurrection Cemetery on the hitchhiker who climbs from the car at the gates, the Congress Plaza Hotel on Room 441, Peoria State Hospital on "Old Book" weeping beneath the elm at grave 713, and the Iroquois Theatre's Death Alley behind the 1903 fire that killed more than 600.
• All Georgia pages rewritten in the tighter, plainer voice. Every haunted place in Georgia — 43 pages — now reads shorter and clearer: one story per page, lead with the spook, plain language, source citations kept off the page. Each rewrite ran through an independent fact-check before going live, which caught and corrected real errors (the Marshall House's famous bones-under-the-floorboards story is disputed, not fact — the innkeeper said there were no human bones; the Pirates' House shanghai-tunnel kidnapping legend is one a city official and historians have publicly called fiction; Lake Lanier was not built to flood a Black town, since the 1912 expulsion of Forsyth County's Black residents happened forty years before the reservoir; Stone Mountain's ghost haunts the east face, not the carved north face). The headliners got the full treatment — Andersonville leads on the warden's ghost at the Civil War's deadliest prison camp, the Ellis Hotel on the 1946 Winecoff fire that killed 119, Mercer-Williams on the Jim Williams shooting from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the Olde Pink House on James Habersham Jr. straightening tables in a candlelit room, and Bonaventure on Little Gracie waiting for a toy.
• All Florida pages rewritten in the tighter, plainer voice. Every haunted place in Florida — 52 pages — now reads shorter and clearer: one story per page, lead with the spook, plain language, source citations kept off the page. Each rewrite ran through an independent fact-check before going live, which caught and fixed real errors (Key West rolled about a hundred million cigars a year at its peak, not one million; the legend that Captain Tony's was a morgue with a high body count was largely invented by a former owner, per the county historian; the Curry mansion's Robert Curry died of cancer in New York, not by suicide in the house). The headliners got the full treatment — Robert the Doll behind glass at Fort East Martello with his wall of apology letters, Coral Castle where the heartbroken builder is the ghost, the St. Augustine Lighthouse and the Pittee girls who drowned during construction, Ashley's Restaurant and the 1934 cold-case murder behind the mirror, the Don CeSar's Thomas Rowe still waiting for Lucinda, and the Biltmore's Fatty Walsh riding the elevator to the locked 13th floor.
• All Colorado pages rewritten in the tighter, plainer voice. Every haunted place in Colorado — 50 pages — now reads shorter and clearer: one story per page, lead with the spook, plain language, source citations kept off the page. Each rewrite ran through an independent fact-check before going live, which caught and corrected inflated or invented details (the Museum of Colorado Prisons execution count was a discredited figure; Gold Camp Road's school-bus-of-children crash never happened; Hotel Jerome has no record of the Water Boy's pool drowning; the Victor Hotel miner the elevator is blamed on actually survived, per local historians). The headliners got the full treatment — the Stanley leads on Stephen King's 1974 night in Room 217, Cheesman Park on the undertaker who cut bodies apart to bill the city three times over, the Brown Palace on Room 904's phantom calls, Macky Auditorium restores the real 1966 murder the campus ghost legend had sanded down, and the Territorial Prison grounds its dread in documented death, including Joe Arridy's wrongful 1939 execution.
• All Connecticut pages rewritten in the tighter, plainer voice. Every haunted place in Connecticut — 41 pages — now reads shorter and clearer: one story per page, lead with the spook, plain language, source citations kept off the page. Each rewrite ran through an independent fact-check before going live, which caught and fixed real errors (the Boothe Memorial Park brothers' death years were reversed; the New Haven Green's oldest ghost story had it backwards — a teenager lunged to scare an apprentice crossing the Green and passed straight through him, because the apprentice had died that day; Seaside's architect Cass Gilbert died in May 1934, a month before the sanatorium opened, not March; a quote on the Stamford Palace page actually belonged to a different group investigating Fort Stamford). The headliners got the full treatment — Dudleytown, where every ghost turns out to be younger than the 1926 book that invented the curse; Union Cemetery's White Lady, the woman drivers on Route 59 keep "hitting" only to find the road empty; the Mark Twain House and Susy Clemens, who died there in 1896; Norwich State Hospital, grounded in its real history as Connecticut's forced-sterilization institution; and the windowless Skull and Bones tomb at Yale, long rumored to hold Geronimo's stolen skull.

Improvements

• Cards and panels across the site now carry a subtle film-grain texture. The dark theme stays dark, but the surfaces feel more tactile and real instead of flat.
• Capitol Theatre (Clearwater) is now listed under its current name, the Bilheimer Capitol Theatre.
• Curtis House Inn (Woodbury, CT) is now listed under its current name, the 1754 House (Curtis House Inn).
• Saybrook Inn (Old Saybrook, CT) is now listed under its current name, Saybrook Point Resort & Marina.
• Whitehall Mansion (Mystic, CT) is now listed under its current name, the Whitehall Mansion Inn.

Fixes

• Vanderbilt Hall (New Haven, CT) was showing a photo of the wrong building (Harkness Tower); it now shows the actual hall.
• Turner Hall (Galena, IL) was showing a wide Galena townscape instead of the building; it now shows the actual hall.
• The H.H. Holmes Murder Castle site (Chicago) was showing a street-view shot of the modern post office on the lot; it now shows a public-domain photo of the original Castle.

Removed

• The Golden Dagger (Chicago) removed. The music venue closed in 2023 and a different bar now occupies the space. Page now serves 410 Gone.
• The Avon Theatre (Decatur, IL) removed. The 109-year-old theater closed permanently in February 2025. Page now serves 410 Gone.
• Hard Rock Cafe Key West removed. The venue permanently closed in April 2025. Page now serves 410 Gone.
• Ybor City Museum removed. The ghost lore traced only to listicle aggregators with no credible documentation. Page now serves 410 Gone.
• A duplicate Biltmore Hotel entry was removed (the Coral Gables Biltmore was listed twice). Page now serves 410 Gone.
• The Fitzpatrick Hotel (Washington, GA) removed. The hotel closed in March 2025 and the building was sold. Page now serves 410 Gone.
• Moon River Brewing Company (Savannah, GA) removed. The brewery permanently closed in June 2024. Page now serves 410 Gone.
• Georgia Guidestones removed. The monument was bombed and demolished in 2022 and never had a ghost story, only conspiracy lore. Page now serves 410 Gone.
• Marietta National Cemetery (GA) removed. No cemetery-specific ghost story — the dramatic Marietta hauntings all belong to other local cemeteries. Page now serves 410 Gone.

Content

• All California pages rewritten in the tighter, plainer voice. Every haunted place in California — 49 pages — now reads shorter and clearer: one story per page, lead with the spook, plain language, source citations kept off the page. Each rewrite ran through an independent fact-check before going live, which caught and fixed real errors along the way (Monterey Hotel is Victorian, not Mission Revival; the Hollywood Roosevelt's first-Oscars Best Actress was Janet Gaynor, not Mary Pickford; the Queen Anne reopened in 1981, not 1995). The big ones got the full treatment — Alcatraz leads on Cell 14-D, the Queen Mary on Door 13 and John Pedder, the Cecil on Elisa Lam with the coroner's ruling stated straight, Winchester on the famous build-to-confuse-the-spirits legend and the historians who push back on it.

Removed

• California's Great America (CA) removed. Every ghost claim traced to a single user-submitted aggregator that calls its own content "largely unverifiable"; the real sources cover the park's accidents, not hauntings. No documented ghost story. Page now serves 410 Gone.
• Hearst Castle (CA) removed. The ghost story is vivid but rests on a single book — no newspaper coverage, no second source, no investigation record. Below the bar for the directory. Page now serves 410 Gone.

Content

• All Arkansas pages rewritten in a tighter, plainer voice. Every haunted place in Arkansas — 31 pages — now reads shorter and clearer: one story per page, plain language, fewer numbers and names to track, and the source citations kept off the page. Each rewrite ran through an independent fact-check before going live, which caught and fixed a few old errors along the way. Same facts, less clutter, easier to read.

Content

• Mount Holly Cemetery (AR) rewritten. Little Rock's "Westminster Abbey of Arkansas" — opened 1843, holding 11 governors, 13 supreme court justices, 4 senators, and 21 mayors per Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The page anchors on David Owen Dodd, the 17-year-old Boy Martyr of the Confederacy hanged here on January 8, 1864 after refusing to name the source of his Federal-line spy notes (the strangulation length is described as legend per Encyclopedia of Arkansas, which flags that historians dispute how slow the death actually was). One D1 correction: the 640 Confederate soldiers were reinterred in 1884, not 1864 — the seed had this wrong via a paranormal blog citation. Ghost claims (Dodd sightings, "Weeping Angel" statue lore, flute music, moving statues) are framed as folklore that has accumulated around the Westminster-Abbey atmosphere, not first-hand testimony. Augustus Breysacher, the physician who delivered Douglas MacArthur at the arsenal, is buried here but intentionally not cross-linked — Mount Holly's anchor is Dodd, not MacArthur's birth.
• Mountain Village 1890 (AR) rewritten. Bull Shoals frontier-village attraction built from relocated 19th-century Ozark buildings by Roy Danuser starting in the late 1950s — added to the National Register of Historic Places in May 2023 after a three-year designation effort led by Genia Scarberry. The page leads on the village itself (the relocated-buildings premise, the schoolhouse-fire history, the depot, the jail). The named ghost catalog (Amanda, Stompy, Lady in Red, Night Watchman, George Nelson) traces to a single 2016 Only In Arkansas piece quoting tour operator Bill Fleming — every ghost is framed as "according to Fleming" / "as Fleming tells it" / "village tradition holds," never asserted. Hoover's claimed 1893 stay in the Martin House hedged with the Stanford-1895 chronology note.
• Old State House Museum (AR) rewritten. Arkansas's original state capitol, opened 1836 in Little Rock, served as the working capitol until January 9, 1911 (the museum + Encyclopedia of Arkansas framing; Wikipedia's 1842-1912 alternative surfaces inline). The anchor is the Wilson-Anthony Bowie-knife duel of December 4, 1837: barely a year after statehood, House Speaker John Wilson stepped down from the platform with a Bowie knife and killed Rep. Joseph J. Anthony on the chamber floor during a debate over a wolf-scalp bounty amendment. Wilson was expelled the next day, tried for murder in Saline County's first-ever murder trial (prosecution: Albert Pike + three; defense: Chester Ashley), acquitted on "excusable homicide," promised to pay for all the jury drank to celebrate, and was re-elected to the same House in 1840. The May 6, 1861 secession vote (Isaac Murphy the lone holdout) and Bill Clinton's October 3, 1991 presidential announcement on the front steps both happened in this building. Ghost claims (translucent woman in period dress, security guard walking through a locked door, the 2013 "No, the war is not over" EVP) are framed as paranormal-source claims with no historical figure attached.
• Palace Hotel and Bath House (AR) rewritten. 1901 Eureka Springs hotel, NRHP-listed, currently operating — Crescent Hotel's quieter neighbor. The page leans into what Palace ISN'T: no Encyclopedia of Arkansas entry, no paranormal-investigation team that filmed there, no named witnesses, no room number tied to Rosemary the doorknock ghost, no date pinned to a specific sighting. The bordello-end timeline and Rosemary's death-year are honestly framed as conflicting lore — the property's own canon says she died "at the close of Prohibition" while another source says red-light dealings ended in the 1920s. Crescent Hotel canon (the morgue, Dr. Baker, 1880s) deliberately kept out — Palace's lore is one story (Rosemary), one moment (the knocks), one weight (the quiet).

Removed

• Old Redfield Road (AR) removed. The lore exists — a "quarter-mile chase, pickup-bed vault, dead electronics near a roadside cemetery" template repeated across several Arkansas haunted-road aggregator sites. But the only Tier-1 source documenting anything Old Redfield Road-adjacent is the Encyclopedia of Arkansas entry on Sheridan, which covers the town's timber industry, not the ghost. No newspaper coverage, no named witness, no documented incident, no specific stretch of road, no academic folklore citation. Setting a precedent here: road hauntings need at least one Tier-1 source documenting the ghost story itself, not just regional context. Page now serves 410 Gone.

Content

• MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History (AR) rewritten. The page now leads on the centerpiece haunting: a piano staff still hear playing in the East Room on the Tower Building's second floor — slow, deliberate notes that stop the moment a door opens, in a room that hasn't held a piano in years. A 2005 paranormal team came back with a name for the player: Katharine. The 1840 Tower Building is the last surviving structure of the federal Little Rock Arsenal, birthplace of Douglas MacArthur on January 26, 1880 (museum identifies the northwest room of the senior officers' quarters; Encyclopedia of Arkansas notes some sources place it in Officers' Row). Dual-role architect framing throughout: Major Robert B. Lee selected the site, builder John Wormley Walker supervised construction. Otto "Sarge" and Lena Kaufman attributed to the Arkansas Ghost Catchers, paranormal-investigator names that don't appear in any primary record. The David O. Dodd ghost story handled via the museum's Dodd exhibit room as the likely legend-seed: Dodd was hanged at St. John's school grounds east of the arsenal, not the arsenal itself. The grand-staircase duel left at folklore-strength — no participants named, no date, no court record.
• Maple Hill Cemetery (AR) rewritten. The ghost story is the dog. Pedro, a collie belonging to Helena physician Dr. Emile Overton Moore, sat on his master's grave for two years after Moore was shot dead on February 16, 1893, by another doctor named Charles R. Shinault. The killing was acquitted as self-defense at trial. When Pedro finally died, the Moore family topped the pink marble monument with a stone Irish Setter and carved a single word under him: WAITING. Three D1 errors corrected: only WAITING is on the monument (no FIDELITY); General Patrick Cleburne is still buried at Helena Confederate Cemetery, not moved out; Helena-West Helena's 2020 population is 9,519, not under 6,000. Killer's name spelled Shinault (Cotton Rohrscheib's "Shimault" is wrong). Two invented atmospheric details dropped — no "Civil War-era figures in the older sections," no "sustained mournful howl from one spot near the monument." The present-day folklore is framed honestly as folk tradition: "It is said you can still hear Pedro crying for his owner."
• Maxfield House (AR) rewritten. The slug is a misnomer — the haunted building is the Maxfield Store (Theodore Maxfield Company commercial structure, ca. 1903-1908) at 217 E. Main, Batesville, currently Back in Time Antiques. The seed's 187 E. Main was wrong: that's the Sterling 5 & 10 with a 1940s buff brick remodel, a different building, not haunted. The actual Maxfield family residence is the Garrott House at 561 E. Main, six blocks east. The Maxfield family lost six children before age ten between 1875 and 1889, all buried in Oaklawn Cemetery — and Loutie Eliza Maxfield (1870-1875, age 5) was the only daughter, the connection a reader could draw to the unnamed ghost girl, with the explicit hedge that no source draws it. The whole ghost story traces to a single arkansas.com paragraph; the cold spots and "staff have seen her for years" details flagged as the kind of atmosphere that accretes around any old building.
• McCollum-Chidester House (AR) rewritten. Greek Revival house museum at 926 Washington Street NW in Camden, owned by Ouachita County Historical Society. Three D1 errors corrected: built 1847 by Peter McCollum (from North Carolina, not South Carolina); John T. Chidester bought it in 1858, not 1863; General Frederick Steele's Union occupation during the Camden Expedition was five days in April 1864, not eleven. Two Chidester sons died serving the Confederacy — names and battles not in any Tier-1 source, so the draft refers to "two sons" rather than inventing. The .58-caliber detail dropped (unverified — just "Civil War-era musket ball" in the upstairs closet wall). The mirror tradition documented through Elmer Lee's photographed sabre figure and the 2020 Natural State Paranormal investigation, both attributed to AR Money & Politics rather than asserted as established fact.

Removed

• Maxine's Live (AR) removed. The venue exists — 700 Central Avenue in Hot Springs, 1895 building, currently a live music club, with a real history (Maxine Temple Jones is a documented Hot Springs figure, the 1991 reopening as Maxine's Coffee House is in the record). But no Tier-1 source — Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Sentinel-Record, Arkansas Money & Politics, the city's own haunted-tour landing page — names Maxine's as haunted. Every reputable Hot Springs haunted list documents Arlington, Ohio Club, Malco, Fordyce, Superior, Army-Navy, St. John's, Park Hotel, DeSoto Rock, Poet's Loft. None of them mention Maxine's. The seed's "footsteps on the vacant second floor / doors open and close / feeling of being watched near the staircase" had been AI-grafted onto real venue history during the pre-pipeline 2026-04-13 seed. Page now serves 410 Gone.

Content

• Forum Theatre (AR) rewritten. Page opens with the meta-tension: Foundation of Arts Interim Executive Director Mikel Wewers told KAIT-8 on camera that Charley the projectionist ghost is "just more of rumor" and chalked sightings up to "the creaks and the wind blowing," yet the Foundation still gives Charley a dedicated room every October during House of Villains. Opened January 1, 1927, as the Strand — Cinema Treasures has it precise down to the films (Butterflies in the Rain + The Collegians). Ed Underwood EMF "pegging the meter" quote from KAIT-8 ArkanHaunts hedged as TV-news quote not published investigation. The missing-obituary gap (no documented death, no fire, no projectionist named Charley anywhere in the record) framed as part of the haunting, not papered over.
• Fort Smith National Historic Site (AR) rewritten. Page leads with the ledger: Judge Isaac Parker's 21-year tenure, 13,490 cases, 9,454 verdicts, 160 death sentences, 86 actual executions, 109 men chained in the basement at once. Cherokee Bill's last words ("the quicker this thing is over, the better") and the Ranger Mike Gramlich gavel-recording quote both verbatim from NPS sources. The careful separation kept: the third-floor child-voice and voodoo-doll claims belong to the Fort Smith Museum of History (1907 Atkinson-Williams Warehouse, a separate building) — the gavel recording is the only haunting connection because Parker's original courtroom furniture lives at the museum now. Hangman name (popularly George Maledon) left unsaid because NPS primary sources don't confirm it. Encyclopedia of Arkansas's May 4 1875 arrival date used over Wikipedia's March 19.
• Inn at Carnall Hall (AR) rewritten. Page leads with Ella Howison Carnall — first woman law graduate from the University of Arkansas, suffragist, dead of typhoid at 32 in 1894 — and the 1905-1906 women's dormitory the legislature named for her after her death. Building's full provenance laid out: women's dorm 1906-late 1960s, Phi Gamma Delta 1969-1977, academic offices 1970s-1991, $7M restoration to boutique hotel 2003, Ella's Table restaurant on site. Middle name Howison (not Harrelson — Wikipedia variant rejected). Renovation cost soft-hedged as "roughly $7 million" across the $6.3M / $7.1M / $7.4M source spread. Torso-up apparition committed as the unhedged human-signal claim with "multiple secondary sources converge" attribution. Basement haunting honestly framed as one anonymous Ghosts and Getaways writer's overnight. No named witnesses, no room numbers invented.
• Keller's Chapel Cemetery (AR) rewritten. Page leads with William Murphy Loudermilk dying at 104 in 1952 — Civil War veteran, watched the country change from horse to highway, buried in the churchyard he attended for decades. Cemetery founded 1859 at 2401 Kellers Chapel Road in Jonesboro. Documented phenomena (back-door knocking, lights anomalies, vehicle stall) sourced to The Herald and KAIT-8 ArkanHaunts. Danny Honnoll's 2015 marker-ceremony quote verbatim. The 1980s Satanic Panic claims (ritual / animal sacrifice) addressed directly as folklore about the era, not history about the place — Writer-reaction beat. No named visitor witnesses used (Brian J. Waggoner, Tanisha W., Joshua, the 19-year-old all from aggregator user-submissions, dropped). Loudermilk's 104 corrected against gscca.net's 105 outlier.
• King Opera House (AR) rewritten. Page leads with the October 4, 1903 Tolson shooting — Dr. William Parchman shot Charles C. Tolson with a .44, Tolson walked four blocks to Belle Point Hospital before he died, Parchman was tried and acquitted. The haunting is the lighter layer over the hard history. Build date corrected to 1891 (Wikipedia's 1880 infobox rejected — 4+ Tier-1 sources agree). Address corrected to 427 Main. Jenny Lind specifically NOT mentioned — she died 1887, before the building existed. Bill Ratcliff's assistant quote ("There's my ghost") attributed. Woman-in-white-asking-for-Henry lore hedged ("reads like ghost-tour-era lore," no paper trail for the Henry-King-builder connection). Young Actor's Guild director who reported lights-on-overnight kept unnamed because sources don't name him. Allye Parchman's later-life fate not invented. Building still operating under Arts on Main, contributing property to the Van Buren Historic District.

Content

• Crossett Light (AR) rewritten. Page opens with the railroad tracks gone since the early 1980s and the light not getting the memo — still floating two to three feet off the ground on Ashley Road 425. Pre-automobile-era sightings used to push back on the headlight-on-an-incline skeptic theory (the Encyclopedia of Arkansas's own argument). Acknowledged the template explicitly: same shape as Gurdon, Joplin Spooklight, a dozen Southern spook lights. Yale forestry / Duke parapsychology investigation claims hedged as blog-only (crossettlight.blogspot.com) — no peer-reviewed paper exists. The decapitation origin story is laid out across all three variants without picking one as fact.
• Curran Hall (AR) rewritten. Page leads with Alden Woodruff painting the kitchen walls and floor black to see Mary Starbuck Walters's ghost — attributed to QQA membership coordinator Shelle Stormoe via Arkansas Money & Politics, family lore not period-documented. Construction window 1842-1843 hedged. Mary's death "in childbirth that same summer, according to secondary sources" (Encyclopedia of Arkansas only confirms she died before completion). Encyclopedia of Arkansas does not mention any hauntings — flagged in the prose, ghost lore framed as ghost lore. Survived 1996 demolition threat, reopened 2002 as the Little Rock Visitor Information Center. Closes on Rhonda Burton's back-porch rocking chair.
• Fayetteville Confederate Cemetery (AR) rewritten. Page leads with the ridge being called Ghost Mountain before the cemetery existed, then drops into the burning-bride legend from Fred Starr's August 21 1940 NWA Times column. Corrected a long-standing D1 error: the 1973 NWA Times secondhand sighting says the statue "lowered its sword" — but the bronze figure carries a rifle, butt grounded, left foot on a field pack. Hedged with three plausible reasons for the wording slip. Southern Memorial Association founded 1872, dedicated 1873, around 800 burials, General William Y. Slack reinterred May 27 1880. Closes on the bronze soldier facing northeast.
• Fort Chaffee (AR) rewritten. Page leads with the June 1 1980 Mariel riot — "Libertad!" chant, 84 jailed, 4 hospitalized (3 gunshot wounds, 1 head injury). Pivots to Ghost Adventures' Spanish "café" EVPs from the 2010 episode, then widens into the fort's full history: 1941 build, German POW camp, Vietnamese Operation New Life 1975, Cuban Mariel 1980, Elvis Presley's March 25 1958 induction haircut by James "Pete" Peterson in Building 803. Cut SIX D1 fabrications no source could trace (Gail Joyner, PFC Conroy, Rachel, scattered graves, psychiatric solitary doors, "owners denied permission"). 2008 brush fire + 2011 Kentucky Guardsman cigarette fire destroyed most of what Ghost Adventures filmed.

Removed

• Eureka Springs City Cemetery (AR) removed. The cemetery exists — 46.5 acres, around 4,600 burials, founded 1889 by Lodge No. 83 IOOF, on the National Register. But the "lady in the tree" / EVPs / gray-dress apparition that gave this slug a SpookFinder page actually belong to Little Eureka Cemetery, a separate smaller pauper's cemetery in town. Ghost City Tours' own page confirms. Once the lore is moved back where it belongs, the main IOOF cemetery has zero Tier-1 ghost claims. Page now serves 410 Gone.

Content

• Boggy Creek (AR) rewritten. Page leads with Bobby Ford running through his own front door without opening it — the night of May 1-2, 1971, eyes "half dollar and real red." Charles Pierce's 1972 film "The Legend of Boggy Creek" landed at over $20 million on a $160,000 budget. The cultural anchor is the Monster Mart at 104 US-71 — Le'Roy Simmons' fiberglass monster on the roof, the Beanfield Track in a glass case. Lynn Crabtree's 1965 sighting hedged as Crabtree-adjacent (Smokey's book + Pierce's film carry it); Encyclopedia of Arkansas only confirms pre-1971 reports go back to 1946.
• Capital Hotel (AR) rewritten. The page leads on a non-denial — the hotel's "we have no official word" stance against the wall of ghost-circuit lore wrapped around it. Cut SEVEN fabricated ghosts traceable to a single AI-content-farm post (Jefferson the scaffolding worker, cigar-smoking businessman, lady-in-white with rose scent, Prohibition guard, Civil War soldier, suicide politician, poisoned woman near the dining room). None belong to the Capital. Cast-iron facade 1872, fourth-floor addition 1889, NRHP listed July 30 1974 (corrected from D1's wrong year), U.S. Grant visited April 14-15 1880 during the Brooks-Baxter War aftermath. Room 444 framed as ghost-circuit canon, not documented.
• Caraway Hall — Arkansas Tech (AR) rewritten. Page leads with the bricked-up second-floor window students keep pointing at — except the 1992 NRHP nomination says the building is "substantially intact" with "few alterations." Corrected the namesake: Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway, not his wife Hattie (Hattie spoke at the October 18 1935 dedication of the hall named for her late husband). Cut three cross-building contaminations that had migrated into the Caraway page over the years: the scratch marks (actually Paine Hall), the female figure standing over beds, and the hair-dryer electrocution death (both Bryan Hall). The ghost is locally called Gracie; no documented death attached to the building.
• Clayton House (AR) rewritten. Page leads with porcelain dolls rearranging inside locked cases — the cleanest specific image in any AR source. Three named ghosts (a cat, a tall man in boots, a woman in brown) with four named witnesses on record (Mila Masur, Martha Siler, Sarah Pair, Lori Davies). The "Anna" EVP matches Clayton's daughter Ann. Corrected the Belle Starr story: Clayton prosecuted her in March 1883 for horse theft (she served nine months at Detroit House of Corrections) — D1's "Belle Starr tried to assassinate him at a Wild West Show" was unsupported and is cut. Build date framed correctly as a 1850s structure Clayton doubled and remodeled Italianate in 1882, not "built 1852."

Removed

• Conway Cemetery State Park (AR) removed. The historic state park exists and James Sevier Conway (first governor of Arkansas, buried 1855) is documented — but the "hanging tree / voices at midnight" haunting claim has zero Tier-1 sources. Encyclopedia of Arkansas's dedicated Ghost Legends entry omits Conway Cemetery entirely. Only Tier-2 aggregators carry the lore, all with identical templated language and zero named witnesses. One HauntedPlaces.org commenter called it "just rumors." Page now serves 410 Gone.

Content

• Ace of Clubs House (AR) rewritten. Page leads with the playing-card floor plan — three octagonal rooms branching off a central diamond, the 1885 ground plan of a club from the deck. The Texas Historical Commission bronze marker quote pulled in verbatim ("3 groups of octagonal rooms (leaves of a club)"). Tree-fall haunting kept as Texarkana Ghost Walk lore with the gap called out: no obituary, no census line, no family record names the Draughon child. Dropped the unsourced Isaac S. Taylor architect attribution and the "second-floor activity hotspot" anecdote.
• Arkansas Air & Military Museum (AR) rewritten. Page leads with Sally Ebbrecht's March 2000 encounter in the library — a man in dress pants and a pilot's hat she asked "Can I help you?" before he vanished. Ray Ellis (Fayetteville Flying Service 1940, Scheduled Skyways 1953, museum board 1986) anchors the named-ghost theory across 46 years of Drake Field history. Dropped the untraceable "pages turning in empty library" detail and any wartime-fatality framing not in evidence.
• Arlington Resort Hotel (AR) rewritten. Page leads with Room 443 — the Capone Suite, fourth floor, cigar smoke and a doorknob that turns from the sealed side. Building chronology pinned: 1875 original wood frame, 1893 wing addition, April 5 1923 fire, current 1924 building. Henry Tweedle the bellman framed as ghost-tour script invention with no historical record. Currently mid-$30M Sky Capital renovation, hotel remained open throughout.
• Army-Navy Hospital (AR) rewritten. Page leads with the gated yellow-brick fortress tourists keep missing from Bathhouse Row — the most haunted address in Hot Springs is one you can only look at from the curb. "Criminally insane sanitarium" folklore explicitly disclaimed (NRHP, NPS, Encyclopedia of Arkansas all show the 1960 transition was to a rehabilitation center for physical disabilities). The "1941 swollen ankles, 90% dead" tour-guide story reframed with Austin Ray's own Truman exaggeration disclaimer. No invented Ghost Adventures episode — gated since 2019, no one's allowed in.
• Avon Cemetery (AR) rewritten. Page leads with what the cemetery isn't: the story lives across the road at a vanished well near a three-road junction. Mother and baby kept unnamed per the entire source pool — no name, no date, no death record, no newspaper. AY Magazine and 92.9 NIN quoted verbatim, the KKYR local author's "I've lived here most of my life" line carried in to anchor the oral-tradition register. Cementing-over date hedged as mid-to-late 1990s, no documented event.
• 1886 Crescent Hotel (AR) rewritten. Page leads with the February 2019 backhoe find — hundreds of jars from Norman Baker's 1937-39 quack-cancer clinic, one with a removed bedsore in it. Baker's "cure" Formula 5 broken out (alcohol, glycerol, carbolic acid, watermelon seed, corn silk, clover leaf, injected up to seven times a day). Disputed claims hedged: $4M vs $10M take, "September 1958" death without a specific day, Crescent College "with interruptions, 1908 into the early 1930s." Michael / Room 218 framed honestly — no primary record of an 1880s construction death surfaced.
• The Allen House (AR) rewritten. Page leads with the August 2009 attic discovery — Mark Spencer pried up a floorboard and found around 90 love letters to Ladell Allen Bonner from Prentiss Hemingway Savage, dated March through December 1948. Cyanide-suicide details corrected: Ladell drank cyanide-laced punch during her mother's Christmas party and died eight days later at Mack Wilson Hospital (the popular "walked upstairs and swallowed it" version is wrong). NRHP status corrected — Allen House is part of the Monticello North Main Street Historic District (1979), NOT individually listed.
• Gurdon Light (AR) rewritten. Page leads with the December 1931 murder on the Missouri-Pacific tracks — foreman Will McClain killed by crewman Louis McBride with a shovel and a railroad spike maul (NOT a pick-ax, which is the TV-era misremembering). McBride executed in the electric chair July 8, 1932 at the Little Rock penitentiary. Three on-record witness quotes pulled in (Bob Thompson's "baseball cap with a flashlight in it," Martha Ramey, Billy Tarpley). Henderson State physicist Dr. Charles Leming's galvanometer reading of zero noted; piezoelectric / New Madrid hypothesis framed as hypothesis, not finding.
• Basin Park Hotel (AR) rewritten. Page leads with the doctor in Room 310 who watched John Chisum walk a horse down the hallway at 4 a.m. — Chisum was the real "King of the Pecos" cattle baron and Lincoln County War figure, and he died in this exact spot in the old Perry House on December 22, 1884. The Perry House (60-room wooden hotel built 1881 by Captain Joseph Perry) burned in the 1890 fire that started in its own kitchen; Basin Park rose on the same site in 1905. Mafalda Capone's stay hedged (no contemporaneous newspaper archive confirms it). Rooms 307 / 308 spirits framed as tour narrative; Boo-Belle in the Barefoot Ballroom kept as the page's strangest concrete object.
• The Empress of Little Rock (AR) rewritten. Page leads with the painter alone in the third-story octagonal tower hearing the attic door open by itself — and finding it standing open, even though the door has no handle on the inside. James H. Hornibrook (saloon-keeper, not lumber baron as some sources claim) built the 1888 Queen Anne with a Gentleman's Gambling Room at the top of the tower; he died on the front gate of a stroke on May 24, 1890, age 49. NRHP status corrected — listed July 30, 1974, NOT a National Historic Landmark (despite a few aggregator pages claiming otherwise). Current owners are Antonio Figueroa and Keith Sandridge (since 2019), not the Welches as older sources have it.
• VA voice sweep — 12 pages rewritten after a cross-page audit found the corpus had developed a few repeating tics ("Take it as folklore" on 17 of 46 pages, "[Object] is still there" closers on 21 of 46). Hollywood Cemetery now opens on Florence Rees's Iron Dog instead of duplicating the Mosby/Richmond Vampire story (full version stays at Church Hill Tunnel). Fredericksburg Battlefield trimmed the Chatham Lady in White retelling to a one-sentence cross-link. The voice is sharper, less templated, on Albemarle County Jail, Cavalier Hotel, Kenmore Plantation, Chamberlin Hotel, Old City Hall Richmond, Virginia State Capitol, Ramsay House, Swope's Townhouse, Peyton Randolph House, and Fort Monroe.

Improvements

• Page-load performance — 454 hero images across the site compressed (out of 1208 total). The worst offenders dropped from multi-megabyte downloads to under 500KB, including one 50MB cemetery photo that's now 629KB. Pages feel snappier, mobile data usage on a directory crawl drops by ~80%.

Content

• Ferry Plantation House (VA) rewritten. Grace Sherwood's ducking dated July 10, 1706 (not 1707 — Library of Virginia and five other sources confirm). The 2006 informal pardon happened at the house; the actual 1706 ducking was at Witchduck Point. Page no longer conflates them.
• The Cavalier Hotel (VA) rewritten. The Coors who fell from the sixth floor in 1929 was Adolph Coors Sr. — not Adolph Coors III, who was kidnapped and killed in Colorado in 1960 (a confusion repeated across tourism sites). The Fitzgerald-wrote-Gatsby-here legend also corrected: Gatsby published 1925, Cavalier opened 1927.
• Hollywood Cemetery (VA) rewritten. The "Richmond Vampire" of W.W. Pool's mausoleum traced back to Benjamin F. Mosby, a tunnel worker who died after the 1925 Church Hill Tunnel collapse — the Library of Virginia and folklorist Gregory Maitland debunked the vampire framing; it got grafted onto the tunnel story in print in 1976 and online in 2001. Also corrected: 25 Confederate generals (not 28), W.W. Pool died Feb 1922 (1913 was his wife Alice's death year), William Henry Leonard Poe is NOT buried here (Westminster Hall, Baltimore).
• Virginia State Capitol (VA) rewritten. Page now leads with the April 27, 1870 floor collapse — 62 dead when a courtroom floor gave way and dropped into the House of Delegates. The Capitol is a working statehouse, not a tourist site; the cold in the Old House Chamber is a real maintenance issue, not ghost-tour atmosphere.
• Byrd Theatre (VA) rewritten. Designation corrected: NRHP-listed (1979), NOT a National Historic Landmark as the Byrd's own site claims — Virginia DHR is authoritative. Robert Coulter died 1978 at 76 (single localwiki source had 1971 wrong). Investigation team corrected to Grave Concerns Paranormal (Beth + Matt Rosen, Nov 4, 2011) — gcparanormal.com URL was misread as "Greater Cincinnati Paranormal" in earlier sources.
• Fredericksburg Battlefield (VA) rewritten. Page leads with Marye's Heights — 12,500+ Union casualties at a four-foot stone wall, 50 yards out, 14 Federal charges in the snow. Kirkland's water-bearing dated as "the night after the assault" (NPS and other sources disagree on Dec 13 vs Dec 14). Sunken Road restoration year hedged (the actual year isn't easy to pin down). The page argues for the field over the ghost-tour packaging.
• Kenmore Plantation (VA) rewritten. Fielding Lewis's ghost is the only one on record — a man at the desk going over the Revolutionary War debts the Commonwealth of Virginia never repaid him. Cause of death hedged: Encyclopedia Virginia says "failing health"; tuberculosis is ghost-tour lore, not historical record. Cannonball strikes "at least seven." Burial at St. George's church is corrected — George Washington Foundation calls it "likely untrue"; he's at Frederick County / Winchester instead.
• Chatham Manor (VA) rewritten. The page leads with Walt Whitman's Dec 21, 1862 line about the heap of amputated limbs in the dooryard — Chatham was a Union hospital during Fredericksburg. The "Lady Devon" name is dropped (modern conflation — the Devore family owned 1920-1931, well after the 1790s legend). Sighting date is June 21 (Kleen's June 29 is the outlier). Position: the ghost is almost beside the point next to the hospital history.
• Mary Washington House (VA) rewritten. Page leads with the lost grave — Mary Ball Washington died at the house Aug 25, 1789 of breast cancer; ground-penetrating radar still can't find where she was first buried. Burgess Ball quoted in period spelling ("Cancer on her Breast") from his Founders Online letter. Lafayette visit corrected: fall 1784 (post-war, before sailing home), NOT during the Revolution. Garden restoration corrected to 1969 (Garden Club of Virginia, who did the work), APVA acquisition corrected to 1890.
• Rising Sun Tavern (VA) rewritten. John Frazer (NOT Frazier, per primary sources) died here November 28, 1793 of unknown cause — went upstairs for a nap and never came down. Tavern operated into the 1820s (exact end-year disputed: DHR 1823 vs WHM 1827). Elizabeth Fox Frazer outlived him by two years (NOT "decades" as an earlier draft had).
• St. George's Episcopal Church (VA) rewritten. Multiple D1 facts corrected: address now 905 Princess Anne Street (was 922), Roberson tenure now 1959-1996 = 37 years (was 35), Sydnor rector 1976-2003 (not 1972). City clock installed 1851 (Tier-1 majority). Civil War damage clarified: at least 25 shellfire hits over Dec 11-15, 1862; the London Times's "one hit" report covered Dec 11 only.
• Carlyle House (VA) rewritten. 1751-53 Georgian Palladian by Scottish merchant John Carlyle. Site of April 15, 1755 Congress of Alexandria — Braddock, five colonial governors, the campaign that started the French and Indian War. A mummified cat sealed in the wall around 1753 is the page's strangest specific (sprinkled with herbs, not rosemary as ghost-tour sources often claim). The "Carlyle was furious about Braddock" letter quoted on tours can't be traced to the museum's published correspondence and is hedged in prose.
• Gadsby's Tavern (VA) rewritten. The "Female Stranger" of Room 8 died Oct 14, 1816 of typhoid — her husband paid in a forged Bank of England note, then disappeared. Building dated c. 1785 (Virginia DHR's 1770 outlier corrected — NPS, Wikipedia, Met, City of Alexandria, and dendrochronology all confirm 1785). Room 8 framed honestly: museum-assigned label, not in 1816 newspapers. The Metropolitan Museum bought the entire ballroom in 1917 — original woodwork is in New York; the ghost is still on Royal Street.
• Ramsay House (VA) rewritten. Built ~1724 (probably the oldest house in Alexandria), home of William Ramsay, Scottish merchant + Alexandria founder + friend of George Washington. D1 slug "ramsey-house" preserved but the prose uses "Ramsay" with A (the historical spelling — the HABS sign on the building has the misspelled "Ramsey" too, which the page calls out at the end).
• Monticello (VA) rewritten. Opens with the room converted to a men's bathroom for 76 years — the 14'8" × 13' chamber where Sally Hemings probably lived, hidden under the south wing terrace until rediscovery in 2017 and reopening in 2018. The page argues the architecture itself is the haunting. Frames slavery directly: Mulberry Row, 130 people sold January 1827 after Jefferson's death, the burial ground for the enslaved. 2018 Thomas Jefferson Foundation affirmation that Hemings' children were Jefferson's is on-record fact.
• Highland (VA) rewritten. The "wrong house" hook: 2016 dendrochronology revealed the Monroe-era main building had been forgotten — what visitors knew as "James Monroe's house" was actually the 1870s replacement on adjacent foundations. Main-house fire dated 1829-1830 (Goodwyn letter Jan 4 1830 — NOT 1840 which was a guesthouse addition). Slavery framed with named people: Peter Mallory, George Williams, George and Phebe (escaped July 3 1826), 17 sold to Casa Bianca in Florida 1828.
• University of Virginia (VA) rewritten. Jefferson's Academical Village 1819/1825, Anatomical Theatre 1825-1827 with documented cadaver history. Poe windowpane inscription called out as "likely fabrication" per Encyclopedia Strange — the story has outlived its proof. Pavilion VI rocking-chair widow tagged as folklore per UVA historian Sandy Gilliam's 2014 "pure rubbish" debunk. Page sides with the documented horror over the costume-drama tour version.
• Michie Tavern (VA) rewritten. 1784 tavern moved in 1927 by horse-wagon-and-truck 17 miles from Buck Mountain Road to its current Charlottesville location near Monticello. Mrs. Mark Henderson's plural-spirits lore — Hans Holzer's medium reported "a party, not a tragedy." 2-story building (correcting a "3rd floor" error in the previous draft). The page argues against inventing a tragic figure when the lore refuses one.
• Albemarle County Jail (VA) rewritten. Page leads with the timestamps of Samuel McCue's 1905 hanging: trap sprung 7:34 a.m., life extinct 7:53, body down at 8:00. Corrects D1 + LOC HABS error: this was the "last legal execution in Albemarle County" — Joel Payne was hanged in Virginia April 9, 1909 (VA had also switched to the electric chair October 13, 1908). The rope is at Alderman Library.
• Byrd Park Pump House (VA) rewritten. 1882-83 Gothic Revival pump station designed by one-legged Confederate engineer Wilfred Cutshaw (knee shot at First Winchester, leg amputated at Sailor's Creek, recommended by Lee). 2nd-floor Dance Hall above the engines. The page's hook is the documented contradiction: Friends of Pump House (custodians) explicitly deny the haunting; ghost-hunter Robert Bess promoted it with a Tesla-coil "Parabot" on March 8, 2010. Tetweiler ghost framed as legend — no newspaper or death record.
• Old City Hall (VA) rewritten. Page leads with Colonel James Monroe Winstead's 94-foot fall from the clock tower on Aug 23, 1894 — set down his hat and cane, climbed the parapet, impaled on the cast-iron fence whose spear points are still bent on Broad Street. NRHP date corrected to Oct 1, 1969 (was 1971); NHL to Nov 11, 1971 (was 1989). Removed the prior D1 fabrications (basement cells with chains, Victorian woman) — the building had OFFICES, not a jail.
• Church Hill Tunnel (VA) rewritten. Page leads with Benjamin Franklin Mosby, 28, fireman, climbing out of the eastern portal on October 2, 1925 with his skin in ribbons. Real source of the "Richmond Vampire" legend — Mosby died at Grace Hospital, was buried at Hollywood Cemetery near the W.W. Pool mausoleum, and the folklore got grafted onto Pool decades later. Collapse "nearly 200 feet," Mason recovered Oct 10, Engine #231 still entombed under Jefferson Park. Concrete seal stamped 1926.
• Linden Row Inn (VA) rewritten. Eliza Poe ghost story debunked by the inn's own director on the record (she died 1811; eastern row 1847, western row 1853). The buildings kept their hauntings anyway — an unidentified eerie room staff won't name, the converted-stable dining room where a paranormal team "did pick up something." The land was once the Ellis garden where teenage Poe courted Sarah Elmira Royster — basis for "To Helen."
• Shields Tavern (VA) rewritten. 1745 tavern in Colonial Williamsburg, ceased operating by early 1752. Two D1 corrections: the 1754 fire damaged the east end only (the 1858 fire actually destroyed the building); Frances Shields's exclusion from James Shields's will was probably because she was already dead by 1750 (NOT a punitive snub as tour patter claims). Reopened to public 1988. Hook: historian hearing her own question answered from an empty basement.
• King's Arms Tavern (VA) rewritten. Jane Vobe operated from 1771. The heaviest fact on the property: Gowan Pamphlet, the man Vobe enslaved who became a Baptist preacher and founded the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg (200 members by 1781, 500 by the 1790s). Dropped multiple D1 fabrications: "Jeffrey Pilley" + the "Irma leave me alone!" quote, the 1778 duel/Catherine/bloodstain story, phantom-diners-in-wigs. Irma is the 1950s assistant-manager's heart attack, not a 1700s fire victim.
• Public Hospital of 1773 (VA) rewritten. First American institution exclusively for the mentally ill, opened October 12, 1773. Dr. John Galt II's 1862 death framed honestly — whether suicide or accidental overdose, his contemporaries couldn't agree. Fire count corrected: two patients presumed dead (NOT seven as ghost tours claim). Frame the treatment of mentally ill in colonial America directly without sensationalizing. What's verifiable is more haunting than what isn't.
• Fort Monroe (VA) rewritten. Page leads with Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory, and James Townsend rowing across Hampton Roads in the dark on May 23, 1861, asking for asylum. Butler's "contraband of war" ruling May 24, formalized in writing May 27. Jefferson Davis imprisoned May 22, 1865, $100,000 bond signed by Vanderbilt, Greeley, and Gerrit Smith. Robert E. Lee served as a young engineer 1831-34 in Building #17, Edgar Allan Perry (Poe) enlisted here 1828. "Cask of Amontillado" Fort Monroe origin skipped — most Poe scholars credit Fort Independence Boston.
• The Chamberlin (VA) rewritten. 1928 Jeffersonian brick hotel at Fort Monroe overlooking Hampton Roads (the 1896 predecessor burned in 1920). Page leads with the lore puzzle: Esmeralda's ghost was reported in the 1920s — older than this building. Multiple D1 corrections: closure year 2003 (not 2007, hit by post-9/11 Fort Monroe security restrictions, ~70% patronage drop); operator Harmony Senior Services (not "Independence Plus / Riverstone"). Lee, Davis, Wallis Simpson dropped as guests — Lee/Davis predate the building, Simpson has no Tier-1 trace.
• Norfolk Naval Shipyard (VA) rewritten. Established 1767 by Andrew Sprowle as Gosport, burned April 1861 when Union forces evacuated, recaptured 1862. Confederates used Dry Dock 1 (first US dry dock, first used June 17, 1833) to convert USS Merrimack into the ironclad CSS Virginia. The "John Paul" ghost is named for John Paul Jones, who never set foot here. D1 fact corrections: officer's quarters are Quarters A, B, and C (1837-1842) — not Buildings 28 or 33 as previously stated.
• Virginia Military Institute (VA) rewritten. Founded 1839, oldest state-supported military college. Stonewall Jackson taught 1851-1861. Battle of New Market May 15, 1864 — roughly 250 cadets fought, 10 killed (5 KIA + 5 died of wounds). Hunter burned VMI June 12, 1864. Hauntings centered on Old Barracks (Yellow Peril at 3:30 a.m., Room 401, Bear Den tunnels, Room 104) and Jackson Memorial Hall — NOT Marshall Hall, which is a modern Center for Leadership and Ethics. Cadet count properly hedged ("roughly 250," disputed 247-257 across sources).
• Swope's Townhouse (VA) rewritten. Page corrects location: 210 Prince Street in Alexandria (NOT Lexington). Col. Michael Swope captured at Fort Washington November 15-16, 1776, exchanged via Benjamin Franklin's diplomacy. Two ghost identities (Swope or John Dixon — Pope's Ghosts of Alexandria presents both; Dixon is uncorroborated legend). "True patriot" quote correctly attributed to Wellington Watts of Alexandria Colonial Tours (via Pope), not Pope directly. 1859 first-sighting date traces through Pope 2010, not contemporary record.
• Natural Bridge (VA) rewritten. Hotel rebuild corrected from 1964 to 1965, and the Monacan "Bridge of God" origin now anchors the page instead of being a footnote.
• Belle Grove Plantation (VA) rewritten. Hetty Cooley's actual killer named (Harriet Robinson, not James Gordon), the four-day death timeline restored, and 270 enslaved Hites correctly bounded to 1783-1851.
• Exchange Hotel (VA) rewritten. Anna the cook quote opens the page, and the Freedmen's Bureau era and "Legendary Chicken Vendors" plaque are surfaced as central, not footnotes.
• Hotel 24 South (VA) rewritten. Only 3 out of all 1923 naming-contest entries picked "Stonewall Jackson" — Woodrow Wilson was a runner-up. The sign finally came off the roof in summer 2020; the 1924 Wurlitzer organ that sat sealed in a wall for 37 years is the building's most concrete object.
• First Landing State Park (VA) rewritten. The 390-year symmetry anchors the page: English colonists landed at Cape Henry April 26, 1607; Chesapeake tribal remains were reburied at the park's 20-foot circle April 26, 1997. Same date, same dunes.
• Moses Myers House (VA) rewritten. The 1811 Bowden assault and Samuel Myers' retaliatory shooting anchor the haunting; Jewish history preserved with named specifics (Norfolk's first permanent Jewish-American family, Rachel Louzada's Sephardic origin, Samuel as William and Mary's first Jewish graduate, the family Kiddush cup on the shelf).
• Elmwood Cemetery (Norfolk, VA) rewritten. Built on real tragedy rather than invented apparitions: 400 burials in 7 days at the peak of the 1855 yellow fever epidemic, Father Ryan Lot for 60 unknown Confederate soldiers (Ryan himself buried in Mobile, not Norfolk), William Couper's bronze Recording Angel, West Point Cemetery's African-American Civil War dead.

Removed

• Stonewall Jackson House (VA) — page deleted. Real history (Jackson lived 1858-1861, only home he ever owned), but ZERO documented haunting tied to the property itself. The previous D1 content was bleed from other locations: the cemetery (separate ghost tradition), VMI (separate slug already exists), and Ellwood Manor in Orange County. No named ghost, no specific phenomena, no witnessed account. Jackson lore properly lives at VMI.

Removed

• Princess Anne Country Club (VA) — page deleted. Haunted reputation existed only in ghost-tour SEO with zero Tier-1 sources, no named witnesses, and contradictory ghost details across operators.
• Alexandria Lyceum (VA) — page deleted. Real Civil War hospital history (Clara Jones nursing diary, typhoid outbreak, 1-3 military funerals daily), but ZERO paranormal sources. Not in any Alexandria ghost-tour itinerary, no named phenomena, no documented witnesses. The previous draft's "Union soldier at window" / "cold spots" were extrapolated from hospital history alone.
• Maymont Mansion (VA) — page deleted. Trojan-horse haunting: the prior page's "ghost" content was actually Swannanoa Palace material (a different Dooley property 100 miles west in Afton). Style Weekly explicitly: "there have never been reported ghost sightings in the Maymont mansion." Excluded from every Richmond ghost-tour list.
• Cape Henry Lighthouse (VA) — page deleted. First federally authorized US lighthouse (1789, completed 1792), genuinely great history, but zero ghost story. The gift shop staff publicly state there are no ghost stories at the lighthouse, and not a single named witness, sighting, or local folklore tradition exists in any source. The previous draft's "figure on the spiral staircase / footsteps on iron stairs / echoes of keepers" was AI lore on top of real history.
• Stonewall Jackson House (VA) — page deleted. Real history (Jackson lived 1858-1861, only home he ever owned), but ZERO documented haunting tied to the property itself. The previous D1 content was bleed from other locations: the cemetery (separate ghost tradition), VMI (separate slug), and Ellwood Manor in Orange County. No named ghost, no specific phenomena, no witnessed account. Jackson lore properly lives at VMI.

Content

• Cassadaga Hotel (FL) rewritten. America's only spiritualist town, where the hotel sells its ghosts instead of hiding them. Architect record corrects a Christmas Eve 1925 vs December 26, 1926 fire date.
• Villa Paula (FL) rewritten. The backyard "grave" was never a grave. Miami New Times pulled the receipts in 2019; Paula is in Section 27, grave 1115 at Woodlawn.
• Clara Barkley Dorr House (FL) rewritten. Widow built a Greek Revival house in Pensacola in 1871. The translucent woman on the balcony matches her age the year she moved in.
• Bruton Parish Church (VA) rewritten. "Reverend Scervant Jones" identified as a ghost-tour name mix-up — Scervant Jones ministered at the Baptist church; actual first rector was Rowland Jones (1674-1688). The "100 men buried at Bruton" claim corrected — those mass graves were at Market Square; Confederate remains were reinterred at Bruton in 1920.
• College of William & Mary (VA) rewritten. The Brafferton boy's ghost runs across the Sunken Garden several feet above the grass, at the elevation the lawn sat before the CCC dug it out in 1935. The skeleton-in-wall legend corrected: Colonial Williamsburg's archaeologists actually found bone fragments and shell mortar in a drain, no body.
• Governor's Palace (VA) rewritten. Archaeologist Prentice Duell pulled 158 bodies out of the west garden in 1930 — 156 men, 2 women, ages 25-35, a Continental Army hospital body count. The 1918 hedge-maze murder removed (no source in any archive or newspaper).

Content

• Peyton Randolph House rewritten. Lafayette quote and Confederate-veteran scene removed; they don't exist in any source.
• George Wythe House rewritten. 8 fabricated specifics cut (cream-satin dress, lavender scent, wingback tableau, others).
• Agecroft Hall rewritten. Priest hole correctly framed as a replica, not historic.
• Edgar Allan Poe Museum rewritten. Page now leads with the fact that Poe never lived in this building.
• Lee-Fendall House rewritten. Robert E. Lee correctly placed across the street, not in this house.

Improvements

• Images load near-instantly across the country. Edge caching added for 1,213 place photos.
• About, Crew, How We Research, and Contact pages now share the place-page atmosphere.

Removed

• Cursor-following red dots on place pages.