Haunted Places in Williamsburg, Virginia

Haunted Mansions (3)

George Wythe House

Colonial Williamsburg's official line on the George Wythe House is one sentence long…

Governor's Palace

In June 1930, an Egyptologist named Prentice Duell started digging in the west garden of the Governor's Palace in…

Peyton Randolph House

Firefighters walked into the Peyton Randolph House on a fire alarm in December 2014 and found a fully discharged fire…

Haunted Restaurants (2)

King's Arms Tavern

Every night at the King's Arms Tavern, the closing staff used to say good night to a woman who had been dead for years.

Shields Tavern

Dr. Kelly Brennan Arehart stayed late at Shields Tavern after a staff seance on the second floor.

Haunted Universities (1)

College of William & Mary

On foggy nights at William & Mary, students say a young Native American boy sprints across the Sunken Garden.

Haunted Hospitals (1)

Public Hospital of 1773

On May 18, 1862, Dr. John Minson Galt II died in his house on the grounds of the Public Hospital from a laudanum…

Other Haunted Places (1)

Bruton Parish Church

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

More Haunted Cities in Virginia

Richmond

9 places

Fredericksburg

6 places

Alexandria

5 places

Charlottesville