Haunted Mansions in Virginia
Carlyle House
In the 1970s, stone mason Jon Battista was restoring the chimney foundation at Carlyle House when he opened a sealed…
Lee-Fendall House
Thirty-seven members of the Lee family lived in this house between 1785 and 1903.
Ramsay House
The coffee pot turns itself on. At 221 King Street, before the morning shift unlocks the door of Alexandria's Visitor…
Swope's Townhouse
An English woman went to tour 210 Prince Street with a realtor and never made it past the staircase.
Ash Lawn-Highland
For nearly two centuries, the small white building tourists were shown at Highland was not James Monroe's house.
Monticello
In 1941, the room where Sally Hemings lived as an enslaved woman at Monticello was converted into a men's bathroom.
Chatham Manor
On December 21, 1862, Walt Whitman walked up to the front of Chatham Manor looking for his wounded brother George.
Kenmore Plantation
Colonel Fielding Lewis put roughly seven thousand pounds of his own money into making gunpowder for the Continental…
Mary Washington House
George Washington's mother is supposed to be in her garden. It's a strange version of a ghost story.
Belle Grove Plantation
A visitor walking through Belle Grove once glanced into the room where Confederate Major General Stephen Dodson Ramseur…
Moses Myers House
A top-hatted figure paces the garden behind the Moses Myers House. Head bowed, hands clasped behind his back.
Agecroft Hall
In 1925, a Tudor manor in the Irwell Valley was taken apart timber by timber, crated, loaded onto a ship…
Ferry Plantation House
At 10 a.m. on July 10, 2006, Virginia Beach Mayor Meyera Oberndorf stood at Ferry Plantation House and read Governor…
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…