A field guide to haunted America
Every place has a story.
Some don’t stay buried.
Ghost stories, cursed history, and the exact spots they happened — across all 50 states.
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Cloven Hooves and a Black Cat: Montpelier Hill’s Ruin
The roofless grey block on the summit ridge above Rathfarnham is the building most people mean when they say Hell…
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Breakfast Before the Boyne: Haunted Malahide Castle
Ask around Malahide village and someone will tell you the castle up the road is the most haunted house in…
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O’Donoghue Beneath the Lake: Ross Castle Killarney
Lough Leane laps close to the walls at Ross Castle Killarney, in County Kerry, and that proximity explains almost everything…
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Harriet and the Staircase: The Charleville Castle Ghost Story
Ask about the Charleville Castle ghost in Tullamore and one name comes back before any other: Harriet, a little girl…
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Duckett’s Grove Banshee: Carlow’s Burnt Gothic Ruin
Turrets, oriels and a solid granite viewing tower rise out of a field in County Carlow, roofless and hollow, and…
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The Crusader Is Gone: Fire, Theft and St Michan’s Mummies
For most of the last century and a half, the St Michan’s mummies were one of the strangest things a…
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Bullet Holes and Wire Cages: Haunted Marsh’s Library, Dublin
Ask around Dublin’s ghost tours and Marsh’s Library gets named sooner or later: a dim upper gallery, chained readers’ cages,…
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Sieges, Cromwell and a Seismograph: Haunted Rathfarnham Castle
People arrive at the gates looking for the haunted Rathfarnham Castle of internet listicles, and what they get instead is…
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Pockets Full of Pebbles: the Borley Rectory Ghost Story
Every Borley Rectory ghost story has one awkward feature in common: the house is not there any more. The large…
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A Bride in a Chest: Bramshill House Ghosts in Hampshire
Fourteen is the number usually attached to the Bramshill House ghosts, a figure credited to a police officer who worked…
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The Lady Tanfield Ghost in a Bottle: Burford’s Fiery Coach
Of all the stories attached to this Cotswold wool town, the one that sticks is the Lady Tanfield ghost: a…
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The Blue Boy and the Bone Box: Chillingham Castle Ghosts
Talk of Chillingham Castle ghosts almost always begins with a boy in blue and ends with a marketing claim: the…
