Haunted Places in Arkansas
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Arkansas is full of haunted places where natural beauty and unsettling history seem to meet. Old hotels, forgotten roads, Ozark legends, river towns, and historic buildings have all earned a place in the state’s paranormal folklore. Whether you are fascinated by ghost stories, unexplained sightings, or the kind of local lore passed down for generations, this roundup of haunted places in Arkansas will take you through some of the state’s most talked-about eerie locations.
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Norman Baker’s Castle in the Air: Crescent Hotel Eureka Springs
Set on a ridge above a town that built its whole reputation on spring water, the Crescent Hotel Eureka Springs is a limestone pile…
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Cut Rope, Cold Well: The Ghost Mountain Legend
Ghost Mountain sits in the hills southeast of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and it offers none of the usual furniture of a haunted place. There is…
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Piano Keys and a Sealed Room: Bentonville’s Peel Mansion
Set back from South Walton Boulevard behind its heritage gardens, the Peel Mansion is the best preserved piece of Gilded Age Bentonville, and the…
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Dynamite, Gold and a Woman in White: Natural Steps in Arkansas
Two parallel walls of sandstone, twenty feet apart, drop down a bluff above the Arkansas River like a staircase cut by a mason. The…
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Built by Convicts: The Haunted Arkansas State Capitol
Gold leaf on the dome, bronze doors bought from Tiffany, and prisoners in the mortar: the haunted Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas…
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Westminster Abbey of Arkansas: Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock
Ten Arkansas governors, seven United States senators and twenty-one mayors of Little Rock are buried within a single square block in the Quapaw Quarter,…
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Old State House Museum: Knife Fight on the House Floor
Arkansas’s first capitol still stands on Markham Street in Little Rock, and the Old State House Museum now occupies a building whose most notorious…
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Trap Doors and the Voice Called Mary at Curran Hall
Little Rock lost most of its antebellum architecture to fire, flood, and the wrecking ball, which makes Curran Hall an unusual survivor: a single…
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Clayton House Museum in Fort Smith, Arkansas
Location: Clayton House Museum, 514 North 6th Street, Fort Smith, ArkansasOfficial Website: https://www.claytonhouse.orgHours: Vary by season. Check the official site for current tour times.Phone: (479) 783-3000 If you…
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Toltec Mounds Arkansas: History and Reported Hauntings
Toltec Mounds Arkansas is the name most visitors still use for an 18-mound complex on the banks of an oxbow lake southeast of Little…