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Lumber Barons and a Gangster: Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor
Bangor became a city in 1834, and in the same year a group of its horticulturists bought a hill above the Penobscot River and…
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109 Cat Graves and a Glass Coffin: The House of Blue Lights
Every city keeps one house that teenagers dare each other to drive past, and in Indianapolis, Indiana, that house was the House of Blue…
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Snowbound Octagon: Alyeska Resort Ghost Stories, Girdwood
Ski Alaska long enough and you will hear the Alyeska Resort ghost stories: a skier glimpsed on a run that has already closed for…
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Blood in the Floorboards: Carnton Plantation, Franklin
Randal McGavock named his Williamson County estate for his father’s birthplace in County Antrim, Ireland, and the Gaelic word behind the name, cairn, means…
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Cold Rooms and Old Stories: The Ole Jesse Lee Home, Alaska
The Ole Jesse Lee Home sits in Alaska as one of those buildings whose reputation has outrun its paperwork. Said to have begun as…
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Under a Flag of Truce: The Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah
Unraveling the dark tale of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the blog uncovers the chilling plot of 1857 where over 120 pioneers tragically lost lives…
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The Sealed Tunnels of Fairfield Hills Hospital, Newtown
Fairfield Hills State Hospital in Connecticut looms as a monument to mysteries past. Once a bustling asylum, its vacant halls now echo with tales…
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Eighty Pounds of Dynamite: The Haunted Kay’s Cross, Utah
Most ruins get there slowly. The haunted Kay’s Cross, tucked into a secluded fold of ground called Kay’s Hollow outside Kaysville, Utah, was reduced…
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The Lady in White of the Haunted Terrace Inn, Michigan
Northern Michigan has no shortage of old summer hotels, but few of them carry a ghost story as firmly attached as the one told…
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Swannanoa Palace: The Marble Villa Above Rockfish Gap
Delve into the enigmatic world of Swannanoa Palace, Virginia’s architectural marvel shrouded in spectral legends. Located atop the Blue Ridge Mountains, this once-grand estate…
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The Sailor Suit in the Glass Case: Robert the Doll, Key West
Robert the Doll sits in a glass case on the ground floor of a Civil War era brick tower at the eastern edge of…
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The Ghost Bride of Gold Camp Road: North Cheyenne Cau00f1on Park
Discover the beauty of North Cheyenne Canon Park, a true hiker’s paradise! Packed with picturesque locales, dramatic waterfalls, and engaging wildlife, it’s a haven…
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Brick, Gold and Rumor: The Old Lumpkin County Courthouse
The Old Lumpkin County Courthouse holds down the center of Dahlonega’s public square in north Georgia, a square brick building that has outlasted every…
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Pitty Pat Hollow: The Imp Said to Haunt Shipley Hollow Road
Ask for Shipley Hollow Road by its official name and you may get a blank look. Ask for Pitty Pat Hollow and you will…
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Curtains on the Second Floor: Iowa State University Ghost Stories
Most of the Iowa State University ghost stories that circulate in Ames attach themselves to three buildings: the oldest house on campus, a residence…
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The Night Express Went Down: Hartford’s Haunted Railroad Bridge
A short span of track over the White River at Hartford, Vermont carries one of the grimmest stories in American railroading, and the haunted…
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A Wedding Dress on the Water: The White Lady of the Frio
Dive into the captivating tale of the White Lady of Frio River. Discover a timeless legend blending tragedy, romance and mystery set in the…
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Brick Fortune to Mob Hit: The Kreischer Mansion, Staten Island
Set back behind trees on Arthur Kill Road in Charleston, on the southwestern tip of Staten Island, the Kreischer Mansion is the last survivor…
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Charlie Below Decks: The Haunted USS North Carolina
Nine decks of steel sit in the Cape Fear River across from downtown Wilmington, and for roughly six decades the haunted USS North Carolina…
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Burned, Rebuilt, Retold: Haunted Magnolia Plantation
Ask around Charleston and you will hear Magnolia Plantation named among the region’s haunted places, usually without anyone being able to say who is…
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Seneca Sent Him South: The Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp
Spiritualism arrived in central Florida on the instructions of a spirit, at least according to the man who followed them. The Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp…
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High Heels in the Kitchen: Herzstein Memorial Museum
A building that has been a church, a library, a roller rink and a bowling alley has collected a lot of footsteps. The Herzstein…
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The Ghost Cat on the Stairs: Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Few American landmarks are as instantly recognizable as the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, the black-and-white spiral tower standing on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.…
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1,403 Men in 800 Cells: Nashville’s Tennessee State Prison
Six miles west of downtown Nashville, on Centennial Boulevard, a Gothic stone fortress sits empty behind a twenty-foot wall. The Tennessee State Prison took…
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Fourteen Executions: Inside the Wyoming Frontier Prison
Rawlins sits in the high desert of southern Wyoming, where winter arrives early and stays late, and for eighty years the town’s most imposing…
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Haunted Horseshoe Las Vegas: The 1980 MGM Grand Fire Site
Ask about a haunted Horseshoe Las Vegas and you are really asking about a building that no longer carries the name it had on…
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Dragging Canoe’s Curse and the Leaks at Hales Bar Dam
Water went through Hales Bar Dam almost from the day it was finished, and it never really stopped. The concrete barrier that once spanned…
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Carl in Room One: The Brook Forest Inn, Colorado
Up a canyon road west of Denver, in a scattering of houses that never quite became a town, the Brook Forest Inn has been…
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The Outlaw and the Dog: Saint James Hotel in Selma
Few buildings in the Black Belt have gone from Union headquarters to abandoned shell to boutique lodging and back into business, but the Saint…
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Healing Springs to Hotel Hell: The Maribel Caves Hotel
The Maribel Caves Hotel sits above the Devil’s River in Maribel, Wisconsin, a three-story stone shell that locals and ghost hunters long ago renamed…
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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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A Gambler’s House in Maysville: Phillips’ Folly Ghosts
Ask about the Phillips’ Folly ghosts in Maysville, Kentucky, and you get names rather than a vague shiver: John Armstrong and his Newfoundland dog,…
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Odd Nights Over the Creek: Witch’s Bridge at Weeping Water
Somewhere on the back roads outside Weeping Water, Nebraska, a creek passes under a modern span that has no story attached to it. The…
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Button Eyes and a Locked Case: The Annabelle Doll in Monroe
The Annabelle Doll: not just a toy, but Connecticut’s most chilling artifact. Encased at the Warrens’ Occult Museum, this innocent-looking doll harbors a malevolent…
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The Mail Cart on the Fourth Floor: Indiana Statehouse Ghosts
Walk into the rotunda at 200 West Washington Street on a weekday and the building sells itself on limestone, stained glass and the fact…
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Room 217: The Stanley Hotel’s Explosion and Its Ghosts
Five miles from the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park, the Stanley Hotel sits on a granite shelf above Estes Park, Colorado, a white…
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Goodnight, Olive: The New Amsterdam Theatre Ghost on 42nd Street
Olive Thomas worked the roof of this building before she worked the screen, and the New Amsterdam Theatre ghost that Broadway people have talked…
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The Boiler Room Myth: Haunted Annie Lytle School, Jacksonville
Few ruins in Florida have a ghost story that the people protecting the building will argue with you about on the record. The haunted…
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Haunted Charles Island: Kidd’s Gold and a Vanishing Sandbar
Experience the chilling and spine-tingling horrors that await on Charles Island. Beware, for nightmares come alive in this terrifying destination.
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Banwell Terror Bridge: The Woman Who Pushes Cars
Ask around in Iowa about Banwell Terror Bridge and you will get a story before you get a map reference. The name itself is…
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Two Fires Down: The Witch of Lafayette Pioneer Cemetery
Lafayette Pioneer Cemetery sits on a rise above a small Yamhill County town that was once the most important place in its corner of…
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The Convict Who Went Up: Roseman Covered Bridge, Iowa
Drive the gravel south of Winterset and the Roseman Covered Bridge appears the way it has since 1883: a long red box set down…
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Blood on the Doorstep: Wheatlands Plantation, Tennessee
Set at a crossroads in Sevier County, where Boyds Creek Highway meets Cedar Springs Valley Road, Wheatlands Plantation is one of the oldest surviving…
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Ernie on the Ledge: The New London Ledge Light Ghost
The New London Ledge Light ghost has a name, which is more than most lighthouse hauntings can claim. He is called Ernie, said to…
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Eliza’s Floor: The Beattie Mansion in St. Joseph
Set above the streets of St. Joseph, Missouri, the Beattie Mansion has been known locally as the “House on the Hill” since the 1850s,…
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The Girl in the Fields: Stricker Ranch, Idaho
Few working homesteads in southern Idaho carry a double reputation the way Stricker Ranch does. On paper it is an artifact of the 1860s…
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The Half Way to Hell Club and Golden Gate Bridge Ghosts
Golden Gate Bridge – an iconic symbol of San Francisco. This landmark not only connects two cities but also boasts awe-inspiring architecture and history.…
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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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Bullet Holes and a Hanging Tree: Baker-Peters House
The Baker-Peters House sits on the south side of Kingston Pike in West Knoxville, Tennessee, a two-story Greek Revival brick house now ringed by…
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“Henry Will Know”: The Pioneer Park Aspen Ghost Story
The Pioneer Park Aspen ghost story rests on two words spoken by a dying woman in 1881. Harriet Webber, who had come west to…
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Ceely Rose and the Ghost Stories of Malabar Farm
Malabar Farm sits in a fold of Pleasant Valley in Richland County, Ohio, and it is one of the few haunted destinations in the…
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Cole Mountain Light: The Lantern That Never Came Home
Drive the Hardy County stretch of Highway 55 after dark and you may hear about the Cole Mountain Light, a pale glow said to…
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Witches, Boulders and the Abandoned Village of Dogtown
Two towns share the woods where the abandoned village of Dogtown once stood. The site sits inland on Cape Ann in Massachusetts, split between…
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Sketoe’s Hole: The Newton Pit That Wouldn’t Stay Filled
Sketoe’s Hole is not a house, a hotel or a graveyard. It is a depression in the sand under a highway bridge north of…
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The Axe, the Witch and Jack Cole Road, Blount County
Blount County, Alabama keeps a lot of its roads narrow, unlit and pressed in by trees, and Jack Cole Road is one of them.…
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Marble, Tiffany Glass and the Haunted Gadsden Hotel
Ask around about the haunted Gadsden Hotel and the conversation almost always narrows to a single door number. The five-story hotel sits in Douglas,…
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Cell 14-D and a Banjo: Alcatraz Island Ghosts
A crossing of a little over a mile separates San Francisco’s waterfront from the most photographed prison ruin in California, and stories about Alcatraz…
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Gertrude Neidlinger’s Ghosts: The Spy House, Port Monmouth
The Spy House sits at the edge of Sandy Hook Bay in Port Monmouth, a section of Middletown Township in New Jersey, and almost…
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Rowena and the Black Dog: Rotherwood Mansion, Kingsport
Rotherwood Mansion sits on a bluff above the Holston River outside Kingsport, Tennessee, on Netherland Inn Road, and almost everything told about it arrives…
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Names Erased: The Chalkboard Legend of Bird Creek School
Bird Creek School sits in open country behind Bluestem Lake, in the rural reaches of Osage County, Oklahoma, a two-room brick shell with broken…
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Lauderdale County Ghost Bridge: A Legend That Outlived Its Span
The Lauderdale County Ghost Bridge is one of those Alabama landmarks that outlived its own structure. The span itself is gone, taken down in…
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Cigar Smoke on the Balcony: The Middleton Tavern Ghost
Ask around the Annapolis waterfront and you will hear about the Middleton Tavern ghost before you hear much about the food. The building is…
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Sauer Castle
Exploring the Mystical Sauer Castle of Kansas Located in the heart of Kansas, the Sauer Castle is not just an architectural marvel but a…
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Toys on the Graves at Kentucky’s Gates of Hell Cemetery
The Gates of Hell Cemetery is a small, half-forgotten burial ground in Hardin County, Kentucky, reached by a lonely winding road and marked by…