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The Girl in the Blue Dress: Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
Dive into the glamorous history of Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in our latest post! Unearth its age-old links with star-studded spectacles, claims to haunted rooms,…
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Eighty-Seven by 1937: Pasadena’s Colorado Street Bridge
Experience history and scenic beauty in one place: Colorado Street Bridge. Unmask the stories this iconic Pasadena landmark holds behind its architecturally stunning facade.…
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The Reed Family Murders and the Ghosts of Mission San Miguel
Discover the rich history and timeless charm of Mission San Miguel. Explore this California treasure that survived earthquakes and rebellions, and stands as a…
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The Napoleon Curtain and the Brown Grand Theatre Ghost
Concordia’s opera house was built to impress, and it still does. The Brown Grand Theatre ghost story is a small, quiet thing beside the…
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The Forgotten Roadhouse on El Camino Real: Los Coches Adobe
Dive into California history at Los Coches Adobe! This relic of the Gold Rush era transforms visitors back in time, inviting them to explore…
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The Invented Legends of Santa Paula’s Glen Tavern Inn
Steeped in rich history and ghostly legends, Glen Tavern Inn fascinates visitors. From charming accommodations to spine-tingling paranormal experiences, this one-of-a-kind Inn is an…
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Mile 79 and the Ghost Stories at Tonsina River Lodge
Experience the magic of Alaska at Tonsina River Lodge! Discover tranquility amidst wilderness, relish home-cooked meals and dip your toes into riveting outdoor adventures,…
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The Spring, the Cave and the Ghosts of Cave Hill Cemetery
Behind a Corinthian gatehouse on Baxter Avenue, Cave Hill Cemetery spreads across 296 acres of hillside, lake and specimen tree on the eastern edge…
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Storm Drains and Legend: Clifton’s Gates of Hell
Beneath the streets of Clifton, New Jersey, a system of brick and concrete stormwater tunnels has picked up a name that has nothing to…
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A Schoolhouse Fire No Record Confirms: Heady Lane Cemetery
Heady Lane Cemetery is one of those places where the legend is far better documented than the event behind it. The burial ground sits…
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The Phantom Train Whistle at Tara Bridge in Fort Dodge
Ask for directions to Banwell Bridge in Webster County and you may get a blank look. Ask for Tara Bridge in Fort Dodge and,…
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Phantom Carriages and Pink Marble at the Haunted Ramsey House
Six miles or so east of downtown Knoxville, a two-storey house of pink marble and blue limestone sits back from the road looking almost…
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Bullet Holes in the Mural: Bardstown’s Old Talbott Tavern
The Old Talbott Tavern sits in the middle of Bardstown, Kentucky, a squat stone building that has been pouring drinks and renting beds since…
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The Gray Lady of Sims, a North Dakota Coal Town Gone Quiet
The Gray Lady of Sims is the reason most outsiders have heard of this place, but the town she is said to walk came…
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Pio Pico’s Grand Hotel: The Pico House Ghost Stories
Stand on the south side of the old Los Angeles Plaza and you are looking at the shell of the finest hotel Southern California…
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Water Babies and Saltair Sally: The Haunted Great Salt Lake
Most reputedly haunted places have a fixed footprint. The haunted Great Salt Lake does not: the shoreline in northern Utah moves by miles between…
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Cavalry Ghosts at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne
Three miles west of Cheyenne, on high plains that were treeless when the first tents went up, F.E. Warren Air Force Base has been…
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Simone and the Third-Floor Window at Boulder Hot Springs
Sulphur steam, a veranda lined with rocking chairs and a ghost who reportedly gets her own cup of tea: Boulder Hot Springs sits in…
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The Elevator to the Morgue at Old St Joseph’s Hospital
Every old hospital collects stories, but the ones attached to the old St Joseph’s Hospital tend to circle back to the same short list:…
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Houdini, Earhart and Andy: Derby’s Sterling Opera House
Step inside the historic Sterling Opera House and encounter spine-chilling tales of paranormal activity. Are you brave enough for a ghostly adventure?
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Blood Cemetery in Hollis: The Pointing Hand of Abel Blood
Ask for Blood Cemetery in Hollis and most people will know exactly which patch of New Hampshire ground you mean, even though no sign…
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Cotton Mill Money and the Haunted Falcon Rest at McMinnville
Talk of a haunted Falcon Rest tends to arrive before the history does, which is a shame, because the history of this Queen Anne…
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Damn the Torpedoes: The Fort Morgan Ghosts on Mobile Point
Stand at the tip of the peninsula that guards Mobile Bay and you are standing on the reason Fort Morgan exists: a pinch point…
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Hotel Colorado: Bell Tower Suites and a Sealed Room
The Hotel Colorado sits across the Colorado River from the hot springs that made Glenwood Springs famous, a cream-brick pile with twin bell towers…
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Ladd School in Exeter: A Eugenics Colony’s Empty Ground
Almost nothing is left to walk through. The Ladd School in Exeter, Rhode Island, ran for eighty five years as a state institution for…
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The Most Haunted States in America, by the Numbers
We have mapped and written up 705 haunted locations across all fifty states. Every one has coordinates, a documented history and a source list.…
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Hollow Earth Utopia: The Koreshan State Historic Site Ghosts
Nine miles south of Fort Myers, on a slow bend of the Estero River, the Koreshan State Historic Site preserves the physical remains of…
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Pawnee Ceremony to Outlaw Hideout: Robber’s Cave in Lincoln
Robber’s Cave in Lincoln is not a cave you can walk into. The entrance sits under a sandwich shop, sealed off from the sidewalk…
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Robert Mills’ 1822 Sanctuary and the Agnes of Glasgow Ghost
Two things bring people to the brick sanctuary at 502 DeKalb Street. The first is architectural: this is one of very few surviving churches…
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Sentries and a Sentry Dog: Fort Bridger State Historic Site
Fort Bridger State Historic Site sits on Blacks Fork of the Green River in Uinta County, Wyoming, on ground that was Mexican territory when…
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Belle of the Southwest: The Haunted Plaza Hotel, Las Vegas NM
One of the oddest mysteries of the Campbell House Museum is the still-unexplainable appearances of a half-dollar coin and a single penny. This has…
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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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Fatty Walsh and the Biltmore Hotel Ghosts of Coral Gables
Coral Gables built itself a landmark in ten months, and the Biltmore Hotel ghosts that guests talk about today are a byproduct of everything…
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Cornmeal and Arrows: The Ghost of Thomas Gilcrease
Almost everything about the place has changed since the stories started, which makes the ghost of Thomas Gilcrease an unusual case: the building he…
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Bonnie Springs Ranch Ghosts: A Vanished Old Nevada Town
Stories about the Bonnie Springs Ranch ghosts outlived the buildings they were attached to. For decades this spread of desert land near Blue Diamond,…
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Lightner Farmhouse: Sleeping in a Union Field Hospital
Sleep at the Lightner Farmhouse Gettysburg and you are sleeping in a building that the United States government has formally recognised as a Civil…
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Gratz Park Inn: The Old Lexington Clinic’s Restless Guests
A doctor’s waiting room is an unusual foundation for a ghost story, but that is what lies underneath the Gratz Park Inn in Lexington,…
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Room 502: Kate Morgan and the Hotel del Coronado Ghosts
Stories of Hotel del Coronado ghosts all circle back to one November night in 1892, when a young woman who had checked in alone…
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Hotel Parq Central: The Railway Hospital Guests Sleep Inside
Guests who check into Hotel Parq Central in Albuquerque are sleeping inside a hospital. That is not a marketing conceit: the building went up…
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Headlamps in the Dark: The Iron Crosses of Dawson Cemetery
Dawson Cemetery is the last thing left standing of a company town that once fed coal to half the Southwest. The town of Dawson,…
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Bullet Holes and Bourbon: The Haunted Old Talbott Tavern
Five guest rooms sit above a stone dining room in Bardstown, and every one of them carries the name of a dead person said…
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The Duke of Devil’s Canyon: McCook’s Uneasy Landmark
Devil’s Canyon sits outside McCook in southwest Nebraska, a cut of rugged ground that would probably attract nothing more than hikers and photographers if…
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Applause With No Audience: The Alliance Theater’s Ghost
A working small town movie house on the Nebraska panhandle, the Alliance Theater has two stories running side by side: a documented one about…
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Keystone Cemetery: Where Mount Rushmore’s Carvers Rest
Look up from the plots at Keystone Cemetery and the four presidential faces are right there, a mile or so off through the pines.…
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Five Vanished Near Glastenbury: The Bennington Triangle
Five people vanished from the same stretch of southwestern Vermont in the space of five years, and the phrase Bennington Triangle was invented decades…
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Turkey Pete and the Solitary Cells of the Old Montana Prison
Stone walls raised by convict hands, a riot that held the yard for a day and a half, and a museum that now sells…
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Pitchforks and Rocking Chairs: King House Mayport
A weathered frame house at 4627 Ocean St in the old fishing village of Mayport, Florida, King House Mayport is described as a historic…
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Seelbach Hilton Ghosts: General Fisk and Capone’s Tunnels
The Seelbach Hilton ghosts are talked about in Louisville the way the hotel’s marble and its bourbon list are talked about: as part of…
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The Casket Room Ghost of Cleveland’s House of Wills
The House of Wills sits in Cleveland, Ohio, as one of the city’s most photographed empty buildings: a gothic pile that has been a…
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Lucas and the Moon Room: Dana Auditorium Ghosts
Ask around Guilford College late in the semester and someone will bring up the music building. The Dana Auditorium ghosts are campus currency in…
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Balcony Ghost and Acoustic Guitar: Colonial Theatre Laconia
Colonial Theatre Laconia sits in the downtown of a New Hampshire city built on water and railroads, wedged between Lake Winnipesaukee and Lake Winnisquam…
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Chase House Ghosts: From 1762 Merchant Home to Orphanage
You might be imagining all kinds of tragic souls that haunt the halls, but most of the supernatural stories about the house involve one…
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Elisha, Jemima and the Benton Homestead Ghosts of Tolland
Two people who loved each other died of smallpox in this house five weeks apart, and custom would not allow them to be buried…
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The Town That Walked Away: Old Hill Village, New Hampshire
Old Hill Village is what remains after a town picks itself up and walks away. The settlement began in 1754 as New Chester, in…
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Room 310 and the Hotel Jerome Ghosts of Aspen
Brick, three storeys and unmissable on East Main Street, the Hotel Jerome has been Aspen’s front parlour since the silver boom, and the stories…
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Biltmore Estate Ghosts: the Lady in Pink and the Music Room
Ask about Biltmore Estate ghosts in Asheville and you get a short list of stories that circulate among visitors and tour-goers rather than anything…
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The Cat in the Crawl Space: Fairport Harbor Lighthouse
A mummified cat found in a crawl space is the strangest artifact connected to the Fairport Harbor Lighthouse, and it is the reason a…
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Larry in the Balcony: the Orpheum Theater in Sioux Falls
Vaudeville acts, second-run pictures and community theatre have all taken turns on the same boards inside the Orpheum Theater in Sioux Falls, a 1913…
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Miss B. Haven and the Monkey Island Denver Ghost Story
Almost nobody sets foot on it any more, which is part of why the Monkey Island Denver ghost story has lasted. The island itself…
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The Birthday Ghost of Medora’s Fudge and Ice Cream Depot
Most ghost stories keep no calendar. The one attached to the Fudge and Ice Cream Depot in Medora, North Dakota, reportedly does: locals say…
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The Woman in Blue and Trollwood Park’s Buried Cemetery
Trollwood Park in north Fargo reads, at first glance, as unremarkable: twenty-eight acres of mown grass, swings, slides, gazebos and picnic tables on the…
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Deering Estate: A Stone House With No Stove, and Its Ghosts
Charles Deering lived on this stretch of Biscayne Bay shoreline for only five years, and he died in a bedroom there. Deering Estate ghost…
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Shadows in the Stacks: Bismarck’s Liberty Memorial Building
Stone, symmetry and a state’s grief: the Liberty Memorial Building in Bismarck was raised in 1931 as North Dakota’s tribute to the men and…
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The Old Armory in Williston: Built on 200 Shares of Stock
Drill practice in Williston used to happen wherever there was room: a field, an open lot, whatever the weather allowed. That changed in 1916,…