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Imogene Remus and Eden Park’s Spring House Gazebo
Cincinnati’s oldest surviving park structure is also the backdrop to one of the city’s most notorious killings. The Spring House Gazebo in Eden Park,…
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Boot Hill and the Vigilantes: Virginia City, Montana Ghosts
Virginia City, Montana began as a misspelling. In June 1863 a cluster of tents and claim stakes in Alder Gulch was registered under the…
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The Bottom Farm Dead: Ghosts of Perryville Battlefield, KY
Perryville Battlefield sits in the rolling farm country of central Kentucky, and it is one of the few Civil War fields where the ground…
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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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Twenty Dead in 1978: The Haunted Coates House Hotel
Six stories of brick and stone still hold the corner of 10th Street and Broadway in Kansas City, Missouri, and the reputation of the…
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Room 11 and the Redheaded Woman at the Thunder Bay Inn
Big Bay sits at the end of a long road on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a former company town on the Lake Superior shore where…
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Aurora Cemetery Alien Grave: Texas’ Roswell of 1897
Dive into the intrigue of Aurora Cemetery, Texas, where an alleged alien is buried from a 1897 UFO crash. Unravel the mystery, explore the…
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Bubba and the Old Mill: South Carolina State Museum Ghosts
Explore history, art, science, and technology at the South Carolina State Museum! With four floors of exhibits, a planetarium and a 4D theater, this…
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Summerwind Mansion: The Book That Made a Haunted House
Summerwind Mansion is not a house anymore. What stands on the shore of West Bay Lake in Vilas County, Wisconsin, is a ruin on…
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Three Stories of Rotating Cells: Council Bluffs’ Squirrel Cage Jail
Turn a crank in Council Bluffs and a three story drum of cells rotates past a single fixed doorway. That mechanism gave the Pottawattamie…
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The Liberty Pole and the Jean Bonnet Tavern Ghost, Bedford PA
Fieldstone walls more than two feet thick, four interior levels, and a bar that has been serving travelers on and off since the eighteenth…
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What Visitors Hear at Devil’s Den in Gettysburg
Devil’s Den in Gettysburg is a jumble of house-sized boulders at the southern end of the Pennsylvania battlefield, and it is one of the…
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Vicky and the Tunnels Beneath Dayton’s Victoria Theatre
Dayton’s Victoria Theatre has been burned, flooded, renamed five times and marked for the wrecking ball, and it is still selling tickets. The building…
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Three Deaths in Twelve Days: The Houghton Mansion, North Adams
The Houghton Mansion stands on Church Street in North Adams, Massachusetts, a Neoclassical Revival pile built by a print works president who wanted his…
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Grace Thorndike and Witch Road in Rosendale, Wisconsin
Witch Road in Rosendale, Wisconsin, is not a landmark so much as a habit: a rural stretch that teenagers, ghost hunters, and curious drivers…
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Built on Corwin’s Lot: The Joshua Ward House, Salem
Stand on Washington Street in Salem, Massachusetts and the Joshua Ward House reads as a merchant’s brag: three stories of brick, four chimneys, a…
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1,168 Feet of Timber: The Haunted Holcomb Creek Trestle
Rural Washington County keeps one of the country’s stranger pieces of surviving infrastructure: a wooden railroad trestle more than a fifth of a mile…
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Barn Theater and Apparitions: The Stanley-Ware House, CA
Behind a row of transplanted period buildings in Orange County sits a two-story Victorian that has collected more ghost stories than most structures its…
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Carolean Brick and a Rebel Garrison: Bacon’s Castle, Virginia
Explore the enigmatic history of Bacon’s Castle, Virginia’s oldest documented brick dwelling, dating back to 1665. Known for its distinctive Jacobean architecture, this venerable…
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Charlie and the Blue Ghost: USS Lexington in Corpus Christi
The USS Lexington in Corpus Christi, Texas, wears a nickname that sounds like it was invented for a ghost tour: the Blue Ghost. It…
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Numbered Graves: The Ruins of Belchertown State School
The Belchertown State School sits on 876 acres in the hills of western Massachusetts, and almost everything unsettling about it is a matter of…
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Room 256: Dr. Jacocks and the Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill
The Carolina Inn sits at the edge of the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a red brick building with…
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The Lady in Gray Still Walks Camp Chase Cemetery, Columbus
Two acres of headstones sit behind a stone wall on Sullivant Avenue in Columbus, hemmed in by houses built decades after the last prisoner…
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The 1922 Telescope That Explained the Brown Mountain Lights
Almost every famous ghost light in America has a scientist somewhere in its past who was ignored. The Brown Mountain lights of North Carolina…
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Room 11 and Rosie: Inside Virginia City’s Silver Queen Hotel
Virginia City still looks like the boomtown it was, and the Silver Queen Hotel is one of the reasons why. Built in 1876 on…
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The Flying Brick: Inside Nevada’s Haunted Goldfield Hotel
Four floors of gray granite and red brick still hold down the corner of Crook and Columbia in Goldfield, Nevada, and the haunted Goldfield…
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The Burning Bride of Bellamy Bridge, Northwest Florida
Few Florida ghost stories have been told as often, or as confidently, as the one attached to Bellamy Bridge. The span sits in the…
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Alice’s Piano and the Attic: Littlefield House in Austin
The Littlefield House in Austin sits on the University of Texas campus at 24th and Whitis, a red brick Victorian with turrets, marble steps,…
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Shadows in the Balcony: The Bijou Theatre in Knoxville
The Bijou Theatre in Knoxville has been putting audiences in front of a stage since 1909, which makes it the oldest standing theater in…
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Pukwudgies and Thunderbirds: Inside the Bridgewater Triangle
Most haunted places on this site are a single building with a single front door. The Bridgewater Triangle is not that. It is roughly…
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Snakes in the Cellar: South Bass Island Lighthouse, Ohio
“Discover the vast history and stunning views of Lake Erie at South Bass Island Lighthouse! An architectural marvel built in 1897, this lighthouse combines…
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Monster Burgers and Footsteps: Middlegate Station, Nevada
Middlegate Station sits out in the open country of central Nevada, a cluster of low buildings and a fuel pump where the desert does…
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Thirteen Graves Beneath Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, WV
Rust, a collapsed ferris wheel and a swing set that still moves in the wind: the abandoned Lake Shawnee Amusement Park sits on a…
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Crybaby Cries and Phantom Cars: Fudge Road Bridge, Ohio
Explore the mysterious allure of Fudge Road Bridge! This blog post delves into its chilling ghost stories, picturesque surroundings, and intriguing history. Are you…
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Cries in the Pediatric Ward: Spruce Pine’s Old Davis Hospital
For decades the Old Davis Hospital sat empty on a rise in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, a brick shell that went from being one…
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Coca-Cola Elephants and the Haunted Briarcliff Mansion, Georgia
Six elephants once lived on the grounds of what people now call the haunted Briarcliff mansion, and they were named Coca, Cola, Pause, Refreshes,…
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Sleeping at 230 Second Street: The Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast
The Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast occupies a plain frame house on a side street in Fall River, Massachusetts, a few minutes’ walk from…
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Milk Carton Bricks and the White Lady: Loveland Castle, Ohio
Loveland Castle is a one-man medieval fantasy built out of river stone and milk cartons on the banks of the Little Miami River, north…
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Seven Wards from San Quentin: Preston Castle in Ione
Set above the Sierra Nevada foothills in Amador County, California, Preston Castle in Ione is the kind of building that looks like a story…
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Olevia’s Room: Ghosts of the Spread Eagle Tavern, Ohio
The Spread Eagle Tavern has been standing on Plymouth Street in Hanoverton, Ohio since 1837, which means it went up while the canal boats…
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The Deacon’s 1,000 Acres: Wheelock Farmhouse, Cavendish VT
Set among the hills of Cavendish, Vermont, the Wheelock farmhouse is one of those places where the documented record and the ghost stories run…
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Anne’s Room at Bremo Recess: A Ghost on the James River
Almost everything written about Bremo concerns architecture: columns, ha-has, hand-molded brick, and the long shadow of Thomas Jefferson. The one story that does not…
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Room 19, Judy and the Haunted Jefferson Hotel in Texas
A block back from the Big Cypress Bayou, in a small East Texas river town that once shipped cotton downstream toward New Orleans, the…
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Crybaby Bridge and the Phantom Hearse: Sleepy Hollow Road, KY
Sleepy Hollow Road runs northeast out of Prospect, Kentucky, a few minutes from Louisville, and it does almost everything a legend-bearing road is supposed…
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Where Nothing Grows: The Devil’s Tramping Ground in Chatham County
Drive the back roads of Chatham County long enough and someone will point you toward the Devil’s Tramping Ground, a bare ring of earth…
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Room 932 and the 1989 Fire: Hotel Bethlehem Ghosts
Any list of Hotel Bethlehem ghosts starts with a room number, but the building itself is the better story. This 125-room hotel stands on…
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The Castle on the Cumberland: Eddyville’s Prison Ghosts
Explore the intriguing history of Kentucky State Penitentiary in this intriguing blog post. Discover its storied past, infamous inmates, and the social effects it’s…
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Ghost Alley Espresso: A 147-Square-Foot Haunt at Pike Place
Tucked into a converted service room a few steps from the Gum Wall, Ghost Alley Espresso may be the smallest business in Seattle, Washington,…
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Franklin Castle Cleveland: The Tiedemann House on the Boulevard
“Discover the history and intrigue of Cleveland’s Franklin Castle. Admired for its Gothic beauty, it’s also steeped in mystery and ghostly tales. A spellbinding…
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Poker Ghosts and a Woman in White: The White Sanitarium
Drive through Wichita Falls and the White Sanitarium does not announce itself. There is no plaque, no gift shop, no ticket booth. What this…
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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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The Man in Blue: Ghosts of the St. Augustine Lighthouse
The St. Augustine Lighthouse is a black and white striped tower on the north end of Anastasia Island, still burning as a private aid…
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Door 13 and the Drained Pool: Queen Mary Ghosts, Long Beach
Tied up at Pier H in Long Beach, California, the RMS Queen Mary has now spent far more of her life as a hotel…
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Bears, Outlaws and the Haunted Big Thicket of Southeast Texas
Nothing about the haunted Big Thicket announces itself from a roadside pullout. There is no cliff, no waterfall, no overlook. One description quoted in…
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The Ghost Bride and Hobo’s Cave: Rock Canyon Ghost Stories
Discover Rock Canyon, the hiker’s paradise! Revel in nature’s glory as you navigate vivid landscapes, majestic wildlife and ancient geological wonders. Explore, exercise and…
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The Millionaires’ Staircase: Inside Virginia City’s Washoe Club
Halfway down C Street in Virginia City, behind a saloon front that still does business every day, the Washoe Club keeps three floors of…
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Culbertson Mansion: The Second Empire Showpiece of New Albany
Discover the enchanting Culbertson Mansion, a gem of the Victorian age. This blog reveals the mansion’s captivating history, opulent architecture, and intriguing tales of…
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San Antonio Ghost Tracks: The Gravity Hill Where Cars Roll
Unleash your inner ghost hunter at San Antonio’s Ghost Tracks, a spine-tingling nexus of supernatural lore! Learn about the spectral children that push stranded…
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Stranahan House Ghosts: Fort Lauderdale’s Oldest Building
Explore the beautiful Stranahan House in this blog post! Get engrossed in Florida’s oldest home, a treasure brimming with rich history and lore. It’s…
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Florida Theatre Ghosts: Dusty and a 1927 Movie Palace
Experience the magic of historical performances at Florida Theatre! This blog post unravels the theater’s journey from the 1920s through significant restorations, hosting an…
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Skinwalker Ranch: 512 Guarded Acres in the Uintah Basin
Dive into the eerie enchantments of Skinwalker Ranch, a UFO hotspot shrouded in mystique. From UFO sightings to inexplicable phenomena, this Utah estate offers…
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Moss Beach Distillery: The Blue Lady and the Rigged Mirror
The Moss Beach Distillery sits on a bluff above the Pacific in San Mateo County, California, a white building with a wind-scoured deck and…
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Twelve Patients Built It: Clark County Insane Asylum, Wisconsin
Few buildings in rural Wisconsin carry a reputation as lopsided as the Clark County Insane Asylum: a short, plainly documented institutional history on one…
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The Bellboy in Room 306: Hotel Monte Vista, Flagstaff
Immerse yourself in history at the Hotel Monte Vista! Experience authentic 1920s charm, enjoy captivating ghost stories, unwind at unique cocktail lounges and find…