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$585 of Brick: Indianapolis’s Haunted Hannah House
On the south side of Indianapolis, set back from Madison Avenue on what was once a 240 acre farm, stands the brick Italianate pile…
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Queen Victoria’s Cherry Back Bar: The Irma Hotel
The Irma Hotel sits in the middle of Cody, Wyoming, a town that carries the name of the man who built the place: William…
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A Cow, a Calf, and Red Cloth: Haunted Abram’s Delight
Some historians believe the price of the land under haunted Abram’s Delight included a cow, a calf, and a piece of red cloth paid…
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The Embalming Table by the Stairs: Guthrie’s Stone Lion Inn
Six guest suites, a Victorian staircase, and an embalming table left standing where the undertakers used to work: the Stone Lion Inn in Guthrie,…
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The Scream on Darkish Knob Above Parsons, West Virginia
Darkish Knob is not a landmark you notice from a distance. It is a steep, awkward hill on the edge of Parsons in Tucker…
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The Vaudevillian in the Balcony: Riverton’s Acme Theater
Riverton’s Acme Theater is the rare small-town cinema that never got carved into a multiplex, and it is also the address most often named…
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The Silent Organ of Seaview Terrace, Newport’s Carey Mansion
Set behind a hedge at the corner of Ruggles and Wetmore avenues in Newport, Rhode Island, Seaview Terrace is the mansion most people know…
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Pearl De Vere’s Pink Gown: Haunted Cripple Creek, Colorado
Gold built it, fire flattened it twice, and slot machines saved it from becoming a genuine ghost town. That sequence is the reason haunted…
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Kate Blood’s Grave at Riverside Cemetery in Appleton
Riverside Cemetery in Appleton, Wisconsin has two reputations, and they do not overlap much. To the city that established it in 1870 it is…
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The Headless Bride of the Crow’s Nest: Old Faithful Inn
Stand on the entrance porch of the Old Faithful Inn and the geyser is framed for you like a picture, which is exactly what…
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The Gold Room Ghost of Milwaukee’s Brumder Mansion
Set among the mansions of Milwaukee’s near west side, the Brumder Mansion is a 1910 brick pile that has spent the last century being…
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Shackles on the Third Floor: Burlington County Prison
Burlington County Prison sits on the west side of High Street in Mount Holly, New Jersey, a three-story block of finished stone that held…
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Bullet Holes in the Shiloh Saloon: The Virginian Hotel
Wyoming has plenty of buildings that outgrew their towns, but few do it as bluntly as the Virginian Hotel in Medicine Bow. Three and…
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The I-4 Dead Zone: Unmarked Graves Under a Florida Highway
Somewhere between Orlando and Daytona Beach, on a highway that carries commuters, tourists and citrus trucks in equal measure, drivers slow down for reasons…
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Jehovah Jireh: The Rock Church and Ghosts of Wheelock Mission
Wheelock Mission sits on a rise above the Little River in southeastern Oklahoma, a mile or so past the water and just high enough…
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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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Footsteps to the Balcony: Vergennes Opera House
Climb the stairs above the city offices in Vergennes and you arrive at the Vergennes Opera House, a second-floor hall that has been the…
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Seattle’s First Mortuary: The Haunted Butterworth Building
Order a pint in the basement bar beneath 1921 First Avenue and you are drinking inside the oldest purpose-built funeral home in Seattle, Washington.…
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Blanchard Cemetery: The Tall Man and Sergeant Burris
Blanchard Cemetery, in the town of Blanchard, Oklahoma, is one of those haunted places with no founding tragedy attached to it. There is no…
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Chief Highknocker’s Boulder: The Legends of Dartford Cemetery
Dartford Cemetery sits in the city of Green Lake, Wisconsin, and its best known grave is not a marble monument but a boulder. Under…
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Marfa Lights: What 20 Nights of Spectroscopy Found
Nine miles east of Marfa, on the south shoulder of U.S. Highway 90, there is a roadside pullout where people park at dusk and…
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Haunted Allegheny County Jail: Richardson’s Bridge of Sighs
Two buildings tell the story of the haunted Allegheny County Jail: a rough grey fortress of stone attached to the Allegheny County Courthouse in…
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Independence State Mental Hospital: Inside Iowa’s Second Asylum
The Independence State Mental Hospital was the second asylum built in the state of Iowa, opened in 1873 in the small eastern Iowa city…
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Haunted Baker Hotel: Mineral Wells’ 14-Story Spa Ruin
Fourteen stories of Spanish Colonial Revival brick standing empty for nearly half a century will attract stories, and the haunted Baker Hotel in Mineral…
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Inside Haunted Ashmore Estates, the Coles County Almshouse
Most buildings with a haunted reputation earn it through a single grim event. Haunted Ashmore Estates, standing in farmland outside the village of Ashmore…
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Diana of the Dunes and the Haunted Shores of Porter County
Ask a lifeguard, a camper or a naturalist at Indiana Dunes State Park what the strangest thing about the place is, and sooner or…
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Bobby Mackey’s Music World: The Roadhouse Legend Torn Down
For most of five decades, Bobby Mackey’s Music World sat on Licking Pike in Wilder, Kentucky, selling two things at once: live country music…
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The Bride on Highway 66: Stevens Point’s Bloody Bride Bridge
Bloody Bride Bridge is not much to look at. It is a short concrete span carrying Highway 66 over the Plover River just east…
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The Gray Lady and Judge Still at Captain Whidbey Inn
At the western end of Penn Cove, just outside Coupeville, the Captain Whidbey Inn sits low among the trees with its log walls facing…
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Clara Brown and Room 9 at Wilmington’s White House Inn
On a hill above Wilmington, in the southern corner of Vermont, the White House Inn looks out over the Deerfield Valley from behind a…
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Bragg Road Ghost Light: The Big Thicket’s Vanishing Lantern
The Bragg Road ghost light is the reason people drive eight miles of unpaved county road in Hardin County, Texas, long after dark and…
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Old Tooele Hospital: Asylum 49 and the Ward Next Door
Few haunted attractions in the United States share a wall with a working care home, but the Old Tooele Hospital does. In Tooele, Utah,…
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Devils Tower in Alpine: A Sugar Baron’s Stone Folly
Devils Tower in Alpine is not the kind of ruin you stumble on by accident. It sits in one of the wealthiest corners of…
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Devereaux Mansion: The Girl at the Window on South Temple
Stand on West South Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, with the Delta Center behind you and the Union Pacific Depot down the block,…
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Paul Revere Cannons at the Newport Artillery Company Armory
Older than the United States and still operating under the same piece of paper that created it, the Newport Artillery Company armory sits on…
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Room 812: The Lady in White at the Hotel Alex Johnson
Eight stories of dark brick rise above Rapid City’s downtown, and for nearly a century the Hotel Alex Johnson has been the tallest thing…
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Cigar Smoke and Mayor Doyle at Providence City Hall
Providence City Hall is a working municipal building first and a ghost story second, which is exactly what makes the stories about it unusual.…
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Woman Hollering Creek: A La Llorona Legend Off I-10
Drive Interstate 10 east out of San Antonio toward Seguin and you will cross Woman Hollering Creek without noticing it: a modest ribbon of…
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Belcourt Castle: The Roped-Off Chairs of Newport’s Gilded Age
Two Gothic chairs in the ballroom at Belcourt Castle are roped off, and the reason usually given by guides is not conservation. Visitors are…
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Candles and Footsteps: Haunted Colonial Williamsburg After Dark
Few places in the United States have been rebuilt as deliberately as this one, which is part of what makes haunted Colonial Williamsburg such…
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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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Black Tears and Garfield’s Tomb at Lake View Cemetery
Cleveland’s Lake View Cemetery was designed to be looked at. When a group of Gilded Age industrialists laid it out in 1869 on a…
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The Haunted Occidental Hotel and the Girl Called Emily
The haunted Occidental Hotel sits at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains in Buffalo, Wyoming, on ground the Bozeman Trail once ran through, and…
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Inside the Leatherman’s Cave: Connecticut’s Walking Mystery
Connecticut’s Old Leatherman is an enigma wrapped in leather and lore. Wandering relentlessly, his 365-mile looped journey remains a riddle. From vagabond to ghostly…
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Parkersburg’s Blennerhassett Hotel and the Ghost Called Helen
The Blennerhassett Hotel has been standing at the corner of a Parkersburg street since 1889, back when West Virginia oil and gas money was…
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A Jail Cell Wine Cellar and the El Adobe de Capistrano Ghost
Order a bottle at this Mexican restaurant in San Juan Capistrano, California, and it will be fetched from a room that once held prisoners.…
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Nelsen’s Hall: The Bitters Tavern Ghost of Washington Island
Nelsen’s Hall sits on a small island in Lake Michigan that you can only reach by boat or by landing a light aircraft on…
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Easton’s Castle South Dakota: History and Reported Hauntings
Easton’s Castle South Dakota is a nineteenth century mansion in Brown County, built in 1889 by the agriculturist C.A. Bliss and later taken over…
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Bullock Hotel Deadwood: History and Reported Hauntings
The Bullock Hotel Deadwood stands at the corner of Wall Street and Main Street in Deadwood, South Dakota, and it is the oldest hotel…
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Ben Lomond Hotel Ogden: History and Reported Hauntings
The Ben Lomond Hotel is the name most people in Ogden, Utah still use for the eleven story landmark at 2510 Washington Boulevard, even…
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Amityville Horror House: History and Reported Hauntings
The Amityville Horror house is a five bedroom Dutch Colonial Revival at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, on the south shore of Long Island,…
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The Old Mill Utah: History and Reported Hauntings
The Old Mill Utah is the name locals still use for the roofless stone shell at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Cottonwood…
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Huntingdon College Red Lady: The Pratt Hall Ghost Story
The Huntingdon College Red Lady is the single ghost story most often attached to this small Methodist campus in Montgomery, Alabama. According to the…
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Oak Alley Plantation: History, Hauntings and Ghost Stories
Oak Alley Plantation is located at 3645 Highway 18, also known as Great River Road, in Vacherie, Louisiana 70090. The Oak Alley Foundation lists…
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Harrisburg State Hospital: History, Hauntings and Ghost Stories of Pennsylvania’s City on the Hill
Harrisburg State Hospital sits near Cameron and Maclay Streets in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The former state mental hospital is also associated with the address 20…
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St. Augustine Old Jail: History, Hauntings and Ghost Tours in Florida’s Oldest City
Explore the chilling history of St. Augustine’s Old Jail, a haunting landmark of the 19th century. Discover tales of harsh living conditions, frightful ghost…
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San Haven Sanatorium: The Haunted History of North Dakota’s Forgotten Tuberculosis Hospital
San Haven Sanatorium, later known as San Haven State Hospital, was a former tuberculosis treatment center and state hospital near Dunseith, North Dakota. The…
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Nopeming Sanatorium: The Haunted History of Duluth’s Abandoned Tuberculosis Hospital
Nopeming Sanatorium is one of the most talked-about abandoned places in Minnesota. Set back in the woods near Duluth, the former tuberculosis hospital later…
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Dead Woman’s Crossing in Oklahoma: The Murder, Mystery, and Haunting Behind Weatherford’s Haunted Bridge
Dead Woman’s Crossing is one of Oklahoma’s most unsettling haunted locations, not because of an old building or staged ghost tour, but because the…
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Mothman Sightings: The Complete Timeline from Point Pleasant to Chicago
Few American cryptids have a story as strange, tragic, and enduring as Mothman. The legend began in the Ohio River Valley in the 1960s, centered…
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The Hat Man: legend, sightings, and what it might mean
The Hat Man is a term used to describe a mysterious and unsettling phenomenon experienced by some individuals, particularly during episodes of sleep paralysis…
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Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina: Haunted History of America’s First Playhouse
Step into history at the Dock Street Theater, Charleston’s theatrical gem. With its grand design, lavish interior, incredible stage performances, and intriguing past, it’s…
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Haunted Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana: The Legends of Stiffy Green and Martin Sheets
Highland Lawn Cemetery is one of the most historic and atmospheric cemeteries in Indiana. Located in Terre Haute, this 139-acre burial ground is known…
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Pioneer Saloon in Nevada: Haunted History of Goodsprings’ Legendary Old West Bar
Address: 310 West Spring Street, Goodsprings, Nevada 89019Phone: (702) 674-6809Official website: Pioneer Saloon official siteHours: The official contact page lists restaurant hours as Monday…