Haunted Houses
Haunted houses have long been at the heart of paranormal storytelling, blending eerie architecture, tragic history, and unforgettable legends. Explore ghost stories, strange sightings, and the haunted history of houses across America.
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The Cherry Hill Murder: Albany’s Last Public Hanging
Most Albany ghost stories attach themselves to a building. The Cherry Hill murder attaches itself to a household: seventeen people living under one gambrel…
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Eleven Spirits on the Lynnhaven: Ferry Plantation House
Dive into the haunted history of Virginia’s Ferry Plantation House, a site renowned for its 11 resident spirits. From former slaves to shipwreck victims,…
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The Nursemaid in the Corridor: Haunted Kendall Manor, Eufaula
Set on a rise in Eufaula, a river town in southeast Alabama known for its antebellum streetscape, the haunted Kendall Manor is one of…
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The Chairs Outside the Courtroom at Alton Town Hall
Alton Town Hall sits at the center of a New Hampshire village that grew out of rocky upland farm lots, and it has picked…
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Captain Flint and the Pirates’ House in Savannah
Most of Savannah’s ghost stories start with a death. The one attached to the Pirates’ House in Savannah starts with a novel. The building…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Victorian Lady of the Pfeiffer House in Delphi
Dive into the intriguing history of The Pfeiffer House! This unique blog post explores its architectural beauty, rich legacy, haunted rumors, and captivating stories…
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Villa Paula in Miami: The House Clif Ensor Called Haunted
Discover Villa Paula, Miami’s most haunted mansion. With its rich Cuban history, stunning architecture, and famous ghost stories, it’s a unique blend of beauty…
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Blaine House Ghosts: Maine’s Governor’s Home in Augusta
Dive into Maine’s rich history as we explore Blaine House in Augusta! This blogger uncovers its intricate past, notable residents, and stunning architecture. A…
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Iowa’s First Mansard Roof: The E. H. Harrison House Ghost
Stories about the E. H. Harrison House ghost are unusually mild for a building of its age and stature. The word attached to it,…
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The Jay Gould Room at Jefferson’s Excelsior House Hotel
Discover Excelsior House’s vintage charm! This historic jewel offers an intimate glimpse into our past. With its well-preserved architecture and fascinating stories, Excelsior House…
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The Demons Crowley Never Banished: Boleskine House
Few private homes in Britain carry a reputation quite like Boleskine House, the low manor standing above the south-east shore of Loch Ness in…
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Cloven Hooves and a Black Cat: Montpelier Hill’s Ruin
The roofless grey block on the summit ridge above Rathfarnham is the building most people mean when they say Hell Fire Club Dublin. It…
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Pockets Full of Pebbles: the Borley Rectory Ghost Story
Every Borley Rectory ghost story has one awkward feature in common: the house is not there any more. The large Gothic parsonage that psychic…
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Walter the Butler’s Tobacco Smoke: Haunted Newton House
Just west of the market town of Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire, haunted Newton House sits inside Dinefwr Park, a stretch of Welsh parkland that has…
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The Grey Lady on the A541: Plas Teg, Flintshire
Few buildings in north Wales carry a reputation quite like this one, and the Plas Teg grey lady is the reason most people slow…
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Springhill House Ghost: Olivia and the Colonel’s Last Year
Ask anyone in mid-Ulster about the Springhill House ghost and one name comes back: Olivia Lenox-Conyngham, second wife of a colonel who took his…
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Bandaged Eyes at the Foot of the Bed: the Leith Hall Ghost
Of everything the Leith-Hay family left behind in Aberdeenshire, the most talked about is a man nobody can see properly. The Leith Hall ghost…
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Three Deaths in Pleasant Valley: the Ceely Rose House
Discover the eerily enchanting Ceely Rose House! This blog navigates the chilling tales and history linked to its former resident, Ceely Rose – a…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Bloodiest Cabin in Arizona: Brunckow’s Cabin Ghosts
Stories about the Brunckow’s Cabin ghosts were already in print while Tombstone was still a boom town, which makes this crumbling adobe ruin southwest…
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Ax Murder Legend of Mystery Manor in Omaha
The hauntings stretch beyond tricks and gimmicks, and the spirits of William Hall, his unfortunate wife Greta, and her avenging brother John, all remain,…
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The Photograph in the Fire: Haunted Stagecoach Inn
A fire photograph is the strangest exhibit attached to the haunted Stagecoach Inn, a restored 1876 wayside stop in Newbury Park, California, that now…
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Haunted Attmore-Oliver House: New Bern’s 1790 Landmark
Reputation outruns evidence at the haunted Attmore-Oliver House, a white three-story frame building on Broad Street in New Bern, North Carolina. The documented history…
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Chamber Pots and Ouija Boards: The Lizzie Borden House
Few addresses in Massachusetts carry as much weight as the Lizzie Borden House, a plain frame building at 230 Second Street in Fall River…
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The Empty Pool at St. Ann’s Retreat in Logan Canyon
Eight and a third miles up Logan Canyon, on national forest land in northern Utah, a fenced cluster of cabins and lodges sits around…
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The Perron House in Burrillville: Behind The Conjuring
Eight and a half acres of field and stone wall outside Burrillville hold one of the most photographed private houses in New England. The…
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Dolley Madison House Ghost and the Porch That Vanished
Every account of the Dolley Madison House ghost places her in the same spot: seated in a rocking chair on the west side of…
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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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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 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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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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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…