Haunted Places in Montana
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Montana’s haunted places feel especially cinematic, with wide-open country, old mining towns, weathered hotels, and mountain communities that seem to hold onto every story. The state’s frontier past and relative isolation have helped fuel legends of apparitions, unexplained noises, and ghostly encounters. If you are looking for haunted places in Montana, this guide gathers some of the eerie sites and local paranormal lore worth exploring.
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92 Years on Venus Alley: Butte’s Haunted Dumas Brothel
Few buildings in Montana carry a paper trail as long and as unsentimental as the one behind the haunted Dumas Brothel. The two-story brick…
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Red in the Projection Booth: Fort Peck Theatre, Montana
In a town of a few hundred people in northeastern Montana, the Fort Peck Theatre still raises its curtain every summer, and the audience…
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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 Dude Rancher Lodge Ghost Who Unlocks Stuck Doors
Most of the stories about the Dude Rancher Lodge ghost describe something helpful rather than something frightening. Staff at this 1950 motor inn in…
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The Woman in the Yellow Dress: Red Lodge’s Pollard Hotel
The Pollard Hotel has been taking guests in Red Lodge, Montana, since 1893, which makes it older than most of the streets around it.…
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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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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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Built for Steamboat Money: The Grand Union Hotel, Fort Benton
The Grand Union Hotel stands on the Fort Benton levee in Montana, a three storey brick pile facing the Missouri River, and it was…
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Hair Tugs in the Dark: The Philipsburg Theatre, Montana
Granite County’s main street still carries the shape of a mining boom, and the Philipsburg Theatre is the piece of it that never stopped…
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Cigar Smoke at Riverside: Inside Montana’s Daly Mansion
The smell of cigar smoke in an empty room is the story people repeat most often about the Daly Mansion, the summer house that…
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Little Bighorn Battlefield Monument
Exploring the Haunting Legacy of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Steeped in history and shrouded in mystery, the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument near…
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Many Glacier Hotel
Discover the Timeless Charm of Many Glacier Hotel Nestled above the serene Swiftcurrent Lake in Glacier National Park, the Many Glacier Hotel stands as…