https://mosthauntedplaces.com/ The most haunted places near you and around the world: ghost stories, real history, places to visit and the latest news. en Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:50:32 GMT https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/resurrection-mary/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/resurrection-mary/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT Chicago’s most famous ghost: a blonde girl in a white dress who asks for a ride home along Archer Avenue and vanishes at Resurrection Cemetery. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/white-house-ghosts/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/white-house-ghosts/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT Presidents, first ladies, staff and a queen have told of Abraham Lincoln’s ghost in the White House – the best known of the mansion’s many ghost stories. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/lemp-mansion/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/lemp-mansion/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT Home of the Lemp brewing dynasty, marked by family tragedy, this St. Louis mansion has been a restaurant and inn since the 1970s – and a famous haunt. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/hull-house/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/hull-house/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT Jane Addams’s famous Chicago settlement house, home to a 1913 “Devil Baby” rumour that drew thousands – and a lady in white said to be Mrs. Hull. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/missouri-state-penitentiary/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/missouri-state-penitentiary/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT For 168 years the oldest prison west of the Mississippi, the Missouri State Penitentiary now runs ghost tours through its dungeon cells and gas chamber. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/old-joliet-prison/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/old-joliet-prison/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT The castle-like limestone penitentiary of 1858 – Jake Blues’s prison – now a historic site whose night tours promise voices in the cellblocks. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/bachelors-grove-cemetery/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/bachelors-grove-cemetery/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT A tiny pioneer cemetery in the woods south-west of Chicago, famous for a 1991 photo of a woman on a gravestone – and for decades of vandalism. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/shanghai-tunnels/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/shanghai-tunnels/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT Basements under Portland’s Old Town, sold on tours as tunnels where sailors were kidnapped – a story historians call a myth – and home to the ghost Nina. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/octagon-house/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/octagon-house/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT The 1801 house where James Madison lived after the White House burned is called D.C.’s most haunted – though its most famous ghost story never happened. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/old-idaho-penitentiary/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/old-idaho-penitentiary/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT Boise’s sandstone territorial prison, used from 1872 to 1973, where staff and visitors describe footsteps and voices in the empty cell houses. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/wyoming-territorial-prison/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/wyoming-territorial-prison/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT The 1872 Laramie prison that held Butch Cassidy is now a state historic site, where visitors say a convict cigar maker still makes his presence known. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/capitol-demon-cat/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/capitol-demon-cat/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT A black cat said to swell to monstrous size in the U.S. Capitol before national tragedies. The legend began in an 1898 newspaper; the paw prints are real. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/eloise-asylum/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/eloise-asylum/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT Once home to up to 10,000 poor, sick and mentally ill people near Detroit, Eloise left 7,000 numbered graves and Michigan’s best-known asylum legends. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/howard-street-cemetery/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/howard-street-cemetery/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT Giles Corey, pressed to death in 1692 for refusing to plead to witchcraft, is said to walk this Salem graveyard before disasters like the 1914 fire. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/kings-tavern-natchez/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/kings-tavern-natchez/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT Said to be the oldest building in Natchez, this Natchez Trace tavern is haunted, legend says, by Madeline, a young woman whose remains lay in a wall. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/stone-lion-inn/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/stone-lion-inn/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT A 1907 Guthrie mansion that was a family home, then a funeral parlor, now a B&B where guests tell of a child who pats their cheeks in the night. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/yaquina-bay-lighthouse/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/yaquina-bay-lighthouse/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT A short-lived 1871 lighthouse whose famous ghost, Muriel Trevenard, came from an 1899 magazine story – fiction that locals and visitors came to believe. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/mcraven-house/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/mcraven-house/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT A Vicksburg house built in three eras, used as a Confederate hospital during the 1863 siege, often billed as the most haunted house in Mississippi. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/witch-of-yazoo/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/witch-of-yazoo/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT A chained grave in Yazoo City holds, legend says, to a witch who swore to burn the town; the great fire of 1904 duly came. Willie Morris made it famous. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/wallace-idaho/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/wallace-idaho/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT A Silver Valley mining town whose brothels operated openly until 1988 – now a museum town with ghost tales of working women and a heartbroken Maggie. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/wyoming-frontier-prison/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/wyoming-frontier-prison/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT Wyoming’s state prison from 1901 to 1981 held some 13,500 inmates and saw 14 executions. Staff and ghost hunters say the cellblocks are still busy. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/heceta-head-lighthouse/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/heceta-head-lighthouse/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT A clifftop lighthouse on the Oregon coast whose 1893 keepers’ house is said to be home to a gentle gray lady, now known as Rue. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/wabasha-street-caves/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/wabasha-street-caves/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT Sandstone caves in St. Paul that became a 1930s nightclub, where legend says gangsters were gunned down in 1934 and still haunt the dance floor. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/fort-washita/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/fort-washita/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT An 1842 frontier fort in the Chickasaw Nation, burned in the Civil War, whose best-known ghost is “Aunt Jane,” a murdered woman no one can identify. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/paulding-light/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/paulding-light/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT A light that appears nightly over a valley in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, said to be a dead brakeman’s lantern. Students traced it to car headlights. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/the-whitney/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/the-whitney/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT A lumber baron’s 52-room Detroit mansion, now a restaurant with a third-floor “Ghost Bar,” where staff say David Whitney Jr. never quite moved out. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/palmer-house-hotel/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/palmer-house-hotel/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:06:55 GMT The 1901 small-town hotel where Sinclair Lewis once worked the desk is now one of Minnesota’s most famous haunts, with stories of “Lucy” in Room 17. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/omni-parker-house/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/omni-parker-house/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:41:36 GMT Boston’s historic hotel, birthplace of Boston cream pie, is said to be haunted by its founder – and by a room King’s office says never inspired “1408.” https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/skirvin-hotel/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/skirvin-hotel/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:41:36 GMT Oklahoma City’s oldest hotel, opened in 1911, where NBA teams have blamed bad nights on “Effie” – a ghost reporters say never existed. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/summerwind-mansion/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/summerwind-mansion/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:40:27 GMT A Northwoods summer mansion of a future U.S. Commerce Secretary, made famous by 1970s ghost stories. It burned after a lightning strike in 1988. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/night-marchers/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/night-marchers/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:40:27 GMT Huakaʻi pō, the night processions of chiefs, warriors, gods and ancestors in Native Hawaiian tradition – a living belief that calls for respect. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/athens-lunatic-asylum/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/athens-lunatic-asylum/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:40:27 GMT A Kirkbride asylum that cared for patients from 1874 to 1993, now part of Ohio University – known for a patient’s sad death and the stain she left. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/morgans-corner/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/morgans-corner/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:40:27 GMT A hairpin bend on Oʻahu’s old Pali road, named for a 1920s doctor’s house, where a real 1948 killing fed one of Hawaiʻi’s best-known urban legends. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/pfister-hotel/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/pfister-hotel/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:40:27 GMT Milwaukee’s grand 1893 hotel hosts visiting baseball teams – and so many players have reported ghostly nights that some refuse to stay there. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/lizzie-borden-house/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/lizzie-borden-house/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:37:38 GMT Andrew and Abby Borden were killed in this Fall River house in 1892; Lizzie was tried and acquitted. Today guests sleep in the rooms where they died. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/west-virginia-penitentiary/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/west-virginia-penitentiary/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:37:38 GMT A Gothic stone fortress that held West Virginia’s prisoners from 1876 to 1995, scene of 94 executions and a 1986 riot. Guides tell of a “shadow man.” https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/moonville-tunnel/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/moonville-tunnel/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:37:38 GMT An old railroad tunnel deep in the Ohio woods, all that is left of the mining town of Moonville – and home to a lantern-swinging ghost on the tracks. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/gef-the-talking-mongoose/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/gef-the-talking-mongoose/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:36:47 GMT In the 1930s an Isle of Man farm family said a chatty mongoose lived in their walls. Investigators heard a girl’s voice and found dog hair instead. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/franklin-castle/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/franklin-castle/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:36:47 GMT A turreted 1883 Cleveland mansion dubbed Ohio’s most haunted house, though its tales of murdered children and hidden bones fall apart against the record. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/trans-allegheny-lunatic-asylum/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/trans-allegheny-lunatic-asylum/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:35:39 GMT A vast stone Kirkbride hospital built for 250 patients that held over 2,000 at its peak. It closed in 1994 and now sells history tours and ghost hunts. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/ohio-state-reformatory/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/ohio-state-reformatory/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:35:39 GMT The castle-like Mansfield prison that held inmates from 1896 to 1990 and played Shawshank – now one of America’s busiest ghost-hunting venues. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/exorcism-of-roland-doe/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/exorcism-of-roland-doe/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:35:39 GMT In 1949 Jesuit priests performed an exorcism on a Maryland teenager in St. Louis. The case inspired The Exorcist; researchers suspect a troubled boy. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/loftus-hall/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/loftus-hall/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:35:39 GMT A lonely Wexford mansion where, legend says, a card-playing stranger with a cloven hoof vanished through the roof and left Anne Tottenham mad. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/hellfire-club-dublin/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/hellfire-club-dublin/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:35:39 GMT A gaunt 1725 hunting lodge above Dublin, built from an ancient tomb and tied to the rakes of the Hellfire Club, the Devil at cards and a monstrous cat. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/moon-river-brewing-company/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/moon-river-brewing-company/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:35:39 GMT Savannah’s first hotel, built in 1821, later a brewpub whose staff and TV ghost hunters described thrown objects and shadowy figures. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/sorrel-weed-house/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/sorrel-weed-house/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:35:39 GMT A grand Greek Revival house on Savannah’s Madison Square whose famous ghost story of a murdered enslaved girl named Molly finds no support in the records. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/chickamauga-battlefield/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/chickamauga-battlefield/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:35:39 GMT The north Georgia battlefield of September 1863, where some 34,000 men fell – and where legend says a green-eyed figure still prowls at night. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/uss-constellation/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/uss-constellation/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:35:39 GMT The Navy’s last all-sail warship, in Baltimore since 1955, has long had ghost stories – many of them about an older, different ship of the same name. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/moddey-dhoo-peel-castle/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/moddey-dhoo-peel-castle/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:35:39 GMT A shaggy phantom hound said to have lain by the guardroom fire of Peel Castle each night — the Isle of Man’s best-known ghost, made famous by Walter Scott. https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/greenbrier-ghost/ https://mosthauntedplaces.com/hauntings/greenbrier-ghost/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:35:39 GMT In 1897 a West Virginia mother said her dead daughter’s ghost named her killer. An exhumation found a broken neck, and the husband was convicted of murder.