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321 documented locations across Michigan
Holly Hotel
Holly, Oakland County
Built in 1891, the Holly Hotel is considered the most haunted historic building in Michigan. Both tr…
Traverse City State Hospital (Northern Michigan Asylum)
Traverse City, Grand Traverse County
Operated from 1885 to 1989, housing nearly 3,000 patients at its peak. Known for its 'beauty is ther…
Eloise Asylum
Westland, Wayne County
Established in 1839, Eloise was a massive complex including a psychiatric hospital, tuberculosis san…
Seul Choix Point Lighthouse
Gulliver, Schoolcraft County
Michigan's most haunted lighthouse, with hundreds of ghost stories logged by the Gulliver Historical…
Pere Cheney
Near Roscommon, Roscommon County
Founded in 1874, this sawmill village of 1,500 was devastated by diphtheria and cholera. Abandoned a…
Dice Road
Hemlock (Saginaw County), Saginaw County
Three haunted sites along one road in Richland Township. The apparition of Anna Rhodes Millerton (su…
1994 Holland/Ottawa County UFO Event
Holland, Ottawa County
On March 8, 1994, at least 300 witnesses across Ottawa, Muskegon, and Allegan counties reported mult…
The Paulding Light
Paulding, Ontonagon County
Along a stretch of Highway 45 in this remote UP town, an enigmatic display of luminescence appears r…
Mackinac Island
Mackinac Island, Mackinac County
Called 'the most haunted town in America' (2021) with over 100 individual reported ghosts. Key sites…
Seven Gables Road
Dansville, Ingham County
Considered the most haunted road in Michigan. At its end stood a many-gabled house occupied by a wom…
South Manitou Island
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Leelanau County
Called Michigan's most haunted place by Thrillist. A cholera ship docked here and sailors buried the…
Seguin Island Lighthouse
Georgetown
Maine's oldest lighthouse is said to be haunted by a keeper's wife who went mad after her husband ta…
Boon Island
York
Site of one of New England's most gruesome shipwrecks — the Nottingham Galley (1710) — where survivo…
Gilson Road Cemetery
Nashua
One of New Hampshire's most active paranormal sites — investigators consistently record EVPs, shadow…
Emily's Bridge
Stowe
This 1844 covered bridge is said to be haunted by Emily, a young woman who hanged herself here after…
The Lizzie Borden House
Fall River
The site of the infamous 1892 axe murders of Andrew and Abby Borden. Now a bed-and-breakfast, guests…
Danvers State Hospital
Danvers
The original Kirkbride-plan asylum that inspired the architecture of horror. Opened in 1878, it pion…
Bridgewater Triangle
Bridgewater
A 200-square-mile area encompassing Bridgewater, Abington, and the Hockomock Swamp with one of the h…
Dudleytown
Cornwall
One of America's most infamous cursed ghost towns, Dudleytown was abandoned after generations of set…
Union Cemetery
Easton
Connecticut's most haunted cemetery is home to the White Lady — a female apparition in a white night…
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow
The real cemetery behind Washington Irving's Headless Horseman legend, where both Irving and Andrew …
The Shanley Hotel
Napanoch
This 1845 hotel in the Catskills is consistently rated among the most haunted buildings in the US. I…
Hudson Valley UFO Corridor
Pine Bush
Pine Bush in Orange County was the epicenter of the famous Hudson Valley UFO wave of the 1980s — whe…
Letchworth Village
Thiells
This 1911 state institution for people with developmental disabilities became infamous for overcrowd…
The Jersey Devil Barrens
Leeds Point
Leeds Point in the Pine Barrens is the alleged birthplace of the Jersey Devil — the winged, hooved c…
Clinton Road
West Milford
Widely considered the most haunted road in America — Clinton Road is associated with KKK activity, S…
Eastern State Penitentiary
Philadelphia
Al Capone's former prison is one of America's most documented haunted sites. Inmates described appar…
The Haunted Hill View Manor
New Castle
This 1920s county home for the poor and insane operated for decades before closing and falling into …
Pennhurst State School
Spring City
Exposed in a 1968 investigative report as a 'Shame of Pennsylvania,' Pennhurst housed people with di…
Antietam Battlefield
Sharpsburg
The bloodiest single day in American military history (23,000 casualties on September 17, 1862) has …
Point Lookout Lighthouse
Scotland
Built on the site of a Civil War prison camp where over 3,000 Confederate prisoners died, Point Look…
Colonial Williamsburg Peyton Randolph House
Williamsburg
Built in 1715, this is considered the most haunted house in Williamsburg. Ghost tours consistently r…
Battlefield of Bull Run
Manassas
Two devastating Civil War battles were fought here. Rangers and visitors report apparitions of soldi…
St. Albans Sanatorium
Radford
Originally a boys' school, then a psychiatric facility for over 70 years, St. Albans closed in 2004.…
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
Weston
The largest hand-cut stone building in the Western Hemisphere held over 2,400 patients at peak capac…
Mothman Sighting Ground
Point Pleasant
Between November 1966 and December 1967, over 100 witnesses reported encounters with the Mothman — a…
Moundsville State Penitentiary
Moundsville
Built in 1866 next to an ancient Adena burial mound, this prison was declared 'cruel and unusual' by…
Brown Mountain Lights
Morganton
Cherokee legend and documented reports since 1771 describe glowing orbs that rise above Brown Mounta…
Roanoke Island
Manteo
Site of the Lost Colony of 1587 — 115 settlers vanished without a trace, leaving only the word 'CROA…
Old Charleston Jail
Charleston
Built in 1802, this jail held some of America's most notorious criminals including Lavinia Fisher — …
Moon River Brewing Company
Savannah
Consistently rated one of America's most haunted restaurants, this 1821 building was a hotel, Civil …
Chickamauga Battlefield
Fort Oglethorpe
The second bloodiest battle of the Civil War (34,000 casualties over two days) has generated decades…
Robert the Doll
Key West
Housed at the Fort East Martello Museum, Robert is a 1904 straw-filled doll given to artist Robert E…
St. Augustine Lighthouse
St. Augustine
America's oldest port city's lighthouse is haunted by two young girls who drowned when a constructio…
Sloss Furnaces
Birmingham
These decommissioned 1882 iron furnaces are haunted by James 'Slag' Wormwood, a brutal foreman who d…
McRaven House
Vicksburg
Built in three phases from 1797 to 1836, McRaven has been called the 'most haunted house in Mississi…
The Devil's Punchbowl
Natchez
After the Civil War, the Union Army herded over 20,000 freed slaves into this enclosed riverside dep…
Bell Witch Cave
Adams
America's most famous haunting — the Bell Witch terrorized the Bell family from 1817–1821, reportedl…
Shiloh Battlefield
Hardin County
The Battle of Shiloh (April 1862) produced 23,000 casualties in two days. The Bloody Pond, where wou…
Bobby Mackey's Music World
Wilder
Built over a slaughterhouse whose well allegedly served as a dumping ground in a 19th-century murder…
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Louisville
Opened in 1910 for tuberculosis patients, over 8,000 people died here before its closure. The body c…
Franklin Castle
Cleveland
Ohio's most haunted house — this 1865 Romanesque mansion had secret passages built into its walls, w…
Mansfield Reformatory
Mansfield
This Gothic 1896 prison — used as filming location for The Shawshank Redemption — held thousands of …
The Ridges
Athens
The Athens Lunatic Asylum (1874) is home to the most disturbing evidence of haunting in Ohio — the o…
Hannah House
Indianapolis
This 1858 mansion was another Underground Railroad stop, and a tragedy occurred when a lantern was a…
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery
Midlothian
Widely considered the most haunted cemetery in America. This small abandoned graveyard has produced …
Resurrection Mary
Justice
Chicago's most famous ghost — a young blonde woman in a white dress who hitchhikes along Archer Aven…
Summerwind Mansion
Land O' Lakes
This remote Northwoods mansion burned in 1988 but was for decades Wisconsin's most haunted location.…
The Griggs Mansion
St. Paul
St. Paul's most haunted house — an 1883 Victorian mansion with four documented ghosts: a gardener, a…
Edinburgh Manor
Scotch Grove
A county home for the poor, mentally ill, and criminal from 1850 to 2010. The building is one of Iow…
Villisca Axe Murder House
Villisca
In June 1912, eight people — six of them children — were brutally murdered in this house with an axe…
The Lemp Mansion
St. Louis
The Lemp family — St. Louis brewing dynasty — suffered four suicides within the family, all inside t…
Wounded Knee
Pine Ridge
Site of the 1890 massacre of approximately 250-300 Lakota Sioux men, women, and children by the U.S.…
Sallie House
Atchison
Kansas's most notorious haunted house is the site of alleged demonic activity centered on 'Sallie' —…
Stull Cemetery
Stull
A small abandoned cemetery outside Lawrence that is considered one of the seven gateways to hell — a…
The Alamo
San Antonio
The 1836 siege left nearly all 189 defenders dead. Mexican soldiers who attempted to demolish the wa…
The Yorktown Memorial Hospital
Yorktown
This 1950 Catholic hospital closed in 1986 after years of drug rehabilitation patients dying on-site…
Marfa Lights
Marfa
The most famous unexplained lights in the US have been reported in the Chihuahuan Desert east of Mar…
Crescent Hotel
Eureka Springs
Called 'America's Most Haunted Hotel,' the 1886 Crescent Hotel was used as a cancer hospital by frau…
The Myrtles Plantation
St. Francisville
Built on a Tunica burial ground in 1796, this plantation is considered one of America's most haunted…
LaLaurie Mansion
New Orleans
Madame Delphine LaLaurie's 1831 mansion became infamous when a fire in 1834 revealed enslaved people…
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
New Orleans
The oldest surviving cemetery in New Orleans (1789) holds Marie Laveau — the Voodoo Queen — in a tom…
Little Bighorn Battlefield
Crow Agency
The site of Custer's Last Stand (1876) where 268 US soldiers and an estimated 60-100 Lakota and Chey…
Devil's Tower
Hulett
Devil's Tower — the volcanic monolith made famous by Close Encounters of the Third Kind — has a long…
The Stanley Hotel
Estes Park
Stephen King's inspiration for The Shining — the 1909 Stanley Hotel is one of America's most investi…
Cheesman Park
Denver
Denver's Cheesman Park sits on an 1858 pioneer cemetery from which bodies were never properly remove…
Roswell Crash Site
Roswell
The 1947 crash of an unidentified object on Mac Brazel's ranch sparked the most famous UFO incident …
White Sands Missile Range UFO Incidents
Socorro
The area surrounding White Sands Missile Range — including the 1964 Lonnie Zamora incident in Socorr…
Jerome Grand Hotel
Jerome
Built as a hospital in 1926 for copper mining workers, this hillside hotel witnessed hundreds of dea…
Superstition Mountains
Gold Canyon
The Apache called these mountains home to the Thunder God and forbade outsiders from entering. The L…
Skinwalker Ranch
Ballard
Utah's most famous paranormal hotspot has documented UFOs, cattle mutilations, poltergeist activity,…
Extraterrestrial Highway
Rachel
Nevada State Route 375 — officially designated the Extraterrestrial Highway — runs along the edge of…
The Northern State Hospital Ruins
Sedro-Woolley
Washington's largest psychiatric institution (1912–1973) housed over 2,700 patients at its peak, wit…
The Winchester Mystery House
San Jose
Sarah Winchester built continuously on her mansion for 38 years — 160 rooms, staircases to nowhere, …
The Queen Mary
Long Beach
The decommissioned ocean liner turned hotel is one of the most haunted ships in the world. At least …
Alcatraz Island
San Francisco
The nation's most notorious federal penitentiary housed America's most dangerous criminals for 29 ye…
Bodie State Historic Park
Bridgeport
The best-preserved ghost town in the American West, Bodie peaked at 10,000 residents in 1879 and is …
The Whaley House
San Diego
Officially recognized by the US Commerce Department as one of two authenticated haunted houses in th…
Pali Highway
Honolulu
The Nu'uanu Pali — where King Kamehameha drove 10,000 warriors over the cliff in 1795 to unify Hawai…
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park — Halemaumau Crater
Volcano
The summit caldera of Kilauea is the home of Pele — the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes — and is consi…
The Whitney
Detroit, Wayne County
This 21,000 sq ft 1894 lumber baron mansion turned restaurant is one of Detroit's most famous haunte…
Henderson Castle
Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County
Built in 1895, this inn near Kalamazoo College is haunted by multiple spirits including Frank and Ma…
Felt Mansion
Holland / Saugatuck, Allegan County
Constructed in 1928 as a gift from inventor Dorr Felt to his wife Agnes, who died shortly after movi…
Landmark Inn
Marquette, Marquette County
Opened in 1930 as the Northland Inn, this distinguished downtown Marquette hotel is haunted by the '…
Northville Psychiatric Hospital
Northville, Wayne County
Built in 1952, closed in 2003. This sprawling complex featured extensive underground tunnels connect…
Big Bay Point Lighthouse
Big Bay, Marquette County
Built in 1896, this lighthouse stands on a dramatic point jutting into Lake Superior, 25 miles north…
Whitefish Point Lighthouse
Paradise, Chippewa County
Located on a treacherous coastline that has claimed nearly 200 ships and up to 100 lives. The souls …
Point Iroquois Lighthouse
Brimley, Chippewa County
Site of a massive Native American massacre in 1662. In 1919, the SS Myron sank in a November storm, …
River Raisin National Battlefield Park
Monroe, Monroe County
In January 1813, hundreds of Americans died in the Battle of the River Raisin — the deadliest confli…
Fort Mackinac
Mackinac Island, Mackinac County
Built in the 1700s, this fort saw many battles and deaths. Explored by SyFy Channel's Ghost Hunters.…
Michigan's First State Prison
Jackson, Jackson County
Established in 1838, operated for nearly a century. Known for brutal conditions including prisoner n…
Nunica Cemetery
Nunica, Ottawa County
Established in 1883, possibly the most haunted cemetery in Michigan. Resting place of many Civil War…
Findlay Cemetery (Ada Witch)
Ada, Kent County
Home of the legendary Ada Witch. In the 1800s, a husband discovered his wife with another man and ki…
1966 Dexter 'Swamp Gas' UFO Sighting
Dexter, Washtenaw County
On March 20, 1966, the Mannor family watched a UFO hover over their swamp for 4 hours. Dozens of pol…
1966 Hillsdale College UFO Sighting
Hillsdale, Hillsdale County
March 21, 1966 — 87 residents of MacIntyre Residence Hall watched flashing lights hover over the cam…
Grand Rapids UFO Hotspot
Grand Rapids, Kent County
Grand Rapids leads Michigan with 125-225 reported UFO sightings since 1995 (depending on the databas…
Detroit UFO Hotspot
Detroit, Wayne County
Detroit has logged 103-343 UFO sightings (depending on the database), making it one of the highest c…
Michigan Dogman — Wexford County (Original Sighting)
Cadillac area, Wexford County
Site of the first documented Michigan Dogman sighting in 1887. Two lumberjacks encountered a creatur…
Michigan Dogman — Manistee National Forest
Manistee, Manistee County
The primary hotspot for modern Dogman sightings. A truck driver had a notable encounter here. The cr…
Nain Rouge Territory
Detroit, Wayne County
The 'Red Dwarf' or 'Demon of the Strait' — a small, grotesque creature whose appearances foretell di…
Seney National Wildlife Refuge (Bigfoot Hotspot)
Seney, Schoolcraft County
Michigan's #1 Bigfoot hotspot. This 95,000-acre preserve of dense forest and wetlands in the UP has …
Delta County Forest Preserve (Bigfoot Hotspot)
Escanaba area, Delta County
Delta County holds Michigan's record with 11 Bigfoot sightings — the most of any county in the state…
The Hippy Tree (Traverse City)
Traverse City, Grand Traverse County
Located on the grounds of the former Northern Michigan Asylum, this tree is said to be a portal to H…
Calumet Theatre
Calumet, Houghton County
Iconic Copper Country landmark from the early 1900s. Haunted by Madame Helena Modjeska, a celebrity …
Shipwreck Coast (Graveyard of the Great Lakes)
Munising to Whitefish Point, Alger / Luce / Chippewa County
An 80-mile stretch of Lake Superior shoreline between Munising and Whitefish Point where at least 20…
SS Edmund Fitzgerald Wreck Site
17 mi NNW of Whitefish Point, Lake Superior (offshore) County
Lost with all 29 crew on November 10, 1975, in one of the most famous shipwrecks in Great Lakes hist…
Mission Point Resort
Mackinac Island, Mackinac County
The ghost of 'Harvey' haunts this resort. In the late 1960s, Harvey shot himself behind the building…
Grand Hotel
Mackinac Island, Mackinac County
Opened in 1887, built on what was essentially a Native American burial ground — human skeletons were…
The Lake Michigan Triangle
Ludington to Benton Harbor (MI shoreline), Multiple (Mason, Oceana, Muskegon, Ottawa, Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien) County
The 'Bermuda Triangle of the Great Lakes' — a 3,800+ square mile zone stretching from Ludington to B…
Wendigo Sighting Area — Near Traverse City
Southwest of Traverse City, Grand Traverse / Benzie County
A recent encounter report: a woman and her sisters were on a golf cart through family property when …
Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse
Port Austin (Thumb), Huron County
Near the tip of Michigan's Thumb. First keeper Peter Shook drowned in 1849 sailing to Port Huron. A …
Ghost of Minnie Quay
Forester, Sanilac County
In 1876, 15-year-old Minnie Quay threw herself into Lake Huron from Smith's dock after learning her …
Hell's Bridge
Algoma Township (near Rockford), Kent County
A dilapidated metal footbridge a quarter-mile hike from Friske Drive in the woods of Algoma Township…
Wood Island Lighthouse
Biddeford Pool
Built in 1808, this lighthouse is haunted by the ghost of Thomas Orcutt, a fisherman who killed a ne…
Kennebunk Inn
Kennebunk
This 1799 Federal-style inn is home to a friendly ghost named Silas Perkins, a former innkeeper who …
Katahdin Woods
Baxter State Park
The wilderness around Mount Katahdin is Penobscot sacred ground and the alleged territory of the Pam…
Mount Washington Hotel
Bretton Woods
This grand 1902 resort in the White Mountains is haunted by its original owner's wife, Princess Caro…
Pine Hill Cemetery
Hollis
Home to the grave of Betty Blood, a woman buried in the 1800s whose headstone is perpetually warm to…
America's Stonehenge
Salem
A sprawling 4,000-year-old megalithic site of uncertain origin, with stone chambers, astronomical al…
The Equinox Resort
Manchester
One of New England's oldest resort hotels (1769) is home to the ghost of Mary Todd Lincoln, who stay…
Champ Sighting Zone
Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain's legendary serpentine creature has over 300 documented sightings since 1609, when Sa…
Vermont State Hospital Ruins
Waterbury
The remains of Vermont's 19th-century psychiatric facility carry a heavy history of overcrowding and…
Salem Witch Trials Memorial
Salem
Built on the site of Proctor's Ledge where 19 accused witches were hanged in 1692, this memorial is …
Houghton Mansion
North Adams
Built by a wealthy mayor in 1890, this mansion became the site of tragedy when the mayor's chauffeur…
Dogtown Commons
Gloucester
An abandoned colonial village in the interior of Cape Ann, deserted in the early 1800s. The last inh…
The Parker House Hotel
Boston
America's longest continuously operating hotel (1855) has hosted Charles Dickens, John Wilkes Booth,…
Mercy Brown Grave
Exeter
Mercy Brown, exhumed in 1892 when her family believed she was an 'undead' draining life from her sic…
Fort Wetherill
Jamestown
This abandoned coastal fort on Conanicut Island was a key WWII installation. Explorers report shadow…
Melon Heads of Shelton
Shelton
Local legend describes the Melon Heads — small, pale humanoids with enlarged heads who descended fro…
The Haunted Crypt of Middletown
Middletown
Indian Hill Cemetery contains a family crypt repeatedly broken into by something — from the inside. …
Bara-Hack
Pomfret
An abandoned 18th-century Welsh settlement in the woods of northeastern Connecticut, known as the 'V…
The Dakota
New York City
John Lennon was murdered outside this landmark 1884 apartment building. His ghost has been reported …
Seneca Lake UFO Corridor
Watkins Glen
The Finger Lakes region has one of the highest concentrations of documented UFO sightings in the nor…
Whitehall Bigfoot Territory
Whitehall
The town of Whitehall in the Adirondack foothills has had consistent Bigfoot encounters since the 19…
Morris-Jumel Mansion
New York City
Manhattan's oldest surviving residential structure (1765) served as George Washington's headquarters…
Burlington County Prison Museum
Mount Holly
Built in 1811, one of America's oldest jails is now a museum where paranormal investigations are reg…
Proprietary House
Perth Amboy
The last standing royal governor's mansion in the American colonies (1762) is haunted by the ghost o…
The Jean Bonnet Tavern
Bedford
Built in 1762 on the site of a Native American burial ground, this tavern served as a staging point …
The Farnsworth House Inn
Gettysburg
Used as a Confederate sniper's nest during the Battle of Gettysburg, the Farnsworth House Inn still …
Fort Delaware
Delaware City
This Civil War prison island held up to 12,600 Confederate prisoners at once under brutal conditions…
Woodburn Governor's Mansion
Dover
Delaware's official governor's residence (1790) is one of the most historically documented haunted h…
Edgar Allan Poe House
Baltimore
Poe's childhood home from 1833–1835 is one of Maryland's premier haunted sites. Curators and visitor…
Sykesville Haunted Bridge
Sykesville
A railroad bridge over the South Branch of the Patapsco River is the site of multiple reported suici…
Colonial Williamsburg Governor's Palace
Williamsburg
The reconstructed royal governor's palace sits on the foundations of the original, beneath which are…
Bacon's Castle
Surry
Built in 1665, Bacon's Castle is the oldest documented brick dwelling in North America and Virginia'…
Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry
The site of John Brown's 1859 raid is considered one of the most haunted towns in America. John Brow…
The Devil's Tramping Ground
Bennett
A bare, perfectly circular patch of earth forty feet in diameter where nothing grows and animals ref…
Biltmore Estate
Asheville
America's largest private home (1895) is haunted by George Vanderbilt, who is seen in the library, a…
Lydia's Bridge
Jamestown
Since the 1920s, drivers report picking up a young woman hitchhiking near this bridge who asks to be…
The Battery Carriage House Inn
Charleston
Two distinct entities haunt this 1843 carriage house in Charleston's historic district — a headless …
Poogan's Porch Restaurant
Charleston
This 1888 Victorian house turned restaurant is haunted by Zoe St. Amand, a spinster who lived here u…
Hagley Landing
Georgetown
The ruins of a rice plantation on the Black River are one of South Carolina's most documented slave …
Bonaventure Cemetery
Savannah
Savannah's legendary cemetery draped in Spanish moss became nationally known through Midnight in the…
The Marshall House
Savannah
Savannah's oldest hotel (1851) served as a Union hospital during the Civil War and was again a hospi…
Oakland Cemetery
Atlanta
Atlanta's historic Victorian cemetery holds Confederate General John B. Gordon and novelist Margaret…
Castillo de San Marcos
St. Augustine
The oldest masonry fort in the continental US (1695) has had hundreds of documented paranormal encou…
Skunk Ape Research Headquarters
Ochopee
The Everglades' own Bigfoot — the Skunk Ape — has been reported since the 1950s. The Headquarters in…
Key West Cemetery
Key West
This above-ground cemetery dating to 1847 holds victims of the 1898 USS Maine explosion and a yellow…
Maple Hill Cemetery
Huntsville
Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery holds Civil War soldiers, early settlers, and the grave of a s…
Longwood Mansion
Natchez
Construction of this eight-story Moorish Revival mansion stopped permanently when Northern workers a…
Orpheum Theatre
Memphis
Memphis's 1928 grand theater is haunted by Mary, a 12-year-old girl killed by a streetcar outside th…
Carter House
Franklin
The Carter family sheltered in their cellar while the Battle of Franklin raged around their home in …
The Kentucky State Penitentiary
Eddyville
Known as 'the Castle on the Cumberland,' this 1884 Gothic prison has executed over 160 people. Staff…
Mammoth Cave
Mammoth Cave
The world's longest known cave system (over 400 miles) has been inhabited for 4,000 years. Tuberculo…
Helltown
Boston Township
When the federal government bought out the residents of Boston Township in the 1970s to create Cuyah…
Prospect Place
Trinway
This 1856 mansion served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, hiding escaped slaves in a secret ba…
Milligan's Ghost Bridge
Avon
A railroad bridge over White Lick Creek where a man named Milligan died in the 1800s is now a docume…
Indiana State Sanatorium
Butlerville
A sprawling tuberculosis sanatorium built in 1907, now largely abandoned. Thousands died here over i…
Graceland Cemetery
Chicago
Chicago's premier Victorian cemetery holds architects, industrialists, and the Getty Tomb — a bronze…
Hull House
Chicago
Jane Addams' famous 1856 settlement house is haunted by a Devil Baby — allegedly the cursed offsprin…
Manteno State Hospital
Manteno
A 1930 psychiatric hospital on the Illinois prairie that became infamous for a 1939 typhoid outbreak…
The Pfister Hotel
Milwaukee
MLB players who stay at this 1893 luxury hotel consistently report being visited by its founder, Cha…
The Brumder Mansion
Milwaukee
A George Brumder built this 1910 mansion that is now Milwaukee's premiere haunted B&B. Room 4 — the …
The Beast of Bray Road
Elkhorn
Since the 1980s, multiple credible witnesses including a nurse, a newspaper reporter, and several mo…
The Palmer House Hotel
Sauk Centre
This 1901 hotel in Sinclair Lewis's hometown has a well-documented ghost population: a boy named Ray…
Glensheen Mansion
Duluth
The 1908 lakeside estate of Chester Congdon is haunted by its history of double murder — Congdon's d…
Black Angel
Iowa City
A bronze angel in Oakland Cemetery that turned black through oxidation has become Iowa's most famous…
The Pythian Castle
Springfield
Built in 1913 by the Knights of Pythias, this castle served as a WWII military hospital and POW hold…
Zombie Road
Wildwood
Lawler Ford Road — known as Zombie Road — is a two-mile abandoned road through dense forest along th…
Deadwood
Deadwood
Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back of the head here in 1876 holding the 'Dead Man's Hand.' The Bu…
Nebraska State Penitentiary
Lincoln
Nebraska's oldest prison has housed some of its most notorious criminals and carried out numerous ex…
Hummel Park
Omaha
This 200-acre public park north of Omaha has a long history of disturbing events including multiple …
Stone Lion Inn
Guthrie
Oklahoma's premier haunted B&B was a funeral home in the 1800s. The most active spirit is Irene, a c…
Spooklight Road
Quapaw
The Hornet Spooklight — a glowing orange ball that rolls along a stretch of road near Quapaw — has b…
Fort Washita
Durant
This 1842 frontier fort served as a Confederate stronghold during the Civil War. The most famous gho…
The Driskill Hotel
Austin
Austin's most storied hotel (1886) has two primary ghosts: the four-year-old daughter of a senator w…
Goatman's Bridge
Denton
The Old Alton Bridge over Hickory Creek is named for Oscar Washburn, a Black goat farmer who was lyn…
Gurdon Light
Gurdon
A light that bobs along an old railroad line near Gurdon has been reported since the 1930s. It is at…
Fort Smith National Historic Site
Fort Smith
Judge Parker — the 'Hanging Judge' — presided over 160 executions at this frontier court. The gallow…
The Sultan's Palace
New Orleans
In the 1870s, a man who claimed to be a Turkish sultan rented this mansion and filled it with servan…
Manchac Swamp
Ruddock
Known as the 'Haunted Swamp,' Manchac is associated with Julia Brown — a Voodoo priestess who died i…
St. Mary Lake
Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park has one of the highest concentrations of reported UFO sightings in the norther…
Fort Laramie
Fort Laramie
This key frontier fort witnessed the full arc of westward expansion and the Indian Wars. 'The Bride'…
Occidental Hotel
Buffalo
Butch Cassidy, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill all drank at this 1880 frontier hotel. At least three…
Buckskin Joe Ghost Town
Parkdale
An 1859 silver mining boomtown moved plank-by-plank to its current site as a tourist attraction, but…
Lincoln County Courthouse
Lincoln
Billy the Kid escaped from this courthouse in 1881, killing two deputies. The Kid's ghost is reporte…
Tombstone Bird Cage Theatre
Tombstone
This 1881 saloon and theater operated continuously for eight years — 26 men were killed inside, and …
Old Idaho Penitentiary
Boise
This 1872 prison held criminals for over a century before closing in 1973 following a series of viol…
The Mizpah Hotel
Tonopah
The 1907 silver mining hotel is Nevada's most documented haunted building. The Lady in Red — a prost…
Nevada State Prison
Carson City
Nevada's original territorial prison (1862) held outlaws, executed criminals, and served as a milita…
Thornewood Castle
Lakewood
This 1911 Tudor Gothic castle was built by Chester Thorne who had the stones of a 500-year-old Engli…
The Oxford Saloon
Snohomish
Washington's oldest continuously operating tavern (1900) is haunted by Henry, a police officer kille…
Fort Worden
Port Townsend
This coastal artillery fort from 1902 served through two world wars and later housed a juvenile dete…
Manresa Castle
Port Townsend
Built in 1892 for a tea merchant and later used as a Jesuit college and retreat, this Victorian cast…
Enumclaw UFO Corridor
Enumclaw
The area east of Enumclaw, at the foot of Mount Rainier, sits in the corridor of the 1947 Kenneth Ar…
The White Eagle Saloon
Portland
Portland's oldest operating tavern (1905) served as a brothel, opium den, and site of multiple murde…
Oregon Vortex / House of Mystery
Gold Hill
The Oregon Vortex is a zone of strange spatial phenomena first documented by geologist John Lister i…
Hotel del Coronado
Coronado
Kate Morgan checked in on November 24, 1892, and was found dead on the beach steps five days later. …
Point Sur Lighthouse
Big Sur
The 1889 lighthouse perched on a volcanic rock formation 361 feet above the Pacific has claimed hund…
The Historic Anchorage Hotel
Anchorage
Alaska's oldest hotel (1916) is haunted by John Sturgus — a police officer who was shot and killed i…
Klondike Gold Rush Historic District
Skagway
The 1898 gold rush brought 100,000 men to this single Alaskan port town — the desperate, the crimina…
The Kennecott Mine
Wrangell-St. Elias
The world's richest copper mine operated from 1903 to 1938 and was abandoned almost overnight when t…
The Morgan's Corner
Honolulu
A bend on Nu'uanu Road where two brutal murders occurred — a homeowner killed by escaped convicts in…
Iolani Palace
Honolulu
The only royal palace in the United States, where Queen Lili'uokalani was imprisoned after the 1893 …
Doherty Hotel
Clare, Clare County
Built in 1924 by Senator Alfred James Doherty, friend of Henry Ford. During Prohibition it was a spe…
Terrace Inn
Petoskey, Emmet County
This Victorian inn north of Petoskey has such a well-documented haunting history that the desk clerk…
Holland Castle (Castle Park)
Holland, Ottawa County
Built in 1890, this castle is said to be haunted by the ghost of a young girl grieving a man she onc…
White River Light Station
Whitehall, Muskegon County
Built in 1875, haunted by longtime keeper William 'Bill' Robinson III (47 years of service) and his …
Old Presque Isle Lighthouse
Presque Isle, Presque Isle County
Michigan's oldest surviving lighthouse, built in 1840 along Lake Huron, 19 miles north of Alpena. Th…
Ontonagon Lighthouse
Ontonagon, Ontonagon County
A young woman died of diphtheria here in 1885. The lighthouse holds haunted tours and visitors have …
Mouth Cemetery
White River Township, Muskegon County
Over 165 years old, surrounded by dense trees near the shores of Lake Michigan. Fallen into disrepai…
Union-Udell Cemetery
Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County
Off Textile Road near Ypsilanti, this cemetery is the legendary final resting place of a witch named…
William Ganong Cemetery
Westland, Wayne County
Visitors report eerie mists, glowing eyes, and unexplained orbs among the graves in this Westland ce…
Oakwood Cemetery
Cannonsburg, Kent County
The ghost of a woman has been seen standing in cold, rainy, or snowy weather without a coat at the c…
Knock-Knock Road (Strasburg Road)
Detroit, Wayne County
One of Detroit's most famous urban legends, dating to the 1940s. The ghost of a young girl killed in…
Denton Road
Canton / Westland, Wayne County
The 'Blue Lady' — the ghost of a woman said to have been murdered near the area — wanders this road.…
Michigan Dogman — Luther Cabin Incident
Luther, Lake County
In 1997, a family returned from vacation to find canine claw marks in the cabin's siding seven feet …
Michigan Dogman — Grand Haven / Ottawa County
Grand Haven, Ottawa County
A series of Dogman sightings occurred in Grand Haven and Ottawa County from 1993 to 1994. Multiple w…
Melon Heads Territory
Saugatuck / Holland, Allegan County
Humanoid creatures with small bodies and large, bulbous heads said to lurk in forests surrounding th…
Witchy Wolves of Omer Plains
Omer, Arenac County
Dog/wolf spirits said to protect the spirits of Chippewa warriors in the Omer Plains, about 5 miles …
Pressie — Presque Isle River, Lake Superior
Porcupine Mountains area, Gogebic / Ontonagon County
Lake Superior's very own lake monster, sighted since the late 1800s near the Presque Isle River. Des…
Porcupine Mountains Wilderness (Bigfoot Sightings)
Ontonagon / Gogebic, Ontonagon County
Known as 'The Porkies,' this heavily wooded region has had multiple Bigfoot encounters reported by c…
Tahquamenon Falls State Park (Bigfoot Sighting)
Paradise, Chippewa / Luce County
A 2015 sighting involved a pair of fishermen who saw a 'massive figure watching them from the shorel…
Hiawatha National Forest (Bigfoot Sighting)
Munising area, Alger County
A 2021 sighting by a bowhunter near Munising involved a large, upright creature moving effortlessly …
Ramsdell Theatre
Manistee, Manistee County
Built in 1903 for TJ Ramsdell. Site of James Earl Jones's first performance of Othello. Believed to …
Frauenthal Theater
Muskegon, Muskegon County
Built in 1929 in downtown Muskegon. Visitors and staff report being followed by an apparition in bla…
Kalamazoo Civic Theatre
Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County
Haunted by 'Thelma Mertz,' reportedly an actress who was dumped by her lover and threw herself off t…
SS Bannockburn Ghost Ship
Near Whitefish Point, Lake Superior (offshore) County
Known as 'The Flying Dutchman of the Great Lakes.' Sank November 21, 1902 — no trace of crew or wrec…
USS Silversides Submarine Museum
Muskegon, Muskegon County
This WWII submarine museum in Muskegon is known for paranormal activity during overnight investigati…
USS LST 393 Veterans Museum
Muskegon, Muskegon County
This WWII landing ship in Muskegon harbor has a reputation for paranormal activity. Overnight parano…
Bois Blanc Island
Bois Blanc Island, Mackinac County
This 34 sq mi island southeast of Mackinac Island in Lake Huron is known for paranormal activity. Vi…
The Kirby House (Gildner Hotel)
Grand Haven, Ottawa County
Originally the 1873 Gildner Hotel, now a popular restaurant. Haunted by a ghost in a cowboy hat and …
Grand Rapids Public Library
Grand Rapids, Kent County
Home for more than 120 years to four distinct ghostly entities, including 'Mary,' a former librarian…
Castle Museum (Saginaw)
Saginaw, Saginaw County
A former gothic mansion known as 'Castle Station' or the Saginaw Post Office, now owned by the Histo…
Sleeping Bear Dunes
Empire, Leelanau / Benzie County
Named after an Ojibwe legend: a mother bear and two cubs fled a forest fire by swimming Lake Michiga…
Forester Cemetery (Midnight Boys)
Forester, Sanilac County
Known for the legend of the 'Midnight Boys' — ghostly figures said to appear in the cemetery after d…
Curwood Castle
Owosso, Shiawassee County
Built in 1922 by novelist James Oliver Curwood as his writing studio. Now a museum, the castle-like …
Old Regent Theatre
Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County
A shadowy apparition has been spotted in the projection room. Witnesses describe cold spots, the tou…
Dog Lady Island (Kausler's Island)
Monroe (Lake Erie), Monroe County
Officially Kausler's Island, this Lake Erie island gained its name from Mrs. Kausler, who after the …
Michigan Missing 411 Zone — Upper Peninsula Forests
Various UP locations, Multiple (UP) County
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is a focus area in David Paulides' Missing 411 research — documenting une…
Lake Leelanau Monster
Lake Leelanau, Leelanau County
A legendary creature said to inhabit Lake Leelanau, often described as a large aquatic reptile or se…
Norton Mounds (Grand River Burial Mounds)
Grand Rapids, Kent County
One of the few surviving mound groups in the Midwest and one of the best-preserved Hopewell Indian c…
Menominee River Burial Mounds
Menominee, Menominee County
Along the Menominee River in the western UP, for more than 3 miles along the river bank, hundreds of…
Starvation Lake
Kalkaska area, Kalkaska County
A roughly 125-acre lake surrounded by forests. Multiple dark legends explain the name: one tells of …
Striker Cemetery (Portal Tree)
Location varies by source, Michigan County
One of Michigan's most underrated haunts. A tree at the center of the cemetery is rumored to be a po…
Le Griffon Disappearance Site
Lake Michigan (Northern), Lake Michigan (offshore) County
Le Griffon was the first full-sized sailing ship on the Great Lakes, launched in 1679 by French expl…
Northwest Airlines Flight 2501 Crash Zone
Over Lake Michigan (near South Haven), Lake Michigan (offshore) County
On June 23, 1950, this DC-4 carrying 58 passengers from New York to Seattle vanished over Lake Michi…
Redford Cemetery
Redford Township, Wayne County
One of the most haunted cemeteries in Michigan. The most well-known paranormal activity is the sound…
Crying Mary — Oak Hill Cemetery
Battle Creek, Calhoun County
In 1910, Johannas Decker was buried alongside a large statue of a Greek goddess. Beginning in the 19…
Fort Knox
Prospect
This massive granite fort overlooking the Penobscot River was never attacked but is considered one o…
The Kennebec Arsenal
Augusta
Constructed in 1828, this arsenal stored weapons through multiple wars. Guards and workers over the …
Pemaquid Point Lighthouse
Bristol
Wrecks of over a dozen ships litter the rocks below this lighthouse. Fishermen and visitors have lon…
The Wentworth by the Sea
New Castle
This historic 1874 resort hosted the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese W…
Dartmouth College Ravine
Hanover
A deep ravine on the edge of Dartmouth's campus has been the site of unexplained lights, student dis…
Hubbardton Battlefield
Hubbardton
Site of the only Revolutionary War battle fought entirely in Vermont. Witnesses report seeing soldie…
Plymouth Colony Burial Hill
Plymouth
The burial ground of the original Pilgrims contains graves dating to 1620. Visitors report cold spot…
The Breakers
Newport
The Vanderbilt family's 1895 Gilded Age mansion hosts the ghost of Cornelius Vanderbilt II's daughte…
The Vampire Hunters of Connecticut
Jewett City
In the 1850s, the Reymond family of Jewett City dug up and burned the bodies of family members belie…
Monticello
Charlottesville
Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop estate is haunted by Jefferson himself, reportedly seen in the librar…
Yorktown Battlefield
Yorktown
The site of the final major battle of the American Revolution. British and American soldiers alike h…
Droop Mountain Battlefield
Hillsboro
Site of the largest Civil War battle fought in West Virginia (1863). Park visitors report Confederat…
Fort Macon
Atlantic Beach
This 1834 coastal fort served in three wars and was the site of a significant Civil War battle. Rang…
Chicken Alley
Asheville
This narrow alley in downtown Asheville is haunted by the spirit of Helen, a resident of the former …
Atalaya Castle
Murrells Inlet
The winter retreat of artist Anna Hyatt Huntington is a brooding Spanish Moorish castle on the coast…
Fort Pulaski
Savannah
This massive coastal fort was the site of a decisive Civil War bombardment and held Confederate pris…
The Don CeSar Hotel
St. Pete Beach
The pink palace of St. Pete Beach (1928) is haunted by its original owner, Thomas Rowe, and the Span…
USS Alabama
Mobile
The decommissioned WWII battleship is haunted by sailors who died aboard her during service. Securit…
The Hermitage
Nashville
Andrew Jackson's plantation home is haunted by Old Hickory himself — reported most often in the stud…
Malabar Farm
Lucas
This working farm owned by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield hosts the ghost of Bromfiel…
Crown Hill Cemetery
Indianapolis
The third largest cemetery in the US holds presidents, poets, and notorious gangster John Dillinger.…
Bloody Bride Bridge
Stevens Point
A bride killed in a car crash on her wedding night is said to haunt this rural bridge. Locals report…
Fort Snelling
St. Paul
This 1820 frontier fort held enslaved people — including Dred Scott — in a documented holding facili…
Wilson's Creek Battlefield
Republic
Site of the first major Civil War battle west of the Mississippi (1861). Visitors report Union and C…
Fort Abraham Lincoln
Mandan
Custer's last posting before the Little Bighorn, where his wife Libbie saw a ghostly procession of s…
Bismarck State Penitentiary
Bismarck
North Dakota's historic state prison has documented paranormal activity in its older cell blocks, in…
The Atchison Trolley Ghost
Atchison
Atchison, Kansas calls itself the most haunted city in the state, with multiple documented sites. Th…
Creek Council House
Okmulgee
The 1878 seat of Creek Nation government is haunted by the spirits of tribal leaders who fought to p…
Bachelor Officers Quarters — Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
The BOQ at Fort Sam Houston — where Ulysses Grant and Robert E. Lee both stayed — is haunted by a ca…
The Grand Hotel
Big Timber
This 1890 frontier hotel in the Yellowstone Valley is haunted by a cowboy killed in a bar fight whos…
Royal Gorge Bridge
Cañon City
The world's highest suspension bridge (956 feet above the Arkansas River) has been the site of numer…
Santa Fe Cathedral Park
Santa Fe
The burial ground adjacent to the oldest church building in the US holds centuries of Spanish coloni…
This Is the Place Monument
Salt Lake City
The site where Brigham Young declared his vision of Zion produces consistent reports of pioneer appa…
Gilgal Sculpture Garden
Salt Lake City
A hidden garden of bizarre carved stone sculptures — a sphinx with Joseph Smith's face, figures emer…
Massacre Rocks
American Falls
The site of a Shoshone ambush on an emigrant wagon train in 1862 that killed 10 travelers is now a s…
Point Defiance Park — Fort Nisqually
Tacoma
The 1833 Hudson's Bay Company fort — the oldest standing structure in Washington — was reconstructed…
The Gold Hill Hotel
Gold Hill
Oregon's oldest hotel in continuous operation (1876) is haunted by Freddy, a blacksmith who died in …
Pittock Mansion
Portland
This 1914 French Renaissance château belonged to newspaper magnate Henry Pittock. His ghost and that…
Sea Lion Caves — Ghost Cave
Florence
The world's largest sea cave system has an area known to local fishermen as the 'Ghost Cave' — a sec…
Wolf Creek Inn
Wolf Creek
Oregon's oldest continuously operating hotel (1883) hosted Jack London, Clark Gable, and Mary Pickfo…
The RMS Queen Mary's Sister Ship (Coronado Ferry Building)
San Diego
The Hotel del Coronado — where Some Like It Hot was filmed in 1958 — is haunted by Kate Morgan, a wo…
Santa Cruz Mystery Spot
Santa Cruz
A 150-foot diameter circle in a redwood grove where the laws of physics appear locally suspended — b…
Hearst Castle — Neptune Pool
San Simeon
William Randolph Hearst's palatial estate attracts apparitions from its storied Hollywood past — Mar…
Sitka National Historical Park
Sitka
The site of the 1804 Battle of Sitka — the last major armed conflict between Russian colonizers and …
Malamute Saloon
Ester
This 1906 roadhouse near Fairbanks served gold rush miners and hosted Robert Service, whose poems it…
Maunawili Demonstration Trail
Kailua
This windward O'ahu trail passes through territory associated with the Menehune — the legendary smal…
Old Town Negaunee (Ghost Mining Town)
Negaunee, Marquette County
The skeletal remains of this once-bustling mining town lie to the west of modern Negaunee. Streets, …
Keweenaw Ghost Towns (Freda, Cliff, Central, Delaware)
Keweenaw Peninsula, Keweenaw / Houghton County
The Keweenaw Peninsula is dotted with ghost towns from the copper mining boom of the late 1800s and …
Loup Garou of Grosse Pointe
Grosse Pointe, Wayne County
French-Canadian werewolf legend tied to what became Grosse Pointe. According to the tale, a man name…
Torch Lake Monster (Sea Panther)
Torch Lake, Antrim County
Sometimes called a Sea Panther, only seen at night. Sightings go back to the 1960s. Described as hav…
Missaukee Indian Mounds
Lake City area, Missaukee County
Ancient burial mounds located in Missaukee County, part of Michigan's rich but largely destroyed net…
University of Michigan Library (Haunted Stacks)
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County
A shadow figure dressed in early 1900s clothing quietly wanders through the building, reported by st…