Documented places and attributed folklore
Historical haunted places
Research-led guides to real American places associated with ghost lore. Each page identifies what is documented, what is reported, and what remains legend.
Historic place
Jefferson City, MO
A decommissioned Jefferson City prison complex interpreting 168 years of incarceration through guide-led history, former-inmate, and paranormal tours.
Reported
Historic place
New York, NY
An unusually intact 1832 Manhattan family home preserving original Tredwell furnishings, domestic history, and decades of reported unexplained experiences.
Reported
Historic place
Villisca, IA
A restored 1868 Iowa home interpreting the unsolved 1912 murders, community history, preservation, and reported paranormal experiences.
Reported
Historic place
Fall River, MA
A restored Fall River home, museum, and inn interpreting the unsolved 1892 Borden murders, Gilded Age society, trial history, and reported hauntings.
Reported
Historic place
Spring City, PA
A former Pennsylvania institution campus whose disability-rights and civil-rights history requires prominent, careful treatment before its ghost lore is discussed.
Reported
Historic place
Mansfield, OH
A preserved former Ohio prison known for monumental architecture, correctional history, reported paranormal experiences, and its role in The Shawshank Redemption.
Reported
Historic place
Weston, WV
A monumental former state hospital whose architecture demands a humane account of institutional history.
Venue marketing
Historic place
St. Francisville, LA
An antebellum property where popular ghost lore must be read against the history of slavery and the people who lived there.
Legend
Historic place
Louisville, KY
A former tuberculosis hospital best understood through public-health history before paranormal television fame.
Venue marketing
Historic place
San Diego, CA
An 1857 brick house layered with family, civic, theater, and ghost-tour history in Old Town San Diego.
Reported
Historic place
Philadelphia, PA
A landmark prison museum interpreting the history and continuing consequences of American incarceration.
Reported
Historic place
San Jose, CA
A famously unconventional San Jose mansion where architecture, biography, and afterlife legend overlap.
Legend