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.
329 historic places
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Historic place
Savannah, GA
A small Savannah inn and restaurant assembled from early nineteenth-century buildings, best known today for intimate rooms and the long-told story of a spirit called Anna.
Venue marketing
Historic place
Galveston, TX
Architect Nicholas Clayton designed the mansion for the Gresham family; completed in 1892, it later became the residence of a Catholic bishop and survived the 1900 storm.
Legend
Historic place
Montgomery, AL
The present Greek Revival Capitol was completed in 1851 after an earlier building burned. It witnessed Confederate organization, state government, craftsmanship by Horace King, and the culmination of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting-rights march.
Legend
Historic place
Albany, NY
Established in 1841 and opened in 1844, Albany Rural Cemetery preserves a designed landscape of winding roads, ravines, monuments, mausoleums, and burial records connected to the Capital Region's diverse communities.
Legend
Historic place
San Francisco, CA
Alcatraz served as a military site, military prison, federal penitentiary, site of Indigenous occupation, and national park destination.
Legend
Historic place
St. Paul, MN
Completed in 1872, the Victorian house preserves more than fourteen thousand family objects and interprets three generations of the Ramsey family alongside Alexander Ramsey's consequential political career.
Legend
Historic place
Pittsburgh, PA
Founded in 1844, Allegheny Cemetery became a major rural cemetery whose landscape, architecture, monuments, and records reflect generations of Pittsburgh history.
Legend
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Atchison, KS
The Gothic Revival cottage was built by Amelia Earhart’s maternal grandfather in the 1860s; Earhart was born there in 1897 and spent significant parts of her childhood in the house.
No paranormal claim
Historic place
New Castle, DE
The Amstel House is New Castle's earliest surviving Georgian residence and was built after physician John Finney acquired the property in 1738. Its occupants included political families as well as enslaved, indentured, and hired workers whose labor sustained the household.
Legend
Historic place
Hartford, CT
Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground dates to the seventeenth century, with the oldest surviving marker from 1648, and preserves evidence of the city's colonial population and memorial practices.
Legend
Historic place
New Orleans, LA
A Royal Street hotel where a complex site history has become inseparable from a repeated haunted-hotel narrative.
Venue marketing
Historic place
Savannah, GA
Completed in 1849 for merchant Andrew Low, the house later became associated with Juliette Gordon Low and preserves evidence of elite family life, domestic labor, slavery, commerce, and philanthropy.
Legend