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
Annapolis, MD
Architect William Buckland designed the house in 1774 for planter Matthias Hammond; later Pinkney, Loockerman, and Harwood households, enslaved domestic workers, collections, and museum preservation shaped its history.
Legend
Historic place
Indianapolis, IN
Alexander Hannah built the brick house in 1858, and the property reflects nineteenth-century domestic life, civic participation, farming, later reuse, and preservation.
Legend
Historic place
Harpers Ferry, WV
The hillside cemetery contains graves of town residents and families connected to Harpers Ferry's industrial, commercial, religious, and civic history. Its elevated landscape also reflects generations of commemoration and preservation.
Legend
Historic place
Hartford, CT
Harriet Beecher Stowe moved into the house in 1873 and lived there for the final twenty-three years of her life; it opened as a museum in 1968 and has undergone major restoration.
Legend
Historic place
Honolulu, HI
The historic complex preserves the 1821 Mission House, the 1831 Chamberlain House, an annex, archives, and a cemetery. Interpretation addresses missionary families, Native Hawaiian collaborators and opposition, literacy, printing, religion, language, and the profound changes that followed sustained foreign settlement.
Legend
Historic place
Florence, OR
Heceta Head Lighthouse rises above one of the most dramatic stretches of the Oregon coast. The white tower stands on a forested headland, 206 feet above the Pacific, while its beam reaches far beyond the rocks below. Visitors come for the coastal trail, the engineering history, and the preserved keeper's house. They also come because a gentle resident ghost, usually called Rue, has become part of the lighthouse's modern folklore.
Reported
Historic place
New Orleans, LA
A restored Federal-style French Quarter residence where architecture, commerce, urban slavery, domestic labor, preservation, and oral tradition meet.
Reported
Historic place
Deadwood, SD
Built in 1892 and later home to businessman and civic leader W. E. Adams, the Queen Anne residence retains architecture, furnishings, and household evidence from Deadwood's transition from mining camp to established community.
Legend
Historic place
New Orleans, LA
An 1826 French Quarter house whose architecture, enslaved labor, famous residents, preservation, and ghost stories demand a careful reading of fact and memory.
Reported
Historic place
Deadwood, SD
Seth Bullock developed the present hotel after the 1894 fire, adapting his business property into a substantial brick hostelry. Its later restoration connects Deadwood's commercial growth, tourism, and gaming eras.
Venue marketing
Historic place
Detroit, MI
Construction of Detroit's American fort began in the 1840s on land with far older Native cultural significance; it later trained troops and supported wartime logistics.
Legend
Historic place
Cheyenne, WY
Completed in 1905, the mansion housed nineteen Wyoming governors and their families through 1976, including Nellie Tayloe Ross, the first woman to serve as a state governor in the United States.
Legend