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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Indianapolis, IN
The Old Pathology Building opened in 1896 on the grounds of Central State Hospital, an institution founded in 1848 and closed in 1994; it preserves laboratories, specimens, records, and medical teaching history.
Legend
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Honolulu, HI
Completed in 1882, Iolani Palace served as the official residence and ceremonial center of the Hawaiian monarchy under King Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani. The palace also bears witness to the overthrow of the kingdom, the queen's imprisonment, government use, dispersal of collections, and later restoration.
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St. Paul, MN
Completed in 1891 for railroad executive James J. Hill and Mary Hill, the vast Richardsonian Romanesque house preserves architecture, technology, art, family life, servant work, and the social networks behind Great Northern Railway wealth.
Legend
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Skagway, AK
The building associated with con man Jefferson 'Soapy' Smith later served a bank, fire-department garage, businesses, and Martin Itjen's deliberately theatrical museum. Its moves, restorations, folk art, and animatronic figures reveal how Skagway marketed its gold-rush past.
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St. Louis, MO
Established in 1826, Jefferson Barracks became a major military post, training center, hospital landscape, and burial place connected to conflicts from westward expansion through the twentieth century.
Legend
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Gettysburg, PA
The Baltimore Street house preserves the civilian setting where twenty-year-old Jennie Wade was killed on July 3, 1863.
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Jerome, AZ
Jerome grew around copper mining on steep slopes and later survived decline through preservation, tourism, arts, and adaptive reuse.
Legend
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Providence, RI
Completed in the 1780s for merchant John Brown, the mansion is a National Historic Landmark whose interpretation connects architecture and luxury to Atlantic commerce, the business of slavery, politics, and early United States trade.
Legend
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Harpers Ferry, WV
Built in 1848 as an armory engine house, the small brick building became the final stronghold of John Brown and his followers during the 1859 raid. Its repeated relocation and return reveal changing commemoration of abolition, Civil War memory, tourism, and Black education.
Legend
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Omaha, NE
Completed in 1903 for George and Sarah Joslyn, the Scottish Baronial house known as Lynhurst contains richly varied woods, stonework, service spaces, and gardens connected to Omaha business, philanthropy, and civic culture.
Legend
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Savannah, GA
A grand 1892 Savannah residence where ironwork, family history, preservation, and a quiet tradition of ghost stories meet on Columbia Square.
Reported
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Key West, FL
Established in 1847 after an 1846 hurricane damaged earlier burial grounds, the active cemetery holds above-ground vaults, family plots, military burials, and communities reflecting Key West's Bahamian, Cuban, Jewish, Catholic, Black, and maritime history.
Legend