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
New Orleans, LA
A Catholic church has occupied this part of Jackson Square since the colonial era; the present cathedral incorporates major nineteenth-century rebuilding of the Spanish-period church completed in 1794.
Legend
Historic place
New Orleans, LA
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 was established in 1789 and is the oldest surviving cemetery in New Orleans. Its above-ground tombs, Catholic traditions, African American history, and association with Marie Laveau have made it central to the city’s memory and folklore. Public tourism is restricted to the authorized tour operator, while family members follow separate cemetery access procedures.
Legend
Historic place
Pensacola, FL
The burial ground was in use by the mid-to-late eighteenth century and contains markers from Pensacola's Second Spanish Period onward, with thousands of marked and probable unmarked graves.
Legend
Historic place
Alexandria, VA
The Stabler and Leadbeater families operated an apothecary business from this site from the late eighteenth century until 1933, leaving an unusually intact collection of medicines, containers, records, and commercial spaces.
Legend
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Natchez, MS
Irish immigrant merchant Frederick Stanton commissioned the monumental Greek Revival residence completed shortly before his death in 1859.
Legend
Historic place
Guthrie, OK
The large Victorian residence became associated with a later funeral-home use before conversion into an inn and event venue. Its architecture and reuse reflect Guthrie's residential growth, changing death-care practices, and heritage tourism.
Venue marketing
Historic place
Portsmouth, NH
Strawbery Banke preserves nearly ten acres of historic houses, gardens, archaeology, and landscapes on their original sites in the former Puddle Dock neighborhood. Interpretation spans Indigenous history and generations of families, immigrants, workers, craftspeople, and community change.
Reported
Historic place
Providence, RI
Founded in 1846 and developed as a rural cemetery, Swan Point combines landscape design, horticulture, monuments, architecture, and the graves of generations of Providence residents, including writer H. P. Lovecraft.
Legend
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Cincinnati, OH
The early nineteenth-century house later associated with the Baum, Longworth, Sinton, and Taft families now holds an art collection and layered political history.
Legend
Historic place
Albany, NY
Built in 1797-1798 for Abraham and Elizabeth Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck, the mansion reflects elite Federal-era life, later Greek Revival alterations, enslaved labor, changing households, gardens, and preservation by the Albany County Historical Association.
Legend
Historic place
Wilmington, NC
Opened in 1858 as a combined city hall and theater, Thalian Hall has survived war, changing entertainment, segregation, renovation, and continuous civic use.
Reported
Historic place
San Antonio, TX
The Alamo began as Mission San Antonio de Valero and became internationally known for the 1836 battle, preservation campaigns, and contested public memory.
Legend