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
Salem, MA
The Witch House in Salem, Massachusetts, was the home of magistrate Jonathan Corwin, a judge in the 1692 witch trials. The circa-1675 house is the only surviving Salem building open to the public with a direct connection to a trial judge. No accused witch lived here, and there is no evidence that examinations occurred inside the house.
No paranormal claim
Historic place
Asheville, NC
The rambling late-nineteenth-century boardinghouse known as Old Kentucky Home was purchased by Julia Wolfe in 1906 and became the childhood setting transformed by Thomas Wolfe into the fictional Dixieland of Look Homeward, Angel.
Legend
Historic place
Chattanooga, TN
Opened in 1921, the Tivoli became Chattanooga's principal movie palace, later survived closure and demolition threats, entered city ownership, and has undergone repeated campaigns of restoration and modernization.
Legend
Historic place
St. Augustine, FL
Tolomato Cemetery preserves Catholic burial history across Spanish, British, and American St. Augustine and includes people from varied communities.
Legend
Historic place
Tombstone, AZ
Built in 1882, the two-story courthouse housed Cochise County offices, courtrooms, and a jail during a period when territorial government sought to regulate a volatile mining district. It now operates as an Arizona state historic park.
Legend
Historic place
Weston, WV
A monumental former state hospital whose architecture demands a humane account of institutional history.
Venue marketing
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Nashville, TN
Built in 1859 for David and Willie McGavock, the Italianate mansion stands beside an earlier 1802 brick house within a surviving public landscape.
Legend
Historic place
Charleston, SC
The congregation began in 1774, and its Gothic Revival church and landscaped churchyard reflect nineteenth-century Charleston religious and garden history.
Legend
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Mobile, AL
The keel of USS Alabama BB-60 was laid in 1942; the battleship served in the North Atlantic and Pacific during World War II, was decommissioned in 1947, and opened as a memorial in Mobile in 1965.
Legend
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Vicksburg, MS
The Union ironclad USS Cairo sank in the Yazoo River in December 1862 after striking electrically detonated mines, then was located, raised in the 1960s, conserved, and displayed within the national military park.
Legend
Historic place
Baltimore, MD
The surviving USS Constellation was launched in 1854 and served in naval operations including the suppression of the transatlantic slave trade and Civil War duty.
Legend
Historic place
Baton Rouge, LA
Commissioned in 1943, USS Kidd earned battle stars in World War II and Korea, survived a kamikaze strike, was decommissioned in 1964, and opened in Baton Rouge in 1983 as a carefully restored memorial ship.
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