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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Vicksburg, MS
Established in 1899, the park protects siege and defensive lines, monuments, military roads, Vicksburg National Cemetery, USS Cairo, Pemberton's Headquarters, and landscapes central to the 1863 campaign and its commemoration.
Legend
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Portland, ME
Completed around 1860 as a summer residence for Ruggles and Olive Morse, Victoria Mansion preserves extraordinary architecture, interiors, objects, and connections to New Orleans wealth and the domestic slave economy.
Legend
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Villisca, IA
A restored 1868 Iowa home interpreting the unsolved 1912 murders, community history, preservation, and reported paranormal experiences.
Reported
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Harpers Ferry, WV
Virginius Island supported mills, factories, canals, worker housing, and transportation before war, repeated flooding, economic change, and abandonment left foundations and archaeological remains along the Shenandoah.
Legend
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St. Paul, MN
The underground spaces began as silica mines and were later adapted for mushroom growing, storage, dining, entertainment, and stories associated with St. Paul's Prohibition-era underworld.
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Portland, ME
Built for Peleg Wadsworth in the 1780s and later home to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s family, the brick house documents domestic life, politics, literature, urban growth, and preservation.
Legend
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Portsmouth, NH
Completed in the early eighteenth century, the brick Warner House is the last mansion surviving on Daniel Street and preserves architecture, murals, objects, and family histories tied to Portsmouth's colonial elite and Atlantic economy.
Legend
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Virginia City, NV
The Washoe Club occupied lavish rooms serving prominent Comstock-era men, and the surviving building reflects elite sociability, boomtown wealth, fire, rebuilding, and commercial change.
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Louisville, KY
A former tuberculosis hospital best understood through public-health history before paranormal television fame.
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Baltimore, MD
The burial ground dates to 1786, and Westminster Presbyterian Church was later built above portions of it; Edgar Allan Poe and other prominent Baltimoreans are buried there.
Legend
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San Diego, CA
An 1857 brick house layered with family, civic, theater, and ghost-tour history in Old Town San Diego.
Reported
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Portland, OR
The White Eagle developed as an early twentieth-century saloon and lodging house near Portland's industrial waterfront, serving immigrant workers and passing travelers before later restoration.
Legend