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
Boise, ID
Opened in 1925, the Spanish-style Boise Depot and its tower became a prominent rail gateway overlooking the city. The building reflects passenger travel, migration, tourism, railroad labor, decline of service, and later civic preservation.
Legend
Historic place
Savannah, GA
Bonaventure Cemetery is Savannah’s largest municipal cemetery and one of its most important historic landscapes. The site began as part of Bonaventure Plantation, became a private cemetery in 1846, and entered city ownership in 1907. Its live oaks, funerary sculpture, river bluff, notable burials, and local folklore make it a natural stop for readers interested in haunted Savannah, but it remains an active burial ground that deserves quiet and respect.
Reported
Historic place
Fort Smith, AR
Built about 1870 by David McKibben and later occupied by Susan Bonneville, the elaborate Victorian Renaissance house survived through restoration and adaptive use as a community event venue.
Legend
Historic place
Tombstone, AZ
The burial ground used during Tombstone's early boom contains marked and re-created graves associated with violence, disease, accident, and ordinary community life. Its name, markers, and interpretation have also been reshaped by later tourism.
Legend
Historic place
New Orleans, LA
A French Quarter hotel built from the intertwined histories of a theater, ballroom, convent, school, and modern hospitality.
Venue marketing
Historic place
Brookdale, CA
Brookdale Lodge developed as a Santa Cruz Mountains resort known for its creek-side dining room and successive eras of hospitality.
Legend
Historic place
Denver, CO
Opened in 1892, the triangular Brown Palace became known for its atrium, elite hospitality, civic events, workers, and generations of travelers.
Legend
Historic place
Wilmington, NC
Built in 1770 over the remains of Wilmington’s earlier jail, the Burgwin-Wright House reflects colonial commerce, slavery, Loyalism, Revolution, household change, gardens, and preservation.
Legend
Historic place
Bismarck, ND
Established in 1872 as a military installation connected to Northern Pacific construction, Camp Hancock later served weather-observation and community functions. The site preserves an early officers' building, a historic church, a locomotive, and local exhibits.
Legend
Historic place
St. Louis, MO
Built in 1851 on Lucas Place and occupied by the Campbell family for more than eight decades, the house preserves an unusually detailed record through objects, papers, photographs, and restoration research.
Legend
Historic place
Cape May, NJ
The 1859 lighthouse at Cape May Point reflects federal navigation policy, keeper labor, changing technology, coastal ecology, and modern preservation and public access.
Legend
Historic place
Alexandria, VA
Merchant John Carlyle completed the Georgian stone house in 1753; its history includes colonial politics, enslaved workers, the Braddock conference, an adjacent hotel converted to a Union hospital, and a major twentieth-century restoration.
Legend