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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Savannah, GA
Savannah's oldest intact municipal cemetery preserves more than a century of burials, civic memory, weathered monuments, and stories shaped by the city's long afterlife in folklore.
Reported
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Cape May, NJ
Cape May’s Congress Hall traces its resort history to the nineteenth century; the current large hotel followed the destructive 1878 fire and hosted generations of visitors and political figures.
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Chicago, IL
The hotel developed beside Grant Park around the World’s Columbian Exposition era and reflects Chicago tourism, conventions, architecture, and labor history.
Legend
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Washington, DC
Founded in 1807, Congressional Cemetery contains distinctive cenotaphs and the graves of lawmakers, activists, artists, veterans, and generations of Washington residents.
Legend
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Hartford, CT
Completed in 1796, Connecticut's Old State House served as a seat of state government until 1878 and later as Hartford City Hall until 1915.
Legend
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Louisville, KY
Completed in 1895, the Arthur Loomis-designed Richardsonian Romanesque house interprets the Conrad and Caldwell families and Louisville's Gilded Age.
Legend
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Butte, MT
Built in the 1880s for copper magnate William A. Clark, the richly appointed mansion reflects mining wealth, Gilded Age taste, household labor, and the political influence of Butte's so-called Copper Kings.
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Eureka Springs, AR
High above Eureka Springs, the 1886 Crescent Hotel presents one of the most dramatic silhouettes in the Ozarks. Its stone walls, deep verandas, and hilltop setting would make it memorable without a single ghost story. Yet the building's long history as a resort, a school, and a fraudulent cancer hospital has produced a haunted reputation that now reaches far beyond Arkansas.
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Indianapolis, IN
Incorporated in 1863 with its first burial in 1864, Crown Hill developed as a large rural cemetery whose landscape and monuments preserve broad Indianapolis and Indiana history.
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Boston, MA
Opened in 1903, the Majestic moved through theater, vaudeville, cinema, decline, and major restoration under Emerson College.
Legend
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Savannah, GA
Master builder Isaiah Davenport completed the Federal-style brick house around 1820; its rescue in 1955 helped launch Historic Savannah Foundation and the city’s modern preservation movement.
Legend
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Deadwood, SD
The museum grew from the Days of '76 celebration begun in 1924 and now preserves wagons, stagecoaches, clothing, archives, and material culture connected to Deadwood's frontier commemoration.
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