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
The Egyptian Theatre opened during the movie-palace era with an elaborate Egyptian Revival design and later survived changing film, performance, and downtown entertainment patterns through restoration and continued use.
Reported
Historic place
Detroit, MI
Established in 1846, Elmwood is a rural cemetery and arboretum where Bloody Run Creek, historic monuments, a Gothic chapel, and Detroit civic memory meet.
Legend
Historic place
Memphis, TN
Founded in 1852 as part of the rural cemetery movement, Elmwood is an active cemetery, arboretum, bird sanctuary, and National Register property whose records reflect more than a century and a half of Memphis history.
Legend
Historic place
San Antonio, TX
The Emily Morgan Hotel occupies San Antonio’s former Medical Arts Building, a thirteen-story Gothic Revival landmark beside the Alamo. Designed by Ralph Cameron in the 1920s, the tower housed medical offices and treatment facilities before becoming an office building and, in 1984, a hotel. Its medical imagery and reported guest experiences now support a carefully marketed haunted reputation.
Reported
Historic place
Cape May, NJ
Built in 1879 and attributed to architect Frank Furness, the Physick Estate is a major Stick-style house preserved after threatened demolition and now operated as a museum.
Venue marketing
Historic place
Key West, FL
Built in 1851, the Spanish Colonial house became Ernest and Pauline Hemingway's Key West home in 1931; their restoration, writing life, garden, studio, pool, collections, and polydactyl cats shape its modern interpretation.
Legend
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Burlington, VT
The Intervale site has thousands of years of Indigenous history and preserves a reconstructed interpretation of the house occupied by Ethan and Fanny Allen late in Ethan's life. Farming, family, archaeology, preservation, and the contested making of public memory shape the property.
Legend
Historic place
Burlington, VT
The tall monument at Greenmount Cemetery commemorates Ethan Allen and marks a burial site identified through nineteenth-century community memory. Its phased construction, reused stone, sculpture, and surrounding family graves reveal how Vermont built a public image of its revolutionary past.
Legend
Historic place
Atchison, KS
Built in 1882 for the Hetherington family and later assembled as a museum by preservationist Evah Cray, the large house interprets Victorian architecture, furnishings, collecting, and Atchison society.
Legend
Historic place
St. Louis, MO
Opened in 1929, the Fox is an elaborate movie palace whose design, entertainment history, closure, and restoration reflect changing patterns of performance and downtown life.
Reported
Historic place
Gettysburg, PA
The Farnsworth House Inn stands on Baltimore Street in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a short distance from the battlefield that transformed the town in July 1863. Its brick walls, period rooms, and visible bullet scars make it one of Gettysburg’s most recognizable historic properties. The inn is also central to the town’s ghost-tour culture. To understand that reputation, it helps to separate the building’s documented past from the stories that later gathered around it.
Venue marketing
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Montgomery, AL
Built in the 1830s and later remodeled, the house served briefly in 1861 as the executive residence of Jefferson and Varina Davis before being moved in 1921 and preserved as a museum.
Legend