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State: Massachusetts
Historical haunted places
Historic place
Boston, MA
Opened in 1903, the Majestic moved through theater, vaudeville, cinema, decline, and major restoration under Emerson College.
Legend
Historic place
Boston, MA
Fort Warren defended Boston Harbor and held Confederate prisoners during the Civil War, although it never fired in battle.
Legend
Historic place
Boston, MA
Founded in 1660, the Granary Burying Ground contains markers for prominent Revolutionary-era figures and thousands of other Bostonians.
Legend
Historic place
Salem, MA
The House of the Seven Gables occupies a rare place in American history. It is a surviving seventeenth-century mansion, the inspiration for a famous Gothic novel, and the center of a museum campus tied to immigrant education and social reform. Its dark timber exterior suits Salem’s haunted image, but the property’s real story is richer than a simple ghost tale.
No paranormal claim
Historic place
Salem, MA
Howard Street Cemetery is strongly linked in folklore to Giles Corey, but neither his burial place nor the precise pressing site is securely established.
Legend
Historic place
Boston, MA
Established in 1630, King’s Chapel Burying Ground is Boston’s oldest municipal cemetery and predates the adjacent chapel building.
Legend
Historic place
Fall River, MA
A restored Fall River home, museum, and inn interpreting the unsolved 1892 Borden murders, Gilded Age society, trial history, and reported hauntings.
Reported
Historic place
Salem, MA
Salem's oldest European burial ground preserves early markers and funerary history, but it is not the burial place of the executed witch-trial victims.
Legend
Historic place
Boston, MA
On Boston's School Street, the Omni Parker House occupies a place where hotel history, literary history, and ghost lore meet. The address stands close to King's Chapel, Boston Common, and the old streets of downtown. Inside, generations of politicians, writers, performers, travelers, and hotel workers have contributed to a reputation that is both distinguished and faintly uncanny.
Reported
Haunted towns and cities
Haunted town
Boston, MA
Boston is a living Greater Boston community whose documented history and preservation landscape explain why ghost traditions developed around selected streets, buildings, and burial grounds.
No paranormal claim
Haunted town
Salem, MA
Derby Wharf, the Custom House, merchant homes, warehouses, and archaeological sites reveal Salem's global maritime history beneath later waterfront ghost lore.
No paranormal claim
Haunted town
Salem, MA
Salem preserves a small but important group of places connected to the witch trials of 1692, including the Jonathan Corwin House, the former courthouse site, Proctor's Ledge, and later memorials.
No paranormal claim