List of reportedly haunted locations in the United States

This is a list of locations in the United States which have been reported to be haunted by ghosts or other supernatural beings, including demons.

States with several haunted locations are listed on separate pages, linked from this page. Many of them appeared on ''Ghost Adventures''.

A

Alabama

* The Boyington Oak in Mobile is a Southern live oak that reportedly grew from the grave of Charles Boyington in the potter's field just outside the walls of Church Street Graveyard. Boyington was tried and executed for the murder of his friend, Nathaniel Frost, on February 20, 1835. He said a tree would spring from his grave as proof of his innocence.
* The Dr. John R. Drish House in Tuscaloosa has a tower that has reportedly been seen on numerous occasions to be on fire, when no fire was actually there. Also, ghostly lights are said to be seen emanating from the house.
*Gaineswood in Demopolis is reportedly haunted by the ghost of a former housekeeper from Virginia. She was in charge of running the house for General Whitfield after the death of his wife. Her ghost supposedly plays the piano in the music room.
*Kenworthy Hall near Marion has a fourth-floor tower room that is alleged to be haunted by the ghost of a young woman. She sits in a window awaiting the return of a lover who died during the American Civil War.
* Edmund King House on the University of Montevallo campus in Shelby County is reported to be the site of spectral lights, the sound of footsteps, and other unexplained noises.
* Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton is alleged to be haunted by the ghost of a former slave, Henry Wells, who was lynched by a mob after being accused of burning down the second county courthouse. Soon afterward, the ghostly image of a face appeared in an upper window of the new third county courthouse to profess Wells' innocence. Supposedly, every windowpane in the courthouse was broken in a hailstorm one year, except for that pane.
*Pratt Hall at Huntingdon College in Montgomery is reportedly haunted by a Red Lady. Huntingdon was originally a Methodist female college and the Red Lady is alleged to be the ghost of a lonely girl who committed suicide.
* Sturdivant Hall in Selma is purported to be haunted by the ghost of the second owner, John McGee Parkman. Parkman, imprisoned by Reconstruction authorities for alleged embezzlement, died during an escape attempt from Cahaba Prison in 1867.
*Sweetwater Mansion in Florence, Alabama, was built during 1828. Both Union and Confederate officers stayed there during their respective occupations of the city during the Civil War. Alleged paranormal activity has been investigated by local paranormal groups and a team from the television show ''Paranormal State''.
* The Tombigbee River near Pennington is reportedly haunted by the ghost ship ''Eliza Battle''. The ship is supposed to return during especially cold, stormy nights to warn of impending disaster. Likewise, the former captain of the '' James T. Staples'' reportedly appears near the site of that disaster at Bladon Springs.

Alaska

* Alaskan Hotel and Bar in Juneau.
* West High School in Anchorage.

Arizona

* Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone is reportedly haunted. These reports date back to the 1880s. It was investigated on ''Ghost Adventures'' in 2009 and on '' Ghost Hunters'' in 2006.
* Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee is reportedly haunted. It was investigated on both ''Ghost Adventures'' and ''Ghost Hunters''.
* Part of the football field at Lee Williams High School in Kingman lies atop an old Pioneer Cemetery. Women in prairie gowns and men wearing suits from the 19th Century have reportedly been sighted during outdoor graduation ceremonies.
* Monte Vista Hotel in Flagstaff is reputed to be haunted. A phantom bellboy is said to knock on the door of room 210 and announce "Room service." John Wayne reported seeing a ghost in his room while staying at the hotel in the early 1950s.
* Hotel San Carlos in Phoenix is filled with rumors that a 22-year-old girl jumped off the seven story hotel to her death after several weeks when the hotel first opened, along with other witnesses saying a girl mysteriously appearing at the foot of their beds for several seconds until she goes to their doors and vanishes.
*The Yuma Territorial Prison in Yuma is reported to be haunted by multiple entities, including the spirit of a little girl in a red dress, death row inmates and others, and has been listed by USA Today as one of the 10 best haunted destinations in the USA.

Arkansas

* The Gurdon Light is a mysterious floating light above the railroad tracks near Gurdon (Clark County), a few miles away on Highway 67, which was first sighted during the 1930s. A popular legend is that a railroad worker was in an accident in which he was decapitated and now he is holding a lantern going up and down the tracks searching for his missing head. The other legend involves the murder of a foreman for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad. The Gurdon Light was reportedly sighted shortly after his murder near those tracks during 1931. The local legend appeared on NBC's television program Unsolved Mysteries during 1994.
*The Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs bills itself as America's most haunted hotel. It was featured on the television show ''Ghost Hunters'' in 2005.

C

California

California is the location of many supposedly haunted locations. Notable locations with reputations for being haunted include Alcatraz, the former Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, El Adobe de Capistrano in San Juan Capistrano, and the Winchester Mystery House.
* Henry Levy House in Oxnard, California was featured on the TV series Ghost Adventures on Thanksgiving night 2022. The episode featured the 108 year old, 4800 square foot home once owned by Henry and Camille Levy, and her sister Juliette. Long time neighbors were also featured in the episode, detailing their experiences with the "racist" Levy sisters. Homeowners Eric Andrist and Jeff Rizzo provided security camera footage of a locked door flying open and a creepy voice captured while the show's host, Zak Bagans was filming on the second floor. Both Henry and Camille Levy died in the house.

Colorado

* Pioneer Park in Aspen is reportedly haunted by the ghost of Harriet Webber, wife of its builder, who died of what was ruled to be an accidental strychnine overdose during 1881, four years before it was built.
* Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Colorado, was built by a Massachusetts couple named F.O. and Flora Stanley. They lived there, and reportedly never left. Staff says Flora can be heard playing her piano at night. If you take a picture in the hotel, it is said Mr. Stanley can show up at any time in that picture. Children can be heard running up and down the halls. This lovely mountain resort in the Colorado wilderness was the inspiration for Stephen King's thriller, '' The Shining.''

Connecticut

* Bara-Hack is a ghost town in the northern part of the state that is reportedly haunted.Mark Moran, Mark Sceurman, ''Weird U.S.: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets'', p. 281, index at p. 346 (Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2009) . Found online a
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* Daniel Benton Homestead is a historic house museum in Tolland, Connecticut. It is reputedly haunted by the ghosts of Hessian soldiers and 18th-century lovers Elisha Benton and Jemima Barrows, who tragically died from smallpox.
* Dudleytown is an abandoned town founded in the mid-1740s. It lies in the middle of a forested area in Cornwall. The original buildings are gone and only their foundations remain. Videos purport to show restless spirits in the area and hikers have reported seeing orbs in the area.
* Union Cemetery in Easton (also Bridgeport), which dates back to the 17th century, is touted as "one of the most haunted cemeteries in the entire country" by authors of paranormal books who claim that visitors have photographed orbs, light rods, ectoplasmic mists, and apparitions. A spirit known as the "White Lady" has also been reported.
*Norwich State Hospital is a former psychiatric hospital spreading across a 70-acre campus. Before the majority of it was demolished, there were reports of lamenting patients near the Salmon building and the lobotomy room. It was featured on Ghost Hunters (TV series) season 6, episode 10.

District of Columbia

Several sites in Washington are reputedly haunted, including the Capitol Building, the White House, and the Octagon House (1801).

F

Florida

* Don CeSar Hotel in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla, reportedly is haunted by the ghost of its original owner, Thomas Rowe, who built the Moorish-style "Pink Palace" during 1926. The story is that Thomas Rowe was forbidden to marry the love of his life, a singer in the opera Maritana, by her parents. He built the Don CeSar in remembrance of her, and named it after a character in the opera. "Time is infinite. I wait for you by our fountain", she wrote to him on her deathbed, and after his own death, it was reported that they were seen to be meeting by the fountain in the hotel lobby''.
* House of Pedro Benedit Horruytiner, colonial governor of Florida, in St. Augustine. Alleged encounters with the Horruytiner ghost, as well as that of a cat supposedly killed in the house, have been reported there.
* The Leaf Theater in Quincy reportedly is haunted by several former movie operators and theater attendees
* The University of South Florida Library in Tampa reportedly is haunted.

G

Georgia

* Augusta State University in Augusta.
* Ebos Landing (Igbo Landing) in Dunbar Creek, St. Simons Island, Glynn County is allegedly haunted by the souls of Igbo slaves who committed mass suicide by drowning there during 1803 to protest their enslavement.
* Moon River Brewing Company in Savannah is allegedly haunted by angry spirits. It was featured on the TV series ''Ghost Adventures''.

H

Hawaii

* ʻIolani Palace is said to be haunted.

I

Idaho

* A security camera in the Pocatello High School captured a translucent figure going down a hallway and in and out of a bathroom when the school was closed for winter break in 2014. People report hearing voices in conversation and the sound of a piano inside the school's otherwise empty theater.

Illinois

* Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Midlothian, Illinois was mentioned on Most Terrifying Places in America.
* Former Chicago Historical Society Building is said to be haunted since its use as a temporary morgue for victims of the ''Eastland'' Disaster (1915).
* Former Anna State Hospital a Kirkbride Plan hospital in Anna.
* Crenshaw House in Equality. The house was constructed in the 1830s as a station on the Reverse Underground Railroad. In 1978, a reporter from Harrisburg named David Rodgers spent the night in the attic as a Halloween stunt for a local television station. The reporter managed to beat out nearly 150 previous challengers and became the first person to spend the night in the slave quarters in more than a century. Rodgers later admitted that he was 'queasy' going into the house and also said that his experience in the attic was anything but mundane. He heard many sounds that he could not identify and later, he would discover that his recorder picked up voices that he himself could not hear.

* Hull House, Chicago, Illinois was mentioned on Most Terrifying Places in America.
* Manteno State Hospital, Manteno was mentioned on Most Terrifying Places in America.
* Peoria State Hospital in Bartonville, Illinois. Originally named the Illinois Asylum for the Incurably Insane from 1907 to 1908, but later renamed to the Peoria State Hospital in 1909. An additional name for it is the "Bartonville Insane Asylum".

Indiana

There are several reputedly haunted sites in Indiana, including the Culbertson Mansion in the former shipbuilding town New Albany.

Iowa

* E. H. Harrison House in Keokuk, Iowa

K

Kansas

* Brown Grand Theatre in Concordia has stories of a ghost that haunts the theater.

Kentucky

*White Hall near Richmond in Madison County, owned by Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810 -1903), is said to be haunted by the ghosts of Clay, his former wife, and his son.

L

Louisiana

* Myrtles Plantation is allegedly home to several ghosts.

M

Maryland

* Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is said to have a few ghosts, including dead soldiers from the Battle of Ball's Bluff fought during the American Civil War haunting near the 33–34 mile mark, p. 66 a lady ghost on the 2 mile level at Catoctin (between locks 28 and 29), a headless man haunting the Paw Paw Tunnel, and a ghost of a robber at the Monocacy Aqueduct carrying a lantern.

Massachusetts

* Lizzie Borden House
* Longfellow's Wayside Inn
*Concord's Colonial Inn

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