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, Ghost Hunters (TV series), Haunted Towns, Ghost Asylum and Destination Fear (2019 TV series).
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. 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.Windham 1969, pp. 33–38 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.Windham 1969, pp. 97–103 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.Windham 1969, pp. 79–85 Sweetwater Mansion in Florence 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.Windham 1969, pp. 47–54 Likewise, the former captain of the James T. Staples reportedly appears near the site of that disaster at Bladon Springs.
Arizona Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone is reportedly haunted.
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.Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, article entitled Gurdon Light by Staci Nicole Morrow of Ouachita Baptist University, December 23, 2014.May, Joe. "Gurdon Light Still a Mystery in County." Daily Siftings Herald, October 29, 1991, p. 4.Pentecost, Tom. "Halloween, Ghosts, Goblins and the Gurdon Light." Southern Standard, October 31, 1985, p. 1.Plott, Nicole. "Gurdon and the Ghost Orb." Clark County Historical Journal (2014): 99–104.Richter, Wendy. "Clark County's 'Unsolved Mystery': The Gurdon Light." Clark County Historical Journal (2001): 127–166.Rowlett, Lara. "Light Remains a Big Mystery." Daily Siftings Herald, May 17, 1988, pp. 1–2. The Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs was featured on the television show Ghost Hunters in 2005.
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Colorado The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park was built by a Maine couple named F.O. and Flora Stanley. Staff says Flora can be heard playing her piano at night. Legends say Mr. Stanley might appear in photographs taken inside. Children can reportedly be heard running up and down the halls. The hotel was the inspiration for Stephen King's thriller, The Shining.
Connecticut Daniel Benton Homestead is a historic house museum in Tolland. It is reputedly haunted by the ghosts of Hessian soldiers and 18th-century lovers Elisha Benton and Jemima Barrows, who 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, 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.Ed and Lorraine Warren with Robert David Chase Graveyard. St. Martin's Press, 1992Joseph A. Citro Weird New England. Sterling Publishing Co., 2005Cheri Revai Haunted Connecticut. Stackpole Books, 2006 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 season 6, episode 10.
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F Florida The Vinoy Hotel in St. Petersburg has had reports of ghost sightings and other supernatural events at the hotel. Some of the reports were by visiting major league baseball players and staff, who stayed at the Vinoy when in town to play the Tampa Bay Rays.
G Georgia Ellis Hotel in Atlanta. Specters of the fire victims from December 7, 1946, wander this hotel.https://southernspiritguide.org/phantoms-of-the-fire-atlanta-georgia Igbo Landing in Dunbar Creek, St. Simons Island, is allegedly haunted by the souls of Igbo slaves who committed mass suicide by drowning there during 1803 to protest their enslavement.Haunted Plantations: Ghosts of Slavery and Legends of the Cotton Kingdoms, Geordie Buxton, Arcadia Publishing, 2007 p.63 Sibley Mill in Augusta. The apparitions of Maude Williams and her lover, Arthur Glover, roam this site.https://www.visitaugusta.com/blog/post/explore-augustas-haunted-history It was featured on Ghost Asylum.
I Illinois Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Midlothian, 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).Haunted Chicago: The Windy City's Spookiest Spots ; 10/31/11; Schiffman, Lizzie; Huffington Post; retrieved March 2014.
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K Kansas Sallie House in Atchison. Theorosa's Bridge between Sedgwick and Valley Center.
Kentucky Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville is said to be haunted by former patients. Bobby Mackey's Music World in Wilder was a reportedly haunted nightclub. It was demolished in 2024.
L Louisiana Myrtles Plantation is allegedly home to several ghosts.See sources cited in Legends of Myrtles Plantation.
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, p. 198 and a ghost of a robber at the Monocacy Aqueduct carrying a lantern. p. 82
Michigan Big Bay Point Light is reputedly haunted by the red-haired ghost of its first keeper, Will Prior. The Landmark Inn in Marquette supposedly has a room haunted by a librarian who lost her lover in a shipwreck. Holly Hotel in Holly has had multiple paranormal occurrences before its closure in June 2022.
Minnesota Hibbing High School, built in 1920, is claimed to be haunted, with the vicinity of its elaborate auditorium hosting most of the school's paranormal activities.
Mississippi Riley Center in Meridian.
Missouri Epperson House on the University of Missouri–Kansas City campus Town of Avilla on historic Route 66 is said to have large numbers of Shadow Folk throughout village and also haunted by a Revenant Civil War-era bushwhacker nicknamed "Rotten Johnny Reb", from a gruesome historical event now known as the "Legend of the Avilla Death Tree".Civil War Ghosts of Southwest Missouri, by Lisa Livingston-Martin Lemp Mansion in St. Louis, Missouri, is said to be haunted.Shepley, Carol Ferring. "The Lemp Family of St. Louis". Voices, the online magazine of the Missouri History Museum. Missouri History Museum. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
Montana Bannack, a ghost town, was founded in 1862. Several claims of hauntings have been made there, including the apparition of a woman in a blue gown named Dorothy who drowned in Grasshopper Creek. A gang of outlaws were also executed in the town and their ghosts are said to haunt the area. There were several epidemics of illnesses there as well, and a reported 8 to 14 infants died in the town. Boulder Hot Springs Hotel, near Boulder is said to be haunted by "Simone", the ghost of a prostitute who was murdered at the hotel. Carroll College, in Helena, supposedly has a ghost in the men's restroom in St. Charles Hall, where a drunken student died of a cerebral hemorrhage after falling and smashing his head against a sink in the middle of the night. The Copper King Mansion in Butte is said to be haunted by its original owner, William A. Clark. The mansion also served as a Catholic convent during the early 1900s. Garnet, a ghost town about outside of Missoula, is said to be haunted by several ghosts, including gold miners and a woman executed for murder there. The Little Bighorn Battlefield, located near Hardin, is said to be haunted by the ghosts of both U.S. soldiers and Native Americans who participated in the battle. Montana Territorial Prison in Deer Lodge is said to be among the most haunted locations in the state. A number of deaths occurred there, including during a riot in 1959. Virginia City, a ghost town-turned-tourist attraction, is said to be haunted. The saloon and theater are two areas of reported ghost sightings.
N Nevada The Nevada Governor's Mansion in Carson City was first occupied by the family of Governor Denver S. Dickerson during July 1909. Guests and staff have reported seeing a woman and child on the premises, thought to be Dickerson's wife Una and daughter June, the only child to have been born in the residence.
New Jersey Leeds Point is the birthplace of the Jersey Devil. The Pine Barrens gave fame to the legend of the Jersey Devil, said to have been birthed by a local woman named Mrs. Leeds during 1735. The child, Mrs. Leed's thirteenth, was unwanted, so she cursed the child by saying, "May it be the devil!" The child was supposedly born an inhuman monster, and it flew out of the house into the pine barrens shortly after birth.
New Mexico KiMo Theater in Albuquerque is said to be haunted by the ghost of a child who was killed at the theatre in 1951 when a water heater exploded.
New York 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, also known as the Amityville Horror House, was the scene of the mass murder of the DeFeo family on November 13, 1974, committed by Ronald DeFeo Jr. The Lutz family, the next inhabitants of the home, claimed that it was haunted and fled after 28 days. Their experiences were described by Jay Anson's 1977 bestselling book, The Amityville Horror, which was followed by the 1979 movie of the same name. Despite accusations of fraud, the Lutzes maintained that they experienced paranormal phenomena while living in the Ocean Avenue home. Cherry Hill Estate in southern Albany is a late 18th-century farm manor house that was the site of an 1827 murder that resulted in Albany's last public hanging after a controversial trial. An unidentified ghost has allegedly been seen on the property.