Pro InvestigatorAll Paranormal Locations
476 documented locations across Michigan
1994 Holland/Ottawa County UFO Event
Holland
On March 8, 1994, at least 300 witnesses across Ottawa, Muskegon, and Allegan counties reported mult…
Alcatraz Island
San Francisco
The nation's most notorious federal penitentiary housed America's most dangerous criminals for 29 ye…
Antietam Battlefield
Sharpsburg
The bloodiest single day in American military history (23,000 casualties on September 17, 1862) has …
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery
Midlothian
Widely considered the most haunted cemetery in America. This small abandoned graveyard has produced …
Battlefield of Bull Run
Manassas
Two devastating Civil War battles were fought here. Rangers and visitors report apparitions of soldi…
Bell Witch Cave
Adams
America's most famous haunting — the Bell Witch terrorized the Bell family from 1817–1821, reportedl…
Bobby Mackey's Music World
Wilder
Built over a slaughterhouse whose well allegedly served as a dumping ground in a 19th-century murder…
Bodie State Historic Park
Bridgeport
The best-preserved ghost town in the American West, Bodie peaked at 10,000 residents in 1879 and is …
Boon Island
York
Site of one of New England's most gruesome shipwrecks — the Nottingham Galley (1710) — where survivo…
Bridgewater Triangle
Bridgewater
A 200-square-mile area encompassing Bridgewater, Abington, and the Hockomock Swamp with one of the h…
Brown Mountain Lights
Morganton
Cherokee legend and documented reports since 1771 describe glowing orbs that rise above Brown Mounta…
Cheesman Park
Denver
Denver's Cheesman Park sits on an 1858 pioneer cemetery from which bodies were never properly remove…
Chickamauga Battlefield
Fort Oglethorpe
The second bloodiest battle of the Civil War (34,000 casualties over two days) has generated decades…
Clinton Road
West Milford
Widely considered the most haunted road in America — Clinton Road is associated with KKK activity, S…
Colonial Williamsburg Peyton Randolph House
Williamsburg
Built in 1715, this is considered the most haunted house in Williamsburg. Ghost tours consistently r…
Crescent Hotel
Eureka Springs
Called 'America's Most Haunted Hotel,' the 1886 Crescent Hotel was used as a cancer hospital by frau…
Danvers State Hospital
Danvers
The original Kirkbride-plan asylum that inspired the architecture of horror. Opened in 1878, it pion…
Devil's Tower
Hulett
Devil's Tower — the volcanic monolith made famous by Close Encounters of the Third Kind — has a long…
Dice Road
Hemlock (Saginaw County)
Three haunted sites along one road in Richland Township. The apparition of Anna Rhodes Millerton (su…
Dudleytown
Cornwall
One of America's most infamous cursed ghost towns, Dudleytown was abandoned after generations of set…
Eastern State Penitentiary
Philadelphia
Al Capone's former prison is one of America's most documented haunted sites. Inmates described appar…
Edinburgh Manor
Scotch Grove
A county home for the poor, mentally ill, and criminal from 1850 to 2010. The building is one of Iow…
Eloise Asylum
Westland
Established in 1839, Eloise was a massive complex including a psychiatric hospital, tuberculosis san…
Emily's Bridge
Stowe
This 1844 covered bridge is said to be haunted by Emily, a young woman who hanged herself here after…
Extraterrestrial Highway
Rachel
Nevada State Route 375 — officially designated the Extraterrestrial Highway — runs along the edge of…
Franklin Castle
Cleveland
Ohio's most haunted house — this 1865 Romanesque mansion had secret passages built into its walls, w…
Gilson Road Cemetery
Nashua
One of New Hampshire's most active paranormal sites — investigators consistently record EVPs, shadow…
Hannah House
Indianapolis
This 1858 mansion was another Underground Railroad stop, and a tragedy occurred when a lantern was a…
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park — Halemaumau Crater
Volcano
The summit caldera of Kilauea is the home of Pele — the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes — and is consi…
Holly Hotel
Holly
Built in 1891, the Holly Hotel is considered the most haunted historic building in Michigan. Both tr…
Hudson Valley UFO Corridor
Pine Bush
Pine Bush in Orange County was the epicenter of the famous Hudson Valley UFO wave of the 1980s — whe…
Jerome Grand Hotel
Jerome
Built as a hospital in 1926 for copper mining workers, this hillside hotel witnessed hundreds of dea…
LaLaurie Mansion
New Orleans
Madame Delphine LaLaurie's 1831 mansion became infamous when a fire in 1834 revealed enslaved people…
Letchworth Village
Thiells
This 1911 state institution for people with developmental disabilities became infamous for overcrowd…
Little Bighorn Battlefield
Crow Agency
The site of Custer's Last Stand (1876) where 268 US soldiers and an estimated 60-100 Lakota and Chey…
Mackinac Island
Mackinac Island
Called 'the most haunted town in America' (2021) with over 100 individual reported ghosts. Key sites…
Mansfield Reformatory
Mansfield
This Gothic 1896 prison — used as filming location for The Shawshank Redemption — held thousands of …
Marfa Lights
Marfa
The most famous unexplained lights in the US have been reported in the Chihuahuan Desert east of Mar…
McRaven House
Vicksburg
Built in three phases from 1797 to 1836, McRaven has been called the 'most haunted house in Mississi…
Moon River Brewing Company
Savannah
Consistently rated one of America's most haunted restaurants, this 1821 building was a hotel, Civil …
Mothman Sighting Ground
Point Pleasant
Between November 1966 and December 1967, over 100 witnesses reported encounters with the Mothman — a…
Moundsville State Penitentiary
Moundsville
Built in 1866 next to an ancient Adena burial mound, this prison was declared 'cruel and unusual' by…
Old Charleston Jail
Charleston
Built in 1802, this jail held some of America's most notorious criminals including Lavinia Fisher — …
Pali Highway
Honolulu
The Nu'uanu Pali — where King Kamehameha drove 10,000 warriors over the cliff in 1795 to unify Hawai…
Pennhurst State School
Spring City
Exposed in a 1968 investigative report as a 'Shame of Pennsylvania,' Pennhurst housed people with di…
Pere Cheney
Near Roscommon
Founded in 1874, this sawmill village of 1,500 was devastated by diphtheria and cholera. Abandoned a…
Point Lookout Lighthouse
Scotland
Built on the site of a Civil War prison camp where over 3,000 Confederate prisoners died, Point Look…
Resurrection Mary
Justice
Chicago's most famous ghost — a young blonde woman in a white dress who hitchhikes along Archer Aven…
Roanoke Island
Manteo
Site of the Lost Colony of 1587 — 115 settlers vanished without a trace, leaving only the word 'CROA…
Robert the Doll
Key West
Housed at the Fort East Martello Museum, Robert is a 1904 straw-filled doll given to artist Robert E…
Roswell Crash Site
Roswell
The 1947 crash of an unidentified object on Mac Brazel's ranch sparked the most famous UFO incident …
Sallie House
Atchison
Kansas's most notorious haunted house is the site of alleged demonic activity centered on 'Sallie' —…
Seguin Island Lighthouse
Georgetown
Maine's oldest lighthouse is said to be haunted by a keeper's wife who went mad after her husband ta…
Seul Choix Point Lighthouse
Gulliver
Michigan's most haunted lighthouse, with hundreds of ghost stories logged by the Gulliver Historical…
Seven Gables Road
Dansville
Considered the most haunted road in Michigan. At its end stood a many-gabled house occupied by a wom…
Shiloh Battlefield
Hardin County
The Battle of Shiloh (April 1862) produced 23,000 casualties in two days. The Bloody Pond, where wou…
Skinwalker Ranch
Ballard
Utah's most famous paranormal hotspot has documented UFOs, cattle mutilations, poltergeist activity,…
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow
The real cemetery behind Washington Irving's Headless Horseman legend, where both Irving and Andrew …
Sloss Furnaces
Birmingham
These decommissioned 1882 iron furnaces are haunted by James 'Slag' Wormwood, a brutal foreman who d…
South Manitou Island
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Called Michigan's most haunted place by Thrillist. A cholera ship docked here and sailors buried the…
St. Albans Sanatorium
Radford
Originally a boys' school, then a psychiatric facility for over 70 years, St. Albans closed in 2004.…
St. Augustine Lighthouse
St. Augustine
America's oldest port city's lighthouse is haunted by two young girls who drowned when a constructio…
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
New Orleans
The oldest surviving cemetery in New Orleans (1789) holds Marie Laveau — the Voodoo Queen — in a tom…
Stull Cemetery
Stull
A small abandoned cemetery outside Lawrence that is considered one of the seven gateways to hell — a…
Summerwind Mansion
Land O' Lakes
This remote Northwoods mansion burned in 1988 but was for decades Wisconsin's most haunted location.…
Superstition Mountains
Gold Canyon
The Apache called these mountains home to the Thunder God and forbade outsiders from entering. The L…
The Alamo
San Antonio
The 1836 siege left nearly all 189 defenders dead. Mexican soldiers who attempted to demolish the wa…
The Devil's Punchbowl
Natchez
After the Civil War, the Union Army herded over 20,000 freed slaves into this enclosed riverside dep…
The Griggs Mansion
St. Paul
St. Paul's most haunted house — an 1883 Victorian mansion with four documented ghosts: a gardener, a…
The Haunted Hill View Manor
New Castle
This 1920s county home for the poor and insane operated for decades before closing and falling into …
The Jersey Devil Barrens
Leeds Point
Leeds Point in the Pine Barrens is the alleged birthplace of the Jersey Devil — the winged, hooved c…
The Lemp Mansion
St. Louis
The Lemp family — St. Louis brewing dynasty — suffered four suicides within the family, all inside t…
The Lizzie Borden House
Fall River
The site of the infamous 1892 axe murders of Andrew and Abby Borden. Now a bed-and-breakfast, guests…
The Myrtles Plantation
St. Francisville
Built on a Tunica burial ground in 1796, this plantation is considered one of America's most haunted…
The Northern State Hospital Ruins
Sedro-Woolley
Washington's largest psychiatric institution (1912–1973) housed over 2,700 patients at its peak, wit…
The Paulding Light
Paulding
Along a stretch of Highway 45 in this remote UP town, an enigmatic display of luminescence appears r…
The Queen Mary
Long Beach
The decommissioned ocean liner turned hotel is one of the most haunted ships in the world. At least …
The Ridges
Athens
The Athens Lunatic Asylum (1874) is home to the most disturbing evidence of haunting in Ohio — the o…
The Shanley Hotel
Napanoch
This 1845 hotel in the Catskills is consistently rated among the most haunted buildings in the US. I…
The Stanley Hotel
Estes Park
Stephen King's inspiration for The Shining — the 1909 Stanley Hotel is one of America's most investi…
The Whaley House
San Diego
Officially recognized by the US Commerce Department as one of two authenticated haunted houses in th…
The Winchester Mystery House
San Jose
Sarah Winchester built continuously on her mansion for 38 years — 160 rooms, staircases to nowhere, …
The Yorktown Memorial Hospital
Yorktown
This 1950 Catholic hospital closed in 1986 after years of drug rehabilitation patients dying on-site…
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
Weston
The largest hand-cut stone building in the Western Hemisphere held over 2,400 patients at peak capac…
Traverse City State Hospital (Northern Michigan Asylum)
Traverse City
Operated from 1885 to 1989, housing nearly 3,000 patients at its peak. Known for its 'beauty is ther…
Union Cemetery
Easton
Connecticut's most haunted cemetery is home to the White Lady — a female apparition in a white night…
Villisca Axe Murder House
Villisca
In June 1912, eight people — six of them children — were brutally murdered in this house with an axe…
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Louisville
Opened in 1910 for tuberculosis patients, over 8,000 people died here before its closure. The body c…
White Sands Missile Range UFO Incidents
Socorro
The area surrounding White Sands Missile Range — including the 1964 Lonnie Zamora incident in Socorr…
Wounded Knee
Pine Ridge
Site of the 1890 massacre of approximately 250-300 Lakota Sioux men, women, and children by the U.S.…
17hundred90 Inn
Savannah
Savannah's oldest inn is haunted by Anna, a young woman who allegedly threw herself from a third-flo…
1966 Dexter 'Swamp Gas' UFO Sighting
Dexter
On March 20, 1966, the Mannor family watched a UFO hover over their swamp for 4 hours. Dozens of pol…
1966 Hillsdale College UFO Sighting
Hillsdale
March 21, 1966 — 87 residents of MacIntyre Residence Hall watched flashing lights hover over the cam…
Adak Island — WWII Ghost Installation
Adak
Adak Island hosted one of WWII's most intensive Pacific campaigns — American forces built an entire …
Alcatraz Island — Cell Block D
San Francisco
The infamous federal penitentiary on San Francisco Bay held some of America's most dangerous crimina…
America's Stonehenge
Salem
A sprawling 4,000-year-old megalithic site of uncertain origin, with stone chambers, astronomical al…
Andersonville National Historic Site
Andersonville
The Confederate prisoner-of-war camp at Andersonville held over 45,000 Union soldiers in a stockade …
Area 51 — Rachel Nevada Approach
Rachel
The small town of Rachel, Nevada sits on State Route 375 — officially designated the Extraterrestria…
Bacon's Castle
Surry
Built in 1665, Bacon's Castle is the oldest documented brick dwelling in North America and Virginia'…
Bara-Hack
Pomfret
An abandoned 18th-century Welsh settlement in the woods of northeastern Connecticut, known as the 'V…
Battery Carriage House Inn
Charleston
This antebellum carriage house on the Battery in Charleston hosts one of the strangest apparitions i…
Big Bay Point Lighthouse
Big Bay
Built in 1896, this lighthouse stands on a dramatic point jutting into Lake Superior, 25 miles north…
Biltmore Estate
Asheville
America's largest private home (1895) is haunted by George Vanderbilt, who is seen in the library, a…
Black Angel
Iowa City
A bronze angel in Oakland Cemetery that turned black through oxidation has become Iowa's most famous…
Bonaventure Cemetery
Savannah
Savannah's legendary cemetery draped in Spanish moss became nationally known through Midnight in the…
Bridgewater Triangle — Hockomock Swamp
Bridgewater
The 200-square-mile Bridgewater Triangle in southeastern Massachusetts is the most concentrated para…
Brown Mountain Lights — Overmountain Victory Trail
Morganton
Since before European contact, mysterious lights have danced above Brown Mountain in Burke County, N…
Buckskin Joe Ghost Town
Parkdale
An 1859 silver mining boomtown moved plank-by-plank to its current site as a tourist attraction, but…
Burlington County Prison Museum
Mount Holly
Built in 1811, one of America's oldest jails is now a museum where paranormal investigations are reg…
Calumet Theatre
Calumet
Iconic Copper Country landmark from the early 1900s. Haunted by Madame Helena Modjeska, a celebrity …
Carter House
Franklin
The Carter family sheltered in their cellar while the Battle of Franklin raged around their home in …
Castillo de San Marcos
St. Augustine
The oldest masonry fort in the continental US (1695) has had hundreds of documented paranormal encou…
Cerro Gordo Ghost Town
Keeler
Perched 8,500 feet above the Owens Valley, this former silver boom town produced $17 million in bull…
Champ Sighting Zone
Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain's legendary serpentine creature has over 300 documented sightings since 1609, when Sa…
Cheesman Park — Denver's Cemetery Lawn
Denver
Cheesman Park's manicured lawns sit atop the original Denver City Cemetery — and thousands of bodies…
Colonial Williamsburg Governor's Palace
Williamsburg
The reconstructed royal governor's palace sits on the foundations of the original, beneath which are…
Congress Hotel
Chicago
Chicago's oldest operating hotel, built in 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition, has accumulate…
Copper Queen Hotel
Bisbee
Built in 1902 at the height of Bisbee's copper boom, the Copper Queen is Arizona's oldest continuous…
Deadwood
Deadwood
Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back of the head here in 1876 holding the 'Dead Man's Hand.' The Bu…
Delta County Forest Preserve (Bigfoot Hotspot)
Escanaba area
Delta County holds Michigan's record with 11 Bigfoot sightings — the most of any county in the state…
Detroit UFO Hotspot
Detroit
Detroit has logged 103-343 UFO sightings (depending on the database), making it one of the highest c…
Devil's Den
Gettysburg
The boulder-strewn sniper position at Gettysburg is among the most photographed paranormal sites in …
Dogtown Commons
Gloucester
An abandoned colonial village in the interior of Cape Ann, deserted in the early 1800s. The last inh…
Driskill Hotel
Austin
Austin's grande dame hotel, built in 1886 by cattle baron Jesse Driskill, is celebrated for its arch…
Dudleytown — Cursed Village
Cornwall
Deep in the Dark Entry Forest on Cornwall Mountain, the ruins of Dudleytown have been abandoned sinc…
Eastern State Penitentiary — Cellblock 12
Philadelphia
America's first true penitentiary, built in 1829 and inspired by Quaker reforms, became one of the w…
Edgar Allan Poe House
Baltimore
Poe's childhood home from 1833–1835 is one of Maryland's premier haunted sites. Curators and visitor…
Enumclaw UFO Corridor
Enumclaw
The area east of Enumclaw, at the foot of Mount Rainier, sits in the corridor of the 1947 Kenneth Ar…
Farnsworth House Inn
Gettysburg
Confederate sharpshooters used this 1810 brick house during the battle, firing through attic windows…
Felt Mansion
Holland / Saugatuck
Constructed in 1928 as a gift from inventor Dorr Felt to his wife Agnes, who died shortly after movi…
Findlay Cemetery (Ada Witch)
Ada
Home of the legendary Ada Witch. In the 1800s, a husband discovered his wife with another man and ki…
Fort Delaware
Delaware City
This Civil War prison island held up to 12,600 Confederate prisoners at once under brutal conditions…
Fort Laramie
Fort Laramie
This key frontier fort witnessed the full arc of westward expansion and the Indian Wars. 'The Bride'…
Fort Mackinac
Mackinac Island
Built in the 1700s, this fort saw many battles and deaths. Explored by SyFy Channel's Ghost Hunters.…
Fort Mifflin
Philadelphia
Built in 1771 on Mud Island in the Delaware River, Fort Mifflin withstood a six-week British bombard…
Fort Smith National Historic Site
Fort Smith
Judge Parker — the 'Hanging Judge' — presided over 160 executions at this frontier court. The gallow…
Fort Warren — Georges Island
Boston
This 1851 granite fort in Boston Harbor held Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. The most fa…
Fort Washita
Durant
This 1842 frontier fort served as a Confederate stronghold during the Civil War. The most famous gho…
Fort Wetherill
Jamestown
This abandoned coastal fort on Conanicut Island was a key WWII installation. Explorers report shadow…
Fort Worden
Port Townsend
This coastal artillery fort from 1902 served through two world wars and later housed a juvenile dete…
Gettysburg Battlefield — Cemetery Ridge
Gettysburg
The high-water mark of the Confederacy, where Pickett's Charge ended on July 3, 1863, still echoes w…
Ghost of Minnie Quay
Forester
In 1876, 15-year-old Minnie Quay threw herself into Lake Huron from Smith's dock after learning her …
Glensheen Mansion
Duluth
The 1908 lakeside estate of Chester Congdon is haunted by its history of double murder — Congdon's d…
Goatman's Bridge
Denton
The Old Alton Bridge over Hickory Creek is named for Oscar Washburn, a Black goat farmer who was lyn…
Golden North Hotel
Skagway
Built in 1898 during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush, Alaska's oldest hotel is haunted by 'Mary…
Graceland Cemetery
Chicago
Chicago's premier Victorian cemetery holds architects, industrialists, and the Getty Tomb — a bronze…
Grand Hotel
Mackinac Island
Opened in 1887, built on what was essentially a Native American burial ground — human skeletons were…
Grand Rapids UFO Hotspot
Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids leads Michigan with 125-225 reported UFO sightings since 1995 (depending on the databas…
Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital
Morris Plains
This massive 1876 Kirkbride-plan hospital once housed over 7,700 patients and is considered one of t…
Gurdon Light
Gurdon
A light that bobs along an old railroad line near Gurdon has been reported since the 1930s. It is at…
Hagley Landing
Georgetown
The ruins of a rice plantation on the Black River are one of South Carolina's most documented slave …
Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry
The site of John Brown's 1859 raid is considered one of the most haunted towns in America. John Brow…
Hell's Bridge
Algoma Township (near Rockford)
A dilapidated metal footbridge a quarter-mile hike from Friske Drive in the woods of Algoma Township…
Helltown
Boston Township
When the federal government bought out the residents of Boston Township in the 1970s to create Cuyah…
Henderson Castle
Kalamazoo
Built in 1895, this inn near Kalamazoo College is haunted by multiple spirits including Frank and Ma…
Hornet Spooklight Viewing Area
Hornet
For over 150 years, a mysterious orange ball of light has been seen bobbing along a four-mile stretc…
Hotel del Coronado
Coronado
Kate Morgan checked in on November 24, 1892, and was found dead on the beach steps five days later. …
Hotel Galvez
Galveston
Built in 1911 on a beach still littered with the bones of 8,000 people killed in the catastrophic 19…
Houghton Mansion
North Adams
Built by a wealthy mayor in 1890, this mansion became the site of tragedy when the mayor's chauffeur…
Huguenot Cemetery
St. Augustine
Established in 1821 for Protestant victims of yellow fever epidemics, this small cemetery just outsi…
Hull House
Chicago
Jane Addams' famous 1856 settlement house is haunted by a Devil Baby — allegedly the cursed offsprin…
Hummel Park
Omaha
This 200-acre public park north of Omaha has a long history of disturbing events including multiple …
Indiana State Sanatorium
Butlerville
A sprawling tuberculosis sanatorium built in 1907, now largely abandoned. Thousands died here over i…
Iolani Palace
Honolulu
The only royal palace in the United States, where Queen Lili'uokalani was imprisoned after the 1893 …
Iolani Palace — Throne Room
Honolulu
America's only royal palace, built in 1882, was the setting for the 1893 overthrow of Queen Liliuoka…
Jerome — Haunted Hillside
Jerome
Jerome clings to Cleopatra Hill 5,000 feet above the Verde Valley — a copper mining boomtown of 15,0…
Katahdin Woods
Baxter State Park
The wilderness around Mount Katahdin is Penobscot sacred ground and the alleged territory of the Pam…
Kennebunk Inn
Kennebunk
This 1799 Federal-style inn is home to a friendly ghost named Silas Perkins, a former innkeeper who …
Key West Cemetery
Key West
This above-ground cemetery dating to 1847 holds victims of the 1898 USS Maine explosion and a yellow…
Klondike Gold Rush Historic District
Skagway
The 1898 gold rush brought 100,000 men to this single Alaskan port town — the desperate, the crimina…
Landmark Inn
Marquette
Opened in 1930 as the Northland Inn, this distinguished downtown Marquette hotel is haunted by the '…
Lincoln County Courthouse
Lincoln
Billy the Kid escaped from this courthouse in 1881, killing two deputies. The Kid's ghost is reporte…
Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast
Fall River
Guests pay to spend the night in the rooms where Andrew and Abby Borden were axe-murdered on August …
Longwood Mansion
Natchez
Construction of this eight-story Moorish Revival mansion stopped permanently when Northern workers a…
Lydia's Bridge
Jamestown
Since the 1920s, drivers report picking up a young woman hitchhiking near this bridge who asks to be…
Mammoth Cave
Mammoth Cave
The world's longest known cave system (over 400 miles) has been inhabited for 4,000 years. Tuberculo…
Mammoth Cave — Gothic Avenue
Mammoth Cave
The world's longest known cave system held a tuberculosis hospital in the 1840s — patients brought u…
Manchac Swamp
Ruddock
Known as the 'Haunted Swamp,' Manchac is associated with Julia Brown — a Voodoo priestess who died i…
Manresa Castle
Port Townsend
Built in 1892 for a tea merchant and later used as a Jesuit college and retreat, this Victorian cast…
Manteno State Hospital
Manteno
A 1930 psychiatric hospital on the Illinois prairie that became infamous for a 1939 typhoid outbreak…
Maple Hill Cemetery
Huntsville
Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery holds Civil War soldiers, early settlers, and the grave of a s…
McMenamins Edgefield — Poor Farm
Troutdale
The Multnomah County Poor Farm operated on this 74-acre estate from 1911 to 1967, housing the destit…
Melon Heads of Shelton
Shelton
Local legend describes the Melon Heads — small, pale humanoids with enlarged heads who descended fro…
Mercy Brown Grave
Exeter
Mercy Brown, exhumed in 1892 when her family believed she was an 'undead' draining life from her sic…
Michigan Dogman — Manistee National Forest
Manistee
The primary hotspot for modern Dogman sightings. A truck driver had a notable encounter here. The cr…
Michigan Dogman — Wexford County (Original Sighting)
Cadillac area
Site of the first documented Michigan Dogman sighting in 1887. Two lumberjacks encountered a creatur…
Michigan's First State Prison
Jackson
Established in 1838, operated for nearly a century. Known for brutal conditions including prisoner n…
Milligan's Ghost Bridge
Avon
A railroad bridge over White Lick Creek where a man named Milligan died in the 1800s is now a docume…
Mineral Springs Hotel
Alton
Built in 1914 over natural mineral springs in the most haunted city in America, the Mineral Springs …
Mission Point Resort
Mackinac Island
The ghost of 'Harvey' haunts this resort. In the late 1960s, Harvey shot himself behind the building…
Morris-Jumel Mansion
New York City
Manhattan's oldest surviving residential structure (1765) served as George Washington's headquarters…
Mount Washington Hotel
Bretton Woods
This grand 1902 resort in the White Mountains is haunted by its original owner's wife, Princess Caro…
Nain Rouge Territory
Detroit
The 'Red Dwarf' or 'Demon of the Strait' — a small, grotesque creature whose appearances foretell di…
Nebraska State Penitentiary
Lincoln
Nebraska's oldest prison has housed some of its most notorious criminals and carried out numerous ex…
Nevada State Prison
Carson City
Nevada's original territorial prison (1862) held outlaws, executed criminals, and served as a milita…
Northville Psychiatric Hospital
Northville
Built in 1952, closed in 2003. This sprawling complex featured extensive underground tunnels connect…
Nunica Cemetery
Nunica
Established in 1883, possibly the most haunted cemetery in Michigan. Resting place of many Civil War…
Oakland Cemetery
Atlanta
Atlanta's historic Victorian cemetery holds Confederate General John B. Gordon and novelist Margaret…
Occidental Hotel
Buffalo
Butch Cassidy, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill all drank at this 1880 frontier hotel. At least three…
Ohio State Reformatory
Mansfield
The filming location for 'The Shawshank Redemption' served as a real prison from 1896 to 1990, durin…
Old City Jail
Charleston
Built in 1802, Charleston's Old City Jail held pirates, Confederate prisoners of war, and serial kil…
Old Idaho Penitentiary
Boise
This 1872 prison held criminals for over a century before closing in 1973 following a series of viol…
Old Slave Mart Museum
Charleston
The only surviving building from Charleston's extensive network of slave markets, this 1859 complex …
Oregon Vortex / House of Mystery
Gold Hill
The Oregon Vortex is a zone of strange spatial phenomena first documented by geologist John Lister i…
Orpheum Theatre
Memphis
Memphis's 1928 grand theater is haunted by Mary, a 12-year-old girl killed by a streetcar outside th…
Pali Highway — Nuuanu Pali Lookout
Honolulu
In 1795, Kamehameha I drove the defending Oahu warriors over the 1,000-foot Nuuanu Pali cliffs in th…
Paulding Light — Road's End
Paulding
Michigan's most famous mysterious light appears nightly at the end of Robbins Pond Road in the weste…
Pennhurst State School and Hospital
Spring City
Opened in 1908 as an institution for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Pennhur…
Pine Hill Cemetery
Hollis
Home to the grave of Betty Blood, a woman buried in the 1800s whose headstone is perpetually warm to…
Point Iroquois Lighthouse
Brimley
Site of a massive Native American massacre in 1662. In 1919, the SS Myron sank in a November storm, …
Point Pleasant — Silver Bridge Collapse Site
Point Pleasant
On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge connecting Point Pleasant to Ohio collapsed during rush hour…
Point Sur Lighthouse
Big Sur
The 1889 lighthouse perched on a volcanic rock formation 361 feet above the Pacific has claimed hund…
Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse
Port Austin (Thumb)
Near the tip of Michigan's Thumb. First keeper Peter Shook drowned in 1849 sailing to Port Huron. A …
Poogan's Porch Restaurant
Charleston
This 1888 Victorian house turned restaurant is haunted by Zoe St. Amand, a spinster who lived here u…
Proprietary House
Perth Amboy
The last standing royal governor's mansion in the American colonies (1762) is haunted by the ghost o…
Prospect Place
Trinway
This 1856 mansion served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, hiding escaped slaves in a secret ba…
Prospect Place — Trinway Mansion
Trinway
This 1856 Greek Revival mansion in the Ohio River valley served as a stop on the Underground Railroa…
River Raisin National Battlefield Park
Monroe
In January 1813, hundreds of Americans died in the Battle of the River Raisin — the deadliest confli…
Rolling Hills Asylum
East Bethany
Opened in 1827 as the Genesee County Poor Farm, Rolling Hills housed thousands of the indigent, ment…
Salem Witch Trials Memorial
Salem
Built on the site of Proctor's Ledge where 19 accused witches were hanged in 1692, this memorial is …
Sedona Vortex Sites
Sedona
Sedona's red rock country is home to at least four major energy vortexes — Bell Rock, Cathedral Rock…
Seneca Lake UFO Corridor
Watkins Glen
The Finger Lakes region has one of the highest concentrations of documented UFO sightings in the nor…
Seney National Wildlife Refuge (Bigfoot Hotspot)
Seney
Michigan's #1 Bigfoot hotspot. This 95,000-acre preserve of dense forest and wetlands in the UP has …
Shades of Death Road
Great Meadows
This rural Warren County road earned its grim name from a cluster of violent murders, fatal animal a…
Shanley Hotel
Napanoch
Built in 1845 in the Catskill Mountains, the Shanley Hotel holds a tragic history including the deat…
Shiloh Battlefield — Bloody Pond
Shiloh
The April 1862 Battle of Shiloh killed nearly 24,000 men in two days and shocked a nation that had b…
Shipwreck Coast (Graveyard of the Great Lakes)
Munising to Whitefish Point
An 80-mile stretch of Lake Superior shoreline between Munising and Whitefish Point where at least 20…
Skunk Ape Research Headquarters
Ochopee
The Everglades' own Bigfoot — the Skunk Ape — has been reported since the 1950s. The Headquarters in…
Spooklight Road
Quapaw
The Hornet Spooklight — a glowing orange ball that rolls along a stretch of road near Quapaw — has b…
SS Edmund Fitzgerald Wreck Site
17 mi NNW of Whitefish Point
Lost with all 29 crew on November 10, 1975, in one of the most famous shipwrecks in Great Lakes hist…
St. Augustine Castillo de San Marcos
St. Augustine
Built by the Spanish in 1672 and never taken by military force, this coquina stone fortress has held…
St. Francisville Myrtles Plantation — Chloe Legend
St. Francisville
The Myrtles Plantation, built in 1796, is widely called America's most haunted home and the site of …
St. Mary Lake
Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park has one of the highest concentrations of reported UFO sightings in the norther…
Stepp Cemetery
Martinsville
Deep in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest, this small pioneer cemetery is home to 'The Lady in Black' —…
Stone Lion Inn
Guthrie
Oklahoma's premier haunted B&B was a funeral home in the 1800s. The most active spirit is Irene, a c…
Sykesville Haunted Bridge
Sykesville
A railroad bridge over the South Branch of the Patapsco River is the site of multiple reported suici…
The Battery Carriage House Inn
Charleston
Two distinct entities haunt this 1843 carriage house in Charleston's historic district — a headless …
The Beast of Bray Road
Elkhorn
Since the 1980s, multiple credible witnesses including a nurse, a newspaper reporter, and several mo…
The Bones Inn — Pere Cheney Ghost Town
Grayling
Pere Cheney was a thriving lumber town until diphtheria epidemics in the 1890s killed most of its po…
The Brookdale Lodge
Boulder Creek
This 1890 lodge in the Santa Cruz redwoods has a stream — Boulder Creek — flowing through its dining…
The Brumder Mansion
Milwaukee
A George Brumder built this 1910 mansion that is now Milwaukee's premiere haunted B&B. Room 4 — the …
The Bullock Hotel
Deadwood
Built in 1895 by Seth Bullock — friend of Teddy Roosevelt and Deadwood's first sheriff — the Bullock…
The Crescent Hotel
Eureka Springs
Built in 1886 as a luxury resort, the Crescent Hotel was taken over in 1937 by charlatan Norman Bake…
The Dakota
New York City
John Lennon was murdered outside this landmark 1884 apartment building. His ghost has been reported …
The Devil's Tramping Ground
Bennett
A bare, perfectly circular patch of earth forty feet in diameter where nothing grows and animals ref…
The Driskill Hotel
Austin
Austin's most storied hotel (1886) has two primary ghosts: the four-year-old daughter of a senator w…
The Equinox Resort
Manchester
One of New England's oldest resort hotels (1769) is home to the ghost of Mary Todd Lincoln, who stay…
The Farnsworth House Inn
Gettysburg
Used as a Confederate sniper's nest during the Battle of Gettysburg, the Farnsworth House Inn still …
The Haunted Crypt of Middletown
Middletown
Indian Hill Cemetery contains a family crypt repeatedly broken into by something — from the inside. …
The Hippy Tree (Traverse City)
Traverse City
Located on the grounds of the former Northern Michigan Asylum, this tree is said to be a portal to H…
The Historic Anchorage Hotel
Anchorage
Alaska's oldest hotel (1916) is haunted by John Sturgus — a police officer who was shot and killed i…
The Jean Bonnet Tavern
Bedford
Built in 1762 on the site of a Native American burial ground, this tavern served as a staging point …
The Kennecott Mine
Wrangell-St. Elias
The world's richest copper mine operated from 1903 to 1938 and was abandoned almost overnight when t…
The Kentucky State Penitentiary
Eddyville
Known as 'the Castle on the Cumberland,' this 1884 Gothic prison has executed over 160 people. Staff…
The Lake Michigan Triangle
Ludington to Benton Harbor (MI shoreline)
The 'Bermuda Triangle of the Great Lakes' — a 3,800+ square mile zone stretching from Ludington to B…
The Lizzie Borden House — Additional Lore
Fall River
On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with a hatchet in their Fall River home. Their…
The Marshall House
Savannah
Savannah's oldest hotel (1851) served as a Union hospital during the Civil War and was again a hospi…
The McPike Mansion
Alton
This 1869 Italianate mansion on Alton's Hunterstown Road — in what some call America's most haunted …
The Menger Hotel
San Antonio
Built in 1859 next to the Alamo, the Menger Hotel has accumulated over 165 years of history and more…
The Mizpah Hotel
Tonopah
The 1907 silver mining hotel is Nevada's most documented haunted building. The Lady in Red — a prost…
The Morgan's Corner
Honolulu
A bend on Nu'uanu Road where two brutal murders occurred — a homeowner killed by escaped convicts in…
The Myrtles Plantation — William Winter Murder
St. Francisville
William Winter, a lawyer who lived at the Myrtles in the 1870s, was shot on the front porch by a str…
The Octagon House
Washington
Built in 1799 and used by President James Madison after the British burned the White House in 1814, …
The Oxford Saloon
Snohomish
Washington's oldest continuously operating tavern (1900) is haunted by Henry, a police officer kille…
The Palmer House Hotel
Sauk Centre
This 1901 hotel in Sinclair Lewis's hometown has a well-documented ghost population: a boy named Ray…
The Parker House Hotel
Boston
America's longest continuously operating hotel (1855) has hosted Charles Dickens, John Wilkes Booth,…
The Paulding Light — Upper Peninsula
Watersmeet
At the end of Robbins Pond Road near Watersmeet, a light appears every night that has defied scienti…
The Pfister Hotel
Milwaukee
MLB players who stay at this 1893 luxury hotel consistently report being visited by its founder, Cha…
The Pythian Castle
Springfield
Built in 1913 by the Knights of Pythias, this castle served as a WWII military hospital and POW hold…
The Sallie House
Atchison
The most aggressively haunted private residence in Kansas, the Sallie House in Atchison is named for…
The Sultan's Palace
New Orleans
In the 1870s, a man who claimed to be a Turkish sultan rented this mansion and filled it with servan…
The Sultan's Palace — Gardette-LaPrete House
New Orleans
In the 1830s, a wealthy Turk — believed to be an Ottoman sultan's brother — rented this French Quart…
The Villisca Axe Murder House
Villisca
On June 9, 1912, eight people — six members of the Moore family and two overnight guests — were kill…
The Whaley House — Second Floor
San Diego
Built in 1857 on the site of San Diego's first public gallows, the Whaley House is officially recogn…
The White Eagle Saloon
Portland
Portland's oldest operating tavern (1905) served as a brothel, opium den, and site of multiple murde…
The Whitney
Detroit
This 21,000 sq ft 1894 lumber baron mansion turned restaurant is one of Detroit's most famous haunte…
Thornewood Castle
Lakewood
This 1911 Tudor Gothic castle was built by Chester Thorne who had the stones of a 500-year-old Engli…
Tombstone — OK Corral Vicinity
Tombstone
The site of the October 26, 1881 Gunfight at the OK Corral — where the Earp brothers and Doc Hollida…
Tombstone Bird Cage Theatre
Tombstone
This 1881 saloon and theater operated continuously for eight years — 26 men were killed inside, and …
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum — Civil War Rooms
Weston
The largest hand-cut stone building in North America held psychiatric patients from 1864 to 1994. Du…
Vermont State Hospital Ruins
Waterbury
The remains of Vermont's 19th-century psychiatric facility carry a heavy history of overcrowding and…
Vicksburg National Military Park
Vicksburg
The 47-day siege of 1863 left nearly 37,000 casualties across this Mississippi River city. Park rang…
Wendigo Sighting Area — Near Traverse City
Southwest of Traverse City
A recent encounter report: a woman and her sisters were on a golf cart through family property when …
West Virginia State Penitentiary
Moundsville
The Gothic limestone walls of the Moundsville Penitentiary held West Virginia's most violent crimina…
Whitefish Point Lighthouse
Paradise
Located on a treacherous coastline that has claimed nearly 200 ships and up to 100 lives. The souls …
Whitehall Bigfoot Territory
Whitehall
The town of Whitehall in the Adirondack foothills has had consistent Bigfoot encounters since the 19…
Winchester Mystery House — Seance Room
San Jose
Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune, believed she was haunted by the victims o…
Wood Island Lighthouse
Biddeford Pool
Built in 1808, this lighthouse is haunted by the ghost of Thomas Orcutt, a fisherman who killed a ne…
Woodburn Governor's Mansion
Dover
Delaware's official governor's residence (1790) is one of the most historically documented haunted h…
Wounded Knee Memorial Site
Wounded Knee
On December 29, 1890, U.S. Army troops massacred approximately 300 Lakota men, women, and children a…
Zombie Road
Wildwood
Lawler Ford Road — known as Zombie Road — is a two-mile abandoned road through dense forest along th…
Atalaya Castle
Murrells Inlet
The winter retreat of artist Anna Hyatt Huntington is a brooding Spanish Moorish castle on the coast…
Bachelor Officers Quarters — Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
The BOQ at Fort Sam Houston — where Ulysses Grant and Robert E. Lee both stayed — is haunted by a ca…
Bismarck State Penitentiary
Bismarck
North Dakota's historic state prison has documented paranormal activity in its older cell blocks, in…
Bloody Bride Bridge
Stevens Point
A bride killed in a car crash on her wedding night is said to haunt this rural bridge. Locals report…
Bois Blanc Island
Bois Blanc Island
This 34 sq mi island southeast of Mackinac Island in Lake Huron is known for paranormal activity. Vi…
Castle Museum (Saginaw)
Saginaw
A former gothic mansion known as 'Castle Station' or the Saginaw Post Office, now owned by the Histo…
Chicken Alley
Asheville
This narrow alley in downtown Asheville is haunted by the spirit of Helen, a resident of the former …
Creek Council House
Okmulgee
The 1878 seat of Creek Nation government is haunted by the spirits of tribal leaders who fought to p…
Crown Hill Cemetery
Indianapolis
The third largest cemetery in the US holds presidents, poets, and notorious gangster John Dillinger.…
Crying Mary — Oak Hill Cemetery
Battle Creek
In 1910, Johannas Decker was buried alongside a large statue of a Greek goddess. Beginning in the 19…
Curwood Castle
Owosso
Built in 1922 by novelist James Oliver Curwood as his writing studio. Now a museum, the castle-like …
Dartmouth College Ravine
Hanover
A deep ravine on the edge of Dartmouth's campus has been the site of unexplained lights, student dis…
Denton Road
Canton / Westland
The 'Blue Lady' — the ghost of a woman said to have been murdered near the area — wanders this road.…
Dog Lady Island (Kausler's Island)
Monroe (Lake Erie)
Officially Kausler's Island, this Lake Erie island gained its name from Mrs. Kausler, who after the …
Doherty Hotel
Clare
Built in 1924 by Senator Alfred James Doherty, friend of Henry Ford. During Prohibition it was a spe…
Droop Mountain Battlefield
Hillsboro
Site of the largest Civil War battle fought in West Virginia (1863). Park visitors report Confederat…
Forester Cemetery (Midnight Boys)
Forester
Known for the legend of the 'Midnight Boys' — ghostly figures said to appear in the cemetery after d…
Fort Abraham Lincoln
Mandan
Custer's last posting before the Little Bighorn, where his wife Libbie saw a ghostly procession of s…
Fort Knox
Prospect
This massive granite fort overlooking the Penobscot River was never attacked but is considered one o…
Fort Macon
Atlantic Beach
This 1834 coastal fort served in three wars and was the site of a significant Civil War battle. Rang…
Fort Pulaski
Savannah
This massive coastal fort was the site of a decisive Civil War bombardment and held Confederate pris…
Fort Snelling
St. Paul
This 1820 frontier fort held enslaved people — including Dred Scott — in a documented holding facili…
Frauenthal Theater
Muskegon
Built in 1929 in downtown Muskegon. Visitors and staff report being followed by an apparition in bla…
Gilgal Sculpture Garden
Salt Lake City
A hidden garden of bizarre carved stone sculptures — a sphinx with Joseph Smith's face, figures emer…
Grand Rapids Public Library
Grand Rapids
Home for more than 120 years to four distinct ghostly entities, including 'Mary,' a former librarian…
Hearst Castle — Neptune Pool
San Simeon
William Randolph Hearst's palatial estate attracts apparitions from its storied Hollywood past — Mar…
Hiawatha National Forest (Bigfoot Sighting)
Munising area
A 2021 sighting by a bowhunter near Munising involved a large, upright creature moving effortlessly …
Holland Castle (Castle Park)
Holland
Built in 1890, this castle is said to be haunted by the ghost of a young girl grieving a man she onc…
Hubbardton Battlefield
Hubbardton
Site of the only Revolutionary War battle fought entirely in Vermont. Witnesses report seeing soldie…
Kalamazoo Civic Theatre
Kalamazoo
Haunted by 'Thelma Mertz,' reportedly an actress who was dumped by her lover and threw herself off t…
Knock-Knock Road (Strasburg Road)
Detroit
One of Detroit's most famous urban legends, dating to the 1940s. The ghost of a young girl killed in…
Lake Leelanau Monster
Lake Leelanau
A legendary creature said to inhabit Lake Leelanau, often described as a large aquatic reptile or se…
Le Griffon Disappearance Site
Lake Michigan (Northern)
Le Griffon was the first full-sized sailing ship on the Great Lakes, launched in 1679 by French expl…
Malabar Farm
Lucas
This working farm owned by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield hosts the ghost of Bromfiel…
Malamute Saloon
Ester
This 1906 roadhouse near Fairbanks served gold rush miners and hosted Robert Service, whose poems it…
Massacre Rocks
American Falls
The site of a Shoshone ambush on an emigrant wagon train in 1862 that killed 10 travelers is now a s…
Maunawili Demonstration Trail
Kailua
This windward O'ahu trail passes through territory associated with the Menehune — the legendary smal…
Melon Heads Territory
Saugatuck / Holland
Humanoid creatures with small bodies and large, bulbous heads said to lurk in forests surrounding th…
Menominee River Burial Mounds
Menominee
Along the Menominee River in the western UP, for more than 3 miles along the river bank, hundreds of…
Michigan Dogman — Grand Haven / Ottawa County
Grand Haven
A series of Dogman sightings occurred in Grand Haven and Ottawa County from 1993 to 1994. Multiple w…
Michigan Dogman — Luther Cabin Incident
Luther
In 1997, a family returned from vacation to find canine claw marks in the cabin's siding seven feet …
Michigan Missing 411 Zone — Upper Peninsula Forests
Various UP locations
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is a focus area in David Paulides' Missing 411 research — documenting une…
Monticello
Charlottesville
Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop estate is haunted by Jefferson himself, reportedly seen in the librar…
Mouth Cemetery
White River Township
Over 165 years old, surrounded by dense trees near the shores of Lake Michigan. Fallen into disrepai…
Northwest Airlines Flight 2501 Crash Zone
Over Lake Michigan (near South Haven)
On June 23, 1950, this DC-4 carrying 58 passengers from New York to Seattle vanished over Lake Michi…
Norton Mounds (Grand River Burial Mounds)
Grand Rapids
One of the few surviving mound groups in the Midwest and one of the best-preserved Hopewell Indian c…
Oakwood Cemetery
Cannonsburg
The ghost of a woman has been seen standing in cold, rainy, or snowy weather without a coat at the c…
Old Presque Isle Lighthouse
Presque Isle
Michigan's oldest surviving lighthouse, built in 1840 along Lake Huron, 19 miles north of Alpena. Th…
Old Regent Theatre
Kalamazoo
A shadowy apparition has been spotted in the projection room. Witnesses describe cold spots, the tou…
Ontonagon Lighthouse
Ontonagon
A young woman died of diphtheria here in 1885. The lighthouse holds haunted tours and visitors have …
Pemaquid Point Lighthouse
Bristol
Wrecks of over a dozen ships litter the rocks below this lighthouse. Fishermen and visitors have lon…
Pittock Mansion
Portland
This 1914 French Renaissance château belonged to newspaper magnate Henry Pittock. His ghost and that…
Plymouth Colony Burial Hill
Plymouth
The burial ground of the original Pilgrims contains graves dating to 1620. Visitors report cold spot…
Point Defiance Park — Fort Nisqually
Tacoma
The 1833 Hudson's Bay Company fort — the oldest standing structure in Washington — was reconstructed…
Porcupine Mountains Wilderness (Bigfoot Sightings)
Ontonagon / Gogebic
Known as 'The Porkies,' this heavily wooded region has had multiple Bigfoot encounters reported by c…
Pressie — Presque Isle River, Lake Superior
Porcupine Mountains area
Lake Superior's very own lake monster, sighted since the late 1800s near the Presque Isle River. Des…
Ramsdell Theatre
Manistee
Built in 1903 for TJ Ramsdell. Site of James Earl Jones's first performance of Othello. Believed to …
Redford Cemetery
Redford Township
One of the most haunted cemeteries in Michigan. The most well-known paranormal activity is the sound…
Royal Gorge Bridge
Cañon City
The world's highest suspension bridge (956 feet above the Arkansas River) has been the site of numer…
Santa Cruz Mystery Spot
Santa Cruz
A 150-foot diameter circle in a redwood grove where the laws of physics appear locally suspended — b…
Santa Fe Cathedral Park
Santa Fe
The burial ground adjacent to the oldest church building in the US holds centuries of Spanish coloni…
Sea Lion Caves — Ghost Cave
Florence
The world's largest sea cave system has an area known to local fishermen as the 'Ghost Cave' — a sec…
Sitka National Historical Park
Sitka
The site of the 1804 Battle of Sitka — the last major armed conflict between Russian colonizers and …
Sleeping Bear Dunes
Empire
Named after an Ojibwe legend: a mother bear and two cubs fled a forest fire by swimming Lake Michiga…
SS Bannockburn Ghost Ship
Near Whitefish Point
Known as 'The Flying Dutchman of the Great Lakes.' Sank November 21, 1902 — no trace of crew or wrec…
Starvation Lake
Kalkaska area
A roughly 125-acre lake surrounded by forests. Multiple dark legends explain the name: one tells of …
Striker Cemetery (Portal Tree)
Location varies by source
One of Michigan's most underrated haunts. A tree at the center of the cemetery is rumored to be a po…
Tahquamenon Falls State Park (Bigfoot Sighting)
Paradise
A 2015 sighting involved a pair of fishermen who saw a 'massive figure watching them from the shorel…
Terrace Inn
Petoskey
This Victorian inn north of Petoskey has such a well-documented haunting history that the desk clerk…
The Atchison Trolley Ghost
Atchison
Atchison, Kansas calls itself the most haunted city in the state, with multiple documented sites. Th…
The Breakers
Newport
The Vanderbilt family's 1895 Gilded Age mansion hosts the ghost of Cornelius Vanderbilt II's daughte…
The Don CeSar Hotel
St. Pete Beach
The pink palace of St. Pete Beach (1928) is haunted by its original owner, Thomas Rowe, and the Span…
The Gold Hill Hotel
Gold Hill
Oregon's oldest hotel in continuous operation (1876) is haunted by Freddy, a blacksmith who died in …
The Grand Hotel
Big Timber
This 1890 frontier hotel in the Yellowstone Valley is haunted by a cowboy killed in a bar fight whos…
The Hermitage
Nashville
Andrew Jackson's plantation home is haunted by Old Hickory himself — reported most often in the stud…
The Kennebec Arsenal
Augusta
Constructed in 1828, this arsenal stored weapons through multiple wars. Guards and workers over the …
The Kirby House (Gildner Hotel)
Grand Haven
Originally the 1873 Gildner Hotel, now a popular restaurant. Haunted by a ghost in a cowboy hat and …
The RMS Queen Mary's Sister Ship (Coronado Ferry Building)
San Diego
The Hotel del Coronado — where Some Like It Hot was filmed in 1958 — is haunted by Kate Morgan, a wo…
The Vampire Hunters of Connecticut
Jewett City
In the 1850s, the Reymond family of Jewett City dug up and burned the bodies of family members belie…
The Wentworth by the Sea
New Castle
This historic 1874 resort hosted the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese W…
This Is the Place Monument
Salt Lake City
The site where Brigham Young declared his vision of Zion produces consistent reports of pioneer appa…
Union-Udell Cemetery
Ypsilanti
Off Textile Road near Ypsilanti, this cemetery is the legendary final resting place of a witch named…
USS Alabama
Mobile
The decommissioned WWII battleship is haunted by sailors who died aboard her during service. Securit…
USS LST 393 Veterans Museum
Muskegon
This WWII landing ship in Muskegon harbor has a reputation for paranormal activity. Overnight parano…
USS Silversides Submarine Museum
Muskegon
This WWII submarine museum in Muskegon is known for paranormal activity during overnight investigati…
White River Light Station
Whitehall
Built in 1875, haunted by longtime keeper William 'Bill' Robinson III (47 years of service) and his …
William Ganong Cemetery
Westland
Visitors report eerie mists, glowing eyes, and unexplained orbs among the graves in this Westland ce…
Wilson's Creek Battlefield
Republic
Site of the first major Civil War battle west of the Mississippi (1861). Visitors report Union and C…
Witchy Wolves of Omer Plains
Omer
Dog/wolf spirits said to protect the spirits of Chippewa warriors in the Omer Plains, about 5 miles …
Wolf Creek Inn
Wolf Creek
Oregon's oldest continuously operating hotel (1883) hosted Jack London, Clark Gable, and Mary Pickfo…
Yorktown Battlefield
Yorktown
The site of the final major battle of the American Revolution. British and American soldiers alike h…
Altamaha-ha River Monster Sightings
Darien
The Altamaha-ha — 'Altie' to locals — is a serpentine river creature reported in the Altamaha River …
Beast of Bladenboro
Bladenboro
In January 1954, a wave of livestock and dog killings swept Bladenboro — animals were found with cru…
Coral Spring Mound — Poverty Point
Pioneer
Poverty Point is a UNESCO World Heritage Site featuring six concentric earthwork ridges built around…
First Midwest Arena — Former Chicago Stadium Site
Chicago
The old Chicago Stadium, demolished in 1995, was built in 1929 and hosted some of the darkest chapte…
Gulf Breeze UFO Sightings
Gulf Breeze
Beginning in November 1987, contractor Ed Walters photographed a series of encounters with a structu…
Hodag of Rhinelander
Rhinelander
In 1893, lumberman Eugene Shepard claimed to have captured a Hodag — a reptilian beast with a frog-l…
Keweenaw Ghost Towns (Freda, Cliff, Central, Delaware)
Keweenaw Peninsula
The Keweenaw Peninsula is dotted with ghost towns from the copper mining boom of the late 1800s and …
Lake Erie Monster — Bessie
Sandusky
Lake Erie's version of Nessie — known locally as 'South Bay Bessie' — has been reported since 1793, …
Lake Quanapowitt — Wakefield
Wakefield
Lake Quanapowitt in Wakefield carries a persistent local legend of a phantom canoe seen on the water…
Levelland UFO Sightings
Levelland
On November 2–3, 1957, at least fifteen separate witnesses in and around Levelland reported a glowin…
Loup Garou of Grosse Pointe
Grosse Pointe
French-Canadian werewolf legend tied to what became Grosse Pointe. According to the tale, a man name…
Missaukee Indian Mounds
Lake City area
Ancient burial mounds located in Missaukee County, part of Michigan's rich but largely destroyed net…
Old Town Negaunee (Ghost Mining Town)
Negaunee
The skeletal remains of this once-bustling mining town lie to the west of modern Negaunee. Streets, …
Phoenix Lights Observation Area
Phoenix
On March 13, 1997, thousands of Arizona residents — including then-Governor Fife Symington — witness…
Portage County UFO Chase
Ravenna
On April 17, 1966, multiple Portage County sheriff's deputies chased a low-flying craft for 86 miles…
Tahoe Tessie Sightings
South Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe's own lake monster has been reported by Washoe and Paiute tribes for centuries, who warne…
The Burned-Over District — Fox Sisters Site
Hydesville
On March 31, 1848, sisters Kate and Maggie Fox claimed to make contact with the spirit of a murdered…
The Hernando de Soto Bridge — Memphis Undercrossing
Memphis
The Mississippi River crossing at Memphis sits near the spot where Spanish conquistador Hernando de …
Torch Lake Monster (Sea Panther)
Torch Lake
Sometimes called a Sea Panther, only seen at night. Sightings go back to the 1960s. Described as hav…
Travis Walton Abduction Site
Snowflake
On November 5, 1975, logger Travis Walton and six co-workers encountered a hovering disc-shaped obje…
University of Michigan Library (Haunted Stacks)
Ann Arbor
A shadow figure dressed in early 1900s clothing quietly wanders through the building, reported by st…
Washington D.C. UFO Flap — National Mall
Washington
During the summers of 1952, multiple objects appeared on radar at Washington National Airport and An…
White River Monster
Newport
Since the 1800s, residents along the White River near Newport have reported a massive creature descr…
Ypsilanti Water Tower
Ypsilanti
The 1890 Ypsilanti Water Tower — famously described as the most phallic structure in America — is su…
American Queen Steamboat — River Phantom
Memphis
The Mississippi River between Memphis and New Orleans has claimed hundreds of steamboats over two ce…
Bachelor Officers Quarters — Selfridge Air Force Base
Harrison Township
The BOQ at Selfridge, built in 1917 for America's oldest active military airfield, is a documented p…
Bermuda Triangle — South Florida Monitoring Area
Fort Lauderdale
The zone between Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico has a documented history of mysterious disappearanc…
Bisbee — Lavender Pit Mine Overlook
Bisbee
The enormous open-pit copper mine that ate half of old Bisbee is ringed by abandoned neighborhoods a…
Boot Hill Cemetery
Tombstone
Tombstone's famous cemetery holds 250 burials — most of them violent deaths from 1878 to 1884, the h…
Buck Hill — Devil's Tramping Ground
Siler City
A 40-foot bare circle in the pine forest of Chatham County — where nothing grows and where objects l…
Buxton Inn
Granville
Ohio's oldest continuously operating inn, built in 1812, is haunted by its original owner Major Buxt…
Cahokia Mounds
Collinsville
The largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico, Cahokia was home to over 20,000 people at its peak a…
Calico Ghost Town
Yermo
Once a booming silver-mining town with 3,500 residents and 22 saloons, Calico was abandoned in 1896 …
Chilkoot Trail — Dead Horse Gulch
Skagway
The 33-mile Chilkoot Trail was the primary route for Klondike Gold Rush stampeders climbing over the…
Coral Castle
Homestead
Working alone at night from 1923–1951, Latvian immigrant Edward Leedskalnin quarried, transported, a…
Cripple Creek District Museum
Cripple Creek
Two catastrophic fires in 1896 burned most of Cripple Creek to the ground, killing dozens in the mos…
Cumberland Gap — War Ridge
Middlesboro
The Cumberland Gap was the principal gateway through the Appalachian Mountains for early American se…
Deadman's Island — Munjoy Hill
Portland
Portland's East End waterfront is built over what was once Deadman's Island — a small tidal islet us…
Deadstream Road — Haunted Forest
Hoxeyville
This remote two-track through the Manistee National Forest inspired the 2022 horror film 'Deadstream…
Ford's Theatre
Washington
On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the presidential box at Ford's Theatre and …
Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park
Mandan
General George Armstrong Custer marched from this fort in May 1876 on the campaign that ended at Lit…
Fort Mackinac — Officer's Stone Quarters
Mackinac Island
Fort Mackinac's stone officers' quarters, dating to 1780, hold the spirit of an elderly British offi…
Fouke Monster Sighting Area
Fouke
The 1971 Ford family encounters near Boggy Creek put Fouke on the paranormal map: a seven-foot creat…
Gadsby's Tavern
Alexandria
Opened in 1770, this Alexandria landmark hosted George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and…
Garnet Ghost Town
Garnet
Montana's best-preserved ghost town sits at 6,000 feet in the Garnet Range and is accessible only by…
Gettysburg Address Field — Soldiers National Cemetery
Gettysburg
Where Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, over 3,500 Union soldiers are b…
Gettysburg Hotel
Gettysburg
Built in 1797 and used as a hospital during and after the battle, this landmark hotel has hosted Abr…
Gravity Hill
Greensburg
On this stretch of Cranberry Road near Greensburg, cars placed in neutral roll uphill against the sl…
Gravity Hill — New Paris
New Paris
On Rte. 896 near New Paris, cars placed in neutral roll uphill for an eighth of a mile — one of the …
Gravity Hill — Spook Hill
Lake Wales
At Spook Hill in Lake Wales, cars roll uphill and balls bounce up a slope in apparent defiance of gr…
Hackley & Hume Historic Site
Muskegon
The twin Queen Anne mansions of lumber barons Charles Hackley and Thomas Hume sit side by side on We…
Harlan County — Bloody Harlan Miners Hall
Harlan
Harlan County earned the name 'Bloody Harlan' from the violent coal wars of the 1930s when miners an…
Harpers Ferry — John Brown's Fort
Harpers Ferry
In October 1859, abolitionist John Brown seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in an attempt t…
Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond
This hillside Richmond cemetery overlooks the James River and holds the graves of Presidents James M…
Hotel Colorado
Glenwood Springs
Opened in 1893 and modeled on the Villa Medici in Rome, the Hotel Colorado has hosted multiple U.S. …
Hotel Monte Vista
Flagstaff
This 1927 Route 66 landmark hosted John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and Humphrey Bogart — and apparently kep…
Kecksburg UFO Crash Site
Kecksburg
On December 9, 1965, thousands of people across six U.S. states and Canada witnessed a fireball stre…
Kehoe House
Savannah
Built in 1892 for iron magnate William Kehoe, this Beaux Arts mansion is now a luxury inn — and home…
Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter Site
Kelly
On August 21, 1955, the Sutton family at a rural farmhouse reported a three-hour siege by small meta…
La Fonda on the Plaza
Santa Fe
An inn has stood at the end of the Santa Fe Trail since 1607, making La Fonda one of the oldest cont…
Lake Michigan Triangle
Benton Harbor
The triangle between Manitowoc, Wisconsin; Ludington, Michigan; and Benton Harbor, Michigan has clai…
Lakeview Cemetery — Battle Creek
Battle Creek
Lakeview Cemetery in Battle Creek is the resting place of Sojourner Truth and generations of local f…
Lily Dale Assembly
Lily Dale
The world's largest Spiritualist community, established in 1879 on Lake Cassadaga's shores, is a yea…
Lydia's Bridge — Greensboro
Jamestown
North Carolina's most famous roadside ghost has been hitching rides since at least 1923: a young wom…
Maco Ghost Light
Maco
Since 1867, a swinging light has been seen on the railroad tracks near Maco, North Carolina — interp…
Maco Light Road — Brunswick County
Maco
Since 1867, a swinging lantern light has appeared along the former Atlantic Coast Line railroad righ…
Maple Hill Cemetery — Huntsville
Huntsville
The oldest and largest cemetery in Alabama contains over 80,000 burials including four Alabama gover…
Michigan's Dogman — Manistee National Forest
Manistee
Michigan's most famous cryptid is the Dogman — a seven-foot creature with a dog's head on a man's bo…
Mount Moriah Cemetery — Wild Bill's Grave
Deadwood
Wild Bill Hickok, shot in the back while playing poker in 1876, is buried here alongside Calamity Ja…
Mystery Hill — America's Stonehenge
Salem
This four-acre complex of stone chambers, walls, and standing stones near Salem, New Hampshire has b…
Nebraska State Penitentiary — Old Cell House
Lincoln
The 1876 Nebraska State Penitentiary has served continuously and accumulated well over a century of …
New London Ledge Lighthouse
Groton
This 1909 three-story French Second Empire lighthouse sits alone on a concrete pier in the Thames Ri…
Point Defiance — Fort Nisqually
Tacoma
The reconstructed Fort Nisqually at Point Defiance Park is built on the site of the original 1833 Hu…
Raven Hill Discovery Center — Former Sanatorium
East Jordan
The original buildings at this former tuberculosis sanatorium near East Jordan date to the early 190…
Raynham Hall Museum
Oyster Bay
Built circa 1738, Raynham Hall in Oyster Bay served as British headquarters during the Revolutionary…
Rhyolite Ghost Town
Rhyolite
Rhyolite exploded from nothing to 10,000 residents between 1905 and 1907 when gold was discovered in…
Roanoke Island — Lost Colony Site
Manteo
In 1587, 115 English settlers established the first English colony in the Americas on Roanoke Island…
Sanilac Petroglyphs — Mystery Carvings
Bad Axe
The Sanilac Petroglyphs, carved into sandstone along the Cass River, are Michigan's only known ancie…
Saugatuck Dunes Haunted Shoreline
Saugatuck
The shoreline dunes near Saugatuck are the site of a persistent local legend: the buried city of Sin…
Serpent Mound
Peebles
The 1,348-foot Great Serpent Mound — the world's largest serpentine effigy earthwork — coils along a…
Seven Gates of Hell
Hellam
According to local legend, a doctor's sanitarium burned down killing dozens of patients locked insid…
Sheridan Inn
Sheridan
Built in 1893, the Sheridan Inn was the finest hotel between Chicago and San Francisco and was where…
Spring Hill Farm — Elgin
Elgin
This 1880s farmstead in north-central Kansas carries the legend of a homesteader family wiped out by…
St. Ignace Mission Cemetery
St. Ignace
The oldest European burial ground in Michigan, established by Father Marquette in 1671, contains the…
Stones River Battlefield — Hazen Brigade Monument
Murfreesboro
The Battle of Stones River (December 1862–January 1863) killed or wounded over 23,000 men and left a…
Sunbury Road — Midway Georgia
Midway
The Midway area in Liberty County, Georgia was devastated by British forces during the Revolutionary…
Temple Theatre
Saginaw
Saginaw's 1927 Masonic Temple and theatre complex is one of Michigan's most ornate historic building…
The Captain Grant's Inn
Preston
Built in 1754 by Captain William Grant, this Connecticut inn served as a Revolutionary War gathering…
The Dumas Wesley Community Center — Tombstone Site
Nashville
The Dumas Hotel, built in 1905 in what was then Nashville's Black business district, served civil ri…
The Homestead Resort
Hot Springs
America's oldest resort, operating since 1766, has hosted every U.S. President from Washington to Ei…
The Windham County Courthouse — Old Gaol
Windham
The 1787 Old Gaol in Windham County is Connecticut's oldest surviving jail structure and held some o…
Toltec Mounds Archaeological State Park
Scott
Arkansas's largest Native American ceremonial site, active from 700 to 1050 CE, features 18 earthen …
Tybee Island Lighthouse
Tybee Island
Georgia's oldest and tallest lighthouse has stood on Tybee Island since 1736, rebuilt after colonial…
Voigt House Victorian Museum
Grand Rapids
Built in 1895 for wholesale grocer Carl Voigt, this perfectly preserved Queen Anne mansion is Grand …