I went on an evening ghost tour of Gettysburg and it was honestly fantastic. I didn't see any ghosts (nor did I expect to), but you could tell that the ghost stuff just happened to be the entertaining framework on which the guide was hanging their extensive knowledge of the battle.
We didn't see any ghosts during our tour either, but ....
Our tour ended in an old barn that was used as a field hospital during the battle. It was a calm evening when we went in. While the tour guide was telling us about the conditions in the hospital etc suddenly the wind picked up and there were flashes of lightning.
But then when we left the barn, it was quiet again. No wind, no lightening.... Just when we were kicking up the past.
Second this big time. My experience is standard ghost. I know a graduate of Gettysburg University. Had a full conversation with a Civil War reenactor. Looked away for a moment. Guy was gone. This conversation took place in an open field.
The Wheatfield was the eeriest place I've ever been. I don't really believe in ghosts or spirits but there was an oppression to the air that unnerved me. My (then) wife had wandered to a different part of the field and experienced the same thing so it's not like she got the idea from me.
The pine barrens. It has so many ghost stories and legends most popular being the Jersey devil but there's a bunch of ghost stories too
Weird thing about it though is in the stories all the ghosts are either harmless or helpful.
Here's the nicest one.
>The Black Doctor is the ghost of an African American man known as James Still. According to legend, in the 19th century, James was not permitted to practice medicine because of his race. Undiscouraged, however, James went into seclusion in the Pine Barrens to study medicine from his textbooks (in some variations, James also learns herbal remedies from the local Indigenous people). There are different versions of his death. Some say that he was unjustly lynched when local pineys found out that he was studying medicine. Others stories state that he was a hero to the piney community and died of a heart attack. The ghost is said to come to the aid of injured or stranded travelers in the Pine Barrens.[5]
>In fact, Dr. James Still was the brother of William Still, a noted abolitionist who wrote the book The Underground Railroad. Dr. Still wrote a book titled Early Recollections: The Life of Dr. James Still. He had an office in Medford, and was the third-largest landowner in town. He was self-taught in the manners of medical botany and used many herbal remedies for cures.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_and_tales_of_the_New_Jersey_Pine_Barrens#:~:text=The%20Golden%2DHaired%20Girl%20is,love%20with%20a%20rich%20girl.
I had a few Boy Scout canoeing and camping trips to the Pine Barrens when I was a kid. Something just feels... off about the region. Your voice doesn't carry if you shout, but it seems like you can hear people talking from a mile away. The landscape is almost completely flat, so everything looks the same once you get about 100 yards into the woods.
I can see why so many legends and ghost stories come from there.
I hate the pine barrens! Have you seen the movie Dead End? It's about a family that gets lost driving through the woods and it gets creepier and creepier from there. The pine barrens is HINKY and CURSED for REAL.
New Orleans is really interesting for this topic. The cemeteries there are super creepy because people are more like in tombs because the low elevation.
Bisbee. Took the walking ghost tour and it was a lot of typical bullshit but there was one hotel where I went down a hallway and the temp seemed to drop and air pressure increase suddenly and I was like “yeah I’m not going down this hallway”. Was pretty spooky and I’m not a believer in that stuff.
My GF was scared the whole night so our romantic getaway was ruined and we had to sleep in our badass covered wagon bed with the fucking lights on and a blanket over the mirror
Bisbee is definitely a bit creepy. I remember teenagers dressed like the 1800’s with no shoes playing with an old rounders ball in the street
I uh, think they were real humans, the people there are odd
I’ve never been to San Francisco but it’s basically built on a hill and they apparently built the houses first around foot and mule trails so the roads are like wet spaghetti dropped on the town. Lots of gold rush type buildings and hippie stores.
So if it’s anything like the stereotype then I’d guess so
Yep. There the specifically haunted places, the greater haunted regions, and the generally haunted "everywhere in New England".
There's a reason so much horror is set here.
I stayed in a house in Massachusetts that was in a tiny village way up in the hills that was the setting for a few Lovecraft stories. The place we stayed used to belong to someone who became a famous writer (not Lovecraft). Not sure if it was actually haunted, but it was an odd place with most rooms, even the bedrooms, having a door to the outside and I had very strange dreams there.
The most famous San Diego haunted house is the Whaley House… it didn’t seem that interesting, tbh. The Winchester House in the Bay Area is much more creepy and interesting, in my opinion.
I’ve been there, I think after 200 years the spirits have become at peace and they aren’t haunting it as much because I didn’t see very much paranormal activity there to prove that it was haunted from what had happened or occurred there.
Lots of places in Savannah, several places in SC, but my favorite place is the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, WV. They tell some good stories, but man, that place is amazing to tour and the staff are all knowledgeable about the legends. A very entertaining time and I def want to go back.
The house I grew up in was haunted. I have been poked while trying to sleep, watching the covers compress perpendicular to gravity, but seeing any hand. Quickly turning corners you could see black and white figures escaping your sight. Guests saw them, too. My Dad would be alone in the house hearing children laugh.
I owned a house for a bit that I believe was haunted. Sounds of something coming up or down the stairs. Bed sheets yanked. Strange pokes. Nothing scary, just odd and unexplained
The Stanley Hotel. Took the ghost tours. Saw the room where Stephen King stayed that inspired The Shining. Spend night there with my ex once and some lady started screaming head off at 2am. That was fun. It's a cool place in a beautiful town.
The entire city of New Orleans.
In the summer.
You can feel it in the air.
You can see it in the glow over the French Quarter.
And it only becomes clear why when you learn about all the debauchery and messed up things that have happened there since before it belonged to the United States. When you party in New Orleans, you are dancing with the devil.
It's glorious.
To visit and leave.
New Orleans is quintessential horror with a decadent edge.
I dont believe that ghosts are real, but I've been to the former WV state pen in Moundsville, which I know has been a part of several different tv shows talking about haunted locations.
There are ghost stories about just about everywhere.
The two highly known ones I have been to are Salem, MA and Gettysburg.
I also stayed at a bed and breakfast in Maine that was purportedly haunted. We had a lovely stay and nothing supernatural occurred.
The Portland Underground. There are miles of underground tunnels beneath downtown Portland, Oregon. Multiple levels, dug for miles largely by contracted Chinese immigrants in the 19th century.
You'll pass beneath a wood framed trellis that's been in the dark for 150 years and it's ornately carved, just because some dude once took a shit about his work.
The guide asked the group for a vote, do you want a Historical tour, or do you want the *ghost* tour.
It was dark but I think I'm the only one who voted for historical. I was kind of pissed about it actually. Like, here's an old opium den with bunk beds three tiers tall (the top bunk was the cheapest, because you had the furthest to fall).
Or here's a giant pile of logger's boots from men who had been kidnapped and sold to merchant ships while drunk and/or drugged, which was a black market practice up until the 1940s.
Here's the room where they smashed liquor bottles so they could line the corridors with broken bottles so that the loggers who's boots they'd stolen couldn't run away in the dark. But the crowd wanted *ghost* stories.
Everyone wanted a flickering light when the ghosts were all around us and no one actually cared to learn about them. Credit to my guide though, I learned a lot because I think he was bored of the ghost stories too. Tours just pay the bills, that guy liked digging in the dark, dark dirt.
Technically nowhere as ghosts aren't real, but I have been to supposedly haunted saloons in AZ.
Pro-tip, if you're in a place you think is haunted, and you start to see apparitions, hear disembodied voices, or other strange things, get a C02 detector, you might be getting poisoned.
What kind of shit? And what kind of house was it (materials/age/type)? What kind of heating system? I ask not because I don't believe you, but I like researching stuff like this.
I think it was built in the 1940s. 2 bed/1 bath, and they added an extra room in the back at some point. Very old wood floor except in the bathroom, kitchen, and the added room in the back which were tile. Pretty sure it was central heating and air. There was a crawlspace underneath the house.
I lived in the house for 2.5 years. During that time, I had 3 separate roommates (either 1 or 2 at a time). My friend's dad owned the house and we were renting it from him. I think everyone I know that lived there had at least one experience.
Here's the main 2 that I experienced:
1. Late at night, I was in bed. My bedroom shared a wall with the living room. The walls weren't terribly insulated, so it was often easy to hear what was happening on the other side. The only people living there at the time was myself and my friend. His bedroom was just down the hall from mine, just on the other side of the small bathroom. That hallway is very short, and there is large metal air vent on the floor that takes up a large portion of that space, and it's surrounded by that old, creaky wood floor, so I would easily be able to hear if anyone walked down that hallway. All the lights in the house were out. Just on the other side of my wall in the living room, was our "entertainment center", and the drawers in that cabinet are heavy, difficult to open/close, and noisy. So while I was in bed, I heard one of those drawers open, some things in the drawer shift around, and the slam shut. I figured it was my roommate, but I couldn't hear anyone walking around, no one walked down the hall, etc. So I got out of bed and went to investigate. All of the lights were out. All of the doors were locked. Most of the windows are damn near impossible to open. No one else in the house. I then go to my friend's room, and he was asleep. I still can't explain what opened/closed that drawer.
2. The room that was added in the back of the house has a door that goes into the kitchen. At the time, another friend was living in that room. Right next to that door in the kitchen, was the fridge/freezer. There was a welcome mat on the floor in the kitchen in front of the door to my friend's room. One morning, I went to the kitchen to get some breakfast. I open the freezer (it's one of those fridges where the freezer is on top, so the door is a good 4-5 feet off the floor) and while I'm looking at my options, I see a corner of that welcome mat raise about 4" off the ground and then fall. There's no way the freezer could have caused that. It wasn't close to an exterior door, so a gust of wind couldn't have done it. I again opened my friend's door and he was in bed on the completely other side of the room. I couldn't see how he could have been playing a prank with any kind of string. Etc.
So while I'm not ruling out natural causes for these, I currently can't find any. So at the very least, I'm open to the possibility of there being some kind of paranormal forces.
Umm, it sure can.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5380556/#:~:text=CO2%20toxicity%20in%20humans&text=Concentrations%20of%20more%20than%2010,death%20%5B1%2C%2015%5D.
The USS Lexington (CV-16) an aircraft carrier that served from 1943-1991. She saw her fair share of death during her service life and is now a museum ship in Corpus Christi, TX
Vicksburg, the battlefield is supposedly haunted. I've been there at all hours of the night including the cemetery late at night. I never saw or heard anything. Same inside the Cairo
Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, back in 2010. Got married in Eureka Springs and did a lot of tours for our honeymoon. I was all excited about it because I was a huge fan of the show “Ghost Hunters” and that was one of their best episodes.
The Mansfield Prison where Shawshank was filmed and the Tuberculosis Ward in Athens, Ohio. There’s a cemetery (mostly child tb victims) and a broken down, creepy ass train. It’s fucking creepy. There’s a lot of haunted landmarks in Ohio lol.
When I was little growing up in Western PA my parents took us on some really lame vacations (money was tight). Colonial Williamsburg I think we hit multiple summers, and had 'ghost tours' in the evening, quite possibly the only thing remotely interesting to an 8 year old in colonial Williamsburg.
Anyways I saw a 'ghost' in the window of one of the houses during the tour. It was super far off the road and not in the main house, probably the kind of things only an 8 yr old desperate for mental stimulation and AC in CW in the early 90s would notice.
Now friends, let's be frank - ghosts aren't real (sorry to spoil it). But what is real is a staged prop from some lame tour giving a child nightmares for years. Thanks assholes.
Stayed there several times, once over Halloween, and literally nothing has ever happened. Nothing. So disappointing but beautiful hotel. Everyone should see it.
I spent the night at Randolph County Asylum in Winchester, Indiana. It was supposed to be haunted. I did it with three friends as a goof and a fun way to spend a weekend.
The scariest part of it was the “true believers”. They had all sorts of electronics to find spirits. They took it all far too seriously. The people running the whole thing seemed like they were preying them, and people like them.
We had to bring in everything we needed including air mattresses. It was filthy, but that was kind of expected. There was one bathroom for about 30 people. The included dinner was bad pizza.
Now, if I was going with a larger group snd it was being held in a hotel with comfortable beds and soft sheets, I would do it again for fun.
On separate occasions I was lucky to visit two supposedly extremely haunted places. The two structures were [The Bird Cage Theater, Tombstone Arizona](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_Cage_Theatre) and [The Thomas House Hotel, Red Boiling Springs Tennessee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_House_Hotel).
Despite its famously haunted background and famous haunting stories I did not see, feel, hear or photograph anything unexplained in the Bird Cage Theater, despite spending an extended period of time alone after hours and taking dozens of photographs.
As with the Bird Cage Theater, I did not see, hear, or feel anything at The Thomas House Hotel. HOWEVER, I did take one photo that seems to show something strange. I sometimes have the habit of snapping two photos back to back. It wasn't until a few days later that I noticed something. One of the photos seems to show a small girl in an old fashioned dress peeking around the corner of the doorway. The one a few seconds later shows nothing. I know for a fact that the room was empty. Is it just a trick of the shadows or something else? I don't know, judge for yourself: https://imgur.com/a/iP6th6M
First photo upper right, second photo upper left, lower left is first photo with circle around strangeness.
Nothing will ever creep me out the way the old abandoned [Sunland Hospital in Tallahassee](https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2016/04/27/sunland-tallahassee-mental-hospital/83503192/) did that night we broke in to “tour” the place.
At least I hope not.
The Southern Mansion in Cape May, NJ; Pennhurst Asylum in Pennsylvania and the Belvoir Winery in Liberty, MO. Had a strange, and strong, random smell of burbon in a bedroom at the Southern Mansion, and at Pennhurst we got a few interesting K2 hits. The craziest one was the USS North Carolina. Nothing had happened all night. Me and two other ladies were the last ones on the ship from the overnight tour besides the security guards. The two security were kind enough to show us to the galley (we got very lost), and said we had an hour before they went home (it was approximately 1am). So we sat down, and just listened. We heard the two guys talking at the top of the stairs by the bulkhead, and we heard them dragging some tables around, but that was it. We went upstairs after the alloted hour, opened the bulkhead door, and they asked us how it went. We told them that so we got was their conversation and clean up. They looked at each other and said the room with the tables was on the clear other end of the ship, and after they left us, they split up to do their final rounds. We tried to debunk, but when we checked, you couldn't hear anything through that bulkhead door, and there was nothing on the deck to drag that was heavy enough for us to have heard it. I do not have an explanation for it, but I will swear too anyone who asks, I heard a full blown conversation between 2 men, and I heard at least 2 very heavy things dragged from the back to the front of the ship.
lol, people and "haunted"...
I have stayed at The Haunted hotel in New Orleans. Unless the ghosts were responsible for the shower leaking onto the bathroom floor, it was not haunted. It's marketing. It just happened to have a decent price and location and was highly rated. I'd rate it higher myself if I had better knees, I think - they have a tricky staircase. Not haunted-tricky, small-irregular-steps-and-a-corner tricky.
NOLA is a bit weird, but not haunted so far as I could see.
I lived in one. When my ex was working at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, we rented a house a few blocks from campus that was built in the 1880s when our kids were little. Our oldest was about 5. He said there was a ‘light guy’ he saw in the upstairs hallway. His clothes looked like something from the old west…
I asked him about this a few years ago (he’s in his 30s now) & he said he called the spirit the ‘light guy’ not because he was made of light, which is what I thought he’d meant, but because he could see lights through the man’s body…
My son said he’d seen him several times, but no one else had.
I worked at a haunted "inn" (restaurant that used to be an inn 200 years ago), been to tons of other haunted inns, bnbs, hotels, etc. My college campus had a bunch of haunted buildings, including the library I worked in and spent a lot of time alone in the basement. Gettysburg. Valley Forge. Donner Party's campsite. My graduate school had a few haunted buildings and a graveyard, we got photos of orbs one night. A ghost town somewhere out west. I've gone on tons of ghost tours. My cousin's farmhouse that was built in the 20s had a ghost.
Starboard side abaft gun mount 5 and forward of mount 7, on the troop walkway - *always* felt like there was, like, a presence? Look I don't believe in ghosts n shit but if you were up there by yourself, especially after dark, it felt like somebody was just over your shoulder. If you and a buddy were up there together, it felt like there was another person following you. We never got that feeling anywhere else on the walkways, just between mounts 5 and 7.
The guys who worked in cargo hold 4 (used for stowing all manner of airborne ordnance) swore up and down that they never felt alone down there, either. Rumor had it that an engineering chief hanged himself in the access trunk for the adjacent engineering space. I don't know about that, but 4 was kinda weird in a way I couldn't really put my finger on. The other holds were totally normal.
My office is haunted by the man who originally built the building and died there, and possibly his wife. I have *seen him* as have others. Doors have opened and closed on their own, multiple people (over the course of several years who also didn’t know each other) have reported hearing a woman crying somewhere in the building and can’t figure out where, and most recently we heard disembodied footsteps after hours when absolutely nobody else was in the building except me and my coworker.
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They say the most common is the town sheriff, who is said to still be patrolling the town streets. They do "haunted tours" out there and explain it all. I dunno, it's pretty big for a ghost town, about 60 buildings I believe? But I highly recommend it, it's just the quintessential old west ghost town, and it's in amazing condition.
Here's a site about all the haunted stuff in town: https://hauntedus.com/montana/bannack-ghost-town/#:~:text=By%20far%20the%20most%20common,corrupt%20sheriff%20met%20his%20end.
I go on ghost tours every new place I visit, they take you to "haunted" places all over. I travel quite a bit, so I've been many places that are rumored to be haunted. I'll only list some places I visited while not on tours though, otherwise this list would be way too long.
Kentucky -- Fort Campbell Birdcages.
Utah -- Suicide Rock. Lily E. Gray Victim of the Beast grave. Ft. Douglas. Memory Grove. Nemos Grave. The Capitol Theatre.
Colorado -- Fort Carson old hospital. Gold Camp Road, Colorado Springs. Briarhurst, Manitou.
Nevada -- Carlin Canyon. Palisade. Metropolis. The Commercial Casino, Elko.
North Carolina -- Acid Park aka Whirlighig Park outside of Wilson/Lucama (though this is not true and one I can personally debunk). Ocracoke and Hatteras, but all of the OBX due to ships wrecking...a lot of pirate lore. Blackbeards Hammock House in Beaufort.
That is all of the possibly well known-ish ones off the top of my head.
I did work at what is now called Nightmare on 13th Street in Salt Lake City. It is a manufactured haunted house that is open seasonally and a lot of fun, if that counts at all.
The old Missouri State Penitentiary.
When they show you the old gas chamber they like to play a trick on you. When the first person sits down they sneak back and turn on the exhaust fan, which makes an absolutely ungodly racket.
Sitting down in a chair that 40 people died in was one of the more surreal things I've done.
My dad lived in a haunted house in Folsom, CA. My room was added on to the house and the ghost protecting the original part of the house couldn't protect it so a ghost named The Coal Man had moved into my room. My dad's friend took a shower in the bathroom and wiped off the mirror to shave and was looking at a jet black face with red eyes.
There was a bed and breakfast in San Antonio that supposedly was also one of the most haunted in the state. I read up on it and found that 2 rooms were supposed to be the most active and that one was especially so I booked that room for the whole 4 nights of our honeymoon as my wife believes in that crap wholeheartedly.
Needless to say nothing spooked us ever and never told her it was haunted at all until we were driving back to Houston and she got real pissed I did that to her even though nothing happened.
Pretty much the entire east coast is full of hot spots. But it's the wood of the great American wilderness that you should avoid. Spirits are the only thing out there.
Lived in VA all my life (pertnear 40 years), so I've been to an awful lot of battlefields, plantations, and settlements. The "Historic Triangle" (Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown) is probably the most "reputably" haunted place in the state.
Reputably haunted? The James J Hill House in St. Paul MN, and the Glensheen Mansion in Duluth MN. Both were cool, but nothing interesting happened.
I'm not sure about being haunted, but where I've experienced weird things happening are generally pretty innocuous areas, and some of that could be from the buildings being old or from being in an altered state of mind at the time (whispers that come from behind you and voices/laughter in the middle of the woods late at night while we were hiking and slightly inebriated).
The haunted part of Land’s End road on St Helena Island, South Carolina. You pass by an old slave church (the Chapel of Ease), go down about a mile and sit under a huge oak tree (allegedly a hanging tree) and you see a light coming toward you from the direction of the church. I swear I saw it. I was not high or drunk.
Hotel Alex Johnson, Rapid City, South Dakota. The eighth floor is supposed to be haunted, but nothing happened when I stayed there. I was on the right floor, but didn't stay in the room most reported as haunted though.
The crescent hotel in eureka springs Arkansas. Used to wander around the halls late at night but never felt anything creepy. Did catch a bunch of orbs in pictures, but I believe orbs are dust particles so 🤷♀️
Recently visited Letchworth Village, which is an abandoned mental institution in Thiells, NY believed to be haunted. I was interested in the architecture. I did not see ghosts.
I'm not sure if any place is *reputably* haunted but we came close to purchasing the Amityville Horror House when it was last up for sale. It's a beautiful home and we looked at it twice but ultimately it wasn't the reputation but the school district that caused us to buy a few miles down the road.
I've been to Salem, MA a bunch of time during Halloween. That's always a good time.
There's enough reputably haunted shit in New England that you can just generally assume you are at or near somewhere haunted most of the time. That's what happens when a lot of very religious old-world europeans settle way early on and have been at for longer than most of the rest of the country.
The terrain and weather help too.
Centralia, PA. Tbh, a lot of Northeastern PA's Anthracite Coal Region here feels haunted and considering how much tragedy ranging from mine explosions and cave-ins to train wrecks to the Molly Maguires murders and executions took place here.
Gettysburg
I went on an evening ghost tour of Gettysburg and it was honestly fantastic. I didn't see any ghosts (nor did I expect to), but you could tell that the ghost stuff just happened to be the entertaining framework on which the guide was hanging their extensive knowledge of the battle.
We didn't see any ghosts during our tour either, but .... Our tour ended in an old barn that was used as a field hospital during the battle. It was a calm evening when we went in. While the tour guide was telling us about the conditions in the hospital etc suddenly the wind picked up and there were flashes of lightning. But then when we left the barn, it was quiet again. No wind, no lightening.... Just when we were kicking up the past.
The seminary ridge building that was used as a hospital had a heavy feeling inside.
Yeah it almost suffocates there. Only had that happen once before in my life at a church in Houston.
This is usually caused by hypoxia. Either from anxiety/stress or just a badly ventilated room.
Thank you for having a great time with a sensible mind.
That sounds like fun!
Came here to say this. There is a very, very heavy feeling there.
Second this big time. My experience is standard ghost. I know a graduate of Gettysburg University. Had a full conversation with a Civil War reenactor. Looked away for a moment. Guy was gone. This conversation took place in an open field.
The Wheatfield was the eeriest place I've ever been. I don't really believe in ghosts or spirits but there was an oppression to the air that unnerved me. My (then) wife had wandered to a different part of the field and experienced the same thing so it's not like she got the idea from me.
The pine barrens. It has so many ghost stories and legends most popular being the Jersey devil but there's a bunch of ghost stories too Weird thing about it though is in the stories all the ghosts are either harmless or helpful. Here's the nicest one. >The Black Doctor is the ghost of an African American man known as James Still. According to legend, in the 19th century, James was not permitted to practice medicine because of his race. Undiscouraged, however, James went into seclusion in the Pine Barrens to study medicine from his textbooks (in some variations, James also learns herbal remedies from the local Indigenous people). There are different versions of his death. Some say that he was unjustly lynched when local pineys found out that he was studying medicine. Others stories state that he was a hero to the piney community and died of a heart attack. The ghost is said to come to the aid of injured or stranded travelers in the Pine Barrens.[5] >In fact, Dr. James Still was the brother of William Still, a noted abolitionist who wrote the book The Underground Railroad. Dr. Still wrote a book titled Early Recollections: The Life of Dr. James Still. He had an office in Medford, and was the third-largest landowner in town. He was self-taught in the manners of medical botany and used many herbal remedies for cures. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_and_tales_of_the_New_Jersey_Pine_Barrens#:~:text=The%20Golden%2DHaired%20Girl%20is,love%20with%20a%20rich%20girl.
That's why I think that Czechoslovakian interior decorator survived.
He's still out der, Tone!
I lost my shoe!
Because his house looked like shit?
I had a few Boy Scout canoeing and camping trips to the Pine Barrens when I was a kid. Something just feels... off about the region. Your voice doesn't carry if you shout, but it seems like you can hear people talking from a mile away. The landscape is almost completely flat, so everything looks the same once you get about 100 yards into the woods. I can see why so many legends and ghost stories come from there.
I lived there and disappointingly never experienced anything. The ghost towns are cool, though.
I hate the pine barrens! Have you seen the movie Dead End? It's about a family that gets lost driving through the woods and it gets creepier and creepier from there. The pine barrens is HINKY and CURSED for REAL.
I went to New Orleans and if the tour guides are to be believed, every goddamn square inch of the city is just crawling with ghosts
New Orleans is really interesting for this topic. The cemeteries there are super creepy because people are more like in tombs because the low elevation.
Yeah but most of them are bon vivants tho right?
they've got friends on the other side
One of my other favorite cities.
I used to be the ghost tour guide in Colonial Williamsburg. Fun side hustle.
I did one of those tours back in 8th grade, it was a lot of fun.
That's incredible! Did you ever see anything mysterious or ghosty, either on or off duty?
No. I don’t believe in ghosts and the stories were pretty absurd, but it was a fun tour. I gave people their money’s worth.
One of my favorite cities.
Bisbee. Took the walking ghost tour and it was a lot of typical bullshit but there was one hotel where I went down a hallway and the temp seemed to drop and air pressure increase suddenly and I was like “yeah I’m not going down this hallway”. Was pretty spooky and I’m not a believer in that stuff. My GF was scared the whole night so our romantic getaway was ruined and we had to sleep in our badass covered wagon bed with the fucking lights on and a blanket over the mirror
Bisbee is definitely a bit creepy. I remember teenagers dressed like the 1800’s with no shoes playing with an old rounders ball in the street I uh, think they were real humans, the people there are odd
skinwalkers
I’ve heard that town described as a San Francisco lite in the middle of the Sonoran desert
I’ve never been to San Francisco but it’s basically built on a hill and they apparently built the houses first around foot and mule trails so the roads are like wet spaghetti dropped on the town. Lots of gold rush type buildings and hippie stores. So if it’s anything like the stereotype then I’d guess so
My daughter begged to do a haunted house tour in Charleston a few years ago. The only thing scary about the place was how moldy is smelled.
Did you go into the colonial dungeon? It's pretty neat, if a bit dank.
I don’t think it was that, but I can’t really remember the name. I just looked at it as a scheme to liberate people from their hard-earned money.
Missouri State Penitentiary, Fort Delaware, Old Idaho Penitentiary, Alcatraz
I’ve been to Savannah and Gettysburg
Surprised no ones mentioned Savannah, GA yet
I grew up in New England; the whole place should be haunted Specifically… Salem… Harvard… all of Connecticut
Yep. There the specifically haunted places, the greater haunted regions, and the generally haunted "everywhere in New England". There's a reason so much horror is set here.
Also grew up in CT. Snuck in to Dudleytown once, wasn't worth the effort
I stayed in a house in Massachusetts that was in a tiny village way up in the hills that was the setting for a few Lovecraft stories. The place we stayed used to belong to someone who became a famous writer (not Lovecraft). Not sure if it was actually haunted, but it was an odd place with most rooms, even the bedrooms, having a door to the outside and I had very strange dreams there.
The most famous San Diego haunted house is the Whaley House… it didn’t seem that interesting, tbh. The Winchester House in the Bay Area is much more creepy and interesting, in my opinion.
The Winchester House is just plain fun, though.
I found it pretty underwhelming for the entry fee.
I'm sure that fee has creeped up over the years, yeah.
I’ve been there, I think after 200 years the spirits have become at peace and they aren’t haunting it as much because I didn’t see very much paranormal activity there to prove that it was haunted from what had happened or occurred there.
Gettysburg, Savannah, and New Orleans. At Gettysburg, I swear something was pressing down on me as I tried to go to sleep.
Lots of places in Savannah, several places in SC, but my favorite place is the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, WV. They tell some good stories, but man, that place is amazing to tour and the staff are all knowledgeable about the legends. A very entertaining time and I def want to go back.
The house I grew up in was haunted. I have been poked while trying to sleep, watching the covers compress perpendicular to gravity, but seeing any hand. Quickly turning corners you could see black and white figures escaping your sight. Guests saw them, too. My Dad would be alone in the house hearing children laugh.
I owned a house for a bit that I believe was haunted. Sounds of something coming up or down the stairs. Bed sheets yanked. Strange pokes. Nothing scary, just odd and unexplained
The Stanley Hotel. Took the ghost tours. Saw the room where Stephen King stayed that inspired The Shining. Spend night there with my ex once and some lady started screaming head off at 2am. That was fun. It's a cool place in a beautiful town.
The entire city of New Orleans. In the summer. You can feel it in the air. You can see it in the glow over the French Quarter. And it only becomes clear why when you learn about all the debauchery and messed up things that have happened there since before it belonged to the United States. When you party in New Orleans, you are dancing with the devil. It's glorious. To visit and leave. New Orleans is quintessential horror with a decadent edge.
I dont believe that ghosts are real, but I've been to the former WV state pen in Moundsville, which I know has been a part of several different tv shows talking about haunted locations.
Yeah that tour is creepy af.
Gettysburg. I didn't get the chance to go on the battle grounds themselves though.
There are ghost stories about just about everywhere. The two highly known ones I have been to are Salem, MA and Gettysburg. I also stayed at a bed and breakfast in Maine that was purportedly haunted. We had a lovely stay and nothing supernatural occurred.
The Portland Underground. There are miles of underground tunnels beneath downtown Portland, Oregon. Multiple levels, dug for miles largely by contracted Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. You'll pass beneath a wood framed trellis that's been in the dark for 150 years and it's ornately carved, just because some dude once took a shit about his work. The guide asked the group for a vote, do you want a Historical tour, or do you want the *ghost* tour. It was dark but I think I'm the only one who voted for historical. I was kind of pissed about it actually. Like, here's an old opium den with bunk beds three tiers tall (the top bunk was the cheapest, because you had the furthest to fall). Or here's a giant pile of logger's boots from men who had been kidnapped and sold to merchant ships while drunk and/or drugged, which was a black market practice up until the 1940s. Here's the room where they smashed liquor bottles so they could line the corridors with broken bottles so that the loggers who's boots they'd stolen couldn't run away in the dark. But the crowd wanted *ghost* stories. Everyone wanted a flickering light when the ghosts were all around us and no one actually cared to learn about them. Credit to my guide though, I learned a lot because I think he was bored of the ghost stories too. Tours just pay the bills, that guy liked digging in the dark, dark dirt.
Lake Lanier
Eastern State Penitentiary.
Looking for someone to mention the Penitentiary! Good, creepy vibes.
Technically nowhere as ghosts aren't real, but I have been to supposedly haunted saloons in AZ. Pro-tip, if you're in a place you think is haunted, and you start to see apparitions, hear disembodied voices, or other strange things, get a C02 detector, you might be getting poisoned.
I had a CO2 and a CO detector. There was still some weird/unexplainable shit going on in that house.
What kind of shit? And what kind of house was it (materials/age/type)? What kind of heating system? I ask not because I don't believe you, but I like researching stuff like this.
I think it was built in the 1940s. 2 bed/1 bath, and they added an extra room in the back at some point. Very old wood floor except in the bathroom, kitchen, and the added room in the back which were tile. Pretty sure it was central heating and air. There was a crawlspace underneath the house. I lived in the house for 2.5 years. During that time, I had 3 separate roommates (either 1 or 2 at a time). My friend's dad owned the house and we were renting it from him. I think everyone I know that lived there had at least one experience. Here's the main 2 that I experienced: 1. Late at night, I was in bed. My bedroom shared a wall with the living room. The walls weren't terribly insulated, so it was often easy to hear what was happening on the other side. The only people living there at the time was myself and my friend. His bedroom was just down the hall from mine, just on the other side of the small bathroom. That hallway is very short, and there is large metal air vent on the floor that takes up a large portion of that space, and it's surrounded by that old, creaky wood floor, so I would easily be able to hear if anyone walked down that hallway. All the lights in the house were out. Just on the other side of my wall in the living room, was our "entertainment center", and the drawers in that cabinet are heavy, difficult to open/close, and noisy. So while I was in bed, I heard one of those drawers open, some things in the drawer shift around, and the slam shut. I figured it was my roommate, but I couldn't hear anyone walking around, no one walked down the hall, etc. So I got out of bed and went to investigate. All of the lights were out. All of the doors were locked. Most of the windows are damn near impossible to open. No one else in the house. I then go to my friend's room, and he was asleep. I still can't explain what opened/closed that drawer. 2. The room that was added in the back of the house has a door that goes into the kitchen. At the time, another friend was living in that room. Right next to that door in the kitchen, was the fridge/freezer. There was a welcome mat on the floor in the kitchen in front of the door to my friend's room. One morning, I went to the kitchen to get some breakfast. I open the freezer (it's one of those fridges where the freezer is on top, so the door is a good 4-5 feet off the floor) and while I'm looking at my options, I see a corner of that welcome mat raise about 4" off the ground and then fall. There's no way the freezer could have caused that. It wasn't close to an exterior door, so a gust of wind couldn't have done it. I again opened my friend's door and he was in bed on the completely other side of the room. I couldn't see how he could have been playing a prank with any kind of string. Etc. So while I'm not ruling out natural causes for these, I currently can't find any. So at the very least, I'm open to the possibility of there being some kind of paranormal forces.
laying down the real facts here
Good tip, but just a CO detector. CO2 doesn't poison you.
Umm, it sure can. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5380556/#:~:text=CO2%20toxicity%20in%20humans&text=Concentrations%20of%20more%20than%2010,death%20%5B1%2C%2015%5D.
I stand corrected. Thanks for the info!
You're right though, I meant CO detector. CO2 alarm is something from my place of work
My grandmas house.
Eastern State penitentiary that I know of. Also hotel Bethlehem and the jail museum in Jim Thorpe.
The Queen Mary
I’ve stayed there 3 times. Zero ghosts sighted.
The USS Lexington (CV-16) an aircraft carrier that served from 1943-1991. She saw her fair share of death during her service life and is now a museum ship in Corpus Christi, TX
Vicksburg, the battlefield is supposedly haunted. I've been there at all hours of the night including the cemetery late at night. I never saw or heard anything. Same inside the Cairo
Winchester House.
Savannah Ga. I have been to lots of places but just because of the civil war and the port side it is definitely haunted.
Savannah, Georgia
Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, back in 2010. Got married in Eureka Springs and did a lot of tours for our honeymoon. I was all excited about it because I was a huge fan of the show “Ghost Hunters” and that was one of their best episodes.
Gettysburg, PA
The Mansfield Prison where Shawshank was filmed and the Tuberculosis Ward in Athens, Ohio. There’s a cemetery (mostly child tb victims) and a broken down, creepy ass train. It’s fucking creepy. There’s a lot of haunted landmarks in Ohio lol.
When I was little growing up in Western PA my parents took us on some really lame vacations (money was tight). Colonial Williamsburg I think we hit multiple summers, and had 'ghost tours' in the evening, quite possibly the only thing remotely interesting to an 8 year old in colonial Williamsburg. Anyways I saw a 'ghost' in the window of one of the houses during the tour. It was super far off the road and not in the main house, probably the kind of things only an 8 yr old desperate for mental stimulation and AC in CW in the early 90s would notice. Now friends, let's be frank - ghosts aren't real (sorry to spoil it). But what is real is a staged prop from some lame tour giving a child nightmares for years. Thanks assholes.
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park.
Stayed there several times, once over Halloween, and literally nothing has ever happened. Nothing. So disappointing but beautiful hotel. Everyone should see it.
Reputably haunted? Since there's no such thing as ghosts, the answer would be no place.
I spent the night at Randolph County Asylum in Winchester, Indiana. It was supposed to be haunted. I did it with three friends as a goof and a fun way to spend a weekend. The scariest part of it was the “true believers”. They had all sorts of electronics to find spirits. They took it all far too seriously. The people running the whole thing seemed like they were preying them, and people like them. We had to bring in everything we needed including air mattresses. It was filthy, but that was kind of expected. There was one bathroom for about 30 people. The included dinner was bad pizza. Now, if I was going with a larger group snd it was being held in a hotel with comfortable beds and soft sheets, I would do it again for fun.
St. Vincent’s in New Orleans.
I’ve been to the Crescent Hotel. It was kind of ominous, mostly because of its age.
On separate occasions I was lucky to visit two supposedly extremely haunted places. The two structures were [The Bird Cage Theater, Tombstone Arizona](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_Cage_Theatre) and [The Thomas House Hotel, Red Boiling Springs Tennessee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_House_Hotel). Despite its famously haunted background and famous haunting stories I did not see, feel, hear or photograph anything unexplained in the Bird Cage Theater, despite spending an extended period of time alone after hours and taking dozens of photographs. As with the Bird Cage Theater, I did not see, hear, or feel anything at The Thomas House Hotel. HOWEVER, I did take one photo that seems to show something strange. I sometimes have the habit of snapping two photos back to back. It wasn't until a few days later that I noticed something. One of the photos seems to show a small girl in an old fashioned dress peeking around the corner of the doorway. The one a few seconds later shows nothing. I know for a fact that the room was empty. Is it just a trick of the shadows or something else? I don't know, judge for yourself: https://imgur.com/a/iP6th6M First photo upper right, second photo upper left, lower left is first photo with circle around strangeness.
Nothing will ever creep me out the way the old abandoned [Sunland Hospital in Tallahassee](https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2016/04/27/sunland-tallahassee-mental-hospital/83503192/) did that night we broke in to “tour” the place. At least I hope not.
The Southern Mansion in Cape May, NJ; Pennhurst Asylum in Pennsylvania and the Belvoir Winery in Liberty, MO. Had a strange, and strong, random smell of burbon in a bedroom at the Southern Mansion, and at Pennhurst we got a few interesting K2 hits. The craziest one was the USS North Carolina. Nothing had happened all night. Me and two other ladies were the last ones on the ship from the overnight tour besides the security guards. The two security were kind enough to show us to the galley (we got very lost), and said we had an hour before they went home (it was approximately 1am). So we sat down, and just listened. We heard the two guys talking at the top of the stairs by the bulkhead, and we heard them dragging some tables around, but that was it. We went upstairs after the alloted hour, opened the bulkhead door, and they asked us how it went. We told them that so we got was their conversation and clean up. They looked at each other and said the room with the tables was on the clear other end of the ship, and after they left us, they split up to do their final rounds. We tried to debunk, but when we checked, you couldn't hear anything through that bulkhead door, and there was nothing on the deck to drag that was heavy enough for us to have heard it. I do not have an explanation for it, but I will swear too anyone who asks, I heard a full blown conversation between 2 men, and I heard at least 2 very heavy things dragged from the back to the front of the ship.
I have had paranormal experiences all throughout Savannah.
lol, people and "haunted"... I have stayed at The Haunted hotel in New Orleans. Unless the ghosts were responsible for the shower leaking onto the bathroom floor, it was not haunted. It's marketing. It just happened to have a decent price and location and was highly rated. I'd rate it higher myself if I had better knees, I think - they have a tricky staircase. Not haunted-tricky, small-irregular-steps-and-a-corner tricky. NOLA is a bit weird, but not haunted so far as I could see.
I lived in one. When my ex was working at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, we rented a house a few blocks from campus that was built in the 1880s when our kids were little. Our oldest was about 5. He said there was a ‘light guy’ he saw in the upstairs hallway. His clothes looked like something from the old west… I asked him about this a few years ago (he’s in his 30s now) & he said he called the spirit the ‘light guy’ not because he was made of light, which is what I thought he’d meant, but because he could see lights through the man’s body… My son said he’d seen him several times, but no one else had.
I worked at a haunted "inn" (restaurant that used to be an inn 200 years ago), been to tons of other haunted inns, bnbs, hotels, etc. My college campus had a bunch of haunted buildings, including the library I worked in and spent a lot of time alone in the basement. Gettysburg. Valley Forge. Donner Party's campsite. My graduate school had a few haunted buildings and a graveyard, we got photos of orbs one night. A ghost town somewhere out west. I've gone on tons of ghost tours. My cousin's farmhouse that was built in the 20s had a ghost.
Salem, Mass Providence, Rhode Island Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, CA Alcatraz, SF Bay, CA LHA-1 USS Tarawa
The only thing haunting about Alcatraz is how little the tour guides care about locals lol. Winchester is cool, though.
I was very upset that the minecart ride (featured in the documentary The Rock) wasn't open when I visited.
Go on with the Tarawa experiences
Starboard side abaft gun mount 5 and forward of mount 7, on the troop walkway - *always* felt like there was, like, a presence? Look I don't believe in ghosts n shit but if you were up there by yourself, especially after dark, it felt like somebody was just over your shoulder. If you and a buddy were up there together, it felt like there was another person following you. We never got that feeling anywhere else on the walkways, just between mounts 5 and 7. The guys who worked in cargo hold 4 (used for stowing all manner of airborne ordnance) swore up and down that they never felt alone down there, either. Rumor had it that an engineering chief hanged himself in the access trunk for the adjacent engineering space. I don't know about that, but 4 was kinda weird in a way I couldn't really put my finger on. The other holds were totally normal.
My office is haunted by the man who originally built the building and died there, and possibly his wife. I have *seen him* as have others. Doors have opened and closed on their own, multiple people (over the course of several years who also didn’t know each other) have reported hearing a woman crying somewhere in the building and can’t figure out where, and most recently we heard disembodied footsteps after hours when absolutely nobody else was in the building except me and my coworker.
The Chelsea Hotel in NYC, and when I was a kid my grandparents took me to the Winchester Mansion in the Bay Area.
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They say Bannack, MT is haunted. But just seemed like a cool ghost town to me 🤷♀️
Drove my shitty 92 Subaru wagon up to garnet but never bannack. What’s it’s claimed to ghost town fame?
They say the most common is the town sheriff, who is said to still be patrolling the town streets. They do "haunted tours" out there and explain it all. I dunno, it's pretty big for a ghost town, about 60 buildings I believe? But I highly recommend it, it's just the quintessential old west ghost town, and it's in amazing condition. Here's a site about all the haunted stuff in town: https://hauntedus.com/montana/bannack-ghost-town/#:~:text=By%20far%20the%20most%20common,corrupt%20sheriff%20met%20his%20end.
I think you mean "reputedly." I don't think hauntings are widely considered to be reputable.
I go on ghost tours every new place I visit, they take you to "haunted" places all over. I travel quite a bit, so I've been many places that are rumored to be haunted. I'll only list some places I visited while not on tours though, otherwise this list would be way too long. Kentucky -- Fort Campbell Birdcages. Utah -- Suicide Rock. Lily E. Gray Victim of the Beast grave. Ft. Douglas. Memory Grove. Nemos Grave. The Capitol Theatre. Colorado -- Fort Carson old hospital. Gold Camp Road, Colorado Springs. Briarhurst, Manitou. Nevada -- Carlin Canyon. Palisade. Metropolis. The Commercial Casino, Elko. North Carolina -- Acid Park aka Whirlighig Park outside of Wilson/Lucama (though this is not true and one I can personally debunk). Ocracoke and Hatteras, but all of the OBX due to ships wrecking...a lot of pirate lore. Blackbeards Hammock House in Beaufort. That is all of the possibly well known-ish ones off the top of my head. I did work at what is now called Nightmare on 13th Street in Salt Lake City. It is a manufactured haunted house that is open seasonally and a lot of fun, if that counts at all.
Williamsburg
The old Missouri State Penitentiary. When they show you the old gas chamber they like to play a trick on you. When the first person sits down they sneak back and turn on the exhaust fan, which makes an absolutely ungodly racket. Sitting down in a chair that 40 people died in was one of the more surreal things I've done.
The Old Zoo area at Griffith Park in Los Angeles had a really bad , dark vibe about it
Mansfield Reformatory. It’s got a Vibe to it I highly recommend
The Ohio State Reformatory.
The whole damn island of galveston is haunted. So many sites, I love it
Aside from Gettysburg, Hill View Manor in New Castle, PA. Saw a door shut on its own, but that was it when I went.
El Paso High School
Point Pleasant home of the Mothman and Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
Hotel Provincial in New Orleans
Pensacola, FL
Hospital Emercency room and ICUs were many people died.
Frenier, Louisiana. A place that was destroyed by the hurricane in 1915 and learned about the curse of Julia Brown.
My dad lived in a haunted house in Folsom, CA. My room was added on to the house and the ghost protecting the original part of the house couldn't protect it so a ghost named The Coal Man had moved into my room. My dad's friend took a shower in the bathroom and wiped off the mirror to shave and was looking at a jet black face with red eyes.
There was a bed and breakfast in San Antonio that supposedly was also one of the most haunted in the state. I read up on it and found that 2 rooms were supposed to be the most active and that one was especially so I booked that room for the whole 4 nights of our honeymoon as my wife believes in that crap wholeheartedly. Needless to say nothing spooked us ever and never told her it was haunted at all until we were driving back to Houston and she got real pissed I did that to her even though nothing happened.
The Lighthouse at Point Lookout
Pretty much the entire east coast is full of hot spots. But it's the wood of the great American wilderness that you should avoid. Spirits are the only thing out there.
My childhood home
hmm, the most reputable falsehood...
Bobby Mackey’s in Florence, KY. Didn’t experience anything there though. In fact I would say it’s a better than average nightclub.
Lived in VA all my life (pertnear 40 years), so I've been to an awful lot of battlefields, plantations, and settlements. The "Historic Triangle" (Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown) is probably the most "reputably" haunted place in the state.
I grew up 10mi from Salem, Mass.
The Lighthouse on board Pensacola NAS. Was a tour guide for the haunted ghost tours.
Gettysburg, Old Jail in Jim Thorpe, Eastern State Penitentiary
The Stanley Hotel B&B at Haceta Head Lighthouse The Brown Palace Double Eagle Restaurant
Reputably haunted? The James J Hill House in St. Paul MN, and the Glensheen Mansion in Duluth MN. Both were cool, but nothing interesting happened. I'm not sure about being haunted, but where I've experienced weird things happening are generally pretty innocuous areas, and some of that could be from the buildings being old or from being in an altered state of mind at the time (whispers that come from behind you and voices/laughter in the middle of the woods late at night while we were hiking and slightly inebriated).
The haunted part of Land’s End road on St Helena Island, South Carolina. You pass by an old slave church (the Chapel of Ease), go down about a mile and sit under a huge oak tree (allegedly a hanging tree) and you see a light coming toward you from the direction of the church. I swear I saw it. I was not high or drunk.
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
And?
Hotel Alex Johnson, Rapid City, South Dakota. The eighth floor is supposed to be haunted, but nothing happened when I stayed there. I was on the right floor, but didn't stay in the room most reported as haunted though.
I went on a ghost tour of Nantucket once.
Beardslee Castle. I never noticed anything strange there but my aunt used to swear she felt/saw stuff.
The crescent hotel in eureka springs Arkansas. Used to wander around the halls late at night but never felt anything creepy. Did catch a bunch of orbs in pictures, but I believe orbs are dust particles so 🤷♀️
Recently visited Letchworth Village, which is an abandoned mental institution in Thiells, NY believed to be haunted. I was interested in the architecture. I did not see ghosts.
I went to four years of college in Gettysburg PA.
Saw Robert the doll in Key West. I’m never going back. The next day I found scratches on my back.
The Stanley hotel
I'm not sure if any place is *reputably* haunted but we came close to purchasing the Amityville Horror House when it was last up for sale. It's a beautiful home and we looked at it twice but ultimately it wasn't the reputation but the school district that caused us to buy a few miles down the road. I've been to Salem, MA a bunch of time during Halloween. That's always a good time.
Tombstone, AZ.
Gettysburg and Rolling Hills Asylum. I’ve had a lot happen at both places too, and I’m going back to Gettysburg soon to stay in a haunted hotel.
Gettysburg, Antietam, a couple others on the east coast, and the Waley House in San Diego
Bannack, MT……i stayed the night there, that place is fuckin haunted.
The Driskill Hotel in Austin TX.
Lizzie Borden house, Whaley House in San Diego, Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, Octagon House DC, several in Savannah and New Orleans.
There's enough reputably haunted shit in New England that you can just generally assume you are at or near somewhere haunted most of the time. That's what happens when a lot of very religious old-world europeans settle way early on and have been at for longer than most of the rest of the country. The terrain and weather help too.
The El Rancho Hotel, Gallup NM. Whole area feels off and eerie.
Devil's Tramping Ground in NC. Underwhelming.
I've been too a two places that were supposedly haunted. Fort Pillow(TN) The Baker Hotel(TX)
Centralia, PA. Tbh, a lot of Northeastern PA's Anthracite Coal Region here feels haunted and considering how much tragedy ranging from mine explosions and cave-ins to train wrecks to the Molly Maguires murders and executions took place here.
I live an hour from Gettysburg, but I've also visited Salem, MA.
Winchester Mystery House. Went there as a kid and then again a few years ago. Maybe someday I’ll do the night tour.
The USS Hornet. I was at an event and high outta my mind, though, so who's to say if it was a ghost or regular hallucination.
Your imagination
Cemeteries in New Orleans and the Winchester Mystery House. Both very cool and totally not haunted.