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Built in 1909 and the inspiration for Stephen King's The Shining, the Stanley has a decades-long record of unexplained sounds, moving objects, and apparitions in its rooms and corridors.
Read the history →Once the most expensive building in America, Eastern State housed Al Capone and saw hundreds of deaths within its walls. Cellblock 12 is considered the most active — voices, shadows, and unexplained laughter reported by staff and visitors alike.
Read the history →The infamous island prison closed in 1963, but guards and visitors have long reported voices in the cellblocks, the sound of cell doors opening and closing, and a persistent feeling of being watched in the isolation ward.
Read the history →One of America's most haunted homes, built on a Tunica burial ground. The ghost of Chloe — an enslaved woman wrongly accused and hanged — is seen wearing a green turban throughout the house. At least ten people have died on the property.
Read the history →Sarah Winchester, widow of the rifle manufacturer, believed she was haunted by those killed by Winchester guns. She built continuously for 38 years — stairs to nowhere, doors opening onto walls, windows set into floors. Construction stopped the moment she died.
Read the history →Open since 1859 and the oldest continuously operating hotel west of the Mississippi. Guests have reported encounters with the ghost of a chambermaid murdered by her husband, and the spirit known as Buckskin, who haunts the Victorian bar.
Read the history →California leads in raw count with 1,020 documented locations. But adjust for population and the map looks completely different — Wyoming tops the nation at 124.8 hauntings per million residents.
Read the analysis →Los Angeles leads by raw count. But Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and Savannah tell a more interesting story — cities where history concentrated suffering into a small geographic footprint.
Read the analysis →163 correctional facilities in our database. Eastern State Penitentiary, Alcatraz, the Ohio State Reformatory, Andersonville — the places where decades of suffering left marks that haven't faded.
Read the feature →The Grey Lady of Willard Library in Indiana has been reported since 1937. Libraries preserve things. It appears they are not always selective about what they hold onto.
Read the feature →484 documented haunted dining establishments. The Farnsworth House Inn still bears 100 bullet holes from Gettysburg. The Olde Jaol in Ohio is a former county jail converted into a restaurant.
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