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Anecdotal reports in Virginia

Virginia keeps 34 anecdotal files — secondhand accounts and casually repeated reports, the friend-of-a-friend shelf. The archive holds them because the stories circulate and somebody should keep count; each is filed as reported, no stronger.

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Cemetery
High confidence

Hollywood Cemetery

Richmond, Virginia

Cemetery associated with published local folklore.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Museum
High confidence

Exchange Hotel Civil War Medical Museum

Gordonsville, Virginia

Museum associated with published local folklore.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Cavalier Hotel

Virginia Beach, Virginia

1927 oceanfront grand hotel that hosted Capone and—per lore—keeps a guest or two.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Battlefield
Medium

Chancellorsville Battlefield

Fredericksburg, Virginia

Jackson’s flank attack—and the wound that killed him, May 1863.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Battlefield
Medium

Wilderness Battlefield

Locust Grove, Virginia

May 1864—the woods that burned with the wounded inside.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Battlefield
Medium

The Crater

Petersburg, Virginia

July 30, 1864—the mine that exploded into a massacre.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Battlefield
Medium

New Market Battlefield

New Market, Virginia

May 15, 1864—the VMI cadets’ charge in the Field of Lost Shoes.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Mansion
Medium

Stratford Hall

Stratford, Virginia

The Lee family seat—where Robert E. Lee was born in 1807.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Mansion
Medium

Westover Plantation

Charles City, Virginia

Byrd’s 1730s James River palace—Evelyn’s ghost in the garden.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Mansion
Medium

Shirley Plantation

Charles City, Virginia

The 1613 working plantation—where Aunt Pratt’s portrait won’t stay put.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Mansion
Medium

Sherwood Forest Plantation

Charles City, Virginia

John Tyler’s 300-foot house—the president who joined the Confederacy.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Mansion
Medium

Maymont

Richmond, Virginia

The Dooleys’ 1893 Gilded Age mansion—where the maid still serves.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Mansion
Medium

Scotchtown

Beaverdam, Virginia

Patrick Henry’s Hanover house—"give me liberty" written in its rooms.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Mansion
Medium

Bacon’s Castle

Surry, Virginia

The 1665 brick house that gave a rebellion its name.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Mansion
Medium

Chatham Manor

Fredericksburg, Virginia

The Georgian manor that saw Washington, Lincoln—and the war’s hospital.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Historic Jamestowne

Jamestown, Virginia

1607—the first permanent English settlement, and the starving time.

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Berkeley Plantation

Charles City, Virginia

The 1619 "first Thanksgiving"—where Taps was born and a president was born.

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Centre Hill

Petersburg, Virginia

The 1823 mansion where Lincoln visited—and the ghost steps sound.

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Trapezium House

Petersburg, Virginia

The 1817 house built without right angles—to keep the spirits out.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Museum
Medium

Edgar Allan Poe Museum

Richmond, Virginia

The 1740 Old Stone House where Poe’s relics live—and the raven still calls.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Chimborazo Hospital site

Richmond, Virginia

The war’s largest hospital—76,000 patients on Church Hill.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Belle Isle

Richmond, Virginia

The island prison where 10,000 Union soldiers were held—1862-64.

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Moses Myers House

Norfolk, Virginia

The 1792 Federal house of Norfolk’s first Jewish family.

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Thoroughgood House

Virginia Beach, Virginia

The 1719 brick house—one of Virginia’s oldest surviving middling homes.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Natural
Medium

Devil’s Bathtub

Fort Blackmore, Virginia

The swimming hole the devil is said to use.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Inn
Medium

Wayside Inn

Middletown, Virginia

"America’s oldest continuously operating inn"—and its own ghost shelf.

1 claim→
House
Medium

McLean House

Appomattox, Virginia

The parlor where Lee signed—and the house the souvenir hunters stripped.

1 claim→
House
Medium

Stonewall Jackson House

Lexington, Virginia

The only house Jackson ever owned—where he lived as a VMI professor.

1 claim→
Church
Medium

St. John’s Church (Hampton)

Hampton, Virginia

The 1728 church that survived the burning of Hampton—twice.

1 claim→
House
Medium

Lynnhaven House

Virginia Beach, Virginia

The 1725 brick house on the Lynnhaven—"the Wishart house."

1 claim→
Natural
Medium

Natural Tunnel

Duffield, Virginia

The 850-foot limestone tunnel the railroad still uses.

1 claim→
Natural
Medium

Grayson Highlands

Mouth of Wilson, Virginia

The wild ponies and the balds—Virginia’s high country.

1 claim→
Site
Medium

Virginia Creeper Trail

Abingdon, Virginia

The 34-mile rail-trail from Whitetop to Abingdon.

1 claim→
Natural
Medium

Breaks Interstate Park

Breaks, Virginia

The "Grand Canyon of the South"—the Russell Fork gorge.

1 claim→

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Record last amended October 2, 2026 · shelves recounted with the archive