Historic Sites

Skinwalker Ranch

Ballard, Utah

Private ranch associated with UFO and paranormal claims.

6 claims · 1 legend→

Prospect Place

Trinway, Ohio

Mansion associated with documented cultural history.

5 claims · 2 legends→

LaLaurie Mansion

New Orleans, Louisiana

Historic house in New Orleans; research record.

Lemp Mansion

St. Louis, Missouri

Mansion associated with documented cultural history.

Fall River, Massachusetts

Lizzie Borden House

1892 crime site operating as a museum and overnight accommodation.

Historic House Site

Rehmeyer’s Hollow

York, Pennsylvania

Site of the 1928 "hex murder" of folk healer Nelson Rehmeyer.

Historic Site

Parkersburg, West Virginia

Blennerhassett Island

Island estate of the Irish aristocrat entangled in the Burr conspiracy.

Thornewood Castle

Lakewood, Washington

English Tudor manor shipped brick-by-brick from England—Stephen King filmed Rose Red here.

Villa Paula

Miami, Florida

1926 Cuban-consulate mansion with a scent-of-roses ghost.

Villisca Ax Murder House

Villisca, Iowa

Historic house associated with documented cultural history.

Dana-Thomas House

Springfield, Illinois

Historic house associated with documented cultural history.

Historic Adams House

Deadwood, South Dakota

Built in 1892; preservation commission purchased it in 1992 and museum restoration followed in 2000.

Whaley House

San Diego, California

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

The Grove

Jefferson, Texas

Historic house in Jefferson; research record.

Ferry Plantation House

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Historic house associated with published local folklore.

Hunt-Morgan House

Lexington, Kentucky

The 1814 house of the hunts and the raiders—Morgan’s family home.

Whispers Estate

Mitchell, Indiana

Historic house associated with documented cultural history.

McPike Mansion

Alton, Illinois

Mansion associated with documented cultural history.

Emlen Physick Estate

Cape May, New Jersey

Victorian house museum with history and staff-led paranormal interpretation.

Hannah House

Indianapolis, Indiana

1858 mansion with an Underground Railroad tragedy legend.

Mackay Mansion

Virginia City, Nevada

Comstock baron’s 1860 mansion with an Irish-servant ghost.

Auburn

Natchez, Mississippi

Levi Weeks’s 1812 masterpiece—the "most magnificent" of Natchez.

Crenshaw House State Historic Site

Junction, Illinois

Historic house associated with documented cultural history.

Drish House

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Historic house in Tuscaloosa; research record.

Wickland

Bardstown, Kentucky

Historic house in Bardstown; research record.

The Whitney

Detroit, Michigan

The 1894 lumber baron mansion—now a restaurant where the family reportedly stays.

Woodruff-Fontaine House

Memphis, Tennessee

Historic house in Memphis; research record.

Pittock Mansion

Portland, Oregon

1914 newspaper baron’s hilltop mansion with founder lore.

Monmouth

Natchez, Mississippi

John A. Quitman’s 1818 house—the general’s ghost and the inn’s lore.

Liberty Hall Historic Site

Frankfort, Kentucky

Historic house in Frankfort; research record.

Bellevue Hall

Wilmington, Delaware

Historic house associated with published local folklore.

George Wythe House

Williamsburg, Virginia

Historic house with critically documented ghost traditions.

3 claims→

Glensheen

Duluth, Minnesota

Jacobean estate of the Congdon family, site of the 1977 double murder.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Historic District

Virginia City

Virginia City, Nevada

The Comstock boomtown—Mark Twain’s newspaper days, preserved.

Agecroft Hall

Richmond, Virginia

The 15th-century Tudor manor that crossed the Atlantic in 1925.

Wilton House

Richmond, Virginia

The 1753 Georgian on the James—moved 14 miles in 1933.

Village

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill

Harrodsburg, Kentucky

The 1805 Shaker utopia—the village that outlived its makers.

Locust Grove

Louisville, Kentucky

The 1790 farm where Clark and Lewis and Clark came.

Lanier Mansion

Madison, Indiana

The 1844 Greek Revival on the Ohio—Madison’s finest.

Barrington Hall

Roswell, Georgia

The 1842 Roswell mansion—the King family’s Greek Revival.

Archibald Smith Plantation

Roswell, Georgia

The 1845 farm that became Roswell’s living museum.

Hofwyl-Broadfield

Brunswick, Georgia

The rice plantation on the Altamaha—the Brailsford-Dent house.

Charleston, South Carolina

Magnolia Plantation

The 1679 plantation where the gardens opened to the public first.

Charleston, South Carolina

Drayton Hall

The 1747 Palladian masterpiece—unrestored and unforgettable.

Charleston, South Carolina

Aiken-Rhett House

The 1820 house preserved as the family left it—slaves’ quarters intact.

Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Atalaya

The Huntingtons’ Moorish castle on the beach—built in the Depression.

Georgetown, South Carolina

Hopsewee

The 1740 plantation—Signer Lynch’s house, preserved almost untouched.

Curry Mansion

Key West, Florida

The 1899 mansion of Florida’s first millionaire—still a family home.