21 dossiers

Phantom Music

Music with no source — a piano after hours, singing in a closed chapel, a fiddle on an empty road. Often the most fondly held claim attached to a place.

By jurisdiction:New York3

Seguin Island Light Station

Georgetown, Maine

Active offshore lighthouse with keeper folklore and firsthand caretaker reports.

4 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

The Stanley Hotel

Estes Park, Colorado

Historic hotel linked to horror literature.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Ryman Auditorium

Nashville, Tennessee

"Mother Church of Country Music"—where Opry ghosts reportedly still perform.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Garnet

Garnet, Montana

Preserved mining town with saloon folklore.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Bird Cage Theatre

Tombstone, Arizona

"Wildest, wickedest night spot" of the boomtown era—140 bullet holes in the walls.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Fox Theatre (Atlanta)

Atlanta, Georgia

The Fabulous Fox—its Moorish fantasy interior and organ that plays itself.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Old Stone Fort Museum

Schoharie, New York

Former church and Revolutionary War fort preserving rural history and documented haunting stories.

Knox Mansion

Johnstown, New York

Charles Knox’s residence, associated with guest reports and explicitly unconfirmed burial rumors.

Gardiner Lake

Salem, Connecticut

Lake research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Sheffield Island Lighthouse

Norwalk, Connecticut

Lighthouse research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Loyd Hall Plantation

Cheneyville, Louisiana

Historic inn in Cheneyville; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Gaineswood

Demopolis, Alabama

Historic house in Demopolis; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Julia Ideson Building

Library in Houston; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

River Folklore Area

Pascagoula River — Singing River Folklore Area

Pascagoula, Mississippi

River folklore area in Pascagoula; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Rosewell Ruins

Gloucester, Virginia

Ruins associated with published local folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Scotts Run Bridge

St. Georges, Delaware

Historic crossing associated with phantom fiddling.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Cary House Hotel

Placerville, California

Historic hotel with phantom music reports.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Bok Tower Gardens

Lake Wales, Florida

1929 carillon tower on Iron Mountain—Edward Bok’s birdsong sanctuary.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Ephrata Cloister

Ephrata, Pennsylvania

The 1732 celibate community whose strict rule bred ghost legends.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Poliʻahu Heiau

Wailua sacred site with a published account of unexplained drumming.

Phelps Mansion Museum

Binghamton, New York

Sherman Phelps’s residence, with period-clothed apparition and unwound-clock stories.