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Boilerplate
HauntHunt is a research atlas of 3,516 haunted, mysterious and historically significant places across the United States and its territories — each with an evidence-graded dossier separating documented history from legend and reported experience. haunthunt.com
HauntHunt (haunthunt.com) is a free, open research atlas covering 3,516 haunted, mysterious and historically significant places across 56 US jurisdictions. Every dossier separates documented fact from folklore and reported experience, carries an evidence class, and cites its 3,050 sources — conflicting accounts are preserved side by side rather than resolved. The archive includes 1,514 named entities, 4,009 paranormal claims and 2,526 legends across every state, DC and the territories.
Pitch-ready studies
Each is a self-contained data story with methodology on the page.
- Most haunted statesper-capita vs absolute — Wyoming leads on density, New York on volume
- Ghost towns, counted three waysPennsylvania leads on count; Oklahoma files half its record as ghost towns
- The most filed entitiesthe most-reported ghosts have no names — soldiers, miners, patients
- Where the lights arespooklights are a folk form, not a region — dispersion over belt
- The 50 most documented dossiersthe heaviest paper trails in the archive
Fast facts
- Dossiers
- 3,516
- Sources cited
- 3,050
- Paranormal claims filed
- 4,009
- Named entities
- 1,514
- Jurisdictions
- 56
- With map coordinates
- 3,222
Counts measure documentation coverage, not haunting density — seethe numbers page for full methodology. Record last amended October 2, 2026. For corrections or questions, the dossier page itself is the citation — every file carries one.