Massachusetts

Fall River, Massachusetts

Lizzie Borden House

1892 crime site operating as a museum and overnight accommodation.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Swamp

West Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Hockomock Swamp (Bridgewater Triangle)

The heart of the Bridgewater Triangle—ghost lights, pterodactyls and cult legends.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Railroad Tunnel

Florida / North Adams, Massachusetts

Hoosac Tunnel

Railroad tunnel research record.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Ghost Town

Dogtown

Abandoned Cape Ann settlement with cellar holes and local witch folklore.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Fort

Fort Warren

Civil War prison and harbor fort associated with a disputed ghost legend.

Museum Ship

Fall River, Massachusetts

USS Massachusetts

Battleship museum at Battleship Cove with overnight "Nautical Nights" lore.

Omni Parker House

Hotel research record.

Mansion

North Adams, Massachusetts

Houghton Mansion

Mayor’s mansion marked by a 1914 auto accident that preceded three deaths.

Mansion

S.K. Pierce Mansion

Gardner, Massachusetts

1885 chair-factory baron’s mansion marketed for overnight investigations.

Forest

Freetown-Fall River State Forest

Assonet, Massachusetts

5,000-acre forest inside the Bridgewater Triangle with cult-crime history.

Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Red Lion Inn

The Berkshires inn whose fourth floor the staff won’t joke about.

Cocoanut Grove site

November 28, 1942—the fire that killed 492.

Andrea Doria wreck

Nantucket, Massachusetts

July 25, 1956—the Italian liner’s grave off Nantucket.

Andrea Gail

October 1991—the Perfect Storm’s lost boat.

Man at the Wheel

The 1925 statue—where the fishermen’s memorial stands.

Essex whaleship

Nantucket, Massachusetts

1820—the whale that sank the ship and inspired Moby Dick.

Steamer Portland

November 26, 1898—the gale that took them all.

Whydah pirate wreck

Wellfleet, Massachusetts

April 26, 1717—the pirate ship that the storm took.

Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts

City of Columbus

January 18, 1884—the wreck that froze the dead.

Castle

Hammond Castle Museum

Inventor's house museum documenting spiritualism history and reported TV investigations.

Former Hospital

Danvers State Hospital

Danvers, Massachusetts

Kirkbride asylum whose ruins starred in Session 9 before demolition.

Museum Ship

USS Salem

Quincy, Massachusetts

Heavy cruiser museum ship with an active paranormal-events program.

Hospital

Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center

Waltham, Massachusetts

The "School for the Feeble-Minded"—eugenics-era institution with a brutal documented record.

Woburn

Woburn, Massachusetts

The town where the water made the children sick—A Civil Action.

Tunnel

Dungeon Rock

Lynn, Massachusetts

Treasure-seeking tunnel tied to nineteenth-century Spiritualist practice.

Park

Boston Common

America’s oldest public park—and its former hanging ground.

House

Joshua Ward House

1784 house built over the witch-sheriff’s former home.

Historic House Museum

House of the Seven Gables

1668 mansion that inspired Hawthorne’s novel and anchors Salem’s gothic lore.

Cemetery

Howard Street Cemetery

Burial ground near where Giles Corey was pressed to death in 1692.

Road

Dover Demon site

Dover, Massachusetts

Farm Street—three witnesses, two nights, one small pale creature (1977).

Hospital

Taunton State Hospital

Taunton, Massachusetts

The Kirkbride where Jane Toppan worked—and where the dome burned.

Hospital

Northampton, Massachusetts

Northampton State Hospital

The 1858 Kirkbride that housed Sylvia Plath—and a demolished town of wards.

Cemetery

Forest Hills Cemetery

Boston’s 1848 rural cemetery—the miniature forest and the sculpture garden of the dead.

House

The Witch House (Jonathan Corwin House)

The only Salem structure with direct ties to the 1692 trials.

Cemetery

Old Burying Point Cemetery

Salem’s oldest burying ground—where the judges rest, not the accused.

Whalom Park

Lunenburg, Massachusetts

The 1893 park on Lake Whalom—closed 2000, demolished.

Lincoln Park

Dartmouth, Massachusetts

The 1894 park whose Comet coaster killed—demolished 2012.

Paragon Park

Hull, Massachusetts

The 1905 park on Nantasket Beach—its carousel survives.

Mountain Park

Holyoke, Massachusetts

The 1894 park on Mount Tom—closed 1987, the ruins stood for years.

Former Hospital

Metropolitan State Hospital

Waltham, Massachusetts

State hospital with a burial ground and a notorious 1978 patient murder.

Liberty Hotel

Charles Street Jail converted to a luxury hotel.

Ship

USS Salem (CA-139)

Quincy, Massachusetts

Preserved heavy cruiser hosting museum tours and paranormal programs.

Petroglyph

Dighton Rock

Berkley, Massachusetts

Indigenous petroglyph boulder historically surrounded by competing origin claims.

Historic House Museum

Rebecca Nurse Homestead

Danvers, Massachusetts

Home of the pious grandmother hanged for witchcraft in 1692.

Museum

Salem Witch Museum

The 1972 museum that anchors Salem’s witch-trials interpretation.

Gallows Hill

The 1692 execution site—Proctor’s Ledge, confirmed in 2016.

Salem Maritime

The wharves where the privateers and the witches’ era meet.

Historic House

The Mount

Lenox, Massachusetts

Author's estate presenting ghost-story traditions and reported encounters.

Hawthorne Hotel

Historic Salem hotel acknowledging unconfirmed guest haunting accounts.

Historic Site