How the record is filed

Status · Historic site

Historic sites

628 dossiers across 56 jurisdictions carry this filing — heaviest in California (49), New York (36) and Pennsylvania (34). Standing and registered — the record at its most documentary.

628 dossiers56 jurisdictions71% open to visitors

High confidence

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Louisville, Kentucky

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

6 claims · 3 legends→

High confidence

Old Idaho Penitentiary

Historic prison associated with reported whispers.

5 claims · 4 legends→

High confidence

RMS Queen Mary

Long Beach, California

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

5 claims · 3 legends→

High confidence

Chestnut Hill Cemetery

Exeter, Rhode Island

Cemetery associated with the documented1892vampire panic surrounding Mercy Brown.

5 claims · 3 legends→

High confidence

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary

Petros, Tennessee

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

5 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Prospect Place

Mansion associated with documented cultural history.

5 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

St. Augustine Lighthouse

St. Augustine, Florida

The museum presents lighthouse ghost stories and investigation experiences.

4 claims · 3 legends→

High confidence

Bannack

Bannack, Montana

Preserved gold-rush town with apparition folklore.

4 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

West Virginia Penitentiary

Moundsville, West Virginia

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

4 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

Castillo San Cristóbal

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Fort built to defend land approaches.

3 claims · 3 legends→

Industrial Site

High confidence

Sloss Furnaces

Birmingham, Alabama

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

4 claims · 1 legend→

Former Hospital

High confidence

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

Weston, West Virginia

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

4 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Fort Morgan

Gulf Shores, Alabama

Fort in Alabama; research record.

3 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

Old Montana Prison

Deer Lodge, Montana

Prison museum associated with paranormal tours.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Detention Center

Angel Island Immigration Station

Tiburon, California

The "Ellis Island of the West"—where Chinese immigrants were detained under exclusion.

3 claims · 3 legends→

Cave-in-Rock

Cave-in-Rock, Illinois

Cave associated with documented cultural history.

3 claims · 3 legends→

High confidence

Fairport Harbor Lighthouse

Fairport Harbor, Ohio

Lighthouse associated with documented cultural history.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Missouri State Penitentiary

Jefferson City, Missouri

Prison associated with documented cultural history.

3 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

Old Charleston Jail

Charleston, South Carolina

SCETV recounts visitors reporting supernatural encounters.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Historic House Site

Rehmeyer’s Hollow

York, Pennsylvania

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

3 claims · 2 legends→

Devil’s Den

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Boulder-strewn slaughter pen at the base of Little Round Top.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Blennerhassett Island

Parkersburg, West Virginia

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

3 claims · 2 legends→

Shanghai Tunnels

Portland, Oregon

Underground corridors where legend says men were shanghaied to ships.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Sculpture Garden

Coral Castle

Homestead, Florida

Ed Leedskalnin single-handedly quarried and moved 1,100 tons of oolite—how is still argued.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Tolomato Cemetery

St. Augustine, Florida

18th-century Minorcan cemetery—site of the 1877 death of a young boy playing in a vault.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Cerro Gordo

Keeler, California

1865 silver camp on a 8,500-ft Inyo ridge—now a private ghost town with overnight stays.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Sutro Baths ruins

San Francisco, California

1896 glass-topped saltwater baths—burned 1966, ruins on the cliff.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Fort Bowie

The Apache Pass fort—ruins at the center of the Apache Wars.

3 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

Villisca Ax Murder House

Historic house associated with documented cultural history.

3 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Historic Adams House

Deadwood, South Dakota

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

3 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Whaley House

San Diego, California

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

3 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Old Cahawba

Orrville, Alabama

Ghost town in Alabama; research record.

2 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

Winchester Mystery House

San Jose, California

Unusual mansion with an extensive modern ghost tradition.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Historic House Museum

The Octagon House

Washington, Washington, D.C.

1801 mansion where the Treaty of Ghent was signed—haunted by a Tripp daughter.

3 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

McPike Mansion

Alton, Illinois

Mansion associated with documented cultural history.

3 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Antietam National Battlefield

Sharpsburg, Maryland

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

3 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Fort Mifflin

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

3 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Thurmond

Thurmond, West Virginia

Ghost town associated with published local folklore.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Hannah House

Indianapolis, Indiana

1858 mansion with an Underground Railroad tragedy legend.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Star of India

San Diego, California

1863 windjammer with a sailor’s ghost in the rigging.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Old Joliet Prison

Joliet, Illinois

1858 fortress prison—Jake and Elwood Blues walked out its gate.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Former Hospital

Eloise Asylum

Westland, Michigan

1839 poorhouse-grown psychiatric city, now a haunted attraction.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Historic House Museum

Casa Blanca

San Juan, Puerto Rico

1521 house built for Ponce de León’s family—he never lived in it.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Former Military Base

Fort Worden

Port Townsend, Washington

Puget Sound "Fortress of Defense"—batteries, tunnels, and an officer’s-club ghost.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Former Hospital

Camarillo State Hospital site

Camarillo, California

1936 psychiatric hospital—its bell tower became a CSU campus landmark.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Auburn

Natchez, Mississippi

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

3 claims · 1 legend→

Whitney Plantation

Wallace, Louisiana

The plantation museum that tells the enslaved people’s story first.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Mission San José

San Antonio, Texas

The "Queen of the Missions" of Texas—and the Rose Window.

3 claims · 1 legend→

148 more on this shelf — filter them in the atlas

The other status shelves

Operating 1,959 Status unknown 652 Natural site 129 Abandoned 84 Demolished 37 Closed 18 Museum 8