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Most Haunted Places by State
Most Haunted Places by State: compare 50 US states on 2 metrics.
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50 states
Alabama | The Malaga Inn | Flickering lights, moving furniture, and a woman in white who paces in room seven |
Alaska | At The White House (bed and breakfast) | A woman, believed to be the ghost of a former owner, who stands and looks over the guests' shoulders |
Arizona | Hotel Congress | Two spirits, who may have been part of John Dilliger's gang: A woman who smells like roses and a man who watches out of the second-floor windows. Additional ghost encounters are outlined on the hotel's website: https://hotelcongress.com/hotel/ |
Arkansas | 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa | Assorted spirits, including Michael and Theodora, “The Ghost in the Morgue", the Nurse, the “Girl in the Mist”, and the Lady in Victorian lingerie in room 3500 |
California | Sebastiani Theatre | A young girl in a 1930s-style yellow dress. Workers have nicknamed her Trixie after her tendency to play pranks on the living. |
Colorado | The Stanley Hotel | Multiple spirits. Author Stephen King's visit to the Stanley inspired his novel, The Shining |
Connecticut | The Mark Twain House | Multiple spirits, most commonly a lady in white |
Delaware | The Amstel House | Multiple spirits, who are thought to be waiting for loved ones to return from military service abroad |
Florida | St. Augustine Lighthouse | The daughter of the lighthouse's builder is said to roam the second floor |
Georgia | The Hamilton-Turner Inn | Multiple spirits, including a cigar-smoking man on the roof and a Confederate soldier believed to be buried under the inn, as well as the sounds of children laughing and billiard balls rolling |
Hawaii | Iolani Palace | Multiple spirits, including a woman who gazes out a bedroom window and possibly the spirit of Queen Liliuokalani, who died there in 1917. Additional impressions include phantom footsteps and the smell of cigars |
Idaho | The Old Idaho Penitentiary | Multiple spirits of former guards and inmates |
Illinois | Chicago Water Tower | The ghost of a worker who, when the tower caught fire in 1871, stayed to man the water pumps instead of evacuating and eventually hung himself on the hotel's upper floors as the fire encroached. |
Indiana | The Culbertson Mansion | Puffs of smoke and the smell of cigars, speculated to be courtesy of the spirit of a long-deceased member of the Culbertson family. |
Iowa | Squirrel Cage Jail | Four spirits of former inmates, including one who fell three stories while attempting to carve his name into the ceiling. Additional impressions include footsteps, voices, shadows, and moving doors. |
Kansas | Hollenberg Pony Express Station | Multiple spirits including Gerat Hollenberg, who is accused of hiding items and rearranging rooms. Additional impressions include disembodied voices and the sound of horse hooves. |
Kentucky | Talbott Tavern | Multiple spirits including Jesse James and a lady dressed in 17th-century clothes. Additional impressions include floating orbs of light and camera-like flashes, moving shadows, objects and furniture moving, and sounds such as footsteps and phantom knocking. |
Louisiana | LaLaurie Mansion | Multiple spirits believed to be the ghosts of slaves kept in chains and tortured by the mansion's original owner. |
Maine | Museums of Old York | Multiple spirits, including the "White Witch", a woman who walks down the street alone. Additional impressions include doors which open and close on their own. |
Maryland | Fell Family Cemetery | A spirit believed to be the ghost of one of two Fell brothers, Edward and William, who helped build up the surrounding neighborhood and died in the 1740s |
Massachusetts | The Lizzie Borden House | A spirit in Victorian-era clothing, who roams the halls. Additional impressions include the sound of weeping, footsteps, and not-quite-discernable conversations emanating from empty rooms. |
Michigan | Marquette Harbor Lighthouse | A little girl who stares out the tower window. She is said to have lived onsite with her father, the lighthouse keeper, and to have fallen from the lighthouse and sustained severe injuries on the rocks below, |
Minnesota | Mounds Theatre | An unseen spirit said to have physically grabbed the theater owner one night and to have left claw marks on the backs of workers who have entered the basement. |
Mississippi | The McRaven Tour Home | Multiple spirits believed to be the ghosts of people who died onsite, including during the Civil War, when the house served as a hospital and campsite. |
Missouri | The Elms Hotel & Spa | Multiple spirits, including the ghosts of a Prohibition-era gambler and a former housekeeper. |
Montana | Virginia City | A black-robed figure, believed to be the ghost of a nun, who walks the streets. Additional impressions include unexplained sounds and smells. |
Nebraska | Museum of Shadows | Impressions include phantom voices, apparitions, and poltergeist sightings. |
Nevada | The Goldfield Hotel | Multiple spirits, including a couple who killed themselves in the hotel. Additional impressions include the sounds of a woman and a crying baby, said to be the spirits of the former owner's mistress, who was tied to a radiator in room 109 during her pregnancy, and her child, b… |
New Hampshire | The Chase House | The ghost of a young girl who hung herself in the house, which was once used as an orphanage. Additional impressions include the sound of her screaming. |
New Jersey | The Seabrook–Wilson House | Multiple spirits, including a woman looking for her child, a small boy who peeks out the windows (her child), and a bearded sea captain who may be the infamous Captain Morgan, who used the basement of the house as a torture chamber. |
New Mexico | KiMo Theatre | Bobby, a young boy in jeans and a striped shirt, who was killed by an exploding water heater in the theater in 1951. Bobby is known to steal small items and play with the lights and sound during shows. Performers attempt to placate him by leaving treats for him at night. |
New York | Hyde Hall | The ghost of George Clarke, the home's former owner. Additional historical impressions have included a self-playing piano and a ghostly mayday message heard over the radio. |
North Carolina | The Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa | A young woman wearing pink, who died on the property in 1920. Additional impressions include cold chills, unexplained smoke, and a pink apparition in room 545. |
North Dakota | The Custer House at Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park | A woman in a black dress who gazes out the second-floor window. Additional impressions include voices and footsteps. |
Ohio | The Ohio Statehouse | Phantom smells, flickering lights, and apparitions who may be the spirits of wounded Civil War soldiers or the ghosts of prisoner-laborers who died during the building's construction. |
Oklahoma | Cain’s Ballroom | Two spirits: The ghost of Bob Wills, whose band has its first regular radio show at the ballroom, and a mysterious woman in red. Impressions include the sight and sound of the two spirits as well as floating orbs and unexplained cold spots in the ballroom. |
Oregon | Siletz Bay | A ghost ship that appears on foggy days, suspected to be a spiritual remnant of a shipwreck from 1864. |
Pennsylvania | Historic Hotel Bethlehem | Multiple spirits, including a former hostess who haunts the lobby. Room 932 is said to be particularly haunted. |
Rhode Island | The Graduate Hotel | Impressions include the sounds of phantom doors closing and the disappearance of guests from the corridors. |
South Carolina | Poogan’s Porch | Sisters Zoe and Elizabeth, who lived in the house (now a restaurant) in the 1800s and have now been sighted more than 200 times. |
South Dakota | Mount Moriah Cemetery | Multiple spirits, possibly the ghosts of Wild West legends such as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickock, who are interred in the cemetery. |
Tennessee | Wheatlands Plantation | Ghost of Mrs McGavock, a former resident who was killed by a falling chandelier, clad in all black. She roams the halls but is said to be particularly fond of the Magnolia Lobby. |
Texas | La Carafe | Carl, a former bartender, who may or may not be the figure often seen standing in the second-floor window after the bar has closed. Additional impressions include phantom footsteps, breaking glass, and items on the vacant second floor changing locations. |
Utah | The Rio Grande Depot | A woman in a purple dress and hat, who was struck by a train and killed while retrieving her dropped engagement ring from the tracks. It is said she can also be heard singing from the women's restrooms. |
Vermont | Gold Brook Covered Bridge | Emily, who hung herself from the bridge when her lover failed to meet her there. Additional impressions include a white apparition, the sound of a girl screaming, and scratches on cars parked on the bridge. |
Virginia | The Weems-Botts Museum | A little girl spirit is said to haunt the main house, while the ghosts of Civil War soldiers are said to haunt the nearby cemetery. |
Washington | Kells Irish Pub | A ghost named Charlie, often visible in mirriors, or a little girl who reportedly sits at the bar at times. Additional impressions include glasses that glide along the floor without being touched and mirrors that shatter seemingly at random. |
West Virginia | West Virginia Penitentiary | Multiple spirits, thought to be the ghosts of former prisoners and guards. |
Wisconsin | The Pfister Hotel | Multiple spirits including Charles Pfister, the hotel's original owner. Additional impressions include unexplained noises and both clothes and furniture changing location on their own. |
Wyoming | The Atlas Theatre | Impressions include phantom voices, visions of floating robes, unexplained electrical glitches, and items changing locations without being touched. |
Quick answers
- Where does this most haunted places by state data come from?
- Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Sherman's Travel.

















































