Haunted Locations: 20th century

A community directory of documented haunted & investigation sites.

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55 haunted places
Featured Hotel / Inn 1886 Crescent Hotel ✓ Eureka Springs, Arkansas A mountain resort hotel that once operated as a fraudulent cancer hospital, now famous for its ghost tours.
36.4090, -93.7380
Featured Prison / Jail Alcatraz ✓ San Francisco, California The famous island federal prison in San Francisco Bay, retired and now a national park site.
37.8267, -122.4230
Featured Cemetery Bonaventure Cemetery ✓ Savannah, Georgia A garden cemetery of moss-draped oaks and Victorian statuary on the Wilmington River, long associated with Savannah ghostlore.
32.0405, -81.0490
Featured Prison / Jail Eastern State Penitentiary ✓ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania A pioneering radial prison built around solitary confinement, now a preserved ruin and museum.
39.9683, -75.1727
Featured Battlefield Gettysburg Battlefield ✓ Gettysburg, Pennsylvania The site of the Civil War's bloodiest battle, with generations of reported encounters across its fields.
39.8094, -77.2300
Featured Hotel / Inn Hamilton-Turner Inn ✓ Savannah, Georgia A grand Second Empire mansion on Lafayette Square, now an inn, with a long reputation for after-hours activity.
32.0741, -81.0912
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Featured Prison / Jail Mansfield Reformatory ✓ Mansfield, Ohio A castle-like former reformatory, famous on film, now toured for its history and hauntings.
40.7710, -82.5040
Featured Prison / Jail Old Jail (St. Augustine) ✓ St. Augustine, Florida A late-1800s jail where executions were carried out and harsh conditions left their mark.
29.9050, -81.3170
Featured Lighthouse St. Augustine Lighthouse ✓ St. Augustine, Florida A working lighthouse on Anastasia Island and one of the most documented haunted sites in Florida.
29.8853, -81.2886
Featured Plantation The Myrtles Plantation ✓ St. Francisville, Louisiana An antebellum plantation home wrapped in legend, often called one of America's most haunted houses.
30.7935, -91.3760
Featured Ship The Queen Mary ✓ Long Beach, California A retired ocean liner and floating hotel with decades of accumulated maritime ghostlore.
33.7527, -118.1903
Featured Hotel / Inn The Stanley Hotel ✓ Estes Park, Colorado A grand Rocky Mountain resort whose stay by a famous author inspired a classic of horror.
40.3828, -105.5217
Featured Asylum / Hospital Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum ✓ Weston, West Virginia A vast stone asylum, once dangerously overcrowded, now open for history and ghost tours.
39.0370, -80.4690
Featured Asylum / Hospital Waverly Hills Sanatorium ✓ Louisville, Kentucky A former tuberculosis hospital where thousands died, now a centerpiece of American ghost hunting.
38.1336, -85.8430
Featured Residence Winchester Mystery House ✓ San Jose, California A sprawling Victorian mansion of endless stairs and doors to nowhere, built without pause for decades.
37.3184, -121.9510
Hotel / Inn 17Hundred90 Inn ✓ Savannah, Georgia An inn and tavern best known for Room 204 and the legend of a young woman named Anna.
32.0782, -81.0870
Landmark Bell Witch Cave ✓ Adams, Tennessee A cave on the former Bell farm, tied to one of America's most famous early hauntings.
36.5870, -87.0640
Tavern / Restaurant Bobby Mackey’s Music World ✓ Wilder, Kentucky A roadhouse and nightclub built over a former slaughterhouse, steeped in dark local legend.
39.0790, -84.4790
Landmark Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp ✓ Cassadaga, Florida A historic spiritualist community in central Florida known as a center for mediums and seekers.
28.9990, -81.2330
Fort Castillo de San Marcos ✓ St. Augustine, Florida The oldest masonry fort in the continental US, built of coquina stone, with centuries of garrison history.
29.8979, -81.3114
Cemetery Colonial Park Cemetery ✓ Savannah, Georgia Savannah's oldest intact municipal cemetery, resting place of thousands including yellow fever victims.
32.0744, -81.0884
Theater Dock Street Theatre ✓ Charleston, South Carolina One of the first purpose-built theaters in America, rebuilt over an old hotel, with resident spirits.
32.7770, -79.9300
University Flagler College (Hotel Ponce de Leon) ✓ St. Augustine, Florida A former luxury hotel of Gilded Age splendor, now a college, with stories tied to its founder's circle.
29.8940, -81.3140
Hotel / Inn Foley House Inn ✓ Savannah, Georgia A Chippewa Square inn whose renovation reportedly uncovered remains within a wall.
32.0742, -81.0935
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