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Haunted Cemeteries in the USA

Cemeteries and burial grounds with reported ghost stories and local history; follow posted rules and be respectful.

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Editorial basis: cards use each listing's short description and are ordered by haunting level, then views. Approved community reports are counted separately.

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Bachelor's Grove Cemetery

Midlothian, IL

A tiny, isolated Chicagoland cemetery with fewer than 200 graves — and one of the most photographed paranormal images in American history.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Extreme

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Colonial Park Cemetery

Savannah, GA

Savannah's oldest surviving cemetery, established 1750 — the dueling ground at the eastern wall is where the most activity is reported.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) High

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Howard Street Cemetery

Salem, MA

The 17th-century Salem cemetery adjacent to the Witch Trials Memorial — Giles Corey, pressed to death in 1692, is buried here.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) High

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Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1

New Orleans, LA

New Orleans' oldest cemetery, established 1789 — Marie Laveau's vault receives daily offerings and is the most visited spot on the grounds.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) High

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Ramsey Cemetery, in wooded country outside Ramsey, Illinois, is a small rural burying ground that regional telling has made one of southern Illinois's legend stops — stories of a caretaker figure, lights among the stones and shapes by the treeline, traded for generations.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Olivewood Cemetery

Houston, TX

Houston's first incorporated African-American cemetery, founded in 1875, resting place of formerly enslaved people and community founders. Damaged by neglect and flooding and now under devoted volunteer restoration, Olivewood is a heritage site first; its quiet ghost stories come second.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Broadway Cemetery Historic District

Galveston, TX

Seven historic cemeteries side by side on Broadway in Galveston, Texas, burying the island's dead since 1839 — yellow-fever victims, hurricane dead and city founders together. Raised and layered after the 1900 storm, the district is the heart of the island's famous ghost lore.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Yorba Cemetery

Yorba Linda, CA

A small 19th-century cemetery in Yorba Linda, California, burial ground of the Yorba family's Spanish land-grant community. Its famous 'Pink Lady' is said in local legend to appear among the stones on a June night in even-numbered years, drawing quiet crowds of hopeful watchers.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Bonaventure Cemetery

Savannah, GA

A famously beautiful cemetery overlooking the Wilmington River, known for its oak avenues, Spanish moss and Victorian statuary. Made widely known by the book and film 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil', it is both a working cemetery and a much-loved atmospheric landmark.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Goodleburg Cemetery

Wales, NY

Goodleburg Cemetery in Wales, New York, carries some of the state's darkest rural legends — a doctor's crimes, phantom hounds, apparitions on the pond — nearly all invented, and all costly to a real 1800s burying ground that its town now protects. Visit by daylight, gently.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Stepney Cemetery

Monroe, CT

Stepney Cemetery in Monroe, Connecticut, is the burying ground the famous Warren case-files made known — home in regional telling to a 'White Lady' who crosses nearby roads, a legend the demonologists themselves recounted. It remains a working town cemetery, visited with courtesy.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Leverington Cemetery

Philadelphia, PA

Leverington Cemetery has buried Roxborough's families since 1744 on Philadelphia's Ridge Avenue — Revolutionary soldiers among its stones. Neighbourhood telling adds dusk figures in the older sections and small lights along the ridge paths; its genuine heritage comfortably outweighs its modest, well-worn hauntings.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Gunntown Cemetery

Naugatuck, CT

Gunntown Cemetery in Naugatuck, Connecticut — a small hillside burying ground of Revolutionary-era families — became one of the state's most storied after investigators' tales spread: phantom children, a lantern man and music with no source. Its stones ask daylight and respect.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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About haunted cemeteries in the USA

This page gathers haunted cemeteries reported across the United States — drawn from local history, published folklore and visitor reports. Many are open to the public, and several offer tours or overnight stays.

Stories are recorded as accounts rather than established fact. Browse by state above, or open the full map to explore everything near you.