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Haunted Pubs & Inns in the USA

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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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Spirit Room Bar

Jerome, AZ

A historic saloon inside Jerome's former Connor Hotel, renowned for its mining-era history and persistent reports of paranormal activity.

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Editorial rating (not community score) High

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Palace Saloon

Prescott, AZ

Arizona's oldest bar on Prescott's historic Whiskey Row, where Wild West history and ghost stories have become part of its enduring appeal.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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A clifftop restaurant on the San Mateo coast of California, opened in 1927 as the Prohibition speakeasy 'Frank's Place'. It is home to one of the state's most famous ghost stories, the 'Blue Lady', said to be a young woman who died on the beach below in the 1930s.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Bube's Brewery

Mount Joy, PA

An intact 19th-century brewery complex in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, founded in 1876 by German immigrant Alois Bube, with restaurants including the Catacombs 43 feet below street level. It runs its own ghost tours and paranormal events, with activity reported throughout the old buildings.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Gadsby's Tavern

Alexandria, VA

A 1785 tavern and 1792 hotel in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, where Washington and Jefferson dined — now a museum and working restaurant. Gadsby's is famous for the 'Female Stranger', a young woman who died in Room 8 in 1816 and whose unnamed grave feeds two centuries of telling.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Merchant's Cafe

Seattle, WA

Merchant's Cafe in Pioneer Square, serving since 1890 and called Seattle's oldest restaurant, sits atop the buried storeys of the pre-fire city. Its saloon, card room and underground levels feed classic Seattle lore — a girl on the stairs, Gold Rush figures and basement voices.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Jean Bonnet Tavern

Bedford, PA

A 1760s stone tavern at the forks of the old Forbes Road in Bedford, Pennsylvania, serving travellers since before the Revolution — and, in Whiskey Rebellion days, a muster point. The Jean Bonnet Tavern's inn and taproom carry cherished lore of colonial figures and unexplained knocks.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Brennan's

New Orleans, LA

Brennan's, the famous pink-stuccoed restaurant on Royal Street in New Orleans — birthplace of bananas Foster — occupies an 18th-century building whose lore includes duelling-era gentlemen and a devoted chef said to linger in the kitchens and the Red Room.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Ye College Inn

Seattle, WA

A 1909 Tudor-style inn beside the University of Washington in Seattle, built for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Its basement pub has long been the haunt of 'Howard', a presence blamed for footsteps, moved glasses and cold drafts, part of University District lore for generations.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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General Wayne Inn

Merion, PA

The General Wayne Inn served Merion, Pennsylvania, from 1704 — host to Washington, Lafayette and Edgar Allan Poe, and long called one of America's most haunted inns. Its later history turned dark with a 1996 tragedy, and the building now serves a synagogue community.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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El Adobe de Capistrano

San Juan Capistrano, CA

El Adobe de Capistrano is a historic restaurant in San Juan Capistrano, California, formed from two adobe buildings dating to around 1800, one of which served as a courthouse and jail. A favourite of Richard Nixon, it carries gentle ghost stories tied to its jail cell and old corridors.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Cosmopolitan Hotel and Restaurant

San Diego, CA

The Cosmopolitan Hotel and Restaurant in Old Town San Diego occupies the 1820s adobe of Californio patriarch Juan Bandini, later a stage-stop hotel. Restored within the state historic park, it tells warmly of Bandini-era figures and its celebrated resident spirits.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Middleton Tavern

Annapolis, MD

Middleton Tavern has served Annapolis harbour since 1750 — Washington, Jefferson and Franklin among its patrons in the ferry-house days. Generations of its staff keep the telling of 'Roland', a Revolutionary-dressed gentleman regular who breaks glasses from secure shelves and favours the old fireplace tables.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Ghost Alley Espresso

Seattle, WA

Ghost Alley Espresso pours from a nook in Seattle's Post Alley by the famous Gum Wall — a stand named for the Pike Place Market hauntings around it, where telling keeps Princess Angeline, daughter of Chief Seattle, walking her market still.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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About haunted pubs & inns in the USA

This page gathers haunted pubs & inns 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.