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Historic civic, commercial, and institutional buildings with reported ghost stories and verifiable local history.

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Attmore-Oliver House

New Bern, NC

A 1790s Georgian townhouse in New Bern, North Carolina, home to generations of the Attmore and Oliver families and later the town's historical society headquarters. Its quiet lore describes footsteps, a rocking chair and figures in period dress in the old rooms.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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First Methodist Protestant Church of Seattle

Seattle, WA

A handsome early-20th-century church building in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighbourhood, later serving community and events use. Local telling gives it gentle ghost stories — footsteps, organ notes and a lingering presence — of the kind that gather around old sanctuaries, and the accounts remain sparse and unverified.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Hibbing High School

Hibbing, MN

A palatial 1920s public school in Hibbing, Minnesota, built with iron-boom money and famed for its crystal-chandeliered auditorium modelled on a Broadway theatre. Alongside its architecture — and its alumnus Bob Dylan — staff and visitors tell quiet stories of footsteps and a presence in the auditorium.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Rosemary Hall (North Augusta, South Carolina)

North Augusta, SC

A grand 1902 Greek Revival mansion in North Augusta, South Carolina, built in the town's winter-resort heyday and long run as an elegant bed and breakfast. Its gentle lore tells of figures on the veranda and stairs, attributed in local telling to the home's devoted early owners.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Fenwick Hall

Johns Island, SC

One of the South's oldest plantation houses, built about 1730 on Johns Island near Charleston, South Carolina. Privately owned and not open to visitors, Fenwick Hall is viewed only from afar — but three centuries of lowcountry telling surround it with legends.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Cecil Hotel

Los Angeles, CA

A 1924 hotel on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles whose difficult history — decades of deaths and crime in the neighbourhood's hardest years — made it one of America's most talked-about buildings. Now converted to housing, it is not a visitor attraction, and its stories demand restraint.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Harvey Mansion

New Bern, NC

A 1790s brick merchant's house on the Trent River waterfront in New Bern, North Carolina, built for trader John Harvey with warehouse space below and grand quarters above. Later a college building and restaurant, it carries long-told stories of figures on the stairs and a presence in the old cellar.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Old Charleston Jail

Charleston, SC

Charleston's district jail operated from 1802 to 1939, its grim tower holding pirates, the condemned and, in one of its most retold chapters, alleged murderess Lavinia Fisher. Long a fixture of the city's ghost tours, it is often called South Carolina's most haunted building.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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KiMo Theater

Albuquerque, NM

The KiMo Theatre on Albuquerque's Route 66 is a 1927 Pueblo Deco jewel — and home to New Mexico's tenderest ghost story: Bobby Darnall, a six-year-old killed in a 1951 accident at the theatre, remembered in telling as a playful presence performers honour with small gifts.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Willard Library

Evansville, IN

Willard Library in Evansville, Indiana — the state's oldest public library building, a Victorian Gothic gem of 1885 — is home to the 'Grey Lady', a veiled figure reported since the 1930s and hunted worldwide through the library's own live ghost cams.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Gracie Mansion

New York, NY

Gracie Mansion, the 1799 country house that serves as New York City's official mayoral residence, keeps quiet ghost stories two centuries deep — footsteps and figures attributed in telling to merchant Archibald Gracie's household and the house's long civic life. Access is official-tour only.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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New York State Capitol

Albany, NY

The New York State Capitol at Albany — a 32-year granite extravagance finished in 1899 — carries the state's most official ghost story: night watchman Samuel Abbott, the only person killed in the great 1911 fire, said still to walk the corridors he guarded. The building offers public tours.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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New London Ledge Light

Groton, CT

New London Ledge Light stands alone on its pier in the Thames River mouth off Groton, Connecticut — a French Second Empire house improbably at sea, home of 'Ernie', the keeper of legend whose pranks filled Coast Guard logbooks until automation in 1987.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Mount Baker Theatre

Bellingham, WA

The Mount Baker Theatre in Bellingham, Washington — a 1927 Moorish-Spanish movie palace with a 110-foot minaret — keeps its beloved resident 'Judy': a presence blamed fondly for cold drafts, moved objects and a voice in the balcony, honoured by the theatre itself.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Saltair

Magna, UT

Saltair has risen, burned and risen again on Great Salt Lake's shore since 1893 — the Mormon-built 'Coney Island of the West' whose Moorish domes drew dance-hall thousands. The present pavilion, a concert venue, inherits telling of figures from the resort's fiery, drowned past.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Riley Center

Meridian, MS

The Riley Center in Meridian, Mississippi, is a restored 1889 grand opera house and hotel block, reopened in 2006 as a performing-arts centre run by Mississippi State University. Its decades of dereliction bred gentle ghost stories, with staff and performers describing figures in the balconies.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Katie Wheeler Library

Irvine, CA

The Katie Wheeler Library in Irvine, California, is a working public library built as a faithful replica of the Irvine family ranch house that burned down in 1965. Staff and visitors have described gentle unexplained happenings, often attributed in local telling to Katie Wheeler herself.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Carroll College

Helena, MT

Carroll College is a Catholic college on a Helena, Montana hilltop, founded in 1909, whose landmark St. Charles Hall carries the campus's famous ghost stories. Students have long spoken of a presence on the fourth floor, tied to tales of student deaths in the building's early decades.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Carolina Theatre

Greensboro, NC

The Carolina Theatre of Greensboro, North Carolina, opened in 1927 as a lavish 'showplace of the Carolinas' and survives as a restored performing-arts centre. Staff and performers have long described a gentle presence nicknamed Stephen and a woman in the balcony, part of the theatre's affectionate lore.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Liberty Memorial Building

Bismarck, ND

The Liberty Memorial Building on North Dakota's capitol grounds in Bismarck was built in 1924 to honour the state's war dead and long housed its library and archives. Generations of staff told of 'the Stack Monster' — footsteps, whistling and shifting books in the old stacks.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Epperson House

Kansas City, MO

Epperson House is a 48-room Tudor-Gothic mansion on the University of Missouri-Kansas City campus, built in the 1920s by insurance magnate Uriah Epperson. Campus lore tells of organ music, footsteps and a woman in evening dress, tied to Harriet Barse, who died in the house.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Edgewood Plantation and Harrison's Mill

Charles City, VA

Edgewood Plantation near Charles City, Virginia, is an 1849 Gothic Revival house beside Harrison's Mill on the road between the James River great houses. Long run as a bed and breakfast, it is known for the legend of Lizzie Rowland, said to watch still from an upstairs window for a love lost to the Civil War.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Dumas Brothel

Butte, MT

The Dumas Brothel in Butte, Montana, operated from 1890 to 1982 — often called America's longest-running house of prostitution — its cribs and parlours preserved as a museum. Its telling honours the women who worked there, with reports centred on the basement and 'Madam Elinor'.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Wolfe Manor

Clovis, CA

The Wolfe Manor of Clovis, California — the old Andrews estate that became a sanitarium — spent decades as one of the state's most argued-over haunted houses, spawning a famous Halloween attraction and television visits before demolition threats and long limbo. Its story now outlives much of its fabric.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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About historic haunted buildings in the USA

This page gathers historic haunted buildings 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.