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Andersonville, Georgia
Camp Sumter, the Confederacy's largest and most notorious prisoner-of-war camp, operated here from February 1864 to May 1865. Built for…
Winter Park, Florida
Opened in 1932 at Rollins College and the longest continuously operating theater in Florida, this Italian Romanesque Revival building was…
Leesburg, Virginia
The Battle of Ball's Bluff, fought October 21, 1861, was a Union defeat in which many soldiers drowned trying to escape down the bluff into…
Marianna, Florida
Bellamy Bridge, built in 1914, is Florida's oldest surviving metal bridge and one of the state's most famous ghost stories. Local legend…
Rome, Georgia
Campus legend at Berry College holds that during World War II, a student living in the connecting tower between the East and West Mary…
Belvedere, Illinois
Blood's Point Cemetery takes its name from Arthur Blood, the first white settler in Flora Township, who purchased the land for his farm in…
Tombstone, Arizona
Boothill served as Tombstone's cemetery from 1878 to 1884, taking in cowboys, miners, gamblers, shopkeepers and sex workers alike, before a…
Kennesaw, Georgia
Hikers near the Illinois Monument at Cheatham Hill report hearing marching orders called out and the sound of footsteps from a large body…
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia
The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 18-20, 1863, was the second-bloodiest battle of the Civil War after Gettysburg, with nearly…
Polk, Florida
Aerobatics competitor and aircraft designer Kermit Weeks built his original Weeks Air Museum collection in Miami starting in 1981, only for…
South Wales, New York
Goodleburg Cemetery near South Wales in Erie County is a small rural burial ground known for local legend. The best-known story involves a…
Burlington, Connecticut
This cemetery on Upson Road dates to the late 18th century, when it served the local Seventh Day Baptist congregation. Local legend…
Micanopy, Florida
At the Herlong Mansion, guests and investigators describe doors, including Inez's own, opening and closing on their own, footsteps on the…
Brooksville, Florida
Built starting in 1855 by John May for his wife Marena and their daughters, this four-story Victorian became the home of Marena's second…
Dahlonega, Georgia
Built by Randall Holly Brannon, the Holly Theatre opened on July 12, 1948, with a Georgia-marble facade and seating for 500; it closed in…
Hollywood, California
In September 1932, when the sign on Mount Lee still read HOLLYWOODLAND and advertised a housing development, Peg Entwistle, a 24-year-old…
Fort Pierce, Florida
Students and staff at the college's McAlpin Theater describe a tall, lanky figure they call Lenny, often glimpsed in a bluish mist near the…
Forester, Michigan
Minnie Quay was a young woman from the Lake Huron port village of Forestville who, according to local tradition, died in 1876 at about…
Dahlonega, Georgia
This pre-Civil War cemetery near Dahlonega Square is known for its "slot and tab" box tombs, a grave style found only in a small pocket of…
Crystal Lake, Illinois
At Mount Thabor Cemetery, visitors report orbs and green mist photographed among the graves, voices laughing, singing, or mumbling, and…
Gilroy, California
A girl in a long white dress is said to ride a horse through the fog over the hills of Mount Madonna and vanish, and visitors have…
Salem, Massachusetts
Visitors to the Old Burying Point report voices, whispers and muffled weeping, orbs of light, sudden fog, shadows drifting between the…
Royal Palm Beach, Florida
Consecrated in 1974 by then-Miami Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll on land the Archdiocese had purchased two years earlier, Our Lady Queen of…
Roswell, Georgia
Established in 1841 behind Roswell Presbyterian Church, this cemetery holds many of the town's most prominent early citizens, including…