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Charlemont, Massachusetts
The Charlemont Inn on the Mohawk Trail is a 1787 inn long known for its resident spirits. The most active is said to be Elizabeth, a…
Belchertown, Massachusetts
The Clapp Memorial Library was endowed by merchant John Francis Clapp and dedicated in 1887. A night custodian told Ghost Hunters in 2008…
Concord, Massachusetts
Concord's Colonial Inn, on Monument Square across from the Revolutionary War town green, has been in operation in some form since the…
Boston, Massachusetts
The Cutler Majestic Theatre, built in 1903 and now owned by Emerson College, is a historic Boston theater that has long been called one of…
Petersham, Massachusetts
Dana was one of four Swift River Valley towns disincorporated and flooded around 1938 to 1939 to create Quabbin Reservoir for Boston's…
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Hikers in Dogtown describe uneasy feelings and unexplained sounds, and the woods are wrapped in stories of witches: Thomazine "Tammy"…
Lynn, Massachusetts
Dungeon Rock is a cave in Lynn Woods, a large city-owned park, tied to a legend that pirates once hid there and were trapped when an…
Hull, Massachusetts
Fort Revere stands on Telegraph Hill in Hull, where defenses have been built since the Revolution and the remains of the fort and its…
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Fort Taber, later Fort Rodman, guards the entrance to New Bedford harbor and is now a city park with a museum and Battery Milliken. Ghost…
Boston, Massachusetts
Fort Warren on Georges Island in Boston Harbor was built between 1833 and 1861 and held Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. Its…
Salem, Massachusetts
Gallows Hill in Salem was for centuries believed to be where nineteen people convicted of witchcraft were hanged in 1692. Research…
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Hammond Castle is a stone castle on the Gloucester shore built in the late 1920s by the inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. and now run as a…
Salem, Massachusetts
The Hawthorne Hotel, built in 1925 and named for Salem author Nathaniel Hawthorne, faces Salem Common and is the best-known hotel in the…
North Adams, Massachusetts
Digging the Hoosac Tunnel through the mountain of the same name in western Massachusetts took from 1851 to 1875 — nearly a quarter century…
Nantucket, Massachusetts
The Jared Coffin House on Nantucket was built in 1845 by the whaling shipowner Jared Coffin as a family home and is now an inn. Coffin…
Fall River, Massachusetts
The Lizzie Borden House in Fall River is the home where Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with a hatchet on August 4, 1892; Andrew's…
Sudbury, Massachusetts
Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury has welcomed travelers since 1716 and takes its name from the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales…
Fairhaven, Massachusetts
The Millicent Library in Fairhaven was given to the town in 1893 by the financier Henry H. Rogers in memory of his daughter Millicent, who…
Scituate, Massachusetts
Minot's Ledge Light stands on a rock about a mile off the coast at Cohasset and Scituate. The first tower, an iron-legged structure, was…
Lenox, Massachusetts
The Mount in Lenox is the estate the writer Edith Wharton built in 1902 and lived in until 1911, and it is now a museum and cultural…
Fall River, Massachusetts
Oak Grove Cemetery in Fall River is the burial place of the Borden family, including Andrew and Abby Borden and Lizzie, who was acquitted…
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Old Burial Hill in Marblehead is a hilltop cemetery in use since 1638 and filled with weathered colonial gravestones. It is tied to the…
Salem, Massachusetts
Visitors to the Old Burying Point report voices, whispers and muffled weeping, orbs of light, sudden fog, shadows drifting between the…
Boston, Massachusetts
The Omni Parker House on School Street opened in 1855 under Harvey Parker and is one of the oldest continuously operating hotels in the…