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Pawleys Island, South Carolina
All Saints Waccamaw Church on Pawleys Island has the grave of Alice Flagg, a flat stone marked only "ALICE" under a large oak. The…
Paoli, Indiana
The gravestone of Floyd E. Pruett (1894-1920) at this Orange County cemetery bears a real, documented curiosity that's drawn folklorists'…
Madison, Mississippi
The Chapel of the Cross, in the Mannsdale community near Madison, is an Episcopal church of Gothic Revival design built around 1850 to 1852…
St. Simons Island, Georgia
Christ Church on St. Simons Island traces its history to 1736, when John and Charles Wesley preached to the colonists of Frederica, and the…
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Church Brew Works occupies the former St. John the Baptist Church in Lawrenceville, a brewery and restaurant since 1996. Staff report…
Bristol, Connecticut
Built in 1884 as a schoolhouse in Bristol's North Chippens Hill district, the building became a Sunday school under the Sessions family and…
Evanston, Illinois
First United Methodist Church of Evanston is one of several Methodist churches with a documented ghost story passed down among congregants:…
Indianapolis, Indiana
At Historic St. Joseph Church, staff and visitors have reported seeing blood on their hands, a loud bang from the middle of the former…
Chicago, Illinois
Built in 1857 and dedicated in 1860, Holy Family Church is the second-oldest Catholic church still standing in Chicago and one of the few…
Buffalo, New York
The Iron Island Museum is a local history museum in a former church and funeral home in Buffalo's Iron Island neighborhood, donated to the…
Lompoc, California
La Purisima Mission is a reconstructed Spanish mission and living-history park in Lompoc; the 1824 Chumash uprising ended in a deadly…
Goliad, Texas
Mission Espíritu Santo, within Goliad State Park, was a Spanish mission founded in 1722 and moved to this site in 1749. The Native peoples…
Lompoc, California
Founded on December 8, 1787, Mission La Purísima Concepción was rebuilt at its present site after the 1812 earthquake destroyed the…
Canton, Georgia
New Hightower Baptist Church, known as "Hell's Church," and the cemetery across the road are ranked among Georgia's most haunted cemeteries…
La Porte, Indiana
Posey Chapel Cemetery, in Galena Township outside La Porte, has the reputation of being the most haunted cemetery in La Porte County, with…
Roswell, Georgia
Established in 1841 behind Roswell Presbyterian Church, this cemetery holds many of the town's most prominent early citizens, including…
Dawsonville, Georgia
Salem Church, standing since the 1800s off Salem Church Road near Kelly Bridge Road, has circulated as one of the Dawsonville area's…
San Antonio, Texas
Staff and visitors at San Fernando Cathedral have reported shadowy figures near the altar, voices with no clear source, orbs in…
Mission Hills, California
Father Fermín Lasuén founded Mission San Fernando Rey de España on 8 September 1797, the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions in…
San Juan Capistrano, California
Founded in 1775 and famous for the swallows that return to the mission every March, San Juan Capistrano carries a heavier history after…
Palatka, Florida
Congregants describe the ghost of an elderly former member still shuffling up the church aisle just as he did in life, and, in the nursery,…
San Miguel, California
Mission San Miguel Arcángel was founded in 1797. After secularization it was sold, and by 1848 William Reed was running it as an inn and…
Jasper, Indiana
Founded in 1873 as a Methodist Episcopal society in nearby Ireland, Indiana, the congregation moved to its current site at State Road 56…
Gladstone, Illinois
A Knox College student group once brought cameras and surveillance equipment to the cemetery beside South Henderson Church in Gladstone and…