53 places found

Mansfield, Connecticut
Operating from 1860 until its 1993 closure, Mansfield Training School and Hospital housed and treated people with intellectual…

Biloxi, Mississippi
The Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center is a large arena and convention complex on the Gulf Coast in Biloxi, with…

Streator, Illinois
Moon Point Cemetery, a family burial ground established by Jacob Moon in the 1830s — older than the Civil War — carries central Illinois's…

Crystal Lake, Illinois
At Mount Thabor Cemetery, visitors report orbs and green mist photographed among the graves, voices laughing, singing, or mumbling, and…

Newberry, Florida
Newberry Cemetery dates to at least 1849 and holds more than 1,000 burials across its larger East Side and smaller Black Cemetery sections.…

Salem, Massachusetts
Visitors to the Old Burying Point report voices, whispers and muffled weeping, orbs of light, sudden fog, shadows drifting between the…

Crown Point, Indiana
Visitors and investigators at the Old Lake County Jail report orbs, unexplained voices, cell doors slamming and a dog barking with no…

New Haven, Indiana
Built in 1913 of Indiana limestone, this building served New Haven as city hall, jail, and fire station for most of the 20th century, and…

New Haven, Connecticut
Built in 1927–28 on the northeast corner of the New Haven Green, this was the city's tallest building when it opened, designed to echo the…

Olustee, Florida
At Olustee Battlefield, visitors and Civil War reenactors describe orbs and the apparitions of soldiers on the battlefield, especially…

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…

Porter, Indiana
Built in 1871 as the Porter County Jail and Sheriff's Residence, this Italianate-and-castle-style building held prisoners starting in 1872…

Roswell, Georgia
Established in 1841 behind Roswell Presbyterian Church, this cemetery holds many of the town's most prominent early citizens, including…

Cañon City, Colorado
The Museum of Colorado Prisons occupies a retired cellhouse at the Colorado Territorial Prison in Cañon City. Visitors and staff describe…

Springfield, Missouri
Pythian Castle in Springfield was built in 1913 as an orphanage and retirement home for the Knights of Pythias. It later served the…

Chicago, Illinois
Visitors and paranormal investigators at Robinson Woods report strange lights after dark, flickering lights, whispers, unexplained smells…

Redmond, Oregon
The New Redmond Hotel was built in 1910 and is the oldest continually operating hotel in Redmond; it was renovated and reopened in 2019 as…

Austell, Georgia
The Crystal Pistol Music Hall, a 1,000-seat theater built as a replica of Atlanta's 1855 Atheneum Theatre, opened with Six Flags Over…

Gladstone, Illinois
A Knox College student group once brought cameras and surveillance equipment to the cemetery beside South Henderson Church in Gladstone and…

Captiva Island, Florida
South Seas Resort occupies the site of a key lime plantation established in 1923 by Clarence Chadwick; the property has weathered repeated…

Chicago, Illinois
Founded in 1927 on Chicago's South Side, St. Turibius Church is still an active parish today. Local legend holds that the ghost of Father…

Derby, Connecticut
The Sterling Opera House opened in 1889, held a jail beneath its stage, and closed after a 1945 fire-marshal order. It has been sealed to…

Danbury, Connecticut
New York photographer E. Starr Sanford built this 16-room stone castle as a summer retreat between 1896 and 1899, importing Italian wood…

Redding, Connecticut
Local accounts collected by Redding historians hold that a railroad worker was killed near the old rail crossing on Topstone Road in the…