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Ashmore, Illinois
This building traces back to the Coles County Poor Farm, established in 1857 to house the area's poor, elderly, and mentally ill; the…
Galveston, Texas
Ashton Villa, an Italianate mansion on Galveston's Broadway, was built in 1859 for businessman James Moreau Brown and is one of the grand…
Indianapolis, Indiana
The Athenaeum, formerly Das Deutsche Haus, opened in 1893 as a German cultural center. Ghost Hunters investigated in 2019, focusing on…
Augusta, Georgia
Sisters Emily and Lucy Galt etched their names and the date, 1861, into a window at Bellevue Hall using Emily's engagement ring before her…
Warsaw, Indiana
The Barbee Hotel was considered a very high-class resort during Al Capone's time. He stayed in the hotel frequently, often clearing out all…
Adairsville, Georgia
English cotton merchant Godfrey Barnsley bought 8,000 acres of former Cherokee land in the 1840s to build this estate, though his wife…
Pierce, Idaho
Pierce, one of Idaho's oldest mining towns, has long had a reputation for its bars and cafes carrying their own ghost stories. The Cedar…
Abingdon, Virginia
The Barter Theatre in Abingdon opened in 1933, when founder Robert Porterfield began accepting produce in exchange for tickets during the…
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
William Duncan built the Basin Park Hotel from local limestone in 1905, on the site of the Perry House, which had burned in 1890 in the…
Hanford, California
Built in 1897 to a design by San Francisco's McDougall Brothers, the turreted Kings County Jail and sheriff's office served until 1964,…
Camden, New Jersey
The USS New Jersey, commissioned in 1943, is the most decorated battleship in the U.S. Navy, with service in World War II, Korea, Vietnam…
Minonk, Illinois
Baughman Cemetery, donated by John Baughman in 1840 and maintained today by an association founded in 1926, is a small but still-active…
San Francisco, California
Construction on the Bay Bridge began in 1933 and it opened in 1936. Its ghost story belongs to the evening of 17 October 1989, when the…
Preston, Idaho
On January 29, 1863, California Volunteer troops under Colonel Patrick Connor attacked a Northwestern Shoshone winter village along the…
Newport, Rhode Island
Beechwood, the Newport summer home of the Astor family, was built in the 1850s and became famous when Caroline Astor, the Mrs. Astor of…
Newport, Rhode Island
Belcourt Castle on Bellevue Avenue is a 60-room Gilded Age mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt and completed in the 1890s for Oliver…
Adams, Tennessee
The Bell Witch is Tennessee's most famous haunting, a legend from the early 1800s in which the family of the farmer John Bell of Adams was…
Coloma, California
Visitors to Bell's General Store report hearing a bell ring inside, a bell that is not there and has not been for a very long time; the…
King George, Virginia
Belle Grove at Port Conway on the Rappahannock River is the birthplace of President James Madison, who was born on this land in 1751, and…
Bellaire, Florida
Railroad tycoon Henry B. Plant built the Belleview Biltmore in 1897, and it grew into one of Florida's grandest Gilded Age resorts, added…
Elkridge, Maryland
Belmont Manor in Elkridge is a Georgian plantation house built in 1738, now owned by Howard County and used for weddings, events and…
Liberty, Missouri
Belvoir Winery occupies the former Odd Fellows Home in Liberty, a complex that opened in 1900 as a home for orphans, widows and the elderly…
Providence, Rhode Island
Benefit Street on Providence's East Side, with its row of 18th- and 19th-century houses known as the Mile of History, is the main route of…
Benham, Kentucky
The Benham Schoolhouse Inn occupies a school built in 1926 by Wisconsin Steel, later International Harvester, for the children of the…