Haunted American History

Twenty-Three Ghosts: The Peyton Randolph House (Virginia)

The Peyton Randolph House stands at the heart of Colonial Williamsburg, once home to the first president of the Continental Congress and generations of one of Virginia's

The Most Evil Place in England?: Ancient Ram Inn (England)

For decades, the Ancient Ram Inn has been called one of the most haunted buildings in England—a medieval labyrinth supposedly plagued by demons, witches, phantom soldiers

The Fire, the Shotgun, and the Dogs in the Truck: The Dog Team Tavern (Vermont)

For generations of Vermonters, the Dog Team Tavern was the kind of restaurant people remembered for the rest of their lives: enormous prime rib, a spinning “relish wheel,

The Car in the Wall: Brianna Maitland (Vermont)

On March 20, 2004, a Vermont State Police trooper found a car backed into the side of an abandoned farmhouse along Route 118. The doors were closed. The keys were missing

The UFO Encounter They Couldn't Remember: Buff Ledge (Vermont)

On an August evening in 1968, two employees at a Vermont summer camp watched a strange light descend over Lake Champlain. Sixteen-year-old “Michael” and nineteen-year-old

The Curse That Erased the Hayden Family: The Hayden House (Vermont)

In 1823, Mercie Dale lay dying in a Vermont farmhouse convinced that her son-in-law had been poisoning her. Before she died, she supposedly left the Hayden family with a

The Ghost Story That Changed With The Building : The Everett Mansion (Vermont)

High above Bennington, Vermont, sits a stone mansion that has been a millionaire's private castle, a Catholic seminary, a college, and even a COVID vaccination site. But

The House That Became Hill House Anyway: Jennings Hall (Vermont)

For generations of students at Bennington College, Jennings Hall has been the building you don't want to be inside after midnight. Phantom piano music drifts from locked

The Devil's Not on Trial: The Fall River Murders (Massachusetts)

Between 1979 and 1980, three young women connected to the same troubled corner of Fall River, Massachusetts were murdered. Doreen Levesque was found beneath high-school b

The Murder Blamed on Witches: Jeannette DePalma (New Jersey)

In September 1972, a dog emerged from the woods of Springfield, New Jersey carrying a decomposed human arm. The remains belonged to sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma, wh

The Boy Who Never Made the Bus: Macin Smith (Utah)

On September 1, 2015, seventeen-year-old Macin Smith apparently left his home in St. George, Utah, to catch the school bus. He never arrived. His wallet, cash, identifica

The Haunted House With a Ghost on Staff: Asylum 49 (Utah)

In Tooele, Utah, there's a haunted attraction that never had to pretend it was an abandoned hospital...because it actually was one. Asylum 49 occupies the former Tooele V

The April Fools' Fire: Cottonwood Paper Mill (Utah)

At three in the morning on April Fools’ Day, 1893, the alarm bells at Utah’s Granite Paper Mill began ringing. The people living nearby heard them, checked the date—and w

The Ghost of the Rio Grande Depot: The Purple Lady (Utah)

For decades, employees and visitors at Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande Depot told stories about the Purple Lady—a young woman supposedly killed by a train after a disastrous

The Haunted Shore of the Great Salt Lake: Saltair (Utah)

On the shore of Utah's Great Salt Lake sits a concert venue with a strange problem: it seems to have inherited more than a century of history that didn't actually happen

The Monster the Internet Invented: The Grootslang (South Africa)

For centuries, people living along South Africa's Orange River warned of something enormous beneath the water: a serpent capable of taking livestock, controlling floods,

The Plane That Flew Into the Dark: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

In March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 departed Kuala Lumpur carrying 239 people and disappeared. But the aircraft didn't simply vanish. Military radar showed it rev

The Abduction That Changed America: Amber Hagerman (Texas)

On January 13, 1996, nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was riding her pink bicycle through an abandoned grocery-store parking lot in Arlington, Texas, when a black pickup pull

The Alien Buried in a Texas Cemetery: The Aurora UFO Crash (Texas)

In 1897, a mysterious silver airship allegedly limped across the sky above Aurora, Texas, smashed into a judge's windmill, and exploded. Townspeople searching the wreckag

The Rope That Held: St. Mary's Orphan Asylum (Texas)

In September 1900, ten nuns and ninety-three children were trapped inside an orphanage on the exposed western edge of Galveston Island as a Category 4 hurricane swallowed