Haunted Haunted Houses

56 haunted haunted houses mapped across 33 cities, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• 1859 Ashton VillaHouse · Galveston, TXBuilt in 1859 by James Moreau Brown, Ashton Villa was the first of Galveston's grand Broadway mansions, weathering the Civil War, yellow fever, and the catastrophic 1900 Storm.
• 432 Abercorn StreetHouse · Savannah, GABuilt in 1868-69 in the Regency style for Benjamin J. Wilson, a Civil War veteran and Irish immigrant, this three-story brick home at Abercorn and Wayne once stood among Savannah's costliest residences and grew into the city's most haunted house, its name shorthand for local ghostlore.
• Aiken-Rhett HouseHouse · Charleston, SCBuilt around 1820 for Charleston merchant John Robinson and vastly expanded by Governor William Aiken Jr. in the 1830s and 1850s, the house stayed in the Aiken-Rhett family for 142 years before becoming a museum, preserved "as-found" with its original wallpaper, plaster, and furnishings left in elegant decay.
• Archibald Smith Plantation HomeHouse · Roswell, GAArchibald Smith, one of Roswell's founding settlers, built this Georgia piedmont farmhouse in 1845 and worked the surrounding 300-acre plantation with enslaved laborers; three generations of his family lived here, and when they fled the Civil War for Valdosta they carried their 1833 parlor piano with them.
• Barrington HallHouse · Roswell, GACompleted in 1842, Barrington Hall is a Greek Revival mansion on Roswell's highest point, raised for Barrington King, co-founder of the town with his father Roswell King.
• Bishop White HouseHouse · Philadelphia, PABuilt in 1787, this Old City rowhouse was home to William White, first Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania and chaplain to the Continental Congress, who lived here until his death in 1836 at age 85.
• Burke MansionHouse · Macon, GABuilt in 1887 for businessman Thomas C. Burke and long regarded as one of the finest Queen Anne houses in the country, this Macon mansion anchors the historic district with its round tower and second-floor turret room.
• Cannonball HouseHouse · Macon, GABuilt in 1853 as a Greek Revival townhouse for Judge Asa Holt, the home earned its name on July 30, 1864, when a Union cannonball fired during General Stoneman's raid skipped off the sidewalk, struck a front column, tore through the parlor, and came to rest in the interior hallway without exploding or killing anyone.
• Cherokee CottageHouse · Jekyll Island, GABuilt around 1915 as the Shrady-James Cottage and soon nicknamed Cherokee Cottage, this twenty-room winter home stood in the gilded enclave of the Jekyll Island Club, where Gilded Age railroad and banking families wintered along the Georgia coast.
• Daniel Lady FarmHouse · Gettysburg, PADaniel Lady bought this stone farmhouse and its 146 acres in 1840, and in July 1863 it was swept into the Battle of Gettysburg, serving as a Confederate staging area, headquarters, and field hospital during the fight for Culp's Hill.
• Early Hill PlantationHouse · Greensboro, GAEarly Hill is a Greek Revival plantation house built around 1820 on a ridge between Richland and Beaverdam creeks, home of Joel Early, Jr., brother of Georgia governor Peter Early and the first Georgian to free and resettle enslaved people in Liberia.
• Ezekiel Harris HouseHouse · Augusta, GATobacco merchant Ezekiel Harris raised this Federal-style house above Augusta in 1797, and for generations it was mistaken for the old Mackay Trading Post, where legend says thirteen captured Patriots were hanged from the staircase during the Revolution's first siege of Augusta.
• George Wythe HouseHouse · Williamsburg, VABuilt in the early 1750s for George Wythe, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and law teacher to Thomas Jefferson, this Georgian house served as George Washington's headquarters before the siege of Yorktown.
• Green-Meldrim HouseHouse · Savannah, GABuilt in 1853 for cotton merchant Charles Green at a cost of $93,000, this Gothic Revival mansion on the northwest corner of Madison Square was designed by architect John S. Norris, who gave it a stuccoed brick exterior, oriel windows, a crenellated parapet, and a cast-iron portico believed to be unique in the United States.
• Greenwood PlantationHouse · St. Francisville, LAGreenwood is a towering Greek Revival mansion ringed by 28 white columns, built in 1830 by William Ruffin Barrow on antebellum wealth that endured through the Civil War.
• Hampton-Lillibridge HouseHouse · Savannah, GABuilt around 1797 by Rhode Island native Hampton Lillibridge, this clapboard four-story house is among Savannah's oldest buildings, a rare wooden survivor of the 1820 fire that consumed much of the city.
• Hay HouseHouse · Macon, GABuilt between 1855 and 1859 by William Butler Johnston and his wife Anne after a European honeymoon, this 24-room Italian Renaissance Revival mansion atop Coleman Hill was so opulent it earned the name "Palace of the South," passing through the Felton and Hay families before becoming a Georgia Trust museum in 1977.
• Heritage HallHouse · Madison, GABuilt in 1811 and remade into a Greek Revival showpiece by Dr. Elijah Evans Jones, a prominent Madison physician, Heritage Hall watched generations of one family live and die within its columned walls.
• Hill-Physick HouseHouse · Philadelphia, PAThis freestanding 1786 Federal mansion in Society Hill was home to Dr. Philip Syng Physick, the "Father of American Surgery," who lived and practiced here until his death in 1837, conducting autopsies in the basement through the era's epidemics.
• Hofwyl-Broadfield PlantationHouse · Brunswick, GAIn the early 1800s William Brailsford of Charleston carved a rice plantation from the salt marshes along the Altamaha River, and five generations of the Dent family lived in the antebellum house until Ophelia Dent, the last heir, willed it to Georgia in 1973.
• Jennie Wade HouseHouse · Gettysburg, PAOn July 3, 1863, twenty-year-old Mary Virginia "Jennie" Wade was kneading bread in her sister's brick home on Baltimore Street when a stray Minié ball passed through two doors and struck her dead, making her the only civilian killed directly by the fighting at Gettysburg.
• John Marshall HouseHouse · Richmond, VAChief Justice John Marshall built this brick Federal home in Richmond's Court End neighborhood in 1790 and lived there 45 years until his death in 1835; Preservation Virginia has cared for it as a museum since 1911.
• Joshua Ward HouseHouse · Salem, MAMerchant Joshua Ward raised this brick Federal mansion around 1784 on the demolished foundation of the 1692 home of George Corwin, the high sheriff who oversaw the imprisonments, property seizures, and executions of the Salem witch trials.
• LaLaurie MansionHouse · New Orleans, LAIn the 1830s the wealthy socialite Madame Delphine LaLaurie hosted lavish parties at her grand Royal Street mansion, even as rumors spread about her cruelty toward the people she enslaved.
• Lapham-Patterson HouseHouse · Thomasville, GABuilt in 1884-85 as a winter retreat for Chicago shoe merchant Charles Lapham, this elaborate Queen Anne mansion bristles with more than 50 exits and 24 exterior doors, the product of an owner so scarred by surviving the Great Chicago Fire that he refused to ever feel trapped indoors again.
• Lustrat HouseHouse · Athens, GABuilt in 1847 as a faculty residence on the University of Georgia's North Campus, the Lustrat House has served as a house museum, the university president's office, and today the Office of Legal Affairs.
• MaplecroftHouse · Fall River, MAAfter her 1893 acquittal, Lizzie Borden left the murder house and bought this Queen Anne mansion in Fall River's affluent Highlands district, christening it 'Maplecroft' and carving the name into the front step.
• Mercer-Williams HouseHouse · Savannah, GABegun in 1860 for General Hugh Mercer, great-grandfather of songwriter Johnny Mercer, this red-brick Italianate mansion on Monterey Square was designed by John S. Norris and finished around 1868 by cotton merchant John Randolph Wilder after the Civil War stalled construction.
• Oakland HallHouse · Eatonton, GABuilt in the 1800s, Oakland Hall stands behind a wide colonnaded porch on Greensboro Road in Eatonton, a private estate that has weathered two centuries of Putnam County history.
• Orange HallHouse · St. Marys, GACompleted in 1838 for Presbyterian minister Reverend Horace Pratt and his father-in-law John Wood, Orange Hall rose as one of Georgia's finest temple-form Greek Revival houses, its Doric portico shaded by the orange trees that gave it a name.
• Panola HallHouse · Eatonton, GAPanola Hall, a stately Greek Revival mansion with fluted Doric columns, was built in 1854 for Henry Trippe along Eatonton's crown-jewel stretch of North Madison Avenue, later home to banker-botanist Dr. Benjamin Hunt and his poet wife Louisa Prudden.
• Peyton Randolph HouseHouse · Williamsburg, VABuilt around 1715 and home to Peyton Randolph, first president of the Continental Congress, this house is routinely called one of the most haunted in America.
• Powel HouseHouse · Philadelphia, PABuilt in 1765 and bought in 1769 by Samuel Powel, Philadelphia's last colonial and first post-independence mayor, this Georgian Society Hill mansion hosted George Washington, John Adams, the Marquis de Lafayette and Benedict Arnold at the Powels' famous parties.
• Pyatt-Doyle HouseHouse · Georgetown, SCThe Pyatt-Doyle House is a centuries-old dwelling on Highmarket Street in Georgetown's historic district, and its haunting centers on a sorrowful female figure.
• Rankin HouseHouse · Columbus, GABuilt for Scottish-born planter and hotelier James Rankin, this high-style Italianate mansion rose between 1860 and 1870, its construction interrupted by the Civil War before it became the finest home in the city.
• Rhodes HallHouse · Atlanta, GAFurniture magnate Amos Giles Rhodes raised this Romanesque Revival castle of Stone Mountain granite on Peachtree Street in 1904, naming it "Le Reve" — the Dream — after the Rhineland castles he and his wife Amanda admired in Germany.
• Ropes MansionHouse · Salem, MABuilt around 1727 for the merchant Samuel Barnard, this Georgian mansion at 318 Essex Street passed in 1768 to Judge Nathaniel Ropes and stayed in his family until 1907; today it is a Peabody Essex Museum historic house, familiar to many as Allison's home in the 1993 film Hocus Pocus.
• Rose Hill at Lockerly ArboretumHouse · Milledgeville, GADaniel Reese Tucker bought the property in 1851, then rebuilt it after fire into the columned Greek Revival mansion completed in 1852, now the centerpiece of the 50-acre Lockerly Arboretum.
• Samuel Pickman HouseHouse · Salem, MAThe Samuel Pickman House, a weathered first-period saltbox built around 1664 at the corner of Charter and Liberty streets, is one of Salem's oldest standing homes, now abutting the 1992 Witch Trials Memorial and the Old Burying Point cemetery.
• Sans SouciHouse · Jekyll Island, GABuilt in 1896 on the millionaires' retreat of Jekyll Island, Sans Souci was one of the first condominium-style apartment buildings in America, its six units reserved for a handful of Club founders including financier J.P.
• Sorrel-Weed HouseHouse · Savannah, GAThe Sorrel-Weed House rises in Greek Revival and Regency stone on Madison Square, designed by Charles B. Cluskey and built between 1835 and 1840 for Francis Sorrel, a wealthy shipping merchant.
• Strickland HouseHouse · Duluth, GAAlice Harrell Strickland and her husband Henry built this Victorian home in 1898, where they raised seven children before Henry's death in 1917.
• Sultan's Palace (Gardette-LePretre House)House · New Orleans, LAThis Greek Revival mansion with its distinctive cast-iron filigree balconies was completed around 1836 for Philadelphia dentist Joseph Coulon Gardette and purchased in 1839 by planter Jean Baptiste LePretre.
• Sword Gate HouseHouse · Charleston, SCBuilt around 1803, the mansion at 32 Legare Street became home in 1819 to Madame Anne Talvande's exclusive French boarding school for young ladies, where the strict headmistress raised high masonry walls to keep her charges enclosed.
• T.R.R. Cobb HouseHouse · Athens, GABuilt around 1834 as a modest "Plantation Plain" house, this home was an 1844 wedding gift to Confederate Constitution author Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb and his wife Marion Lumpkin, gaining its octagonal wings and Doric portico by 1852.
• Taylor-Grady HouseHouse · Athens, GABuilt in the mid-1840s by Irish immigrant and planter Robert Taylor, this stately Greek Revival home was purchased in 1863 by Major William S. Grady, whose son Henry would later rise to national fame as the orator of the "New South." Major Grady never came home from the war; he was mortally wounded near Petersburg, Virginia, and died in 1864.
• The Artist HouseHouse · Key West, FLBuilt in the 1890s, this ornate Queen Anne mansion was the lifelong home of painter Robert Eugene Otto and his wife Anne, a concert pianist, and is the original home of Robert the Doll.
• The Bell HouseHouse · Valdosta, GABuilt around 1870 on North Ashley Street, this grand old home took its name from Dr. David S. Bell, a Depression-era medicine-show man who peddled "miracle cure" tonics and once played fortune-teller as the "Sheik of Arabi." Bell lived in the house for decades until he died inside on January 6, 1964, and locals say he simply never left.
• The Buford HouseHouse · Tombstone, AZThis two-story adobe was raised in 1880 by George Washington Buford, an early Tombstone settler who made his mining fortune, and over the years it wore many faces — boarding house, home, bed-and-breakfast — and reportedly once put up John Wayne.
• The House of the Seven GablesHouse · Salem, MABuilt in 1668 for sea captain John Turner on Salem's waterfront, the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion passed to mariner Samuel Ingersoll in 1782, and his daughter Susanna later inspired her cousin Nathaniel Hawthorne to immortalize the house in his 1851 novel.
• The ParsonageHouse · Norcross, GABuilt around 1910 in Norcross's railroad-era historic district, this white frame house became a Catholic rectory in the 1960s, then served in the 1970s as the parsonage for an Episcopal congregation worshipping in the old Methodist church nearby.
• The Witch House (Jonathan Corwin House)House · Salem, MABuilt around 1675, this dark-gabled house on Essex Street was the home of Jonathan Corwin, a local magistrate who sat on the Court of Oyer and Terminer during the 1692 witch trials and helped send nineteen people to the gallows.
• The Wren's NestHouse · Atlanta, GABuilt around 1870 as a farmhouse and later wrapped in ornate Queen Anne flourishes, the Wren's Nest was home to journalist Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus tales, from 1881 until his death in 1908.
• Victoria's Black Swan InnHouse · San Antonio, TXThis Victorian home on Salado Creek sits on land tied to the 1842 Battle of Salado Creek and a far older Native American site, giving it a reputation as one of the most haunted homes in Texas.
• Villa OspoHouse · Jekyll Island, GADesigned in 1927 by John Russell Pope, the architect of the Jefferson Memorial, Villa Ospo was the winter retreat of Standard Oil director Walter Jennings, who with his wife Jean turned the Spanish-eclectic cottage into the unofficial welcome house of the Jekyll Island Club.
• Wynne-Russell HouseHouse · Lilburn, GAThomas Wynne and his wife Mary Prince Benson settled this upper-Piedmont farmstead in 1826, raising fourteen children in a Plantation Plain house whose handmade Georgia-clay brick fireplaces still stand.