Haunted Places in Williamsburg, VA

Explore 8 haunted places in Williamsburg, VA — churches, restaurants, haunted houses and more, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Bruton Parish ChurchChurch · Williamsburg, VABruton Parish, an active Episcopal church whose current building was completed in 1715, sits at the heart of Colonial Williamsburg, with a churchyard holding graves dating to the late 17th century.
• Chowning's TavernRestaurant · Williamsburg, VAJosiah Chowning opened this alehouse in 1766, and Colonial Williamsburg reconstructed it in 1941 as a working tavern.
• 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.
• King's Arms TavernRestaurant · Williamsburg, VAOpened in 1772 by tavern keeper Jane Vobe, the King's Arms was one of Williamsburg's most genteel colonial taverns and still operates today as a costumed Colonial Williamsburg dining room.
• 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.
• Public GaolLandmark · Williamsburg, VAWilliamsburg's colonial jail, with cells ready by 1704, held debtors, runaways, the mentally ill, accused murderers awaiting the gallows, and most famously several of Blackbeard's pirate crew, who were jailed here ahead of their 1719 trial at the nearby Capitol.
• Shields TavernRestaurant · Williamsburg, VAThis Duke of Gloucester Street tavern traces to 1705, when it operated as Marot's Ordinary under Jean (John) Marot, an early Williamsburg tavern keeper; it later became Shields Tavern under James Shields and is now a costumed Colonial Williamsburg dining site.
• Sir Christopher Wren BuildingLandmark · Williamsburg, VAThe Wren Building at the College of William & Mary, begun in 1695, is the oldest college building still standing in the United States.