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Old Tonopah Cemetery.
cemeteries

Atlas Obscura’s Guide to America’s Most Haunted Cemeteries

Not all the dead rest easy. These 13 American cemeteries have the ghost stories to prove it.
Holyn Thigpen October 9, 2026
The Clown Motel’s “IT” room.
murder

The Best Haunted Hotels to Book for a Spooky Getaway

From an inn with secret cellars to a clown motel next to a graveyard, these 12 hotels don’t just have history — they have houseguests who never checked out.
Holyn Thigpen September 30, 2026
The McMike Mansion offers paranormal tours with a medium.
abandoned

Is Alton, Illinois America’s Most Haunted Small Town?

With haunted mansions, churches, hotels, and parking lots, this small port town on the Mississippi River has become a pilgrimage site for fans of all things paranormal.
Guelph, Ontario

Guelph Correctional Centre

An abandoned Ontario prison turned over to time and nature.
Muscatine, Iowa

The Blue Angel of Greenwood Cemetery

A cobalt-lit cemetery statue that has inspired decades of local legends.
Bender, Moldova

The White Lady’s Bullet-Scarred Wall

A haunted outpost in Moldova, where guards are said to have fired at a ghostly figure.
Guanajuato, Mexico

Museo Leyendas de Guanajuato

Miniatures built in the 1980s tell the city’s favorite legends and ghost stories.
Kingsville, Maryland

Jericho Covered Bridge

Scary stories haunt this wooden bridge.
Nyborg, Denmark

Den Hvide Jomfru (The White Maiden)

Legend speaks of a banished noblewoman allegedly walled inside this little tower.
West Virginia

Greenbrier Ghost of Sam Black Church

Here lies Zona, whose ghostly testimony led to her husband’s murder conviction.
Parkersburg, West Virginia

The (Haunted) Blennerhassett Hotel

The oldest hotel in West Virginia is reportedly frequented by ghosts.
Burkittsville, Maryland

Spook Hill

Near the state border, cars seem to defy the laws of physics by rolling uphill.
Prague, Czechia

Iron Knight

The statue of a cursed knight is said to come to life every 100 years.
From post offices and grocery stores to margarita bars and town halls, ghosts can turn up in the most ordinary places.
haunted

7 Stories of Ghosts in Weird Places

From a Norwegian grocery store to a town hall in Spain, hauntings can happen where we least expect them.
Roxanne Hoorn October 25, 2024
Tokyo, Japan

Oiwa Inari Shrines

A pair of rivaling shrines dedicated to Lady Oiwa, the most famous vengeful ghost in Japan.
Vanishing hitchhiker legends are just the latest version of a folktale that may go back millennia—and continues to spread and evolve.
ghosts

The Vanishing Hitchhiker Legend Is an Ancient Tale That Keeps Evolving

The classic creepy story—a driver offers a lift to a stranger who is not of this world—has deep roots and a long reach.
Mark Hay October 10, 2024
Joso, Japan

Kasane-ga-fuchi

The eerie, tragic setting of one of Japan’s most popular ghost stories.
Plymouth, England

Drake's Island

After several centuries as the home of coastal defenses, this island is full of history—and maybe ghosts.