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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.
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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.
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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.
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14 Real Places That Haunt the Pages of Literature
Tour the real-world locations that gave iconic horror books their nightmares.
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Who Knew Illinois Had This Many Spooky Places?
Beyond Illinois’s famous haunted houses are lonely cemeteries, unusual monuments, and Spiritualist homes with generations of folklore.
Helsinki, Finland
The Fire Captain's Stone
Moved after its owner's death, this granite seat left the house with a haunting on its hands.
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The Atlas Obscura Guide to Halloween Travel
For people who want a real story that’s scarier than the ghost story.
Brooksville, Florida
May-Stringer House
This Victorian mansion is part heritage museum, part architectural oddity, and part ghost story.
Itinerary
A Haunted Road Trip Through New England
New England’s most macabre history—in driving distance.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
McRaven Tour Home
Built in 1797, this is Mississippi’s most haunted house.
Marshall, Michigan
National House Inn
Michigan's oldest operating hotel predates the state itself.
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Baker Mansion
Once home to a wealthy ironmaster, this 19th-century mansion now holds unique relics from Blair County's past, and perhaps the spirits of its former occupants.
Borås, Sweden
Haunted Museum of Borås
Sweden’s first haunted museum showcases cursed dolls, mirrors, and relics said to carry lingering spirits.
Pere Cheney, Michigan
Pere Cheney Cemetery
All that remains of a vanished Michigan lumber town, remembered for tragedy, plague, and a witch’s curse.
Northport, Maine
Temple Heights Spiritual Camp
A rustic getaway where visitors connect with the departed.
Swiftwater, Pennsylvania
Haunted Candle Shoppe of the Poconos
A candle shop hiding a haunted basement once used as a monkey research lab.
Muscatine, Iowa
The Blue Angel of Greenwood Cemetery
A cobalt-lit cemetery statue that has inspired decades of local legends.
Brooklyn, New York
Spook-A-Rama
Coney Island’s last surviving haunted ride.
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