Also: the Hotel Sorrento’s Room 408, our first long video, and the LaLaurie Mansion.
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The Spookt Dispatch
Thursday, November 5, 2026

Hi there,
This is the first Spookt Dispatch. Each one brings the places we’ve added, the guides we’ve updated, and a story from the archive. This one starts in Savannah, our newest city guide.
A welcome to everyone who joined through our Halloween giveaway, and congratulations to Haley G., who’s taking a ghost tour in Raleigh.

A hand-tinted 1904 postcard of Colonial Park cemetery in Savannah: brick tombs among bare trees, a cathedral's twin spires behind
Colonial Park cemetery on a postcard from 1904.
City Guide · Savannah, Georgia

Haunted Savannah, Georgia
Savannah still keeps the squares of its 1733 plan. Under at least one of them, it still keeps some of its dead.
Our new guide covers 18 places, the five you can stay in, and 27 ghost tours.
Read the Savannah Guide

Just Added

New on Spookt
The Couch family tomb, a stone vault behind an iron fence among the trees of Lincoln Park Couch TombNew place · Chicago, Illinois
The Congress Plaza Hotel's brick towers on Michigan Avenue Congress Plaza HotelNew place · Chicago, Illinois
A 1901 studio portrait of Mary Ellen Pleasant Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial ParkNew place · San Francisco, California
The front of the Old Ursuline Convent, in black and white Old Ursuline ConventNew place · New Orleans, Louisiana
The Littlefield House, a red-brick Victorian mansion, at night Littlefield HouseNew place · Austin, Texas

Updated on Spookt
The Cabildo on Jackson Square around 1900, in black and white Haunted New OrleansNow a full city guide · Louisiana
Pike Place Market at night Haunted SeattleNow a full city guide · Washington
The main entrance of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum Trans-Allegheny Lunatic AsylumRewritten with new research · Weston, West Virginia
The long white Mount Washington Hotel with red roofs, mountains behind Mount Washington HotelRewritten with new research · Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Haunted Hotels

Stay the Night
Drawing of Alice B. Toklas in a hallway of the Hotel Sorrento
Hotel · Seattle, Washington

Hotel Sorrento
The ghost of Alice B. Toklas is said to favor Room 408 of this 1909 hotel. She probably never set foot in the building while she was alive.
Ask for Room 408.
Our Haunted Hotels guide now lists 27 hotels and inns in 10 states.

From the Archive · New Orleans

The LaLaurie Mansion
Drawing of the 1834 fire at the LaLaurie house on Royal Street
On April 10, 1834, a fire at Delphine LaLaurie’s Royal Street mansion revealed seven enslaved people who had been starved, tortured, and chained. The house that ghost tours stop at today went up on its ruins in 1838.

Watch · New on YouTube

Five Ghost Stories of the Salem Witch Trials, and the Real History
Play: Spookt's 12-minute video Five Ghost Stories of the Salem Witch Trials, on YouTube
Five ghost stories that grew out of 1692, each told with the history behind it. About 12 minutes.

The One-Minute Versions
Short videos from three of the new places above.
Cover frame of Spookt's Short The Casket Girls of New Orleans
Cover frame of Spookt's Short Alice in the Attic, about Austin's Littlefield House
Cover frame of Spookt's Short Mary Ellen Pleasant's Trees, San Francisco
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