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Gardner-Pingree House
In April 1830, an intruder came in through a back window in the night and murdered Captain Joseph White in his bed here, the Salem Gazette reported. Local lore says his footsteps are still heard and a child in white looks out of a downstairs window.
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Ropes Mansion
The Ropes Mansion's front played a part in Disney's Hocus Pocus in 1993. Abigail Ropes died in the house in 1839 when her dress caught fire, according to The Salem News, and guides say she lingers in its rooms.
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne came to this 1668 house on Salem Harbor to visit his cousin Susannah Ingersoll, and local lore counts her spirit and a little boy near the attic among its ghosts.
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The Witch House
Often called the only building still standing with direct ties to the 1692 witch trials, Judge Jonathan Corwin's house is still open to visitors.
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Hull-House
In 1913, a rumor spread that Hull-House, the settlement house Jane Addams founded, was harboring a 'Devil Baby', and the museum there today says the house is often considered one of Chicago's most haunted sites.
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Davenport House
Margaret Wayt DeBolt's 1984 book of Savannah ghost stories tells of a spectral cat at Isaiah Davenport's 1820 house, a large yellow one that ran in front of a boarding-house tenant on the steps. The museum there now tells no ghost stories itself: its director says it sticks to "the story that we know."
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Welty House
Because of the tragic and gruesome events that occurred at the Welty House and on the property surrounding it, visitors claim to hear phantom gunshots, see apparitions of soldiers in full uniform, feel cold spots, and have eerie sensations while there.
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LaLaurie Mansion
On April 10, 1834, a fire at Delphine LaLaurie's Royal Street mansion revealed seven enslaved people who had been starved, tortured, and chained. By 1889, the writer George Washington Cable was calling it "The Haunted House in Royal Street."
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Beauregard-Keyes House
In the early hours of June 17, 1908, a wine merchant and his son shot three Black Hand blackmailers dead on this house's back gallery. Writer Michael Kleen says passersby have heard gunshots and shouting outside at night.
