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Destrehan Plantation
Established in 1787, Destrehan is the oldest documented plantation in the lower Mississippi Valley. Executive director Tracy Smith says she was skeptical of the ghost stories at first, but "I guess you could say I'm a believer at this point."
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Old U.S. Mint
Louisiana seized the U.S. Mint in January 1861, and the Confederacy minted some coins here. Jimmie Jackson guards the building for the Louisiana State Museum and says its spirits have visited him for years.
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New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
Louis Dufilho Jr., whom the museum calls America's first licensed pharmacist, had this shop built in 1822 and 1823. The stories make its ghost Dr. James Dupas, whose family bought it in 1855: a short man in a brown suit who throws books.
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Old Ursuline Convent
The Ursuline nuns finished this convent in 1752. Legend has it the shutters on its third floor were nailed shut to keep in vampires, carried to New Orleans in the trunks of the "casket girls."
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House
Neill-Cochran House Museum
This 1850s house was a Civil War hospital in 1865, and in 2012, its director told the University of Texas student paper that Col. Andrew Neill's ghost is said to gallop around it on horseback.
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USS Hornet
The aircraft carrier that recovered Apollo 11 is now a museum in Alameda, across the bay from San Francisco, where docents lead night tours and say visitors hear voices and see shadows.
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Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz held more than 1,500 federal prisoners between 1934 and 1963, and its ghost stories single out Cell 14-D, said to run almost 20 degrees colder than the rest of its block.
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House
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.
