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Museum
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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Museum
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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House
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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House
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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House
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."
