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Hotel
Mount Washington Hotel
Joseph Stickney died a year after his Mount Washington Hotel opened in 1902. His widow, who later married a French prince, is said to sit on the edge of her four-poster bed in Room 314.
House
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."
Underground
Bell Witch Cave
Beneath the quiet earth, the Bell Witch Cave is said to hide the voice that once terrified a family and still murmurs to those who enter.
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Old Ursuline Convent
Read Post: Old Ursuline ConventThe Ursuline nuns finished this convent in 1752. Legend has it the shutters on its third floor were nailed shut to keep…
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Clay Pit
Read Post: Clay PitKUT public radio reports that Rudolph Bertram’s young son is said to haunt his father’s old store, and the store’s National Register…
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Littlefield House
Read Post: Littlefield HouseGeorge Littlefield died in this campus mansion in 1920, and The Daily Texan, the University of Texas student paper, reports that people…
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Paramount Theatre
Read Post: Paramount TheatreThe Paramount opened in 1915 as the Majestic. House manager Cheryl Wood says projectionists still leave a Snickers bar in the booth…
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Old Ship Saloon
Read Post: Old Ship SaloonThis Pacific Avenue bar traces back to the Gold Rush ship Arkansas, which ran aground on Alcatraz in 1849. A former owner…
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Church
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
Littlefield House
George Littlefield died in this campus mansion in 1920, and The Daily Texan, the University of Texas student paper, reports that people see a woman they take for his wife, Alice, at the upstairs windows.
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Theater
Paramount Theatre
The Paramount opened in 1915 as the Majestic. House manager Cheryl Wood says projectionists still leave a Snickers bar in the booth for Walter Norris, who died in 2000 while showing Casablanca.
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Bar
Old Ship Saloon
This Pacific Avenue bar traces back to the Gold Rush ship Arkansas, which ran aground on Alcatraz in 1849. A former owner told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2016 that upstairs tenants report "some kind of ghostly presence."
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Park
Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial Park
Abolitionist Mary Ellen Pleasant planted the eucalyptus trees that make up San Francisco's smallest park, on a corner described as the most haunted in the city.
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House
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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Bar
Red Lion Pub
The Red Lion's 1882 building came down in 2008. Owner Colin Cordwell says its ghosts never left, among them a woman thought to have died upstairs on her 20th birthday.
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Cemetery
Couch Tomb
When Chicago moved its old City Cemetery out of what became Lincoln Park, thousands of bodies may have been left behind. By the 1880s, the tomb that still stands there was said to hold a white ghost behind its doors.
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Hotel
Congress Plaza Hotel
Opened in 1893 as the Auditorium Annex, the Congress is often called Chicago's most haunted hotel, and Room 441 is said to be the worst of it.
