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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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School
University Heights Center
Seattle ghost hunters tell of Brian, a boy said to have died locked in a closet over a weekend when this was an elementary school. Even the ghost hunter who wrote the story up in 2016 now calls it an urban legend.
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Asylum
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
Built for 250 patients, the Weston asylum held 286 in 1872, when it was only half built. On its ghost tours, guides tell of a little girl named Lily, and guests often bring her toys and candy.
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Hotel
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.
