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Pascagoula Encounter

Historic · Rating B · Pascagoula, Mississippi · 11 October 1973

On the night of 11 October 1973, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker told the Jackson County sheriff they had been taken from a Pascagoula River pier by three beings and examined ins…

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Gardner-Pingree House

Active · Rating C · Salem, Massachusetts · 6 April 1830

On the night of 6 April 1830, Capt. Joseph White — an elderly Salem merchant then living at what is now the Gardner-Pingree House (128 Essex Street) — was killed in his bed: skull…

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Mothman Sightings - Chicago

Active · Rating C · Lake Michigan region, Illinois · 22 August 2011

From 2011, and especially in 2017, witnesses across Chicago and the wider Lake Michigan shore reported a large winged humanoid — often dark, bat- or owl-like, sometimes with glowin…

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Mothman Sightings - WV

Historic · Rating C · Point Pleasant, West Virginia · 15 November 1966

Between November 1966 and December 1967, witnesses in and around Point Pleasant, West Virginia, reported a large winged figure with glowing red eyes — especially near the abandoned…

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Bell Witch

Historic · Rating C · Adams, Tennessee

The Bell Witch is Tennessee’s most famous haunting legend: tradition says that from about 1817 to 1821 the John Bell family near present-day Adams (Robertson County) endured knocks…

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Cutler Majestic Theatre

Active · Rating C · Boston, Massachusetts

The Cutler Majestic Theatre (opened 1903 as the Majestic; designed by John Galen Howard; restored and operated by Emerson College) is among Boston’s best-known haunted stages. Repo…

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Boston Common and Central Burying Ground

Active · Rating C · Boston, Massachusetts

Boston Common (laid out 1634) and the Central Burying Ground on its Boylston edge (1756) hold deep documented history — hangings at the Great Elm, British occupation, civic life, a…

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The Lady in Black of Fort Warren

Active · Rating C · Georges Island, Massachusetts

The Lady in Black is Fort Warren’s signature ghost: a woman in dark clothing said to walk Georges Island after a Civil War drama in which a Confederate wife disguised herself as a…

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USS Salem

Active · Rating C · Quincy, Massachusetts · 30 January 1959

USS Salem (CA-139), a Des Moines-class heavy cruiser commissioned in 1949 and now a museum ship at Quincy, Massachusetts, is among New England’s best-known “haunted” naval vessels.…

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Hawthorne Hotel

Active · Rating C · Salem, Massachusetts

The Hawthorne Hotel, opened 23 July 1925 on Washington Square in Salem and named for Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a frequent stop on the city’s haunted-hotel circuit. Recurring claims c…

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The Witch House

Active · Rating C · Salem, Massachusetts

The Witch House (Jonathan Corwin House), 310 Essex Street, Salem, was the home of magistrate Jonathan Corwin, who examined accused people in 1692 and later sat on the Court of Oyer…

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The Old Lyceum of Salem

Active · Rating C · Salem, Massachusetts

Turner’s Seafood at Lyceum Hall (43 Church Street, Salem) stands on land long linked to Bridget Bishop’s orchard — Bishop was the first person executed in the 1692 Salem witch tria…