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Dogtown

Active · Rating C · Cape Ann, Massachusetts

Dogtown (originally the Commons Settlement) is a 3,600-acre inland forested expanse, ghost town, and boulder-strewn plateau located on the elevated interior of Cape Ann between Glo…

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Spectre Leaguers of Cape Ann

Historic · Rating C · Cape Ann, Massachusetts · 18 July 1692

The Spectre Leaguers of Cape Ann were a series of strange apparitions reportedly seen around Gloucester, Massachusetts during the summer of 1692. Witnesses claimed that mysterious…

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Hammond Castle

Active · Rating C · Gloucester, Massachusetts

Perched on the rocky cliffs of Gloucester, Massachusetts, overlooking Atlantic waters, Hammond Castle (originally named Abbadia Mare, or "Abbey by the Sea") is a unique fusion of m…

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Charlesgate Hotel

Active · Rating C · Boston, Massachusetts

Situated at 4 Charlesgate East overlooking the Muddy River and Back Bay Fens in Boston, Massachusetts, the Charlesgate Hotel is one of the city’s most architectural and paranormal…

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Houghton Mansion

Active · Rating C · North Adams, Massachusetts · 1 August 1914

Located on Church Street in North Adams, Massachusetts, the Houghton Mansion stands as a prominent late 19th-century Neo-Classical residence bound to one of New England's most hear…

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Lizzie Borden House

Active · Rating C · Fall River, Massachusetts · 4 August 1892

Located at 230 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts, the Lizzie Borden House was the site of one of the most famous unsolved double homicides in American history. On the morn…

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The Hoosac Tunnel

Active · Rating C · Massachusetts · 20 March 1865

The Hoosac Tunnel in western Massachusetts is one of New England's most enduring haunted-location legends. Constructed between 1851 and 1875, the tunnel claimed the lives of numero…

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Nelly Butler Apparition Case

Historic · Rating B · Sullivan & Franklin, Maine · 2 January 1800

Between August 1799 and August 1800, the coastal town of Sullivan, Maine, experienced what historians recognize as the first fully documented, multi-witness ghost story in post-Rev…

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Seguin Island Lighthouse

Active · Rating C · Seguin Island, Maine

Located at the mouth of the Kennebec River in Maine, Seguin Island Light—commissioned by George Washington in 1795—is one of the oldest and most isolated lighthouses in New England…

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Black Monk of Pontefract

Active · Rating C · Pontefract, England · location withheld · 29 August 1966

Beginning in 1966 in West Yorkshire, England, the Pritchard family experienced intense poltergeist activity at 30 East Drive, Pontefract. The phenomena included levitating furnitur…

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Hexham Heads

Historic · Rating C · Hexham, England · location withheld

Discovered in 1972 by two boys in Hexham, England, the Hexham Heads were two small stone carvings that triggered widespread poltergeist reports. Witnesses claimed the artifacts cau…

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Borley Rectory

Historic · Rating B · Borley, England

Constructed in 1863 in Essex, England, Borley Rectory gained worldwide fame as "the most haunted house in England." Successive residents reported phantom nuns, unexplained bell-rin…