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Villisca Axe Murder House

Active · Rating A · Villisca, Iowa · 9 June 1912

Sometime after midnight on 10 June 1912, eight people were killed with an axe as they slept in a house at 508 East Second Street in Villisca, Iowa. They were Josiah B. Moore, 43, h…

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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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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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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…

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The Omni Parker House

Active · Rating C · Boston, Massachusetts

The Omni Parker House in Boston — opened in 1855 by Harvey D. Parker — is often called one of New England’s most haunted hotels. Long-circulating claims include a figure identified…

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House of the Seven Gables

Active · Rating C · Salem, Massachusetts

The House of the Seven Gables — the 1668 Turner-Ingersoll mansion on Salem’s waterfront — is famous for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 novel and for a long-running ghost tradition: app…

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St. Peter's Church Burial Grounds

Active · Rating B · Salem, Massachusetts · 8 July 1833

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Salem sits on one of the city’s oldest Anglican burial grounds. Nineteenth-century expansions built over parts of that yard: gravestones were moved,…

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The Daniel Low Building

Active · Rating C · Salem, Massachusetts

The Daniel Low Building — now Rockafellas Restaurant and Colonial Hall — is a downtown Salem landmark tied to reports of apparitions, unexplained disturbances, the “Lady in Blue” p…