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Wichita, Kansas
The Orpheum Theatre opened in downtown Wichita on September 4, 1922, designed by architect John Eberson in the atmospheric style to feel…
Cooperstown, New York
The Otesaga is a lakeside hotel in Cooperstown that once housed the Knox School for Girls. Guests report giggling in a third-floor hallway,…
Los Angeles, California
The reports at the Palace Theatre belong to the people who worked it rather than to anyone who died: two old stagehands are described…
Sauk Centre, Minnesota
The Palmer House Hotel in Sauk Centre was built in 1901 on the site of an earlier hotel that burned in 1900, and it is often called the…
Ashland, Kentucky
The Paramount Arts Center opened on September 5, 1931, as a movie palace designed by the Rapp and Rapp firm, and it remains the centerpiece…
Pasadena, California
Gilmor Brown founded the Pasadena Community Playhouse in 1917, starting out in a converted burlesque house, and in 1925 moved into the…
Ellicott City, Maryland
The Patapsco Female Institute was a girls' boarding school from 1837 to 1891 on a hilltop above Ellicott City, with as many as 150 students…
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Peery Hotel, finished in 1910 as one of Salt Lake City's first luxury hotels, is a three-story brick Prairie-style building on the…
Augusta, Georgia
Pendleton King Park sits on the former Bugg Plantation, purchased before 1842 by Judge John P. King and donated to the city of Augusta by…
Spring City, Pennsylvania
Pennhurst State School and Hospital opened in 1908 and housed thousands of children and adults with intellectual and physical disabilities…
Pensacola, Florida
Perched on Pensacola's Naval Air Station, this 160-year-old lighthouse has been called one of the most haunted in America by the Travel…
Perryville, Kentucky
The Battle of Perryville, fought on October 8, 1862, was the largest Civil War battle fought in Kentucky, with thousands of casualties in a…
Dallas, Georgia
At Pickett's Mill, visitors and staff report gunfire and voices carrying across the field at dusk, and figures glimpsed moving between the…
Ansonia, Connecticut
Founded in 1858 by showman P.T. Barnum, who is himself buried here, Pine Grove Cemetery is one of Ansonia's oldest burial grounds. Visitors…
Goodsprings, Nevada
The Pioneer Saloon in the old mining town of Goodsprings opened in 1913 and is one of the oldest bars in Nevada. Ghost Adventures…
Emmett, Idaho
According to local legend, a woman hanged herself at Emmett's Plaza Bridge long ago, and her shadow is still sometimes reported along the…
Point Lookout, Maryland
Point Lookout Lighthouse, built in 1830 at the tip of Maryland's western shore, stands in a state park on the site of the Civil War's Camp…
Big Sur, California
Point Sur Lightstation stands on a volcanic rock off Highway 1 and is now a California State Historic Park. Docents tell of an apparition…
Guthrie, Oklahoma
The Pollard Theatre on Harrison Avenue in Guthrie occupies a building put up in 1901 as a furniture store and has been a working…
Portland, Oregon
The Shanghai Tunnels are a network of passages beneath Portland's Old Town and Chinatown, built in the late 1800s and early 1900s for…
New Castle, New Hampshire
Portsmouth Harbor Light stands beside Fort Constitution. Witnesses report voices in the watch room and a keeper in a pea coat, usually…
South Bend, Indiana
Potato Creek State Park was established on June 6, 1977, around the 327-acre Worster Lake, on land used for hunting and fishing by Native…
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The Pottawattamie County Jail opened in 1885 as a "squirrel cage" rotary jail: three stacked levels of wedge-shaped cells built around a…
Empire, Colorado
This Empire bed and breakfast was built in the late 1800s. Staff and guests attribute its activity to Millie Pratt, the original owner's…