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Chesterton, Indiana
Along the Indiana Dunes, visitors to the dunes and shoreline have long reported glimpsing the ghostly figure of a nude woman running along…
Dover, Arkansas
About ten miles north of Dover, a dirt road off Old Highway 7 climbs through the Ozark National Forest to a scenic overlook above the Big…
North Shore, Hawaii
Waimea Valley, on O'ahu's North Shore, holds three heiau, including Pu'u o Mahuka, the largest heiau on O'ahu and a luakini temple once…
Lynn, Massachusetts
Dungeon Rock is a cave in Lynn Woods, a large city-owned park, tied to a legend that pirates once hid there and were trapped when an…
Cincinnati, Ohio
Eden Park overlooks the Ohio River in Cincinnati and holds the Spring House gazebo and Mirror Lake. TourismOhio lists the Spring House as…
Pendleton, Indiana
In 1945 two lovers, Jon and Rachael, were playfully chasing each other across the bridge early one morning. They just spent the whole night…
St. Petersburg, Florida
Built between 1898 and 1906 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and named for Hernando de Soto, this coastal fortification never saw combat…
Centralia, Illinois
Centralia Foundation Park, a 300-plus-acre private park established in 1943, includes a sledding hill nicknamed Stover's Hill after Paul…
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
For three days in July 1863, the fields and ridgelines around the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, hosted the largest battle ever…
Maui, Hawaii
On the way to Pukalani, in what's now the 4th Marine Division Memorial Park in Ha'iku, a grassy rise earned the nickname "Giggle Hill"…
Nampa, Idaho
Known locally as the "Lady of the Lake," the ghost of a girl said to have drowned while waterskiing at Gott's Point on Lake Lowell in the…
Dover, Delaware
Laid out in 1717, The Green is one of Dover's oldest public spaces and the site where Delaware ratified the U.S. Constitution in 1787. Its…
Willow Springs, Illinois
On December 28, 1956, sisters Barbara Grimes, 15, and Patricia Grimes, 12, disappeared in Chicago after going to see an Elvis Presley movie…
Havana, Illinois
The Ghost Research Society formally investigated the Havana Park District Gym on June 1, 2013. Local legend holds that a young man was…
Soda Springs, Idaho
Hooper Springs Park in Soda Springs has a pavilion, playground equipment, and a set of swings, including one that once had a large clown…
McArthur, Ohio
Hope Furnace, in Lake Hope State Park in Vinton County, is an iron furnace built in the 1850s that smelted ore until the late 1800s.…
Omaha, Nebraska
Hummel Park is a wooded city park on the bluffs north of Omaha and the subject of some of the city's best-known urban legends, collected in…
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Jekyll Island's own version of "Mary the Wanderer" is a distinct legend from the similarly-named ghost story told on nearby St. Simons…
Yellow Springs, Ohio
John Bryan State Park, on the Little Miami River gorge near Yellow Springs, is on TourismOhio's haunted list for the legend of Wiley the…
Kennesaw, Georgia
Visitors to Kennesaw Mountain describe Confederate soldiers in bloody, war-torn clothing who vanish when approached, translucent figures…
Indianapolis, Indiana
Within the 82-acre Paul Ruster Park, acquired by the city in 1970, sits the small Kitley-King Cemetery on the site of John Kitley's 80-acre…
Washington, Washington DC
Lafayette Square, the public park across from the White House, was the scene of a killing in daylight on February 27, 1859, when…
O'ahu, Hawaii
At the Polynesian Cultural Center's lagoon, staff and guests tell of the "Laie Lady," a woman named Nalani who is said to have lost her…
Princeton, West Virginia
Lake Shawnee is an abandoned amusement park near Princeton, opened in the 1920s and closed in 1966, built on land where Mitchell Clay's…