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Hays, Kansas
The legend of the "Blue Light Lady" says Elizabeth Polly still walks Sentinel Hill, seen as a woman in blue with a white bonnet, as a misty…
Prospect, Maine
Fort Knox is a granite fortress on the Penobscot River in Prospect, begun in 1844 to guard the river approach and still standing as a state…
Fort Laramie, Wyoming
Fort Laramie, founded in 1834 as a fur-trading post and an Army post from 1849 to 1890, was a major stop on the Oregon, California and…
San Pedro, California
Fort MacArthur's museum occupies Battery Osgood-Farley in Angels Gate Park and interprets the coast-defense fort whose gunners fired during…
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Fort Mackinac is a British-built military post on the bluff above Mackinac Island's harbor, begun in 1780 and later held by the United…
Baltimore, Maryland
Fort McHenry is the star-shaped fort whose defense in September 1814 inspired the national anthem, and it later served as a Civil War…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fort Mifflin, on the Delaware River in south Philadelphia, was begun in 1771 and withstood a British siege in 1777; it later held…
Hampton, Virginia
Fort Monroe has a long list of reported apparitions: Jefferson Davis, held here as a prisoner after the Civil War, is said to walk the…
Gulf Shores, Alabama
Fort Morgan has guarded the mouth of Mobile Bay since 1834 and saw service in nearly every American conflict from the Civil War through the…
New Haven, Connecticut
Local ghost tellings describe glowing green orbs inside the gated bunkers at Fort Nathan Hale and figures of soldiers along the beach and…
Oswego, New York
Fort Ontario in Oswego, on Lake Ontario, dates to 1755 and saw fighting in the French and Indian War, the Revolution and the War of 1812.…
Pensacola, Florida
At Fort Pickens, visitors and rangers today describe a persistent sense of being watched in certain rooms of the fort. Completed in 1834 to…
Savannah, Georgia
Completed in 1847 on Cockspur Island, Fort Pulaski was considered one of the most formidable harbor defenses in the country — until April…
El Reno, Oklahoma
Fort Reno began in 1874 as a military camp to oversee the Cheyenne and Arapaho, later hosted Buffalo Soldiers and the Land Run of 1889, and…
Hull, Massachusetts
Fort Revere stands on Telegraph Hill in Hull, where defenses have been built since the Revolution and the remains of the fort and its…
Crawford, Nebraska
Fort Robinson in northwest Nebraska was an Army post from 1874 to 1948 and is now a state park and historic site. It is where Oglala leader…
Sidney, Nebraska
Visitors and staff at the Post Commander's Home report phantom footsteps on the narrow maids' staircase and the sound of a body falling on…
Lawton, Oklahoma
Fort Sill, founded in 1869 as an Army post on the southern plains, is still an active Army installation. Its Old Post Quadrangle of stone…
Lake City, South Dakota
Fort Sisseton in northeastern South Dakota began as an Army post in the 1860s on Dakota hunting grounds, later served as a hunting lodge…
Fort Stanton, New Mexico
Fort Stanton was an Army post founded in 1855 in the hills of Lincoln County, in the country of the Mescalero Apache and the Lincoln County…
Warrenton, Oregon
Fort Stevens, at the mouth of the Columbia River, was built in 1863 to defend against Confederate raiders and was in service until 1947; it…
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Fort Taber, later Fort Rodman, guards the entrance to New Bedford harbor and is now a city park with a museum and Battery Milliken. Ghost…
Ticonderoga, New York
Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain was built by the French in 1755 as Fort Carillon and was fought over in the French and Indian War and…
Boston, Massachusetts
Fort Warren on Georges Island in Boston Harbor was built between 1833 and 1861 and held Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. Its…