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Forest Park, Illinois
Jewish Waldheim Cemetery, established in 1870 and home to over 250 sections representing Chicago-area Jewish families, synagogues, and…
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…
Dover, Delaware
Judge Samuel Dickinson built this plantation house, later called Poplar Hall, in 1739; his son John Dickinson — the "Penman of the American…
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
The John Paul Jones House in Portsmouth, a Georgian house on Middle Street where the Revolutionary War naval hero lodged during the war, is…
Placerville, California
John McFarland Pearson built here in 1859, and chose the spot deliberately: the lot stood in front of an idle mine shaft, and he used the…
Charleston, South Carolina
The John Rutledge House at 116 Broad Street was built in 1763 as a wedding gift for John Rutledge, later a signer of the Constitution, who…
Bucksport, Maine
The granite monument to Colonel Jonathan Buck, founder of Bucksport, stands in the town cemetery and carries a stain shaped like a woman's…
Hagerstown, Maryland
The Jonathan Hager House in Hagerstown City Park was built around 1739 by Hager, the German immigrant who founded the city, and is now a…
East Windsor, Connecticut
Built in 1784 as the home of Captain Jonathan Pasco, a Revolutionary War officer, this South Main Street house later became a restaurant…
Hornet, Missouri
The Joplin Spook Light, also called the Hornet Spooklight, is a glowing orange ball seen for more than a century along a gravel road near…
Denver, Colorado
This Larimer Square restaurant occupies a building that operated as a speakeasy during Prohibition. Staff describe a female presence tied…
Joshua Tree, California
Guests at the Joshua Tree Inn report encounters with the ghost of Gram Parsons in Room 8, which is preserved with the mirror and photograph…
Omaha, Nebraska
Joslyn Castle is a Scottish baronial mansion built in 1903 for George and Sarah Joslyn, and later used as the administrative offices of the…
Genesee, Idaho
Built as a resort and later operated as an asylum, this building was sold in 1968 when a new hospital opened, then became St. Ignatius…
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Isaac Parker sat as federal judge for the Western District of Arkansas at Fort Smith from 1875 until his death in 1896, with jurisdiction…
Houston, Texas
The Julia Ideson Building, completed in 1926 as Houston's central library and named for longtime librarian Julia Ideson, is a Spanish…
Savannah, Georgia
Now a National Historic Landmark, this Savannah house was the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, on October 31,…
Jupiter, Florida
First illuminated on July 10, 1860, the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse went dark for most of the Civil War after assistant keeper Augustus Lang…
Rochester, Minnesota
The Kahler Grand Hotel opened in 1921 across from the Mayo Clinic in downtown Rochester and has long housed patients and their families…
Honolulu, Hawaii
Kaka'ako Fire Station on Queen Street, near downtown Honolulu's Kawaiaha'o Church and 'Iolani Palace, is said to be haunted by the ghost of…
Kewaunee, Wisconsin
The Karsten Hotel in Kewaunee traces its history to 1858, when it opened as the Steamboat House, and has carried the Karsten name since…
Chester, Illinois
Kaskaskia was Illinois's first capital, settled in 1703 and capital of the territory and then the state until 1820, when the seat moved to…
La Salle, Illinois
Opened in 1915 and designed by the noted Chicago firm Marshall and Fox, the six-story Kaskaskia Hotel once hosted guests including Amelia…
Sarasota, Florida
The Keating Center at Ringling College of Art and Design was originally the Spanish Mission-Revival Bay Haven Hotel, built in 1925; circus…