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Chatsworth, New Jersey
The Pine Barrens, or Pinelands, cover more than a million acres of sandy forest in southern New Jersey and are home to the state's…
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…
San Diego, California
Visitors and staff at Presidio Park describe hooded, cloaked figures walking the Junípero Serra Museum's perimeter and a child seen near…
Pryor, Montana
The Pryor Mountains of south-central Montana are a sacred landscape to the Apsáalooke (Crow) people. In Crow tradition the mountains are…
Chicago, Illinois
Visitors and paranormal investigators at Robinson Woods report strange lights after dark, flickering lights, whispers, unexplained smells…
Lockport, Illinois
Runyon Preserve, once known as Legion Park and home to a popular swimming hole, takes its name from Armstead Runyon, an early Lockport…
Kiowa County, Colorado
On November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington led about 675 U.S. volunteer soldiers of the 1st and 3rd Colorado Cavalry in an attack on a…
West Haven, Connecticut
On August 6, 1881, an oysterman found the body of 21-year-old Jennie Cramer washed up at Savin Rock. An autopsy found she had been raped…
Pascagoula, Mississippi
The Pascagoula River is known as the Singing River for a low humming sound that people report hearing near it, especially on still…
Hamden, Connecticut
This two-mile traprock ridge, its outcrops forming what looks from a distance like a reclining human figure — head, chin, chest, hip, knee,…
Helper, Utah
Spring Canyon above Helper in Carbon County was home to a string of coal-mining camps, including Storrs, Standardville, Peerless and…
Mitchell, Indiana
Founded in 1814 around cave springs that never froze, Spring Mill Village became a bustling industrial hub with gristmills, a sawmill, a…
Rye, New Hampshire
Star Island is part of the Isles of Shoals, a cluster of rocky islands about ten miles off the New Hampshire coast, with a settlement that…
Martinsville, Indiana
Stepp Cemetery, in what's now Morgan-Monroe State Forest about 15 miles north of Bloomington, sits on land Reuben Stepp bought in 1856; it…
Danbury, Connecticut
New York photographer E. Starr Sanford built this 16-room stone castle as a summer retreat between 1896 and 1899, importing Italian wood…
Ocracoke, North Carolina
Teach's Hole is the anchorage near Ocracoke Inlet where the pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, was killed in a battle with Royal…
Roosevelt Lake, Arizona
Built between 1905 and 1911 while Arizona was still a territory, Theodore Roosevelt Dam was, at the time, the tallest masonry dam in the…
Battle Ground, Indiana
At Tippecanoe Battlefield, visitors near the creek after dark report hearing battle cries and seeing human forms running through the woods.…
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
The TNT Area north of Point Pleasant, once the West Virginia Ordnance Works that made explosives in World War II, is now part of the…
Burlington, Connecticut
Local legends at Tory Den describe ghostly whispers and shadowy figures among the rocks. During the Revolutionary War, Loyalist colonist…
Jupiter, Florida
At Trapper Nelson's camp, visitors describe a feeling of being watched near the restrooms, and his apparition has been reported waving from…
Rockford, Illinois
Twin Sister Woods, an 8-acre wooded area in Rockford's Twin Sister Hills Park, centers its local legend on an old willow tree at the…
Tallahassee, Florida
Velda Mound was built around 1450 by the Fort Walton culture and used by their descendants, the Apalachee, until about 1625 — a platform…
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the battlefield of the 47-day Siege of Vicksburg in 1863, one of the turning points of the Civil…