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Harrodsburg, Kentucky
Old Fort Harrod is a reconstruction of the first permanent settlement in Kentucky. Reenactors told Ghost Hunters in 2015 of encountering…
Youngstown, New York
Old Fort Niagara at the mouth of the Niagara River, begun by the French in 1726 around a stone house called the French Castle, was held in…
Globe, Arizona
The 1910 Gila County Jail in Globe once connected to the neighboring courthouse by a catwalk nicknamed the Bridge of Sighs. Its best-known…
Penrose, Colorado
This stage stop was built in 1861 and now stands in ruins. Local telling names its ghost Kathleen Cooper, said to wait on the porch in her…
Milledgeville, Georgia
Built in 1838 and designed by architect Charles Cluskey, this Greek Revival mansion served as the residence of Georgia's governors from…
Williamson, West Virginia
The Old Hospital on College Hill in Williamson opened in 1928 and served as a hospital until 1988, later holding offices until 2014. It was…
Boise, Idaho
The Old Idaho Penitentiary operated from 1872 to 1973, housing more than 13,000 prisoners over its history and seeing escapes and scandals…
Taylors Falls, Minnesota
The Old Jail Bed and Breakfast in Taylors Falls occupies buildings put up between 1851 and 1884 that served as a jail, a bootleggers'…
St. Augustine, Florida
Built in 1891 at Henry Flagler's expense — he wanted the county's old jail out of sight of his luxury Ponce de Leon Hotel — the Old Jail…
Granbury, Texas
The Old Jail Museum on the Granbury square is a two-story limestone jail built in 1885 that held Hood County prisoners from 1886 until…
Carbon County, Pennsylvania
The Old Jail Museum in Jim Thorpe was built in 1871 and held prisoners until 1995. VisitPA lists it among the state's haunted places for…
Smethport, Pennsylvania
The Old Jail Museum in Smethport was once the McKean County jail and sheriff's residence; the front half was the sheriff's home and the…
Joliet, Illinois
Designed by architect W.W. Boyington and built largely by inmate labor beginning in 1858, Old Joliet Prison operated as the Illinois State…
Galesburg, Illinois
Built in 1874 across the street from Knox College, the old Knox County Jail was purchased by the college and today houses its Center for…
Crown Point, Indiana
Visitors and investigators at the Old Lake County Jail report orbs, unexplained voices, cell doors slamming and a dog barking with no…
Logan, Ohio
Hocking Hills State Park, with its gorges, caves and waterfalls, is on TourismOhio's haunted list. Old Man's Cave is named for Richard…
Oroville, Washington
Old Molson was a mining and farming town founded around 1900 near the Canadian border by George Meacham and John W. Molson, and it declined…
Deer Lodge, Montana
The Old Montana Prison in Deer Lodge opened in 1871 as the Montana Territorial Prison and held inmates until the last were moved to a new…
Fernandina Beach, Florida
The old Nassau County Jail, now home to the Amelia Island Museum of History, is tied to local legend about a pirate hanged on gallows once…
New Haven, Indiana
Built in 1913 of Indiana limestone, this building served New Haven as city hall, jail, and fire station for most of the 20th century, and…
East Granby, Connecticut
Old Newgate Prison is best known for its mine tunnels, where visitors report disembodied voices echoing in the dark, unexplained cold…
Presque Isle, Michigan
The Old Presque Isle Lighthouse on Lake Huron was built in 1840 and is one of the oldest surviving lighthouses in Michigan, now a museum…
Sacramento, California
Old Sacramento's underground spaces are the remains of ground-floor rooms buried when the city raised its streets after the 1860s floods.…
Redding, California
Shasta was a Gold Rush supply center and county seat whose brick storefronts line Highway 299 as roofless ruins. The restored 1861…