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Indianapolis, Indiana
Staff and students at the Allison Mansion have reported missing keys, moved objects, a library rearranged overnight and crying near the…
Chicago, Illinois
In the spring of 1913, word spread through Chicago's immigrant neighborhoods that Hull House, Jane Addams's famous settlement house, was…
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Mary Virginia "Ginnie" Wade, a 20-year-old woman, was the only civilian killed during the Battle of Gettysburg, shot by a stray bullet on…
Dover, Delaware
Judge Samuel Dickinson built this plantation house, later called Poplar Hall, in 1739; his son John Dickinson — the "Penman of the American…
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…
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…
Savannah, Georgia
Built in 1892 for iron works owner William Kehoe, his wife Anne, and their ten children, the Kehoe House lost at least one and likely two…
Santa Ana, California
Local guides say the Kellogg family is still present in the house, including a group of schoolchildren on a field trip who saw drawers in…
Columbus, Ohio
The Kelton House was built in 1852 by Columbus merchant Fernando Cortez Kelton and lived in by three generations of his family, who were…
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Kemper Center on the Lake Michigan shore in Kenosha grew around the Durkee Mansion, built in 1861 for the senator Charles Durkee, and in…
Marietta, Georgia
Built in 1845 as a cotton warehouse and converted into the Fletcher House hotel in 1855, this building beside the Western and Atlantic…
Suffield, Connecticut
Built in 1872 on South Main Street for Henry Phelps Kent, a tobacco merchant who was among the first to sell cigars in packaged boxes, this…
Uriah, Alabama
The King-Criswell-Garrett Mansion near Uriah is said to be haunted by a grieving widow. Local history says the family living there lost…
Rugby, Tennessee
Historic Rugby is a Victorian utopian village on the Cumberland Plateau founded in 1880 by the English author Thomas Hughes, and Kingstone…
New Orleans, Louisiana
The mansion at 1140 Royal Street was built for Delphine LaLaurie, who bought the property in 1831 and completed the house in 1832. In April…
Alexandria, Virginia
The Lee-Fendall House in Old Town Alexandria, built in 1785, was home to members of the Lee family for decades and later to labor leader…
St. Louis, Missouri
The Lemp Mansion in St. Louis was the home of the Lemp family, who built one of the city's great brewing dynasties, and a series of family…
Calabasas, California
The oldest part of this adobe dates from 1844, making it one of the last surviving adobes in the San Fernando Valley. It became the home of…
Orlando, Florida
At the Leu House, visitors on guided tours describe apparitions of Harry and Mary Jane Leu, the house's later owners,, most often seen on…
Frankfort, Kentucky
Liberty Hall was built in the 1790s by John Brown, one of Kentucky's first United States senators, and is now a museum in downtown…
Natchez, Mississippi
Linden is one of the oldest houses in Natchez, begun in 1785 and expanded by a series of owners, and it has been home to the Conner family…
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Little Gardens operates today as an event venue, and while local legend describes it as an 1800s plantation house, at least one historical…
Fall River, Massachusetts
The Lizzie Borden House in Fall River is the home where Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with a hatchet on August 4, 1892; Andrew's…
Norwalk, Connecticut
Built between 1864 and 1868 for Civil War-era financier LeGrand Lockwood, this 44,000-square-foot Second Empire mansion was one of the…