Georgiana Cemetery, Merritt Island

Atlas ObscuraOct 9

Atlas Obscura’s Guide to America’s Most Haunted Cemeteries

It’s nice to imagine death as an endless deep sleep, but not everyone is so lucky. In cemeteries across the U.S., you’ll find souls whose final resting places are not, in fact, restful at all. Perhaps they died with scores unsettled or, perhaps, their graves were ravaged by greedy developers. Sometimes, heartbreak rendered them unable to move on peacefully; in other cases, they simply couldn’t…

Site of unsolved 1934 murder, victim's ghost haunts.

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Georgiana CemeteryPlaceSite of unsolved 1934 murder, victim's ghost haunts.
Ashley’s TavernRestaurantReported strange activity, victim's ghost may visit.
Elsewhere
Colonial Park CemeterySightSavannah, United StatesPublic park with haunted tours, no nighttime visitors.
Harvard Shaker Lollipop GraveyardSightHarvard, United StatesGraves marked with candy-esque cast-iron stakes.
Dean Hill CemeterySightFitchburg, United StatesBurial site for Revolutionary War veterans and families.
Wildwood Cemetery and CrematoriumSightWilliamsport, United StatesSplit by road, eastern side is the haunted side.
Frenier CemeterySightLaPlace, United StatesMass grave for hurricane victims, one woman buried apart.
Old Tonopah CemeterySightTonopah, United StatesMiners and plague victims buried here, eerie energy.
Alice Flagg’s GraveSightPawleys Island, United StatesGhost lingers, visitors make wishes by walking grave.
Greenwood CemeterySightSpokane, United StatesHome to "thousand steps" staircase and abandoned tunnels.
Dead Children’s PlaygroundSightHuntsville, United StatesSwings move on their own, floating orbs of light.
Unitarian Church CemeterySightCharleston, United StatesGhostly "Lady in White" and Mary Bloomfield haunt.
St. Omer Cemetery Witch GraveSightAshmore, United StatesUnique gravestone with impossible date, rituals performed.
El Campo Santo CemeterySightSan Diego, United StatesLast part of larger cemetery, spirits trapped beneath.

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Atlas ObscuraAug 13

The Atlas Obscura Guide to Halloween Travel

There is a version of Halloween tourism that involves a man in a rubber mask jumping out from behind a plywood wall. It has its pleasures. It is not this. The places below are real. The things that happened in them are documented — in court records, in coroners' reports, in parish registers, in the diaries of people who were there. Some have ghost stories attached. The ghost stories are almost…

Holds Ethel Allen, murdered in the early 1900s.

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Georgiana CemeteryPlaceHolds Ethel Allen, murdered in the early 1900s.
Elsewhere
Warren's Occult MuseumMuseumMonroe, United StatesCollection of haunted objects, closed to public in 2019.
The Haunted Warren MuseumMuseumSalem, United StatesOpens August 27 at 259 Essex Street, Salem.
Taunton State HospitalSightTaunton, United StatesPsychiatric institution with a reputation for hauntings.
Outagamie County Asylum CemeteryPlaceAppleton, United StatesHolds bodies of at least 133 former patients.
Greenbrier Ghost markerSightRonceverte, United StatesCommemorates Zona Heaster Shue, whose ghost named her killer.
The Three BrujasPlaceTaos, United StatesThree unmarked concrete graves said to hold witches.
Selee Satanic Mill MarkerSightEaston, United StatesSign for an eighteenth-century sawmill owner believed to employ imps.
Springdale CemeteryPlacePeoria, United StatesContains the so-called Witch’s Circle.
Highgate CemeteryPlaceLondon, United KingdomSite of occultist feuds and vampire hunters in the 1970s.
Jackson Grave HousesPlaceHarrells, United StatesSmall structures built over graves to shelter the spirit.
Grave of Joseph Augustus ZarelliPlacePhiladelphia, United StatesMarks a boy who went unidentified for sixty-five years.
Spinning HeadstoneSightHillside, United StatesHeadstone in Hillside Cemetery.
Lizzie Borden Bed and BreakfastHotelFall River, United StatesThe actual house where the Lizzie Borden murders took place.
Robert the DollSightKey West, United StatesDoll in Key West causing trouble for over a century.
HelltownNeighborhoodBoston, United StatesFormer village of Boston, Ohio, bought out by the federal government.
Bolton StridSightBolton Abbey, United KingdomA section of the River Wharfe running vertically down a rock shaft.
Ghosts From MississippiPlaceJackson, United StatesItinerary from a witch's grave to a moving cemetery statue.
McRaven HouseSightVicksburg, United StatesMcRaven was built c.

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