America's Top 25 Haunted Locations
The most investigated, most documented, and most terrifying locations in the United States — as recorded by GoBaan investigators
At dusk, Waverly Hills Sanatorium feels like a room the world forgot—its history breathing back through cracks in the dark.
At dusk, Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum feels like a room the world forgot—its history breathing back through cracks in the dark.
At dusk, Eastern State Penitentiary feels like a room the world forgot—its history breathing back through cracks in the dark.
At dusk, The Queen Mary feels like a room the world forgot—its history breathing back through cracks in the dark.
At dusk, Stanley Hotel feels like a room the world forgot—its history breathing back through cracks in the dark.
The farmhouse that inspired the 2013 film "The Conjuring" sits on a quiet road in Harrisville, Rhode Island, and has become one of the most investigated private residences in America. Built in 1736, the Arnold Estate was home to the Perron family in the 1970s when they reported a sustained haunting investigated by Ed and Lorraine Warren. Visitors report overwhelming feelings of dread, unexplained scratching sounds, furniture moving, and the overpowering smell of rotting flesh. The most prominent entity is believed to be Bathsheba Sherman, a 19th century resident accused of witchcraft who allegedly cursed all who lived on the land.
Bobby Mackey's Music World carries a twilight hush, as if the ordinary walls are only a thin mask over something older.
At dusk, Ohio State Reformatory feels like a room the world forgot—its history breathing back through cracks in the dark.
As daylight thins, Pennhurst State School becomes a threshold where footsteps arrive before the person who made them.
Missouri State Penitentiary carries a twilight hush, as if the ordinary walls are only a thin mask over something older.
At dusk, St. Augustine Lighthouse feels like a room the world forgot—its history breathing back through cracks in the dark.
Gettysburg Battlefield carries a twilight hush, as if the ordinary walls are only a thin mask over something older.
Winchester Mystery House carries a twilight hush, as if the ordinary walls are only a thin mask over something older.
At dusk, 1886 Crescent Hotel feels like a room the world forgot—its history breathing back through cracks in the dark.
At dusk, Goldfield Hotel feels like a room the world forgot—its history breathing back through cracks in the dark.
At dusk, Lizzie Borden House feels like a room the world forgot—its history breathing back through cracks in the dark.
At dusk, Villisca Axe Murder House feels like a room the world forgot—its history breathing back through cracks in the dark.
Sallie House carries a twilight hush, as if the ordinary walls are only a thin mask over something older.
Myrtles Plantation carries a twilight hush, as if the ordinary walls are only a thin mask over something older.
Rolling Hills Asylum has the strange stillness of a place waiting for one more witness before it closes its eyes.
The Hinsdale House in Cattaraugus County, New York is one of the most documented private hauntings in the northeastern United States. The Dandy family experienced years of terrifying activity in the 1970s — levitating furniture, voices, apparitions, and what they described as demonic possession. Father Alphonsus Trabold, a noted paranormal researcher, investigated and documented the case extensively. Current owners have opened the property to investigators and the activity continues to be reported, including shadow figures, EMF spikes, and intelligent EVP responses.
Carved into the coal-black mountains of Morgan County, Tennessee, Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary operated from 1896 to 2009 and earned a reputation as one of the most brutal prisons in American history. James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., attempted his famous escape from here in 1977. The prison is now open for ghost tours and overnight investigations. Visitors report shadow figures in the cell blocks, disembodied voices in the tunnels, cold spots in solitary confinement, and the distinct feeling of being watched in the warden's quarters.
Alcatraz Island has the strange stillness of a place waiting for one more witness before it closes its eyes.
The Old South Pittsburg Hospital operated from 1959 to 1998 and has since become one of the most actively investigated locations in the southeastern United States. The three-story brick building housed patients through decades of medical history before closing its doors, leaving behind an atmosphere thick with residual energy. Investigators report full-body apparitions in the hallways, disembodied voices calling out names, doors slamming on their own, and overwhelming feelings of being watched in the former patient wards. The basement and surgical areas are considered the most active zones, with consistent EMF anomalies and intelligent EVP responses documented across hundreds of investigations.
After sunset, Eloise Asylum seems to slip sideways from America into a stranger map where memory has teeth.