True Ghost Stories

Concord’s Colonial Inn: Revolutionary ghosts of a literary nature

Concord's haunted Colonial Inn

Concord’s Colonial Inn. Click to view larger or view more images of haunted houses The overnight shift at the front desk of Concord’s Colonial Inn is a lot like most small inns. After the last guest is checked in, restaurants and bars closed, there’s paperwork, reports and printing out bills for those checking out in [...]

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Long Island’s Jamesport Manor Inn: An insider’s story

Long Island's haunted Jamesport Manor Inn

You can get used to about anything, living at the Jamesport Manor Inn on Long Island. A former dishwasher who was also a tenant before it burned and was restored, proved it one afternoon as he was at his sink, doing his job. A waitress, who was also familiar with the specter of what people [...]

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The Salem Inn: Hauntingly lovely in Witch City, MA

The Haunted Salem Inn, Salem MA

The Salem Inn, Salem, Massachusetts. To view larger or to see more haunted houses in Salem, click here The young lady had just walked away from her post at the guest counter of the Salem Inn, a tiny little thing tucked into a nook just below the staircase – and stepped into the parlor to [...]

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DEKs American Restaurant: Comfort food and true ghost stories in Rocky Point, Long Island

DEKs American Restaurant, Rocky Point, Long Island, New York

Dek’s American Restaurant, Rocky Point, Long Island, New York. To view larger or to see more pictures from Haunted Long Island, click here The bartender and a friend are shooting pool in the empty restaurant, waiting to lock up. It’s either late at night or very early in the morning, depending on one’s perspective and [...]

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Barnstable Village Haunted History Tours: A delightfully creepy Halloween stroll

Barnstable village's haunted Old Jail, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts

The Old Gaol, Barnstable Village, Massachusetts. To view larger or more haunted house photos, click here Ghost tours are great, don’t get me wrong. They’re fun and informative, and a great way to get leads for this site. But they aren’t typically bone-chilling, or even frightful. It’s hard to feel creepy in a group of [...]

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The Beechwood Inn, Barnstable Massachusetts: ghostly encounters in the shower

The Rose Room, the Beechwood Inn, Barnstable Village, Massachusetts

The Rose Room of the Beechwood Inn, Barnstable, Massachusetts. To view larger or to see more haunted house photos, click here It’s Halloween, and I’m in the tub of the Rose Room at the Beechwood Inn in Barnstable, Massachusetts. I’m just back from the Barstable Village Haunted and History Walking Tour, which was a two [...]

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The Jamesport Manor Inn: Gourmet dinner and spirits

The haunted Jamesport Manor Inn, Long Island

The Jamesport Manor Inn, Jamesport, Long Island, New York. To order fine art prints or view larger, click here   One could argue that the main character of The Witching Hour, a novel by Anne Rice is the Mayfair mansion on First Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the book, the house is painstakingly restored, [...]

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The Spooner House, Plymouth, Massachusetts: A haunting in America’s hometown

The Spooner House, a haunted house in Plymouth, MA

The Spooner House, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Click here to see more haunted house pictures or to buy prints In August of 2005, a group of workmen were hired to do repairs at the Spooner House in Plymouth, Massachusetts and upon arriving, knocked at the door. A little girl in colonial period costume opened it, which surprised [...]

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The death, resurrection and retribution of Zona Heaster Shue, The Greenbrier Ghost

Marker for the Greenbrier ghost, West Virginia

West Virginia state marker for the Greenbrier Ghost, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. To view larger or buy art prints, click here. Zona Heaster Shue was born in the mountains of West Virginia. Raised around Richlands, as far as we know, Zona never left Greenbrier county in her too short lifetime. Even now, Greenbrier county is [...]

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Haunted Gettysburg: True ghost stories from Little Round Top, then and now

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44th New York Infantry Monument and 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Little Round Top, Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA. Click here to view larger, order fine art prints or view more images from Gettysburg National Military Park “But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – we can not consecrate – we can [...]

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