Haunted History Map Discover America's most haunted locations and their chilling histories.
Hotels and inns where guests and staff report ghostly encounters and unexplained events.
This iconic Colorado hotel inspired Stephen King's 'The Shining' after the author's unsettling stay in room 217. Guests report phantom piano music, ghostly children playing in hallways, and the spirits of former owners F.O. Stanley and his wife Flora still wandering the premises. The fourth floor is particularly known for paranormal activity.
This historic Flagstaff, Arizona hotel has hosted numerous paranormal guests since opening in 1927. Room 210 is said to be haunted by a long-term boarder who hung raw meat from the chandelier. Other reported entities include two women who allegedly try to asphyxiate male guests in their sleep, and the disturbing cries of a phantom infant heard from the basement.
Built in 1886 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, this historic hotel was briefly converted into a fraudulent cancer hospital in the 1930s by Norman Baker, a con man posing as a doctor. Today, the hotel is said to be haunted by numerous spirits, including a five-year-old girl who died at the hotel, a bearded man in Victorian clothing, and former patients from its hospital days.