Pawleys Island, South Carolina: The Hurricane Warning of the Gray Man
Two different men get credit for the legend, and neither one's timeline actually holds up.
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Alton, Illinois: Smallpox Island and the Tragedies of the Mississippi
The death toll here depends entirely on which sign you happen to read.
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St. Elmo, Colorado: Annie Stark’s Eternal Vigil
A reclusive shopkeeper who chased children away with a shotgun still watches over the town she refused to leave.
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Calico, California: The Mojave Mine Guard and Lucy Bell’s Stroll
A dead silver town got a second life from a cereal executive, and its ghosts never got the memo.
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Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia: Pirate Executioners and the Randolph Mansion
One of America's most haunted houses shares its street with the country's first psychiatric hospital.
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Adams, Tennessee: Frontier Violence and the Wrath of the Bell Witch
America’s most famous haunting rests on a single book, and its source manuscript has never surfaced.
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Jerome, Arizona: Cleopatra Hill and the Living Tomb of Cleopatra’s Gold
The hotel’s death toll keeps climbing in retellings, but the math never quite adds up.
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Salem, Massachusetts: Colonial Intolerance and the Corwin Curse
The most haunted house in Salem was quietly moved and rebuilt seventy years ago.
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Acoustic Echoes and Bloodied Water: The Haunted Battlefields of Antietam and Shiloh
How the Civil War's deadliest single day and its bloodiest spring battle still speak through sound and water
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The Sentinel of the Green Dragon: Samuel Adams and Boston’s Ghost Headquarters
The Sons of Liberty planned a revolution inside this tavern, but the building tourists visit tonight is not the one they knew
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