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Haunted houses and manors

The haunted house is a classic of the genre: footsteps in an empty attic, doors that open by themselves, cold spots and voices at night. Some of these houses became famous through psychical researchers – such as Borley Rectory – others through bestsellers and films, like the house in Amityville. In many cases sceptics exposed fraud or mundane causes: creaking structures, carbon monoxide, rats. In others the case was never closed.

cases
29
years
1766–2026

Disputed: 3 Legend: 24 Explained: 1 Hoax: 1

  1. 18th century

    1. c. 1766–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend Loftus Hall and the Devil at the card table Loftus Hall, Hook Peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland On a stormy night a stranger played cards with Anne Tottenham until she spotted a cloven hoof under the table. He vanished through the ceiling in a ball of fire.

  2. 19th century

    1. 1816–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend Olivia of Springhill, the ghost who regrets Springhill House, Moneymore, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom After George Lenox-Conyngham took his own life in 1816, his second wife Olivia is said to appear at the bedroom door, as if trying to undo what happened.
    2. c. 1823–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend Myrtles Plantation and the Legend of Chloe Myrtles Plantation, St. Francisville, Louisiana, United States A former Louisiana plantation advertises itself as “one of America's most haunted homes,” but its most famous ghost probably never existed.
    3. c. 1830–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The White Witch of Rose Hall Rose Hall Great House, near Montego Bay, Jamaica The ghost of a cruel planter, Annie Palmer, is said to haunt Jamaica's Rose Hall. The archives show that the real Annie never murdered anyone.
    4. 1834–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The LaLaurie Mansion in New Orleans 1140 Royal Street, French Quarter, New Orleans, United States An 1834 fire at Delphine LaLaurie's mansion exposed her cruelty to enslaved people – ever since, the house has been called the most haunted in the city.
    5. 1857–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The Whaley House in San Diego 2476 San Diego Avenue, Old Town, San Diego, California, United States Built where a gallows once stood, this house is billed as America’s most haunted. Its first occupants heard the hanged man’s footsteps as early as the 1850s.
    6. 1859–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The House of La Zacatecana, Querétaro Casa de la Zacatecana, Independencia 59, Querétaro, Mexico A 17th-century house in Querétaro is named after a woman who, legend says, had her husband killed, killed the hired assassin and was then murdered by an unknown hand.
    7. 1860–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The Sorrel-Weed House in Savannah Madison Square, Savannah, Georgia, United States Savannah’s most “investigated” haunted house. A historian has shown that its famous tale of an enslaved woman named Molly has no basis in the records.
    8. 1873–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The St. Augustine Lighthouse and the Pittee Girls Anastasia Island, St. Augustine, Florida, United States Three girls drowned while the lighthouse was being built in 1873. Keepers and visitors still hear a child’s laughter on the stairs.
    9. 1886–1922 Haunted houses and manors · Explained The Winchester Mystery House – a Maze for Ghosts Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, California, United States The widow of a rifle magnate supposedly built nonstop to confuse the ghosts of those killed by Winchester guns – a legend that turned out to be greatly exaggerated.
    10. 1892–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The Lizzie Borden House in Fall River Fall River, Massachusetts, United States The house where Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to death in 1892 is now a bed and breakfast where guests come to spend the night with the ghosts.
    11. 1895–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The Midnight Confession at the Wielopolski Palace, Kraków Wielopolski Palace (City Hall), All Saints' Square, Kraków, Poland Kraków's city hall is said to be haunted by a lady in white or black – according to legend, the victim of a family crime, confessed by a priest summoned at night.

  3. 1900–1909

    1. c. 1900–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The Governess and the Maid of Moszna Palace Moszna Palace, Krapkowice County, Opole region, Poland The fairy-tale palace of the Tiele-Winckler family is said to be haunted by an English governess buried in the wrong place and a maid who took her own life in the park.
    2. 1904–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The Lemp Mansion – Home of St. Louis’s Brewing Dynasty 3322 DeMenil Place, St. Louis, Missouri, United States Three members of a St. Louis beer dynasty took their own lives in this house. The restaurant and inn in the mansion are famous for the Lemp family ghosts.
    3. 1908–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend Craigdarroch Castle – the Ghosts of the Dunsmuirs Craigdarroch Castle, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada The Victorian mansion of a coal baron who never lived to see it finished. Visitors report a piano that isn't there and a lady on the grand staircase.

  4. 1910–1919

    1. 1910–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend Monte Cristo – Australia's Most Haunted House Monte Cristo Homestead, Junee, New South Wales, Australia A Victorian homestead above Junee, where the founder's widow shut herself away for over twenty years, advertised itself as Australia's most haunted house.
    2. c. 1911–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend Baron Empain Palace in Cairo Baron Empain Palace, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt A Belgian tycoon's Angkor Wat-inspired palace stood abandoned for decades, while Cairenes told stories of his daughter's ghost and satanic rituals at night.
    3. 1912–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The Villisca Axe Murder House 508 East 2nd Street, Villisca, Iowa, United States In June 1912 someone axed to death the six Moores and two little girls staying the night. The killer was never caught – and today you can sleep in the house.
    4. c. 1915–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The Haunted Tenement at 2/4 Wilcza Street, Warsaw Tenement at 2/4 Wilcza Street (corner of Aleje Ujazdowskie), Śródmieście, Warsaw, Poland The corner first-floor flat of the tenement on Wilcza Street is said to be the most haunted address in Warsaw – supposedly no tenant lasts long there.
    5. 1915–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The Keg Mansion – the Maid's Ghost in the Massey House Keg Mansion, 515 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada The old Massey mansion, now a steakhouse, is said to be haunted by a maid who reportedly hanged herself after the death of her mistress, Lillian Massey.

  5. 1920–1929

    1. 1929–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend The Liu Family's Haunted House in Minxiong Xingzhong, Minxiong Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan The ruined mansion of the Liu family in southern Taiwan is the island's most famous haunted house. The only real tragedy there happened in 1949.
    2. 1929–1939 Haunted houses and manors · Disputed Borley Rectory – “the Most Haunted House in England” Former Borley Rectory, Essex, England, United Kingdom A Victorian rectory with a phantom nun and servant bells ringing on their own became England's most famous – and most disputed – haunted house.

  6. 1930–1939

    1. 1937–present Haunted houses and manors · Disputed The Castelinho on Rua Apa – the Mystery of the Reis Family Castelinho da Rua Apa, São Paulo, Brazil In 1937 a mother and her two sons were found shot dead in a small “castle” in São Paulo. No one knows who fired – and the house was long called haunted.

  7. 1940–1949

    1. c. 1944–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend Casa Matusita – Lima's Most Famous Haunted House Corner of Garcilaso de la Vega and España avenues, Lima, Peru They say anyone who spends a night upstairs in this house in central Lima goes mad. There are many legends – and one of the most famous turned out to be a TV stunt.
    2. 1949–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend Chaonei No. 81, Beijing 81 Chaonei Street, Dongcheng, Beijing, China An abandoned mansion in central Beijing is China's most famous haunted house. Its owner, the Catholic archdiocese, calls the stories pure invention.

  8. 1950–1959

    1. 1956–present Haunted houses and manors · Disputed Mackenzie House, Toronto – “One Ghost” in the Inventory Mackenzie House, 82 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada In the last home of Toronto's first mayor, caretakers heard footsteps and a piano – and the 1960 inventory reportedly ended with the words “One ghost.”

  9. 1970–1979

    1. 1971–present Haunted houses and manors · Legend Deane House, Calgary – the Haunted Superintendent's Home Deane House, Calgary, Alberta, Canada A Mounted Police superintendent's house from 1906, moved twice and for years a cheap rooming house, is reputed to be the most haunted place in Calgary.
    2. 1975–1976 Haunted houses and manors · Hoax Amityville – the House at 112 Ocean Avenue 112 Ocean Avenue (now 108), Amityville, New York, United States The Lutz family fled after 28 days from a house where a crime had taken place a year earlier – their story became a bestseller and a horror film franchise.

  10. 1990–1999

    1. c. 1991 Haunted houses and manors · Legend Llancaiach Fawr, Colonel Prichard’s manor Llancaiach Fawr, Gelligaer Road near Nelson, Caerphilly County Borough, Wales, United Kingdom The Tudor manor where Charles I visited Colonel Prichard in 1645 was said to be haunted by the colonel himself, a dead maid, a little boy and a “man in black.”