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Explore 50 haunted places in Indiana. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
North Terre Haute, Indiana · Other
A girl's apparition is reported near the surviving mill dam and foundations. Haunted Places links her, in local legend, with underground passages once associated with the mill. The story concerns the mill site and its remnants rather than a surviving intact mill building. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Logansport, Indiana · Cemetery
Haunted Places records the sound of invisible horses in Mount Hope Cemetery and whistles that seem to answer visitors. Stories also attach to inscriptions on mausoleums, giving the quiet burial ground a reputation for responses from something unseen. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Zionsville, Indiana · Road or bridge
Haunted Places records reports of cries and screams around this Zionsville bridge in the early hours. A local tale attributes them to a lynching. That alleged event belongs to the story as collected, rather than independently verified history. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Oakland City, Indiana · Other
Cockrum Hall's legend identifies its haunting with Colonel Cockrum's wife. In the Haunted Places account, unexplained orange light shines through windows and doors move inside without an apparent person operating them. The tragic tower story offered as an explanation remains part of the folklore. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Rockville, Indiana · Hotel
An account collected by Haunted Places describes an inmate's apparition wandering the former jail's corridors at night. Guests staying in converted cells reportedly hear footsteps without a visible walker and a threatening male voice, keeping the building's former use central to its haunting. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Indianapolis, Indiana · Cemetery
A small boy's ghost is said to wander the paths and nearby road while playing a harmonica. The account collected by Haunted Places links him to a death near the railway, making the sound of the instrument the most distinctive part of this cemetery legend. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Columbus, Indiana · Other
Haunted Places connects the workplace's reported shadow figures and missing objects with the spirit of a former employee. The story gives him an unhappy romantic backstory; the recurring reported phenomena are fleeting dark shapes and items disappearing from where workers expect to find them. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Charlottesville, Indiana · Other
Haunted Places describes a rural farmhouse where visitors report sensing an elderly woman. Other accounts concern poltergeist-like disturbances, giving the property a local reputation for an unseen resident who seems capable of affecting the physical surroundings. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Indianapolis, Indiana · Theater
Haunted Places describes apparitions and oddly active plumbing at the Rivoli: taps and toilets reportedly operate without anyone using them. Other accounts concern objects that shift or vanish, and a cigarette found smoking in an ashtray when no smoker could be located. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Atlanta, Indiana · Other
People described in Haunted Places' account have reported male, female and child apparitions throughout the Roads Hotel. Footfalls and voices occur without visible speakers, while doors allegedly swing or slam and lights operate without anyone at the switches. Moving shadows recur in the hotel's lore. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Mount Vernon, Indiana · Other
Haunted Places records shadowy figures and unexplained nighttime noises at the historic Robin Hill house. Plumbing allegedly operates when no one is using it. The house's reputation grew around periods of vacancy, but that older account does not establish its present occupancy or availability to visitors. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Rockport, Indiana · Hotel
An apparition identified in local lore as a former owner's wife is said to walk the inn's corridors. Haunted Places attributes encounters to both staff and guests, who report hearing as well as seeing the figure across many years of retellings. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Terre Haute, Indiana · Other
At the Sage Mansion, formerly occupied by the Vigo County Historical Museum, Haunted Places records a small unexplained mist and light anomalies near the front staircase. Another story concerns an upstairs crib moving without anyone touching it. These reports refer to the old mansion, not automatically to the museum's later premises. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated. Do not transfer this haunting to the current museum location.
Indianapolis, Indiana · Other
Haunted Places lists a varied cast of apparitions at the old inn: a cowboy, a caretaker, a sex worker, and people identified in the stories as formerly enslaved. The figures tie the building's ghost lore to the different lives said to have passed through it. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Brazil vicinity, Indiana · Road or bridge
In the story collected by Ghosts of Indiana, Rebecca Lowry dies in a storm-time buggy accident and her father searches for her missing head. Mysterious lights moving along the hill are identified in the legend as his continuing search. Natural explanations for the lights also circulate. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Richmond, Indiana · Other
At the former piano-factory site, Haunted Places records footsteps and voices without visible sources. A phantom truck is said to arrive at the loading dock, a workaday sound echoing the property's industrial life. Visitors have also reported localized cold patches among the remnants. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Anderson, Indiana · Theater
An account submitted to Haunted Places places apparitions on the stairs and balcony of Anderson's State Theatre. A figure reportedly looks from the projection booth when it is empty. Whispering voices and perceived presences round out the story of a theater whose audience seems to linger after the show. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Martinsville, Indiana · Cemetery
A woman dressed in black is said to mourn over a baby's grave in this small woodland cemetery. Haunted Places retells the grieving-mother legend and reports that visitors describe her crying figure among the graves. Different explanations circulate, but the solitary mourner is the story's enduring presence. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Nashville, Indiana · Hotel
The inn's Blue Lady is said to appear when a blue bedside lamp is lit. Haunted Places describes guest-book accounts of a woman materializing at a dressing table, accompanied in some versions by the smell of peaches. Her appearance in a particular room gives the inn a unusually specific resident ghost. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Peru, Indiana · Cemetery
The local Hookman legend describes a spectral man with a hook in place of one hand wandering roads near Tillett Cemetery. Haunted Places also records thick fog and sudden pockets of cold around the burial ground, distinct from any claim that the threatening figure is a real attacker. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Bedford, Indiana · Other
Tunnelton's folklore includes a headless construction worker still searching for what he lost. Haunted Places also retells a story of a family whose fatal horse-and-buggy accident left screams echoing nearby. These are multiple legends attached to the same tunnel, rather than separate haunted locations. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Indianapolis, Indiana · Other
The mansion's folklore includes a spectral dog walker and a dark-haired woman who hurries from a doorway into a carriage that is itself an apparition. Haunted Places also records reports of visitors feeling a shove along the dog walk and encountering sudden chills. Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Mitchell, Indiana · Historic house
Whispers Estate takes its name from the soft voices visitors say they hear in its historic rooms, with particular stories surrounding the children of an early doctor’s family.
Evansville, Indiana · Other
Willard’s Grey Lady has become part of life in an Evansville library that still serves readers and family historians. Staff accounts describe a veiled figure, unexplained footsteps and furniture found moved. After-hours investigations can be requested through the library, separately from ordinary public visits.