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Explore 59 haunted places in Massachusetts. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
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Boston, Massachusetts · Other
Haunted Places records Nathaniel Hawthorne’s claimed sighting of the scholarly Reverend Harris at the library. This literary ghost account gives the Athenaeum a distinct haunting tradition rather than simply a general reputation for eerie rooms. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Hull, Massachusetts · Other
An old sailor supposedly objects to modern music at Boston Light, changing radios to classical stations. Haunted Places pairs that tale with unexplained footsteps, cold patches and a rocking chair moving without an occupant. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Boston, Massachusetts · Hotel
Haunted Places records a paranormal reputation from Charlesgate’s former student-dormitory years. Stories tie its hauntings to student séances and an alleged architect’s death; the account does not establish those explanations as historical fact. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated. Charlesgate is a former hotel/dormitory now residential; do not treat historical university ownership as current public access.
Boston, Massachusetts · Other
The fourth floor is associated with playwright Eugene O’Neill in Haunted Places’ account. Unseen knocking, unexpected gusts and an elevator operating by itself feature in the stories about the building where he spent his final years. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Bridgewater, Massachusetts · Other
Campus stories collected by Haunted Places describe a former headmistress at Tillinghast Hall and a prankster called George in the Campus Center. George is blamed for locked doors and instruments playing unexpectedly. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Belchertown, Massachusetts · Other
A custodian reportedly saw figures on the stairs and books sliding from shelves, alongside unexplained cold patches. Haunted Places says local stories identify the library’s presence as former librarian Lydia Barton. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Concord, Massachusetts · Hotel
Room 24 is the focus of the Colonial Inn’s ghost reputation in Haunted Places’ account. The directory notes its appearance on Ghost Hunters, but supplies no detailed encounter in this short entry. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Boston, Massachusetts · Theater
A child, a couple in early twentieth-century clothing and a former Boston mayor appear in Haunted Places’ account of this theater. The mayor is said to have died during a performance; that origin story is not independently established here. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts · Cemetery
A small Revolutionary-era graveyard near Fitchburg is known as “The Rev,” with tales of soldiers’ shadows and screams from the nearby woods.
Deerfield, Massachusetts · Hotel
Haunted Places identifies three reputed spirits: Cora, who disapprovingly taps people; John, a shadowy figure in the corridors; and Herschel, linked to rearranged belongings and a rocking chair on the porch. Knocks and unexplained lights accompany the stories. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Beverly, Massachusetts · Other
Endicott’s campus folklore, collected by Haunted Places, includes noises and rising shades in Brindle Hall, a girl reflected in mirrors at Reynolds Hall, and a white-gowned woman at old Winthrop Hall said to wait for a lost sailor. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Greenfield, Massachusetts · Other
Local lore recorded by Haunted Places places Eunice Williams’s apparition near the covered bridge, river and dam. The story links the haunting to her death after the Deerfield raid; later generations added accounts of motorists encountering her figure. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Hull, Massachusetts · Other
Visitors’ stories collected by Haunted Places describe whispers and unexplained sounds among the fortifications. Dark shapes reportedly dart across the ruins or linger in doorways, appearing briefly before vanishing. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Boston (Georges Island), Massachusetts · Other
The fort’s Lady in Black legend concerns a woman who supposedly tried to free her imprisoned husband. Haunted Places recounts her failed rescue and execution, followed by sightings of a dark-dressed figure and unexplained cries around the island. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Gloucester, Massachusetts · Other
Haunted Places recounts apparitions and unusual photographic images at the castle. Stories identify its resident spirits as inventor John Hays Hammond Jr., his wife and a former groundskeeper, keeping the building’s former household present in local lore. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Harvard, Massachusetts · Cemetery
The rows of distinctive iron grave markers in Harvard’s Shaker cemetery have inspired stories of figures from the vanished community appearing nearby.
Salem, Massachusetts · Hotel
Haunted Places locates the hotel’s ghost stories around its elevator and sixth floor. Accounts describe swaying chandeliers and patches of sudden cold, making ordinary hotel corridors the setting for its paranormal reputation. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Falmouth, Massachusetts · Other
A figure reportedly watches from the mansion’s central upstairs window. Haunted Places records local identification of the apparition as Mary Louisa Beebe, a member of the family who occupied Highfield Hall. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
North Adams, Massachusetts · Road or bridge
Haunted Places describes a long tradition of apparitions inside the railroad tunnel, associated in local lore with workers killed during construction. The accounts turn the tunnel’s dangerous industrial past into a continuing ghost story. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Worcester, Massachusetts · Cemetery
Haunted Places records a brief local account of apparitions and children’s laughter near the cemetery’s statue of Jesus holding an angel. The report does not identify the children or offer a documented origin for the haunting. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
North Adams, Massachusetts · Other
A chauffeur’s ghost is said to linger at the former Houghton family mansion. Haunted Places links his presence to a fatal motoring accident and his subsequent death, a tragic sequence at the heart of the property’s ghost story. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated. The source’s identification of accident victims is unreliable and was not repeated; verify against historical sources before adding family names or dates.
Salem, Massachusetts · Other
Haunted Places recounts sightings of a woman identified as former owner Susan Ingersoll in halls and windows. A playful childlike presence is associated with the attic, while other stories describe objects shifting and an empty chair rocking. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Salem, Massachusetts · Cemetery
Giles Corey’s ghost and a supposed curse on Salem’s sheriffs are central to the cemetery’s lore. Haunted Places describes sightings and sensations of pressure or being followed, presented as part of the tradition surrounding his execution. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.
Salem, Massachusetts · Other
Haunted Places records a tradition that Sheriff George Corwin and Giles Corey haunt the Joshua Ward House. Their names connect the house’s ghost lore with the Salem witch trials. Supernatural reports are folklore, not established facts. Historical explanations have not been independently corroborated.