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Explore 86 haunted places in Montana. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Bozeman, Montana · Theater
In a submission to HauntedPlaces.org, workers at Bozeman's Ellen Theatre describe a ghostly audience member. The account leaves the figure's identity and the origin of the haunting unresolved; the supported story is the reported presence of a lingering patron.
Virginia City, Montana · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org describes ghost children visiting first-floor guests who have children of their own. Other reports involve whispers, footsteps, the sound of skirts brushing through rooms and doors moving without help. Room 10 is singled out in the inn's paranormal lore.
Wisdom, Montana · Other
HauntedPlaces.org describes belongings moving without visible assistance at Fetty's in Wisdom. Its short account also mentions the sound of children playing and unexplained cold patches late at night, but does not identify a particular ghost.
Fort Peck, Montana · Hotel
According to HauntedPlaces.org, one figure paces an upper-floor corridor while another occupies a red armchair in a guest room. Witnesses also describe male and female voices. The source associates the hotel's ghosts with workers lost during construction of Fort Peck Dam.
Fort Peck, Montana · Theater
The theater's friendly ghost is described by HauntedPlaces.org as a construction worker who died in a fall. Dressed in work khakis, he reportedly appears in the rear balcony and watches over people using ladders or stairs. Some witnesses say they have found the figure resting in a restroom.
Gallatin Gateway, Montana · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org describes a housekeeper's apparition behind guests, an unseen piano player associated with moving objects and lights, and a cold presence that reportedly pushes people. The tale links the housekeeper with an alleged killing, an origin not established by the directory's account.
Drummond, Montana · Other
HauntedPlaces.org records voices, apparitions and unexplained saloon music in Garnet. The stories imagine former miners continuing their routines among the empty buildings. Southwest Montana's tourism account specifically mentions laughter at Kelly's Saloon and footsteps and closing doors at the Wells Hotel.
Big Timber, Montana · Hotel
A HauntedPlaces.org contributor reports a cattle rancher's apparition and unexplained upstairs footfalls at Big Timber's Grand Hotel. In an old basement laundry, staff supposedly hear voices without finding anyone. Another story describes patches of water appearing and quickly disappearing without an evident leak.
Fort Benton, Montana · Hotel
The Grand Union's staircase is said to echo with hoofbeats from a cowboy's fatal attempt to ride indoors. HauntedPlaces.org also recounts blue lights in room 202, figures in period clothing watching from an empty room and a long-coated man identified in local lore as former manager Charles Rowe.
Helena, Montana · Theater
Grandstreet's ghost is traditionally called Clara, after the woman commemorated by its Tiffany window. HauntedPlaces.org says her presence returned when the stored window was reinstalled in 1976. Stories describe light footsteps and electrical switches being operated without a visible hand.
Harlowton, Montana · Hotel
The Graves Hotel's most distinctive story concerns a deceased owner's rocking chair. HauntedPlaces.org says it returns from storage to his favorite window overlooking the river, even behind a locked door. Housekeepers reportedly also heard corridor footsteps and felt playful tugs at their hair.
Harlem, Montana · Hotel
A HauntedPlaces.org submission describes investigators being followed through the abandoned Harlem Hotel by a wheelchair moving without anyone pushing it. The visitors reportedly became frightened and left. The source does not supply a named witness or verified explanation.
Three Forks, Montana · Other
A HauntedPlaces.org contributor reports footsteps and abrupt cold patches in the former bank that houses Headwaters Heritage Museum. Some visitors in the account also describe being pushed by an unseen presence. The source gives no identity or historical explanation for the supposed entity.
Floweree, Montana · Other
The Black Horse Lake story reverses the usual hitchhiker legend. HauntedPlaces.org recounts drivers apparently striking a denim-clad man on Highway 87, only to find neither an injured pedestrian nor a trace of him. The roadside tradition identifies him as a man killed on that stretch of highway.
Lincoln, Montana · Hotel
Hotel Lincoln's stories, as collected by HauntedPlaces.org, include a woman in a Victorian dress, a man staff call Jack and children heard laughing upstairs. Other reports describe an unexplained spicy scent in room 21 and candles disappearing from room 17.
Bozeman, Montana · Other
HauntedPlaces.org describes an unseen presence at the former bistro switching lights, shifting utensils and apparently walking across freshly washed floors. The tale is attributed to restaurant staff and does not name a particular ghost.
Glendive, Montana · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org records a woman and child among the Jordan Inn's supposed apparitions. The contributor's brief report identifies the hotel and bar but gives no names, individual encounter or explanation for why the pair might remain.
Billings, Montana · Other
HauntedPlaces.org recounts workmen's tools disappearing during conversion of the historic house into Juliano's. Later witnesses reportedly saw a suited man on the stairs or looking toward the street at night, accompanied by an uneasy sense of another presence.
Terry, Montana · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org recounts a white-dressed figure in the attic and on its stairs, traditionally linked to a flu patient. Elsewhere, witnesses describe dinner service audible in an unused restaurant, a rattling doorknob, running footsteps and the sound of furniture dragged across empty rooms.
Helena, Montana · Other
HauntedPlaces.org names Mary Kleinschmidt and her young son in the private home's ghost tradition. Mary's presence is associated with footsteps; the boy reportedly appears in bedrooms wearing old-fashioned knee-length trousers. No public visitation is implied by these residential stories.
Dillon, Montana · Other
HauntedPlaces.org collects tales of a white-gowned woman upstairs and a shadow running through the bar. Its most unusual apparition is a pair of cowboy boots apparently descending the stairs without an owner. Other stories describe displaced belongings and erratic gaming machines.
West Glacier, Montana · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org recounts sightings of an elderly woman looking through the lodge windows. Other visitors report argumentative voices without visible speakers, while staff describe unexplained touches, knocking and sudden bangs. No individual is conclusively identified in the contributor account.
Garryowen, Montana · Other
HauntedPlaces.org collects accounts of figures resembling soldiers and Indigenous combatants, voices and unexpected touches at the battlefield. One tradition identifies an apparition near the Stone House as Lieutenant Benjamin Hodgson. These are later visitor stories associated with a memorial landscape and should be treated respectfully.
Fromberg, Montana · Other
HauntedPlaces.org contributor Callum Swift describes a former owner appearing in cowboy clothes at the Little Cowboy. The account also mentions unexplained laughter, misplaced objects and glasses breaking without an apparent cause.