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Explore 62 haunted places in New Jersey. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Hoboken, New Jersey · Other
The Brass Rail's legend tells of a bride who fell from a spiral staircase and a grieving groom who died afterward. HauntedPlaces.org says figures interpreted as the couple and wedding guests are seen late at night. Other reports concern unexplained calls, voices and possessions falling or going missing. The wedding tragedy is folklore, not an independently verified 1904 event. Avoid presenting its details as established history.
Ocean City, New Jersey · Hotel
Emily, often called the Lady in White, is the Flanders Hotel's best-known reported ghost. HauntedPlaces.org places her appearances particularly in the Hall of Mirrors and notes a portrait associated with her inside the hotel. A visitor's comment describes seeing a woman's shape and then hearing a loud moan. Emily's identity and the apparition reports are folklore.
Bay Head, New Jersey · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org reports children apparently laughing and playing in the Grenville's corridors. Other accounts describe full human apparitions and the sound of busy activity coming from rooms found empty. The reports suggest an occupied hotel continuing invisibly around its present guests, without identifying particular historical children.
Chester, New Jersey · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org reports apparitions, unexplained growls, sudden chills and perfume with no apparent wearer at the former Brick Hotel. In the community accounts, a diner felt repeated touches on an arm and heard a child's giggle. Another family describes a little girl apparently sitting at an otherwise empty dining-room table.
Trenton / Ewing, New Jersey · Hospital
A submission credited to Chris Berglund on HauntedPlaces.org describes apparitions identified by storytellers as Dr. Henry Cotton and former patients, along with voices said to have been captured during paranormal investigations. The account singles out a former operating laboratory as the focus of reports. Active or controlled healthcare property is not a ghost-tour destination. No patient details collected. Historical surgical claims in the submission are not treated as verified clinical history.
Elizabeth, New Jersey · Other
HauntedPlaces.org recounts a woman's apparition in the courthouse rotunda and a separate tradition centered on a fifth-floor courtroom. There, the spirit is identified in folklore as Hannah Caldwell, near a portrait of her husband, Reverend James Caldwell. The stories were also associated with a television paranormal investigation. Court security and official business govern entry; no paranormal access implied. The claim that Caldwell was the Revolution's first female casualty is omitted as unsupported.
Flemington, New Jersey · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org's Flemington entry describes child apparitions and objects moving without a visible cause inside the Union Hotel. Its most unusual account is of a pair of shoes apparently climbing a staircase without a wearer. These are reports attached to the historic hotel rather than to other hotels sharing its common name.
Franklin Township, New Jersey · Historic house
HauntedPlaces.org attributes the house's spirits to Evert and Cornelia Van Wickle. The reported activity is domestic and unruly: unexpected puddles, doilies seemingly flying, slamming doors, a radio playing without being switched on and kitchen noises when nobody is there. Animals are also said to react to unseen presences. The directory's dramatic wedding-day double-death story is unverified and is not adopted as historical fact.
Vernon Township, New Jersey · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org reports human shapes and shadows at Vernon Inn, accompanied by lights switching and doors moving on their own. Investigators are said to have recorded what they interpreted as a child's voice. The account does not identify that child or establish a historical cause for the disturbances. EVP interpretations are reported claims, not verified voices.
Cape May, New Jersey · Hotel
According to HauntedPlaces.org, an elderly woman's voice is heard in the Washington Inn and a child spirit called Elizabeth sometimes calls staff members by name. One account connects the girl with a photograph in which she supposedly appeared seated at a table beside a visiting family.
Fieldsboro, New Jersey · Historic house
A submission by Dawn Reichard on HauntedPlaces.org places a dark figure in the mansion's basement. In the attic, a voice is linked in local telling to former proprietor Mr. Glenk; other voices seem to come from people who are not there. These reports belong to the house's long afterlife as a residence and restaurant.
Frenchtown, New Jersey · Hotel
Callum Swift's HauntedPlaces.org submission gives this inn an animal ghost: guests feel what seems to be a cat settling on the bed. When they look for the animal, there is nothing visible. The supposed feline is also said to roam the halls.
Cape May, New Jersey · Hotel
In HauntedPlaces.org's telling, Bridgette is the mischievous young woman associated with Windward House's third-floor Wicker Room. Guests' belongings reportedly change position or disappear, especially earrings left beside the bed, before turning up again. The account describes a playful pattern rather than an independently established historical resident. Source's Irish identity claim remains folklore; verify current business name and room terminology.
Rio Grande, Middle Township, New Jersey · Other
The spirit called Hestor is associated with Winterwood's old Hildreth House. HauntedPlaces.org lists footsteps, flickering lamps and objects moving, and describes a sign acknowledging the ghost. A shopper's account recalls an unseen push near the fireplace and, on a later visit, an ornament seeming to be pulled sideways from her hand.