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Explore 51 haunted places in New Mexico. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Albuquerque, New Mexico · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org recounts women seen in the hotel corridors: one dressed in 1940s clothing and an older woman in pink associated with the fourth floor. Other apparitions are reported in the second-floor ballroom, particularly toward late afternoon and evening.
Clayton, New Mexico · Hotel
New Mexico Magazine identifies the best-known spirit as Irene, a maid linked to Room 307. The room’s lore includes creaking boards and faces in the wallpaper. An owner also retells a guest’s experience of comforting touches during a migraine.
Albuquerque, New Mexico · Hotel
A circulated Ghosts of Hotel Parq Central account describes a woman watching corridors in the former hospital’s upper right wing, bedclothes pulled away at night, and whispers heard by staff. The same account recounts a 2011 investigation reporting voices and localized cold.
Jemez Springs, New Mexico · Other
HauntedPlaces.org attributes figures in historical dress, unseen footsteps, and nighttime lights to the old pueblo and mission ruins. These are outsider paranormal reports; they should not be represented as the beliefs or traditions of the living Jemez community.
Albuquerque, New Mexico · Other
A HauntedPlaces.org commenter describes repeatedly glimpsing someone seated beside the swimming pool, only to find the spot empty when looking directly. Another claims unexplained recorded voices near the locker rooms. The directory itself questions the older, widely repeated student-death legend.
Albuquerque, New Mexico · Theater
At Albuquerque’s KiMo Theatre, a boy called Bobby is said to play on the lobby stairs. The tradition of leaving him treats has made this Pueblo Deco theater’s backstage folklore unusually sweet.
Taos, New Mexico · Other
HauntedPlaces.org records the local belief that Kit Carson’s spirit still appears in his former home. A commenter also claims a face-to-face encounter with an apparition they identified as Carson, although the short account gives no detailed circumstances.
Santa Fe, New Mexico · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org describes a figure called the Judge moving through the halls and a man who seems to cross the dining room before plunging into a vanished well. A ghost bride is another part of the hotel’s reported apparition lore.
Albuquerque, New Mexico · Other
HauntedPlaces.org describes a young girl appearing in the women’s restroom mirrors, a space said to have once been her bedroom. Other reported experiences include mist-like figures, sudden cold areas, and employees hearing their names whispered when no speaker can be found.
Santa Fe, New Mexico · Hotel
Historic Hotels of America recounts a woman in a black Victorian dress identified as Julia Staab appearing in the original Staab House. Other stories describe rose scents, swaying chandeliers, misplaced items, and glasses falling from a shelf. The source locates the lore in the old mansion rather than all resort buildings.
Las Cruces, New Mexico · Other
A HauntedPlaces.org submission describes two male apparitions and a woman in an old-fashioned dress at the former depot. The reported experiences also include voices in otherwise empty rooms. Commenters identifying themselves as staff describe a peaceful presence rather than a threatening one.
Lamy, New Mexico · Other
HauntedPlaces.org names two reported figures: Ramon, a man in black linked by legend to a saloon shooting, and an unidentified woman in white who glides among the tables. One diner also recalls loud laughter from a dark, apparently empty room.
Loma Parda, New Mexico · Ghost town
New Mexico’s tourism department recounts human-like shadows moving around Loma Parda’s ruined buildings at dusk. Some tellers identify them with women who once worked there; others describe unnamed people from the town’s violent past. The identities vary with the retelling.
Los Lunas, New Mexico · Historic house
HauntedPlaces.org says former resident Josefita Otero is seen as a full-bodied apparition. One of the mansion’s most persistent images is of her sitting in an upstairs rocking chair, gently rocking although the room has no living occupant.
Madrid, New Mexico · Other
In HauntedPlaces.org’s account, an employee believed a spirit greeted her by brushing her cheek. On mornings when she failed to acknowledge it, she said it became less polite, pushing her or taking a coffee cup from her hands.
Montezuma, New Mexico · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org recounts opera music with no apparent performer, a former proprietor walking the corridors, and a woman glimpsed in the tower. The old resort building later became the Davis International Center on the United World College campus.
Albuquerque, New Mexico · Other
A little girl with blonde braids and a school uniform is the courthouse’s best-described apparition in HauntedPlaces.org. Other accounts mention lights switching themselves, an old law book flying down a corridor, and sealed boxes found open with their contents disturbed.
Las Cruces, New Mexico · Prison
Investigators quoted by HauntedPlaces.org describe a threatening unseen presence and shadowy figures in the former courthouse. Voices and pockets of cold air are also reported in the building, which is no longer used for ordinary judicial business.
Silver City, New Mexico · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org recounts a blood-like stain that appears and vanishes in bathrooms, a woman in period clothing on the staircase, and mischievous knocks at guest-room doors. Its story connects these reports to a supposed upstairs murder without substantiating the event.
Mountainair, New Mexico · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org collects reports of flashing lights in the Wedding Suite and an unexplained chocolate smell in another guest room. Paranormal investigators also claimed a recorded voice answered a question about its name with Shaffer.
Raton, New Mexico · Theater
HauntedPlaces.org records unexplained noises and sudden cold areas inside the Shuler. Its short entry does not identify a particular ghost, leaving the theater’s reputation grounded in reported sensations and sounds.
Cimarron, New Mexico · Hotel
In the old Santa Fe Trail town of Cimarron, the St. James Hotel still offers rooms, meals and bar service beneath its frontier reputation. It keeps Room 18 out of ordinary bookings, following the tale of T. J. Wright, a ghost said to have remained among the hotel's former gamblers.
Cloudcroft, New Mexico · Hotel
The tourism department recounts Rebecca, a chambermaid whose legend connects her disappearance to a jealous lover. Her playful ghost allegedly moves furniture, switches lights, and starts fireplaces.
Carlsbad, New Mexico · Other
According to a HauntedPlaces.org submission, smoke has seemed to form in the upstairs dining room without a source. A worker in the basement reportedly felt a pair of hands settle onto his shoulders when nobody was standing behind him.