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Explore 52 haunted places in Pennsylvania. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Prison
Voices, darting shadows and faces glimpsed in cellblocks belong to Eastern State’s ghost lore. Philadelphia’s preserved prison also tells a demanding human history. Visitors may explore through its historic-site programs, but the operator expressly prohibits paranormal investigations and investigation equipment.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Other
Philadelphia tourism repeats a playful Franklin legend: his statue comes alive, descends from its perch at the library and dances through the historic district.
Altoona, Pennsylvania · Historic house
A Penn State newspaper-project recollection describes a heavy sound upstairs that a guide attributed to resident ghost Sylvester Clemson Clinton Baker. A separate mansion legend concerns a wedding dress that seems to move in its case. The dress's attribution to Anna Baker is disputed and should not be presented as established history.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Historic house
Chestnut Hill's Baleroy lore grew around Meade Easby's accounts of ghostly visitors, a flying teapot and a sinister blue chair. The chair's spirit, Amanda, supposedly invited people to sit with fatal consequences. The Chestnut Hill Local recounts these as the mansion's legends, alongside reported figures of a monk and an elderly woman.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Historic house
Betsy Ross is said to linger in her former home. In the local account repeated by Visit Philadelphia, visitors hear weeping and glimpse her moving through the rooms.
Douglassville, Pennsylvania · Hotel
The lodge's own ghost-tour account describes footsteps without a walker, displaced objects and a recurring Dark Shadow. Its cast includes Caleb Brinton, an older woman, a little girl and Dapper Dan, names attributed to a visiting medium. The dark figure has reportedly been seen by occupants since at least the 1980s.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Cemetery
Visit Pittsburgh repeats a cemetery legend in which the Biddle brothers' ghosts linger after their fatal escape from county jail.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Other
According to Visit Pittsburgh, librarians shelve books at closing, only to discover scattered volumes on the floor the following morning.
Munhall, Pennsylvania · Other
Visit Pittsburgh reports shadow figures, unlocated voices, slamming doors and books allegedly flying from shelves at Carnegie of Homestead.
Cashtown, Pennsylvania · Hotel
A family account on Haunted Places describes regularly pacing footsteps that seemed to patrol the inn's rooms and halls. They were told the unseen walker was a soldier called Tom. Other recollections include cold sensations and a figure at a window. The inn's own press page acknowledges its long ghost-story tradition.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Other
Visit Pittsburgh associates the Early American Room's hidden bedroom with shifting shadows, unexplained noises and belongings that reportedly move themselves.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Other
Campus lore, repeated by Visit Pittsburgh, gives Fickes Hall a ball-bouncing child called Billy and Woodland Hall a floating Blue Lady.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Cemetery
Benjamin Franklin's burial place has a mischievous ghost story: his spirit allegedly takes visitors' loose change or tosses pennies back at them, according to Philadelphia tourism.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Other
Visit Pittsburgh recounts a woman in white, mysterious noises and objects moving unaided inside the church-turned-brewpub.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Historic house
Two female apparitions reportedly roam the Frick family's preserved mansion; Visit Pittsburgh describes them as possible members of the family.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Historic house
Cliveden's ghost lore links séances in the historic house with Samuel Chew Jr.; Visit Philadelphia describes participants claiming contact with the former resident's spirit.
Cresson, Pennsylvania · Prison
Amy's Crypt recounts childlike spirits and a voice-mimicking presence in the former children's ward. Visitors reportedly see shadows dart through corridors or hear steps inside prison blocks. The chapel and connecting tunnels carry their own apparition stories. These reports attach to the actual former complex, which advertises authorized exploration and investigations.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Other
Aboard the preserved cruiser, visitors reportedly encounter shadow figures and a spirit called Gunner Johnson. Philadelphia tourism places these accounts within the ship's haunted reputation.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · Other
Ghost Walk Gettysburg describes children still playing audibly after the dining rooms close. PANICd adds an apparition of a barefoot boy seated on the tavern floor as though removing a splinter, along with children's hushed voices and dining-room candles that unexpectedly go out.
Erie, Pennsylvania · Other
Brewerie staff told Erie News Now about unexplained giggling near a stairwell and a sensation like a child trying to trip a passerby. These experiences are connected locally to Clara, supposedly a girl who died on the stairs. The operator acknowledges that no obituary or article verifies that story.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · Hotel
Bullet-marked brick and a small attic room frame the haunting stories of Gettysburg’s Farnsworth House Inn.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Theater
The demolished Oakland playhouse's lore included actor John Johns and a white-clad woman calling his name, according to Visit Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Other
A faceless figure in a prison casemate and a helpful guide who cannot be found again give Fort Mifflin its uneasy welcome. The Philadelphia fort offers historical visits and separately ticketed paranormal programs.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania · Theater
The Fulton tells of a suited man who asked a carpenter for a cigarette and vanished. His whistling reportedly still interrupts performers. Another theater tale concerns a spectator who came to hear his granddaughter sing; when a crew member mentioned him afterward, the actress said both her grandfathers were dead.