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Explore 60 haunted places in Rhode Island. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
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Jamestown, Rhode Island · Natural landmark
A spectral black dog is said to prowl the fort, glaring at visitors and passing through solid walls. Barking and howling are also reported. The legend connects the animal with British troops in the Revolutionary era and the ominous black dogs of British folklore; that connection predates the surviving modern fortifications.
Coventry, Rhode Island · Other
Caretakers and visitors have reported a baby carriage moving in Elizabeth Margaret's room, door latches lifting, footsteps and voices. A phantom carriage is said to approach the house, while the smell of bread fills a kitchen that is not in use. These domestic details form the homestead's persistent ghost tradition.
Charlestown, Rhode Island · Hotel
A man is said to appear in the Washington Room, where guests have also reported an unseen tap on the shoulder. Similar touches are described in the Williamsburg Room. One particularly odd account says a mannequin's finger flew toward a worker in the attic, giving the inn's lore a mischievous streak.
Cranston, Rhode Island · Other
The mansion's best-known apparition is said to appear on its staircase, with reports placed as early as the 1920s. Other figures seen in the house are identified in local tradition with members of the Sprague family. The accounts offer several possible identities rather than a single consistently described resident ghost.
Providence, Rhode Island · Hotel
The old Biltmore's modern ghost reputation includes laughter from unseen people, apparitions, locks turning and a guest's video of a bathroom door apparently slamming shut by itself. AAA's account focuses on these reported experiences. Sensational online tales about satanic ownership are not needed to tell the hotel's paranormal story.
Chepachet / Glocester, Rhode Island · Other
The old tavern's stories include Alice, a mournful woman at a corner booth; a mischievous boy blamed for faucets and lights; and a presence associated with Thomas Dorr upstairs. Staff and guests describe voices, unexplained breaking glass and objects moving. These accounts belong to the historic building, not automatically to the restaurant's new address.
Newport, Rhode Island · Hotel
Guests reportedly complained of a noisy party above a ballroom, only to learn the space was used for storage. The folklore says the phantom celebration moved to lower floors after renovations. Other accounts at the hotel describe footsteps, voices, shifting objects, cold patches and lights that flicker without explanation.
Newport, Rhode Island · Hotel
The former Newport jail retains a reputation for prisoners who never fully left. Travel coverage describes ghosts lingering in guest rooms that once served as cells. The present inn keeps reminders of its custodial past, giving this tradition a clear physical setting without needing to invent names for its supposed occupants.
South Kingstown, Rhode Island · Other
The house's principal ghost is called Abigail, a girl said to have fallen on its stairs. Legend says a plea for help reappears on a wall after repainting. Another account concerns room seven: a woman's figure, pulled bedcovers, slamming doors and a greeting that forms in condensation on a mirror. URI's own 2006 news article supports the Abigail tradition; campus housing listing confirms the named house.
Middletown, Rhode Island · Hotel
A former-staff submission describes a girl in a blue dress and gold shoes who laughs in the historic building's corridors, then disappears around corners. The account also features a top-hatted man, missing tools that return to their original spot, and a kitchen presence nicknamed Jester blamed for clattering cookware and strange whistling.
Providence, Rhode Island · Other
A mischievous presence is said to move furniture and disrupt electrics in the basement and first-floor lounge. Some accounts add an unsettling push on the stairs.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island · Other
Stories at the old textile mill describe dark human shapes and children's screams. The reported haunting is commonly tied to the danger faced by young factory workers around industrial machinery. HauntedPlaces.org presents these noises and figures as a later paranormal tradition, not as evidence identifying any particular worker.
Providence, Rhode Island · Other
Students working downstairs reportedly encounter two ghostly children. A young woman's voice comes from the second floor, where her apparition is also occasionally said to appear.
Newport, Rhode Island · Hotel
A young girl is said to watch the street from an upstairs window and appear to guests in rooms 8 and 11. Other accounts describe music and laughter during otherwise quiet nights. The inn's own accommodation page notes room eight's place on Newport's ghost tour, giving the story a named on-site association.
West Greenwich, Rhode Island · Cemetery
Nellie Vaughn became the subject of a mistaken vampire tradition, but the ghost stories portray a young woman trying to defend herself. Witnesses have reported a girl near her burial place and a voice insisting that she is perfectly pleasant. Her ominous epitaph and later vandalism helped keep the legend circulating.
Providence, Rhode Island · Other
Ghost-tour guide Levi Leland recounts sightings of figures in period clothing and unexpected shoulder taps among the library's quiet spaces. The stories connect the library with Edgar Allan Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman, whose short-lived courtship played out partly among its books.
Providence, Rhode Island · Other
Workers' accounts describe an unseen presence using the elevator, shifting chairs, opening drawers and slamming doors. Whispers, unexpected touches and the smell of cigar smoke accompany the disturbances. Some storytellers identify the presence with former mayor Thomas Doyle; the building was also investigated for television's Ghost Hunters.
Middletown, Rhode Island · Natural landmark
Discover Newport recounts a lovers' legend in which a man follows a woman to the chasm; she clears the gap, but he falls. His ghost is said to remain below, searching for her. This is a tourism retelling of local folklore, not a verified event or an authenticated Indigenous account.
Foster, Rhode Island · Other
The mill's night watchman Peleg Walker is said to keep his rounds long after death, carrying a lantern through the ruins. In the legend, the factory bell continued ringing even after its rope, then the bell itself, were removed. Machinery ran unattended and the waterwheel turned backward, frightening away the workforce.
Newport, Rhode Island · Other
A community account describes a male figure wandering among the library's rooms after hours. Staff are said to have seen him in the evening, while other visitors report the unsettling impression that painted eyes follow their movements. The story does not identify the supposed man or establish an origin for him.
Kingston / South Kingstown, Rhode Island · Theater
URI's campus folklore names the theatre as a haunted spot. A longtime technical director recalled seeing more shadows on a wall than people onstage, while also allowing that the effect could have been an optical illusion.
Newport, Rhode Island · Other
The lighthouse keeper's quarters have accounts of footsteps and a photograph said to show an unexplained reflection. Locals identify the possible figure as keeper Charles Curtis. The same investigation considered voices and uneasy sensations in the island's former quarantine barracks, tying the lighthouse's lore to both maritime service and isolation.
Newport, Rhode Island · Other
The mansion used for the exterior of Dark Shadows' Collinwood carries stories of footsteps, sudden chills and an organ heard playing although it no longer worked. HauntedPlaces.org associates reported apparitions with former owners Edson and Julia Bradley. The television-fiction setting and the site's later paranormal reports are distinct traditions.
Narragansett, Rhode Island · Other
Museum accounts place apparitions in the Metz Building and describe objects shifting overnight. One employee reportedly saw a person reflected in a computer monitor, then found nobody outside. Visitors also describe an uneasy feeling in the basement and museum hall, where the collections and former farm buildings frame the stories.