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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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West Warwick, Rhode Island · Other
Local lore centers on Mary, a builder's wife said to have died after helping break ground despite a warning. The ghost attributed to her is a friendly one: lights switch, candles go out and objects change places. In the telling, the congregation treats her as a familiar presence rather than a threat.
Woonsocket, Rhode Island · Theater
The theatre's lore includes footsteps, doors moving and an apparition associated with builder Arthur Darman. Other accounts describe female figures, including one apparently looking for tickets. A Ghost Hunters investigation added a reported dark mass on a stairway to the collection of staff, performer and television stories.
Providence, Rhode Island · Cemetery
A man in an old-fashioned black coat is said to walk through Swan Point. Local ghost-tour lore identifies him with Edgar Allan Poe, recalling his visits here with Sarah Helen Whitman during their courtship.
Bristol, Rhode Island · Theater
Students call the theatre's unseen prankster Banquo. Lights are said to switch on with the control board off, and other equipment behaves unexpectedly. A seat in the gallery is traditionally reserved for the ghost, associated in one account with an elderly member of the farming family whose barns became the theatre.
Newport, Rhode Island · Other
In the account submitted to HauntedPlaces.org, visitors and staff have glimpsed a woman on different floors and felt watched while walking through the mansion. The figure is identified in local lore as Alice Vanderbilt, whose connection to the house provides the story's central character.
Burrillville, Rhode Island · Other
The Perron family's accounts of apparitions and unexplained voices in this farmhouse inspired The Conjuring. Later retellings connect the disturbances to a supposed witch, Bathsheba Sherman, and a catalog of earlier tragedies. Those accusations and the film's dramatic events are folklore, not established history of the real house.
Providence, Rhode Island · Other
The house had a haunted reputation even in H. P. Lovecraft's lifetime. After his aunt sent him a story about it in 1925, he jokingly wondered whether the turtles once kept in its cellar supplied the ghosts. He later used the real mansion as a model for Charles Dexter Ward's home. Qualifies through an attributed real-house reputation, not merely because it inspired fictional horror. No modern specific apparition invented.
Cumberland, Rhode Island · Road or bridge
The winding road's most repeated figures are children: a girl near a front yard, a boy with his dog and a small child on a tricycle. Community accounts also mention shapes in the bordering woods and a persistent feeling of being watched. The stories are attached to a real residential road, not a ghost attraction.
East Greenwich, Rhode Island · Other
The armory's accounts include a little girl's giggling, shadow figures, door slams and unseen touches. During the Ghost Hunters visit, investigators reported footsteps keeping pace on the stairs and abrupt cold patches; the episode's producers also described a dark figure entering a room on camera. These remain investigation claims.
Middletown, Rhode Island · Hotel
This former mansion and inn has a simple apparition story: witnesses describe seeing a woman inside and hearing her voice when no living person could be found. HauntedPlaces.org says the figure is thought to be a former owner from the property's days as a private home. Current operating name and public access need confirmation; directory's business name may be historical.
Warwick, Rhode Island · Other
Visitors have described a crying woman in the former jail and basement, while children's voices are heard around the upper balcony. Council-chamber stories add the smell of cigar smoke despite no visible smoker. Employees report feeling watched, and the building's stories were featured on Ghost Hunters.
Newport, Rhode Island · Other
HauntedPlaces.org recounts sightings of an elderly man in colonial clothing beside a dining-room fireplace. He is said to have died while lodging here. Other tavern stories describe a watchful presence that supervises staff and a woman appearing in a photograph above a dining table.