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Explore 61 haunted places in Vermont. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Burlington, Vermont · Other
Aiken Hall’s dormitory stories concern unexplained touch: residents report a hand on a shoulder or hair moving as if someone is playing with it. HauntedPlaces also records cold patches, night noises and televisions switching on unexpectedly. No named person is reliably identified with the presence.
Burlington, Vermont · Other
Stories carried over from Carburs describe a restless former employee in the basement. HauntedPlaces reports sudden cold drafts, moving crockery, broken glasses and a walk-in door that closes unexpectedly. One bartender’s account ends with glasses inexplicably stacked into a pyramid after she had just put them away.
Wilmington, Vermont · Hotel
The house’s own website repeats stories of Mrs. Brown and Lavinia Averill remaining at Averill Stand. HauntedPlaces describes a female figure in the dining room and a second tradition about a woman who died in childbirth. These are former-occupant legends, with no independently established identification of an apparition.
Montgomery, Vermont · Hotel
The Black Lantern’s short haunting tradition focuses on an apparently self-operating shower. According to HauntedPlaces, water in Room 3 of the Burdette House switches on and off without a guest touching it. The source supplies no named spirit or explanation, making this a simple inn-guest legend.
Cuttingsville (Shrewsbury), Vermont · Historic house
HauntedPlaces records a woman’s apparition that visitors identify with Mrs. Bowman. A dark stair-top mark is said to provoke dread, and one story describes a picture falling after a child taunted it. These household tales belong to Laurel Hall, not a separate count for each Bowman family memorial.
Stowe, Vermont · Hotel
Guests in the Brass Lantern’s story hear late-night laughter and conversation from the next room, as though neighbors have returned from an evening out. The mystery emerges the following morning, when the neighboring room is said to have been unoccupied. HauntedPlaces preserves the account without naming the unseen visitors.
Brattleboro, Vermont · Historic house
GhostQuest collects workers’ accounts of voices and unexplained sounds coming from above the dining area. Closing alone reportedly leaves some staff uneasy. The story does not name a spirit or offer an origin; its substance is the repeated impression of company in a quiet clubhouse.
Brattleboro, Vermont · Natural landmark
Retreat Tower is said to draw uneasy sensations and a phantom figure falling from its summit without reaching the ground. New England Legends investigated the familiar suicide-jumper explanation and found no record supporting it. The program separates that legend from a documented death near the tower, preserving the haunting without repeating the popular history as fact.
Brunswick, Vermont · Hotel
The Brunswick Springs legend explains a series of failed resort hotels through a curse against profiting from the water. Vermonter also recounts a woman’s apparition near the neighboring lake. These are settler-era and later retellings; the story is not used here to establish authentic Abenaki beliefs or the causes of the fires.
Burke, Vermont · Cemetery
HauntedPlaces describes motorists and pedestrians sensing an unseen watcher beside this small cemetery. The unease is accompanied by reports of movement among the graves after dark. No named ghost or substantiated death is attached to the account; its reputation rests on these brief local experiences.
Thetford Center, Vermont · Other
Camp Farnsworth’s protective figure is known as the Lady of the Lamp. HauntedPlaces describes a woman carrying a kerosene lamp between the living areas, treated in local lore as the camp’s matron. The gathering hall called Keushk has its own reports of cold areas and an uneasy atmosphere.
Williston, Vermont · Hotel
HauntedPlaces records friendly apparitions and children’s voices coming from the upstairs rooms of the historic Catamount house. The account distinguishes these stories from the property’s theatrical Halloween forest events. No individual ghost is named, and the reports do not identify the voices with a documented death.
Montpelier, Vermont · Other
The College Hall chapel’s ghost tale concerns a girl said to have died in a tower. According to HauntedPlaces, the organ sometimes produces chords even when switched off. The source does not identify the girl or substantiate the death, leaving the organ story as local campus folklore.
White River Junction (Hartford), Vermont · Hotel
A room-specific legend collected by HauntedPlaces places a woman’s ghost in Room 112. Guests reportedly feel watched, and faults with the electronic door lock are attributed to her presence. The directory links the story to a death by suicide, but provides no independent record of that event.
Shelburne, Vermont · Historic house
The Dutton House reportedly brought its ghost stories with it when moved to Shelburne Museum. HauntedPlaces describes an older man crouching upstairs beneath the roof slope and a little girl heard crying inside. The house is the specific haunting site; the wider museum is not counted again.
Chittenden, Vermont · Hotel
HauntedPlaces recounts the Eddy siblings’ nineteenth-century séances, where visitors claimed to see materialized figures and hear spirits speaking. Their farmhouse became famous through Henry Steel Olcott’s account. Later visitors still describe an unsettling presence, although other guests report quiet stays. The spectacular séance stories remain contested spiritualist lore.
Castleton, Vermont · Other
A campus rumor collected by HauntedPlaces describes a female ghost in Ellis Hall’s second-floor bathroom. The reported signs are plumbing that seems to operate by itself: showers, faucets and flushing toilets. The supposed student death behind the story is not independently established in the source.
Manchester, Vermont · Hotel
Mary Todd Lincoln is the apparition associated with the Equinox in HauntedPlaces’ account. Visitors are said to glimpse her with a child before the figures disappear. Another Vermont ghost directory records an unnamed presence in Room 346 that rearranges luggage, illustrating that more than one legend circulates at the same resort.
Bennington, Vermont · Historic house
Accounts from the former college describe a black-hooded figure, smoke with no apparent source, footsteps in empty areas, and doors or windows found unlocked. HauntedPlaces also records a man in old-fashioned clothing in the former carriage house. These are student-era haunting reports associated with the Everett estate.
Burlington, Vermont · Other
Mark P’s HauntedPlaces account comes from the building’s McDonald’s years. During overnight cleaning, two workers reportedly found syrup tanks inexplicably stacked, then later saw more tanks added and a switched-off radio playing. The submitter also recounts a manager’s story of a scream in an otherwise empty restaurant.
Brattleboro, Vermont · Other
Vermonter records security staff hearing their own names called when nobody else was present. Other workers describe lights coming on, fleeting figures and faces or shadows reflected in dark television screens. The accounts portray an inquisitive presence rather than a threatening one and belong to the former school’s working years.
Marlboro, Vermont · Other
A short campus tradition recorded by HauntedPlaces places a wandering woman near Dalrymple Hall and Howland Dormitory. Students reportedly felt cold patches and a sense of unease around those buildings. The source gives no name or origin for the apparition; the account belongs to the college era.
Glastenbury, Vermont · Natural landmark
Glastenbury’s reputation combines unexplained disappearances with stories of unnatural silence and a large, elusive creature called the Bennington Monster. Hikers’ unsettling encounters are repeated by paranormal guides. The mountain is a real wilderness destination, but the accounts do not establish a supernatural cause for the disappearances.
Stowe, Vermont · Road or bridge
Vermont’s Gold Brook Covered Bridge has another name in the stories of Stowe: Emily’s Bridge. A broken-love tale places a young woman’s spirit among its timbers, with reports of lights, voices and apparitions. The actual nineteenth-century bridge is a public-road landmark, but the town restricts parking nearby at night.