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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.
Proctorsville (Cavendish), Vermont · Hotel
Golden Stage’s lore includes a male presence and a woman repeatedly seen brushing her hair. HauntedPlaces preserves both as resident spirits without establishing their identities. The recurring grooming scene is the distinguishing detail of this old inn’s ghost story, rather than proof of a documented death.
Plainfield, Vermont · Historic house
A campus story collected by HauntedPlaces follows a visitor who asks a pianist for directions inside the manor house. He keeps playing without answering. When she turns back, the man is said to look at her, laugh and vanish. The inexplicable musician became one of Goddard’s remembered ghost tales.
Montpelier, Vermont · Cemetery
At Green Mount Cemetery in Montpelier, a seated memorial figure has acquired the name Black Agnes and a warning about misfortune. The statue is actually Karl Bitter’s Thanatos, made for John E. Hubbard. Its solemn identity and its local curse tradition have become inseparable parts of the visit.
Stowe, Vermont · Hotel
Inn folklore follows Boots Berry, a horseman said to have returned to Stowe after years away. According to the tale, he died rescuing a girl stranded on the roof during a snowstorm. Guests now attribute roof-top tapping and dancing sounds, especially in snowy weather, to Boots.
Island Pond (Brighton), Vermont · Hotel
A report submitted by Callum Swift to HauntedPlaces places most activity on the third floor: a frowning man in a suit, sounds attributed to a timber sawyer and a woman linked in local lore to a fall from the cupola. The submission interprets the suited figure as a former manager.
Springfield, Vermont · Hotel
James Hartness’s house and underground workspaces provide the setting for reports of belongings disappearing and turning up elsewhere. HauntedPlaces also records apparently unexplained electrical failures. The haunting is attributed broadly to an unseen presence rather than a securely identified person or a single documented incident.
Highgate Falls, Vermont · Historic house
Vermonter’s account describes voices and an unsettling presence in the manor’s former basement bar. Local retellings connect the disturbances with the Baxter family’s children. A darker story accuses their physician father of experiments, but that allegation is unsupported folklore and should not be confused with verified family history.
White River Junction (Hartford), Vermont · Hotel
Local lore identifies the Coolidge’s lingering guest as Ezra “Wrench” Magoon, remembered as a farmer and bootlegger. White River Junction’s published history repeats the hotel’s haunted reputation in his name. The brief account gives no specific modern encounter; it is kept as a named ghost tradition rather than embellished.
Quechee (Hartford), Vermont · Hotel
In a first-person HauntedPlaces submission, Christine DeLuca describes a presence she calls Mr. Tewksbury. The figure allegedly crosses the backyard and disappears, knocks on doors, talks when no one is visible and taps sleeping guests on the shoulder. The submitter also attributes nighttime breakages to the same presence.
East Barnet, Vermont · Historic house
Inwood’s older tale describes a smiling woman in a striped dress on the stairs and a child near the cellar. A commenter identifying himself as the owner later described toy sounds, humming, knocks and moving knobs, attributing some disturbances to a mischievous presence called Larry. These are attributed household reports.
Bennington, Vermont · Other
Students interviewed in a 2018 WPTZ report described footsteps in empty corridors, windows opening or closing unexpectedly, cold patches and musical instruments sounding without players. Jennings is often linked locally to The Haunting of Hill House, but Shirley Jackson’s biographer disputed that connection. The student accounts stand independently of the literary claim.
Castleton / Hubbardton, Vermont · Natural landmark
Lake Bomoseen’s phantom boat belongs to a tale about three men who rowed across to a tavern and never came home. Their empty boat supposedly returned without them. HauntedPlaces says a rowboat now appears crossing the lake on moonlit nights, keeping the vanished travelers’ story alive.
Newport / Derby, Vermont · Natural landmark
Vermont Tourism repeats a shoreline legend about the ghost of Revolutionary War general Anthony Wayne at Lake Memphremagog. The lake is also associated with the serpent Memphre. The haunting and creature accounts are distinct strands of regional folklore, attached here to the lake rather than treated as proven sightings.
Norwich, Vermont · Hotel
HauntedPlaces describes a woman in a dark formal dress appearing in Room 20 and the dining room. Rocking chairs allegedly move when empty, while taps and toilets operate without anyone using them. These accounts attach to the Vermont inn, not the similarly named spa hotel in Norwich, Connecticut.
Northfield, Vermont · Other
Norwich’s campus stories include a presence near Chaplin Hall’s entrance that supposedly moved library books, a female sentry at Sabine Field, and an ominous boarded-up room at Alumni Hall. Students in Hawkins and Ransom also describe waking unable to move or breathe. HauntedPlaces records these as campus legends, not verified deaths or diagnoses.
St. Albans, Vermont · Other
The old school’s story assigns footsteps, cold patches and unexplained voices to a former custodian. HauntedPlaces also records a figure in an upstairs south-wing window and a window that supposedly refuses to remain shut. The building once hosted a staged Halloween attraction, but the custodian tale is separate folklore.
Castleton, Vermont · Other
The Old Chapel’s legend reaches back to its medical-school past. HauntedPlaces tells of a woman whose body was supposedly taken for dissection and whose headless ghost still searches the building. The medical connection supplies the setting, while the wandering woman and grave-robbing episode are presented as the tale’s claims.
Waterbury, Vermont · Hotel
HauntedPlaces describes an unusually helpful disturbance at this inn: a bed reportedly stripped and its linen neatly folded while a housekeeper looked away. Other accounts concern rocking chairs and furniture moving without anyone touching them, plus apparitions. Room 2 is singled out in the collected lore.
Enosburg Falls, Vermont · Theater
The opera house’s unseen prankster is called Willy. HauntedPlaces says performers blame him when scripts disappear or props move, and when footsteps sound overhead. His origin story concerns a workman’s son injured in the attic, but that biography remains part of theater lore rather than a corroborated death record.
Quechee (Hartford), Vermont · Hotel
HauntedPlaces associates the inn’s footsteps with former resident Jane Porter. Her figure is said to cross from the dining room into the hall, while noises come from unoccupied rooms and storage overhead. Another spirit, called Patrick Marsh, supposedly hides belongings and later returns them; unexplained whistling is reported near the bar.
Bellows Falls (Rockingham), Vermont · Hotel
The Readmore’s brief haunting account places an unnamed ghost in the Cook’s Room. HauntedPlaces identifies the building as the William A. Hall House, also called the Babbitt House. The source supplies no specific apparition, sounds or biography beyond that room’s haunted reputation.
Colchester, Vermont · Other
College folklore describes a helpful nun in the theater, where props are said to vanish during performances. A separate dormitory tale concerns footsteps above the top floor and lights visible in a locked attic. HauntedPlaces connects that second story with rumored occult meetings, without providing corroboration for them.
Saxtons River (Rockingham), Vermont · Cemetery
Visitors in the account collected by HauntedPlaces describe a persistent sense of someone following them between the graves. Turning around reveals nobody. The cemetery’s reputation centers on that unwanted company and a heavy, uncomfortable atmosphere; the brief source identifies no particular ghost.
Saxtons River (Rockingham), Vermont · Hotel
HauntedPlaces records a presence encountered around the inn’s former ballroom and elsewhere in the building, plus a woman associated specifically with Room 3. The account does not identify either spirit. These are longstanding inn stories and should not be read as a description of the current owners or operations.