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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
Seven Days interviewed the restaurant’s owners about Isaac Nye, the reclusive merchant associated with the building. They described footsteps overhead, lights turned back on after closing and glasses rattling at the bar. Ghost-tour guide Thea Lewis also relayed a story of tables and chairs found rearranged against the walls.
Salisbury, Vermont · Historic house
Vermonter recounts former staff reports of Columbus Smith’s figure in the halls, unexplained piano music, doors moving and belongings reappearing in unexpected places. Other accounts mention crying that staff cannot locate. The stories are attributed to the house’s long institutional life, while the site continues to serve living residents.
St. Albans Town, Vermont · Natural landmark
A phantom vessel supposedly cruises St. Albans Bay, its ghostly crew calling out to fishermen. In the version preserved by HauntedPlaces, the pirates are pursuing Champ, Lake Champlain’s legendary creature. The named bay supplies the setting; no actual shipwreck or identifiable crew is established by the tale.
Hartland, Vermont · Natural landmark
Phantom loggers are said to drift down the Connecticut River near Sumner Falls. HauntedPlaces also describes a tall figure in black clothing and a black hat on nearby trails. The account connects the real riverside landscape with its logging past, without identifying particular men or documented apparitions.
Shaftsbury, Vermont · Road or bridge
Tunic Road’s brief legend concerns soldiers seen along the road when no living marchers are present. HauntedPlaces also mentions bright orbs in visitors’ photographs. It supplies no regiment, war or specific encounter date, so the account remains a roadside ghost-soldier tradition without added historical claims.
Burlington, Vermont · Other
UVM’s campus lore includes a sea captain called Jacobs, a period-dressed woman at Bittersweet House and a cold presence upstairs at Allen House. HauntedPlaces also reports slamming doors and unexplained voices at Grasse Mount, and a figure that passes through walls near Redstone Hall’s back staircase.
Vergennes, Vermont · Theater
In a HauntedPlaces submission, Raymond M describes shadows backstage, unexplained failures of performance equipment and chairs that seem to move on their own. Footsteps reportedly descend the balcony stairs when nobody is visible, and a figure has been noticed in the closed balcony. The opera house shares its building with City Hall.
Pittsford, Vermont · Other
The former sanatorium’s best-known ghost is a nurse called Mary. HauntedPlaces says recruits connect her appearances with the old patient-call buttons, and a reader claiming to be a returning instructor recalls hearing her whisper his name in the “lost wing.” The nurse’s identity and story are institutional folklore.
St. Albans, Vermont · Theater
A man wearing a white sweater is said to appear in the Welden’s basement. HauntedPlaces records voices with no visible speaker, doors that move on their own and a projector reportedly starting without an operator. Staff and visitors also describe feeling watched in otherwise empty areas.
Wilmington, Vermont · Hotel
The White House Inn’s ghost is usually called Mrs. Brown, a former resident in the local account. HauntedPlaces collects reports of a full human figure, abruptly chilly areas and doors that slam. Some visitors say the apparition did more than appear: it spoke to them.
West Hartford, Vermont · Road or bridge
The railroad crossing’s legend centers on a boy called Joe McCabe, seen playing beside or above the White River in old-fashioned clothes. HauntedPlaces connects him to the 1887 Montreal Express wreck, although versions disagree about whether he died there. Witnesses also describe a smell of burning near the replacement bridge.
Williamsville (Newfane), Vermont · Cemetery
Williamsville’s story is a reunion rather than a threat. A husband and wife supposedly lie in the two cemetery sections on opposite sides of the road. According to HauntedPlaces, their spirits meet in the roadway on their anniversary; even the retellings disagree whether that falls in September or October.
Proctor, Vermont · Castle
Tour guide Andy Probst told the Rutland Herald that Sarah Johnson’s pink bedroom attracts the most haunting reports. Visitors allegedly find a woman’s figure in their photographs there, and some describe the closet as a passage for spirits. These are the guide’s and investigators’ interpretations, presented within the castle’s active paranormal-tour tradition.