Ambler Mansion ruins
Jamestown, Virginia · Historic house
Virginia Tourism retells a Lady Lydia Ambler legend: a grieving apparition walking toward the river, accompanied by reports of strange lights and mist.
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Haunted places in Virginia
Explore 53 haunted places in Virginia. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
American Hotel
Staunton, Virginia · Hotel
Visit Staunton records staff hearing voices, footsteps and unexplained speaker static, with shadows especially associated with the basement described as a former hospital morgue.
Arlington House
Arlington, Virginia · Historic house
The Custis-Lee family are said in CPRI’s directory to remain around their former mansion. Another story describes the sound of Taps coming from the garden at night without an identified player.
Bacon’s Castle
Surry, Virginia · Historic house
Williamsburg Yorktown Daily recorded reports of knocks, laughter, screams and footsteps, doors moving, and a touch on the shoulder. An intern also reported an apparition. Site staff discuss these stories during historical haunt events, alongside older tales of fiery objects crossing the night sky.
Battleship Wisconsin
Norfolk, Virginia · Other
Virginia Tourism describes former servicemen’s ghosts roaming Wisconsin. The ship’s guided interpretation and overnight programs have incorporated these reported encounters.
Belle Grove Plantation
King George / Port Conway, Virginia · Hotel
Haunted Rooms America records Union-soldier apparitions near the entrance and fields. Ghost cats reportedly meow or pad across beds, while a playful boy called Jacob is blamed for bouncing a ball upstairs and misplacing kitchen utensils.
Blackburn Inn
Staunton, Virginia · Hotel
Visit Staunton recounts showers starting unaided, locked windows opening and flickering lights. Quiet calls for home are also associated with the former hospital grounds.
Boxwood Inn
Newport News, Virginia · Hotel
The inn’s gentle presence is identified in CPRI’s account as Nannie Curtis. She is blamed for doors moving on their own and morning knocks that interrupt sleeping guests. A second reported figure is an older man carrying a cane.
Bracey General Store
Bracey, Virginia · Other
Local stories repeated by Virginia Tourism describe ghostly travelers striding into the store. An owner reported that security cameras recorded some of these unexplained visitors.
Bruton Parish Church
Williamsburg, Virginia · Cemetery
Virginia Tourism tells of a reverend’s first wife appearing among church pews and graves after his remarriage. Other reports mention nocturnal organ music.
By the Side of the Road
Harrisonburg, Virginia · Hotel
Doors reportedly open and close without explanation at this former Civil War hospital, according to CPRI. Its account also mentions noises at odd hours, but identifies no particular soldier or other person as their source.
Byrd Theatre
Richmond, Virginia · Theater
CPRI identifies a balcony apparition as former manager Robert Colter. Other reports concern the women’s restroom: lights going out and doors moving without an apparent person operating them.
Captain Timothy Hill House
Chincoteague, Virginia · Historic house
Virginia Tourism tells of Jennie Hill lingering after a fatal encounter with rejected suitor Tom Freeman, still mourning the future the couple never had.
Centre Hill Mansion
Petersburg, Virginia · Historic house
Each January 24, according to CPRI, spectral troops can be heard entering Centre Hill, climbing the stairs and leaving again around 7:30 p.m. A separate apparition is described watching from a window above the entrance.
Cork Street Tavern
Winchester, Virginia · Other
CPRI places the tavern’s resident couple of ghosts on the eastern side of the building. Its account associates them with unexplained slipping or stumbling around a particular table, identified as L-6.
Cornwallis’ Cave
Yorktown, Virginia · Natural landmark
Virginia Tourism reports whispers, moans and chant-like sounds from the cave. Its interior is sealed to visitors because of safety concerns.
Edgewood Plantation
Charles City, Virginia · Hotel
Lizzie Rowland is said to linger at Edgewood, still waiting for a sweetheart who never returned from the Civil War. CPRI presents her story as the inn’s central haunting, a vigil that supposedly outlasted her life.
Exchange Hotel Civil War Medical Museum
Gordonsville, Virginia · Hotel
Virginia Tourism recounts moans and cries associated with soldiers treated at the former receiving hospital. The hotel’s later museum use has sustained its paranormal reputation.
Ferry Plantation House
Virginia Beach, Virginia · Historic house
Virginia Beach’s Ferry Plantation House combines a restored historic residence with reported window apparitions and owner-organized paranormal visits.
Former DeJarnette Sanitarium
Staunton, Virginia · Hospital
Visit Staunton describes spirits wandering the former institution’s grounds. The reputation persists around the vacant buildings, but the property is closed and posted against trespassing.
Gadsby’s Tavern Museum
Alexandria, Virginia · Other
Virginia Tourism retells the Female Stranger legend: an unidentified young woman died at the tavern in 1816 after those attending her promised secrecy. Her ghost is associated with Room 8; CPRI also describes a woman in period clothing.
Glencoe Inn
Portsmouth, Virginia · Hotel
CPRI describes an elderly woman’s apparition among the rose gardens. Her presence is also associated with the smell of roses drifting through the main hall in winter, when that scent seems especially out of place.
Gunston Hall
Mason Neck, Virginia · Historic house
Visitors described in CPRI’s directory have reportedly glimpsed a figure identified as George Mason reflected in mirrors. Other stories concern footsteps heard when nobody can be found in the rooms of his former home.
Historic Kenmore
Fredericksburg, Virginia · Historic house
Fielding Lewis is said to linger upstairs studying financial papers. Virginia Tourism also records footsteps, whispers and doorknobs turning without anyone visible.