Historic St. John’s Church
Richmond, Virginia · Cemetery
Virginia Tourism describes a colonial-dressed shadow near the pulpit, sometimes identified as Patrick Henry, along with disembodied footsteps and murmured conversations.
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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.
Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond, Virginia · Cemetery
CPRI links the cemetery to two very different legends: a cast-iron dog that reportedly comes alive, and the Richmond Vampire. Virginia Tourism locates the latter tale at W. W. Pool’s tomb.
Major Graham Mansion
Max Meadows, Virginia · Historic house
In a WDBJ7 interview, owner J. C. Weaver described unseen voices accompanying his piano playing and balls rolling in the room associated with Clara. A visitor also showed a window photograph interpreted as a face. Clara’s biography remains part of the site’s paranormal storytelling.
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Manassas area, Virginia · Other
CPRI reports stories of Civil War soldier apparitions on the Manassas battlefield. Its account singles out figures crossing a stone bridge, connecting the park’s haunting tradition to movement through the landscape rather than one named ghost.
Martha Washington Inn & Spa
Abingdon, Virginia · Hotel
CPRI tells of a young woman searching the inn for her lost lover. It also records a persistent-bloodstain legend: marks associated with wounded Civil War soldiers supposedly return even after carpeting is replaced.
Mary Baldwin University
Staunton, Virginia · Other
Visit Staunton describes portraits and mirrors disturbed overnight and a prankster spirit called Richard. Campus stories also invoke Mary Baldwin, Agnes McClung and Tallulah Bankhead.
Nelson House
Yorktown, Virginia · Historic house
Virginia Tourism recounts a British soldier’s ghost trapped after a cannonball struck his hiding place in a secret staircase.
Oak Grove Cemetery
Lexington, Virginia · Cemetery
Virginia Tourism connects this cemetery with Lexington’s soldier-ghost lore, including claimed appearances of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee with his horse Traveller.
Old Town Hall
Manassas, Virginia · Other
CPRI attributes slamming or self-opening doors and workers reportedly becoming locked inside to a former prisoner’s ghost. The directory connects the tale to the building’s earlier civic and detention uses.
Olde Towne Inn site
Manassas, Virginia · Hotel
The former inn’s ghost is called Miss Lucy in CPRI’s account. She is blamed for running taps, disturbed beds and unplugged appliances, especially around Room 52 and adjacent rooms. These are stories of the former lodging operation.
Page House Inn
Norfolk, Virginia · Hotel
According to CPRI, a former owner’s mother is thought to remain at Page House Inn. The small domestic disturbance attached to her story is the dining-room china cabinet opening without anyone visibly doing it.
Patrick Henry Hotel building
Roanoke, Virginia · Hotel
CPRI’s hotel-era accounts include three men watching from the ballroom, an elderly woman remaining in a guest room, and a man at a second-floor table. The building now contains apartments and commercial space.
Peyton Randolph House
Williamsburg, Virginia · Historic house
Virginia Tourism recounts a lodger’s ghost walking sadly through the house. Heavy footsteps are also reported overhead when the upper rooms are empty.
Ramsay House
Alexandria, Virginia · Historic house
CPRI records sightings of figures dressed in eighteenth-century clothing at the Alexandria visitor center. The house is also said to retain the presence of William Ramsay, one of the city’s founders.
Rosewell Ruins
Gloucester, Virginia · Historic house
Virginia Tourism describes ghostly parties, mysterious lights and lantern-bearing figures. A woman reportedly descends steps where the mansion’s entrance once stood.
Roundtree Park
Falls Church area, Virginia · Natural landmark
CPRI preserves a brief local story of a woman’s apparition carrying a baby in Roundtree Park. The account does not identify her or supply a documented explanation for why she is said to appear.
Shirley Plantation
Charles City, Virginia · Historic house
The odd presence at Shirley is attached to a family portrait. CPRI describes a painting that resists being moved from its customary place, making relocation of an object, rather than a roaming apparition, the heart of the haunting.
Spotts-Coffman House
Staunton, Virginia · Historic house
Visit Staunton connects ghostly sightings at this former school, library and residence to stories about Charlotte Coffman, nicknamed the Black Widow in local lore.
St. Albans Sanatorium
Fairlawn, near Radford, Virginia · Hospital
A former boys’ school and hospital above the New River, St. Albans has become a destination in paranormal-investigation accounts. One recorded visit describes attic sounds and an unexpectedly playful session in the boiler room. Current visiting arrangements need confirmation from the operator.
Staunton Train Station
Staunton, Virginia · Other
Visit Staunton describes an opera singer’s apparition on the platform, reportedly tugging women’s hair, and a soldier-like figure stumbling along the railway.
Surrender Field
Yorktown, Virginia · Other
Virginia Tourism records spectral soldiers and cannon sounds, with a phantom band reportedly repeating The World Turned Upside Down across the field.
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, Virginia · Other
CPRI records college ghost traditions involving founder Indiana Fletcher Williams and former president Meta Glass. Their supposed continued presence forms part of the campus folklore, though the directory does not anchor these accounts to a specific room.
The Historic Cavalier Hotel
Virginia Beach, Virginia · Hotel
CPRI records unexplained voices and noises at the Cavalier, along with a ghostly cat. Its more unusual room story involves towels reportedly changing color between a guest’s arrival and a later check of the bathroom.
Thornrose House
Staunton, Virginia · Hotel
CPRI calls the house’s ghost Caroline. Windows and curtains reportedly shift, and missing room keys turn up in the room bearing her name. The directory’s suggestion that she was a child’s nurse is tentative, rather than established history.