https://americandarkbook.site/True American stories of haunted places and unsolved vanishings.en-usMon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://americandarkbook.site/stories/taos-hum/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/taos-hum/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Taos Hum, Taos, New Mexico (1990s–present). Since the early 1990s, people in and around Taos, New Mexico, have reported a low, droning hum that most of…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/jason-jolkowski/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/jason-jolkowski/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsJason Jolkowski, Omaha, Nebraska (2001). At about 10:45 on the morning of Wednesday, June 13, 2001, a neighbor in Omaha, Nebraska, looked out and saw…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/jim-sullivan/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/jim-sullivan/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsJim Sullivan, Santa Rosa, New Mexico (1975). In 1969, a young singer-songwriter from Southern California released an album called U.F.O. The cover showed…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/max-headroom-broadcast-intrusion/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/max-headroom-broadcast-intrusion/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Max Headroom Broadcast Intrusion, Chicago, Illinois (1987). At 9:14 on the evening of Sunday, November 22, 1987, viewers in Chicago who were watching…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/morgan-nick/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/morgan-nick/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsMorgan Nick, Alma, Arkansas (1995). On the evening of Friday, June 9, 1995, a six-year-old girl named Morgan Nick went with her mother to a Little League…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/lady-of-the-dunes/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/lady-of-the-dunes/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Lady of the Dunes, Provincetown, Massachusetts (1974–2022). On a hot summer afternoon in July 1974, a thirteen-year-old girl walking her dog in the sand…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/zodiac-killer/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/zodiac-killer/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Zodiac Killer, San Francisco Bay Area, California (1968–1974). On the evening of December 20, 1968, two teenagers on their first date drove out to a…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/black-dahlia/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/black-dahlia/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Black Dahlia, Los Angeles, California (1947). On the morning of January 15, 1947, a young mother named Betty Bersinger was walking with her…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/chicago-tylenol-murders/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/chicago-tylenol-murders/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Chicago Tylenol Murders, Chicago, Illinois (1982). On the morning of September 29, 1982, a twelve-year-old girl named Mary Kellerman woke up feeling…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/ambrose-bierce/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/ambrose-bierce/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsAmbrose Bierce, Chihuahua, Mexico (1913–1914). In the autumn of 1913, one of the most famous writers in America set out on a journey he seemed to suspect he…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/bobby-dunbar/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/bobby-dunbar/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsBobby Dunbar, Opelousas, Louisiana (1912). This is a story about a boy who disappeared, and a boy who was found. For ninety years, everyone believed they…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/boy-in-the-box/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/boy-in-the-box/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Boy in the Box, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1957–2022). On a cold day in February 1957, a young man was checking muskrat traps in a weedy, overgrown lot…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/leah-roberts/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/leah-roberts/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsLeah Roberts, Bellingham, Washington (2000). In March 2000, a twenty-three-year-old woman from Durham, North Carolina, packed up her white 1993 Jeep…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/jennifer-kesse/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/jennifer-kesse/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsJennifer Kesse, Orlando, Florida (2006). Somewhere in the hours between the night of Monday, January 23, 2006, and the morning of Tuesday, January 24…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/deorr-kunz-jr/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/deorr-kunz-jr/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsDeOrr Kunz Jr., Leadore, Idaho (2015). Timber Creek Campground is a small, remote campsite in the mountains of east-central Idaho, at the end of a long dirt…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/thelma-pauline-melton/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/thelma-pauline-melton/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThelma Pauline Melton, Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee (1981). On the afternoon of Friday, September 25, 1981, three women set out from a campground for an…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/trenny-gibson/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/trenny-gibson/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsTrenny Gibson, Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee (1976). On Friday, October 8, 1976, a school bus carrying a horticulture class from Bearden High School in…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/kecksburg-incident/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/kecksburg-incident/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Kecksburg Incident, Kecksburg, Pennsylvania (1965). At about a quarter to five on the afternoon of December 9, 1965, people across a huge swath of North…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/phoenix-lights/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/phoenix-lights/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Phoenix Lights, Phoenix, Arizona (1997). On the evening of Thursday, March 13, 1997, thousands of people across Arizona looked up at the sky and saw…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/mary-reeser/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/mary-reeser/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsMary Reeser, St. Petersburg, Florida (1951). On the morning of July 2, 1951, a telegram boy knocked on the door of a small apartment in St. Petersburg…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/northwest-orient-flight-2501/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/northwest-orient-flight-2501/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsNorthwest Orient Flight 2501, Lake Michigan (1950). Shortly after midnight on June 24, 1950, a Northwest Orient Airlines plane flying west over Lake…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/carroll-a-deering/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/carroll-a-deering/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Carroll A. Deering, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina (1921). On the morning of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guard lookout at the Cape Hatteras station on…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/657-boulevard/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/657-boulevard/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved Vanishings657 Boulevard, Westfield, New Jersey (2014). In June 2014, Derek and Maria Broaddus closed on the house of their dreams. It was a big, gracious, six-bedroom…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/rey-rivera/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/rey-rivera/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsRey Rivera, Baltimore, Maryland (2006). On a spring evening in 2006, a man in Baltimore took a phone call at home, hurried out of the house, and drove away.…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/mary-shotwell-little/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/mary-shotwell-little/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsMary Shotwell Little, Atlanta, Georgia (1965). At about eight o'clock on the evening of Thursday, October 14, 1965, a young woman finished dinner with a…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/connie-converse/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/connie-converse/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsConnie Converse, Ann Arbor, Michigan (1974). In August 1974, a fifty-year-old woman in Ann Arbor, Michigan, packed her belongings into her Volkswagen…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/jean-spangler/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/jean-spangler/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsJean Spangler, Los Angeles, California (1949). On the evening of Friday, October 7, 1949, a young actress and dancer named Jean Spangler kissed her…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/everett-ruess/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/everett-ruess/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsEverett Ruess, Davis Gulch, Utah (1934). In February 1935, a search party riding through the remote canyon country of southern Utah came upon two burros…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/glen-and-bessie-hyde/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/glen-and-bessie-hyde/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsGlen and Bessie Hyde, Grand Canyon, Arizona (1928). In the autumn of 1928, two newlyweds set out to do something no woman had ever done. Glen and Bessie…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/joshua-maddux/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/joshua-maddux/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsJoshua Maddux, Woodland Park, Colorado (2008–2015). In the summer of 2015, a crew of contractors was hired to tear down an old cabin in the mountain town of…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/kenny-veach/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/kenny-veach/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsKenny Veach, Nevada desert (2014). In the fall of 2014, a man from Las Vegas posted a short video on YouTube of himself hiking through the desert mountains…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/zebb-quinn/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/zebb-quinn/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsZebb Quinn, Asheville, North Carolina (2000). Two days after Zebb Quinn disappeared, his car turned up in a restaurant parking lot near a hospital in…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/dennis-martin/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/dennis-martin/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsDennis Martin, Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee (1969). It was supposed to be a Father's Day tradition. Every year, the men of the Martin family of…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/elisa-lam/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/elisa-lam/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsElisa Lam, Los Angeles, California (2013). Elisa Lam's death became one of the most discussed cases of the internet age. A short, grainy security video of…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/jimmy-hoffa/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/jimmy-hoffa/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsJimmy Hoffa, Bloomfield Township, Michigan (1975). At about 2:30 on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 30, 1975, a short, stocky man in a dark blue shirt and…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/amelia-earhart/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/amelia-earhart/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsAmelia Earhart, Central Pacific (1937). At 8:43 on the morning of July 2, 1937, the radio room of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca, anchored off a speck…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/flight-19/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/flight-19/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsFlight 19, Off the Florida coast (1945). At 2:10 in the afternoon on December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy torpedo bombers took off from Naval Air Station Fort…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/bennington-triangle/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/bennington-triangle/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Bennington Triangle, Bennington, Vermont (1945–1950). In the southwestern corner of Vermont, east of the town of Bennington, the Green Mountains rise in…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/tara-calico/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/tara-calico/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsTara Calico, Belen, New Mexico (1988). On June 15, 1989, a woman walking through the parking lot of a convenience store in Port St. Joe, a small town on the…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/judge-joseph-force-crater/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/judge-joseph-force-crater/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsJudge Joseph Force Crater, New York, New York (1930). For decades after 1930, if someone in America didn't show up when they were supposed to, people would…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/dorothy-arnold/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/dorothy-arnold/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsDorothy Arnold, New York, New York (1910). On a bright, cold afternoon in December 1910, a young woman in a blue serge suit, a black velvet hat trimmed with…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/yuba-county-five/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/yuba-county-five/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Yuba County Five, Plumas National Forest, California (1978). On the night of Friday, February 24, 1978, five young men from Yuba City, California, drove…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/brian-shaffer/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/brian-shaffer/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsBrian Shaffer, Columbus, Ohio (2006). The security cameras caught him walking in. At 1:15 a.m. on Saturday, April 1, 2006, a camera at the entrance to a bar…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/asha-degree/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/asha-degree/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsAsha Degree, Shelby, North Carolina (2000). In the early hours of Valentine's Day 2000, during a cold winter storm, a truck driver on a two-lane highway…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/springfield-three/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/springfield-three/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Springfield Three, Springfield, Missouri (1992). It was graduation night. On the afternoon of Saturday, June 6, 1992, Suzie Streeter and Stacy McCall…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/maura-murray/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/maura-murray/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsMaura Murray, Haverhill, New Hampshire (2004). In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Route 112 runs east from the Vermont border through dense woods and…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/db-cooper/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/db-cooper/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsD.B. Cooper, Pacific Northwest (1971). He bought his ticket with cash. It was the afternoon before Thanksgiving, November 24, 1971, at Portland…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/brandon-swanson/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/brandon-swanson/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsBrandon Swanson, Lynd, Minnesota (2008). The last thing anyone ever heard Brandon Swanson say was two words, shouted into a cell phone in the dark. He had…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/lost-colony-of-roanoke/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/lost-colony-of-roanoke/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Lost Colony of Roanoke, Roanoke Island, North Carolina (1587–1590). On August 18, 1590, a man named John White came ashore on Roanoke Island looking for…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/sodder-children/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/sodder-children/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Unsolved VanishingsThe Sodder Children, Fayetteville, West Virginia (1945). For nearly forty years, if you drove Route 16 outside Fayetteville, West Virginia, you passed a…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/point-lookout/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/point-lookout/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesPoint Lookout, St. Mary's County, Maryland (1863–present). At the southern tip of Maryland's western shore, the land narrows to a flat, sandy point between…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/lake-lanier/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/lake-lanier/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesLake Lanier, Gainesville, Georgia (1956–present). On a summer weekend, Lake Lanier is one of the busiest lakes in America. It sprawls across nearly forty…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/old-idaho-penitentiary/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/old-idaho-penitentiary/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesOld Idaho Penitentiary, Boise, Idaho (1872–1973). The Old Idaho Penitentiary sits at the foot of the hills on the eastern edge of Boise, behind high…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/uss-hornet-cv-12/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/uss-hornet-cv-12/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesUSS Hornet (CV-12), Alameda, California (1943–present). On July 24, 1969, the eyes of the world were on an aircraft carrier in the middle of the Pacific…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/stull-cemetery/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/stull-cemetery/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesStull Cemetery, Stull, Kansas (1970s–present). Stull, Kansas, is barely a town at all. It's a scattering of houses, a church and a few farm buildings at a…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/dover-demon/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/dover-demon/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Dover Demon, Dover, Massachusetts (1977). Dover, Massachusetts, is one of the wealthiest towns in New England — a quiet, leafy place of old stone walls…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/hopkinsville-goblins/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/hopkinsville-goblins/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Hopkinsville Goblins, Kelly, Kentucky (1955). On the evening of August 21, 1955, a young man named Billy Ray Taylor walked out to the well behind a…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/flatwoods-monster/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/flatwoods-monster/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Flatwoods Monster, Flatwoods, West Virginia (1952). It was a little after seven o'clock on the evening of Friday, September 12, 1952, in the small town…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/skinwalker-ranch/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/skinwalker-ranch/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesSkinwalker Ranch, Uintah Basin, Utah (1994–present). In 1994, a rancher named Terry Sherman and his wife, Gwen, bought a 480-acre property in the Uintah…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/marfa-lights/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/marfa-lights/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Marfa Lights, Marfa, Texas (1883–present). Nine miles east of the town of Marfa, in the high desert of far West Texas, there's a roadside rest stop with…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/brown-mountain-lights/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/brown-mountain-lights/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Brown Mountain Lights, Burke County, North Carolina (1913–present). On a clear autumn night in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/sorrel-weed-house/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/sorrel-weed-house/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Sorrel-Weed House, Savannah, Georgia (1840–present). Savannah, Georgia, may be the most haunted city in America. That's not my claim; it's the city's…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/rolling-hills-asylum/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/rolling-hills-asylum/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesRolling Hills Asylum, East Bethany, New York (1827–1974). Before Social Security, before unemployment insurance, before nursing homes and food stamps and…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/shanghai-tunnels/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/shanghai-tunnels/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Shanghai Tunnels, Portland, Oregon (1850–1941). In the waterfront saloons of nineteenth-century Portland, Oregon, a sailor who drank too much might wake…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/old-charleston-jail/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/old-charleston-jail/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Old Charleston Jail, Charleston, South Carolina (1802–1939). Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the most beautiful cities in America: pastel row…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/congress-plaza-hotel/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/congress-plaza-hotel/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago, Illinois (1893–present). In the spring of 1893, Chicago threw a party for the whole world. The World's Columbian…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/driskill-hotel/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/driskill-hotel/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Driskill Hotel, Austin, Texas (1886–present). The Driskill Hotel was built to be the finest hotel in Texas, and for a long time it was. It rises four…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/jerome-grand-hotel/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/jerome-grand-hotel/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesJerome Grand Hotel, Jerome, Arizona (1927–present). Jerome, Arizona, clings to the side of a mountain. The town is built on the steep slope of Cleopatra…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/bird-cage-theatre/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/bird-cage-theatre/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Bird Cage Theatre, Tombstone, Arizona (1881–1889). In 1882, the New York Times reportedly called it the wildest, wickedest night spot between Basin…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/1886-crescent-hotel/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/1886-crescent-hotel/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe 1886 Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, Arkansas (1886–present). In the summer of 1937, a man in a white linen suit, a lavender shirt and a purple tie…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/smurl-haunting/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/smurl-haunting/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Smurl Haunting, West Pittston, Pennsylvania (1974–1989). West Pittston is a small, tidy town on the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania's…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/perron-family-haunting/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/perron-family-haunting/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Perron Family Haunting, Harrisville, Rhode Island (1971–1980). In January 1971, Roger and Carolyn Perron packed up their five daughters and moved from…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/jersey-devil/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/jersey-devil/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Jersey Devil, Pine Barrens, New Jersey (1735–present). In the southern half of New Jersey, between the suburbs of Philadelphia and the casinos of…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/mothman/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/mothman/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Mothman, Point Pleasant, West Virginia (1966–1967). On the night of November 15, 1966, two young married couples were driving around an abandoned World…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/resurrection-mary/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/resurrection-mary/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesResurrection Mary, Justice, Illinois (1930s–present). Every big city has its vanishing hitchhiker. The story goes something like this. A young man is…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/bachelors-grove-cemetery/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/bachelors-grove-cemetery/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesBachelor's Grove Cemetery, Midlothian, Illinois (1844–present). You reach it on foot. There's no road anymore. From a turnout on the busy Midlothian…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/pennhurst-state-school-and-hospital/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/pennhurst-state-school-and-hospital/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesPennhurst State School and Hospital, Spring City, Pennsylvania (1908–1987). In 1968, a young television reporter named Bill Baldini walked into a state…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/franklin-castle/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/franklin-castle/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesFranklin Castle, Cleveland, Ohio (1881–present). From the street, Franklin Castle looks like the house a child would draw if you asked for a haunted…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/bobby-mackeys-music-world/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/bobby-mackeys-music-world/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesBobby Mackey's Music World, Wilder, Kentucky (1896–2024). For more than forty years, a country music bar on the banks of the Licking River in northern…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/alcatraz/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/alcatraz/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesAlcatraz, San Francisco, California (1934–1963). From the cell blocks of Alcatraz, on certain nights, the inmates could hear the city. San Francisco is only…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/st-augustine-lighthouse/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/st-augustine-lighthouse/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesSt. Augustine Lighthouse, St. Augustine, Florida (1873). The lighthouse at St. Augustine is striped like a barber's pole — black and white bands spiraling…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/gettysburg/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/gettysburg/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesGettysburg, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1863). In the summer of 1863, Gettysburg was a market town of about 2,400 people, with a college, a seminary, and a…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/hotel-del-coronado-and-kate-morgan/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/hotel-del-coronado-and-kate-morgan/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesHotel del Coronado and Kate Morgan, Coronado, California (1892). She checked in on Thanksgiving Day. It was November 24, 1892, and the Hotel del Coronado…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/sallie-house/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/sallie-house/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Sallie House, Atchison, Kansas (1990s). Atchison, Kansas, is a quiet river town on a bluff above the Missouri, best known as the birthplace of Amelia…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/myrtles/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/myrtles/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Myrtles, St. Francisville, Louisiana (1796–present). There is a mirror in the front hall of the Myrtles, a long, gilded antique that has hung in the…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/west-virginia-penitentiary/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/west-virginia-penitentiary/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesWest Virginia Penitentiary, Moundsville, West Virginia (1876–1995). Across the street from the West Virginia Penitentiary, there is a hill that isn't a…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/ohio-state-reformatory/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/ohio-state-reformatory/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesOhio State Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio (1896–1990). If you've seen The Shawshank Redemption, you've seen it. The towering stone castle at the end of a long…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/whaley-house/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/whaley-house/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Whaley House, San Diego, California (1857–present). In 1852, in the dusty Mexican-era town that would become Old Town San Diego, a sailor named James…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/lemp-mansion/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/lemp-mansion/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Lemp Mansion, St. Louis, Missouri (1904–1949). Before there was Anheuser-Busch, the beer of St. Louis was Lemp. In the 1890s, the William J. Lemp…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/amityville-house/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/amityville-house/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Amityville House, Amityville, New York (1974–1976). Some houses are haunted because of what happened inside them. The Dutch Colonial on Ocean Avenue in…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/trans-allegheny-lunatic-asylum/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/trans-allegheny-lunatic-asylum/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesTrans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, West Virginia (1864–1994). The building is a quarter of a mile long. You see it first from the highway, rising above…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/rms-queen-mary/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/rms-queen-mary/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesRMS Queen Mary, Long Beach, California (1936–present). There is a door in the engine room of the Queen Mary that the crew still call Door Thirteen. It is a…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/stanley-hotel/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/stanley-hotel/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado (1909–present). On the night of October 30, 1974, a young writer and his wife checked into a grand white hotel in…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/lalaurie-mansion/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/lalaurie-mansion/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe LaLaurie Mansion, New Orleans, Louisiana (1834). On April 10, 1834, fire broke out in a mansion on Royal Street in New Orleans. What the people who…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/eastern-state-penitentiary/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/eastern-state-penitentiary/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesEastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1829–1971). The first prisoner walked through the gates of Eastern State Penitentiary on October 25…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/lizzie-borden-house/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/lizzie-borden-house/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Lizzie Borden House, Fall River, Massachusetts (1892). Almost every word of that playground rhyme is wrong. It wasn't an axe; it was almost certainly a…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/bell-witch/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/bell-witch/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Bell Witch, Adams, Tennessee (1817–1821). It started with an animal in the corn. One day in 1817, a farmer named John Bell was walking his rows along…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/waverly-hills-sanatorium/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/waverly-hills-sanatorium/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesWaverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky (1910–1961). The tunnel begins in the basement and goes down. It runs for roughly five hundred feet beneath…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/winchester-mystery-house/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/winchester-mystery-house/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, California (1886–1922). There is a staircase in San Jose that climbs seven steps and ends at the ceiling. There is a…https://americandarkbook.site/stories/villisca-axe-murder-house/https://americandarkbook.site/stories/villisca-axe-murder-house/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Haunted PlacesThe Villisca Axe Murder House, Villisca, Iowa (1912). The last good evening the Moore family ever had ended with applause. It was Sunday, June 9, 1912, and…