The doors are open… but they don’t always lead back out.
Haunted Houses is your ultimate guide to the most terrifying, historically haunted, and actively paranormal homes, mansions, farmhouses, and abandoned buildings in the world. From grand Victorian estates to rundown rural houses, we explore the tragic stories, restless spirits, documented apparitions, and bone-chilling encounters that make these places legendary among ghost hunters and thrill-seekers.
Some houses are just old. Others remember every soul who ever lived there… and refuse to let them go.
Discover the Darkest Homes on Earth
- Most Haunted Houses Detailed guides to the world’s most active haunted residences, including specific rooms, ghost names, and real evidence.
- Ghost Stories & Tragedies Murders, suicides, tragic accidents, and unsolved mysteries that left spirits trapped between worlds.
- Paranormal Investigations EVP recordings, spirit box sessions, shadow figures, full-bodied apparitions, and terrifying personal accounts from investigators and former residents.
- Famous Haunted Houses The Amityville Horror House, Winchester Mystery House, Villisca Axe Murder House, Myrtles Plantation, and many more.
- Visitor Guides & Ghost Hunts How to visit (when allowed), safety tips, what equipment to bring, and which rooms to avoid after midnight.
- Reader Submissions True firsthand experiences from people who lived in, visited, or investigated these haunted houses.
We treat these locations with respect while delivering the most compelling and well-researched haunted house content available.
Some houses are for the living. Others… already have tenants.
Are you brave enough to step inside?
Browse our haunted house collection and discover where nightmares were born.
Here are a Few of Our Featured Haunted Houses:
Old Firestone House, St. Augustine, Florida
The Old Firestone House in St. Augustine, Florida has such a reputation for being haunted that people passing by usually walk on the other side of the street. For years there have been reports of tables rocking and tipping over, lights going on and off by themselves, objects disappearing and then reappearing in strange places, doors opening and closing, and beds shaking.
Lemp Mansion – St. Louis, MO
The Lemp Mansion is reputedly one of the 10 most haunted places in the United States. In a November 1980 LIFE magazine article, the Lemp Mansion was named as “one of the most haunted houses in America”.
Located in St. Louis, Missouri, the mansion was owned by the Lemp family – a family beseeched by tragedy. Four of the members of this beer-brewing dynasty committed suicide; three of them actually ended their lives inside the mansion.
Old Purefoy House, Furman, AL
In this backyard of this house is a buried well that is said to be haunted by the spirit of a black man who died while he was digging it. In the early 1800’s, the owner of the house, Dr. John Purefoy was having a new well dug when the wooden rigging collapsed and buried a worker under tons of sandy soil.