Search Results for "Alta Vista, Virginia"
Searching near: Alta Vista Lane, Spotsylvania County, VA 22553, United States of America within 50 miles
Found 44 haunted location(s)
Old Mansion Inn
the ghost of Colonel John Waller Hoomes haunts his home.
Fall Hill Plantation
Reports of electrical problems, cabinets opening and closing, ghostly figures circling one’s bed, cold spots, strange odors, and disembodied voices.
Chatham Manor
The apparition of a white lady walks a path on these grounds that has become known as Ghost Walk. Chatham was built in 1771 by William Fitzhugh. He named it after a close friend, William Pitt, the...
Wilderness Battlefield
People have reported seeing a woman calling out for her lost husband "Jacob" at the battlefield site, soldiers charging and laying in the remaining trenches, and people driving on the road beside...
Lambs Creek Church
off of U.S. route 3 on Lambs creek church road (R.R. 4) there is Lamb's Creek church where two civil war soldiers can be seen resting on a rainy night. This usually happens on rainy nights. Also...
Randolph-Macon College
Mary Branch girl's dormitory has had doors opening and closing by themselves, items disappearing/reappearing, etc. Washington-Franklin Hall has at least two ghosts that have appeared to teachers...
Owens Creek Rd. Mineral
Historical Red House - The "Mistress of Red House" is said to roams the grounds of this revolutionary war house. A woman in a tan dress, She sometimes stands peering out the windows or up near the...
Silverthorn Creek
Many Believe a curse haunts this creek for its furious common winds. Holds an urban legend of a man who haunts the creek with his slaves often heard singing from local children- many fear. Local...
Aquia Church
the ghost of a woman killed there has been seen in the belfry.
Willow Grove Inn
Strange noises in vacant rooms. Footsteps have been heard on many occasions that belong to an unknown and invisible being. On occasion two confederate soldiers have been seen sitting under the big...
Powhatan Correctional Center
Where the Chapel is located in the prison today, at one time was the inmates infirmary. There are windows surrounding 3 sides of the room, which are visible from the security towers outside. Many...
Weems/Bots Museum
Books have been heard thrown across the room with no one in the room. Lights have gone off/on many times with no one controlling. A ghost haunts it, and almost everyone working there has had some...
Tuckahoe Plantation
This was the childhood home of Thomas Jefferson. An Unhappy bride is said to walk the grounds sobbing. It seems she was forced to marry against her will, and died of a broken heart.
Cold Harbor
Battlefield Park - In the front, battles are still going on. You can usually see or hear them around 1am every night. Also, a path runs thru the park for visitors and if you're lucky you can photo...
Castle Hill Manor
Castle Hill Manor was built before the Revolutionary War in 1765, by a Dr. Thomas Walker. Many guests who have stayed at the manor have been aroused and really frightened in the middle of the...
Hollywood Cemetery
Besides the fact that the cemetery is very old with many local "celebrities" (mostly governors, senators, and a president or two) there is one tomb, Poole's, that is known as the Vampire Tomb....
Governors Mansion
a friendly ghost of a young women haunts the Governors Mansion to this day.
Church Hill Tunnel
In 1925 The church Hill Train tunnel was being reopened after being closed do to deaths in 1877. They needed more traffic area for trains the C&O train #231 and several cars was near the entrance...
Old Railway
There is a light seen down the tracks that never seems to get any closer it seems to be the lantern the man carried. There is also sightings of fireballs and orbs.
Stratford Hall
This is the place where Robert E Lee grew up and lived with his family. If you go in his wife's old room and see the bed made and then walk out for five minutes the bed will have a place where...
NSWC BASE HOUSING
Many occupants admit feeling a strong presence in their homes. Also small objects are constantly coming up missing or moved in to strange places. Many have even heard sounds. Three occupants admit...
Virginia Aviation Museum
The museum is located on a Civil War battlefield; also the museum contains old planes and artifacts from pilots beginning in WWII. There have been other occurrences there such as footsteps to a...
Henrico County
Shirlydale Ave.(apartments) - At the end of Shirlydale Ave after the cul-de-sac there was a house about 50 yards up that was used as a civil war hospital it was tore down in the 80'S the house was...
Cohoke Railroad
Near the small crossroads town of Cohoke in King William, a ghost train appears to visitors more times than it doesn't. Looking down the tracks towards the west, a light will come like a train,...
Lazy Susan Dinner Theatre
The ghost or ghosts who haunt the Lazy Susan have been known to rearrange the chairs & place settings in the dining room. Several people have reported seeing unexplained lights moving around...
Skini Fatz Bar/Restaurant
Skini Fatz theme has been changed a lot over the years. They have witnessed lights turning on after they've closed for the night. An older man in what is used as the waitress dressing area. also...
Magnolia's Vineyard Restaurant
the ghost of a young woman haunts this building.
The Loft Gallery
In the early morning hours in October 2006 one of the artist witnessed a mist with a glow float thru the gallery. Many of the artists have heard doors closing, footsteps and floors creaking as...
Pocohantas Parkway
The new road was constructed over an old Indian Grave. Spirits come out around midnight near the tollbooth. There have been several reports of the spirits to the police. Toll booth workers say...
Port Tobacco Creek
Supposedly, there is sad that a dog haunts the grounds of the creek. The dog has been sighted since the 1920s.
Signal Hill
Signal Hill Hospital - Once used as a hospital for Confederate wounded during the Civil War, this building has been the site of many strange occurrences; large floating balls of light in the...
Old Town Inn
There is a ghost named miss Lucy who hunts rooms 51 to 54 . She sometime holds people in the air and is seen in the city tavern.
Pocahontas Parkway Rt. 895
Pocahontas Parkway was built where Indians once lived, hunted, and fished. Now there is a huge road there instead and they aren’t happy. Nightly you can hear them, drumming, chanting, whooping,...
Amelia Wildlife Reserve
There is a "charred lady" apparently seen in Amelia Wildlife Reserve, as well as other apparitions. There have been at least two murders/bodies found in there. In the early 90s, the middle aged...
Monticello
home Thomas Jefferson - Monticello employees have often heard him whistling on the grounds, as he was know to do during his living days. Apparitions of a 10 year old boy wearing a uniform and a...
Small Abandoned Graveyard
There are four or five graves that are abandoned in the woods. It is said that slaves were buried here in the 1800's. It is also said that they cross the street at night looking for a way to the north.
Varina Road in Varina
Battlefield Cemetery - There is a cemetery on the right that has a very strange ghost lurking around the graves. He watches over the cemetery and rumor is, there was a water fountain in the yard...
Bed and Breakfast
It is said that there is a bloodstain in the foyer from a confederate soldier who killed himself after learning of his wife being unfaithful with a Yankee soldier during the battle of...
Cobblestone Bridge
Civil War soldiers have been seen crossing the bridge at night.
Tandem Friends School
The "Old Building" of the school was supposed to be a civil war hospital. It is located about 2 miles from Monticello. There have been numerous reports of a confederate soldier that walks in the...
Bunnyman bridge
a man who escaped from a mental institution hid in a tunnel under a bridge where he hung people. It is called Bunnyman because when searchers looked for the man they found the carcass of rabbits....
Woodlawn Plantation
On Woodlawn Plantation, which was once land of Mount Vernon (George Washington's personal home. When his step-daughter Nellie got married he gave her some land that is on a hill that was on his...
Manassas Battlefield
Unfinished Railroad - During the Civil war, Robert E. Lee ordered the construction of a railroad that he could use to more efficiently transport supplies to Bull Run for his army. The workers were...
Woodlawn Plantation
A strong sweet odor when you walk near the English boxwoods. It is believed to be Nelly Custis, George Washington's granddaughter taking a walk. She seems to be a very welcoming spirit.