Search Results for "Ephrata, Pennsylvania"
Searching near: Ephrata, PA 17522, United States of America within 50 miles
Found 153 haunted location(s)
Mountain Springs Hotel
built somewhere around 1850 as a hydropathic retreat because of the medicinal qualities of the pure springs from the mountain. It later became the Ephrata Hospital, The hospital closed there when...
Mondale Bridge
There are various versions of a little Amish girl being killed in the Mondale Road bridge. The 'thing to do' is pull into the bridge, and stop in the middle. Turn off your car, turn off your...
Lancaster County Prison
The section of the prison (the castle section) this section is the original Lancaster county prison from the 1800's 1900's where the prisoners served life sentences and were chained to the wall....
Narvon – Welsh Mountain
reports of feeling watched, doors slamming, hearing voices and screams.
Manheim Central High School
An electrician was putting the lighting up for the stage in the Auditorium when he slipped and fell to his death. Many students in stage crew still see a ghostly figure falling on certain nights.
Fulton Opera House
Reports of screams heard.
The Stouch Tavern
One of the oldest continually operating taverns in the state built in 1785. The owners have had encounters with ringing Christmas bells in the storage area, strewn paper napkins, where there are...
the villages of Lancaster green apartments
At the Lancaster Green Apartments, building K,2 young women were murdered. To this day no one knows who or what killed them. Some say that it was just a tree branch falling on the roof. When their...
Main Street
Carriage said to contain the soldiers returning home on leave during the Civil War is sometimes seen traveling through town.
Willow Valley Retirement Homes
Said to be known at night that in a kitchen located at one of the Manors that a white ghostly figure walks through the doors of the kitchen, it is known to be a figure of a chef.
Shillington Social Quarters
Bartenders, Trustees and Patrons have reported hearing and seeing things. A trustee was in the second floor office with the door open and was the only one in the building with all the doors...
St. Ignatius Loyola School
About 3 years ago around exam week, a young man stayed after school to study. When he was done studying he waited outside for his ride, but his mom never came. The phones were out and he was...
St. Ignatuis
This school just received air conditioning, but the halls do not have it, nor the bathrooms. The boy wasn't the only one killed, a janitor has also died there, and a couple years ago a girl was...
Emily's Pub
Ghost of a former resident of this old house now turned restaurant. She is a teenager named Emily who is seen in the wine cellar and the 2nd floor banquet
VanS'sandwich shop
A former employee reported seeing a teenage girl hanging and gutted at the top of the staircase. The basement is now closed off.
Four seasons Hotel
Its closed down now, and watched heavily by police. Voices have come from within the boarded up windows of this three story hotel. I've personally seen bricks fly out of glass windows, and then...
Old Village Inn
This restaurant/hotel is only used as a restaurant. Dates back to the early 1800's. Sightings of a person looking out the 2nd floor window onto Main St. even though no one is ever on the 2nd floor.
behind the health south rehab center
Reports of noises and images of a little boy in the restroom.
Silver Springs
Cars seem to run into people and then suddenly disappear. But people say they never saw a driver.
Penn State Berks
There was a suicide each year for the first seven years that the school had dorms. The school is located directly across from the Tulepehocken Bridge haunting you have listed in your site and is...
Tulpehocken Covered Bridge
Legend states that a mother threw her children off this bridge many years ago. People have reported hearing the sound of children's voices and unusual cold spots.
Reading
Health South Rehabilitation Hospital - Used to be the Reading Rehabilitation Hospital. People reported many happenings, noises, lights turning of etc.
Chiques road
A man burnt his baby, wife and himself in an upstairs room. the house still stands. the living room window grows a crack, but if you walk away and come back the window is not cracked anymore. you...
Long Lane Bridge
The story goes that a man lived across from the old bridge and one day he just snapped and hung his family from the bridge rafters. Reports of apparitions appearing on photos, voices being heard,...
St. Mary's Catholic School
The Bathrooms in the lower hall of the school seem to be haunted. The door bangs in the Boys bathroom and a bloody handprint appears on the wall. You can hear a moan and it sometimes will give chase.
Inn 422
The inn was originally built by Mr. Coleman for his daughter. She was said to have killed herself in the house because her father would not allow her to marry her true love because he was not of...
Central Catholic High School
People have heard chains rattle & have seen the locks on the lockers spin by themselves. The power often goes out for unknown reasons. Electric companies have come and have no idea why the power...
Pendora Park
In the past 30 years, 4 people have jumped or fallen off of the Viaduct, the bride over Pendora. There have been reports of screaming and crying, and visions of people falling/jumping.
Albright College
Smith Hall - There was a girl that killed herself on the 1st floor in Smith Hall. Students have heard footsteps in the hall but no one was there. Someone used dowsing rods (to detect spiritual...
The Majestic Theater
People have seen the vision of an old woman walking across the balcony.
Muhlenburg High School
A boy coming out of gym class was said to have collapsed and died from a heart problem. Now students and teachers that are in the building at night have said to have seen him in the hallways.
Hibernia park Mansion
It is said that a boy and girl got murdered by the owner of the house in the cellar so it's said that sometimes if you go down there you can hear the girl scream and he boy whisper.
Red Rose Inn
A murder suspect was hung in front of the Inn and now roams the area.
Maple Springs Rd
Residents have seen a tall figure standing at the end of their beds.
Marks Mansion
Several orbs of light and doors closing with no one around. Noises often heard from the basement. Believed that 3 farmers died in a silo collapse in the early 1930's. No Trespassing
Accomac Inn
In side the in many of worker have seen strange things such as hearing soft music and a woman’s voice late at night, after cleaning the dining room then coming back in to fid dishes, chairs and...
Eastern York High School
Students at the school claim to see shadowy figures and doors slamming on their own. There were also reports of seeing orbs and other strange lights. Also earlier this year a student found...
Eastern High School
A student here experienced many hauntings working after school hours for theatre. In the catwalk above the auditorium you can feel a unpleasant presence pacing back and forth, noises, and the...
Penn Valley Hotel
Unexplainable sounds have been heard inside the Penn valley. Built around 1854 the log-framed building has served as a country inn and roadhouse, and was used as a stage coach stop in the last...
St. Peter's Inn
While alone you will here the baby cry, or while upstairs on 2nd floor you'll here the creaking and sounds of the ghost that hung herself years ago.
St. Peterson Inn
every once in a while you can see the ghost of a sick old hunch backed man walk through the hallways of this. He is even seen some times walking down the street
Yellow House Hotel
It's said that a woman killed herself in the middle room of the Yellow House Hotel inn and restaurant. People have spotted her in the middle window, people that stay in the room claim to have seen...
Covatta's Restaurant
This restaurant used to be a private residence that was built in the 1700's. There are 3 floors in the building, but tourists are only allowed on the first two. Employees of the restaurant have...
Cavettos Brinton Lodge
Sightings of apparitions as well as ghostly sounds. - January 2004 addition: a former worker in the kitchen, claims that one night he ran down to the cellar to get ice out of the freezer, and as...
Upattinas School
this alternative school used to be a home for wayward boys in the 1960's. There have been sightings of a pair of legs, and a man wearing a pink shirt and khakis in the stone hallway of the lower...
Five Locks.
A heavy mist appears across the canal and starts to form in the shape of a young woman, This can be seen on a Midnight drive only when the moon is full, On a semi warm night.
Hershey Park
The Park at night can be a very scary place. The carousel turns on by itself in the middle of the night and is a mysterious maintenance worker who works on the Commet roller coaster. He was a...
Hotel Hershey
Sightings of Mr. Hershey and doors opening and closing. The sound of foot steps in the old wine cellar. Strange noises and sounds.
Londonderry Fire Company
There is a former fire fighter who was killed in an accident on his way to a fire call. He was hit head on by our tanker. Late at night when your walking to the bathroom you can hear his footsteps...
Old Mountain Rd
Three babies were killed by the bridge. At night you can hear the babies crying for there mother. Place is called Three babes in the woods.
Pottstown
The Hill School Chapel - The chapel was built in late 1800's as a gift from the alumni of the elite boarding school. The Chapel is built in a very dark Romanesque style. One of the first...
Camp Security
This was a prison camp during the Revolutionary war, here British soldiers were kept. There is a trail that goes back into the woods, when walking back there you get an eerie feeling. Accounts...
Indiantown Gap
Hotel Road - In the current state game lands just North West of Indiantown Gap, by Hawk Watch Mnt. Used to be the site of a summer hotel for the rich in the early 1800's. Through its years it...
Abandoned York Prison/George St.
A very tall old brick building. People have said that as you reach the second floor where the first cellblock is located 2 or 3 ghosts follow you as you progress up the stairs. You can also look...
Holiday Inn
A girl was seen in one of the rooms during the night, walking around. where she turned and walked into the wall and vanished.
Alfred's Victorian
The ghost of an old woman has been seen & heard. There is a rocking chair that rocks on it's own. You can hear it. An employee of the restaurant once said, while in the kitchen, she witnessed...
old cemetery
its said that if u walk around the brick wall that surrounds the graveyard 3 times you will get pushed off the third time around. you will hear weird noises. and feel like you are not alone.
Penn State Harrisburg
The new Penn State Harrisburg housing complex is built on an old sewage site. Allegedly, the smell of raw sewage haunts several apartments in the newly built housing complex and mysterious...
Historical Seven Stars Inn
There are several spirits that have been sited on the grounds. The spirit of a young boy has been seen in an upstairs dinning room (formerly a guest room of the inn). The spirit of a middle age...
Kutztown State College
The college's central administration building, Old Main, is haunted by the spirit of Mary Snyder. Who died of a heart failure on the 5th floor. Her spirit still haunts this building today.
Kutztown Historical Society building
Which was a former Kutztown school building is said to be haunted by a young woman who several people have claimed to see in one of it's windows.
Limerick Power Generating Plant
When the plant was being constructed in the late 70's and early 80's, one of the workers was killed when he fell over 100 feet down an open elevator shaft in the unit 2 reactor part of the...
Rest Haven Nursing Home
Old Building - In the apartments are separate from the women’s building on the second floor. A former worker reports they would feel like an ice cold feeling, Goosebumps, as well as an uneasy...
Vito's Pizza
The Pizza Shop of Vito's is said to be haunted by an unknown spirit.
Newberry
Industrial Solvents and Chemical Company - Located on Stevens Rd., right next to I-83, ISCC used to be a functioning chemical recycling plant. It was closed awhile back, we're not sure exactly...
Pennhurst Mental Hospital
This mental hospital was shut down due to patient abuse. The medical buildings are probably where most of the worst stuff happened there.
York county
Reymeyer's Hollow - In 1928 three men beat, Nelson Reymeyer, to death, and then tried to burn his body. They thought he had hexed one of them. They wanted to get a book from him to undo the hex....
York College
Strange occurrences have been reported in Campbell Hall. the suites and rooms are, as well as an aggressive presence in the kitchen. March 2008 Update – A former student in the late 1990s, reports...
Spring City
Pennhurst State Hospital and School - It is said that on nights of the full moon you can hear the voices of those that where inmates of Pennhurst howl madly at the moon.
Immaculata College
It is rumored that a nun back in the early 1900's broke her vows and became pregnant. She was found out, and instead of being thrown out she jumped from the 4th floor balcony of the rotunda. Since...
Chester County Historical Society
Part of this building was built on an old graveyard. It was also a site on the Underground Railroad. Many visitors to and employees of the Historical Society museum have reported hauntings. Some...
Lewisberry/Goldsboro
Kunkle Mansion - There is a deserted house on the outskirts of Lewisberry/Goldsboro. It cannot be seen from the road, but is off Pine Road near the old bridge. It is quite a hike through the woods...
West Chester University
Ramsey Hall - is haunted by Dorothy Ramsey. Phillips Hall is haunted by several ghosts who like to perform on stage.
Citizens Vol. Fire Co.
Reports of a walking trail that has scary noises, strange feelings of being watched and creatures seen.
Pottsville Cemetery
Candlelight is often seen floating the day before a body is to be buried.
Harrisburg Mall – Boscov’s
former Bass Pro Shops & former J C Penny's - When it was an empty store that was formerly J.C. penny's at the Harrisburg east mall. Night security guards were known to see the images of a person...
Gravity Hill
There is a hill where you put your car in neutral at the bottom of the hill, and if you shut your car off u can hear horse galloping and your car starts to move up hill and you can hear horse...
Death Hill
Dayton St – top of the hill - just over the hill there is a grave yard and it is said that the ghost come out of their graves in the middle of the night and switch spots with their buddies , also...
General Warren Inn
A man walks around the bar blowing on all of the ladies’ necks. Also, the TV mysteriously turns upside down. It is said soldiers have been seen here too. (Was also on Unsolved Mysteries) Many...
Old Girls' School
Destroyed by fire in 1800s...Reports of little girl crying and sobbing...reports of sickening feelings felt...reports of a man dressed in black....reports of cars not starting...reports of dogs...
Rt.222-The Union Hotel
it use to be a Hotel and tavern from 1700's I've heard there is an lady in blue gown that haunts the place. It is now an eating establishment. The owner Janet lives on top floor and has had a few...
Harrisburg State Hospital
Harrisburg State Hospital was an insane asylum for over 150 years. It admitted its first patient in 1851 as The Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital. It is located on the outskirts of city limits...
IHS Nursing Home
The nursing home is said to be built over an old Indian Cemetery. The one left hallway in the nursing home's main floor is the only place that seems to be haunted. Items in rooms being thrown...
Toad Road
The house on Toad road is another house where years ago a mother, father, and baby lived there in a farm house in the middle of a field and the mother killed her baby in the basement one night and...
Valley Forge National Park
Several different occurrences have been known to happen at this is the famous war site. Spirits of dead soldiers are most often seen standing on "earthwork" or setting off canons. Late at night...
Gordon Mountain
On top of the Gordon Mountain. A woman was murdered and left to die here many years ago. The man who killed her had a distinguishing scar on his face. When you drive up there at night, your car...
The Computer Learning Network
is a technical school. The president was killed several years back and at nights the lights flicker along with doors becoming unlocked. Ironically no one has ever stole anything.
Camp Hill High School
In the lower level of Camp Hill High School there is a small metal door that is about 3 feet off the ground. Although all of the school has been redone this part was left alone. The door is...
Summerdale
Summerdale Fire Station - Its said that a long time member who died years back still haunts the station. You can sometimes feel a strange feeling of being watched when you walk into the station....
The Grist Mill
There is a barn in the Grist Mill park where a stable boy worked. The stable boy fell in love with the land owner and the father killed the boy for being with his daughter. You can here him crying for her.
Deer Park Inn and Tavern
Main Street- Has be remolded several times but back in the 1800s slaves were traded on the porch. It is said that Edgar Allen Poe wrote "The Raven" there. Once a popular dive for the college kids,...
Thomas Run
Man dresses in all black with a pale white face seen by many kids in this development always seen after a rain when its wet and after dark. Seen in the woods where the neighborhood urban legend...
Frackville Elemantry School
People are seen walking in the halls but there are no people just shadows. and things move without people moving them.and there is blood found in the artroom
The Pathway School
In the Valley Forge residential building, there have been reports of a ghost named Ethan being seen and heard. One student claims that Ethan once grabbed her ankle.
The Valley
A long and windy road near the Pike Creek area that many have sighted eyes, herd screams at night, had things run in front of their cars, seen things chasing their cars, accidents are a near miss...
Fair Acres Geriatric Center
This county home was established in Media, Pennsylvania in 1807, where it remained until 1857. It then moved to its present location in Lima on the 210-acre Abraham Pennell Farm on Middletown...
Old County Library
The old county library is haunted. Down main street, diagonally across from the court house is the old library that was used until sometime in the late eighties early nineties. Rumor is it’s the...
Villages of Thomas Run
Reports of a man in all black with a white face has been seen by many kids. Names can be listed but, there’s many of them to this day they still think that there is a man so called the "TRACKTER...
Cabrini College
Used to be an estate owned by John Dorrance, and his daughter. It is said that his daughter fell in love with Xavier, who was the stable boy. (Xavier Hall is the name of one of the dormitories...
Bell House (Rising Sun Inn)
The building was built in the 1700's and is on historic Allentown Rd, which was the only major rd from Bethlehem steel to Philadelphia. The liberty bell was housed in the inn. There was a...
Worcester
Old Baptist Road Murder House - Reports of orbs, mysterious blue lights, and "Ghost Dogs," surround an abandoned house where an alleged multiple-murder/suicide took place. (A man is supposed to...
Eastern College
There have been several sightings of figures dressed in black that seem to disappear. Please include my email - for if anyone else has seen any unusual events at this college they could email them to me.
Eastern University
Doane Residence Hall - (which used to be part of the servants quarters back when the University was an estate) is haunted by a girl who hung herself on the second floor in one of the dorm rooms....
Eastern University
Eastern University - Diane Hall - a girl hung herself in Diane Hall's 3rd floor bathroom, and the girls on the floor have seen rope appear in the stalls, and have had experiences during which...
Dead President's Tavern
This tavern is a very old building (200 years or so) and has had many waiters/waitresses complain of dishes being thrown at them, screaming, dominoes floating from the game boards in the...
Rose Tree Road
There is a book in the non-fiction section of the local library called "Night Stalks the Mansion". The Mansion still exists.
Salem Church Road
people say there are a family of six walking across the highway. Back in the 1900's the family of six was hung because of witchcraft, ever since then they hunt the highway to find the relatives...
Radnor hotel
Formally the St. David's Inn, the Radnor Hotel has had some very disturbing hauntings. One in particular is suite 309, where a ghost appears in the ceiling above the master bed and then proceeds...
Elks Lodge
This is a rather well known haunting in the Tamaqua area.... apparitions will appear, objects move, disembodied voices, all the classic haunting activity.
Cooches Bridge
First Battle of the American Revolution where the Stars and Stripes was flown in Battle. Delaware militiamen were delaying the British forces who landed at Turkey Point in Maryland so as to give...
Norristown State Hospital
There are tunnels underground that connect to the buildings in the Norristown State Hospital. It is said that there are ghost in them of the deceased inmates of the hospital. Sometimes they escape...
King George Inn
Believed to be haunted by a ghost named Charlie, who likes to bother people working in the kitchen, drops utensils and moves things around.
soilders and sailors park
in the back part of the park towards the football feild theres a stone type memorial detacated to a young man. There has been some weird sightings of an apperition of the young man by the woods,...
Cedar Crest College
the ghost of a girl that committed suicide there haunts Butz Hall.
Dog Kennel Road
supposedly a girl died on a bridge on that road and if you go there at night around 12:00am you are supposed to be able to see the girl sitting on the side of the bridge that she died on.
Rockwood Mansion
balls of light and strange sounds are observed here.
Trum Tavern
This place is mention in the book called Ghosts of Bucks County. Located off of Quakertown. Ask locals for directions. When your there ask for a menu the history of the Trum tavern is on the back...
Christiana Fire Co. Station 12
Formerly listed as Station 3 - There are 2 ghosts that haunt the firehouse. There is one in the engineer's room that is evil and appears as a shadow in the door way and you can see him in the...
Villanova University
Alumni Hall - Aside from the abnormal creaks in the floors and walls when no one is nearby, at least four known students have complained about waking up in the middle of the night and being 'held'...
Bake Oven Knob
Located on the Kittatinny Ridge at the border between Lehigh and Carbon county, Bake Oven Knob is a rocky outcrop on the mountain. According to many sources there are odd occurrences in the...
Linvilla Orchards
October 2007 Has been removed
Bancroft Academy
in girls bathroom on the second floor lights will turn off and supposedly mister bancroft's red eyes are appearing to look back at you. on friday the thirteenth if you knock on the wall in the...
Media
Williamson trade school - George dorm - is an old recovery dorm for soldiers who went to the school to recover, late at night you can hear footsteps and a feeling of being watched.
Overview Gardens
about 15 years ago a house on karlyn street had a fire in the attic were three children were sleeping and the parent of these children could not save them they died. later on the house was...
Bellevue Mansion
It is said that the upper levels of this old Du Pont home are off limits because of "mysterious occurrences". Chairs being placed in strange formations in dinning rooms when few are in the...
Rosemont College
Reports of apparitions and slamming of doors throughout the night.
Old D.E Jones Building
In The Old D.E Jones Building Several People Claim to have heard in the basement sounds of footsteps walking through water, electricity failure (all the lights in the basemebt blew out each 1 day...
KB Toy Works
workers of the store claim to hear noises and toys falling from shelves for no reason, also have claimed to hear a girls voice at night crying. their names being called out to them in a soft...
Hamilton Street
The ghost of a young woman walks down this street late at night near the area where the old Hess's building had been. It is said she was struck and killed by a car when she attempted to cross the...
Bryn Mawr College
A student, Lillian, haunts Merion Hall. She went here in the beginning of this century. She believed she had leprosy, although the doctors could find nothing wrong with her. To cure herself, she...
Allentown
Manorcare Health Services - the ghost of a small boy has been seen in the kitchen. the boy was about 8 or 9 years old, had brown hair and was wearing modern clothing. Each time they encountered...
The Wawa
Late at night all the workers on night shift would be going on about their business when chip bags would fly off the shelves and the sandwiches would make themselves. My friend once got hit in the...
Ringtown Elementary School
The 4th, 5th, and 6th grade doors open. Things get thrown by invisible hands and reports of red glowing eyes in the basement.
Beechtree Golf Clubdown
the road from Bakersfield Elementary School. The road, the golf coarse is haunted by a black-cloaked figure who chased others at one time. This cloaked figure is evil and dangerous.
Good Shepherd Home
elevators open and close, and spirits come by dressed in clothes of the person religion who has just recently died, it is also said the Ghost of Mother Raker haunts the hallways, because the place...
Watts Township
Amity Hall Hotel - Amity Hall - There was a young woman found stabbed to death laying on the front porch on a couch. The legend has it that there was a family that lived in it and the husband went...
Summit Hill Cemeteries
All year-round, but mainly in the Fall and Winter, a headless specter can be seen crossing the cemetery lots , holding a red lantern. This has been going on for generations.
Cedar Grove Park
in the woods you can hear screams and see figures walking around at night. (possible death in the barn house)
Weichert Office
There has been sitings of a woman roming the last floor of this previous home made into a realistate office, there has also been noises and open doors seen but no one has been hurt.
New Castle
Womens' Correctional Institute - 2 little children ride their bikes at night up and down the halls. You can hear a little girl crying through the vents in the shower room, especially when there...
Bottom Road
Down in the narrow end of Bottom Road at certain times of the night you can see a little girl crying by the side of the road in a torn dress with blood all over her holding a teddy bear. She looks...
Amstel House
haunted by unknown spirit that also haunts his son's house down the street.
Constitution Drive
Reports of an apparition of a man that walks with 2 dogs that have red glowing eyes. Believed to be the owner of the dogs, he was run over by a train losing a leg and bleeding to death.
David Finney Inn
third floor is haunted by unknown ghost
Mosser Elementary School
there are complaints of a shadow to walk up and down the stairwells mostly on the second floor stairways! There are noises and screams that students here mostly on the third floor! People say a...
Widener University
Delta Phi Epsilon sorority - Residents of the house have said that they see and feel a presence of a woman in the top floor (3rd). They say she's friendly. She's turns on and off things and moves...
Garretford Elementary School
Now, next to the school there is a WAWA. Many, many years ago, long before the school was ever built, the grounds were a holding house for prisoners. Many of the prisoners were mistreated and...
Springfield (near Drexel Hill)
Indian Rock Park - The story goes back to the 1980's, when a girl overdosed on heroine in the woods of Indian Rock Park. Supposedly her and her friends would drink and do drugs in the woods and...
Saint Alice
the auditorium used to be where they held the coffins for funerals. the auditorium used to be a chapel, a student claimed to hear music playing at night and a silhouette of a person standing in...
Upper Darby High School
There is a spirit haunting the Performing Arts Center Theatre which is said to be of a young boy who hanged himself because he was tormented by evil spirits which live in the attic of the theatre....
Archbishop Prendergast High School
Originally the old Drexel Estate and then later before the school an orphanage- there are 2 tales here. The 1st is the story of an orphan that was murdered by another. On the second floor of the...
The Canal
the lady in white, is said to be a woman in her late 50s that can be seen walking along the canal and has been seen floating on the water. Usually seen by the lock tenders home.
Lums Pond State Park
In the early 70's a runaway girl was taken into the woods and killed here. The killer was never caught but sometimes a pleading high pitched voice and muffled screams can be heard from the woods...