Search Results for "New Castle County, Delaware"
Searching near: New Castle County, Delaware, United States of America within 50 miles
Found 154 haunted location(s)
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...
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...
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...
Fort Delaware
Civil War prison where over 2,700 Confederate soldiers died. Visitors report seeing soldiers in period uniforms and hearing marching footsteps.
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...
David Finney Inn
third floor is haunted by unknown ghost
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...
Amstel House
haunted by unknown spirit that also haunts his son's house down the street.
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...
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,...
Locust Grove Farm
A young boy was said to have died in the house in the early 1900s. The house is 152 years old. Lights, TVs turn themselves on and off. One night the toy train in the sunroom began to go around the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Rockwood Mansion
balls of light and strange sounds are observed here.
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...
Berry’s Chapel
The true story of Berry’s' Chapel is, Berry was a black pastor hung by the KKK. The chapel was built back in the Civil war days. It burned down in the early sixties. The grave yard was starting to...
Black Diamond Rd.
development on this road is said to be built on top of an Indian Graveyard. Some things can be pretty creepy at night. Lights glow in the distance and people who live in those houses in the...
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...
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.
Swedesboro Lake
Reported sightings of a man on a bike as well as screaming.
Woodland
Woodland Beach - early 1900s woodland beach had a boardwalk and other attractions, all that stands now of the former boardwalk is the pier ties in the water, but on a well lit night of the full...
Union St.
Girl in white dress floating through hallway, chairs turned around backwards, objects misplaced and moved, all electrical objects turned on.
Linvilla Orchards
October 2007 Has been removed
West Chester University
Ramsey Hall - is haunted by Dorothy Ramsey. Phillips Hall is haunted by several ghosts who like to perform on stage.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
Eglington Cemetery
is the oldest operating burial ground in the United States has been investigated by several paranormal groups and is reported to be very active with ghostly globes and lights.
Ye Olde Centerton Inn
The crying of a little girl who met an untimely demise can sometimes be heard in the upstairs dining room. In this dining room, cold spots can often be felt. These cold spots are attributed to the...
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.
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...
the old stone church
many strange thing have been reported here such as ghostly faces on head stones, organ music hear coming from the church late in the morning hours with no electrical sources going to the building. by rs2
Railroad Trestle
Local residents say an apparition of a young woman can be found walking along the trestle in white, and then disappears halfway across it as if heading to Packerton.
Rowan University
Footsteps heard late at night in dorm rooms and strange, low whispers. Occasionally, objects move by themselves and lights flicker.
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...
Fort Mifflin
Three ghosts are here. A women in the ruins of the commanders house, she is called the screaming woman. Another one of a Civil war soldier, confederate in the casemates and another soldier without...
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.
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.
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...
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...
Sketch Club Community Theater
Voices of children can sometimes be heard in this 100 year old + former schoolhouse. Also the occassional apparition of an older woman (a teacher perhaps) can be seen in the dressing room areas....
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...
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....
Iona Lake Inn
The Inn is so large, many ghosts visit the place. The old owner who first opened it…still runs the now empty Inn!- October 2003 Update: Iona Lake Inn was sold and was turned into a Italian...
National Park
Whital House Battle Field - it is noted of haunting from the revolution 1776 dead soldiers in the attic house was used as a hospital check it out.
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...
The Governor's Mansion.
This building is quite haunted. Residents have reported, among others: a bewigged 18th century gentleman; a "tippling ghost" that will empty wineglasses left in a certain place; a chain-rattling...
Blue Coat Inn
Haunted at night by a older man and a young boy (appears to be a drummer boy).
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...
University of the Sciences
Osol Hall - was originally a Psychiatric Institute. Legend goes, that a girl who was admitted there, went crazy because of mistreatment, and ended up killing herself on the 6th floor. Several...
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...
river drive
Along River Drive there have been sightings of a ghost of a young woman in a night gown. She has been seen floating at about the second story level along River Drive. There is mention of a second...
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...
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'...
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...
Newport
in the woods - There is a tree out in the woods of Back Rd. that is an old KKK tree. If you go out there and examine the tree you will see rope burn on one of the branches from where they used to...
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...
Rosemont College
Reports of apparitions and slamming of doors throughout the night.
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...
Saint Maria Goretti High School for Girls
Cold hands felt, a ghost roams the halls throughout the schools and that the statue in front of the school cries once a year.
General Wayne Inn
This inn is home to more than 17 ghosts including Hessians, a ghost wanting his wives picture, a old owner, and a ghost singing.
Union Lake
off of Carmal Rd. on the boat ramp at late night you can see disappearing and reappearing tire marks and weird sounds sometime birds will just go crazy for no reason and very cold spots along with...
The Institute of Pennsylvania
Reports of the elevator opening with a loud noise and voices, and foot steps came from the elevator.
Jefferson Hall at Camden County College
This structure used to be a monastery before becoming a learning institution. It is said that a residing monk hanged himself on the third floor of this building. Security guards of the college...
The Walnut St. Theater
reorts of an apparition of a liitle girl from the earl 1900s & hearing voices..
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...
Ethel M. Burke
In room 115 there is a room and a sign that says forbidden keep out there is a legend and if you put your hands on the mirror in the second floor girls bathroom and count to ten the mirror will fog up.
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...
Gabriel Davies Tavern
One of New Jersey's oldest historical landmarks used to be a tavern during the Revolutionary war. The attic was used a hospital for wounded soldiers. The original furnishings are in the house and...
Eastern State Penitentiary
Revolutionary prison where solitary confinement was pioneered. Shadow figures and disembodied voices reported throughout cellblocks.
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...
Wissahickon Canoe Club
Originally a mill in the 1600's, this creek-side building is said to have many ghosts. The presence of a young woman, the miller's reclusive daughter, can be felt in an upstairs bedroom, with the...
Bright Hope Baptist Church
Sounds of unsettlement have been heard behind the church after everyone leaves the building.
The Ritz theater
many orbs have been spooted around and insite the site.
Narvon – Welsh Mountain
reports of feeling watched, doors slamming, hearing voices and screams.
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...
Dickinson Mansion
John Dickinson's ghost haunts this house, recordings of sounds have been made here also.
Main Street
Carriage said to contain the soldiers returning home on leave during the Civil War is sometimes seen traveling through town.
Palmer Cemetery
A witness visiting a grave of a relative reports bring flowers to the grave. Upon feeling a strange feeling turned around to see if there was someone there, only to find no one. Turning back...
Roxborough
Leverington Cemetery - a very haunted site in Philadelphia, apparitions have been seen frequently
Camden County Vo-Tech High School
in the late 1970's early 80's one of the boiler operators named Louie had a stroke and died in the boiler room on the midnight shift. now late at night you can here footsteps walk the halls and...
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...
Cedar Grove Park
in the woods you can hear screams and see figures walking around at night. (possible death in the barn house)
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.
H. H. Davis Elementary School
Sites of seeing a male figure behind the auditorium curtains while your back there you can hear the sound of chains rattling it is also to been said that 3 people had died there when you are on...
Landisville Fire Company
Cold Spots, Voices of both men and women, and sounds that come from the loft and the back of the engine bays. Footsteps can be heard.
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
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.
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.
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...
James Martin School
This used to be a hospital and nursing school.. and at times you could see bloody hands and people in the mirrors. In the blocked off attic section you can look in the window from the outside and...
Baleroy
a number of ghosts have been seen here including Thomas Jefferson.
Joppatowne
K-Mart - every year on February 14 some people have sighted a young girl hanging in the woods behind the building. Homeless men living in the woods have also claimed to have seen it. - May 2005...
Jericho Covered Bridge
This bridge is the last covered bridge standing in Harford County, built in the early 1800's. Legend has it that several lynching occurred at this bridge during and after the Civil War, in which...
bridge
when you go on the bridge with your car and you turn it off flash the lights three times you see this girl hanging there because the story goes that this teenage girl got pregnant and her mom...
Maple Springs Rd
Residents have seen a tall figure standing at the end of their beds.
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.
The Civil War Library and Museum
Was feature on unsolved mysteries--net work tv. On the second floor, in the Lincoln Room, the spirits of soldiers have been seen playing cards.
Byberry Mental Hospital
Said to be haunted by the different patients that were mistreated in there. It was shut down for good in 1990 for poor living conditions and mistreatment of patients. People have gone into the...
Friends Hospital
Built in 1813 this building was the original patient quarters and home to the superintendent and his wife. It was said the female seen wandering in the halls bore a resemblance to a former...
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
Black Horse Inn
Sitting along Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown is an old building called the Black Horse Inn. The building was built 30 years before the formation of our country. General George Washington used it as a...
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...
Multiplex
Strange noise can be heard in theater 12 as if someone is moving their hands across the wall and voice can be heard.
Woodlawn Park
A few years ago a 16 year old girl was found dead in Woodlawn Park. Apparently she committed suicide because of a bad break up with her boyfriend. It is said if you go to the park and call for her...
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.
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...
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.
Citizens Vol. Fire Co.
Reports of a walking trail that has scary noises, strange feelings of being watched and creatures seen.
Maple Shade
S.Forklanding road near jug handle in - When crossing rt 73 from jug handle in late at night crossing the little medal bridge near winners farm a car follows you to the bridge then vanishes it...
Railroad tracks behind St. Augustine Prep High school
if you go there at night and flash your beam 3 times and on the 4th time you leave them on you will see a little boy with a baseball and glove....if you get out he will throw the ball to you but...
Hwy12 west
Glowing Red Eyes of a dog are seen on this stretch of this highway. Legend has that many years ago, a man was angry with his landlord, and so the man murdered him and grinded him up with cornmeal...
Veterans haven
Veterans haven is right next to bayside prison ward and Ancora mental institution. It was once a town the psychiatric hospital made for patients to all live together, many of the patients murdered...
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...
Airport on KettleRun Road
The old air port is always been seen as nothing but dirt. But way back in the day it use to be a small airport with building and the whole nine yards, untill one day, a former emoployee came back...
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...
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...
Jeans Hospital
A few years ago Jeans Hospital was having financial difficulties and there were rumors that it would be bought out. It is said that Anna-May Jeans (founder of the hospital) began appearing to...
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,...
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....
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...
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
Fulton Opera House
Reports of screams heard.
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...
Lakeview Memorial Cemetery
reports of children's ghost been seen and leaving footprints in the area that is all child graves. Ghostly anomalies have been observed at the tower also.
St. Dominic’s Catholic School
there is said to be a ghostly presence in the graveyard.
Lorimer Park
Many apparitions have been seen here, especially in the winter months. There is stone pyramid set deep in the woods that is said to glow red on certain nights. There was once a mansions set on the...
Perry Hall Mansion
The owners died in the house on Oct 31 in the 1700's. Since then on Halloween every year people go in and get thrown out windows, lights turn (no electricity), film never shows up on TV, voices and more.
Orleans 8 Movie Theater
A little girl seems to be haunting the projection booth. Sometimes, late at night, you can hear the little girl giggling and asking to come play with her. - June 2008 Update: Has been torn down.
Notchcliff Road
Located about a mile and a half from the Loch Raven Reservoir, Notchcliff road is a long and winding dark road. The road, due to it's sharp turns and constant hills, has been the site of many...
Holy Cross High School
HCHS is said to be haunted by a former principle who had a heart attack late one night on the way up the steps in the northwest wing of the building. Teachers who work at the school late at night...
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...
Watchcase Tower
This town mark has been here since Riverside was created. It is said that flying orbs and ghostly figures haunt the watchcase till this very day!!!!
Hartford Rd. Haunted house
Now this haunting is not something you can see off the main road. You must turn onto a dirt rd. You then park your car, get out and make sure you have a flash light. You enter an abandon house,...
Lenape village
was located here with 2 signals hills and one of the largest trails going to Tuckerton (Koh hach ing trail) runs right through the center of the township. There is also a very active underground...
Baltimore/Esses
Ballestone Manor - Figures seen, objects being moved, footsteps, odd things happen in the slave's quarters in the back. George Washington stayed at this house. Family graveyard on site. Give ghost...
behind the health south rehab center
Reports of noises and images of a little boy in the restroom.
Gardens of Faith
a lady that floats at night in the cemetery she can be seen she watches over the cemetery and will scare you off and at day time if you are quite you can see a man walk out from his grave and...
maryland ghost
if you go into the chapel[mausoleum] at gardens of faith,and are very quiet it sounds like faint voices haveing a conversation.A man took his life by the creek a few years back and you get an erie...
Grouden Manor
this is Ben Franklin’s cousins house. Story goes that he tested his kite here a few times. Sightings have been seen of Ben flying his kite. Also in the woods is a trench from a war. If you go back...
The old Penn Rynn Manor
Used to be the Biddle estate(as in Bailey, Banks and Biddle) It is right on the Delaware river. The story is that the original owners had a son that fell in love with one of the maids. This was...
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...
Somerton
St. Andrews Church - Original Chapel - Next door to the newer church building is the older chapel, a white building now used mainly as an annex. Locals have reported seeing hazy white figures in...
Keith House
County Line Road - In the 1700's a young woman was decapitated by a British solider in the revolutionary war. Ever since the tragedy you can see her walking around her house at midnight searching...