Search Results for "Petersburg, Virginia"
Searching near: Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America within 50 miles
Found 43 haunted location(s)
Battery 9 station
It is said that late at night you can hear loud voices and sounds of cannons going off. That is also a ghostly figure that rides a black horse and can be seen on top of the hill just behind the station.
Old Central State Mental Hospital
If you walk in there you get a feeling that someone’s there. You can some times hear noises and maybe see something. The hospital has been closed down for a number of years and there’s no telling...
Matoaca High School
At the old high school it is known to be haunted in the theater. Lights move and cut off, doors shake and you hear many noises. There is also a cold chill when you call upon the ghosts. Also,...
Appomatix Manor
This old house on the river front in Hopewell is known to have been a hold out for Confederate and sometimes Union soldiers during the Civil War, especially the assault on Petersburg nearby. One...
Parker's Battery
Civil war bunkers are still occupied by spirits, some of which seem to be very sad and confused.
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Governors Mansion
a friendly ghost of a young women haunts the Governors Mansion to this day.
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....
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...
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.
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...
Makemie Woods
This place is haunted by the ghost of a Civil War nurse who can be heard playing the piano at night. She has also been spotted walking the fields at night, still looking for wounded soldiers to help.
Amblers' Colonial Mansion
a very angry ghost named Lydia Ambler haunts her former home.
Haw Branch Plantation
There is a picture of a young lady that is said to blush at times when you look at her, also the smell of oranges sometimes in the parlor. Frequently you can hear people talking and laughing in...
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...
Ironbound Road – Rec Center
the blinds go up and down in the second floors nurses office, a ghost is seen to play baseball late at night and a shadowy figure has been seen walking around the woods late at night
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...
The Williamsburg Theatre
the ghost of a Union soldier in blue haunts this theatre. During the Civil War, the theatre belonged to the Wade family, a friendly and well-known family who open their home to poverty-stricken...
William and Mary
Quarterly House/Brafferton Building - Haunted by Indians kept in the house. You can hear beating of drums, crying, screaming, footsteps and you can see a boy run across the soccer field late at...
The Presidents House / Wren Building
Haunted by a French Soldier of the revolutionary war-he died in this building when it was a makeshift hospital for the wounded. Also, it was haunted by some unknown force, and one of the...
Bacons Castle
A mysterious fireball appears from a nearby cemetery and circles the castle then enters through one of the chimneys and disappears in the basement kitchen
Colonial Grounds
While visiting Williamsburg i heard a story of a ghost of a slave named Jim. He was a slave to the Governor and he went to his shack one day and his family had disappeared. He is said to roam the...
Kings Arms Tavern
A woman named Irma haunts this place. She lived in the 1700s. People don't yet know how she died. Some people believe she died because of a candle. Others think she died because of another thing....
Magazine building
A soldier seems to still walk up the stairs to put his guns away.
Matthew Whaley Elementary School (301 Scotland Street)
Haunted by the ghosts of two young African American boys killed in the 1960's by an unknown anti-desegregation assailant.- March 2008 Additional information: Believed to actually be haunted by...
Governors Mansion
The maze behind the building is said to be haunted by soldiers from the civil war and revolutionary war. The wall in front of the mansion is said to be haunted by the ghost of a criminally insane...
Governor’s Palace Green
A young women haunts the Governor’s Palace and another house near the palace. She is the ghost of a girl named Elizabeth that was attending one of the governor’s balls. It is said that during the...
Peyton Randolph House
Many ghost sightings over 20 stories associated with this old mansion.
The Mill
Williamsburg's first serial killer stashed his young victim's bodies here, and it is said to be haunted by them.
Camp Peary
A man killed his wife, and later hung himself. The lights turn on when no one is around, also doors unlock mysteriously.
Carter's Grove Plantation
Ghosts of 17th century colonists killed in an Indian massacre roam the grounds. Fresh flowers wilt overnight in the 'refusal room', Pirates seen playing cards in the mansion at night.
Rosewell Plantation
The Page Family Mansion built in the early 1600's. Several generations lived in the mansion before it burned down. Several walls are still standing from the 4-story building. The graveyard for the...
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...
Smithfield Station
Employees of the restaurant say that there is a ghost of a man who sits at the bar sometimes late at night when the restaurant is closed. He is believed to have drowned in the river behind the...
Crawford Road
A woman hung herself from an overpass on her wedding day. Her spirit has been seen her spirit, hanging in her wedding dress. Also, African Americans were hung down the road. A lot of spirits dwell...
Yorktown Battlefields
Plenty of Civil War Era ghosts wandering around. And legend is if you sit on a hill on the battle fields at midnight and stare at the moon for a few seconds, then look at the battle fields the...