Search Results for "the plains, Virginia"
Searching near: The Plains, Fauquier County, Virginia, United States of America within 50 miles
Found 83 haunted location(s)
Grey Horse Inn
Replay of a confederate soldier being killed.
Haymarket (Beverly) Mill
It is said that a farmer believed his daughter was responsible for giving her mother spoiled meat that killed her so he hung his daughter from a meat hook on the fourth floor of their mill. Her...
Logmill
A lil. White church off Logmill road has said to be haunted. There have been white *blobs* floating are there at night.
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...
Cobblestone Bridge
Civil War soldiers have been seen crossing the bridge at night.
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.
Walney Road
It is said that many years ago before the windy road was paved a man was killed while hitchhiking. On Wednesday or Thursday nights at 11:30 if you drive down Walney and you see a hitchhiker, it is...
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...
Graydon Manor
There is a mental hospital called Graydon Manor. Back in the early 1900's a young woman was sent there for various reasons by her parents. She was forced to leave her lover. She would escape...
Magnolia's Vineyard Restaurant
the ghost of a young woman haunts this building.
Frederick Avenue
There have been many sightings of a child walking in the graveyard behind Frederick Avenue. Also, some of the people in these houses on the avenue have sighted ghosts within their own premises...
Balls Bluff Battlefield
Around the time of the battle at night, soldiers have been seen still trying to climb the bluffs and get across the Potomac river.
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....
George Mason University
Gazebo - A small gazebo bordering the campus lake is said to be frequented by the spirit of a young man. He apparently drowned in the lake one evening. His body was found sitting in the gazebo by...
Black Rock Road
Hauntings of two teenage ghosts that were mysteriously killed in a car crash in a small lake by an old water house. Their ghostly visions are seen at night when there are no car lights and you...
Wayside Inn
Wayside is the oldest still running in America. There is one specific room that is supposedly haunted and that is room 14. Many guests comment on strange occurrences in that room. There have been...
Abram's Delight
Several ghosts of the Hollingsworth family (the family that built & owned the house for several generations) haunt the home and grounds. Mary Hollingsworth is the most frequent visitor.
Orchardcrest Apartments
Late at night, or early morning hours, odd things will occur, such as lights flickering on and off, TV's coming on and off, doors slamming when everyone is asleep. Rumor has it that around 100...
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...
Belle Grove Plantation
A women dressed in an all black dress with a vial over her head is known for standing in the window of the highest room. It is said that she's either the plantation owners wife or mistress. Many...
Cork Street Tavern
The tavern has a ghost that likes to trip its guests that walk through the door.
Annandale High School – Boy’s Restroom
Believed to be haunted by a student that committed Suicide. Reports of seeing the dead boy in a mirror in the bathroom.
Fort Colier Battle Field
The cries and ghostly figures of those wounded haunt the battle fields once every year. When ghostly figures appear each year is unknown--it is always different!
Round Tree Park
Known to many residents in Annandale and Arlington. Many sightings of a lady holding her baby who torments many people who happen to wonder in the park at night. It is said that when the fog rises...
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...
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...
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...
St. Peters Catholic Church
Many people have seen the priest standing outside of the church, and several people have heard the screams of the wounded soldiers.
Railroad
In the 1800's, a 9 year-old girl was hit and killed by a train while playing on the tracks. Apparently she got lost while wandering in the woods. Her ghost has been seen by residents that live...
the town
Home to several ghosts. Many are linked to the Civil War, but there are many that are just towns people returning home.
Hilltop Hotel
Apparitions of soldiers marching through rooms.
Haycock Elementary
Reported to be haunted by an ex-Vice Principal. The following year, on the same day of her firing, strange events occurred. People were shoved against walls; papers were thrown around, doors...
Longfellow Middle School
Back in the 1960's, the principal of Longfellow suffered a massive heart attack and died in his office at the school. After hours, custodians and other faculty report seeing him walk around 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.
Wakefield High School
theatre- Haunting in this location will occur if you sit in the balcony seats alone. If no one else is in the theatre, you may hear the sound of someone playing the piano, even if the piano is in...
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...
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.
Hospital woods
Alexandria INOVA hospital is built on the site of the Vauxcleus mansion, an ante-bellum plantation mansion. During the Civil War a Confederate soldier was seen and shot dead by a Union picket...
Gaithersburg High School
School was built in early nineteen hundreds. One night the boiler room started acting up and a janitor went to investigate. There was an explosion and of course the janitor died. Certain times of...
The Waters House
In the late 1800's, the Waters family had recently bought and built a farm house, and they used to be the richest in there family, so they had family members living there with them. One night one...
Old Georgetown Road
Some disturbing reports of sightings on the Road and in several houses dating back to the Civil War.
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...
Citgo
Workers claim to have seen black shadows on the cameras, gas pumps going off without the handle being lifted, and a dot that dances around on the outside camera.
Old Post Chapel
This is a military chapel used for funeral services since the 1930's at Arlington National Cemetery. Soldiers have reported hearing voices, footsteps and also previously locked doors opening and...
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...
Georgetown
Foxall - the elderly housekeeper has been seen floating on the 3rd floor.
Urbana
Landon House Mansion - doors open and close by themselves often, lights turn on, music comes from the ball room. It was a plantation home in the civil war, which was used to treat soldiers hurt at...
Landon House
Built in 1754, footsteps can be heard clearly when the house is vacant, doors close without provocation, and strange noises can be heard.
Old Building in the center of town
It is said that a violent murder in this small town in an old abandoned building. The murderer murdered a young girl from the town, very brutally. The killer chopped off her fingers, then he...
Beacon Hill
Comet Lodge Cemetery - Apparitions and shadows seen.
Gadsby's Tavern
Known to be haunted by a young women in period clothing.
Brown House
Revolutionary War soldiers have been seen here.
Ramsey House
The first house in the city (King and N. Fairfax) has had people see figures in period costume in the basement.
The Hay
Adams Hotel - This hotel was built in 1927 on the site of the mansion of Presidential Advisor Henry Adams in the 1880's. The wife of the original mansion owner, Marian Hooper Adams, was found dead...
White House
Gardens - Dolly Madison haunts the White House gardens and gets angry every time someone tries to change the way the gardens look. The ghost of President Lincoln has been seen all over the White House.
Shepherd College
Gardiner Hall - a Home Coming Queen who slipped in the shower and died from a head wound. She usually walks across the football field at midnight on the anniversary of her death, but she has been...
Meadowside Nature Center
Strange presence felt & EVPs recorded.
Gridiron Club
an elderly woman and slaves haunted this building.
Fall Hill Plantation
Reports of electrical problems, cabinets opening and closing, ghostly figures circling one’s bed, cold spots, strange odors, and disembodied voices.
Silver Spring/Wheaton area
Goldmine Rd. - It is said that sometimes at night you can hear a woman crying.
Fort McNair
Building 21 - This is the building where John Wilkes Booth was hung (even though he was already dead). He was hung in the attic of the building. he wasn't the only person to be hanged there. One...
Capitol building
Basement - In the basement there is a cat every time it has been seen a national disaster occurs. For example a guard spotted the cat in the late 30's and a week later the stock market crashed. It...
Anteitam Battlefield
Haunted by the ghosts of several Civil War soldiers killed in battle.
Trinity College
Kirby Hall - It is said to be haunted by the ghost of a co-ed who died in the late 1960's. She appears in the staircase and fifth floor lounge. Some reports of her ghost appearing in the dorm rooms too.
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...
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Records/Museum building - formerly the main structure - a former employee reports Having worked on the grounds of St. Elizabeth's in 1987, not only did they experience strange phenomena, but many...
Kendall Green
Gallaudet - Kendall Demonstration Elementary School - In the girls bathroom, there was a ghost around and watching the girls. The ghost is around the bathroom because four girls who were saying...
Hood college
It is built on a old saloon from the civil war in one of the halls late at night you can hear hooting and hollering also in the 1970 a girl was murdered and her throat was cut open she crawled all...
South Mountain Inn
There was recently a video made that was aired on TV, and included many ghost stories about the Washington County area. The video is named "Legends," and can be ordered through Antietam Cable...
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...
Beach Rd
Behind all of the bushes and debris is an steep hill leading to an small pond. If you notice that two trees are intertwined with each other. If you would to walk under them, you will feel a sense...
UMCP
Easton Hall - heard strange noises, many people have seen "objects" move swiftly in peripheral vision. An RA saw a person walk through a door, while another heard the ghost (not looking)....
Fredrick Campus
Barry Hall - In the nights there are ghosts seen in the girls' dorm - Barry Hall -on the 2nd floor and 1 is reputed to be evil and was called Mary Walker and it turned out she did exist back in...
Lake Linganore
Balls of light and strange eerie noises infest the woods along the water and air bubbles float to the surface of the water where every year, for many years now, a child has drowned.
Paint Branch Home
This home used to be a slave home built in 1700 or 1800's. There have been numerous sightings by staff over the years.....The home is now used as an assisted living home for the elderly. You'll...
Ceresville Mansion
A young boy drowned in a bath tub in the house. The room in which he died is now walled off and you can see the empty room from outside. They say the boy is still there and you can here him at night.
The Old Mill
Lights have been seen in the second and third floor windows even though the floors have long since rotted away.
Forest Haven
An old shut down mental hospital and insane asylum, Multiple buildings, Its almost like a full neighborhood, but with institutes everywhere. Some buildings are still in use by the army, which is...
Ammendale Normal Institute
This is a turn of the century building used by a Catholic organization to train their priests and also as a retirement home for priests. Many strange incidents have been reported there.
Port Tobacco Creek
Supposedly, there is sad that a dog haunts the grounds of the creek. The dog has been sighted since the 1920s.
Prince Georges County
NASA Building 26 - In the early days of NASA being built in Greenbelt the need for many buildings was certain. Building 26 was planned not to shortly after many others. During the construction of...
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...