☠ it is the witching hour. you should be asleep. ☠
★ NEW!!! THE HALLOWEEN UPDATE IS OUT ★ 31 NIGHTS OF FRIGHT: ONE STORY FOR EVERY NIGHT OF OCTOBER ★ TAP THE PUMPKIN IN THE APP FOR 3 FREE STORIES ★ JACK-O'-LANTERN PINS ON THE MAP ★ A HALLOWEEN APP ICON ★ 2,100+ REAL HAUNTED PLACES ★ DON'T READ THEM ALONE ★

Haunted Places Near Me

~*~ the field guide to the restless dead · est. after dark ~*~

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Welcome, traveller.

You found us. Most people don't. Haunted Places Near Me is a field guide to 2,100+ real places with a past: asylums, prisons, battlefields, lighthouses, hotels and ghost towns across the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and beyond.

Every entry starts with what actually happened there, then what people say still happens. Each one also tells you whether you're allowed to go.

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free to download · your first 3 stories are on us · iPhone & iPad
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NEW!The Halloween Update

The app's map in Halloween mode: jack-o'-lantern pins over the Great Lakes
  • 31 Nights of Fright. One hand-picked story for every night of October, ending in Salem on the 31st.
  • Tap the pumpkin in the app bar for 3 extra free stories. Once a year, while it lasts.
  • Jack-o'-lantern pins. Places you haven't read yet stay lit. Read one and its candle goes out.
  • Halloween mode switches itself on for all of October.
  • Open on Halloween Night: ghost tours, overnights, hotels and pubs you can actually visit after dark.
  • A Halloween app icon, if you dare to switch it on.
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~ Case Files ~

Three of the 2,100+. Hover a photo to develop it.

The Gothic gate of Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn

Green-Wood Cemetery

Gothic spires over 478 acres of Brooklyn. Half a million New Yorkers, and some of them are still restless.

FILE #1541-B
Stone walls of the Missouri State Penitentiary

Missouri State Penitentiary

For 168 years the "bloodiest 47 acres in America". Tours now walk the halls the inmates never left.

FILE #1836-M
Weathered cabins of Independence ghost town under the Elk Range

Independence

A gold camp at 10,900 feet, abandoned in the winter of 1899. The cabins are still standing.

FILE #1899-I
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What's in the app

  • The map. Every haunted place on one map, in standard or satellite view.
  • Near Me. The closest stories to wherever you're standing, sorted by distance.
  • The Almanac. Browse by country, state and county, or search by name.
  • Collections. Sleep Here If You Dare, Burial Grounds, Asylums and Hospitals, Witches, Trials and Hangings, and more.
  • Access notes you can trust. Which places are open, which are ticketed, and which are private land to stay off.
  • What's New. New places arrive every few weeks.

Respect the living: some places in the guide are private property or unsafe. Never trespass.

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Guestbook

Signed by the residents. (They're fictional. Probably.)

~ the lighthouse keeper ~
Nov 3, 1887, 11:58pm

lamp is lit. lamp is lit. lamp is lit. lamp is lit.

~ guest in room 217 ~
checked in 1911 · no checkout recorded

lovely view of the mountains. please ask the staff to stop knocking.

~ webmaster ~
Oct 31, 2001, 3:03am

brb, going to check the basement.

~ ??? ~
just now

you scroll so slowly.