Virginia
The Hospital Dead of Gordonsville’s Exchange Hotel — Gordonsville, VA
In Gordonsville, Virginia, the Exchange Hotel stands with the peculiar stillness of a building that has endured more human passage than any…
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Washington
Henry in the Basement of the Oxford Saloon — Snohomish, WA
On First Street in historic Snohomish, where the old storefronts keep their shoulders close and the past seems to gather in the…
Arizona
Claude Harvey and the Haunted Elevator of the Jerome Grand Hotel — Jerome, AZ
High above the Arizona desert, where the land falls away in rust-colored folds and the wind comes up steep streets with a…
Georgia
The Restless Former Resident of Atlanta’s Beverly Hills Inn — Atlanta, GA
By daylight, the Beverly Hills Inn looked like the sort of place that had learned to keep its secrets polished. It stood…
Texas
The Restless Footsteps of Jefferson’s 1847 Powhatan House — Jefferson, TX
By day, Jefferson was a town of painted porches, slow water, and old brick holding the heat like a grudge. Big Cypress…
Arizona
The Restless Dead of Brunckow’s Cabin — Tombstone, AZ
In the San Pedro Valley near Tombstone, where the Arizona light can seem almost too hard for human memory, the ruins of…
Arkansas
The Wolf-Bounty Killing at Arkansas’s Old State House — Little Rock, AR
The Old State House stands in Little Rock with the grave composure of a building that has listened too long. Its walls…
New Hampshire
Nancy Barton’s Restless Chase Through Crawford Notch — Hart’s Location, NH
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, there are places where the land seems to remember in a language older than speech.…
Massachusetts
The Bloody Pit of the Hoosac Tunnel — Florida, MA
Hoosac Mountain rises in western Massachusetts with the grave patience of old stone. Between North Adams and the town of Florida, it…
Mississippi
The Bride of Annandale at the Chapel of the Cross — Madison, MS
Near Madison, where the land once belonged to the Johnstone family’s Annandale plantation, the Chapel of the Cross stands with the graveyard…
Delaware
The Wine-Loving Gentleman Ghost of Woodburn — Dover, DE
On Kings Highway in Dover, Delaware, there stands a house that has learned to keep its face composed. Woodburn, the official residence…
Pennsylvania
Fort Mifflin’s Screaming Woman — Philadelphia, PA
Fort Mifflin does not rise from the Delaware River so much as endure it. Set on Mud Island, low and weathered against…