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Last Updated: March 2008
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Adams - Plunkett Hospital- -aka "Old Adam's Hospital" - Update: Is being considered to be renovated into condo's for senior citizens. - Screams can be heard along with sightings of ghosts that usually resemble patients that may have died there. This buildings windows and doors are boarded up partially due to the fact that people have reported seeing ghosts in the windows looking outside.
Adams - Turn Hall - Turn Hall is located on Turners Avenue in Adams, Massachusetts. Downstairs, there is a gym, bar, and bowling alley for members and residents of the Adams area. Upstairs, there is an appartment, that is occupied. Two friends were reported to have been looking out a bedroom window into the gym and seeing unusual things. There are a few people associated with Turn Hall that were members that have passed away that have also been reported to have been seen dowstairs in the bar room. There was a coach for gymnastics that commited suicide a few years ago that has been known to answer people's calls and still be wathing over her workplace. All these spirits aren't out to scare, though, they are all nice.
Allston - West End House Boys and Girls Club - Originally Built in the 1930's it was primarily a Jewish club for older men to come and exercise. Ghosts of these elder men still exercise with the teens from today. Unknown splashes and bubbles in the pool, showers in the locker room turning on by themselves and lockers opening and closing by themselves.
Andover - Harold Parker State Forest - Beyond the old stone walls if you look out around 3 am you will see a green light and hear footsteps. Also there are a number of unmarked graves out in those woods, as well as the ruins of old houses.
Arlington - Robbins Cottage - Right next to the cemetery it is said that there is an apparition of an older woman dressed in servant’s clothing who walks from the back room and through the walls.
Amesbury - Lake Gardner - you can see and hear sounds of children and elders who have drowned or been drowned to death on the sand and woods of this area.
Ashland - office building behind john stones - back in the mid seventies there was a janitor working late, he was a kind man in mid summer he would turn A/Cs on so the offices would be cool in the mornings, he was on the top floor working in an office on the sprinkler system when he fell from his step ladder and onto the counter flipping him over making him land on his head, breaking his neck. to this day in the office building fire alarms can be tripped, lights go out in the elevator, strange noises are heard on the top floor, A/Cs are turned on and apparitions are seen wandering the up-stairs lobby.
Ashland - Stones Public House - Formerly: John Stone Tavern - Believed to be haunted by a little girl & a man, believed to be John Stone himself. Strange feelings when you turn your back to an old picture on the second floor. Glasses fly off shelf across room. one of the most haunted restaurants. Psychics who have been there say there are seven spirits in the restaurant. There are rumors of a body in the basement somewhere.
Assonet - Old Village House - The first selectman of the town pushed his daughter out of a second story bedroom window, killing her. Footsteps have been heard on the staircase, doors open and close suddenly, and candles are reported to be seen by passers-by on certain nights. Scratch marks found on the window of the room the daughter was murdered in.
Athol - Adams Cemetery - Now little more than an abandoned lot, this site was once known as the infamous Adams dumping ground. It was here that mad Dr. Adams disposed of his more 'unusual' experiments concerning the treatment of domestic animals. Even now, late at night, can be seen the ghostly forms of the legendary 'canary-pigs' frolicking beneath the twisted skeletons of the dead willow trees. To the sounds of ghostly laughter, they dance.
Athol - "Gates of Hell" or the Seven Gates - It's located off of Pleasant Hill Road in Athol, MA. Apparently this cult lived in a clearing 400 yards off the road, they did sacrifices and killed animals and people. There are seven gates that lead into the clearing where there is an alter and an abandoned house. (Now defaced with grafiti) There is said to be blood on the walls. If you go at night you hear whispering, can see animals hanging from trees and if you scream from inside the clearing, you can't hear it from the road!
Athol - Lucky Lanes Bowling - The Rotundra - This bowling alley that is still open used to be a movie theatre. It used to be called The York Theatre. A long time ago someone planted a bomb in the theatre, which blew up and killed a lot of people. At night when closing the bowling alley you can hear the children that were killed laughing. You can also hear footsteps upstairs where the old theatres where.
Athol - The Rotunda Bowling Ally - This was once a theater, Then converted to a bowling ally and bar. At night when everyone is gone. Closing you can hear people moving upstairs where the old theater was. It was said a woman hung herself up there.
Attleboro - Bristol Nursing Home - Many People Have reported seeing small persons or children darting about. You can feel a foreboding presence in many locations. Some claim that it is not a haunting but Demons. One unconfirmed report was of hearing strange music of unidentified type playing.
Attleboro - St. Stephen's Cemetery - There are many reports of a ghost named Doris, who was a 2 year old girl, her mother, Albertine, and her father, Eugene. Children's footsteps on the pavement apparitions appear and disappear.
Auburn - Hope Cemetery - Around this huge cemetery there are many other smaller cemeteries. Ghosts have been sighted at the statue of Jesus being held up by an angel. Sounds of children laughing and other ghostly sounds.
Auburn - Stone Tavern - is haunted by the ghost of an unknown child.
Ayer - Fort Devens - Lights flash in buildings that have been un used for many years. Also in the old movie house a piano is heard by the police who watch the area and it is said that the dogs stay away from the building that they are to scared.
Baldwinville - Otter River State Forest Cemetery - Off New Boston Road. a rather large cemetery with stone posts and chain, large religious figure on wall. if backed up to certain tree a figure is seen hanging from tree limb. Supposedly angry. Rumors of saying "Rudy give me a sign" being key words in this area. Strange feelings on one's self even when passing.
Becket - Becket Quarry - Over 200 people died there in the early 1900s when it was being built. Sensation of being watched and feelings of someone brushing up against you have been felt. Flashlights will go dead and then will work again once you’re at the bottom. One person reported being chased out of there by a ghost.
Bedford - Groton - Dudley Rd. - This Road has had very frightening acts since early 1800's. And is known to send you home feeling frightened. This is where nuns where hung after practicing witchcraft in the mid 1800's. Nuns have been seen at night. When seen in the fog they look like Demons in the night.
Bedford - Hanscom AFB - Odd lights and shadow figures have been seen on the ridge and in some of the base houses. Base Police have also found evidence of a satanic group operating in the area. It is patrolled by police.
Belchertown - Belchertown State School - Doors unlocked and propped open slam shut and lock. Running footsteps, screams and cries can be heard throughout the building. Temperatures fluctuate between extremes in a matter of minutes. There is also a part of the property near the woods that surrounds the school where nothing grows. There are now no trespassing signs around the property.
Belchertown - State School - the state school used to be a mental institution that often had very unfair and cruel treatment to it's inhabitants. there’s an old story of how two people, who were not mentally retarded, but only had low intelligence, fell very deeply in love, but were kept away from each other because back then, it was considered to be wrong for people with mental disorders to marry or date or have children. they would sneak to each other in the night and leave love notes and whisper to each other through windows. it's said that during the night, you can see them run between their dormitories. there are many ghosts haunting the state schools, and up until a few years ago, 3 of the buildings were used as elementary schools. now only one remains open, and another building has been converted into a teen center with a skate park outside. at night, if you sneak into the skate park, you can see the ghosts out roaming between the buildings. even walking through that place in the daylight is enough to give you the shivers, windows will break, doors slam open and shut, you can hear screaming and crying and moaning near the men's sleeping quarters, and the tunnel system that runs below the state schools often has lights flickering on and off, although power to the buildings was cut off years ago. the swings on the playground will swing when no ones in them, and just walking near the place, gives you a very sick feeling.
Belchertown - Tadgell Primary school (made on state school grounds) - Mirrors vibrate and fall off walls. Blood trails found in cellar bathrooms. Odd feelings come over you when you set foot in there. Feelings of being watched in class. Things like pencils move around. Stall doors slam shut and lock in all bathrooms. Pictures and other things fall off walls. Papers hung are found on the floors, looking like they had been ripped off the wall. Woods on the edge of school grounds are haunted by the ghost of a man. ::This is an ACTUAL school, still open and running, only for another year though. For first and second grade.
Bellingham - Jo-Anne's Restaurant - Customers and employees have seen the ghost of young man dressed in old civil war era clothing. The restaurant used to be an old stable house or something like that. There are also cold spots, but the ghost seems very friendly. - March 2007 Update: Has been torn down
Beverly - Cavendish Square - there have been rumors that a dark, cold woman who once lived nearby slit her own throat on the street. There have been reports of her from some of the residents of Cavendish Sq...windows opening, faint voices, faces in the mirror, blue glow.
Beverly - Conant street cemetery - when outside in the cemetery you can hear weird noises not from squirrels or any lively sounds. Visitors have caught orbs in photos.
Beverly - Endicott College - Brindle Hall - Reports of noises being heard throughout the hall. Shades often going up without anyone near them, sounds of marbles rolling across the roof, and hissing noises that travel throughout each room. Trees outside forming the letters to spell out the name Julie, a girl who mysteriously disappeared from the 4th floor. Hand prints found on the outside part of a 3rd floor window. Keyboard letters going up and down as though someone was typing when no one was near the computer. Banging on headboards until someone yelled stop and the noise went away.
Beverly - Endicott College - Reynolds Hall - Reports of seeing a ghost of a little girl reflected in mirrors, pool balls moving , Pictures been found upside down on the wall, heard the piano playing by itself, furniture moving, Faint knocks on the door of the top quad, Shades fly up in the middle of the night.
Beverly - Endicott College - Winthrop Hall - The old mansion by the water is haunted by a younger looking woman wearing a flowing white gown. She is a ghost supposedly waiting for her husband to come back from sea. On the third floor of the building there is a staircase that goes up into the wall and mysteriously ends. The staircase leads to a widow's walk on the roof where supposedly the woman jumped to her death when finding out her husband was not coming home. Witnesses have seen her numerous times walking around the yard by the water and cliffs.
Beverly - Ocean View at Ellis Square- Formerly the Old Brisco School. Staff reports seeing fleeting images on the top penthouse floor, and staff have also reported seeing images in the upstairs mirrors near the dining hall. Many staff refuses to go up there alone at night when the floor is empty.
Billerica - Billerica High School- At the high school in billerica there have been reports of dead war veterans breathing on you and looking over you and following you on the first floor near a band room. Also around 9:pm you can see a man walkings the halls of the 3rd floor in old suspenders and rags with a deformed face and glowing dark red.
Billerica - Dudley road - Reports of being followed home & haunted by these spirits. November 2003 Update: The story behind Dudley Rd is that there was a Nunnery on the Rd and 3 Nuns were hung for practicing witch craft. And you can now see them haunting the Rd. There is a house that was built on the Rd where the witches were hung and had to be abandoned months later because the house began to sink. The house is still there and in oddly in the ground up to the second floor windows. Every year it sinks a little more. -
Febuary 2005 Update: The Convent is called Daughters of Saint Paul and is still up and running. Some of the nuns were hung, some escaped then were later found and got there throats slit by the same man who hung the other nuns. if you drive down the road a little you see the field where some of the nuns went to hide. This was also a mixed monastery And remember, just because it's not there doesn't mean the hauntings don't exist.
Boston - Berklee College of Music - The Massachusetts Ave Dorms - were once a hotel where there was a fire. people have seen apparitions in hallways and students have had victims of the fire living in their rooms. talk to any Berklee alumni and chances are they will have some story to tell or know another student who has a story.
Boston - The Boston Common - has been know to be the site of two ghostly women, dressed in nineteenth century tea dresses, who smile at passers-by kindly, but vanish when approached.
Boston - Boston Conservatory Dorms - footsteps ,slamming doors, audible voices, missing items, doors mysteriously not unlocking then flying open, used to be a hospital in the 1800's
Boston - Boston University - Shelton Hall, - which is now a residence hall, was once a Sheraton Hotel. Playwright Eugene O'Neill lived in room 401 and supposedly died in his room in 1953 and now haunts that floor. The floor is now reserved for students majoring in writing.
Boston - Catholic Memorial - A Christian Brother that passed away has been heard talking in the halls to a teacher during classes.
Boston - Charlesgate - Originally a hotel of ill repute, then a dorm for Emerson College, is currently selling condos. Haunted by persistent flappers, drug-addicted dandies, and an old man with a beard. Parapsychologists filmed ghostly horses in lower basement, which once served as the stables.
Boston - Emerson Majestic Theatre - Built in 1903, the Majestic has been noted as one of the most haunted theatres in the district. A mayor of the city died in the theatre during a performance and today he is still seen in his seat. There is also a little girl and a married couple dressed in turn of the century clothes that haunt the now un-used balcony.
Boston - The Everett Theatre - In the 1700's The Everett Theatre on Fairmount Ave. People on the balcony were all slaughtered on the balcony. Story is that that the further stage lights above the balcony were cut down by two murderers. They killed a whole sold-out audience in the balcony. Today the theatre is closed because the people who owned it ran out of money. Still today the people who were killed are seen screaming and crying up there.
Boston - Fort Warren - haunted by a lady in black believed to be the wife of Lt. Andrew Lanier. Fort Warren was a prison during the civil war, and the Lt. was confined there. The story is that his wife came to Boston. She dressed as a man, and snuck onto the island one moonless night to try and help her husband escape. They were cornered however, and when her gun misfired her husband was killed. She was sentenced to be hanged, and her only request was that she be allowed to be dressed as a woman. Someone found a black dress that had been used in a play the soldiers had put on and she wore it to the gallows. Its said she still walks the island. Reports for hearing gunshot and screams, and moaning.
Boston - Genova inn - Heard footsteps, TV come on in the middle of the night and stuff moved around and blankets being pulled off and saw something floating above the bed.
Boston - Parker House (hotel) - It is reported by employees that there are several ghosts that inhabit this old hotel in the heart of down town Boston. doors open and close by themselves, lights mysteriously turned on & off. several employees have left scared because they have reportedly seen these lost souls. the apparitions seem to be of older times with the attire and hair styles of the old aristocrat era there is also supposed to be voices throughout the night in the lobby, restaurant, and hall ways.
Boston Waterfront - The Pilot House - This building once served as a type of dormitory in when it was built in the 1839. It was for Pilots or Captains of ships that were on overnight stay in Boston Harbor. There have been reports on doors slamming, a women in white who haunts the kitchen on the first floor, the sounds of several men laughing an talking, clinking glasses, as if they were playing cards and drinking late at night.
Bourne - Sagamore Beach - You can see a young lady glowing blue walking at the waters edge.
Brewster - The Captain Freeman Perry House- (Now an antiques shop, but formerly a boarding house) on Route 6a on Cape Cod. It is occupied by a spirit, who it is thought is named Roberta. The house is fairly well known as an "Occupied" residence.
Brewster - The Crosby Mansion - The Crosby Mansion has only been seen by a few people, the people have said that the house has no electricity and that lights were flickering when nobody was there. The people came to see the house a second time and there lights made a face in the window. People have seen blood marks on the front step.
Bridgewater - Bridgewater State College - one of the bathrooms on the second floor is haunted. a girl hung herself. now if someone is in the bathroom alone they hear a noise of a girl choking. also the noise of a shower. when the shower isn't even on. Another thing that happens sometimes if you take a shower in there and you are alone in the bathroom all the showers turn on by themselves. another place that is haunted is the stairway. sometimes we see black object moving. they aren't shadows from other things because you see it when its darker.
Bridgewater - Bridgewater State College - Campus Centre Auditorium - A ghost named 'George' haunts the auditorium attached to the campus center. Not a malignant spirit yet will play with the stage lights and any instruments in the orchestra pit, as well as playing with lights in any back hallways in the area of the stage.
Bridgewater - Bridgewater State College - Shea-Durgin Hall - there is a poltergeist that lives in 5th floor it likes to stack chairs and coke cans on top of the TV's and set things on fire it is also famous for stopping elevators.
Bridgewater - Bridgewater State College - Shea-Durgin Hall -Room 228 - An 18 year old girl was strangled by her boyfriend. They found her with her clothes off, and bruises all over her neck. There was also a letter asking her why she cheated on him. At night people hear yelling and gagging from the girl's ghost. If you know someone who lives there say your final goodbyes because their time is coming.
Bridgewater - Bridgewater State College - Tillinghast Hall - this building was the original dorm in the 1800's and used to have a large iron fence surrounding it well the house mother went to check out a noise on the roof to find several of her charges out of bed and on the roof so she sent them back to there rooms when she was climbing down she got tangled in her petty coat and slipped plunging to her death on the fence. She still wanders the halls chasing out men in the building after dark, closing doors, turning off lights and crying in the stairwell.
Bridgewater - Bridgewater State College - Wood Hall - it has a room that a girl very long ago set herself on fire and she is still seen today running thru the hall screaming Fire and banging on doors when the students emerge from there rooms there is no one there.
Bridgewater - Bridgewater State College Apartments - In 9C of the student apartments on campus, stamping, knocking and smells arise. At night on the lower level outside of the emergency exit there is a knocking on the door that once it is opened there is no one there. In the living room of this same apartment a smell of decay and rot suddenly appears, enough to make you sick, and then disappears. The stamping emerges only in the middle of the night in the hall, but once the door is opened no one is there.
Bridgewater - Burger King - It use to be an old shoe store, the old fireplace on the back wall, Many sightings of a little girl in an old designed dress playing next to the fire place.
Bridgewater - Camp Titticut - An old Indian summer-time camp and burial ground. It is said that after King Phillip was caught by Myles Standish his body was drawn and quartered. His remains were scattered throughout Massachusetts so that his spirit could not go on to the after life. On quiet fall nights it is said that if you listen carefully what sound like leaves rustling is actually his remains crawling to get back together. Also, more recently, Camp Titticut was a boys camp in the 1930's through 1950's. It had a huge building used as a cafeteria, two story and three-story house as well as about eight cabins. A boy drowned in the small pond in the center of the camp in the 1940's and his ghost has been seen and heard wandering the woods for the past 60 years. Most of the buildings were burned down in the late 1980's so the town tore the rest of them down.
Bridgewater - The Old McElwain school - One of the bathrooms is supposed to be haunted by a ghost of a former student. One Halloween night some kids watched the door open by itself. It is now used as a Teen Center.
Bridgewater - The Nip - Stories say an old man was fishing and his boat drowned. If you go to the nip on some nights and down that street, you will see the man fishing in his boat.
Bridgewater - Ryanham (Hockomock Swamp) - Strange sounds are often heard late at night ... apparitions of a child's hands reaching out of the water have also been seen there ( apparently a child drown there many years ago ) Many sightings of old Indian canoes and the Indians themselves have also been sighted at night along the eerie water. - March 2008 additional information: The swamp is the center of a much larger area known as the Bridgewater Triangle. This is probably one of the most haunted places in the entire country. Wikipedia has a lot of good information, as the sightings reported goes a lot farther than what is listed on the entry for this place.Generally speaking, the following things have been reported in or near the swamp: glowing lights, giant hellhounds that killed a couple ponies, giant birds with 12 ft wingspans, Native American voices in the woods, mysterious graves that bubbled strange things when they were disturbed, UFOs (reports go back over 300 years), black helicopters, and even bigfoot. Here is some more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater_Triangle
Brockton - Cape Cod Cafe - Sounds of a baby crying when no children are present in the restaurant. There is a story about a baby that was left alone at the table while the mother drank at the bar. The baby supposedly choked to death in the booth.
Brockton - Melrose Cemetery - This cemetery has long been rumored to be haunted. You can often hear footsteps running around at night. People have also reported hearing laughing in the far back left corner of the cemetery.
Burlington - Burlington Mall - Sears Warehouse - Footsteps heard behind you when no one is around, presence clearly felt in certain areas, objects fall from shelves when you walk by and a voice can be heard in some areas.
Burlington - Sawmill Road - Long dirt road, no street lights, old house at the end in the shape of a triangle. Been abandoned for years. Old man reportedly been seen living there, possibly a ghost.
Cambridge - YMCA - a green ghost of a man that dies there in the 1930's is seen there.
Cambridge - Cambridge Rindge and Latin School - In the War Memorial Pool Hall there is ghost in the form of an old man pushing a book cart up and down the hallway where the names of WWII soldiers are inscribed.
Cambridge - Matignon High School - June 2004 - Has been removed
Cambridge - Verna's Donut Shop - Verna's donut shop has a basement which stores supplies for both the shop and the adjacent cake decorating store. Several employees and a few customers have reported seeing shadowy figures crouching behind boxes. The granddaughter of Verna, who recently passed away, refuses to go unescorted to the basement level bathroom.
Canton - Paul Revere's old workshop - Paul Revere's old work place in Canton is now a house that is rented out. Families now rent the house. From time to time weird noises happen, and sometimes things (such as belongings, door, and windows) move. Sometimes the windows open themselves. The family living there at the moment (2007) lives with the ghosts.
Cape Cod - Barnstable Inn - Drinks get knocked over by an unseen force and doors slam.
Charlemont - The Charlemont Inn - There seems to be quite a few rather friendly spirits in this original 1787 Inn. A few of these visitors have been captured on film. Most active is "Elizabeth”, who must be a 17 year old "Brat". She likes to slam doors, stomp up and down the hallways and move or throw things to bizarre locations. She also likes to talk to young children, who always report with the same words, "I was talking to the Lady". There is also a Civil War soldier seen in the upstairs hallway, and a past innkeeper often seen in the tavern.
Chelmsford - Bainbridges - Bainbridges is a restaurant in Chelmsford that is supposedly haunted by a few different ghosts pictures have been seen moving an cries of a woman an children playing while the clean up crew was there alone.
Chelsea - Cary House - The Cary House was a mansion in the civil war. The daughter of the family had two lovers, who fought on opposing sides and ending up killing each other on the stairs inside the house. For quite a few years now, one couple would live in the house (a newer part of the house was added onto the old) and give tours. It was like a museum (but with the Cary mother's skeleton in the attic!). Once things started getting stolen, the tours stopped. It is said that one the night of the wedding anniversary of the Cary parents, you can hear laughter, mumbled conversation, and wine glasses clinking from the old kitchen. You constantly get the feeling of being followed or watched over. And this house has many secret passageways and hidden spots as well. - No trespassing - the couple that lives there now have turned it into a private property.
Chelsea - Voke Park - If you steer in to the voke park baseball field you will notice a lil'boy that got viseously attacked by 2 dogs. He seen wearing the same clothes he was on the night of his death,and bloody and asking for help ,rumor has it when you approach him he dissapears.
Chelsea - YMCA - In the pool area, a boy approximately 12 years old can be seen in his bathing suit pointing at the bottom of the pool. Story has it that in the 60's, a boy hit is head on a diving board while swimming alone and drowned. Was found later the next morning dead.
Chestnut Hill - Pine Manor College - Students have reported lights along the pathway near the Main House (administration building) turning off and on late at night as they walk by. For example, as a person approaches a light it goes out, then back on once the person has gone by it. An eerie feeling of being watched in this location has also been noted, as well as unexplained isolated mists in the surrounding wooded area.
Chinatown - Tai Tung Village (Chinese School) - They say a ghost of an old woman haunts the basement floors of the old school. She is described as a smiling, hunchbacked woman that is usually found washing her hands in the downstairs woman's bathroom. She is only see in darkness and when the lights are turned on, the immediately flees.
Chinatown - Tai Tung Village (Mural) - On special nights, especially during nights when it is uncommonly calm and quiet, you can feel a cold aura when you stare at the mural. If you stare at the right corner long enough, you could see something emerging from the painting in the form of a small child or a short man.
Clinton - Abandoned train tunnel - Tunnel is located in the middle of the woods. On some night temperature drops several degrees and if you walk into the tunnel a train can be heard coming from within.
Clinton - Abandoned train tunnel - Tunnel is located in the middle of the woods. On some night temperature drops several degrees and if you walk into the tunnel a train can be heard coming from within. - February 2005 additional info: in its time it was the second longest tunnel in Massachusetts. Weird echo vibrations, due to the length of the tunnel pass back and forth. Pigeons nest on both ends of the tunnel. Add their cooing and people talking and general noise from walking meshing into an eerie sound it is hard to figure out what you are actually hearing. when you walk down it, you get the sensation the end of the tunnel keeps getting further away from you. It could be an optical illusion.
Cohasset - Jerusalem Rd.-