A HauntBound editor's pick
Haunted hotels you can
actually book a room at.
Twelve haunted hotels across the United States, ranked. Every one of them has a working reservation link. Most of them have an in-house ghost tour or paranormal investigation. The most famous ones — Stanley Hotel, 1886 Crescent, Queen Mary — book months ahead during October. The lesser-known ones on this list are where to go when those are full.
Updated July 5, 2026 12 venues · ranked editorially
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01Long Beach, CA
The Queen Mary
The Grey Ghost: 1,000 Feet of Atlantic History
The RMS Queen Mary was constructed at John Brown & Company's Clydebank shipyard beginning in 1930, launched September 26, 1934, and sailed her maiden voyage on May 27, 1936. Requisitioned as a troopship in 1939, she carried 810,000 soldiers under the nickname 'The Grey Ghost.' The ship has been permanently moored in Long Beach, California since December 1967.
Cost: $$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All Ages (Paranormal Ship Walk 13+; Graveyard Tour 16+)Full venue page, history, and reviews →Hotel Stay Aboard the Queen Mary
Two hundred staterooms restored to mid-century ocean liner style. Room B340 — reopened in April 2018 after roughly 30 years of closure — is bookable for those curious about its documented history of reported cover-pulling and shadow figures.
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02Eureka Springs, AR
1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa
America's Most Haunted Hotel, Eureka Springs
The 1886 Crescent Hotel was built as a luxury Victorian resort atop the Ozark mountains of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, then briefly operated as a women's college before its most notorious chapter: Norman Baker's fraudulent cancer clinic from 1937 to 1940. Baker charged dying patients for treatments that offered no medical benefit, and the hotel retains his intact basement morgue.
Cost: $$$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All Ages (Kids Ghost Tour for ages 5-12) AccessibleFull venue page, history, and reviews →Stay at America's Most Haunted Hotel
$145-$350/night
Spend the night in one of 72 Victorian rooms at the Crescent, built in 1886 as a luxury mountaintop resort. Room 218 — where a construction worker named Michael reportedly fell to his death during construction — is the hotel's most requested paranormal stay. Room 419 is associ…
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03Estes Park, CO
The Stanley Hotel
The Overlook's Real Counterpart in the Colorado Rockies
The Stanley Hotel opened on July 4, 1909, built by Freelan Oscar Stanley, co-inventor of the Stanley Steamer automobile, as a summer resort for wealthy Eastern visitors. Stanley himself had relocated to Estes Park in 1903 seeking relief from tuberculosis, found it, and decided the Rocky Mountain air warranted a proper destination resort. The main building was among the first fully electrified hotels in the American West.
Cost: $$$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All Ages AccessibleFull venue page, history, and reviews →Hotel Stay
$250–$550/night
Stay in the Georgia Colonial main building where F.O. Stanley lived and where Room 217 — the most requested room in the property — became famous after Stephen King's 1974 visit and subsequent novel. The fourth floor, associated with reports of children's laughter, and the bill…
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04Hannibal, MO
Garth Woodside Mansion
Second Empire Victorian estate built 1871 by Mark Twain's childhood friend John Garth; Twain stayed in what is now the Samuel Clemens room, and guests still report pipe-smoke phantoms there.
Garth Woodside Mansion is a Second Empire Victorian country estate completed in 1871 by Colonel John H. Garth and his wife Helen Kercheval Garth, both childhood schoolmates of Samuel Clemens. Twain stayed at Woodside on his return visits to Hannibal, including a documented 1882 trip up the Mississippi on the steamer Baton Rouge. The property has operated as a bed and breakfast since 1987.
Cost: $$$ Family fit: High Age: All AgesFull venue page, history, and reviews →Garth Woodside Mansion Bed and Breakfast
Overnight stays in the 1871 Garth family mansion, including the Samuel Clemens room where Mark Twain reportedly slept during return visits to Hannibal. Three private cottages on the 36-acre grounds also available.
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05Red Boiling Springs, TN
Thomas House Hotel
Tennessee's Mineral Spring Hotel with a Violent Past
The Thomas House Hotel in Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee began as the Cloyd Hotel, built in 1890 during the town's mineral spring resort boom. Red Boiling Springs attracted visitors claiming therapeutic benefits from its sulfur springs, and the hotel served that clientele through multiple ownership changes before the springs fell from commercial favor. The building has experienced at least three fires, numerous deaths, and a brief period of reported cult activity in the late 1980s.
Cost: $$ Family fit: Low Age: All Ages for hotel/dining; 16+ with adult supervision for Ghost Hunt Weekends investigation events (18+ as independent adult)Full venue page, history, and reviews →Standard Historic Hotel Stay
Standalone overnight stay in the 1890 Thomas House Hotel without participation in Ghost Hunt Weekends events. Historic guest rooms, Southern hospitality, and access to the dining room. Bookable directly through the hotel.
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06Okawville, IL
Original Springs Hotel
1893 Mineral Spa & Bathhouse in Okawville, Illinois
The Original Springs Hotel sits on the site where Okawville's mineral water trade began in 1868. After an 1891 fire destroyed the original bathhouse, the current hotel and bathhouse opened on May 1, 1893, and have operated continuously since — making the property the last natural mineral spa hotel in Illinois.
Cost: $$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All Ages — overnight ghost hunt programs adults onlyFull venue page, history, and reviews →Overnight Stay at the Original Springs Hotel
Standard overnight stay at Illinois's last continuously operating natural mineral spa hotel. The property has 18 rooms; staff and returning guests describe the second floor and Room 350 as the most active for reported phenomena. Room rates and current availability via the hote…
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07Madison, IN
Historic Broadway Hotel & Tavern
Established 1834 and billed as Indiana's oldest continuously operated family tavern, the Broadway Hotel still serves dinner, draft beer, and B&B rooms where ghost stories cluster around the dining room and upstairs hall.
Established in 1834 on Broadway Street near the Ohio River, the Broadway Hotel and Tavern has operated continuously as a tavern, hotel, and restaurant — claimed by the venue and tourism sources to be Indiana's oldest continuously operated family tavern.
Cost: $$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All Ages AccessibleFull venue page, history, and reviews →Bed & breakfast overnight
Stay in one of the upstairs B&B rooms where guests and staff report a woman's voice between dusk and dawn.
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08Riverside, CA
The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa
Riverside's Historic Landmark Hotel with Family Ghosts
The Mission Inn in Riverside, California traces its origins to a twelve-room cottage built by C.C. Miller. Frank Miller, who inherited the property in 1900 after his father's death, oversaw the construction of the existing structure beginning around 1902, which was completed in a phased expansion ending approximately 1947. The hotel is a National Historic Landmark, featuring Spanish Mission Revival and Romanesque architecture designed by architect Arthur Benton.
Cost: $$$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All Ages AccessibleFull venue page, history, and reviews →Overnight Stay
From $128/night
The Mission Inn's 238 one-of-a-kind guest rooms include the fourth-floor rooms associated with Frank and Alice Miller, both of whom are reputedly still in residence. Guests in upper-floor rooms have reported hearing a woman singing beautifully in an adjacent room — and later l…
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09Vicksburg, MS
Stained Glass Manor / Oak Hall Bed & Breakfast
Mission Revival mansion completed c.1908-1910 with 32 custom stained-glass windows and Louis Millet art-glass fixtures; current operators downplay haunting reports while regional listings detail Fannie Willis Johnson lore.
The Fannie Vick Willis Johnson Home at 2430 Drummond Street in Vicksburg is a Mission Revival mansion built between 1902 and 1908-1910 (sources vary on the completion date) for philanthropist Fannie Willis Johnson. Designed by New Orleans architects Keenan & Weiss and supervised by local architect William Stanton, the house contains 32 custom stained-glass windows and original Louis Millet art-glass fixtures. It now operates as Oak Hall Bed & Breakfast.
Cost: $$ Family fit: High Age: All AgesFull venue page, history, and reviews →Overnight Stay at Oak Hall
Stay overnight in the early 20th-century Mission Revival mansion, with 32 original custom stained-glass windows and Louis Millet art-glass fixtures throughout the principal rooms.
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10Kerrville, TX
Y.O. Ranch Hotel
Hill Country Hotel Tied to a 600,000-Acre Ranch Empire
The Y.O. Ranch Hotel in Kerrville, Texas, takes its name from the historic Y.O. Ranch founded in 1880 by Charles Schreiner. The hotel offers 190 rooms with Hill Country and Old West design and houses the Y.O. Ranch Steakhouse. Although the hotel itself is a relatively recent build, it serves as a public expression of the Schreiner cattle and conservation legacy.
Cost: $$$ Family fit: High Age: All Ages AccessibleFull venue page, history, and reviews →Overnight Stay at the Y.O. Ranch Hotel
Stay in one of 190 western-themed rooms with rich wood finishes and Saltillo tile floors. The hotel takes its name from the historic Y.O. Ranch in nearby Mountain Home and houses the Y.O. Ranch Steakhouse, a restaurant inspired by the Schreiner family's longhorn legacy.
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11Coronado, CA
Hotel Del Coronado
Kate Morgan's Beautiful Stranger Legacy
Hotel del Coronado opened on February 19, 1888, designed by James and Merritt Reid as a wood-frame Victorian resort on the Coronado Peninsula. Financed by Elisha Babcock Jr. and H.L. Story, the building was constructed in just eleven months. It hosted President Benjamin Harrison in 1891 and has received countless heads of state and Hollywood celebrities since. The hotel is a National Historic Landmark and remains a fully operating luxury resort under Hilton's Curio Collection.
Cost: $$$ Family fit: High Age: All Ages AccessibleFull venue page, history, and reviews →Stay at the Hotel Del
Room 3312 — Kate Morgan's original third-floor room — is the most requested guestroom in the hotel. Guests report flickering lights, temperature shifts, breezes from nowhere, and items moving on their own. Request the room directly when booking; it is frequently reserved far i…
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12Marietta, OH
The Lafayette Hotel
Riverboat Era Grand Hotel on the Ohio River in Marietta
The Lafayette Hotel in Marietta, Ohio opened in 1918, built on the foundation of the 1892 Bellevue Hotel that had been heavily damaged by fire in 1916. The new structure incorporated surviving portions of the original building and was named for Marquis de Lafayette, who visited Marietta in 1825. Reno Hoag and his son S. Durward Hoag incorporated ownership of the hotel in 1924; Durward ran the property until selling it December 17, 1973.
Cost: $$ Family fit: Moderate Age: All agesFull venue page, history, and reviews →Stay at Marietta's Grand Riverboat Era Hotel
77 individually furnished rooms in a 1918 Ohio River hotel where former owner S. Durward Hoag's presence is reported most actively on the third floor, in a wing named for him. Hoag's ghost is associated with flickering and exploding light bulbs, an elevator that operates on it…
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What we left out
HauntBound has 249 haunted hotels with active online booking in our catalog. Twelve made this list — the rest are filterable on the full Haunted Hotel page. Notable omissions worth a search of your own:
- Regional gems we'll feature in state-specific guides — the Maine coast, the Outer Banks, the Mississippi Delta
- Hotels currently in renovation or seasonal closure — we re-rank when they reopen
- Listings without verified booking URLs — if there's no working reservation system, this guide skips them by policy
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