54 haunted destinations cataloged across Arizona, spanning 13 counties. The collection features haunted hotel, museum, and outdoor — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Bisbee, AZ
The Oliver House was built in 1909 by Edith Ann Oliver and her husband Henry Oliver to house executives of the Calumet & Arizona Mining Company. The building was converted to a bed and breakfast in 1986 and operates today as a historic inn in Bisbee, Arizona.
Tucson, AZ
Sabino Canyon in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson has been a human-use corridor for at least 12,500 years — from Clovis culture hunters through Cochise culture and Hohokam agriculturalists who farmed the canyon between roughly 1000-1300 CE. Incorporated into the Catalina Forest Reserve in 1902 and the new Coronado National Forest in 1908, the canyon was developed as a recreation area in the 1930s when Civilian Conservation Corps and WPA crews built the nine stone bridges, Sabino Dam, and the lake that still define the lower canyon.
Tucson, AZ
St. Mary's Hospital in Tucson was dedicated in 1880 and is recognized as Arizona's first hospital. It was established by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, who had traveled west from St. Louis a decade earlier as part of the order's frontier mission. The hospital remains an active acute-care facility within the Carondelet Health Network.
Tombstone, AZ
Boothill Graveyard is Tombstone's first city cemetery, founded in 1878 to receive the dead of the booming silver-mining town. Between 1879 and 1884, about 300 people were buried here, including roughly forty percent who died violently or suddenly. Notable interments include three men killed in the 1881 O.K. Corral gunfight. The cemetery fell into disuse, was nearly lost as a dump, and was restored by the city beginning in the 1940s.
Yuma, AZ
Castle Dome City was founded in 1863 in what is now Yuma County, Arizona, after prospector Julian Dennis discovered silver in the Castle Dome Mountains. At its peak the town reportedly held more than 3,000 residents and supported the surrounding 300-mine Castle Dome Mining District. The mines operated intermittently until 1979 and have been restored as an open-air museum.
Bisbee, AZ
The Copper Queen Hotel was constructed between 1898 and 1902 by the Phelps Dodge Corporation to accommodate investors and dignitaries visiting its Bisbee copper mining operations. Completed in 1902 and predating Arizona's 1912 statehood, the hotel is the oldest continuously operating hotel in the state.
Phoenix, AZ
51st Avenue and Indian School Road form a significant intersection in west Phoenix, Arizona. The location is a documented active urban intersection serving residential and commercial areas.
Phoenix, AZ
The Good Shepherd Home for Girls, built in 1942, operated at 19th Avenue and Northern from 1947 to 1981 as a residential institution for girls aged 12-18 adjudicated by juvenile courts and state agencies. The facility was operated by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic religious order. The historic building was preserved and incorporated into a modern strip mall complex developed in 1959, with subsequent renovations in 2004.
Phoenix, AZ
A cemetery is located in the area of 55th Avenue and Northern Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona. The burial ground represents a historical community cemetery serving the greater Phoenix area.
Phoenix, AZ
Arizona State Prison Complex - Phoenix, specifically the Flamenco Unit, opened in 1985 as a 105-bed psychiatric hospital for adult males. The facility's primary function is housing inmates with mental health issues and those in protective or maximum security custody. The Flamenco Unit represents a contemporary correctional mental health facility rather than a historical institutional site.
Phoenix, AZ
Hotel San Carlos opened on March 20, 1928, as a seven-story, 175-room downtown Phoenix hotel and quickly became a stop for Hollywood's Golden Age — Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Mae West, Gene Autry, and Marilyn Monroe among them. The building stands on the site of Phoenix's first school, the 1874 Little Adobe, and remains in continuous operation as a boutique hotel.
Phoenix, AZ
The Orpheum Theatre opened January 5, 1929 as a 1,800-seat vaudeville and movie palace built by partners Jo E. Richards and Harry Nace during Hollywood's golden age. Designed in Spanish Baroque Revival style with an atmospheric ceiling simulating a starlit Mediterranean sky, it operated as a movie theater under various names through the 20th century before being acquired by the City of Phoenix in 1984, restored, and reopened in 1997 as a performing arts venue. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Phoenix, AZ
The Pioneer Living History Museum is a 90-acre open-air museum in north Phoenix dedicated to Arizona territorial life from 1863 to 1912. Founded by the Pioneer Arizona Foundation in 1956 and inaugurated February 15, 1969, the museum preserves 30 original and reconstructed pioneer-era buildings including the Gordon Schoolhouse, originally built in Gordon Canyon and moved over 150 miles to the site.
Phoenix, AZ
The Rosson House was built in 1894-1895 as the Phoenix residence of Dr. Roland Lee Rosson, a physician who served briefly as Phoenix's mayor in 1895-1896, and his wife Flora Murray Rosson. Designed by San Francisco architect A. P. Petit in the Eastlake-influenced Queen Anne style, it was the most modern home in territorial Phoenix, featuring electric lights, hot and cold running water, and a telephone. After the Rossons sold and moved to Los Angeles in 1897, the house passed through several owners and later operated as a boarding house before being acquired and restored by the City of Phoenix in the 1970s.
Phoenix, AZ
The Stockyards opened in 1947 in the heart of Edward A. Tovrea's massive Phoenix Stockyards, then the world's largest cattle feedlot at roughly 40,000 head on 200 acres. The original building was destroyed by fire in 1953 and rebuilt in 1954 with the 1889 Saloon and Rose Room restored to their pre-fire designs.
Phoenix, AZ
The Bouvier-Teeter House is an 1899 Midwestern-style bungalow built by cattleman and flour miller Leon Bouvier in what is now Phoenix's Heritage Square. In 1911, Eliza Teeter — a widow with six children — traded her Tempe farmland to Bouvier for the home and ran it as a boarding house for over five decades. She lived in the house until her death there in 1965 at age 96.
Phoenix, AZ
The Wrigley Mansion was built between 1929 and 1931 by chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley Jr. as a 50th-anniversary gift for his wife Ada Foote Wrigley. The 16,000-square-foot, 24-room hilltop home — the smallest of the family's five residences — was barely complete before William Wrigley Jr. died there on January 26, 1932. The Wrigley family used the property as a winter residence into the 1970s before selling it to Western Savings, which operated it as a private club. Today it operates as a restaurant, private club, and event venue with public tours.
Tucson, AZ
Bloom Elementary School operates as an active educational facility in Tucson, Arizona's Pima County school system. Located at 8310 East Pima Street, the school serves kindergarten through fifth-grade students. A female principal's death at the school is the reported source of the paranormal activity.
Tucson, AZ
The Fox Tucson Theatre opened on April 11, 1930, as a combined vaudeville and movie house. After closing in 1974 and standing vacant for 25 years, the building was purchased in 1999 by the non-profit Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation for $250,000 and reopened in 2006 following a multi-year, multi-million-dollar restoration.
Tucson, AZ
The Hotel Congress opened in 1918 as a railroad hotel adjacent to Tucson's Southern Pacific Depot, designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm William and Alexander Curlett. On January 22, 1934, a basement fire inadvertently exposed John Dillinger and his gang, who had been hiding on the third floor using aliases — setting off a chain of events that ended in Dillinger's transfer to Indiana and eventual death in Chicago.
Tucson, AZ
The hotel at 6555 East Speedway Boulevard in Tucson operated for decades as the Radisson Suites Tucson. It rebranded as Embassy Suites by Hilton Tucson East following a full renovation in 2019. The property is on the city's east side near major medical and shopping corridors.
Jerome, AZ
David Connor built the Connor Hotel in 1898 in Jerome, Arizona, then a booming copper-mining town on the side of Cleopatra Hill. The hotel burned to the ground twice in its early decades — Connor was one of only two Jerome business owners carrying insurance — and closed in 1931 before being restored and reopened as a boutique hotel.
Jerome, AZ
Ghost City Inn occupies a building constructed around 1890 as a boarding house for workers at the nearby copper mines of Jerome, Arizona. Over the next century it served as a private home (the Garcia House), restaurant, spiritual retreat, funeral home, and art gallery before being converted into a bed-and-breakfast in 1994.
Jerome, AZ
The Jerome Grand Hotel occupies the 1927 United Verde Hospital building on Cleopatra Hill in Jerome, Arizona. The hospital served the United Verde copper mine workforce until its 1950 closure. The Altherr family purchased the building in 1994 and opened it as a hotel in 1996.
Tombstone, AZ
The Bird Cage Theatre opened on December 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona, operating simultaneously as a variety theater, saloon, gambling hall, and brothel. Over its eight-year run, 26 documented deaths occurred on the premises, and 140 bullet holes remain preserved in its walls and ceiling.
Tombstone, AZ
Boothill Graveyard, founded in 1878 in Tombstone, Arizona, holds approximately 250 burials from the silver-mining boomtown's most violent years. The cemetery includes the graves of three men killed at the 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and is among the best-known Western frontier cemeteries.
Tombstone, AZ
The Buford House was constructed in 1880 by George Washington Buford, one of Tombstone's original settlers who made his fortune in Texas mining. The house is one of Tombstone's oldest and most historically significant structures. The property witnessed multiple tragic deaths including three children during a diphtheria outbreak and a violent incident in 1888 involving a rejected suitor.
Bisbee, AZ
The Oliver House was constructed in 1908 in Bisbee, Arizona, by Edith Ann Oliver and her husband Henry Oliver, a mining tycoon with the Calumet & Arizona Mining Company. The brick structure was designed as executive housing. The building evolved through functions: executive residence, boarding house, and contemporary bed and breakfast. Documented records indicate 27 deaths occurred at the property, though historical records may be incomplete.
Bisbee, AZ
The Cochise County Courthouse opened August 2, 1931, designed by Tucson architect Roy Place in the Southwest regional variation of Art Deco. The Phelps Dodge Corporation donated the Quality Hill land after the county seat moved from Tombstone to Bisbee in 1929. The building is a contributing property to the Bisbee Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
El Tovar Hotel opened in 1905 on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, built from local limestone and Oregon pine at a cost of nearly $250,000 for the Fred Harvey Company in conjunction with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Designed by Charles Whittlesey, it opened four years after Fred Harvey's death and predated the Grand Canyon's designation as a National Park by four years. Early guests included Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, George Bernard Shaw, and Zane Grey.
Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
Maricopa Point is a South Rim viewpoint on the West Rim Drive of Grand Canyon National Park, accessible by the free Hermit Road shuttle. The Civilian Conservation Corps worked extensively on the canyon's South Rim from 1933 onward, building trails, walls, and safety railings. The stone safety railings that line the rim in this section were constructed by CCC crews during the New Deal era.
Mesa, AZ
The intersection of 8th Avenue and Extension Road in Mesa, Arizona, is the site of a documented traffic fatality involving a child struck by an intoxicated driver. The specific date and identity of the victim remain unclear in available sources, though the incident is embedded in local oral history.
Mesa, AZ
The Landmark Restaurant building was originally a Mormon church built in 1908. It was sold in 1954 to Producers Insurance Company, became the first campus of Mesa Community College in 1963, was converted to a restaurant in 1973, and opened as the Landmark Restaurant in 1981. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Landmark closed permanently and the building is currently vacant.
Prescott, AZ
The Hassayampa Inn opened on November 20, 1927, designed by the El Paso firm of Trost and Trost in a blend of Spanish Colonial Revival and Italian Renaissance Revival styles. Financing came from the Prescott Kiwanis Club's public subscription campaign, with local residents becoming shareholders. The inn has been a member of Historic Hotels of America since 1996.
Prescott, AZ
The Hotel Vendome in Prescott, Arizona was built in 1917 and sits two blocks from Courthouse Plaza. Abby Byr and her husband purchased the hotel in 1921 but lost it to tax debt; the new owners retained them as managers and gave them Room 16 to live in. When her husband left to obtain medicine for her tuberculosis and never returned, Abby refused to eat or drink. She and her cat Noble both died in Room 16.
Yuma, AZ
Yuma Territorial Prison operated from 1876 to 1909 on a bluff overlooking the Colorado River in Yuma, Arizona. It held 3,069 prisoners during its 33-year operation, including 29 women. The facility became a state historic park and has been voted by USA Today readers as the Best Haunted Destination in the nation.
Yuma, AZ
Yuma Territorial Prison opened on July 1, 1876, on a granite bluff overlooking the confluence of the Gila and Colorado Rivers. It operated for 33 years until September 15, 1909, confining 3,069 prisoners including 29 women. The site is now Arizona's third state park, established in 1961, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Alpine, AZ
Diamond Rock Campground sits at 7,890 feet on the East Fork of the Black River in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests of eastern Arizona. The 12-site campground includes three Adirondack-style three-sided shelters built by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1930s, predating large RV-camping conventions.
Casa Grande, AZ
Cafe de Manuel's operates as an authentic Mexican restaurant in Casa Grande, Arizona, established in 1995. The building formerly functioned as a furniture store and private residential property prior to restaurant use. The structure harbors historical trauma from its commercial and residential operations.
Chandler, AZ
The San Marcos Hotel opened November 22, 1913 in Chandler, Arizona as the state's first golf resort. Built by Dr. Alexander Chandler, the property hosted Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, and President Herbert Hoover during the Hollywood era and operates today as the Crowne Plaza Phoenix-Chandler Golf Resort.
Douglas, AZ
The Gadsden Hotel opened in 1907 in Douglas, Arizona, named for the Gadsden Purchase that defined the region. Cattlemen, ranchers, miners, and businessmen used the five-story, 160-room hotel as a base for the border economy. The original building burned in 1928; the current structure was designed by El Paso architect Henry Trost and opened in 1929.
Elfrida, AZ
The property operated as the Cochise Guest Lodge and Ranch, a dude ranch in Arizona's remote Sulphur Springs Valley. On December 3, 1977, ranch hand James Dean Clark killed four people — ranch owners Charles and Mildred Thumm and two fellow wranglers, Gerald McFerron and George Martin — in a spree that ended with his arrest in El Paso. Clark was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder in 1978 and executed by the State of Arizona on April 14, 1993. The property was subsequently acquired by VisionQuest National, a youth rehabilitation organization founded in 1973, which operates it as a residential program to this day.
Flagstaff, AZ
The Hotel Monte Vista opened January 1, 1927, funded by Flagstaff taxpayers after a 1924 public fundraising campaign organized by astronomer V.M. Slipher. It was one of the only American hotels built entirely from public funds at the time. During the 1940s and 1950s, it hosted John Wayne, Bing Crosby, Jane Russell, Gary Cooper, and Spencer Tracy, who filmed Westerns in the surrounding terrain.
Florence, AZ
Arizona State Prison Complex - Florence is Arizona's oldest operational state prison, established in 1910. The death house, located in Housing Unit 9, contains the execution chamber. Arizona has carried out approximately 100 death sentences since 1910, using hanging (until 1934), gas chamber, and lethal injection methods. The original execution method was hanging with a trap-door system; gas chamber replaced hanging in 1934 following a botched execution in 1930.
Fort Huachuca, AZ
Carleton House, designated Quarters No. 9 on Fort Huachuca's Colonel's Row, was built in 1880 as the post's first hospital, an eight-bed adobe building with a downstairs morgue. It served as the hospital until the mid-1880s, then was converted to officers' quarters and other uses. It is a contributing structure in the Fort Huachuca National Historic Landmark District.
Glendale, AZ
Sahuaro Ranch was founded in 1886 by William Henry Bartlett, an Illinois native who with his brother Samuel purchased 640 acres west of Phoenix in 1885. Known as the 'Showplace of the Valley,' the commercial fruit and alfalfa ranch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 1980. The City of Glendale purchased the remaining 17 acres in 1977 and preserved 13 historic buildings.
Globe, AZ
The Noftsger Hill Inn was originally the North Globe Schoolhouse, built in 1907 and operating as Globe's primary elementary school until it closed in 1981. After renovation, the building reopened as a bed and breakfast. The conversion preserved the original classroom structure, with each former classroom becoming an oversized guest suite.
Grand Canyon Village, AZ
Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,217,262 acres of canyon, plateau, and Colorado River corridor in northern Arizona. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon a national monument in 1908; Congress established the national park on February 26, 1919. The park's South Rim Grand Canyon Village Historic District and North Rim Grand Canyon Lodge are landmarks of early National Park Service architecture.
Oatman, AZ
The Oatman Hotel was originally built in 1902 and rebuilt after a fire in 1924, operating during the height of Oatman's gold rush years. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Durlin Hotel. The name changed to the Oatman Hotel in the late 1960s. The building no longer offers overnight accommodations, operating today as a museum, restaurant, and bar.
Oracle, AZ
Acadia Ranch in Oracle, Arizona, is a historic ranch complex built up between roughly 1882 and 1930 that served at various times as a sheep ranch, guest ranch, boarding house, tuberculosis sanatorium, post office, beauty salon, and morgue. A portion of the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and it now operates as the Acadia Ranch Museum, home of the Oracle Historical Society.
Paradise Valley, AZ
Cowboy artist Alonzo 'Lon' Megargee purchased six acres in what is now Paradise Valley in 1935 and built his adobe home and studio there, naming it Casa Hermosa. The property became a guest ranch and reputed gambling den during his ownership. Megargee sold the property in 1941 and died in 1960. The site has operated as the Hermosa Inn since the 1940s, evolving into a 43-casita luxury boutique inn anchored around Lon's original adobe home, which today houses the inn's award-winning restaurant.
Tempe, AZ
The building operating as Casey Moore's Oyster House was constructed in 1910 as the W.A. Moeur House. William Moeur was a founding member of Tempe's first school board and a key figure in early Maricopa County education. His brother Benjamin B. Moeur became Governor of Arizona from 1933-1937. William died in the home in 1929 from a cerebral hemorrhage near the fireplace; Mary Moeur died in an upstairs bedroom in the 1940s. The house became a restaurant in 1973.
Vail, AZ
Colossal Cave Mountain Park preserves a dry limestone cave 15 miles southeast of Tucson that became notorious in the 1880s as a hideout for train robbers. The loot they stashed inside was never found. Frank Schmidt, one of the cave's early developers, spent much of his life documenting and preserving the caverns before his death.
Wickenburg, AZ
Vulture City grew up around the Vulture Mine, discovered by Prussian prospector Henry Wickenburg in 1863. It became Arizona's most productive historic gold mine and the heart of a boomtown of thousands, complete with a hanging tree used for frontier justice. The site is now a preserved ghost town open for tours.