Haunted Delaware

12 haunted destinations cataloged across Delaware, spanning 6 counties. The collection features museum, outdoor, and haunted dining — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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Haunted Dining / Bar

Deer Park Tavern

Newark, DE

The Deer Park Tavern was built in 1851 on the site of the earlier St. Patrick's Inn, an 18th-century inn that burned in 1847 after operating from 1747. Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon used the St. Patrick's Inn as their headquarters in 1764 while surveying the Mason-Dixon Line. Edgar Allan Poe stayed and lectured at the Newark Academy on December 23, 1843, and according to local tradition cursed the building after falling in the mud on arrival. The Deer Park Tavern was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

$$ 21+ in bar area; all ages in dining Family: Moderate

Prison / Reformatory

Fort Delaware

Delaware City, DE

Fort Delaware occupies Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River and was completed in 1859 to defend the ports of Wilmington and Philadelphia. During the Civil War the fort served as a prison camp where roughly 33,000 Confederate soldiers were confined and approximately 2,500 died from disease and exposure.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Rockwood Mansion

Wilmington, DE

Rockwood Mansion in Wilmington, Delaware, was completed in 1854 as the retirement home of Wilmington-born banker Joseph Shipley. Modeled after Shipley's country estate near Liverpool, England, the Rural Gothic Revival mansion sits on 72 acres and now operates as Rockwood Park & Museum, run by New Castle County.

$$ All Ages for daytime visits; 14+ for paranormal tours Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Bellevue Hall

Wilmington, DE

Bellevue Hall is a Neo-Classical mansion in Wilmington, Delaware, originally built in 1855 as a Gothic Revival residence for wool merchant Hanson Robinson. William du Pont acquired the estate in 1893, and his son William du Pont Jr. remodeled the house in the 1930s into a near-replica of his Virginia home, Montpelier. The State of Delaware purchased the property in 1976 and now operates it as Bellevue State Park.

$ All Ages Family: High

Dead Presidents Pub & Restaurant at 618 North Union Street, Wilmington, Delaware

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Haunted Dining / Bar

Dead Presidents Pub & Restaurant

Wilmington, DE

The buildings that house Dead Presidents Pub & Restaurant at 618 North Union Street in Wilmington are roughly 200 years old, dating to around 1806. The structures were originally private residences and were later connected to form one building. The basement once functioned as a family chapel and yielded a large carved Jesus figure during renovations. The Dead Presidents Pub was opened in 1998 by Mike and Steve Lucey and was acquired by Brian and Sarah Raughley in December 2009.

$$ 21+ in bar area; all ages in dining Family: Moderate

The 1740 brick mansion at the John Dickinson Plantation in Dover, Delaware, with reconstructed log outbuildings

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Museum / Historical Site

John Dickinson Plantation

Dover, DE

The John Dickinson Plantation in Dover, Delaware preserves the 1740 brick mansion built by Judge Samuel Dickinson, father of founding father John Dickinson. The 18th-century plantation, where enslaved and tenant labor worked tobacco and grain fields, is operated by the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs as a free public museum.

$ All Ages Family: High

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Atlantic White Cypress Chamaecyparis thyoides subsp. thyoides, Great Dismal Swamp NWR, Suffolk County, Virginia, USA.

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Great Cypress Swamp

Frankford, DE

The Great Cypress Swamp once covered nearly 50,000 acres in southern Sussex County, Delaware, representing one of the northernmost bald cypress ecosystems in North America. A catastrophic 1930 peat fire — ignited by a moonshiner's still explosion — burned for eight months through the soil itself, destroying much of the old-growth canopy. A smaller but devastating fire had occurred in 1782 as well.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

David Finney Inn

New Castle, DE

The David Finney Inn building at 216 Delaware Street in New Castle, Delaware dates to 1685, making it one of the oldest surviving commercial structures in the state. David Finney, a successful attorney who built the structure, later served as a prominent figure in early Delaware legal and civic history. The building operated as the Hotel Louise beginning in 1895 before returning to inn and tavern use.

$ All Ages Family: High

Stone walls of Fort Delaware viewed from the northwest on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River

Battlefield / Military Site

Fort Delaware State Park

Delaware City, DE

Fort Delaware is a stone fortification on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River, completed in 1859 to designs by U.S. Army chief engineer Joseph Gilbert Totten. During the Civil War, it held nearly 33,000 Confederate prisoners, political prisoners, and federal convicts; approximately 2,500 died on the island, half during a smallpox epidemic in 1863. The site is now operated as Fort Delaware State Park.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Highway 12 West

Frederica, DE

Delaware Route 12 runs through Kent County in central Delaware, passing near the small community of Frederica. The stretch west of Frederica passes through flat agricultural landscape typical of the Delaware interior. The legend associated with this road involves a historical murder, the disposal of a body, and the dog that reportedly consumed the remains.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Forested shoreline of Lums Pond, Delaware's largest freshwater pond, with swamp forest reflecting in still water

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Lums Pond State Park

Bear, DE

Lums Pond was created in the early 1700s when St. Georges Creek was dammed to support local milling operations. During the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in the 1800s, the canal company purchased the pond as a water source for the locks. Delaware acquired the 1,790-acre property in 1963 for public recreation; the pond remains the largest freshwater pond in the state.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Residential street in the Bay Oaks subdivision of Lewes, Delaware, near the Delaware Bay

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Bay Oaks Neighborhood

Lewes, DE

Bay Oaks is a residential subdivision near Lewes, Delaware, located off Camp Arrowhead Road on Waterview Road. Lewes itself stands on the site of Zwaanendael, the 1631 Dutch colonial settlement destroyed in conflict with the Siconese in 1632, and the broader area has yielded colonial-era and Indigenous artifacts.

$ All Ages Family: High

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Museum / Historical Site (3) Outdoor / Natural Site (3) Haunted Dining / Bar (2) Haunted Hotel / Inn (1) Battlefield / Military Site (1) Prison / Reformatory (1) Other Dark Tourism Site (1)