Haunted Idaho

45 haunted destinations cataloged across Idaho, spanning 24 counties. The collection features cemetery, museum, and haunted dining — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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Prison / Reformatory

Old Idaho State Penitentiary

Boise, ID

The Old Idaho State Penitentiary, also known as the Old Pen, opened in 1872 as the Idaho Territorial Prison on a site outside Boise. The facility operated for 101 years, holding more than 13,000 inmates including over 200 women and children as young as ten and eleven. The prison closed in 1973 following inmate riots and is now operated as a museum by the Idaho State Historical Society.

$$ All Ages for daytime; minimum age applies for evening paranormal events Family: Moderate

Theater / Performance Venue

The Panida Theater

Sandpoint, ID

The Panida Theater opened in 1927 as a vaudeville and movie house in Sandpoint, Idaho, built by F. C. Weskil. Its name was drawn from the panhandle of Idaho. After falling into disrepair, it was bought in 1985 by a community nonprofit and restored; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and operates today as a venue for films, concerts, and live theater.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Other Dark Tourism Site

Albion Normal School

Albion, ID

Albion Normal School opened in 1893 as south-central Idaho's teacher-training college, operated under several names through 1951, sat empty for most of the following decades, and was auctioned to private owners in 2007. The Mortensen family now runs the National Register-listed campus each October as the Haunted Mansions of Albion.

$$ Minimum 13 Family: Not Recommended

Fort Boise Military Cemetery at the mouth of Cottonwood Canyon in the Boise Foothills, with weathered military headstones and a flagpole

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Fort Boise Military Cemetery (Cottonwood Cemetery)

Boise, ID

Fort Boise Military Cemetery, also known as Cottonwood Cemetery, holds approximately 247 burials of soldiers and dependents from Fort Boise and Government Island. The original Boise Barracks cemetery was destroyed in the 1906 floods, and 166 graves were relocated to the present Foothills site beginning in 1906, with additional reinterments continuing into 1913. The City of Boise received the deed in 1947 with a stipulation that the site be maintained as a historic property in its natural early-twentieth-century condition.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Asylum / Hospital

Idaho State Tuberculosis Hospital

Gooding, ID

Built in 1920 as a men's dormitory for Gooding College, the building passed to the State of Idaho in 1941 after the Methodist-affiliated college closed. Wartime shortages delayed the opening of the Idaho State Tuberculosis Hospital until 1947; it treated up to 150 patients before closing in 1976. The building has operated as a bed-and-breakfast, most recently the Gooding University Inn, since the 2000s.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Other Dark Tourism Site

Idanha Hotel

Boise, ID

The Idanha Hotel opened January 1, 1901 as one of the most ambitious buildings in turn-of-the-century Boise, a six-story French-chateau structure with corner turrets at 10th and Main. Designed by W. S. Campbell and built for $125,000, it hosted Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, and Clarence Darrow, and was a hub during Big Bill Haywood's 1907 trial. The Idanha was converted to apartments in the 1970s and added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 9, 1974.

$ All Ages Family: High

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Boise — 5

Egyptian Theatre marquee and Egyptian Revival facade on Main Street at Capitol Boulevard in downtown Boise, Idaho

Theater / Performance Venue

The Egyptian Theatre

Boise, ID

The Egyptian Theatre opened April 19, 1927 at the corner of Capitol Boulevard and Main Street, designed by Frederick C. Hummel of Tourtellotte and Hummel during the King Tutankhamun-driven Egyptian Revival craze. The 700 W Main address has operated as Fox Egyptian, the Ada Theater, and now the Egyptian, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1974. Today it hosts film screenings, concerts, and Opera Idaho performances.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Morris Hill Cemetery

Boise, ID

Morris Hill Cemetery was established in January 1882 when Mayor James Pinney purchased 80 acres from William H. Ridenbaugh and Lavinia I. Morris for $2,000. The first burial was 16-year-old William Lindsay in March 1882. The City of Boise has operated the property continuously since March 1, 1882, and it remains the largest cemetery in Idaho with approximately 30,000 interments across 60 developed acres, 53 sections, and a mausoleum.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Owyhee

Boise, ID

The Owyhee Hotel opened in 1910 as a six-story, 125-room hotel designed by Tourtellotte and Hummel, with a rooftop garden restaurant and dance floor that was a popular destination through 1940. Ore-Ida purchased the top three floors in the 1960s. After a major 2013 renovation the building was converted into a mixed-use property with the Owyhee Tavern, apartments, salons, retail, and event/ballroom space.

$ All Ages Family: High

Overview of the Old Idaho State Penitentiary in Boise, Idaho, showing the sandstone cell blocks and grounds of the 1872 territorial prison complex

Prison / Reformatory

Old Idaho Penitentiary

Boise, ID

The Old Idaho Penitentiary at 2445 Old Penitentiary Road in Boise operated from 1872 to 1973, receiving its first inmates in the territorial period and closing after a 1973 inmate fire that destroyed three cell houses. During its 101 years of operation, the prison executed ten prisoners; only one execution, Raymond Snowden's in 1957, took place in the Gallows Room that survives today.

$ All Ages (some evening events 18+) Family: Moderate

The Owyhee in Boise — a stop on this tour.

Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

US Ghost Adventures Boise

Boise, ID

US Ghost Adventures operates a nightly walking tour in downtown Boise, branded Boise Ghosts, meeting outside The Owyhee on Main Street. The route covers documented downtown landmarks including the Idanha Hotel, once the tallest building in the city, and the Egyptian Theatre, a historic movie palace.

$$ All ages Family: Low

Pocatello — 5

Museum / Historical Site

Bannock County Courthouse

Pocatello, ID

The Bannock County Courthouse anchors downtown Pocatello as the seat of county government for Bannock County. The building's paranormal reputation comes chiefly from a dedicated chapter in John Brian's 'Ghosts of Pocatello,' published by The History Press in 2013.

$ All Ages Family: High

Theater / Performance Venue

Frazier Hall, Idaho State University

Pocatello, ID

Frazier Hall houses the theatre and speech departments at Idaho State University in Pocatello. It is one of several campus buildings ISU itself acknowledges as the subject of ghost stories, and is the home of the long-running 'Alex' legend.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

Historic Downtown Pocatello Haunted History Tour

Pocatello, ID

Historic Downtown Pocatello has run an annual Haunted History walking tour through Old Town for more than fifteen years, working with the local SPIRO Paranormal group. The tour visits historic commercial and former factory buildings near First and Second avenues, using owner-granted access to get into basements and crawlspaces that are normally off-limits to the public.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Dining / Bar

Hotel Yellowstone (Yellowstone Restaurant & 313 Whiskey Bar)

Pocatello, ID

The Hotel Yellowstone was built in 1915-16 in downtown Pocatello. The four-story building now houses the Yellowstone Restaurant, founded in 2018, along with the 313 Whiskey Bar speakeasy in the preserved former hotel lobby. The site is among the more actively reported haunted locations in the city.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted House / Historic Home

Standrod Mansion (Standrod House)

Pocatello, ID

Drew W. Standrod, a judge, financier, and member of Idaho's first Public Utilities Commission, built this Chateauesque mansion in Pocatello in 1902. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The City of Pocatello owned and restored it for about two decades before it returned to use as a private residence in the 1990s.

$ All Ages Family: High

Caldwell — 2

Aerial survey view of Canyon Hill Cemetery

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Canyon Hill Cemetery

Caldwell, ID

Canyon Hill Cemetery sits on a hill overlooking Caldwell in Canyon County, Idaho. Its first recorded burial was in 1867, predating the city's incorporation, and it is owned and operated by the City of Caldwell. The grounds hold many of the region's pioneer families and are documented through extensive burial records and a city walking tour.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Outdoor / Natural Site

River Road Bridge

Caldwell, ID

The River Road Bridge, originally known as the Silver Bay Bridge, was built in 1922 over the Boise River near Caldwell in Canyon County, Idaho. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 as a notable early-20th-century crossing in the Treasure Valley.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Coeur d'Alene — 2

Haunted Dining / Bar

Fort Ground Grill

Coeur d'Alene, ID

Fort Ground Grill operated in a 1907 building at 705 River Avenue in the Fort Grounds neighborhood of Coeur d'Alene, near the site of the former Fort Sherman army post. Before becoming a restaurant the building held Gray's Grocery and, earlier, a drug and confectioner's store; a tavern was added on the west side in 1959. The restaurant closed in 2022 and the building has stood empty since.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Roosevelt Inn

Coeur d'Alene, ID

The Roosevelt Inn occupies a three-story brick building constructed in 1905 as an elementary school in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. It served first through sixth grades until a larger school replaced it in 1971, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and reopened as a bed-and-breakfast in 1994. Longtime innkeepers John and Tina Hough ran it from 1999 until they retired and closed the business in May 2025.

$ All Ages Family: High

Idaho Falls — 2

Ghost Tour / Walking Tour

Ghost Walk Idaho Falls

Idaho Falls, ID

Ghost Walk Idaho Falls is a seasonal guided walking tour of historic downtown Idaho Falls operated by Kathy Nave, who describes herself as a psychic medium and has researched the district's history for years. The tour runs June through October on weekend nights, meeting at Civitan Plaza at 510 Park Ave, and is roughly 90 minutes for about $15 per person.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Aerial survey view of Rose Hill Cemetery

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Rose Hill Cemetery

Idaho Falls, ID

Rose Hill Cemetery is a municipal cemetery owned and maintained by the City of Idaho Falls. Two side-by-side burials at the cemetery's southwest end, one for an individual surnamed Wulff and another for an individual surnamed Wear, generated the long-running local Were-Wulff werewolf legend through the simple alphabetical coincidence of their names.

$ All Ages Family: High

Lewiston — 2

Other Dark Tourism Site

Lewiston Civic Theatre (Bollinger Building)

Lewiston, ID

The Anne Bollinger Performing Arts Center in Lewiston, Idaho was built in 1907 for the First Methodist Episcopal Church. The Lewiston Civic Theatre occupied the sandstone building from 1972 until it was condemned in 2016 following a roof truss failure. A private buyer acquired it in 2024 with plans to restore it as a community event space.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Dining / Bar

Morgan's Alley

Lewiston, ID

Morgan's Alley occupies a downtown Lewiston commercial building whose roots trace to the city's 1860s gold-rush boom. The block operated as a saloon and gentlemen's club, with the upper floors used for prostitution into the first half of the 20th century. It now houses shops and dining.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Moscow — 2

Theater / Performance Venue

Hartung Theatre (University of Idaho)

Moscow, ID

The Hartung Theatre opened in 1973 as the University of Idaho's mainstage performance space in Moscow. It seats 417 and remains the home of the university's Theatre Arts department productions and, in summers, the Idaho Repertory Theatre.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted House / Historic Home

McConnell Mansion (Latah County Historical Society Museum)

Moscow, ID

The McConnell Mansion is an 1886 Stick/Eastlake Victorian in Moscow built by William J. McConnell, a merchant who became a U.S. senator and the third governor of Idaho. The Latah County Historical Society has managed the house since 1968, and it opened as a museum in 1970. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

$ All Ages Family: High

Soda Springs — 2

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Enders Hotel

Soda Springs, ID

The Enders Hotel and adjoining building opened in 1917 as a $75,000 commercial development by the Enders brothers in Soda Springs, Idaho. Built in Early Commercial style, the 30-room hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 and operated as a hotel, museum, and restaurant until late October 2024.

$ All Ages Family: High

Open Graph image from www.sodaspringsid.com

Outdoor / Natural Site

Hooper Springs Park

Soda Springs, ID

Hooper Springs, located one mile north of Soda Springs in Caribou County, Idaho, is a naturally carbonated cold-water spring that Oregon Trail emigrants documented as one of the most remarkable natural curiosities along the western route. Sarah White Smith wrote that the water was 'excellent for baking bread' and that it 'tastes like soda water.' W.H. Hooper, a Salt Lake City banker and Utah's congressional delegate, made his summer home near the spring and promoted the Soda Springs region nationally after rail service arrived in 1882. Today the City of Soda Springs manages the site as a community park.

$ All Ages Family: High

Twin Falls — 2

True Crime Site

Sunset Memorial Park (Grave of Lyda Southard)

Twin Falls, ID

Sunset Memorial Park in Twin Falls is a public cemetery best known as the burial place of Lyda Southard (1892-1958), called 'Lady Bluebeard.' Convicted in the 1920s of poisoning a husband with arsenic and suspected in several other family deaths, she served time at the Old Idaho Penitentiary, was eventually pardoned, and died in 1958. Her sisters buried her under the alias 'Anna E. Shaw.'

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Historic 1914 Twin Falls Milling and Elevator Company Warehouse at 516 Hansen Street South, a contributing resource in the Twin Falls Warehouse Historic District in Twin Falls, Idaho.

Haunted Dining / Bar

Twin Falls Brewing Company (Historic Milling District)

Twin Falls, ID

The Twin Falls Milling and Elevator Company built a three-story milling building on Shoshone Street in 1909 and added six concrete grain silos in 1915. The complex was at one point the largest flour mill in the Western United States between Denver and Portland. Operations closed in 1992, and the buildings are now part of a downtown redevelopment district.

$ All Ages Family: High

Ammon — 1

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Ammon Cemetery

Ammon, ID

Ammon Cemetery serves the small community of Ammon, Idaho, on the eastern edge of the Idaho Falls metro in Bonneville County. The cemetery is a typical small-community burial ground; no archival record accessed during research substantiates a specific drowning death tied to the cemetery legend.

$ All Ages Family: High

Athol — 1

Exterior of the WWII Brig building at Farragut State Park, Idaho

Museum / Historical Site

The Museum at the Brig, Farragut State Park

Athol, ID

The Brig at Farragut State Park is the only surviving building of the 776 structures that once made up the Farragut Naval Training Station, where nearly 300,000 sailors completed boot camp during World War II. Built in 1942 as the base detention center, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and operates seasonally as a museum.

$ All Ages Family: High

Blackfoot — 1

Asylum / Hospital

Idaho State Hospital South Cemetery

Blackfoot, ID

Opened in 1886 as the Idaho State Insane Asylum, State Hospital South in Blackfoot is Idaho's first state psychiatric institution. In 1889, a fire killed at least two patients and left up to seven missing. The campus includes underground tunnels built in the early 1900s and an on-grounds patient cemetery used through the mid-twentieth century. The hospital continues to operate under the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.

$ All Ages Family: High

Custer — 1

Outdoor / Natural Site

Custer Ghost Town

Custer, ID

Custer was founded in 1879 by gold prospectors at the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River in central Idaho. The mining town reached a peak population of 600 in 1896 and was abandoned by 1910. Custer, the adjacent town of Bonanza, and the Yankee Fork Dredge are preserved today by the Salmon-Challis National Forest and the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation.

$ All Ages Family: High

Hansen — 1

The Rock Creek (Stricker) Store and Stage Station near Hansen, Twin Falls County, Idaho, a historic 1865 Oregon Trail trading post photographed in 2007

Museum / Historical Site

Rock Creek Station and Stricker Homesite

Hansen, ID

Rock Creek Station was established in 1865 as a store and stagecoach stop where the Oregon Trail met the Kelton Freight Road, the first trading post between Fort Hall and Fort Boise. Herman Stricker bought the store in 1876 and, with his wife Lucy Walgamott Stricker, ran it until 1897. The site is owned by the Idaho State Historical Society and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

$ All Ages Family: High

Idaho City — 1

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Pioneer Cemetery (Boot Hill)

Idaho City, ID

The Pioneer Cemetery, locally nicknamed Boot Hill, was established in early 1863 to serve Idaho City during the Boise Basin gold rush. It holds an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 graves across about forty timbered acres, though only roughly 200 markers still stand; most were wooden and lost to repeated fires. Of the cemetery's first 200 recorded deaths, only 28 were from natural causes, a figure local historians cite as evidence of how violent the boomtown was.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Kellogg — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Sunshine Miners Memorial

Kellogg, ID

On May 2, 1972, fire broke out inside Idaho's Sunshine Mine — then the largest silver producer in the United States — and killed 91 men from carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide inhalation. The exact ignition point was never determined. The disaster remains America's deadliest silver-mine accident. A memorial at Kellogg features 91 miniature tombstones and a 13-foot steel miner statue; an annual ceremony on May 2 marks the anniversary.

$ All Ages Family: High

Marsing — 1

Aerial survey view of Marsing-Homedale Cemetery

Aerial survey · USDA NAIP

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Marsing-Homedale Cemetery

Marsing, ID

Marsing-Homedale Cemetery is a 1960s-era joint burying ground for the farming communities of Marsing and Homedale in Owyhee County, Idaho, situated on Cemetery Road midway between the two towns. The site holds 2,332 documented memorials and serves descendants of the early-20th-century Snake River bench agricultural settlements.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Montpelier — 1

True Crime Site

Butch Cassidy Museum at the Bank of Montpelier

Montpelier, ID

The Bank of Montpelier, chartered in 1891 as one of Idaho's earliest banks, was robbed on August 13, 1896 by Butch Cassidy and two accomplices. The restored 1890s building is the last standing bank robbed by Cassidy's gang and now operates as a seasonal museum.

$ All Ages Family: High

Murtaugh — 1

Haunted Dining / Bar

Iron Rail Bar & Grill (formerly Sidewinders)

Murtaugh, ID

The Iron Rail Bar & Grill in Murtaugh, Idaho operates out of a building constructed around 1908, when the town served workers from the nearby Milner Dam irrigation project and the Union Pacific Railroad. For over a century the structure functioned as the community's central gathering point — saloon, message center, and occasional gambling hall during the region's agricultural development era.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Rexburg — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Teton Flood Museum (Rexburg)

Rexburg, ID

The Museum of Rexburg, established in 1981 in the basement of the historic Rexburg Tabernacle, is known for its extensive Teton Flood collection. On June 5, 1976, the Teton Dam failed and sent floodwaters across Rexburg, Sugar City, and neighboring communities, killing eleven people and destroying thousands of head of livestock.

$ All Ages Family: High

Shoshone — 1

Outdoor / Natural Site

Shoshone Ice Caves

Shoshone, ID

Shoshone Ice Caves are a roughly 1,000-foot lava tube north of Shoshone, Idaho, that stays below freezing year-round thanks to trapped winter air and thick basalt walls. The town used the cave as an ice source starting in the 1880s; the Robinson family bought it in the 1950s, repaired damage from earlier overdevelopment, and reopened it as a tourist attraction by 1962.

$ All Ages Family: High

Silver City — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Historic Idaho Hotel

Silver City, ID

The Idaho Hotel began in 1866 as a three-story building. When Silver City became the Owyhee County seat that year, part of an earlier hotel in nearby Ruby City was dismantled and hauled by oxen-pulled sleds to Silver City and reassembled. Expanded over the following decades, the hotel closed around 1942, was bought and restored beginning in 1972 by Edward Jagels, and passed to new owners in 2001. It is part of the Silver City Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.

$$ All Ages Family: Low

Teton — 1

Theatrical Haunted Attraction

The Haunted Mill

Teton, ID

The Teton Flour Mill was built in 1890 by James Siddoway, Robert Siddoway, and James Briggs and produced its first Old Faithful Flour in 1892. The mill later supplied culinary water and became the electrical facility Teton Light & Power around 1906, was damaged in the 1976 Teton Dam flood, ran as a hydroelectric plant from 1984 until 1994, and opened as The Haunted Mill attraction in 1997.

$$ Minimum 13 Family: Not Recommended

Wallace — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Oasis Bordello Museum

Wallace, ID

The Bi-Metallic Building at 605 Cedar Street opened in 1895 as a hotel and saloon. By the mid-20th century it housed the Oasis Rooms, one of several brothels along Wallace's main street. The business ran until June 1988, when the staff left abruptly after a tipped-off federal raid and never came back. A local buyer acquired the building in 1993 and opened it as a museum, preserved as the women had left it.

$ All Ages Family: High

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