21 haunted destinations cataloged across North Dakota, spanning 11 counties. The collection features museum, haunted dining, and outdoor — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Abercrombie, ND
Fort Abercrombie was established in 1857 as the first permanent United States military post in what is now North Dakota and was nicknamed the Gateway to the Dakotas. During the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, the fort withstood a siege of more than six weeks. Today the State Historical Society of North Dakota operates the site, including reconstructed blockhouses and the original guardhouse.
Mandan, ND
Fort Abraham Lincoln was established in 1872 on the west bank of the Missouri River near present-day Mandan, North Dakota. Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer arrived in 1873 and commanded the fort until June 1876, when the 7th Cavalry departed for the campaign that ended at the Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25–26, 1876. Custer and 268 men died in that engagement. The fort was decommissioned in 1891; North Dakota State Parks reconstructed the Custer House and key fort structures in 1989.
Harvey, ND
Harvey Public Library in Harvey, North Dakota, opened in 1990 on the site of the former Bentz residence, where Sophia Eberlein — a German-Russian immigrant and widow of local businessman Hugo Eberlein — was struck with a claw hammer and killed by her second husband, Jacob Bentz, on October 2, 1931. Bentz attempted to destroy the evidence by burning her body outside city limits. He was identified by his stepdaughters, confessed during investigation, and was sentenced to life in prison.
Fargo, ND
The Northern School Supply warehouse was built around 1910 at 650 NP Avenue in downtown Fargo as a farm implement warehouse and dealership. The four-story, 77,000-square-foot post-and-beam structure operated as a school supply distribution center until Northern School Supply closed in 1997. Saved from demolition in 2000 through a donation by Doug Burgum, the building was transferred to the NDSU Development Foundation and renamed Renaissance Hall in 2008.
Dickinson, ND
St. Joseph's Hospital was founded in Dickinson, North Dakota in 1912 by six Swiss nuns of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross at the request of Bishop Vincent Wehrle. The order operated the hospital until 1987. It later became CHI St. Joseph's Health, was renamed CHI St. Alexius in 2016, and the original building was retired when a new medical center opened in 2014. The former hospital is now St. Joe's Plaza.
Bismarck, ND
Built 1910-1911 by Edward G. Patterson and originally named the McKenzie Hotel after Bismarck political boss Alexander McKenzie, the ten-story Patterson Hotel was the tallest building in Bismarck on completion. The Peacock Alley restaurant opened in the hotel's ground floor in 1933, just after the end of Prohibition. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and converted to senior housing in the 1970s while the restaurant remained.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPFargo, ND
The rail corridor running through Fargo, North Dakota, and crossing into Moorhead, Minnesota, has served as a freight and passenger route through the Red River Valley for over a century. The regional legend attached to it describes a woman who attempted to board a moving train along this corridor and was dragged to her death.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPFargo, ND
Cass County purchased farmland two miles north of Fargo in 1895 and established the Cass County Hospital and Poor Farm, a facility for residents without family or financial means. When the facility closed in 1973 and was demolished, the grounds held an estimated 1,000 unmarked graves across three cemeteries. Approximately 300 burials were relocated in 1985 due to neglect; some remain in place. The property became Trollwood Park and hosted a performing arts school whose outdoor performances coincided with the most frequently reported paranormal activity.
Fargo, ND
The 'Forgotten Frost & Forbidden Footsteps of Fargo Ghost Tour' is a downtown Fargo walking tour operated by US Ghost Adventures, a national ghost-tour company. It runs nightly, year-round, covering roughly a mile and about an hour, and is listed on the official North Dakota tourism site.
Fargo, ND
The Fargo Theatre opened on Broadway on March 15, 1926, as an Art Deco movie palace with a vaudeville stage and a Wurlitzer organ. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 21, 1982, restored, and reopened on March 20, 1999. It is operated today by the nonprofit Fargo Theatre Management Corporation as a working cinema and live-event venue.
Fargo, ND
The VIP Room occupies the basement of the Block Six building at 624 Main Avenue in downtown Fargo, the former deLendrecie's Department Store. Onesine Joassin deLendrecie, a Canadian immigrant, arrived in Fargo in 1879 and built his dry-goods business on the site. The current building was erected in 1894, with upper floors added in 1904, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Bismarck, ND
Built in 1884 as the Bismarck residence of businessman Asa Fisher, the Stick-style Victorian mansion was purchased by the State of North Dakota in 1893 for $5,000 and served as the official governor's residence through twenty governors until 1960. After fifteen years as Health Department offices, it was transferred to the State Historical Society in 1975 and opened to the public as a state historic site in 1983.
Bismarck, ND
Completed in 1924 at a cost of $450,000, the Liberty Memorial Building was the first major addition to the North Dakota Capitol grounds, dedicated to North Dakotans who served in World War I. Designed by the Fargo and Bismarck firm Keith & Kurke in a Classical federal style, it housed the State Historical Society of North Dakota and the state museum until those collections moved to the new Heritage Center in 1981. It now houses the North Dakota State Library.
Bismarck, ND
The Downtown Bismarck Haunted History Tour is a seasonal walking tour operated by URL Radio and led by Stacy Sturm. It visits roughly ten historic downtown sites and pairs each with documented history from the city's rough early decades, when downtown blocks were known as 'Murderers Gulch' and 'Bloody 4th.' The tour ends at the tunnels beneath downtown Bismarck.
Medora, ND
The Rough Riders Hotel was built in 1884-1885 by George Fitzgerald in the frontier town of Medora, North Dakota. Originally named the Metropolitan, it was renamed in 1903 to honor Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, the volunteer cavalry regiment that fought in the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt delivered a speech from the hotel's balcony that same year.
Medora, ND
The Chateau de Mores was built in 1883 as a summer home and hunting lodge by Antoine de Vallombrosa, the Marquis de Morès, a French aristocrat who founded the town of Medora and named it for his wife, Medora von Hoffman. The two-story, 26-room frame house overlooks the Little Missouri River in the North Dakota Badlands. The Marquis built a short-lived cattle and meatpacking enterprise in Medora in the 1880s; after it failed, the family left the region. The Chateau is now operated as a museum by the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Minot, ND
Saul's Speakeasy is an underground 1920s-style bar that opened in downtown Minot in September 2018. It occupies space in an older downtown building beneath the former Shark's Men's Store, the clothing shop that Saul Shark ran upstairs from the 1940s into the 1970s. The bar was created as a tribute to Shark, a well-known local clothier, and operates with no street signage, requiring patrons to text for directions and a password.
Minot, ND
Urban Winery is a downtown Minot winery and art gallery at 6 Main Street North, opened around 2016 by Eric Hansen. It combines wine tasting, bottling, and a gallery in a historic downtown building in the area once nicknamed 'Little Chicago' for its early-twentieth-century crime and bootlegging. Each fall the building's basement is run as a ticketed haunted house in partnership with the Minot Area Council of the Arts.
Fort Totten, ND
Fort Totten was constructed between 1867 and 1873 on the Spirit Lake Reservation in what is now Benson County, North Dakota. As a frontier military post it served the northern plains during the post-Civil War period of westward expansion. In 1891 the Army transferred the fort to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which converted it into a federal boarding school for Native American children — one of a network of such institutions that operated into the twentieth century and caused significant harm to Indigenous families and communities through forced separation and the suppression of language and culture. Children died at the school, primarily from tuberculosis. The fort became a North Dakota state historic site in 1960 and is among the best-preserved frontier-era military installations in the northern plains, with all 16 original buildings still standing.
Grand Forks, ND
The Empire Arts Center occupies a downtown Grand Forks building that opened in November 1919 as the New Grand Theatre, a 'movie palace' praised at its grand opening for its appointments. After decades as a cinema, the building was restored and reopened in 1998 as a nonprofit performing-arts center. It now welcomes tens of thousands of visitors a year for concerts, theater, dance, and film.
West Fargo, ND
Bonanzaville, USA is an open-air pioneer-village museum on 12 acres in West Fargo, operated by the Cass County Historical Society. It assembles 41 historic buildings — including Fargo's first house, a saloon, hotel, schoolhouse, church, and mercantile — and holds more than 400,000 artifacts. Among the relocated structures is the Houston House, the home of David Henderson Houston, the Dakota Territory inventor who patented the first roll film for cameras.