42 haunted destinations cataloged across New Hampshire, spanning 14 counties. The collection features cemetery, haunted hotel, and museum — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Rye, NH
Star Island is a 38-acre island in the Isles of Shoals, roughly ten miles off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, settled by fishing families in the 1600s and developed as a resort with the 1876 construction of the Oceanic Hotel. Since 1915 the nonprofit Star Island Corporation has operated the hotel and island as a seasonal conference and retreat center.
Bretton Woods, NH
The Omni Mount Washington Resort opened on July 28, 1902, as a Spanish Renaissance grand hotel built by coal and railroad magnate Joseph Stickney for $1.7 million. Two hundred fifty Italian artisans constructed the property, and in July 1944 it hosted the Bretton Woods Conference, which established the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Jackson, NH
Cyrus and Marcia Gale opened their Eagle Mountain Farm as a guest house in 1849, expanding it by the 1890s into Eagle Hall and Eagle Mountain House, lodging for 125 guests. Fire destroyed both buildings in May 1915. The Gales' son, Arthur Pinkham Gale, opened the current Colonial Revival hotel on July 4, 1916, later adding an elevator, a 1928-29 expansion, and a nine-hole golf course on the former pasture in 1931.
West Chesterfield, NH
Antoinette Bramare, a Paris-born Broadway costume designer known as Madame Sherri, built an eccentric stone-and-timber summer house on 600 acres in Chesterfield starting in 1929 and used it for lavish parties until her finances collapsed; it burned in 1962, and the surviving stone staircase and foundation now anchor the 513-acre Madame Sherri Forest.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPHampton, NH
Eunice 'Goody' Cole of Hampton, New Hampshire, was the only person ever convicted of witchcraft in New Hampshire's history. Tried three times between 1656 and 1680, she was whipped, imprisoned, and stripped of her citizenship before dying in 1680. A memorial boulder was placed at Tuck Field in 1963; a named plaque was added in 2013.
Manchester, NH
The Palace Theatre opened on April 9, 1915, as a 'fireproof and air-conditioned' first-class vaudeville and movie house. Greek immigrant Victor Charas commissioned the design from Leon Lempert & Son with general contractor Henry Macropol; construction took under a year. The building, also known historically as the Athens Building, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and survived a 1984 Hanover Street fire that destroyed much of the block. It now operates as Manchester's flagship 880-seat regional performing-arts venue.
Portsmouth, NH
Sea captain and merchant Gregory Purcell built the Georgian house at 43 Middle Street in Portsmouth in 1758. After his death, his widow ran it as a boarding house, and the Revolutionary naval commander John Paul Jones boarded there in 1777 and again in 1781-82 while overseeing shipbuilding in the harbor. The Portsmouth Historical Society has operated the house as a museum since 1920; it is a National Historic Landmark.
Portsmouth, NH
The mansion at 346 Pleasant Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire was built around 1763 by Mark H. Wentworth as a wedding gift for his daughter. New Hampshire's last Royal Governor, John Wentworth, lived there until the start of the Revolution. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building was adapted as an elder care facility by Wentworth descendants in 1911 and has operated continuously in that role.
Portsmouth, NH
Point of Graves is the oldest surviving burial ground in Portsmouth and among the oldest in New Hampshire. Captain John Pickering II gave a half-acre for burials, and the earliest legible stone dates to 1682. About 125 markers remain, including graves of the Wentworth, Vaughan, Rogers, and Lear families, with carving attributed to noted early New England gravestone cutters.
Portsmouth, NH
New England Curiosities is Portsmouth, New Hampshire's longest-running ghost tour operator, founded in 2002 by author and guide Roxie Zwicker, who has led local ghost and history tours since 1993.
Portsmouth, NH
John E. Sise, a Portsmouth insurance agent and longtime proprietor of the Portsmouth Athenaeum, built the Queen Anne mansion at 40 Court Street in 1881. His daughter Mabel later owned the house with her husband, South Church minister Alfred Gooding, before the property passed through decades of commercial use. It reopened as the 34-room Sise Inn in 1986 and, after a 2013 sale, as the 32-room Hotel Portsmouth.
Portsmouth, NH
The Music Hall opened on Chestnut Street in Portsmouth on January 30, 1878, after a fire on Christmas Eve 1876 destroyed the city's previous entertainment venue. The site had a long institutional history before the theater: it held a Baptist meetinghouse and, earlier, what local accounts describe as one of the country's first almshouses and a prison. The Music Hall is the oldest operating theater in New Hampshire and presents music, comedy, readings, and film to roughly 130,000 visitors a year.
Portsmouth, NH
US Ghost Adventures operates its Portsmouth program under the local brand Portsmouth Ghosts (also referred to in the operator's own copy as Portsmouth Haunts), running a nightly downtown walking tour covering the Sheafe Street Inn, Point of Graves Burial Ground, and the Portsmouth Music Hall.
Concord, NH
The Concord Public Library was authorized by a city ordinance in 1855 and opened two years later on the second floor of what is now the Merrimack County Court House. After two further moves, the library opened at its current Green Street location in 1940. It remains Concord's main public library.
Concord, NH
The building at 1 Bicentennial Square in Concord, New Hampshire served as the Concord Police Department headquarters and city jail from 1890 to 1975. When it was converted into a Margaritas Mexican Restaurant, the original jail cells were preserved, and it remains the only Margaritas location where guests can dine inside the cells.
Concord, NH
Old North Cemetery was established in 1730 and is Concord's oldest burial ground. President Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth U.S. president, is buried here in the Minot Enclosure alongside his wife Jane and two of their sons. The roughly 5.85-acre cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
Concord, NH
The Barley House Restaurant & Tavern sits at 132 North Main Street in downtown Concord, New Hampshire, directly across from the gold-domed State House. The building is part of Concord's historic Main Street commercial row, and the restaurant has operated as a downtown gathering spot serving lunch, dinner, and drinks in its main dining room and the adjoining B-Lounge.
Keene, NH
Huntress Hall is a 1926 residence hall on the Keene State College campus in Keene, New Hampshire, named for Harriet Lane Huntress (1860-1922). Huntress was New Hampshire's deputy superintendent of public instruction, the first woman in New England appointed to such a post, and a champion of the Keene Normal School that became Keene State College. The hall was originally a women's dormitory.
Keene, NH
The Colonial Theatre opened on January 29, 1924, in downtown Keene, New Hampshire, under owner Charles Baldwin, debuting with the silent film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Through the 1920s and 1930s it presented vaudeville, opera, theater, and film. After restoration, it operates today as a nonprofit performing-arts venue at 95 Main Street.
Keene, NH
Woodland Cemetery in Keene, New Hampshire (sometimes called Woodlawn locally), is the largest cemetery in the city, located on Beaver Street and merging into the adjacent Greenlawn Cemetery a block off Washington Street. The Sumner Knight Memorial Chapel stands on the grounds; Section 16 is the historically pauper section without headstones. The City of Keene maintains the cemetery and publishes a multi-page history in the resource by Esther P. Cook, available through the City Clerk's office.
Keene, NH
Isaac Wyman, a veteran of the French and Indian War, built the tavern at 339 Main Street in Keene in 1762 and ran it as a public house for about thirty years. The first meeting of the trustees of Dartmouth College was held here in 1770, and at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War the tavern served as a muster ground for local militia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and is operated as a museum by the Historical Society of Cheshire County.
Dover, NH
Pine Hill Cemetery on Central Avenue in Dover, New Hampshire, is a historic burial ground whose oldest surviving stones date to the 1730s. It is distinct from the Pine Hill (Blood) Cemetery in Hollis. The Woodman Museum, Dover's history and natural-science museum, runs a long-standing seasonal walking tour, 'Voices from the Cemetery,' in which actors portray people buried there.
Dover, NH
The Dover Mills grew from the Dover Cotton Factory, founded in 1812 on the Cocheco River, which became the Cocheco Manufacturing Company. On January 26, 1907, a fire broke out in Mill No. 1, where the sprinkler system was under repair; four workers died and the building was a million-dollar loss. The complex was rebuilt in 1908 and has since been restored as mixed-use offices and apartments.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPHollis, NH
Pine Hill Cemetery in Hollis, New Hampshire, was donated by Benjamin Parker Jr. in 1769 and is one of the older Hillsborough County burial grounds. The cemetery's better-known nickname, Blood Cemetery, derives from the prominent Blood family plot, including the 1867 grave of Abel Blood, a Christian philanthropist whose memorable surname helped seed the cemetery's modern folklore.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPHollis, NH
Pine Hill Cemetery in Hollis, New Hampshire, was donated to the town by Benjamin Parker Jr. in 1769 and remains an active municipal burial ground. The Blood family plot near the center of the cemetery gave rise to the unofficial name "Blood Cemetery," by which the site is more widely known in New England folklore.
Laconia, NH
The Colonial Theatre opened on Main Street in Laconia in 1914, a roughly 1,200-seat house designed for movies and vaudeville. It ran as a cinema until 2002, was later carved into a multiplex, and sat vacant before a 2016-2021 restoration reversed the subdivision and reopened it as a single-auditorium performing-arts venue of about 750 seats in August 2021.
Laconia, NH
Built 1880 as the Lakeside House, later renamed the Lakeside Hotel under Edward T. Milton (owner 1913-1925) and Alberic Favreau (early 1940s). Became the Winnipesaukee Marketplace in 1986. The distinctive elevated footbridge over the railroad tracks was built in 1917.
Manchester, NH
The R.G. Sullivan 7-20-4 Cigar Factory was built in 1906 at 175 Canal Street in Manchester by Roger G. Sullivan (1854-1918). At its peak the factory employed roughly 400 workers and produced about 12 million cigars per year, making it one of the largest cigar manufacturers in the country. The plant survived a 1947 fire, closed in 1963, and the seven-story building was converted to Class A office space in 1986.
Manchester, NH
Valley Cemetery was established in 1841 on a 20-acre parcel donated to the City of Manchester by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in 1840. Designed as a Victorian-era garden cemetery, it was listed on the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places in 2003 and on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The grounds include the 1885 white-marble Frederick Smyth Mausoleum and a pauper's section that received mass burials during 19th-century cholera outbreaks.
Durham, NH
The Three Chimneys Inn in Durham, New Hampshire occupies a homestead built in 1649 by Valentine Hill, a 17th-century New England merchant and entrepreneur. Hill's son Nathaniel later expanded the original single-story home into a three-story colonial. The inn is on the National Register of Historic Places and operates as a boutique hotel with the ffrost Sawyer Tavern and Maples Dining Room.
Exeter, NH
The American Independence Museum in Exeter, New Hampshire, centers on the 1721 Ladd-Gilman House, a National Historic Landmark, and the 1775 Folsom Tavern, built by Colonel Samuel Folsom. George Washington stopped at the tavern in 1789. The museum holds a Dunlap Broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence, discovered in 1985.
Merrimack, NH
The building at 304 Daniel Webster Highway in Merrimack, New Hampshire began as the home of Edward Goldstone Lutwyche, a Loyalist whose property was seized during the American Revolution. Dr. Matthew Thornton, a New Hampshire signer of the Declaration of Independence, purchased the confiscated estate at auction and later passed it to his son James, who operated it as a tavern. James Thornton died by suicide in 1817 — the Farmer's Cabinet reported his death on July 5 of that year — and the building has changed hands and names several times since.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPMilford, NH
Lorden Plaza at 614 Nashua Street in Milford, New Hampshire occupies the former site of the Lorden Lumber yard. The 168,000-square-foot shopping center sits at the intersection of State Routes 101 and 101A and is anchored by a Shaw's Supermarket.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPNashua, NH
Gilson Road Cemetery is a small family burial ground in Nashua, New Hampshire, with stones dating to the early 1800s. The most distinctive marker is that of Walter Gilson, who died in 1811 at the age of three; the stone has a round hole drilled through it. The cemetery has been documented in regional folklore writing for several decades.
New Castle, NH
Portsmouth Harbor Light was established in 1771 at Fort William and Mary on New Castle Island, making it one of the oldest continually operating lighthouses in the United States. The current cast-iron tower dates to 1878. On July 4, 1809, an accidental explosion at the adjacent Fort Constitution killed ten soldiers. The lighthouse's most celebrated keeper was Joshua Card, who served from 1869 to 1904 — 35 years — and became the subject of reported post-death sightings.
Rindge, NH
The Manor sits on land owned by Captain Asa Brewer (1837-1853) and later Zachariah Whitney, whose son sold it in 1902 to wealthy mahogany importer George D. Emory, who built the grand Manor House to entertain guests. After passing through several owners it became Davard's Manor Inn in 1948 and, in 1962, the founding building of Franklin Pierce College under Frank S. DiPietro.
Rye, NH
Ray's Seafood Restaurant at 1677 Ocean Boulevard in Rye, New Hampshire has operated for over 50 years and is recognized as one of the oldest continually running seafood restaurants on the state's Seacoast. The building's earlier residential use in the 1960s included tenants named Goldie and her sister Blanche, whose time in the building is the origin of the property's paranormal reputation.
Sanbornton, NH
Steele Hill Resort at 516 Steele Hill Road in Sanbornton, New Hampshire is a full-service resort hotel in New Hampshire's Lakes Region. The property is connected to an unsolved homicide: Francis 'Frank' J. Sidoti was shot to death in Sanbornton on September 4, 1977, a case that remains open with the New Hampshire Department of Justice Cold Case Unit. Staff have associated the resort's paranormal reputation with this unresolved death.
Strafford, NH
Bow Lake, originally known as Bow Pond, spans 1,149 acres across Strafford and Northwood in eastern New Hampshire. The water body was dramatically enlarged in 1823 when the Dover Manufacturing Company constructed a dam to provide power to downstream mills. By the 19th century, the lake supported extensive milling operations including gristmills and sawmills.
Tilton, NH
Built in 1875 in downtown Tilton, New Hampshire, the inn has hosted guests including Thomas Edison and Henry Ford over its history and has survived three major fires roughly a century apart. It now operates as the Tilton Inn with themed guest rooms and a first-floor restaurant and pub.
Whitefield, NH
A stagecoach accident in 1865 led William and Mary Jane Dodge to open the Mountain View House the following summer. The Dodge family expanded and ran the hotel for 113 years before selling in 1979; it closed in 1986, reopened in 2002 after a $20 million restoration as Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPWilton, NH
Vale End Cemetery is a historic burying ground in north-central Wilton, New Hampshire, on Isaac Frye Highway. Among its earliest interments is Mary Ritter Spaulding, first wife of Captain Isaac Spaulding, who died in 1808 at age 35 and shares a headstone with Isaac's second wife, also named Mary. The cemetery dates to the early settlement of Wilton in Hillsborough County.