Haunted Rhode Island

38 haunted destinations cataloged across Rhode Island, spanning 10 counties. The collection features museum, haunted house, and cemetery — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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Barnaby Castle — turreted Second Empire mansion at 299 Broadway, Providence, RI.

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Haunted House / Historic Home

Barnaby Castle (Jerothmul B. Barnaby House)

Providence, RI

Barnaby Castle is an elaborate 2½-story Victorian mansion built in 1875 and expanded in 1888 for retail magnate Jerothmul B. Barnaby, designed by Providence architects Stone, Carpenter & Willson. The house is forever linked to the 1891 murder of Josephine Barnaby, the first prosecuted murder-by-mail in U.S. history. The mansion hosts an annual 'Halloween at the Castle' event and is featured by Doors Open RI.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

John Hay Library — Brown University's Beaux-Arts special-collections library on Prospect Street.

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Museum / Historical Site

John Hay Library, Brown University

Providence, RI

The John Hay Library is Brown University's principal repository for rare books, manuscripts, and university archives. Built in 1910 in the Beaux-Arts style and named for John Hay, Lincoln's private secretary and later Secretary of State, the library holds the world's largest H.P. Lovecraft archive, the Damon Collection of occult literature, and four confirmed anthropodermic (human-skin-bound) books.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Ladd Observatory — Brown University's 1891 astronomical observatory at Doyle Avenue and Hope Street, Providence.

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Museum / Historical Site

Ladd Observatory

Providence, RI

Ladd Observatory is Brown University's astronomical observatory at the corner of Doyle Avenue and Hope Street, opened October 21, 1891 with a $55,000 gift from former Rhode Island Governor Herbert Warren Ladd. It houses a 12-inch Brashear refractor and original 19th-century scientific instruments. The first director was astronomy professor Winslow Upton.

$ All Ages Family: High

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Battlefield / Military Site

Great Swamp Fight Monument

South Kingstown, RI

On December 19, 1675, colonial forces from Plymouth, Connecticut, and Massachusetts Bay Colonies attacked the main Narragansett winter settlement in what is now South Kingstown, Rhode Island, during King Philip's War. As many as 600 Narragansett people were killed, many burned alive when colonial troops set fire to the encampment. Historians have described it as one of the most brutal engagements in New England history. A granite obelisk erected in 1906 marks the site.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Georgian-era brick facade of the Old State House at 150 Benefit Street, Providence, Rhode Island

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Museum / Historical Site

Old State House (Providence Colony House)

Providence, RI

The Old State House at 150 Benefit Street is a Georgian-era brick colonial statehouse completed in 1762 to replace a 1732 building destroyed by fire. It was one of five Rhode Island colonial statehouses that hosted the rotating colonial legislature. On May 4, 1776, the General Assembly meeting here renounced allegiance to King George III, making Rhode Island the first colony to declare independence — two months before the Declaration of Independence.

$ All Ages Family: High

Brown University Faculty Club — Italianate mansion at 1 Magee Street, Providence, RI.

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Haunted House / Historic Home

Brown University Faculty Club (Zachariah Allen House)

Providence, RI

The Brown University Faculty Club occupies the former mansion of textile industrialist Zachariah Allen (1795-1882), built in the mid-19th century in Italianate style. Brown University acquired the building in 1938 and converted it to its Faculty Club, where it has served Brown's faculty, staff, and alumni community for nearly a century.

$$ All Ages Family: High

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Museum / Historical Site

Annmary Brown Memorial

Providence, RI

The Annmary Brown Memorial is a windowless brick library, art gallery, and mausoleum at 21 Brown Street, designed by Providence architect Norman Isham and built 1903-1907 by Civil War General Rush Christopher Hawkins as a memorial to his wife Annmary Brown, who died in 1903. Both Annmary Brown and General Hawkins are interred in the building. It is now operated by the Brown University Library.

$ All Ages Family: High

Outdoor / Natural Site

Benefit Street

Providence, RI

Benefit Street is a historic thoroughfare in Providence's East Side, lined with 18th and 19th-century homes and institutions. The street holds literary significance through Edgar Allan Poe's 1848 engagement to Providence resident Sarah Helen Whitman, whom he met at 88 Benefit Street. Their courtship included time spent at the Providence Athenaeum library.

$ All Ages Family: High

Federal-style Edward Dexter House at 72 Waterman Street, Providence, Rhode Island

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Haunted House / Historic Home

Edward Dexter House (RISD Dexter House)

Providence, RI

The Edward Dexter House is a Federal-style wood-frame mansion built 1795-1797 originally at the corner of George and Prospect Streets. In 1860 the house was sawed in half and moved in two sections to its current location at 72 Waterman Street. It has been owned by the Rhode Island School of Design and used variously as administrative space and student housing.

$ All Ages Family: High

Beaux-Arts facade of the Providence Biltmore Hotel (now Graduate Providence) at 11 Dorrance Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Graduate Providence (Providence Biltmore Hotel)

Providence, RI

The Providence Biltmore opened in 1922 as a Beaux-Arts hotel designed by New York firm Warren & Wetmore, who also designed Grand Central Terminal. It became Rhode Island's tallest building upon completion and was part of the Bowman-Biltmore chain. Acquired by AJ Capital Partners in 2017 and renovated, it now operates as the Graduate Providence.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Federal-style Samuel B. Mumford House at 65 Prospect Street, H.P. Lovecraft's final residence, Providence, Rhode Island

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Haunted House / Historic Home

H.P. Lovecraft House (Samuel B. Mumford House)

Providence, RI

The Samuel B. Mumford House is a Federal-style 1825 private residence with a monitor-on-hip roof and Gothic-colonette-framed entrance. It was originally located at 66 College Street and moved to 65 Prospect Street in the late 1950s when Brown University expanded onto its former lot. H.P. Lovecraft lived here from May 1933 until shortly before his death in March 1937.

$ All Ages Family: High

Three-story wood-frame Nightingale-Brown House at 357 Benefit Street, Providence, Rhode Island

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Museum / Historical Site

Nightingale-Brown House

Providence, RI

The Nightingale-Brown House at 357 Benefit Street is a three-story wood-frame mansion built 1791-1792 for Colonel Joseph Nightingale. It was the seat of the Brown family from 1814 to 1985 and is described as one of the largest surviving American 18th-century wood-frame structures. The building is now home to Brown University's John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Providence Athenaeum

Providence, RI

The Providence Athenaeum is a membership library founded in 1836 and housed since 1838 in a Greek Revival building at 251 Benefit Street designed by William Strickland. It is one of the oldest libraries of its kind in the United States and is closely associated with the 1848 courtship between Edgar Allan Poe and Providence poet Sarah Helen Whitman.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Providence City Hall

Providence, RI

Providence City Hall is a Second Empire municipal building completed in 1878 from designs by architect Samuel J.F. Thayer. Construction began in 1875 under Mayor Thomas A. Doyle, the city's longest-serving 19th-century mayor. The building remains in use as the seat of Providence city government.

$ All Ages Family: High

Colonial facade of the Sarah Helen Whitman House at 88 Benefit Street, Providence, Rhode Island

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Haunted House / Historic Home

Sarah Helen Whitman House

Providence, RI

Built between 1783 and 1794 and originally known as the John Reynolds House, 88 Benefit Street was rented from 1816 by Anna Power, mother of poet Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878). It is best known as the site of Whitman's 1848 courtship with Edgar Allan Poe, including the rose-garden meeting that inspired Poe's second poem titled 'To Helen.' The house has been owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island since 1959 and remains a private residence.

$ All Ages Family: High

Exterior view of the colonial Stephen Harris House (the 'Shunned House') at 135 Benefit Street, Providence, Rhode Island, fictionalized in H.P. Lovecraft's 1924 novelette

Haunted House / Historic Home

The Shunned House (Stephen Harris House)

Providence, RI

The Stephen Harris House at 135 Benefit Street is a colonial-era Providence residence built around 1763. According to local tradition, it was constructed near or atop a former Huguenot burial ground, and a series of misfortunes — failed shipping ventures and multiple stillbirths — befell the Harris family in the early 19th century. H.P. Lovecraft fictionalized the dwelling in his 1924 novelette 'The Shunned House.'

$ All Ages Family: High

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Swan Point Cemetery

Providence, RI

Swan Point Cemetery was established in 1846 as one of the United States' earliest garden cemeteries, on an initial 60-acre tract along the Seekonk River in Providence's East Side. Subsequent land acquisitions expanded it to its current 200 acres. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 and contains roughly 40,000 interments, including H.P. Lovecraft.

$ All Ages Family: High

Georgian colonial brick facade of University Hall at Brown University, completed 1770, viewed from the College Green, Providence, Rhode Island

Other Dark Tourism Site

University Hall, Brown University

Providence, RI

University Hall is the oldest building on the Brown University campus, completed in 1770 as the College Edifice. It served as American and French army barracks and hospital during the Revolutionary War. Construction involved the labor of enslaved Africans, including men documented in Brown's records as 'Pero,' 'Mary Young's Negro Man,' 'Earle's Negro,' and 'Abraham'; the building's history is part of Brown's institutional reckoning with its ties to slavery and the slave trade.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Carrie Tower — 95-foot Italian Renaissance memorial clock tower on Brown University's Front Green, Providence, RI.

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Carrie Tower, Brown University

Providence, RI

Carrie Tower is a 95-foot Italian Renaissance brick-and-limestone clock tower on Brown University's Front Green, designed by Boston architect Guy Lowell and dedicated in 1904. It was a gift to Brown from Paul Bajnotti of Turin, Italy as a memorial to his late wife Caroline Mathilde Brown — granddaughter of Brown's founder Nicholas Brown — who died in 1892. The base bears the inscription 'Love is Strong as Death' from Song of Songs 8:6-7.

$ All Ages Family: High

Cathedral of St. John and burial ground — 1810 Early Gothic Revival cathedral on North Main Street, Providence, RI.

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Cathedral of St. John & Burial Ground

Providence, RI

The Cathedral of St. John is an Early Gothic Revival Episcopal cathedral built in 1810 by Providence architect John Holden Greene on the site of an earlier 1722 King's Church. The adjacent colonial-era burial ground contains graves of 18th-century parishioners and enslaved Providence residents. Closed for regular worship in 2012, the building is reopening as the Center for Reconciliation, addressing the diocese's historic ties to slavery.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Federal-style brick mansion at 140 Prospect Street, Providence — model for the Ward house in 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.'

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Haunted House / Historic Home

Halsey House (Thomas Lloyd Halsey House)

Providence, RI

The Halsey House is a Federal-style brick mansion built in 1801 by Colonel Thomas Lloyd Halsey, a Providence shipping merchant and French consular agent. It stands prominently on Prospect Street on College Hill and is now divided into apartments. The house is most famous as the literary model for the Ward family home in H.P. Lovecraft's 1927 novel 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.'

$ All Ages Family: High

Newport — 7

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Agassiz Mansion on Castle Hill

Newport, RI

Castle Hill Inn, originally the Agassiz Mansion, was constructed in 1875 as a summer estate for Alexander Agassiz, a renowned marine biologist and Harvard professor. The Gilded Age mansion was designed by architect Robert H. Slack and served the Agassiz family for generations. The property later housed a naval base during World War II and was eventually converted into a luxury inn.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

The limestone facade of Belcourt of Newport, a 60-room Gilded Age summer cottage on Bellevue Avenue

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Haunted House / Historic Home

Belcourt of Newport

Newport, RI

Belcourt of Newport is a 60-room, 50,000-square-foot summer cottage designed by Richard Morris Hunt for Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, with construction beginning in 1891 and completing in 1894. The Tinney family acquired the deteriorated property in 1956 for $25,000 and operated it as Belcourt Castle until the 2012 sale to Alex and Ani founder Carolyn Rafaelian, who funded a multi-million-dollar restoration.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Outdoor / Natural Site

Brenton Point State Park

Newport, RI

Brenton Point began as a sheep farm in the 1600s under William Brenton, a religious refugee from Massachusetts. During the Revolutionary War, the site served as a strategic fort. In 1876, prominent attorney and amateur Egyptologist Theodore M. Davis built his grand mansion, The Reef (later The Bells), along with elaborate carriage houses, stables, and servant quarters to display his collection of Egyptian antiquities.

$ All Ages Family: High

Slate gravestones at the Common Burying Ground on Farewell Street in Newport, Rhode Island

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Common Burying Ground and God's Little Acre

Newport, RI

The Common Burying Ground was established in 1665 in Newport, Rhode Island, on land given to the city by Dr. John Clarke. Its northern section, God's Little Acre, holds 499 marked graves of free and enslaved African Americans and is considered the largest surviving colonial African burial ground in the United States.

$ All Ages Family: High

Italianate facade and driveway approach of Beechwood, the Astor family's Gilded Age cottage at 580 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island

Haunted House / Historic Home

The Astors' Beechwood Mansion

Newport, RI

Beechwood is a Gilded Age estate at 580 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, originally built in 1851 for New York merchant Daniel Parrish. After fire damage in 1855 it was rebuilt and was acquired in 1881 by William Backhouse Astor, Jr. Mrs. Caroline Astor used Beechwood as the social capital of New York's elite. Larry Ellison purchased the estate in 2010 and is restoring it as a private art museum.

$ All Ages Family: High

Hotel Viking in Newport Rhode Island, historic Georgian Revival brick hotel exterior

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Hotel Viking

Newport, RI

The Hotel Viking opened May 25, 1926 as Newport's first large-scale hotel, featuring Beaux-Arts architecture and 208 rooms on Bellevue Avenue. It was the anchor property for Newport's early tourism infrastructure. The hotel closed November 3, 2025 for a multimillion-dollar renovation led by KHP Capital Partners, designed to honor its centennial, and reopened May 1, 2026 with four new dining concepts and renovated spa facilities.

$$$ All ages Family: High

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Touro Cemetery

Newport, RI

Touro Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island was dedicated in 1677 and is the second-oldest Jewish cemetery in North America. The cemetery served the colonial-era Spanish-Portuguese Jewish community of Newport, with origins tracing through Amsterdam, London, and the Caribbean. The site is closely associated with the adjacent Touro Synagogue, the oldest surviving synagogue building in the United States.

$ All Ages Family: High

Bristol — 2

Museum / Historical Site

Colt State Park

Bristol, RI

Colt State Park is a 464-acre Rhode Island State Park on Poppasquash Neck in Bristol. The property was assembled by industrialist Samuel P. Colt starting in 1905 by consolidating the Chase, Church, and Van Wickle farms. Colt built the Casino summer house and a stone barn for a prize Jersey herd. He died in 1921; his marble entrance piers were carved with the inscription 'Private Property, Public Welcome.' Rhode Island purchased the property in 1965 and dedicated it as a state park on August 21, 1968.

$ All Ages Family: High

The Barn at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island — a reconstructed nineteenth-century farm-barn structure now used as a campus theatre.

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Theater / Performance Venue

The Barn / William N. Grandgeorge Theatre at Roger Williams University

Bristol, RI

The Barn at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island is a relocated nineteenth-century structure composed of two former Glocester, Rhode Island farm barns dating to 1840 and 1894. The barns were rescued by historic-preservation students and faculty in 1981, dismantled, and reconstructed on the RWU campus, opening as a theatre in 1986. The building now houses the William N. Grandgeorge Theatre, university theatre program, and Barn Summer Playhouse.

$$ University campus; access for ticketed performance events and university-sponsored tours. Family: High

Warwick — 2

Modern Fairfield Inn & Suites hotel exterior on Post Road in Warwick, Rhode Island

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Fairfield by Marriott Inn & Suites Providence Airport Warwick

Warwick, RI

The Fairfield by Marriott Inn & Suites Providence Airport Warwick is an active limited-service hotel at 1940 Post Road in Warwick, Rhode Island, near T.F. Green International Airport. The property has operated under various flag transitions; older paranormal compilations identify it under Fairfield Inn Marriott and La Quinta names.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Aldrich Mansion in Warwick Rhode Island, 1896 seventy-room estate on Narragansett Bay

Haunted House / Historic Home

The Aldrich Mansion

Warwick, RI

The Aldrich Mansion is a seventy-room estate on Narragansett Bay developed beginning in 1896 by U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, whose daughter Abby married John D. Rockefeller Jr. at the property in 1901. After the Aldrich heirs sold it to the Roman Catholic Church in 1939, it served as Our Lady of Providence Seminary until 1983.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Coventry — 1

Exterior front and side elevations of the General Nathanael Greene Homestead in Coventry, Rhode Island, photographed by Arthur W. LeBoeuf for HABS in 1937.

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Museum / Historical Site

Nathanael Greene Homestead

Coventry, RI

The Nathanael Greene Homestead in Coventry, Rhode Island, known as Spell Hall, was established in 1770 on the grounds of the Greene family's iron foundry. Nathanael Greene co-founded the Kentish Guards state militia before the Revolutionary War, rose to Quartermaster General of the Continental Army, and as Commander of the Southern Department executed the strategic retreat that forced the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781.

$ All Ages Family: High

Cranston — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Governor Sprague Mansion

Cranston, RI

Built in 1790 by William Sprague, the Cranston mansion was home to four generations of one of Rhode Island's most powerful industrial families, including Governors William Sprague III and IV. It is now the headquarters of the Cranston Historical Society and a 28-room museum at the corner of Cranston Street and Dyer Avenue.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Exeter — 1

Mercy Brown's gravestone at Chestnut Hill Baptist Cemetery in Exeter, Rhode Island

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Chestnut Hill Baptist Cemetery (Mercy Brown's Grave)

Exeter, RI

Chestnut Hill Baptist Cemetery in Exeter, Rhode Island, holds the grave of Mercy Lena Brown, a 19-year-old who died of consumption in January 1892. Two months later her body was exhumed by villagers convinced she was the cause of a wasting illness in her family. The Brown case is the best-documented incident in what scholars call the New England vampire panic.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Harrisville — 1

1736 center-chimney colonial farmhouse known as the Old Arnold Estate, the Conjuring House, on Round Top Road in Harrisville, Rhode Island

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Haunted House / Historic Home

The Conjuring House (Old Arnold Estate)

Harrisville, RI

The Old Arnold Estate is a 1736 colonial farmhouse on Round Top Road in Harrisville, Rhode Island. The property became internationally known through the experiences of the Perron family, who lived there from 1971 to 1980 and whose accounts inspired the 2013 film The Conjuring. The property's recent commercial operation as a paranormal attraction ended with the November 2024 revocation of its entertainment license.

$$$ 18+ (formerly) Family: Low

Narragansett — 1

Museum / Historical Site

South County Museum at Canonchet Farm

Narragansett, RI

The South County Museum was founded in 1933 and has operated at Canonchet Farm in Narragansett, Rhode Island since 1985. The 175-acre property was originally a Narragansett Tribe summer campsite, then the William Robinson farm, purchased by Governor (and later Senator) William Sprague in 1850. In 1863, Sprague and his wife Kate built a 64-room four-story Victorian mansion called Canonchet on the property; the mansion burned to the ground on October 11, 1909 after a defective fireplace flue ignited the building. The museum operates today as a rural-history institution focused on southern Rhode Island.

$ Public museum; family-friendly programming. Family: High

Warren — 1

Kickemuit River shoreline along Schoolhouse Road in Warren, Rhode Island near the Route 136 bridge

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Kickemuit River — Schoolhouse Road

Warren, RI

The Kickemuit River in Warren, Rhode Island, flows through the site where King Philip's War began on June 20, 1675. A band of Pokanoket warriors attacked English settlement along the river's banks, burning homes and setting off the 14-month conflict that would devastate both Native and English populations across New England. The Kickemuit Cemetery, between Child Street and Schoolhouse Road, is among Warren's oldest.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

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