38 haunted destinations cataloged across Vermont, spanning 17 counties. The collection features haunted hotel, cemetery, and outdoor — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Cuttingsville, VT
Laurel Glen Mausoleum, built in 1881 in Cuttingsville, Vermont, was commissioned by tannery magnate John Porter Bowman after he lost his wife and both daughters within six years. Sculptor Giovanni Turini's life-size marble statue of Bowman mounting the tomb's steps in mourning dress is among the most emotionally direct monuments of the American Victorian period.
Springfield, VT
The Hartness House Inn was built in 1904 for James Hartness, an inventor, machine tool industrialist, and eventual Vermont governor who died in 1934. Hartness was 42 when construction began. He had an underground complex built beneath the front lawn — a private office and astronomical observatory connected to the house by a 240-foot tunnel — to escape the noise of daily life. After his family sold the property, it passed to local machine shops as a guest facility and was later developed into a boutique inn.
Proctor, VT
Wilson Castle is an 1885 brick-and-marble mansion on a hillside estate in Proctor, Vermont, built by physician Dr. John Johnson and his wife. After financial reverses the family lost the property, and locals took to calling it 'Johnson's Folly.' Radio pioneer Herbert Lee Wilson bought the estate in 1939, and it has been open for tours since the early 1960s.
Brattleboro, VT
The Brattleboro Retreat was established in 1834 as the Vermont Asylum for the Insane, making it one of the oldest continuously operating psychiatric hospitals in the United States. It was founded as a reform institution committed to moral treatment — a therapeutic philosophy that rejected restraints in favor of occupational activity and structured community life. In 1887, patients constructed the 65-foot stone observation tower on the hospital grounds as part of this occupational therapy program. The tower was sealed at some point in the twentieth century and is opened for public visits only on occasional scheduled days. An adjacent cemetery contains patient graves from the 1830s forward, many marked 'Unknown.'
Stowe, VT
The Gold Brook Covered Bridge, locally called Emily's Bridge, was built in 1844 over Gold Brook in Stowe, Vermont. It is the only surviving 19th-century covered bridge in the state built with wooden Howe trusses while still carrying a public roadway, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Burlington, VT
The Follett House is an 1840 Greek Revival mansion at 63 College Street in Burlington, designed by architect Ammi B. Young for Timothy Follett (1793–1857), a Burlington businessman and railroad executive. Follett lost his fortune in the 1850s when the Rutland Railroad went bankrupt, and the house passed through institutional uses for over a century. Gutted by fire in 1979, it was saved from demolition by Antonio Pomerleau and restored as offices for Pomerleau Real Estate.
Burlington, VT
Battery Park is a 14-acre bluff-top park overlooking Lake Champlain at the western end of downtown Burlington. The site was used as a military encampment during the War of 1812; artillery positioned here gave the park its name, and on August 13, 1813 American forces stationed at the bluff successfully defended the position against a British naval attack led by Lieutenant Colonel John Murray. A cholera outbreak in the encampment killed many of the soldiers stationed in Burlington. The land was officially deeded to the city in 1870.
Burlington, VT
Carbur's was a multi-location restaurant chain founded by brothers Carl and Burr Vail. The Burlington, Vermont location opened in 1974 at 115 St. Paul Street and operated until October 2002. The building is now home to American Flatbread's Burlington Hearth restaurant. The downtown Burlington basement is reportedly connected to other 19th-century downtown buildings through prohibition-era tunnel infrastructure.
Burlington, VT
The Ethan Allen Homestead is a modest c. 1787 wood-frame farmhouse on the Winooski River floodplain north of downtown Burlington. Built by Ethan Allen (1738–1789), founder of the Green Mountain Boys and a central figure in Vermont's emergence as an independent republic and later as a state, it is the only surviving residence of his in Vermont. The property was developed as a house museum and park in the late 1980s and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Burlington, VT
The Flynn Theater opened November 26, 1930 as a $500,000 vaudeville and motion-picture house built by John J. Flynn's Queen City Realty Company. By the 1970s it had deteriorated; a nonprofit acquired it in 1980 and restoration began in 1981. The fully restored Art Deco building reopened in 2000 as a comprehensive performing-arts center and is recognized by the Art Deco Societies of America as one of the country's most important Art Deco restorations.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPBurlington, VT
Lakeview Cemetery was established in 1867 with a 23-acre purchase from H. B. Sawyer for $3,500, plus an additional 7 acres in 1868 from J. A. Arthur. The cemetery was formally dedicated in 1871. The on-site Louisa Howard Chapel — a stone Victorian Gothic Revival structure funded by Burlington philanthropist Louisa Howard — was completed in the 1880s and dedicated in 1882. The cemetery is owned by the city of Burlington and maintained with support from the Friends of Lakeview Cemetery, organized in the early 1990s.
Burlington, VT
The Shanty on the Shore occupies an 1833 wood-frame building on the Burlington waterfront, originally Isaac Nye's general store on Nye's Wharf. Nye (1796–1871), a Burlington merchant, abruptly closed the store in 1840 and lived as a recluse in a back room until his death. The building later became a seafood restaurant and remains a fixture of Burlington's lakefront dining scene.
Burlington, VT
US Ghost Adventures runs its Burlington program, branded 'Burlington Ghosts,' as a nightly downtown walking tour built around Lake Champlain folklore and the city's Greek Revival architecture.
Bennington, VT
The Bennington Centre Cemetery, the burying ground behind the Old First Church in Old Bennington, is among the oldest in Vermont, with a gravestone dated 1762. It holds American, British, and Hessian dead from the 1777 Battle of Bennington, five Vermont governors, a Titanic victim, and poet Robert Frost.
Bennington, VT
Jennings Hall is a former mansion on Bennington College's campus that was converted into music facilities. Shirley Jackson, author of 'The Haunting of Hill House,' lived in North Bennington from 1940 until her death in 1965, creating scholarly debate about whether Jennings Hall partly inspired her 1959 novel. The building continues to serve as active college facilities while maintaining its paranormal reputation.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPBennington, VT
Glastenbury Mountain, at 3,747 feet in southwestern Vermont, sits at the center of the area author Joseph Citro named the Bennington Triangle in 1992. Between 1945 and 1950, five people disappeared within the mountain's territory under unexplained circumstances. The mountain includes the ghost town of Glastenbury, once a logging community of a few hundred residents that the forest reclaimed after the railroad withdrew in the early 20th century.
Bennington, VT
The Walloomsac Inn in Old Bennington is cited as the oldest inn in Vermont. Sources date its construction to 1771 (some give 1764) by Captain Elijah Dewey, son of the town's founding minister. It operated as a tavern and lodging house for more than two centuries and closed in 1996. The building is associated with the Bennington Museum area on Monument Avenue.
Montpelier, VT
College Hall is a four-story Second Empire building constructed between 1868 and 1872 on a Montpelier hilltop that had served as a Civil War military hospital. It anchored Vermont Seminary and its successor institutions and, since 2008, the Vermont College of Fine Arts. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Montpelier, VT
Green Mount Cemetery was established in 1854 on land purchased from Isaiah Silver, a 35-acre hillside burial ground overlooking Montpelier. Its most famous feature is the seated bronze figure marking the grave of John E. Hubbard, a wealthy and locally disliked businessman who died in 1899. The statue, a depiction of Thanatos by sculptor Karl Bitter, became popularly known as 'Black Agnes.'
Montpelier, VT
US Ghost Adventures runs its Montpelier program under the consumer brand 'Montpelier Ghosts,' a nightly 1-hour walking tour through the state capital built around the 1881 Washington County Courthouse and the legend of 'Black Agnes' at Green Mount Cemetery.
Montpelier, VT
The Washington County Courthouse on State Street in Montpelier dates to 1881, rebuilt as a Greek Revival structure after an 1880 fire left its outer walls standing. The building is best known as the site of the 1898 trial of Mildred Brewster, who in May 1897 fatally shot 17-year-old Anna Wheeler near Montpelier and was found not guilty by reason of insanity in a case reported well beyond Vermont.
Waterbury, VT
The Old Stagecoach Inn was constructed in 1826 in Waterbury Village and served as a tavern, stagecoach stop, and private residence before its current operation as a bed and breakfast. The property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Waterbury Village Historic District.
Waterbury, VT
The Vermont State Hospital for the Insane opened in 1891 in Waterbury and grew to a peak of 1,728 patients by the 1930s. Under superintendent Dr. Eugene Stanley, the institution participated in Vermont's eugenics program, conducting forced sterilizations. Tropical Storm Irene severely damaged the campus in 2011; it was repurposed as the Waterbury State Office Complex in 2015 and listed on the National Register as a Historic District in 2016.
Barre, VT
Hope Cemetery was established in 1895 in Barre, Vermont, the self-styled granite capital. Its more than 10,000 monuments were carved almost entirely from local Barre gray granite, many by the immigrant stonecutters buried there, a large number of whom died young of silicosis.
Brunswick, VT
Brunswick Springs is a natural springs location in Brunswick, Vermont characterized by local paranormal folklore and visitor reports of unexplained phenomena.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPHartford, VT
On February 5, 1887, the Vermont Central night express derailed and plunged from the wooden railroad trestle into the frozen White River at West Hartford, Vermont. The wooden cars caught fire from overturned stoves and lamps, killing roughly 37 people in the deadliest railroad accident in Vermont history.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPManchester Center, VT
Bromley Brooke School in Manchester Center, Vermont was originally built as a nursing home by a man for his ill mother. After her death, the building was sold and converted to a boarding school. The facility now operates as an active educational institution.
Manchester Village, VT
The Equinox Golf Resort & Spa in Manchester Village, Vermont occupies a hotel complex whose oldest sections date to 1769. The property's most-cited historical association is with the Lincoln family: Mary Todd Lincoln and her sons stayed here during the Civil War era, and the family's later residence at Hildene continued the connection.
Montgomery Center, VT
The Black Lantern Inn has operated continuously in Montgomery, Vermont since 1803, making it one of Vermont's longest-established inns. The facility consists of the main inn building plus the Burdette House, offering six rooms in the main structure and four suites in the outbuilding. The inn serves as both a lodging facility and restaurant, maintaining its historic hospitality traditions for over two centuries.
New Haven, VT
Dr. Timothy Clark Smith (1821-1893) was a Vermont physician who suffered from taphephobia, the fear of being buried alive. He arranged for his 1893 grave in Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven to include a viewing window so that anyone could check on him if he revived underground.
Norwich, VT
The Norwich Inn dates to 1797, when Dartmouth graduate Colonel Jasper Murdock completed what was reputed to be the finest mansion in Vermont. Across more than 220 years, the inn has hosted President James Monroe, survived a December 1889 fire, and operated under the Walker family during Prohibition. It continues today as a 40-room property in the Upper Valley.
Plymouth Notch, VT
The President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site in Plymouth Notch, Vermont preserves the birthplace and childhood home of Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, born July 4, 1872. The site encompasses 12 historic buildings and 200 acres including the Plymouth Notch Cemetery where Coolidge is buried. One of the most historically significant events preserved at the site is the midnight swearing-in ceremony on August 3, 1923, when Coolidge's father — a notary public — administered the presidential oath of office by kerosene lamp after the sudden death of President Warren Harding.
Shelburne, VT
Shelburne Museum was founded in 1947 by folk-art collector Electra Havemeyer Webb. It spreads over 45 acres and holds more than 150,000 objects across 39 buildings, 25 of which are historic structures moved to the site from around New England and New York. Among them is the Dutton House, built in 1782 in Cavendish, Vermont, and relocated to the museum in 1950.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPSt. Albans, VT
The Barlow Street School was built in 1897 in St. Albans, Vermont, one of a pair of twin neighborhood schools (with the Messenger School) erected for the early grades. It closed as a school around 1970 and was later repurposed for community use, and from 1979 to 1989 it hosted the St. Albans Haunted House Halloween event.
St. Albans City, VT
On October 19, 1864, 21 Confederate soldiers operating out of Canada carried out the St. Albans Raid, robbing three banks of roughly $88,000 and attempting to burn the town. Contractor Elinus J. Morrison was shot during the raid and died two days later, the event's only fatality. It is recognized as the northernmost land action of the American Civil War.
Stowe, VT
Peter C. Lovejoy built the inn in 1833 on Stowe's Main Street. It changed hands and names repeatedly through the 19th century -- Mansfield House, the Brick Hotel -- until Mark C. Lovejoy bought it in 1893 and renamed it the Green Mountain Inn. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, it has been owned by the Gameroff family since 1982.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPThetford, VT
Camp Farnsworth is a summer camp in Thetford, Vermont with a primary gathering hall called the Keushk. The camp features residential tree house units and traditional dormitory buildings.
Woodstock, VT
Woodstock is one of the documented settings of the New England vampire panic, in which families during the early 1800s exhumed consumption victims and burned the heart in the belief it would stop the disease from spreading to the living. The cases tied to Woodstock include Frederick Ransom in 1817 and the Corwin family in 1834.