The Most Haunted Places in Minnesota

Ranked

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   1. SS William A. Irvin Duluth · Museum / Historical Site · Family Comfort: Moderate

   HauntBound identified eight distinct published accounts at this museum site, across four kinds of published source. One later publication retells those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and cold spots.

   8 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1964-2015 · retold in 1 later publication

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   2. Mantorville Opera House Mantorville · Theater / Performance Venue · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified seven distinct published accounts at this working theater, across three kinds of published source. One later publication retells those accounts. Reported phenomena include disembodied voices and electrical anomalies.

   7 original accounts · documented across 3 decades, 2007-2025 · retold in 1 later publication

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   3. Historic Calumet Inn Pipestone · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: Moderate

   HauntBound identified four distinct published accounts at this working hotel, across three kinds of published source. One later publication retells those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and cold spots.

   4 original accounts · documented across 3 decades, 1944-2019 · retold in 1 later publication

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   4. First Avenue Minneapolis · Theater / Performance Venue · Family Comfort: Moderate

   HauntBound identified four distinct published accounts at this working theater, across three kinds of published source. Five later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and objects moving.

   4 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1940-2019 · retold in 5 later publications

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   5. Wabasha Street Caves Saint Paul · Museum / Historical Site · Family Comfort: Moderate

   These sandstone caves beneath St. Paul were first mined before French immigrant Albert Mouchnotte turned them into a mushroom farm around 1900; his son-in-law later ran a speakeasy there, then the 1930s club Castle Royal. Guides tell of an alleged triple murder in the Fireside Room that left bullet holes in the fireplace, though no record confirms it. Staff before opening report music playing with the sound off and footsteps in empty chambers.

   4 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1934-2021 · retold in 1 later publication

6. 6. Loon Lake Cemetery Jackson · Cemetery / Burial Ground · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified two distinct published accounts at this burial ground, across three kinds of published source. Reported phenomena include cold spots and orbs.

   Documented since 1877 · 4 independent sources · 1 media mention

   Contradicted by physical evidence The same blog post that tells the cemetery's central legend also gives a more plausible alternative: that the woman at its center likely died of diphtheria in a sanatorium in 1881, not by mob violence.

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   7. Hibbing High School Auditorium Hibbing · Theater / Performance Venue · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified two distinct published accounts at this working theater, across four kinds of published source. Three later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include objects moving.

   Documented since 1924 · 4 independent sources

   Questioned by investigators An independent researcher's blog investigating the auditorium's famous 'Seat J-47' ghost photographs concludes the photos were likely staged to scare students, after finding the story's origin details shift across retellings and only partially match an Ancestry.com death record.

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   8. Turnblad Mansion (American Swedish Institute) Minneapolis · Museum / Historical Site · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified two distinct published accounts at this museum site, across three kinds of published source. Reported phenomena include phantom footsteps and phantom sounds.

   2 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1921-2013

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   9. Minneapolis Institute of Art Minneapolis · Museum / Historical Site · Family Comfort: High

   The Minneapolis Institute of Art opened in 1915 in a Beaux-Arts building and holds more than 90,000 objects, including historic interiors moved from older buildings. Its oak-paneled Tudor Room dates to around 1600, and the Connecticut Room was built around a 1740 farmhouse wall. The museum reports a janitor hearing footsteps cross the empty Tudor Room in 2009, and visitors describing tugs on their coats and a hand grasping their own.

   6 original accounts · documented in 2009 · retold in 1 later publication

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    10. Palmer House Hotel Sauk Centre · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: Moderate

    Ralph and Christena Palmer built this Sauk Centre hotel in 1901, the town's first building with electricity. Sinclair Lewis worked here as a clerk before fictionalizing it as the Minniemashie House in Main Street, and the upper floor once housed a bordello run by a man known as Raymond. Guests report a boy bouncing a ball down the halls, a man in a hat blamed for thrown glasses, and a woman in a wedding dress.

    8 original accounts · retold in 1 later publication

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