The Most Haunted Places in Nevada

Ranked

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   1. Mizpah Hotel Tonopah · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified six distinct published accounts at this working hotel, across four kinds of published source. Six later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and cold spots.

   6 original accounts · documented across 3 decades, 1920-2018 · retold in 6 later publications

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   2. Silver Queen Hotel Virginia City · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: Moderate

   The Silver Queen Hotel opened in 1876 on Virginia City's C Street, making it the town's oldest continuously operating hotel. Its saloon holds a 16-foot portrait of a woman made from 3,261 Morgan silver dollars, commissioned in 1958. Guests in Room 11 report tapping, disembodied voices, and a figure known as Rosie, while a second presence called Annie is blamed for footsteps on the upper floors, and wedding chapel cameras have reportedly caught unexplained shapes.

   7 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1899-2012 · retold in 3 later publications

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   3. Pioneer Saloon Goodsprings · Haunted Dining / Bar · Family Comfort: Moderate

   Built in 1913 by George Fayle, the Pioneer Saloon wears its pressed-tin exterior to this day. In January 1942 it served as a staging point during the search for actress Carole Lombard, killed in a plane crash on nearby Mount Potosi, and a back room now holds her memorial. Visitors report her presence near the memorial, an elderly prospector at the bar, and activity tied to a gambler shot there in a 1915 poker dispute.

   6 original accounts · documented across 4 decades, 1915-2017 · retold in 7 later publications

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   4. Overland Hotel & Saloon Pioche · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified nine distinct published accounts at this working hotel, across five kinds of published source. Four later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include a sensed presence and apparitions.

   9 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1964-2014 · retold in 4 later publications

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   5. Hoover Dam Boulder City · Outdoor / Natural Site · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified six distinct published accounts at this outdoor site, across three kinds of published source. Two later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include a sensed presence and apparitions.

   6 original accounts · documented across 3 decades, 1935-2019 · retold in 2 later publications

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   6. Goldfield Hotel Goldfield · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: Moderate Visits by guided tour only

   The Goldfield Hotel opened in 1907 as Nevada's most luxurious property during the state's last gold rush, with 150 rooms and a mahogany, crystal-trimmed lobby. It closed for good in 1945 as the boom faded and has sat mostly empty since. Local legend holds that a woman named Elizabeth died in Room 109, though historians say the story traces to a later owner's book rather than any historical record.

   8 original accounts · documented across 3 decades, 2004-2021 · retold in 6 later publications

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   7. Cal Neva Lodge Crystal Bay · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: High Exterior viewing only

   Robert Sherman opened the Cal Neva Lodge in 1926 on the California-Nevada line, so gambling, legal only in Nevada, sat steps from California guests. Frank Sinatra bought a controlling stake in 1960, and Marilyn Monroe stayed in a lodge cabin in August 1962. Staff report footsteps in the tunnels below, though the resort has been closed since 2013 and the accounts predate it.

   7 original accounts · documented across 3 decades, 1960-2019 · retold in 1 later publication

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   8. Mackay Mansion Virginia City · Haunted House / Historic Home · Family Comfort: Moderate Visits by guided tour only

   George Hearst built this Italianate mansion in 1859 as offices for his Comstock mining operations and sold it in 1871 to John Mackay, who soon struck the Big Bonanza and became the richest man on the Comstock. It is the only Virginia City building to survive both the 1863 and 1875 fires. Visitors report footsteps, voices, a female figure on the third floor identified as Mrs. Mackay, and the figure of John Mackay himself moving through the halls.

   7 original accounts · documented in 1995 · retold in 3 later publications

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   9. Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum (Wengert Mansion) Las Vegas · Museum / Historical Site · Family Comfort: Low Visits by guided tour only

   HauntBound identified five distinct published accounts at this museum site, across four kinds of published source. Reported phenomena include cold spots and electrical anomalies.

   5 original accounts · documented across 3 decades, 1982-2021

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    10. Old Washoe County Courthouse Reno · Museum / Historical Site · Family Comfort: Moderate

    HauntBound identified four distinct published accounts at this museum site, across four kinds of published source. Five later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include a sensed presence and apparitions.

    4 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1899-2025 · retold in 5 later publications

Superlatives

Most documented counts published accounts. The ranking also weighs how many decades those accounts span and how independent they are, so the place with the most accounts is not always the place ranked first.