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The Massachusetts Haunted Trail

Massachusetts carries more documented hauntings than almost any other state, spread from Salem's witch-trial landmarks and Boston's colonial burying grounds through mill villages in the center of the state to quiet Cape Cod inns. Revolutionary-era graves and working restaurants with century-old ghost stories anchor the coast, while college campuses further inland keep their own traditions going. Most of the network clusters near the water, but Worcester County millponds and Berkshire farmhouses hold their share of stories too. More than 120 venues make up the map. The featured weekend loop threads six daytime stops and five overnight inns into a compact, driveable cut through that larger picture.

The state of the state
130 Verified stops
16 Regions
64 Wheelchair accessible
Every stop verified by HauntBound.
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The curated weekend cut

HauntBound's editors picked 6 daytime stops and 5 overnight inns from the 130 places below and mapped them in driving order, with drive times, the full stories, and a printable field guide. Free by email.

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✦ The index 130 stops · 16 regions
Key MUS Museum / Historical SiteCEM Cemetery / Burial GroundTHT Theater / Performance VenueINN Haunted Hotel / InnBAR Haunted Dining / BarTUR Ghost Tour / Walking TourASY Asylum / HospitalPRS Prison / ReformatoryCRM True Crime SiteOUT Outdoor / Natural SiteHSE Haunted House / Historic HomeMIL Battlefield / Military SiteOTH Other Dark Tourism Site

Coastal

41 stops
HSE Barnstable House Barnstable Fam BAR Barnstable Tuscan Cuisine (formerly Barnstable Restaurant and Tavern) Barnstable Fam MUS Boott Cotton Mills Museum Lowell Fam BAR Cape Cod Cafe Brockton Fam INN Concord's Colonial Inn Concord Fam INN Deerfield Inn Deerfield Fam OUT Dogtown Gloucester OUT Dungeon Rock Lynn MIL Fort Independence (Castle Island) Boston Fam MIL Fort Revere Park Hull MIL Fort Warren Boston Fam TUR Ghost City Tours — Boston Boston TUR Ghost City Tours — Salem Salem TUR Ghosts & Gravestones — Boston Boston MUS Hammond Castle Museum Gloucester OUT Harold Parker State Forest North Andover INN Hawthorne Hotel Salem Fam HSE House of the Seven Gables Salem Fam CEM Howard Street Cemetery Salem Fam INN Joshua Ward House Salem OTH Lizzie Borden House Fall River INN Longfellow's Wayside Inn Sudbury CEM Melrose Cemetery Brockton Fam MUS Millicent Library Fairhaven Fam MUS Mordecai Lincoln Mill and Homestead Scituate OUT Nantasket Beach Hull Fam MUS New Bedford Armory New Bedford Fam CEM Old Hill Burying Ground Newburyport Fam PRS Old Jail (Old Gaol), Barnstable Barnstable INN Omni Parker House Boston Fam CRM Proctor's Ledge Memorial Salem Fam MUS Salem Maritime National Historic Site Salem Fam MUS Salem Witch Dungeon Museum Salem HSE SK Pierce Mansion Gardner OUT Stage Fort Park Gloucester Fam MUS Taylor-Trask Museum Plymouth Fam INN The Salem Inn Salem Fam BAR The Sun Tavern Duxbury Fam MUS The Witch House (Jonathan Corwin House) Salem Fam TUR US Ghost Adventures Concord Concord Fam TUR US Ghost Adventures Salem Salem

Greater Boston

19 stops

Central

14 stops

Western

14 stops

Southeast

9 stops

Cape Cod

8 stops

South Shore

6 stops

Cape Cod And Islands

5 stops

Boston

4 stops

North Shore

4 stops

Berkshires Ma

1 stops

Berkshires

1 stops

Northeastern

1 stops

Metro South

1 stops

North Central

1 stops

Eastern

1 stops

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