Yes, friends, it’s time for that spookiest of holidays: Halloween.
If you like haunted houses and getting spooked, you might want to visit these Top 10 Spookiest Cities in America cities.
The eerie thing about these cities’ supernatural secrets? They’re true.
So read on for Rent.com’s Top 10 Haunted Cities . . . if you dare.
10. Portland, Oregon
Portland got it’s haunted reputation from its famous Shanghai Tunnels. Built underneath the city to connect shops to the docks of the Pacific Northwest and intended to make shipping easier these tunnels were used to kidnap people in the 1800s. Unsuspecting victims were “shanghaied” and sent to the harbor to be shipped off as slaves and prostitutes in the Far East.
Haunted Spot: The White Eagle Café – former brothel, hotel and boarding house.
9. San Francisco
There are plenty of creepy places to worry about in San Francisco. Chinatown even offers ghost tours full of scary folklore. San Francisco is also home to the famous Alcatraz Prison. Visitors there claim to have seen ghosts walking the cell blocks and talking in the cafeteria.
Haunted Spot: The Queen Anne Hotel — originally an all girls school in the 1890s, said to be haunted by the ghost of its former headmistress, Mary Lake.
8. Chicago
Chicago has seen its fair share of tragedies (The Chicago Fire, Fort Dearborn Massacre, St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, etc.) and, as Al Capone’s hometown (Capone’s old home was listed for sale last year), it was one of the Prohibition-era gangsters’ favorite places to dump bodies. Like San Francisco, Chicago offers numerous tours of the city’s most haunted places, one is even on a segway!
Haunted Spot: Oak Woods Cemetery - over 6,000 Confederate soldiers and sailors were buried at Oak Woods Cemetery during the Civil War. It’s said that “strange figures” often appear in photos taken here.
7. Charleston, SC
There is an area in downtown Charleston known as “The Battery,” Confederate artillery was stored there during the Civil War. Ghost stories here originated with Gullah, a West African culture that populates parts of South Carolina and Georgia.
Haunted Spot: Battery Carriage House Inn - built in 1843 you can still spend the night in the city’s famous haunted hotel.
6. St. Augustine, Florida
According to Rent.com, it’s the nation’s oldest city and the first permanently occupied European settlement. The most haunted spot is considered Castillo de San Marcos, a star-shaped fort.
Haunted Spot: St. Augustine Lighthouse — this site is associated with numerous deaths and subsequent ghost sitings, it’s even been featured on the TV show Ghost Hunters.
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