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0Fort Devens
Devens, Massachusetts
Fort Devens, named for Civil War general Charles Devens, is now the Devens Reserve Forces Training Area. Reports say that in the older, unused buildings, unexplained flashing lights have been noticed at night. And piano playing has been heard coming from the defunct movie house.
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The Cooperage
Townsend, Massachusetts
7.6 miles from Ayer, MA
The Cooperage, explored by TV's Ghost Hunters, was built in 1733 as a mill. In the mid-1800s it was a barrel-making business, and later, a restaurant and a gift/antique shop (it's most recent incarnation). Apparitions, voices and footsteps are among the eerie things often reported here.
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Reed Homestead
Townsend, Massachusetts
7.6 miles from Ayer, MA
At the Reed Homestead, explored by TV's Ghost Hunters, four generations of the Oliver Reed family have resided. It was built in 1809 and contains murals believed to have been created by Rufus Porter, painter, inventor and founder of The Scientific American Magazine, a Victorian garden and examples of early ...
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Blood Town Forest
Lancaster, Massachusetts
8.5 miles from Ayer, MA
Legend has it that a young man and woman were killed here while camping in the forest. There is said to be a rock near the entrance that tells the story, but this may or may not be true. Some say the forest really got its name strictly because the ...
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Gilson Road Cemetery
Nashua, New Hampshire
11.4 miles from Ayer, MA
Misty apparitions have been reported at this early-1800s cemetery, along with a strange feeling like you are walking through water. Voices are reported to come from the back right corner and a figure in a black hood has been seen. Folks who live in the subdivisions that have cropped up ...
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Bainbridge’s - Aprile's European Restaurant
Chelmsford, Massachusetts
11.9 miles from Ayer, MA
The former Bainbridge's, now Aprile's European Restaurant, may serve up a surprise or two to its customers. Folks say it has pictures that move, a woman's spirit that cries, and ghostly children who play in the overnight hours.
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Mary Belanger House
Lowell, Massachusetts
13.3 miles from Ayer, MA
This is the house where a woman named Mary Belanger supposedly died when she fell into the fire pit in the back yard and burned to death. Events such as visible apparitions and floating objects support this claim. I also took a photo in the cellar that captures an ...
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Dean Hill Revolutionary Cemetery - The Rev
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
13.7 miles from Ayer, MA
Dean Hill Revolutionary Cemetery is also know to locals as The Rev. It's unknown whether it's soldiers or more sinister entities that haunt the place, but there are rumors of satanic practices and eerie feelings coming over its visitors. Some have heard loud screams at night. Local tales say a ...
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0Concord's Colonial Inn
Concord, Massachusetts
14 miles from Ayer, MA
TV's Ghost Hunters has featured this inn, at which Room 24 is said to be haunted by a ghost.
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Pine Hill Cemetery - Blood Cemetery
Hollis, New Hampshire
14.5 miles from Ayer, MA
Pine Hill Cemetery, also known as Blood Cemetery because of the name Abel Blood on a tombstone, is reported to be haunted by the entire Blood family who were allegedly murdered in the 1800s. The spirit of the little boy of the family has been seen by drivers passing by ...
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Old Dudley Road
Billerica, Massachusetts
15.1 miles from Ayer, MA
Although the New Dudley Oxford Road is in use today, its ancestor, the Old Dudley Oxford Road, still exists for about a mile. Apparently unable to quit his favorite route, a spectral horseback rider in Colonial garb is said to patrol the remains of the old road.
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Indian Rock Road
Nashua, New Hampshire
15.3 miles from Ayer, MA
The dark wooded road reportedly leads to a meadow, a popular teen hangout. It is said to have cold spots and a malevolent force that watches over everyone there.
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0Longfellow's Wayside Inn
Sudbury, Massachusetts
15.4 miles from Ayer, MA
At this 1716 inn, it is said that a woman named Jerusha Howe lingers, especially in Rooms 7 and 9. She is said to have been unlucky in her love life, and therefore likes to touch male visitors. Author Henry W. Longfellow wrote a book about the inn in the ...
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Country Tavern
Nashua, New Hampshire
16.2 miles from Ayer, MA
The historic Country Tavern restaurant is housed in a place that was built in 1741 and was once owned by English sea captain Ford and his young wife Elizabeth. Legend has it that when he was off to sea for an extended time, he came home to find Elizabeth had ...
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0The Village Inn
Dracut, Massachusetts
17.8 miles from Ayer, MA
The restaurant here is said to be haunted by a little boy and a little girl. The boy hangs out in the lounge area, but he runs away whenever anyone comes near him. The little girl is seen walking through a tunnel that runs between the restaurant and the barn ...
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Lorden Plaza
Milford, New Hampshire
18.3 miles from Ayer, MA
Folks here have noticed an apparition of a man in blue jeans and a plaid flannel shirt with a tape measure on his belt. He walked along the plaza, disappearing into a plywood wall.
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Tewksbury Cemetery
Tewksbury, Massachusetts
18.9 miles from Ayer, MA
Locals tell of a ghostly white woman who walks here, as well as a dark, leather-skinned creature who follows guests through the graveyard.
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0Holiday Inn Tewksbury
Tewksbury, Massachusetts
18.9 miles from Ayer, MA
An apparition moves from the ballroom to the hall, and can only be seen out of the corner of the eye. When you turn to look at it, it vanishes.
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The Pines Cemetery
Tewksbury, Massachusetts
19.5 miles from Ayer, MA
The Pines is the old cemetery from Tewksbury State Hospital. There are numbered markers here for over 10,000 individuals who died at the hospital. It is rumored that many bodies were exhumed and taken to Boston for medical students to train on. The cemetery is located in the woods and is ...
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Framingham State University
Framingham, Massachusetts
19.8 miles from Ayer, MA
At Framingham State University, visitors may hear ghostly laughter or feel cold spots, and orbs are often photographed at Horace Mann Hall. And in Peirce Hall, residents have awoken to find all the mirrors in the rooms have been stacked outside in the hallways, piled with the reflective sides facing ...
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The Common Man Restauruant
Merrimack, New Hampshire
19.9 miles from Ayer, MA
The Common Man Tavern was built by Matthew Thornton in 1797 as a wedding present for his son James. But a few years later, James committed suicide. Today, witnesses report ghostly footsteps and several apparitions, but not ones belonging to James. Folks have seen a Native American, a little girl, ...
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S.K. Pierce Mansion - Haunted Victorian Mansion
Gardner, Massachusetts
19.9 miles from Ayer, MA
S.K. Pierce Mansion was owned by the wealthy Sylvester Knowlton Pierce, founder of the SK Pierce & Son Chair Company. It was built in 1875 and was originally located at 21 Union Street, but was moved to where it now stands shortly thereafter. The home had some famous guests, such ...
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Regis College
Weston, Massachusetts
20.4 miles from Ayer, MA
Regis College's haunted College Hall, built in the late 1920s, is rumored to have several ghosts in residence, including a roaming cold spot. A former piano teacher opens and closes doors and occasionally plays the piano, and the fourth floor is home to some spectral nuns, students say.
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Higgins Armory Museum
Worcester, Massachusetts
21.1 miles from Ayer, MA
Explored on an episode of TV's Ghost Hunters, Higgins Armory Museum is said to be haunted. Witnesses have seen apparitions and black shadows and heard unexplained footsteps, clanging and music, as well as being touched by something unseen.
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Vale End Cemetery
Wilton, New Hampshire
21.6 miles from Ayer, MA
The Blue Lady is the famous ghost of Vale End Cemetery, thought to be Mary Ritter, who passed away in 1808, some say, because her husband buried her alive. Others say she was murdered by a devil-worshipping cult. Her ghost appears as a blue, human-sized light over her grave, usually ...
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Stone's Public House
Ashland, Massachusetts
21.8 miles from Ayer, MA
Built in 1834, Stone's Public House is said to be haunted by apparitions and spirits who throw glasses off shelves. The portraits are said to watch guests and employees as they go about their business, and doors open and close on their own. Visitors to the upstairs function room describe ...
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Tortilla Flat
Merrimack, New Hampshire
22.9 miles from Ayer, MA
At the Mexican Restaurant Tortilla Flat, believed to be haunted, witnesses have seen strange phenomena such as shadow figures and objects that move about on their own.
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Palladium Theatre
Worcester, Massachusetts
23 miles from Ayer, MA
The 1928 Palladium Theater, witnesses say, is haunted by something that creates disembodied footsteps and a floating orb the size of a soccer ball. Even more eerie, rumor has it that dead bodies were discovered in a dressing room a couple decades ago. The site has been featured on an ...
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Anna Maria College
Paxton, Massachusetts
23.2 miles from Ayer, MA
Anna Maria College is believed to be haunted, but the college has somewhat of an affinity for its ghosts. At the Zecco Performing Arts Center, according to resports, two seats are kept open at each performance for ghostly visitors.
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Windham Restaurant
Windham, New Hampshire
23.7 miles from Ayer, MA
Windham Restaurant is housed in a former 1812 home once owned by the Dinsmore family. Witnesses here have noticed something playing with their hair (especially blondes), cold chills, something unseen that unclasps their jewelry and moves objects in the house. Prop Christmas packages are moved by a prankish spirit and ...
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Woman In White Dress
Belmont, Massachusetts
23.9 miles from Ayer, MA
Seven years ago on my way home driving through Belmont, as I always did, around 2:30 in the morning I saw a woman in a long flowing white dress (looked like she was possibly in her late 30's/early 40's but I am bad with age) walking up Royal Road (right ...
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J. Michael's Family Sports Pub
Windham, New Hampshire
24.8 miles from Ayer, MA
Once Numero's Mexican Restaurant, once with apparitions on the second floor, footsteps in the attic, lights that worked on their own and silverware that jumped off tables, the place has was renovated and is now J. Michael's Family Sports Pub. No hauntings have been reported since the renovations.
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Harold Parker State Forest
Andover, Massachusetts
25.4 miles from Ayer, MA
Harold Parker State Forest now has 35 miles of woodsy trails and roads, ponds, swamps, forests and rocky outcroppings, but evidence of its 18th-century farming and milling operations may be seen here as well. Ruins of houses and unmarked graves can be found on the grounds. Some say that beyond ...
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Hope Cemetery
Worcester, Massachusetts
25.5 miles from Ayer, MA
Rumor has it that apparitions and the sound of children laughing can be seen and heard near this cemetery's statue of Jesus holding an angel.
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New Boston Cemetery
Winchendon, Massachusetts
25.7 miles from Ayer, MA
New Boston was a village that was practically erased from existence to make room for the 1940s Birch Hill Dam flood control project. This cemetery, which lies within the Otter River State Forest, is just about all that is left of the town. Legend has it that it is haunted, ...
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Verna's Donut Shop
Cambridge, Massachusetts
26.1 miles from Ayer, MA
Below Verna's Donut Shop is a basement storeroom, used to hold supplies for the doughnut shop and the adjacent cake-decorating shop, and it's rumored to have more than flour and sprinkles. A ghost, or at least a shadowy figure, has been seen crouching behind the boxes.
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Sacco's Bowl-Haven
Somerville, Massachusetts
26.4 miles from Ayer, MA
Sacco's Bowl-Haven, investigated by TV's Ghost Hunters, has been owned by the Sacco family since 1939. It's believed to be haunted by a former employee. Witnesses have described the feeling of something breathing on their neck and balls that return when the machine is off. The Ghost Hunters debunked the ...
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Pine Manor College
Brookline, Massachusetts
27.6 miles from Ayer, MA
Students of Pine Manor College say that the lights along the pathway near the Main House (the administration building) turn off as they get close, then turn on again as they pass by. Mists have materialized in the nearby woods, and witnesses have noted a disconcerting feeling that something is ...
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Franklin Pierce College - The Manor - Peterson Hall
Rindge, New Hampshire
28.2 miles from Ayer, MA
Franklin Pierce College's The Manor, aka Peterson Hall, was once a brothel run by an Edna McGuinness. Her large portrait is said to still hang in the stairwell leading to the second floor. Edna's apparition has been seen looking out the window and a piano has been heard playing although ...
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Boston University - Shelton Hall
Boston, Massachusetts
29 miles from Ayer, MA
The fourth floor of Boston University's Shelton Hall is said to be haunted by playwright Eugene O'Neill, who spent his last years there. It was built in 1923 as a Sheraton Hotel and had been renamed the Shelton; the university bought in in 1954. Witnesses say the elevator works by ...
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Charlesgate Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
29.3 miles from Ayer, MA
Charlesgate, built in 1901, was bought by Boston University to use as a dorm in 1947, and then was also used as a dorm by Emerson College through the late 1990s. It's now a condo building. Some of the hauntings are attributed to séances held by college kids or a ...
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The Boston Conservatory
Boston, Massachusetts
29.5 miles from Ayer, MA
The Boston Conservatory, some say, is haunted. There have been numerous reports of footsteps, doors that slam themselves, disembodied voices, objects that go missing, and other strange phenomena, especially in the dorm buildings. Some attribute the activity to the fact that the place was an 1800s hospital where many spirits ...
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Bradford College - Northpoint Bible College
Haverhill, Massachusetts
29.5 miles from Ayer, MA
Urban legend has it that this is the very New England college that stored H.P. Lovecraft's famed evil book Necronomicon, buried deep underground. Although the Lovecraft book "Necronomicon" is a work of fiction, fans maintain that the book of spells actually exists at Northpoint Bible College (formerly Bradford College). It ...
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Berklee College of Music
Boston, Massachusetts
29.6 miles from Ayer, MA
Established in 1945, Berklee College of Music has been attended by many famous musicians. And it also has a haunted dorm, a 1900s former apartment building that eventually was remodeled into the Sherry Biltmore Hotel. When the hotel caught fire in 1963, started by a boy playing with matches, many ...
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Pine Grove Cemetery
Spencer, Massachusetts
30 miles from Ayer, MA
Who is the Dark Hunter? It's the name given to the entity said to haunt the Pine Grove Cemetery, keeping an eye on those who visit.
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0Boston Athenaeum
Boston, Massachusetts
30.3 miles from Ayer, MA
Author Nathaniel Hawthorne claimed to have seen the ghost of the scholarly Reverend Harris at this historic library.
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Palace Theatre
Manchester, New Hampshire
30.4 miles from Ayer, MA
Palace Theatre opened in 1915 and is now restored, and is rumored to be haunted by a female apparition who appears on the stage. Paranormal activity is known to happen in the balcony and backstage as well. The theater has been featured on an episode of TV's Ghost Hunters.
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Cutler Majestic Theatre
Boston, Massachusetts
30.4 miles from Ayer, MA
Built in 1903, the historic theater is said to be haunted by a former mayor of Boston who died during a performance, a little girl, and a married couple wearing turn-of-the-20th-century clothing.
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0Omni Parker House Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
30.4 miles from Ayer, MA
At this hotel, rumored to be haunted, witnesses claim that doors open and close by themselves, lights turn on and off, and apparitions of folks in old-time clothing have been spotted. Voices have been heard as well in the lobby, restaurant and halls.
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The Blue Door Bed and Breakfast
Middleton, Massachusetts
30.4 miles from Ayer, MA
Several ghosts are said to be in residence at this cottage built in 1692, and one is the builder, Philip Knight. Another is Rebecca Towne, who wears a blue dress and floats through the dining room. Captain Henry Quiver died here in the 1850s, and was said to join the ...
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