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0Wayside Inn
Middletown, Virginia
4.8 miles from Stephens City, VA
Wayside Inn is reported to be the oldest inn in the U.S. that is still in operation. Room 14 is rumored to be haunted and is the source of the most unusual happenings in the inn. However, witnesses have seen and heard strange things all over the inn.
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0Wayside Theatre
Middletown, Virginia
5 miles from Stephens City, VA
Wayside Theatre is believed to be the forever home to a ghost of a former caretaker who perished in a fire. His activity centers on the back-porch costume storage, the basement, and the balcony. Seat CC1 is often found to be mysteriously lowered.
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Belle Grove Plantation
Middletown, Virginia
6.3 miles from Stephens City, VA
Belle Grove Plantation, built between 1794 and 1797, was once the home of Revolutionary War veteran Major Isaac Hite, Jr. (President James Madison’s brother-in-law) and was the headquarters of General Philip Sheridan during the Battle of Cedar Creek. It is believed to be haunted by an apparition of a woman ...
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Abram's Delight
Winchester, Virginia
6.7 miles from Stephens City, VA
Abram's Delight was the residence of five generations of the Hollingsworth family, beginning with Abraham Hollingsworth in the mid-1700s. It is now a historic museum complex and is rumored to be haunted by Mary, the daughter of David Hollingsworth, and perhaps one other gentleman ghost. The gentleman appears as a ...
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Cork Street Tavern
Winchester, Virginia
7.4 miles from Stephens City, VA
The restaurant building here dates back to 1827, and Cork Street Tavern by name to 1985. Two ghosts are said to reside here, John and Emily. John Mann's spirit wears a long black frock coat, and Emily's voice is often heard calling John's name. The ghosts play tricks by moving ...
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TWA Flight 514 Crash Site
Bluemont, Virginia
18 miles from Stephens City, VA
Paranormal investigators were called to the forested area by passer-by's who reported hearing screams and seeing glowing apparitions moving around the forest at the crash site. Visitors have reported weird activity associated with a large limestone rock located at the site, and people have reported been pushed by unseen entities. (Submitted ...
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Poor House Farm Park
Martinsburg, West Virginia
27.6 miles from Stephens City, VA
The original stone house in the historic park is believed to be haunted. Witnesses say they have felt a heavy presence inside, during which it is difficult to breathe. Also, a soldier's apparition has been spotted on the park grounds.
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0The Grey Horse Inn
The Plains, Virginia
28.2 miles from Stephens City, VA
The Grey Horse Inn is no longer in operation; the owners of the historic inn retired and sold the property to private owners in 2011. Reports say that on the property a ghostly scene replays of a Confederate soldier being killed.
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Haunted Cottage - Booth House
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
29.2 miles from Stephens City, VA
Paranormal researcher Vince Wilson operates this cottage and attraction that offers ghost tours, paranormal research training, and seances. The school is said to educate pupils on the history of ghosts starting with the first known hauntings in ancient Babylonia. It is called the Booth House because John Wilkes Booth is ...
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Apollo Theatre
Martinsburg, West Virginia
29.3 miles from Stephens City, VA
The vaudeville venue built in 1913 is the home of a ghostly former manager. He has been seen standing outside the building smoking a cigar. His cigar smoke has been smelled by witnesses as well.
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Harpers Ferry Guest House
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
30.6 miles from Stephens City, VA
There are believed to be at least five apparitions that haunt this historic bed and breakfast. Guests have reported seeing the apparition of a hostile man in a brocade vest, who has been known to push guests around. Other apparitions seen include a woman in a grey dress, often accompanied ...
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Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
30.6 miles from Stephens City, VA
Known for its battles during the Civil War, the national historic park is believed to be haunted by ghosts of its past. Many apparitions have been seen here, including a well-dressed man in a brocade vest who glares in a hostile way. A woman and child believed to be the ...
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Historic Hilltop House
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
30.8 miles from Stephens City, VA
Folks must have been shocked to witness apparitions of soldiers marching through the rooms at this 1888 hotel. Reports say it is now closed, and its renovation is currently on hold.
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St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
30.8 miles from Stephens City, VA
The heritage listed church is believed to be haunted by a ghostly reverend, who has been seen praying at the church altar late at night. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Oatlands Plantation
Leesburg, Virginia
32.4 miles from Stephens City, VA
Oatlands Plantation was once a 3,500-acre wheat and wool producer with over seven dozen slaves. Now a historic site of only 260 acres, the 1804 manor house museum is rumored to be home to a few spirits. Doors are said to randomly lock on their own, and witnesses and paranormalists ...
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Old Hampshire County Jail
Romney, West Virginia
33.9 miles from Stephens City, VA
Built in the late 1700s, the old jail has a legend attached. It seems that in the late 1800s a sheriff was shot to death by a gang of bandits on the staircase leading between the jail and the attached brick building, which was the jailer's family home. He was ...
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Hickory Grove Chapel
Haymarket, Virginia
34.2 miles from Stephens City, VA
There are a lot of stories about this little white building that has been left to rot for the past 4-5 decades on Logmill Road in Haymarket, Virginia. Some call it the "Old White Chapel," others the "Hickory Grove Chapel". At least one person says it was never ...
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Brunswick Heritage Museum
Brunswick, Maryland
35.3 miles from Stephens City, VA
This 1904 building now houses a railroad museum, and is allegedly haunted. Staff and paranormal investigators have reportedly encountered the apparition of a woman in a white dress, a ghostly curator who modifies exhibits and a spook who likes to tamper with a model railway. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Black Horse Inn
Warrenton, Virginia
36.3 miles from Stephens City, VA
A variety of ghost stories surround this former Civil War hospital. From a laughing nurse, to a ghostly tapping that people say sounds like dancing, to a possible humbug of a ghost who delights in toppling Christmas trees; the Black Horse Inn has more than it's share of ...
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Antietam National Battlefield
Sharpsburg, Maryland
37 miles from Stephens City, VA
This historic Civil War National Park battlefield from 1862, where many lives were lost, is said to be haunted by the ghosts of soldiers and the sounds of phantom gunfire and shouts, drum beats and war songs. Some visitors have presumed to be looking at reenactors playing a part in ...
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Conyers House
Sperryville, Virginia
37 miles from Stephens City, VA
A man named Sim Wright lived here from 1924 to 1964, with his wife Martha. It is said that he still haunts the inn to this day.
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0Ball's Bluff Battlefield
Leesburg, Virginia
37.2 miles from Stephens City, VA
Ball's Bluff Battlefield Regional Park and National Cemetery is a 223-acre park that contains a Civil War battlefield and the third-smallest U.S. National Cemetery. The 1861 Battle of Ball's Bluff took place here, and 54 soldiers are buried in the cemetery. The park, which offers tours and over 7 miles ...
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Spook Hill
Burkittsville, Maryland
38 miles from Stephens City, VA
This stretch of road near the battle site of Antietam is known for a mysterious phenomenon. Folks say that if you put your vehicle in neutral at the base of the hill, the ghosts of Confederate soldiers will push it back up the incline. Rumor has it that the ghosts ...
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Fort Frederick Maryland
Big Pool, Maryland
38.3 miles from Stephens City, VA
A stone star fort in the Maryland Panhandle, Fort Frederick Maryland was built in the 1750s to defend Maryland from French and Indian raiders. During the American Revolution it was used as a prisoner of war camp for soldiers surrendered at Yorktown. It was a Federal outpost during the ...
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0Manassas National Battlefield
Manassas, Virginia
41.1 miles from Stephens City, VA
Historic Manassas National Battlefield Park contains an unfinished railroad ordered by Robert E. Lee. The Civil War-era railroad site is said to be popular with the spirit set, as several accounts of paranormal activity surrounding the area have been reported.
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0Town Hall - Williamsport
Williamsport, Maryland
41.5 miles from Stephens City, VA
Ghosts said to hang out here include former employee "Bus" Seymore, who is heard typing upstairs, and a little girl who sits in the conference room and has a "thing" for flashlights. Disembodied footsteps have been heard here as well. A spooky annual Halloween ghost walk concludes here.
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Inn Boonsboro
Boonsboro, Maryland
42.1 miles from Stephens City, VA
The historic inn dates back to 1790, and was recently restored after a catastrophic fire swept through the building in 2008. However, the resident ghost does not appear to left, as guests still report seeing a ghostly cat in their rooms at night, while others have heard the tinkling ...
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0Old South Mountain Inn
Boonsboro, Maryland
42.3 miles from Stephens City, VA
Legend has it that a ghost saved this 1730s historic inn from being destroyed by fire. It was the ghost of Madeline Dahlgren, owners say, who opened a door that normally remains shut, which allowed an employee to smell the smoke coming from a fire that had erupted in the ...
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Cost Plus World Market
Stephens City, Virginia
42.9 miles from Stephens City, VA
I use to work at this store years ago and can tell you (and I'm sure you can ask other people who have worked there) that this place is truly haunted. When I worked over night here or worked a closing shift there were many strange happenings. There was always ...
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Dead Mans Curve
Hagerstown, Maryland
43.9 miles from Stephens City, VA
Story goes that a doctor was killed here in an accident around the middle of the 19th century. Between then and around the 1930s locals swore they would frequently see the headless apparition of the doctor around this area.
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Central Park Aquatics Center
Manassas, Virginia
45.3 miles from Stephens City, VA
Having worked at Central Park Aquatics for almost a year now, I and any of the other employees can tell you, hands down, this place is haunted. We hear voices when the building is empty, things move around, and we hear our diving blocks being adjusted. I've worked here ...
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0Olde Towne Inn
Manassas, Virginia
46.2 miles from Stephens City, VA
A ghost called Miss Lucy is said to haunt rooms 51 through 54. She is rumored to levitate guests and frequent the tavern.
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Johnathan Hager House Museum
Hagerstown, Maryland
46.4 miles from Stephens City, VA
The 1739 house is thought to be haunted by 2 families: The Hammonds, who lived here in the 1840s, and the Civil War-era Downins. Voices and footsteps have been heard, and the Downin children are thought to be the ones who move around a corncob doll, turn off the lights, ...
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Maryland Theatre
Hagerstown, Maryland
46.8 miles from Stephens City, VA
The 1915 Maryland Theatre, once a vaudeville and movie house, operated until 1973. In 1974 it caught fire and was rebuilt, and to this day presents cultural offerings to the public. It is believed to be haunted. The daughter of an early manager encountered the ghost of her father here, ...
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Brentsville Courthouse Historic Centre
Bristow, Virginia
47.3 miles from Stephens City, VA
Brentsville Courthouse Historic Centre, explored on an episode of TV's Ghost Hunters, is said to be haunted. The complex includes an 1822 courthouse and jail, 1830 farmhouse, 1875 church, 1928 one-room schoolhouse and the Brentsville Tavern archeological site. Knocking sounds and apparitions have been reported in the jail, as well ...
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Schifferstadt
Frederick, Maryland
48.4 miles from Stephens City, VA
The 1750s German Colonial house is now a museum, said to be haunted by original owners Joseph and Elias Brunner (or Bruner, by some reports). Witnesses have heard unexplained voices, speaking in the Brunners' native German, as well as footsteps walking throughout the house.
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Barbara Fritchie House
Frederick, Maryland
48.7 miles from Stephens City, VA
Barbara Fritchie, age 96, is the heroine of The Ballad of Barbara Fritchie, written by John Greenleaf Whittier in 1864. During the Civil War, she was a Union sympathizer who dared to wave her Union flag in the face of the Confederates and Stonewall Jackson. Some historians say the event ...
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National Museum of Civil War Medicine
Frederick, Maryland
48.9 miles from Stephens City, VA
Here, objects have been known to move by themselves or mysteriously disappear, and strange sounds abound. Folks say the distinct sound of a cat scratching on a scratching post come from the executive director's office. It's a mystery, since the place was formerly an undertaking business, and a cat doesn't ...
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Landon House
Frederick, Maryland
49.6 miles from Stephens City, VA
Built in 1754, this home was used as a Civil War makeshift hospital after a deadly battle nearby. Witnesses have heard phantom screams, cries, and prayers, or the sounds of soldiers begging for help. In the basement, where slaves once were kept and abused, folks have reported cold spots, taps ...
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George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia
51.8 miles from Stephens City, VA
The crew team at George Mason University has reported seeing the ghost of an old man near the docks or dam. Legend has it that he's Old Man Johnson, a deceased area rower who, in the 1970s, found his wife having an affair. The distraught man went out rowing and ...
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Piero's Corner Italian - Carlos O'Kelley's
Fairfax, Virginia
52.5 miles from Stephens City, VA
This location was once a "Carlos O'Kelley's" restaurant. Now it is an Italian place called "Piero's Corner." Back when it was Carlos O'Kelley's, it was said that a dishwasher who worked there hanged himself in the building and haunted the premises from then on. Numerous waitstaff reported ...
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Marwood Mansion
Potomac, Maryland
52.8 miles from Stephens City, VA
Witnesses in this former house of the Gore family say they have seen the bathroom window open by itself, the toilet flushing, and steam coming from the tub, as well as eerie sounds from the basement. An apparition of the family's butler has been seen on the steps and around ...
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Lake Linganore
New Market, Maryland
53.9 miles from Stephens City, VA
Orbs and unexplained sounds have been reported in the woods around this lake, where rumor has it that a child drowns every year. Bubbles also have been seen rising to the surface.
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Miller's Church
Hagerstown, Maryland
54.3 miles from Stephens City, VA
Legend has it that the 1930s Catholic Miller’s Church was taken over by devil worshippers, and practitioners sacrificed young girls inside its walls. And then, the church suddenly burned down. All that's left is a parking lot and a big oak. And so the story goes, a couple was parked ...
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0The Lafayette Inn
Stanardsville, Virginia
55.6 miles from Stephens City, VA
Rumor has it that a phantom bloodstain in the foyer returns daily from a Confederate soldier who long ago committed suicide after the stress of learning his wife had been unfaithful with a Yankee soldier. The soldier's ghost is said to wander the halls at night with a pistol, still ...
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0The Inn At Willow Grove
Orange, Virginia
56.2 miles from Stephens City, VA
Strange things are afoot at the Inn at Willow Grove. Folks have reported hearing noises from vacant rooms and mysterious footsteps. The apparitions of Confederate soldiers also have been witnessed sitting under a large tree in front of the inn.
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Virginia Quilt Museum
Harrisonburg, Virginia
56.3 miles from Stephens City, VA
This 1856 antebellum home was formerly known as the Warren-Sip House, and during the Civil War, it served as a hospital for wounded soldiers. Visitors to the current museum have reported sighting the apparition of a Confederate soldier on the second floor of the building. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Beall-Dawson House
Rockville, Maryland
57 miles from Stephens City, VA
This restored 1815 home and museum site is haunted by an apparition. Speculators say it may be original builder Upton Beall, his wife Jane, or one of their daughters: Jane, Mathilda or Margaret. Some suppose it also could be a household slaves. Ghost tours are offered around Halloween.
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By the Side of the Road Bed and Breakfast
Harrisonburg, Virginia
57.2 miles from Stephens City, VA
This historic b&b was built just a bit after the American Revolution, and it was used a Civil War hospital in 1864. It is said that when the area was burned by Union soldiers, the flame-retardant building just wouldn't catch fire, so it became a sort of haven during the ...
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Duncan Hallow
Frederick, Maryland
57.2 miles from Stephens City, VA
A cabin was built by a hermit named Fred Quick on the property of a local farmer. One day his body was found dead in his cabin with his wife missing. Later in the 70's the owner of the farm found signs of satanic rituals being preformed in the ...
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