Haunted Hotels You Can Actually Stay In

Haunted Hotels You Can Actually Stay In: 30 hand-picked locations, ranked by how haunted they are. Each includes its story, a 1–5 scare rating and GPS coordinates.

• Ancient Ram Inn
  Gloucestershire · Scare 5/5
  One of Britain’s most haunted houses — in the "Witch’s Room" a witch burned in the 1500s is said to linger.
• Bran Castle (Dracula's Castle)
  Brașov, Bran · Scare 5/5
  Marketed as 'Dracula's Castle' since 1997 — the iconic Gothic fortress from 1377 in Transylvania.
• Castle of Good Hope
  Western Cape, Kapstaden · Scare 5/5
  South Africa's oldest building — Governor van Noodt's curse after the execution of seven soldiers.
• Chillingham Castle
  Northumberland · Scare 5/5
  The radiant Blue Boy cried at midnight in the Pink Room — and a renovation uncovered a child’s bones walled up in blue cloth.
• Eastern State Penitentiary
  Pennsylvania · Scare 5/5
  In the abandoned prison shadow figures flit along the cellblocks — a locksmith told of a force that seized him.
• Glamis Castle
  Angus, Skottland · Scare 5/5
  Earl Beardie is said to play cards with the Devil in a secret room — and the castle hides the legend of the Monster of Glamis.
• Moosham Castle
  Salzburg, Lungau · Scare 5/5
  "The Witches' Castle" — over 100 people were tortured to death in the witch trials.
• Schloss Houska
  Mellan-Böhmen · Scare 5/5
  The castle was built atop the 'gateway to hell' — a bottomless pit with black creatures. No towns, no roads, no purpose — except to seal the gate.
• The Ancient Ram Inn
  Gloucestershire, Wotton-under-Edge · Scare 5/5
  Anses som en av de mest hemsökta värdshusen i Gloucestershire — kanske hela England.
• Villisca Axe Murder House
  Iowa, Villisca · Scare 5/5
  Åtta människor — sex av dem barn — yxmördades i sömnen 1912. Mordet är ännu olöst.
• Waverly Hills Sanatorium
  Kentucky · Scare 5/5
  Through the "death tunnel" thousands of bodies were lowered in secret — and in Room 502 a voice is said to scream "Get out!".
• West Virginia Penitentiary
  West Virginia, Moundsville · Scare 5/5
  Byggt på en indiansk gravhög — 94 avrättningar och den ökände "Shadow Man".
• Adelaide Gaol
  South Australia, Adelaide · Scare 4/5
  45 män hängdes här och vilar ännu inom murarna — en seriemördares ande vandrar bland gravarna.
• Alcatraz
  Kalifornien, San Francisco · Scare 4/5
  Cell 14D är tio grader kallare än resten — och kalla fläckar rör sig genom blocket i mänsklig form.
• Ängsö Castle
  Västmanland · Scare 4/5
  On an island in Lake Mälaren, Karl XII's court jester is still said to walk — nearly 300 years after his death.
• Bærums Verk Vertshus
  Akershus, Bærum · Scare 4/5
  Anna Krefting i grön klänning och Conrad Clausen som ringer från sitt gamla sovrum varje natt.
• Baron Empain Palace
  Heliopolis, Kairo · Scare 4/5
  A Belgian baron's palace in Cairo inspired by Angkor Wat — site of satanic rituals in the 1990s.
• Bird Cage Theatre
  Arizona, Tombstone · Scare 4/5
  26 dödsfall och kvarsittande kulhål — "den vildaste, syndigaste nattklubben" i Vilda västern.
• Boggo Road Gaol
  Queensland, Brisbane · Scare 4/5
  Den siste avrättade mannens skugga ses i cellblock E — och en trebent spökkatt stryker mot besökarnas ben.
• Cecil Hotel
  Kalifornien, Los Angeles · Scare 4/5
  Night Stalker bodde här och Elisa Lam hittades död i vattentanken — 80 dödsfall, 16 oförklarade.
• Château de Brissac
  Maine-et-Loire, Brissac · Scare 4/5
  The tallest castle in the Loire (seven storeys) — La Dame Verte, "the Green Lady" Charlotte de Brézé, is said to haunt the upper tower.
• Congress Plaza Hotel
  Illinois, Chicago · Scare 4/5
  Ett av Chicagos mest hemsökta hus. Rum 441 har en oförklarlig skuggestalt.
• The Conjuring House
  Rhode Island, Harrisville · Scare 4/5
  Gården från 1736 som inspirerade skräckfilmen The Conjuring — och familjen Perrons hemsökelse.
• Crescent Hotel
  Arkansas, Eureka Springs · Scare 4/5
  Marketed as "America's most haunted hotel" — once a fake cancer clinic under the swindler Norman Baker.
• Dallund Slot
  Fyn, Søndersø · Scare 4/5
  Eiler Høg drove a carpenter to suicide in the 1600s — and still haunts the place. Two hellhounds tore a colonel to pieces.
• Hotell De Syv Søstre, Sandnessjøen
  Nordland, Alstahaug · Scare 4/5
  Vit kvinnogestalt på taket och Harald Hårfagres skäggiga här på kyrkogården.
• Dobbin's Inn Hotel
  Northern Ireland, Carrickfergus · Scare 4/5
  Elizabeth Dobbins älskare 'Buttoncap' mördades — hennes spöke vandrar än idag.
• Dover Castle
  Kent · Scare 4/5
  A headless drummer boy is said to walk the tunnels — murdered and beheaded while carrying a sum of money.
• Frankenstein Castle
  Hessen, Darmstadt · Scare 4/5
  The castle said to have inspired Mary Shelley — alchemist Johann Konrad Dippel's dark experiments.
• Goldfield Hotel
  Nevada, Goldfield · Scare 4/5
  En gång Nevadas mest spektakulära hotell, nu öde. Elizabeth sägs ha kedjats i rum 109.

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