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Strange Places & Stranger Stories 🖤
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items From haunted graveyards and forgotten ruins to cryptid sightings, local legends, and places that simply don’t feel quite right. A growing bucket list of strange, spooky, and fascinating places across America that I’d love to explore. 🖤
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Cryptids & Curious Creatures
Graves, Ghosts & Restless Souls
Haunted Halls & Forgotten Places
Cryptids & Curious Creatures
Home of the legendary Mothman! I'd love to visit the museum, see the famous statue, and explore the town where the sightings began.
Mothman Museum
A museum filled with Bigfoot exhibits, footprint casts, eyewitness accounts, and unusual artifacts!
Expedition Bigfoot! The Sasquatch Museum
A museum dedicated entirely to mysterious creatures, alleged sightings, unusual specimens, and cryptid folklore.
International Cryptozoology Museum
A museum dedicated to one of America's strangest cryptid encounters.
Visit the Flatwoods Monster Museum
Home of the Fouke Monster, the creature made famous by The Legend of Boggy Creek. I'd love to explore the little town and its monster folklore.
Fouke
A beautiful lake with its very own legendary monster, Champ. I'd love to explore the shoreline and keep an eye out for anything ~unusual~ in the water.
Lake Champlain | Burlington VT
The legendary home of the Jersey Devil. I'd love to explore the strange pine forests.
The Pine Barrens
Home of the legendary Loveland Frogman, a strange amphibian-like creature reported around the Little Miami River. I'd love to explore the town and its wonderfully bizarre local folklore.
Loveland
Home of the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp, a seven-foot reptilian creature reportedly spotted in 1988. I'd love to see the local statues and learn more about the sightings.
Bishopville
The location associated with the infamous Lake Worth Monster sightings of 1969. I e been here many times, and it's actually a little creepy in person.
Parking for Greer Island Trail
In 1903, residents reported a bizarre winged creature with a glowing horn and an awful smell. I'd love to visit the little town.
Van Meter
The town where several teenagers reported seeing the Dover Demon in 1977, a small, strange creature with an enormous head and glowing eyes
Dover
Located in the heart of Bigfoot country, this museum preserves local history alongside footprint casts and stories connected to the famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film. I'd love to see the collection.
Willow Creek China Flat Museum & Bigfoot Collection
Missouri's legendary Momo is described as a towering, hairy creature with an enormous head and a terrible smell. I'd love to explore the area associated with its
Tuscumbia
In 1973, two fishermen reported an extraordinary encounter with strange robotic humanoid beings along the Pascagoula River. I'd love to visit the riverfront and see the historical marker commemorating their story.
Pascagoula River Watershed
The Catoctin Mountains are associated with the Snallygaster, a dragon-like creature from Maryland folklore.
The American Snallygaster Museum
Bigfoot exhibits, footprint casts, documentaries, and life-sized Sasquatch replica. An entire museum devoted to one of America's most famous mysteries sounds like my kind of stop.
North American Bigfoot Center
Graves, Ghosts & Restless Souls
A secluded country cemetery just off I-35W, known for reports of mysterious lights, shadowy figures, and unexplained sounds. I've been here many times, and it's unusually unsettling.
Antioch Rest Cemetery
The final resting place of a mysterious young woman known only as Annie, who was found murdered in 1867. Her true identity remains unknown. She's buried by the old tree. I’ve visited this cemetery many times before, and there just somthing different ...
Grandview Cemetery
Home to the legend of Resurrection Mary, a mysterious young woman in white who reportedly appears along the nearby roads before vanishing.
Resurrection Catholic Cemetery & Mausoleums
A centuries-old cemetery associated with the White Lady, a mysterious apparition reportedly seen along the nearby roads.
Union Cemetery
Beautiful old graves, elaborate sculptures, and enormous trees draped in Spanish moss. I'd love to wander through this historic cemetery and learn about its folklore, especially the stories surrounding Little Gracie.
Bonaventure Cemetery
New Orleans’ oldest surviving cemetery, established in 1789 near the French Quarter. Famous for its elaborate above-ground tombs, historic architecture, and legendary residents, it offers a fascinating glimpse into the city’s Creole heritage, burial ...
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 Official Tour
The sprawling 1847 cemetery holds two US presidents and thousands of Civil War soldiers among its rolling hills. Its most famous legend is a cast-iron dog that guards a child’s grave, said to move on its own, along with a “vampire” tied to a crumblin...
Hollywood Cemetery
Mercy Brown’s Grave at Chestnut Hill Cemetery is tied to America’s most famous vampire panic. Tuberculosis had killed Mercy’s mother and older sister, and her brother Edwin was dying of it when Mercy died in January 1892.
Mercy L. Brown Headstone
Haunted Halls & Forgotten Places
A beautiful Victorian hotel with a notoriously haunted reputation and a disturbing history. I'd love to take the ghost tour and explore the old building.
Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs
An enormous historic psychiatric hospital with haunting stories, beautiful architecture, and a complicated past. I'd love to explore the halls.
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
Crumbling cellblocks, Gothic architecture, and stories of unexplained encounters 🖤
Eastern State
A sprawling Victorian mansion filled with bizarre architectural features and ghost stories. I'd love to wander through its confusing rooms and staircases. 
Winchester Mystery House
A historic lighthouse with ghost stories, nighttime tours, and incredible coastal views.
St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum
An enormous Gothic-style prison with a long history and countless ghost stories. I'd love to explore the old cellblocks, learn about the inmates, and see the filming locations from The Shawshank Redemption.
The Ohio State Reformatory
A beautiful historic mountain hotel famous for its ghost stories and for inspiring Stephen King's The Shining. I'd love to take a nighttime ghost tour
The Stanley Hotel
The infamous Victorian home connected to one of America's most mysterious unsolved murder cases. I'd love to tour the rooms and hear about the history and reported hauntings.
Official Lizzie Borden House | America's Most Haunted House
Mysterious lights have been reported over the West Texas desert for generations. I'd love to spend an evening watching the horizon and see what appears.
Marfa Lights Viewing Area