9 Spooky Stays

Just for Halloween, CNN complied a list of the 9 most haunted houses in the United States. I thought it was a fun article that is great for ideas about spooky halloween travel.


1. American Haunting Tours - based in Illinois the American Haunting Tours organize ghost hunting trips in the Mid-West.

2. Elaine's Victorian Inn and Dinner Theater in Cape May, New Jersey - is a haunted Inn that has a lot of recorded paranormal activity. The brave can even take a tour of the most haunted spots in Cape May, NJ.

3. Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia - is an old Lunatic Asylum where people can go to hunt down ghosts in groups of 10 or by themselves. It is open from 10:30 pm to 6:30 am. The cost is $100 each in October and on October 31st they host a Witches Ball.

4. Prospect Place in Dresden, Ohio - was a stop on the undergroud railroad and is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Ohio. From 8 pm to 6 am on Halloween there is an annual ghost hunt that costs $50 per person and there are evening tours for people 18 and up and cost $15.

5. Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado - is a very haunted hotel where people have very close encounters with the paranormal (aka ghosts). The most popular rooms are 217 (where  Stephen King stayed while developing the idea for his book "The Shining." and 401 which is aparrently haunted by two ghosts). The inn has been open for 101 years and is very popular in October.

6. Historic Anchorage Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska - is a hotel in Alaka that has 32 ghosts according to two psychics. They go all out to decorate for Halloween and many visitors report seeing ghosts.

7. Lizzie Borden B&B in Fall River, Massachusetts - is a bed in breakfast where the infamous killer Lizzie Borden took an ax to her parents. Some of the rooms even have crime scene photos in them.

8. Crescent Hotel & Spa in Eureka Springs, Arkansas - is a hotel that offers ghost tours nightly. Several visitors have experiences with the paranormal kind.

9. San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California - this zoo allows parents and kids ages 4 and older to stay overnight in the haunted Timbuktu camp.