8 Haunted Tours To Take Now (PHOTOS)

American history - ancient and recent - has created a rich assortment of scary-as-hockey-sticks sites that are perfect for a Halloween visit.

In the spirit of Halloween week (yes, you read that right), our friends at Goby.com put together a sample of some of the haunts--some of which you may know and others you may not--that can provide for great fright.

Adapted from Goby's own frightening list.

Captions courtesy of Goby.com.

 

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Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Georgia

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A well-known and tragic site, this Civil War prison held 33,000 Union Troops at the peak of its use. In the camp, prisoners contended with disease, polluted water, severe food shortages as well as climate extremes. Of the 45,000 soldiers 12,913 died due to camp conditions. Today, the prison is a National Historic Site, open year round, comprised of the prison grounds, National Prisoners of War Museum, and the Andersonville Cemetery.

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A well-known and tragic site, this Civil War prison held 33,000 Union Troops at the peak of its use. In the camp, prisoners contended with disease, polluted water, severe food shortages as well as climate extremes. Of the 45,000 soldiers 12,913 died due to camp conditions. Today, the prison is a National Historic Site, open year round, comprised of the prison grounds, National Prisoners of War Museum, and the Andersonville Cemetery.

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[Vermilionphoenix]

01:31 AM on 10/26/2010

What about the Winchester Mystery House?? That place is creepy. Every Friday the 13th and Halloween they do nighttime flashlight tours. Being in the basement totally freaked me out. Not to mention, as a joke the tour guide ask to hold my flashlight when I walked into the seance (sp?) room and closed the door after me. I was probably in there by myself for 20 seconds but it felt like forever, I wasn't laughing but my friends were.

[IndyGuy]

12:30 AM on 10/26/2010

I'm surprised they didn't have Gettysburg:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Americas_Most_Haunted_Gettysburg_Devils_Den

When I was about 12 my family visited several historical battle sites in Gettysburg. This was perhaps the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. We had heard the ghost stories regarding this hallowed site. On the second day of visiting the site we had stayed pretty late when the park was closing. It was getting close to dusk and my parents were quickly picking up our dinner gear and packing the car. My sister and I were looking out on one of the battlefields and then saw a regiment in dark blue uniforms marching parallel to us about 100 yards or so. There seemed to be a mist shrouding the area but it didn't alarm us. It was just fascinating watching, what we thought was reenactment soldiers doing a maneuver. I tried to get my parents attention but by the time they were done the soldiers were gone. As we left the park there was an attendant at one of the main areas. We asked if there was in fact a reenactment...to which the guide said no! The hair on the back of my neck stood out! He just smiled at us and told us that it happened all the time. One of the ghost regiments was on the move!

[Woods Shade]

06:59 PM on 10/26/2010

I'd have given anything to have seen that! : )

[NevadaDem]

08:58 PM on 10/25/2010

How about Virginia City, NV ????

[Veronica]

06:22 PM on 10/25/2010

I spent my teen years just down the road from Adams, TN in Springfield. Bell Witch mythology is pervasive there, and Adams is a truly creepy place. That said, the haunted tunnels in my current city, Portland, OR, should really be on this list.

[Magick1]

06:26 PM on 10/25/2010

Both Portland and Seattle have quite a number of haunted spots. Both have tours, Portland the tunnels, Seattle the Underground.

[Magick1]

06:15 PM on 10/25/2010

Some interesting places on the list, but no real tours mentioned. Why include the Mutter Museum? True enough though, one can stay at the Lizzie Borden House. The owner of the Bell Witch Cave gives tours, as do others.

[Flokk]

04:57 PM on 10/25/2010

Gettysburg has some nice tours (and stories) too. Good stuff.

[IntheVillage]

05:11 PM on 10/25/2010

In praise of the late great Robert Stack ("Unsolved Mysteries) Gettysburg is the place where not all uniformed encounters are re-enactors.

[MKC]

04:26 PM on 10/25/2010

What about Alcatraz? Or The Ohio State Reformatory (Mansfield Reformatory), where Shawshank Redemption was filmed? Always wondered what spending the night there would be like.

[clevelandchick]

06:09 PM on 10/25/2010

They have a haunted house at the Mansfield prison, I went to it years ago...super scary.

[dc2nm]

03:55 PM on 10/25/2010

Other great tours,

Fells Point, MD
St. Augustine, FL

[IntheVillage]

05:13 PM on 10/25/2010

Lemp Mansion StLouis, Resseurection and Bachelor's Grove Cemeteries in the Chicago area.

[CynAnne]

03:55 PM on 10/25/2010

The Bell Witch location is just a few hours ride away from us...would I go in a cave, after dark, just to 'see what I could see'? Sadly, the answer is: "Oh yeah!"... ;)

[DynamiteKid]

03:10 PM on 10/25/2010

10 seconds of Googling would have told the HuffPo intern that produced this piece that the ESP is where Philadelphians go for "haunted tours," not the Mutter.

[ManWithBrain]

02:21 PM on 10/25/2010

The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia has to be on this list.
It's spooky on a normal day, and really scary when it's done up for Halloween, as "Terror Behind the Walls".
http://www.easternstate.org/home

[NewmanKitten]

02:19 PM on 10/25/2010

The Donner Memorial Park was, without question, the c r e e p i e s t place I've ever been - and I've been to a lot of weird and scary places. You just feel like the place is closing in on you, even though you're out in the wide open beauty of the Northern Sierras.

Another AWESOME place to go is Bodie, a ghost town near Bridgeport, CA. Very haunted, and a really wonderful historic spot to explore..in early or late summer. July and August could see extremely high temperatures out there. Winter you can't get near it - it's he|| on earth, weatherwise.

[StellaFox]

10:34 AM on 10/25/2010

Waverly Hills.

[PDXTransplant]

11:13 AM on 10/25/2010

Yes! In Kentucky. I want to do that tour so bad!

[StellaFox]

11:17 AM on 10/25/2010

Me too, I've heard it's really the scariest place in America...

[Magick1]

06:04 PM on 10/25/2010

Most of the tours are sold out through 2010. But, give it a shot.

http://www.therealwaverlyhills.com/

[Lloyd Clark]

12:20 PM on 10/25/2010

+1 - definitely!

[pending]

09:45 AM on 10/25/2010

What about...

P.O. Box 3987
Wilmington, DE 19807

[thecoffeegod]

09:58 AM on 10/25/2010

Ridiculous, yes. Haunted, probably not.

[pending]

09:18 PM on 10/25/2010

I heard there is a witch living there.

[Aldyth]

09:41 AM on 10/25/2010

If you're in Illinois, I highly recommend any of the American Hauntings tours with Troy Taylor. He's been doing this since the nineties and has excellent tours. http://www.prairieghosts.com/