Historic haunted places in Fort Smith, AR. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
Open to the public (house museum; suggested donation).
The first house here went up in 1852 and served as a Civil War hospital before U.S. Attorney William Henry Clayton enlarged it in 1882. A former director reported a woman's apparit…
Open to the public (free museums; surrounding training center restricted).
Fort Chaffee held a World War II POW camp and later processed Vietnamese and Cuban refugees. People describe figures like soldiers walking the old post and odd sounds in historic b…
Open to the public (museum admission; October Murder and Mayhem tours).
Housed in a 1906 hardware building, the museum holds artifacts from Judge Parker's violent frontier court. A staff member told local TV of years of apparitions on several floors an…
Open to the public (National Park Service; entrance fee).
Judge Isaac Parker's court sentenced 160 people to death here, and 86 were hanged on its gallows. Investigators report cold spots and voices in the basement jail known as Hell on t…