Historic haunted places in Cambridge, MA. 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 (active church; services and posted visitor hours).
Local lore says a British soldier thrown from a wagon during the Revolution was buried beneath this Loyalist church, which angered Patriots so much that they ransacked it. His spir…
Widow Elizabeth Hooper ran a tavern here and was found dead in 1701, wrapped in a sheet, and witnesses have described her gliding across the floor in that same sheet. Five Hessian …
Harvard Yard, Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Exterior viewable from Harvard Yard; interior not open to the public.
Harvard folklore tells of Holbrook Smith, supposedly of the Class of 1914, who returned each fall to chat with freshmen and walk through walls, though no record of his enrollment e…
Laid out in 1635 and the resting place of early Harvard presidents, this graveyard is a fixture of Cambridge's autumn ghost walks. Visitors have reported glowing orbs and full-figu…
Harvard administrative building; exterior view from Massachusetts Avenue, interior by appointment.
A cleaner working alone early one morning saw a grim figure in a tricorn hat and cloak walk silently down the stairs and out the door, and other custodians have described the same …