Historic haunted places in Winchester, VA. 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; admission charged).
Staff at this 1754 stone house name Mary Hollingsworth, a six-foot woman who died in 1917 and by family account drove a supply wagon disguised as a man during the Civil War. They r…
A co-owner logged somewhere between 150 and 200 incidents here, including relighting candles, lights switching on, voices and women being tripped near certain tables. Staff credit …
Guests in Room 301 report voices, others hear footsteps on the roof, and ballroom doors open and shut on their own. One story tells of a child's footprints found in the middle of a…
Staff describe a man with a drooping mustache and long frock coat at the rotunda windows, identified as Judge Handley, who died two decades before the library he funded opened. Wor…
Staff call this mansion Winchester's most haunted but least known spot, and the marketing manager says she greets the spirits each morning. A Confederate officer is seen staring ou…
Residents and passersby have described gray figures rising above the Confederate graves at dusk and drifting toward the Union dead in the national cemetery across the street. Anoth…
This courthouse served as a hospital and held captured prisoners during the Civil War. Gray forms are seen in the courtyard, shouting is heard in the empty courtroom, and three ren…