Historic haunted places in Lake George, NY. 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.
Visitors walking this colonial-era burial ground near Fort William Henry describe the smell of burnt powder, the crack of musket fire and brief glimpses of uniformed soldiers. One …
Open to the public (museum; admission charged; ghost tours).
Staff at the 1750s fort site tell of 'the Limper', named for the uneven footsteps heard in a lower corridor where an amputee's skeleton was dug up in the 1950s. Visitors also repor…
Open to the public (attraction; admission charged).
Aside from the staged scares, visitors and regional ghost guides describe a female spirit moving through the corridors of this long-running horror wax museum. Her movements don't m…
On the ground of the bloody 1755 battle, witnesses describe musket fire when no reenactment is on and lines of soldiers moving along the bikeway corridor. The park's signature stor…
Open to the public (museum; free; ghost tours ticketed).
Visitors to the old jail cells in the basement of this courthouse-turned-museum often say they suddenly find it hard to breathe, as if something were pressing on them. Upstairs, pe…