Historic haunted places in Erie, PA. 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 during the day (free; guided ghost tours ticketed).
Erie's vampire legend centers on an unnamed crypt marked only with a 'V,' said to hold a Romanian immigrant who died of tuberculosis in the late 1800s, after which bodies supposedl…
Open for tours (admission; Fright Night events ticketed separately).
The lighthouse hosts an annual 'Fright Night at the Light,' where paranormal investigators present recordings and readings from here and the nearby Erie Land Lighthouse. Its main s…
Open to the public (brewpub; seasonal haunted history tours).
Staff at this brewpub in Erie's 1927 train station tell of Clara, a little girl said to have fallen backward down the marble stairs on her way to the platform, a story no record co…
General Anthony Wayne died at Erie in 1796, and when his son moved him east years later, tradition says the bones were boiled clean in a kettle and the rest reburied in Erie. The m…