Historic haunted places in Scranton, 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.
Staff and regulars call the ghost here George and describe him as more prankster than menace. After hours, lights flicker, tables and chairs shift and glasses slide off shelves, an…
Activity centers on the basement, used as a morgue in 1918, and on the stairs between the dining and banquet floors, with cold drafts below and phantom footsteps above. Two figures…
Open to the public (Lackawanna Historical Society museum; modest admission).
Volunteers at the historical society's headquarters report shadows in the second-floor room where historic clothing is displayed, cold spots in the basement and the feeling of bein…
Founder Isaiah Everhart was fatally hurt inside his own museum in 1911, so most of the reported activity is credited to him. Staff and visitors describe sudden chills, faint whispe…
The building's signature ghost is Sarah, a girl of about eight to ten said to watch shows from the left balcony, where a seat is reportedly kept for her. People describe a transluc…
Open for ticketed events and paranormal investigation nights.
Staff and visitors at this old vaudeville house describe footsteps on the stairs, sudden cold spots, voices and singing drifting from the upper floors or attic. Some retellings add…