Historic haunted places in Fredericksburg, 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 (free; part of Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park).
An old tradition tells of a young Englishwoman brought to Chatham to end a romance with a commoner, whose figure as a White Lady walks the river-bluff path called the Ghost Walk ar…
Col. Fielding Lewis spent his last years in the master bedroom poring over debts from financing the Revolution, and he died there. Staff and visitors describe heavy boots pacing up…
George Washington's mother spent her last 17 years here and tended the garden until her final summer. Reports are gentle: warmth felt in the garden, a sense of being watched from t…
Staff credit former tavern keeper John Frazer, who died upstairs in 1793, with years of small pranks: unplugged sockets, tricorn hats knocked to the floor overnight and postcards s…