Baltimore tops list of most haunted cities

Elmira is home to the Civil War-era Elmira prison camp (known as “Hellmira”), as well as the Woodlawn National Cemetery. (Pictured here is Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery.)

The city’s plethora of old homes, combined with the many U.S. soldiers buried in national cemeteries, makes Washington “one of the most frequently cited haunted cities.”

Residents of Peoria have reported seeing or feeling the ghost of “Old Book,” who once assisted in burying inmates of Poeria State Hospital.

Victims of 1871’s great fire, as well as those of Chicago’s violent organized crime, are said to haunt the city’s streets and homes.

People who were kidnapped and transported through Portland’s Shanghai Tunnels, shipped to Asia and forced into prostitution or slavery are rumored to linger in the tunnels, which are underneath the city’s Chinatown.

New Orleans is home to the LaLaurie Mansion, one of the nation’s most famous haunted houses. The above-ground tombs (due to the high water table) offer “a powerful reminder of the presence of death in the middle of the city.”

Chinatown’s Cameron House is said to host the ghosts of Chinese women who were trapped in it and perished in a fire a century ago. There’s also Alcatraz off the coast.