Tis the season for all things scary, but you don’t just have to look for haunted happenings on Halloween. There are some places that are seriously spooky all year long.
Coastal lighthouses are so isolated that they’re often linked to tragedy. So it’s no surprise that we have so many supposedly haunted lighthouses in America.
Inside the Pensacola Lighthouse, there have long been reports of ghostly figures and mysterious whispers. The St Simons Lighthouse on the Georgia coast was home to the 1880 murder of a lighthouse keeper, and to this day, people continue to report ghost sightings.
Want to hear something else creepy? Ohio is home to an unusually high number of mortuary museums—you can’t make this stuff up.
There’s Peoples Mortuary Museum in Marrietta, where you can see artifacts like a horse-drawn hearse and 19th century embalming equipment.
You can even sleep in a former mortuary at the Sturgis House B&B in Ohio. Their claim to fame is that this was where Pretty Boy Floyd was embalmed, and his death mask is still on display in the basement laundry room.
And then there are the usual suspects like haunted houses, prisons and hotels, which are known to have ghostly sightings all year long. So you can skip the Halloween crowds and get your own spooky experience in the off season.
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