Historic haunted places in Lancaster, 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.
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Haunted place
12 N Prince St, Lancaster, PA 17603
Open to the public (working theater; ticketed performances).
Featured on Portals to Hell in 2021, this 1852 theater is said to be haunted by a Woman in White, often identified as performer Marie Cahill, seen in the upper boxes and on the cat…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
881 Rockford Rd, Lancaster, PA 17602
Open to the public (house museum; guided tours, admission fee).
On a candlelight tour, a mother and daughter noticed a silent man sitting in a dark corner where no one should have been. When they later saw the house's portraits, both picked out…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
205 E Lemon St, Lancaster, PA 17602
Open to the public (cemetery; daylight hours).
Legend says the statue on Augusta Bitner's grave weeps and wanders the cemetery at night with glowing green eyes, and that she died on her wedding day. Local historians point out t…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
23 N Market St, Lancaster, PA 17603
Open to the public (public market; market-day hours).
Ghost tours tell of a Prohibition-era bootlegger who still lingers in and around this 1889 market house. Vendors and staff describe shadowy figures between stands after closing, fo…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
625 East King Street, Lancaster, PA 17602
Operating county jail; exterior view from the public sidewalk only.
Behind its castle-like 1851 facade, officers describe whistling and whispering in empty corridors of the oldest cell blocks, where 19th-century prisoners were chained to the walls.…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.