Historic haunted places in Norfolk, 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.
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Haunted place
1 Waterside Dr, Norfolk, VA 23510
Open to the public (Nauticus museum; admission charged).
Ghost-tour tradition says an electrician was killed during the Korean War when someone switched on the air-conditioning system while he was working inside it. During Desert Storm, …
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This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
209 W Freemason St, Norfolk, VA 23510
Open to the public (restaurant).
Staff at this restaurant in an 1873 church describe cupboards opening, plates vanishing between the kitchen and the dining room and doors that will not stay put. They blame 'Mr. B'…
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This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
323 E Freemason St, Norfolk, VA 23510
Open for free weekend tours and by appointment.
A man in a top hat and cloak said to pace the back garden is linked to Richard Bowden, who was shot and killed on the property by Samuel Myers in 1811, a death recorded in court re…
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This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
201 St. Paul's Blvd, Norfolk, VA 23510
Open to the public (active church; churchyard free).
Ghost tours say the Rev. Nicholas Okeson, rector here for twenty-six years until he died in 1882, still makes his rounds in the churchyard where he is buried. Parishioners and visi…
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This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
108 E Tazewell St, Norfolk, VA 23510
Open for ticketed Virginia Stage Company productions.
When a prop goes missing or rigging misbehaves, crews at this 1913 theater shout 'Stop it, Ned!' at a stagehand said to have fallen to his death from the fly system, though no reco…
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This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
W Ocean View Ave (Willoughby Spit peninsula), Norfolk, VA 23503
Open to the public (beach; free).
Residents describe a gray, fog-like shape of a man, sometimes in sailor's clothes, walking the shoreline, and WHRO reported a cluster of sightings in the days before Hurricane Isab…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.